The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-23
CITY SCHEDULE
IS ADOPTED
Council Frames Its License
Rates.
FEW RADICAL CHANGES MADE
Body Works as a Committee Of the
Whole.
Some Fees are Raised. But as a whole
the Mediacations That are Made
are Of Mature Thaf
are Very Unim-
pertant.
'TW RADICAL CHANGES MADE

Wednesday night, when the license
schedule or Montgomery for 1910 was
adopted by the City Council
In all. the schedule contains no radi-
cal changes. No prevailing principle
guided the Council in making up the
new schedule. except the determination
to foster infant Industries and to en-
courage the importation of new enter
prises. Thus. on q line of business.
trade or profession OF which the city
has no members at present, the license
was reduced to. a nominal sum, for
purpose OF encouraging ventures.
The Council met Wednesday night.
and resolved itself into a committee
OF the whole for the purpose OF dis
cussins the proposed changes. The
meeting was uneventfui, with the ex-
ception OF a few debates. In which
Aldermen NORTH, Parrish, saul and
Toole led. Alderman Letcher presided
as chairman.
The license on cleaning and pressing
clubs. merchant exchanged. vacuum
cleaners and steamboat agencies. were
the subject Of the most heated debates.
The debate on the pressing club
license brought to light the issue OF
whether the Council could legislate
morals into the community. Alderman
Parrish had offered the proposition that
club be taxed $40 a year for each
employee beyond the two members OF
the firm, thus to aim at the Migrants
who take refuge in alleged employ
ment with pressing clubs. The propo-
sition was rejected.
The matter of the vacuum cleaner
license ELECTED the Information that
there Is to. come to the city, within a
short time, a cleaner which Will operate
on the streets with gasoline as the mo-
tive power. to clean interiors by means
OF suction pipes.
wednesday, Changes.
Changes effected in the 1909 license
wednesday night to be operative for
1910 were:
Cleaning and pressing clothes. exclu-
sive OF steam pressing. s25 a year, with
the proviso that the names OF the
members of the firm appear on the
license.
Gravel. whom delivered In the city,
SIS year.
Provision was made for quarterly
license for the sale Of oysters. $3.50.
Ice cream peddiers. II selling scent
sticks or cones, $40; l-cent sticks. s.
year,
Insurance. companies. underwriting
Eautomobiies exclusively. 3a5. se@f
Insurance companies live stock. $ab,
Keepers pf Jacks rersstuds, $s5 year.
instead OF $40. the old squire.
junk SHOPS, $3.50. instead OF $780,. as
formerly.
Machine shops, when operated in
connection with sash, door or blind
factories, SIS.
Merchants, when stock Is $1,000. and
less than $4,000, $35 instead OF $50;
when $4,000 and less than $4,000. $50
instead of s55; when $4,000 and less
than $1,000, $40 instead Of the old hg-
ure, $50; when $1,000 and less than
Ann - n. ~nrt~
and less than t7.v00. 500 instead of
$50; when $1,000 and less than $4,000.
500, an Increase of $40; when $4,000
and less than $4,000, $3.50 instead OF
s110; when $4,000 and less than $20.-
900. 5000 instead OF $ls5; when $4,000
and less than $4,000. ssz5 instead of
1910; when $4,000 and less than $780,
900, $275 instead of-s25o: when $4,000
and less than 100000. $3.50 instead OF
5000; when 100000 and less than
$50, 900, $500 instead of $3.50; when
$4,000 and less than 100000. $3.50
instead of $500.
Midwives. $40.
Money brokers, $500 instead of $3.50.
Job printers, where stationery Is
carried In stock. same as merchants
OIL mills, $3.50 instead of $3.50. pro-
viding permission for cotton oil mills
to mix meal of their own manufacture
without further license.
Osteopathy. $40 instead of s25.
Chestnut roasters. $5yone month, SIS
six months, S25 one year, same as
peanut and pop corn roasters.
Plating. metal or otherwise. 81.
Plumbers, $50 a year, with addi-
tional license same as merchants II
stock in excess of $3.50 is carried.
Shoe repair shops. $3.50 instead of
SO.
sand. delivered in city. s25 instead
of $50. t
aBaggage and transfer companies,
$3.50 q year The owners of such IL
censes may keep vehicles for hire on
the streets before their place of busi-
ness, or before other places or resi-
dences upon permission of the occu-
pant OF such places or residences. Five
dollars for each single horse vehicle.
and $40 for each double horse vehicS
will be charged. but the owner of the
license must take out license for not
less than fifty two-horse vehicles.
Licenses on steamboat agencies
eliminated.
license on taxicabs was assessed.
Telegraph companies. $3.50 with
per cent assessment on all intrastate
business over $4,000.
Theatres, where charge is 81 or
more for any one show of the season,
$3.50.
Umbrella repairers, So instead of $40
Vacuum cleaners. $40 If propelled by
hand, S25 II propelled by own motive
power, IS for either for one month.