The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-09
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; x..A se CHAp1xsroT, S. O., May j 1865 =
ri LBdybot Esd, 'Cityy Citit. Engineer:
IN conformity With instructions received nom
his Honor the Msyar Of Charleston ana JoGISeS na
project which has engaged the spectSl attention o.
his' Honor the Msyor4the providing the city OF
Charleston With an ample mercantile thcroushiare
FOR the transaction Of business parallel and copse.
10 and to give the City ofCharles
ton such thorouRhfares q every important com,
mercial lssport should have have been instructed
to make an fnstrumentsl OF two routes
iti can be adyantageously widened IN such manner
as to accomplish the desired end and second 70 as
certain wtether o new street cannot be opened 70
the east, 60 ss 10 adord g more direct and oeter
route.
Market, fulnls all the requisites for commercial
thorougfare, being near to and parallel with the
wharfage; 6tyectin iits course, and aoout seventy
feat width except perhaps at Broad street, where the
passage Is contracted to something less than forty
ieat bs the projection westward OF the old Exchange
building 80 that East Bsy-street between southern
whMves and Marketsteet, may be adopted without
change.
Bay.srecs is devious Between Mnrketand Hnsestreet
It'd width frequently VARIES chiefly from forty 70 tnlr-
ty,tbree and twenty feet; from Hasel to Cal.
houn.sreet is an average width Of nifty fet except
atSodsty street, where It expands to sxty-our and
cemss cofrsctei 10 forty.two feet Practically speak.
ins, East Bay-street from Msrket to Lalhoun-sueet
cannot be straightened; and II adopted for mercan.
tile PURPOSES must be received with Its present sin.
uosihes. and can only in part be wdersd to seventy
feet which considerto be the width desirable Tor
sthe purpose In view. -: ..sb
Ii East Bay-street. from Market to Calhounstreet,
should be determined upon ss the mercantile tho
rouehfare H. should ct even very considerable cost
he oneied to the desired width Of seventy feet so
far as praccable for 1t is to be hoped the oppor-
tuniHes now afforded by destructive d, es, which
haye desolated this part Of the city, will never again
be offered. Il Il shall be determined to widen East
Baysreet for the purpose In view, propose the fo-
lowing location as the best IN consideration OF al
.circum stances, which has appeared TO me; and
have laid 1t down upon the map by broken red
lines: -
Departing no the western line ofthe new Custom
hose lot with DETECTION OF seven degrees wes fol.
low the present gen era direction OF East Baysreet
with q width Of seventy feet to Prttchard-ereet;
thence by another detection Yves: Of thirteen oe-
on account of buildings too expensive for removal,
retain East BAY street nearly as it now is, with width
varying from fifty to sixty feet as far as Laurens-
street; and thence with an average w1d'h OF hfty
feet to Calhoun street. retain East BsysHeet as 1t
n W exsts The extreme contraction to forty.two
feet at the intersection Of Laurens with East Bay
street Is very Objectionable feature TO this ronte,
and cannot be remedied except oy lncurTans very
great expense in the removal Of A. j. Whites resi-
dence or the removal OF equally valuable residences
sdihgonany opposite.
The accompanying map shows the amount Of pri-
vate land which thus location would occupy. In ad-
diton would be required the removal Of the old fish
market; Air. Bull's two-story brick store, and the
Snhed north thereof at corner Of Market and East
.Bsy saeets. south Of Hasel-street would be re-
ouired the removal of Duncan's wooden building,
GIoussen's two tory residence, the engine bouse,
city property and the hree.story brick residence OF
Mr. wagner on the east side, and Of Trenholm e
tyo.story brick residence the west side OF East
.Bsy.street At ninety feet south frtm Haselstreet,
Esst Bay street IL only thirtytwo feet ten inches
wide, and must DO opened, as will appear by refer
ence to the map.
have expressed upon the accompanying map, by
brown tint and full red lines, the result Of my e1-
animation for another route more convenient to the
wharves more direct in its course, and more ample
than the route by East Bay-Rireet, from Market to
sCalhoun-street
6 The city map shows that Tashington.st'eet, from
Calhoun to Society street, If Hprolonged with very
slight detection would connect with East Bay.sreet
pat the New Customhouse lot and q thoroughfare
nearly STRAIGHT thereby would be obtained from
Solthern whol ves at the Battery, to Ca houn street
Prom Calhoun street Washington.strect continues
florthward with deviation of few degrees west to
sthe Northeastern Railroad Depot, In Chapelsreet.
The details ofthe "Washingto street route are
as follows AS has been stated Tor the east Bay
route." depart from the western line of the New
Customhouse lot, by detection Of seven degrees
west with . width Of seventy feet, and purtue the
eene al direction of East Bay-seet to the north line
OF Hard Alley. Thence by q detection eastward of
ten degrees proceed with the same width to Society,"
street Continued, and there connect with Washing
ton.street meeting 1t at an angle OF ntersec-
tion of thrss and tbree-qnarter degrees Inc
deviation from straight line are made cn'eny