The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-12
BRIEF, BUSY,
 PERSISTENT Expeditions Work of City Council. MANY PAVING BONDS ISSUED Perry Street Car Track Part ot
 Deliberations. Alderman, After Adjournment Because of no Quorum, Reccnvene--Bcrrow ing s1Oo,ooo Topic of Mayors
 Message.

Determined to have meetins ldst night, members of the Council who gathered at o'clock for adjourned session and after formal telling dis- covered they were too few to be a quorum had regretfully started away from the City Hall, when they met other of their debating society. with whom they returned to their as- senlbiy hall and had one of the short est and busiest meetings of the year.
 With practically no discussion they disposed of communications about the borrowing the City is to negotiate and about the proposed removal of the Montgomery Traction Company's s tracks from South Perry street. and adopted numerous ordinances for the issuance of paving bonds All this was done within the half hour.
 When President Gunter first asked for. order at s o'clock City Clerk John J. Farley, after he had called the roll, announced mo quorum" The meeting was. therefore. adiourned and the faithful few filed fretfully from the Council Chamber. They were pleasant ly surprised at the foot Of the stair way by meeting tardier members. and the convention of aldermen ascending and descending was pronounced to be felicitous. They all went up stairs to- gether and when Mir. Farley again read
  sent" was said in various tones by President Gunter and Alderman John son. Kennedy. Lowe, Parrish, Perry, Ruth. SeidIe. Thompson. Toola and Vfr- gin.
 Mayor TeaRue's offering was a com munication about the borrowing of S100, 900 which the City wants to pay of the hands and buy supplies with during the several dull months In which so much has to go out and so little can ccme in. He recommended that the Council give authority for the substitution of seven per cent in- terest instead of six percent interest with commission of one per cent add ed. With that amendm ent of the or- iginal plan. the Mayor advised, there would be no difficulty in obtaining the money on a note payable January 1, 1909. The communication was refer red to the Finance Committee.
 The Perry Street Tracks.
 W. H. Ragland. General Manager of the Montgomery Traction Company, sent two papers which by order lay upon the table. The letter written by Mir. RaRland was accompanied by one from the Mayor to the Company and both concerned the South Perry Street tracks. The letter from the Mayor in- formed the Company that it had failed to remove the tracks from South Per ry Street after the expiration of nine- ty days from the formal notice served by the City. as required by an ordin- ance enacted by the Counmil.
 MT. Ragland. referring to the letter, said that the Company wished the Council to decide as expeditiously as possible what would be its determina- tion in regard to the new route of the line. Tn the Mayors communica- tion it had been stated that the Com
 l.. .af A. remove the tracks from South Perry Street and relay them on part of South Lawrence, on CIanton and South Mc- donough. Since then. however, the Council had considered other routes, and the Company desired definite &C., tion that it might proceed at once to comply with the requirements of the ordinance, original or amended.
 Mir. Ragland called attention. too. to the fact that on the Hull Street line the Company had two years ago laid seventy pound pound steel T rails which now that the streets paving was to be extended would have to be replaced with rails of another kind. The rails to be romved from South Hull, Mir. Ragland said, the Company desired to place on the new tracks of the South Perry line. and he suggested that if the matter could be considered finally at once the Company could more quickly and more satisfactorily and with less derangement of trafle com plete its work.
 The matter will be considered at the next regular meeting.
 The paving bond ordinances adopted last night were the last that can be passed under the regulations of the present charter of the city, which pro- vides for twenty-year payments. The now charter which will be adopted at the next regular meeting of the Coun- ell stipulates a ten-year payment plan.
 eIS4,6OO of Paving Bonds.
 Following Is a list of the names of streets to be paved and the amounts of the bond issuances authorized:
 For roadway of North Court Street, from Pollard to Race Street. S95.O00.
 For roadway of Jeff Davis Avenue, from Court to Goode Street, 15,000.
 For roadway of Wilkerson Street. from Bibb to Clayton Streets. $15.000.
 For roadway of Montgomery Street, from State to Goldth waite, 5000.
 For roadway of Clayton Street. from Holcombe to Goldthwaite Streets. $12.- 500.
 For sidewalks on both sides of Co.,