The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-04-12
CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
y. Nj. {. \. GRANTED FREE WA.
TER RENT WITH MAXIMUM
OF 500,
Il. u. Ward Promoted to Sergeancy
with Increase Of Salary; Overhead
ScaffOld Must Be Constructed i'm
Front of Moses Building-Matters
Acted upon at Meeting.

Il NUMBER OF matters, mostly of lit
tie Importance were brought up and
some of them acted upon. Two mat
ters of general interest were the
granting Of free water to the Y. NJ. c.
A. and the promotion of Policeman T.
p. Ward to Sergeant with an increase
of salary.
The meeting was called to order by
the mayor with all members of coun-
Gil present. The city clerk and treas
urer handed in his report for March
and the report of the water works
for the first quarter These were re-
ferred to Mr.. Rowland to be checked
up. .. .
The question of whether or not all
Of the water rents had been paid for
the last quatrer came up and it was
found that a number of the water
consumers had not been cut off at
the first of April, as council had di-
rected. This matter was discussed
for some time and a list Of unpaid
water rents was read to Council. The
matter was settled for the time being
by the passage Of resolution author
izing the superintendent of the water
works department to cut off all water
connections Wednesday where the
owners of the premises had not paid
their water rent for the last quarter.
Chief of Police Sumter informed
council that the police force had Sc
cured and was now in summer uni
form. He recommended Policeman
Ward for promotion to sergeant, as q
fourth sergeant was needed on the
force with an increase Of salary from
$50 to $40. After talking over the
adopted by council.
Matters relating to the construction
Of the Perry Moses building at cor
ner of Main and Dugan streets were
next taken up. 1t was decided to al
low the claim of Mr.. Moses for an
inch OF space on the street at this
point, provided there was no en-
croachment on the pavement, as it now
is. 1t was also decided to require the
contractor to put up an overbridgc
as soon as the walls of the building
were sufficiently high for this pur-
pose Mr.. Worthington stated that
the building permit only allowed the
contractor the use Of the street for
ninety days.
Permission was granted for the op-
Grafton Of an ice cream cart on the
street for license of $500.
The city clerk was instructed to
draw up an ordinance requiring all
moving picture shows to have exits
at the rear Of their premises, as well
as in front, so that in case of fire or
panic the danger Of injury would be
! lessened.
A delegation Of citizens on behalf
of the Y. Nj. c. A. appeared before
council to request that body to grant
the organization free water, Prof. S.
II. Edmunds made an appeal on be-
half of the institution in which he
stated that other cities allowed free
water to the Y. Nj. c. A. and gave
list of such. Other speakers on be-
half Of free water for the Y. NJ
{. "A. were Messrs r. /. Manning, H.
l.. Birchard, f. L. Witherspoon, Geo
ID. Shore, j. III. Chandler, all of whom
as taxpayers, were anxious that the
city should give the institution what
ever encouragement it was able. They
represented the Y. NJ. G. A. as an or
ganizatiOn in which everybody was in
terested and one for the benefit of the
young men Of Sumter.
Mayor Jennings stated that he was
in favor OF granting free water up
to certain maximum After the
delegation left the matter was taken
up in regular order and Mr. Rowland
stated that as other cities granted free
water to their institutions, il seemed
'ndt sumter SnOuld do the same. At /
ter considerable discussion it was de-
cided to grant the Y. NJ. G. A. re-
mittance Of their present bin and TO
allow them maximum of $4O0 Il
pear for water, the institution to pay
for all water used over that amount .
The question of a sewer line on
Law Range called for considerab Bile /
discussion 1t was decided to refer
the matter to the City Manager for /
investigation of cost and report back .
to Council.
Letters from the Civic League were
received and read. one in regard to
the enforcement of the ordinance
prohibiting the collecting of waste pa
aud Int IA