Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-15
FILLING THE CITY OFFICES
ELECTIONS BY THE CITY COUN-
GIL LAST NIGHT.

Gil lgASI
Nearly all the Old Ofhcers Retained-A
zTJvelv Contest for the Port Warden
shIp-R. c. Kennedy Elected HarbOr
Naster-Awarding the City Contracts
and winding Up the Business of the
Administration
The spectators gallery in the City COun-
ell Chamber was packed last night. The
elections to I'LL the city offices attracted
all the veteran Council Chamber habitues,
and a crowd Of interested loOkers-on
pushed up to the gallery rails. Itwas the
last meeting of the Council, and there was
full attendance Of Aldermen.
1t is the custom of the Council TO hold a
caucus some time preceding the election,
when the candidates for city offices are
discussed and ballOted for and practically
elected. the election in open Council being
simply a confirmation of the action oil the
caucus. and. so lar as an election is con-
cerned, a mere FORM The COuncIl last
night. not having fully determined the
slate. occupied more time I'D ming some
OF the offices than it would have occupied
mad the work been done in the prelimi-
nary caucus.
There was no opposition in the majority
NJ offices. and the ballOting was mOnOtO-
mons and uninteresting. The only offices
for which there was any opposition were
CORPORATION Attorney, Harbor Master,
Keeper of City Dispensary, Clerk Of
Market, Port Warden, Keeper of Forsyth
Place. and Keeper of the Pest House. The
principal offices were filled by the
unanimous reelection Of the present in
cumbents as follows:
Clerk of COuncil-F. Z. Rebarer.
City Treasurer-Maj. c. ;. Hardee.
CITY MaTshal-Capt. l.. l.. Goodwin.
Chief of Police-Gen. X. Fl. Anderson.
Assistant Chief of POlice-JOhn Green.
City SurveyOr-JOhn b. Howard.
Health Oficer-Dr. J. Il. Mcfarland.
Keeper of Laurel Grove Cemetery-A.
F. TOrlay.
Messenger Of COuncil-Luke Logan.
Chief Fireman AdOlph Fernandez.
Assistant Chief Fireman-GeO. MOuro.
Superintendent Of water XOrks-A. n.
Miller.
he. Cunningham, Esq, was elected
Corporation Attorney over George w.
Owens, Esq, by a majority of II votes.
re. Kennedy was elected HarbOr Mas
ter over John ID. Ten Brock, the present
incumbent, by majority OF 10.
There were three candidates for Clerk
of the Market-W. II. BOrdley, the pres
ent incumbent, Thomas Maddox and
Charles Z. Mallette. Mr.. BOrdley was re-
elected By maSOEity Of 10.
There were two candidates. for the Keep
ership of the City Dispensary-LeIis
Cass, tine present keeper, and w. w. Lin
coin. Mr.. Cass received the unanimous
vote of the Council.
Theo. II. Moves, the present Keeper OF
FORSYTH Place, vas reelected over John
+. DAILY. by vote OF to Z.
The hottest contest was for the Port
wardenship and the Keepership of the
| Pest House. The candidates for the lat
/ ter position were Thomas Carr, Patrick
+. Higgins. William fenken. James f..
Findley and A, Mckvoy;; Mr.. CaTr was
elected on the second ballot, receiving
bare majority.
There were twentv-eight candidates Tor
the Pert Wardenship. Charles Van
Horn. John Power, Thomas ii. Laird and
Alexander Abrams the present in
cumbents. and ;. NJ. Lathteau, Z. X.
Hernandez, Thomas Daniels, w. k.
Pritchard, l.. W. Brickman, NJ. }. Desver-
GERS. John Reilly, Lemuel Davis, K. A.
| Pollard. Andrew Arson, p. NJ. Box, L. b.
Marshall. T. e. FAIR, James Clements,
| John +. Eiskamp, y. Fiaherty, W
ID. Oliyeira. Thomas Clark, q. H..
IufburrOw. ;. j. NJ. Baker. W.
III. Patterson, Peter DOnelan, ID. L..
( Martin, L. Virgins. Three of the present
incumbeAts Of the Office, Charles an
Horn. John power and Thomas III. Laird,
were reelected, ana after continuous bal
iOting :. j. II. Baker and " Il. Prltchard
were elected upon the twelfth ballet.
Constantine Dubler was elected CHM
npv Contractor for the Western district,
and John Cassidy for the Eastern dis
Drs. X. 5. Sanders apd B. p. OliverOs
were elected CITY Physicians.
Naval Stores inspectOrS-C, -. hussell,
NJ. G. Register. 5. NJ. Chestnut, b,
Holmes. ". II. Goodman, II. NJ. King,
James G.. Wells, F. L. GIyy, w. L.
Bevins.
Inspectors OF Iimber and TIMBER.
II. Bell, A. b. LakOche. >. } Backly, W.
r. Merrill, G.. T.. Jordan, john &, P2rry.
The bids for city contracts were as
follows:
Seagsager COntract-Studer& Harmon,
Sf4,jOO Z. a. Heidi, city north OF AndeT-
son street, S16, 000s city extension, $0,OOO.
William Swoll, city north Of Anderson
street. S14, $50; city extension, St,sOJ. 4.
r. Churchill, city extension, $2,OOO.
The contract for both city proper and
city extension was awarded to Mr.. SwOll
as the lowest bidder.
The contract for supplying the police
barracks with bread was awarded to
Mai. John Schwarz at 80 cents per
pound,
Tbere were two bids Tor the city print
ing. II. EstiH $500 and B. II. Richard
son $3.50. The contract vas awarded to
Mr.. Richardson as the lowest bidder,
an interesting budget Of business was
DISPOSED CT. An ordinance amending the
ordinance passed Ct the last meeting OF
the Council granting the Central Kali
road the right to build track along the
wharf front of the city was passed. A
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DatitiOns referred for consideration by the
uarU BOARD