The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-02
Council Regrets Mayor
 Teague Tore Up the Tracks

good excurses for his act In addition to - After a great deal further discussion of the resolution and vote-changing and notices of reconsideration and oth- CT moves, the vote was taken and re- ting and disapproving" the Mayors act. and four against such action.
 Statement From Company.
 At the close of the Council meeting pnny pn sanded n tbs ssts ment regarding the tearing up of the Perry Street tracks by Mayor Teague:
 The Traction Company was not at ail in default about removing It's line
 The contract with the city in ref srence to the citys right to order the track removed from Perry contains 2 Jeff Davis Avenue to Clanton Street should first be opened up as a street, a grade established thereon and the This had not IT heen A done when the or- der for removal was made and has not been done till yet In fact the airt that the Mayor is. now having taken renee. in order to finish he i'll in the Genetta Ditch bottom. Everybody wno knows anything about railroad tracks knows that 1t Is almost impossible to operate line of rsiway over srouno that has not settied.
 Then, too. 1t was not finally settled by the Council that they wanted tne ago at which time the resolution of Alderman Moritz was also passed au- thorizing the Mayor to grant rurtner time. not to exceed thirty days, since which time We have heard nothing from
 Eve can't help feeling that the May or's action in forcibly taking up the tracks wtsSgs any sgd aoses great njustee not only to the company. pnt 70 dts patrons in that part of the cay. We were advised that under the lacts the court would have readily granted an injanction had we asked it. but we do not want and will not have any liti- gation with the city If # is possible - "SWhsnever IT some of the streets are cessfuliy operate a line into that part of the city the company Is willing 10 people of that part of town. but we cannot operate a line ouf Lawrence Street successfully at the present time and 1t is no use to aftemgp, ngpo,t,,nate ,1 for the community and gives the impfes. sion abroad that we are always at iog" gerheads with one another.
 prominent engineering firms in the country are now here going over the lines of the company for the purpose of recommending changes necessary to @The local Representatives of the com. pany sincerely hope that nothing else will happen of a discouraging nature mont recently begun and those In irn- mediate contemplation by our people. We have no criticism to make of the motives of any one. howeysE and and are re hopeful that the matter VIII soon pc satisfactorily arranged"
 Other Council Proceedings. Bids were received and properly re. new high school building. all ranging In the neighborhood of 32,2oO.
 Bids were also read from, several plumbing firms for the plumbing york 1 required Ia the Girls High School building the amounts running between
 Aldermen Perry offered a resolution which was referred to the proper com Mayor to the fact that white prisoners on the streets are being worked under Alderman Johnson introducsd an or | dinance which was unanimously passed, appropriating the sum of $121 to pay ! the Judgment recently obtained against the city by '. c Conner.
 authorizing the Mayor to borrow $ioo,- | 900 for the use of the city at the rate l orr per cent interest to be paid back notes and other required papers in the
 Alderman Johnson was opposed to | the proposition because, he said, the rate of interest. Alderman Jones said i it was too late to oppose tt now sg the I money had already been borrpwed and part of It spent. a,.I,sna Alderman Norit; l passed by a big majority.
 | This resolution was to put In legal | form the action of the Council ct tht
 gall meeting last week on & the same s,,,san sup
 'As1 p w@s Maaisos UaIs Str Street ct Bridge.
 There was hot fight over the prop l for a concrete bridge over Madison
 Street at the Central Railroad cut. l Aldermen Johnson said the preScn
 bridge was a new steel one with no, no | against tearing, 1t away and replacing | 1t with q new One just to please some
 body who wanted a different kind Alderman Kennedy said that the pres | snt bridge is not wide enough for ex ] isting trafiic purposes and that t is to' expensive to keep in repair. He sai' that the city was receiving street an' | other improvements from those inter
 ested in the project of far greater val
 ue than the expenditure proposed.
 4 petition was read by residents o
 Highland Park asking Tor sewer i'm
 v After Considerable discussion Mrs E A. Brinsfeld was given ninety days
 time in which to make sewer connec
 lions on her property on Pelham Street
 it was shown that case had beel
 made against her in police court fo | falling to make. the connections an'
 mat she is a widow, has just eomplet
 sd one expensive connection and ha | not got the money at present to max
 ths additionRl one. Her cause was he l roicaIly channpioned by Alderman John
 Other routine matters were passed ol | and the Council adjourned without fx | ing any time to reconvene.
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