The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-05
RUBBER NOW
 SUGGESTED AS Paving for Montgom-
 cry Streets. PAVING ORDINANCES REPAssED City Fathers Find Little to street Committee only One To Make R~pert, Mayer sends- Brief Com- munic.tion, While Petitions
 Were Light.

Back into the midst of the City 2 fsauncfls ike A flock of storm blown doves. fluttered all the ordinances TOT the paviiey oe streets, that have been passed in the last two months ana on which actual work has not yet start a6. If seems some one has discovered new kind of paving that might De cheaper and better than anything else. So 1t was thought best to ada 1t to the lists of materials that citi- gems may choose from.
 Already trailing out after each ordi nance is a comet like tail of names or materials including brick. asphalt bitulithic, chert, clay, rubberine, ordi- nary dirt rnacadam, blanks ana sew eraI others. But now plain rubber has been thought of. It Is said to be 60 springy and nice, and besides would save the horse owners from having to put rough rider shoes upon their animals. and the people from buying rubber heels. and so eventually save thousands of dollars ! to the citizens
 Because of this fact all the ordi- nances were dangled before Mayor Teague, and citizens with tear dimmed eyes aske him to veto them as they stood the ordinances of course, and 50, out of the generosity of his heart. The Mayor sent tne pApcES oaSn to the citx Council
 For the first time in months the Council was having an easy time. MT. Morftz was away. Dr. Saul had sore throat and could not talk. the elo- uuent Mir. Hines was absent, and as prohibition has gone into effect MT. Sullivan was too busy looking for naw hobby to bother about little things. To cap the climax MT. Gunter did not come in until late, and there fore the city fathers were serenely lis- tening to q few petitions from citi- xens, baskins in the fond hope they were soon to adjourn.
 It was Alderman Kennedy who whisked the serenity of the evening out of a back window and uncooped the flock of ordinance doves City Clerk Cowan looked helplessly at City Clerk, to be. Black. full we'll know ing that he would have to read that bunch of papers
 MT. Kennedy elucidated the sitsa- tion to. the general assembly, and after reading the ordinances through one by one.s aske6 for a suspension of the rules sd they could be re-passed.
 Mfr. Parrish nearly lost his life through a too close knowledge of pAr= iiamentary Jaw. He said the rules would havs to be suspended for each 0rolnANC0 ana tu4t 0acn would nave to be passed separately! H=. 4
 Tn the nick of time Alderwan Lowe held Mr. Seidie and kept him from doing the cupid of the council per- Bonai violence. and then the council went Into the ring to wrestle with the paving ordinances. and won out in the sixteeth round
 MT. Cowan arose to read them and began:
 "An ordinance. entitled an ordi- nance provided that an act entitled an act which provides that an ordi- nance which says the parties of the first parties as mentioned in the act relative to the ordinance substituted by the parties of the second part to create an ordinance entitled an ordi- nance which fs . substitute for the act which provides"
 Alderman Thompson caught Mir. vir- gins arm in time to save the reader, and Mir. Cowan bowed his thanks and continued. So 1t went through six teen of them, they were. all re-intro- duced and passed. the following being the streets effected:
 Moulton, Jef Davis avenue, South Perry, Fort avenue, in two places, South McDonough, in two places, High, Jackson. Grady and Bainbridge streets. and the following new streets that have just been thought of: Catoma, Wilkerson. Goldthwaite and Blob. Some of these last named have been paved in spots. but there are parts of them where 1t is thought paving is still necessary
 Except for this report from the street committee. not a single com- mittee had a report to make. the mayors messages were few, and peti. tions were only little ones about avn ings and lights and things The street ordinances came toward the last of the meeting.
 Alderman Sullivan officially inform. ed the councilmen of a twelve pound increase in his family, and spoke