The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-12
Electrically DriUen
 Pump 10 Be Installed

bids be asked for the installation of the machinery necessary.
 The minority report. as offered by Alderman Thompson, was as follows: We beg to submit for your careful consideration the fact that the pres ent water consumption of the city of Montgomery ranges from three and one-quarter to three and one-half mill lion gallons per day; the pump hereto fore installed at the pump station by this city at considerable expense is capacitated at s,000.oo0 gallons per day The majority report of the Water Committee recommends the Abandoning Of this pump and the installation of an electrically driven pump of same ea- pacity. which would necessitate the taking down of the present pump. which displacement will render 1t ab- soiuteiy useless to the city for any other purpose. We respectfully sub init that to anticipate the water con- sumption at so early a time as this by mourning great additional expense in the installation of a new pump to take care of condition which will not re- quire attention for something like ten years. is unwise indeed. To install this electrically driven pump will necessi- tate the expenditure of a large amount of money. and this money cannot be derived or secured from the general funds of the city. Therefore, to carry out the recommendation of the major ity committee of this Council. the is- suance of bonds for such purpose will pc necessary. To issue bonds for this purpose will require a vote of the tax. payers or the city, and the majority report of this committee makes no provision for such an election.'
 He further showed that the maority report made no assurance of a reduc. ton Of operating expenses; that, at an expense less than that of installation or the electric pump. the present plant can be. repaired: that other things were needed as badly. if not worse.
 On motion of Alderman Seidle, the minority report was tabled. and. upon vote on the majority report, 1t was carried. And Montgomery's water sun. ply is to be more than doubled, with the 5000, gallon electric pump up against the s,5oo, ,000-gallon pump now in use.
 | Minor matters were taken up by the council before it went into executive session over tax matters. Two recom- mendations from the Mayor were read, one lacking up" the Council on the Hoys' High School mortgage. which $S,5O0 In amount, falls due on July | and the other. presenting the commu- htcation of Robert c. Arlington. com piaining of excessive light rates, of discrimination ,and asking that regu- lation be effected by the Council. Mayor Teague advised the Council to take any action 1t saw fit. The mat ter was referred to the Committee on Electrical Control.
 The Salvation Army asked for an appropriation for the fresh air camp. and the petition was referred to the Committee on Finance. Various ordi- nances providing for sanitary con nections were introduced, and referred to the Committee on Streets.
 TWO resolutions were passed. one by Alderman Thompson providing that the pool of stagnant water on Madison Avenue beyond the Central Railroad tracks, be drained, and the other. by President Gunter. advising that proper sanitary connections be made on all streets upon which paving Is contem- plated.
 The Council then went into executive Council, anent tax matters, and, upon | adjournment, announced that a Board of Assessors had been named to make the assessment for 1910 against city property. The Board is composed of I J. G. Cowan. George Stuart J. c. Haas. J. M. Oliver and J. F. Lowe The Board is to make assessments on | real. personal or mixed property to equalize the values at not less than 60 per cent of the value; to deliver to the County Board of Revenue the as- | sessments, and to employ necessary clerical aid; to be compensated at the rate of $7.5e each day of their ses- sion, with incidental expenses neces- sary. The term of office Is to last not longer than Oct. 1, 1910. unless earlier discharged by the Council.