The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-02
DEOMAN ELECTED
CITY PHYSICIAN
All Other Places Filled BY Same
Men
ONLY ROUTINE BUSINESS
City Council Declines to Go on Rec
ord as Favoring Election of
Outlying Aldermen BY In
coming municipalities.
ONLY ROUTINE BUSINESS

with one exception. This was in the Of
fee of city physician, DIR. James f. Ded-
man securing the place over the present
incumbent. DR.. R. B. Watts. by vote of
10 to s.
Alderman Williams nominated Dr.
Watts, and in a few words stated that
he had served the city for nearly two
years and according to custom the council
should re-elect him. Alderman Burnett
nominated DR.. Dedman and the nomina-
tions were closed. Three aldermen were
absent and the final vote showed IS to 9
for Dedman.
Following were the heads of depart
ments reelected:
Street commissioner, John McCartin.
Engineer. Murray Nicholson
Auditor. c. S. Peterson.
Plumbing inspector, Charles E. Eckerle
Assistant plumbing inspector, j. w.
Pate.
Poundkeeper, ]. H. McNeal
Avondale poundkeeper, S. H Coggins.
Bacteriologist and meat inspector e.
M Duncan.
First assistant. e. Peterman,
Second assistant, H. P. Lewis.
Third assistant. J. C. James
Fourth assistant. d. w. HUMPHREYS.
Building inspector, W. O. Matthews.
Assistant, j. A. Vaughn.
Chief of fire department, A. v. Ban
nett.
Electrician, W. III. Abernathy.
Assistant, Charles Lamar.
Sexton city hall, j. ]. Curran.
License collector, ]. J. Boggan.
Jail warden, J. NJ. Tuck
Parkkeeper, J. p. Williamson. Avon
dale park.
Parkkeeper, Buck" Wetzel. Behrens
park
Parkkeeper. East End, B. S. Weir
Parkkeeper, West park. J. M. Harreu
Gas and meter inspector, Harry Burn.
General bookkeeper OF insurance DEPART
ment, David Stanta.
Sexton Red Mountain cemetery Sam
Cunningham
As customary. Thomas Jeffries was
elected as honorary member of the fire
department.
vas put httfe OF interest done by
the council other than the refusal TO show
Willingness to allow the incoming mu-
inequalities under the Greater Rjrmine-
ham act to name their aldermen. A res
olution to this effect was introduced bv
Alderman Graham Perdue, but the conn
Gil refused to adopt it.
reports OF committees were as follows.
Street Committee.
present: Aldermen Copeland. J. r..
Morgan, Starbuck, Metcalfe, ONeiu. Rur-
nett Absent: Aldermen Mcdonald. Cone.
land, d. r.; Gregg.
Alderman j. r. Copeland, chairman or
the street committee. submitted the fol
lowing report:
Inc street committee recommends thar
inc mayor city engineer and chairman
VI lhe street committee be authorized to
nave sewer constructed on Thirteenth
street from Avenue C to Avenue G.
That the street commissioner he in
structed to investigate and repair sewer
III Fourth alley between Nineteenth and
Twentieth streets
That the petition of T. c. THOMPSON
d Bro, to put stairway in building on
twentieth street and Fourth avenue be-
disallowed
That chairman of street committee and
city engineer investigate and report tbe
method employed by the waterworks com
pany In installing cut-offs in water mains
Ihat the street commissioner be in
structed to fill bitches on Avenues q and
II and charge expense of same to E. M.
Wheeler & Co.
That street commissioner be instructed
to clean out bitches on Eighth avenue
in the Second and Third wards.
That the city engineer be authorized to
buy necessary lumber for bridge on Four
teenth street between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth avenus, south
That petition to improve Sixteenth al
ley, south, be referred to city engineer
and alderman from Eighth ward to Sc
cure additional signatures
That resolution to build steps and side
walk at Martin school be referred to the
city engineer for report
That recommendations of city engineer
regarding alley between Linden and Wau-
coma streets be concurred in and the
street commissioner be instructed to do
the work.
That recommendations of the city enei-
neer relative to sidewalk on Elm street
be concurred in and the street commits
sioner be instructed to do the work
That recommendations OF the city en-
gineer relative to improving Warsaw
street from Pawnee to Mountain avenue
be concurred in and that he draw ordf-
nance for same
That petition to repair Thirtieth street
from Highland to Cypress avenues be
referred to the street commissioner for
report.
That the resolutions instructng the city
engineer to advertise for competitive bids
for street paving on Fourth, Sixth,
Eighth avenues, Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
sixteenth, Seventeenth, Nineteenth streets
and on Twelfth and Thirteenth streets,
north, be adopted.
That Improvement ordinances Nos. 1875.
1876, 497, 1873 and 499 be referred to the
judiciary committee.
That the petition of dam No. 1 of the
Beavers to hold street fair on Second
avenue betwcent Fourteenth and Six
consent
That the resolution granting the Bir-
mingham Securities Co.. Highland Realty
Co., w G. Harrison and Sydney J. Bowie
permission to close certain alleys and
swtreets, per attached blue print, be
adopted by unanimous consent.
That the city engineer be instructed to
draw ordinance to improve Fifteenth ave.
nue. between Fourteenth and Seventeenth
streets, north, per petition of property
owners.
That the bid of c. M. Burkhalter for
work under Improvement ordinances Nos
48S and 4S4, New Series. for the sum of
s1O54. so be accepted, same being the lowest
bid submitted
That the bid of c. M Burkhalter for
sanitary sewers under Avondale sewer
bond fund for the sum of s241 be accepted,
same being lowest bid submitted.
That the bid of c. M. Burkhalter for
work under Improvement ordinance No.