The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-04
BARBER HELD FLOOR
AGAINST ALL Corners
AT BOARD MEETING
Fails to Promise Firemen
More Pay, But Offers to
Pay Their Laundry Bills
MANY ORDINANCES
ADOPTED AT MEETING
Barber Offers Resolution Providing
That City Issue Several Millions
in Bonds and Go Into the
Insurance Business

The preliminary meeting of the board
of commissioners dragged itself through
several hours of apathetic abandon yes
terday and finally faded away in the
early afternoon
Commissioner Arlie Barber took the
center of the ring at the opening, and
held it against all Corners.
A delegation of fremen appeared before
the commission asking for an increase in
wage and larger appropriation to the
Firemen's Relief association. There being
some six or eight in the delegation, Com
missioner Barber took occasion to extend
a few remarks through an hour or So
While he could not promise to raise their
salaries just now, he would at least have
the city launder their sheets, towels pill
low slips, etc. While this would cost ap-
proximately $1,000 a year, he had a scheme
by which he was going to make the law
violators pay all the expense of law en-
fcrcement, and this would enable the city
to take care of this expense of $4,000.
HEINEKE PROTESTS
J. II. Heineke protested to the commits
sion against the paving of Third avenue
from Sixth street to Tuscaloosa avenue,
sessed $500 for asphalt paving for his
property at this location, which paving
had gone all to pieces. Mr. Heineke
stated he had paid over $1,000 for improve
ments since the commissioners had been
in control, and that he wouldn't buy
another piece Of property in Birmingham
as a gift"
Whereupon Commissioner Barber made
the statement that he would gladly sell
his property in Birmingham for rs per
cent less than it cost him.
But I have no intention of leaving
Birmingham, he said. discerning look
O.: inquiry in the faces of the spectators.
Assessments were levied for the con-
struction Of sanitary sewers in certain
sections of Ensley costing 1891. AZ; also
for sanitary sewers in Fairyiew costing
$S5SO.16.
Improvement ordinances were adopted
for the construction of storm sewers in
the vicinity of Fourth street and Prince
ton avenue, at an estimated cost of $780,
800; also for the construction of sanitary
sewers in certain sections of Woodlawn
at an estimated cost of 1880.
An ordinance was adopted for the paw
ing of Eleventh avenue, north, from
Thirtieth to Thirty second street with as
pl attic concrete, at an estimated cost of
| $40 600.
The city engineer was also directed
to draw an ordinance for the paving
of Avenue F, from Eighteenth street
to Elmwood cemetery.
The Arnold Lumber company was
required to pay 5000 for a. spur track
into it's lumber plant at Ensley; the
loss-Sheffield Steel and Iron company
| was assessed 500. while the Concrete
steel company was authorized to con-
struct one for nothing.
KILL AN ORDINANCE
The secretary read the caption of an
ordinance to improve Alabama avenue.
Commissioner Truss, in whose depart
| ment all improvement ordiIances are
supposed to originate and be fathered,
stated that this ordinance was a deep
mystery to him. None of the other
commissioners had any knowledge of
it except Commissioner Arlie Barber,
who knew all about Alabama avenue.
He said it was grown up in trees and
dense underground and that travel
along it was impossible The secretary
was instructed to bury the ordinance
until the property owners should ask
for it's resurrection.
An ordinance was adopted that the
health code shall go into effect Novem-
Der 49, 1916 The president is author
lied and directed to proclaim this fact.
Although the code comprises 1875
printed pages, the ordinance requires
that one each shall be posted on three
bill boards in the city, thus enabling
any citizen to go to his nearest bill
board and at a glance tell just what
and how he must do to keep well.
One hundred and Twenty-three dol
lars and Forty cents was the lowest
bid for the city's supply of dog tags
| for the 1917 season and was awarded to
| the City Paper company.
| 1t takes % city directories for the
city to keep track of it's inhabitants
and the purchasing agent was author
| lied to purchase this number at $3.50
| each.
| The engineering department, having
| drawn an ordinance for a sanitary sew
| err in Elyton. which was adopted some-
| time ago. providing that it go through
! certain private property unauthorized
| was repealed and another ordinance
curing this oversight was adopted.
| A cheap car was decided on as not be-
| ing good enough for the assistant CHIEF
| of the fire department and Commissioner
Barber said he would look into the mat
| ter this week and see if he could not buy
s225O car for $780,
MUNICIPAL INSURANCE
A resolution of Commissioner Barber
fixing the license tax on express COM