The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-03-11
ROUTINE WORK
IS DISPOSED Of
BY CITY COUNCIL
NUMBER OF MATTERS WERE
HANDLED BY THE soLoNS
LAST NIGHT.
Various Reports Rendered by Commit
tees and officers-Money is Appro-
priated for Advertising City in the
Wiregress Country.

City council met in regular session
last night, the full board VT the
exception OF Aldermen Cook ard Bow
en-, who are out OF the city, Dein,. res
ent. Under the head CT retiistI and
Communications, ,he following Vere
received. The Retail Merchants $50
citation, asking that Tic 3abiic W arf
at the foot OF Monk street t. -npi -
ed for the use of small boats. Rel =
ed to the joint conclitteas On PIT C
Works and Railroad and Aarbor.
Complaint on matters O t1AcJ ed
executions were received from H l..
King, Jr., for account OF COhey, l>i-9
& Co., w. IT. Hunter ai-G |. y. Ca L,
all of which were referred to the c1-l-
'mittee of Taxes and Revenues.
The following reports were rec2'T-
ed and adopted. From the Finance
committee reporting favorably on
monthly appropriation of ten dollars
for the support of the Seamen's mis-
sicn. From the same committee re-
porting favorably on an appropriation
of $3.50 for one years advertiseent
of the city in the Wiregrass Country.
From the committee on Sanitation,
Light and Water, reporting favorably
on the petition of citizens living in
the vicinity of First avenue and AL
bany street asking for an incandes-
cent light. From the Public Works
committee with reference to the bill
of the Georgia Engineering company,
reporting progress and asking for
more time. From the City Attorney,
to whom was submitted the personal
damage claim filed by Capt. Duncan
Wright, reporting that the city was not
liable and recommending that the
claim be not paid.
A resolution was adopted instruct
ing the mayor to make a note at six
months in the sum of $4,000 to take up
a note for similar amount maturing
on March Is. Alderman Bowen also IN
trodaced a resolution providing for
the city making note in favor OF
Coney & Parker Co., for the sum due
them, but after discussion, it was lost.
The ordinance of Alderman Gold
smith making it illegal for free
lunches to be served in beer saloons,
was placed on it's seond and third
reading and was passed and aopted.
The ordinane in full is as follows:
AN ORDINANCE to amend an
ordinance Numbered 221 and
entitled "An ordinance to de-
clare it unlawful for any
female or male under eighteen
years of age to haunt, loiter or
stand around or about or be in any
place where brewed beverages are
kept for sale and to provide a pen
atty for the violation thereof and
for other purposes" passed and ad-
opted December %, 1908, so as to
prohibit the operation of restaurants
in the building in which such busl-
ness is conducted, and fer other
purposes.
Section /. Be it ordained by the
mayor and aldermen of the city OF
Brunswick in council assembled, that
that certain ordinance numbered 22l
passed and adopted on December 70
1908. the title of which is set out in
the caption ordinance, be and is here
by amended so that Section / of said
ordinance number 221 shall be read
and appear in words and figures, as
fellows:
Section l. Be it ordained by tie
mayor and aldermen of the city OF
Brunswick in council assembled and
it is hereby ordained by said authority
that, from and after the passage and
publication of this ordinance it shall
be and is hereby declared to be un-
lawful for any female, or male under
eighteen years of age to haunt, loiter
or stand around CT about, or be in any
place where brewed beverages are
kept for sale, and the owner or per-
son having charge of such place shall
prohibit and forbid any and all fe-
males. and males under eighteen
years of age, haunting, lettering or be-
ing in or about such place. That no
lunch counter or restaurant shall be
permitted to be run or operated in
the same building where brewed beV-
erages are kept fer sale. BY the
terms "lunch counter" and "restau-
rant. it is understood to be a place
or places where food is sold. Provid-
ed further, that no person selling
brewed beverages at retail shall be al
lowed to furnish free lunches in or
about his place of business, under
penalty for violation hereof as herein
after prescribed"
Section 2. Be further ordained by