The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-17
THE SITE SETTLED UPON.
WHERE THE NEW POST OFFICE
WILL BE BUILT.


The Government Fixes Upon the York
and Abercorn Street Location-Its
Claim Upon the Barracks Property
Released, and the Hotel Committee
Now in Shape to Go Ahead with It's
Plans.
The government has at last settled upon
a site for the new public building. The
MORNING News Washirg ton dispatches to-
day announce that the Secretary of the
Treasury has selected the property at the
corner of York and Abercorn streets, facing
Oglethorpe square, and that the Supervis-
ing Archetect will prepare the plans for the
building at once.
Mr.. Jacob Rauers, chairman of the new
hotel committee received the following
telegram yesterday from Representative
Norwood:
WASHINGTON. D. c., March 49, 1888.
J. RGuerS. Chairman Hotel Committee, Sdudn-
The government releases the barracks and
accepts the Estill property.
T. NJ. NORWOOD.
THE SITE SETTLED UPON.
The public will doubtless be satisfied with
the selection of the Site-not altogether,
for the reason that it settles the question of
the public building and the new hotel. 1t
would, doubtless, have been better to have
had the public building on the court
house site, the Union Society property,
Christ church, or the Hops lot, but
1t appears that there was an insuperable
objection to either of the first three, owing
to there not being sufficient width to the
property, and to the latter owing to its
price.
The lots selected face north on Oglethorpe
square, and are. surrounded by good class
of houses. The center lot is occupied by the
Bolton house, a dwelling well known in the
early history of the city as the residence of
Robert Bolton, one of the merchant princes
of Savannah in the latter part of the last
century, and it remained in the possession of
his descendants until about eight years ago,
when it was sold to settle up an estate.
THE OFFER TO UNCLE SAM.
The property is owned by Col. j. H.
Estill, and was originally offered with
other sites when the government asked for
proposals, but owing to the controversy III re-
gard TO public building matters the bid was
withdrawn. At the request of the commit
tee which has charge of the new hotel
project, and to which was intrusted the
matter of procuring site in lieu of the
barracks lots, it was renewed.
II there are no further difficulties in the
way it is very probable, if the tenor of the
dispatches from Washington is correct, that
there will be no delay in commencing the
work. The titles have been already passed
upon by two prominent legal firms, and
there is scarcely doubt that they w1ll be
found perfect by the District Attorney.
THE HOTEL MOVEMENT
The Hotel Committee will organize at
once and go ahead with its work Savannah
is now seemingly about to have what it has
long wanted and what it so greatly needs
new hotel and post office and United
States court house.
The titles to the property that the govern
ment has selected for a post office site will
be submitted to District Attorney Query
at once so that there may be as little delay
as possible in getting them approved.
Representative Norwoods idea of what
the new building ought to be is pretty clear
~ stated in the MORNING News dispatches,
and his suggestions with those of Judge
Speer and Postmaster Lamar, will probably
govern the supervising architect in prepar-
ing his plans. The price paid for the site,
$4,000, will leave S1SO,0O0 to be expended
on the building.