The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-26
IMPROVING THE STREETS
ALDERMAN HARMON KEEPING
THE STREET FORCES BUSY.

Jefferson Street Pavement Question
to be Settled To-Day.
A MORNING NEWS reporter drove over
the city with Alderman Harmon Of the
street and lane committee Of the city coun-
Gil yesterday, and visited the localities
where the street forces are at work.
The first place visited was Randolph
street, at the foot of gas house hill. This
has been wet and unsanitary place, and at
the suggestion of City Surveyor Winn
four-inch thing has been laid from
rear the summit of the hill to the
sewer trap, southeasterly near the sold
Fort House." That part Of the ground
underlaid by the tiling is as dry as bone
where it has usually been wet with the
sweepings from the houses on the hill.
Workmen are engaged in laying line OF
thing from the summit of the hill near the
gas house In a northeasterly direction to
drain the rest Of the ground into the sewer
trap near Bay street, under the nil, and
cesspool is to be put in near the junction of
the two lines of thing, owing to the heavy
water percolation and quicksand encoun-
tered there yesterday by the workmeu.
Randolph street is to be graded from
President to East Broad, two sewer traps
having been completed at Randolph street
and Perry street lane, and connections made
with the sewer on Perry street lane. This
will prevent the flooding Of the low lands
east of Randolph street, and will drain the
streets running east and west on both sides
OF Randolph street.
BEAUTIFYING LIBERTY STREET.
Along Liberty street the work of grading
the grass plats is in progress, aud grass has
been sown by the city from West Broad to
Hah ar ahor Oh. la LAT nd
along the sidewalk borders, except where
property holders have taken charge of the
work OF beautifyt1g these plats. In many
| places the grass is already up. Alderman
Harmon says that the property holders will
be permitted to beautify these plats, and he
thinks they will vie with each other in
| making them ornamental and beautiful.
Capt. Il. G. Fleming las planted row of
palmettoes in front of his residence, and
the plats with temporary guards to keep
! off pedestrians until the gras, is set.
The work of cleaning off the asphalt
pavement and sweeping it began yesterday
at West Broad street. Alderman Harmon
explained that the city, not yet h wing re-
ceived Liber y street from tue paving con-
tractors, it was necessary to get their per-
mission to put a force on it to clean it up,
and this permission having been obtained
the work was begun yesterday and will e
extended until the entire street Is cleaned.
On West Broad street force is at work
grading, and the work has been completed
on both Jefferson and West Broad streets
and cross streets from Hall street as far
north as Wayne street, and the work will
be continued until Liberty street is reached.
Quite number of i'm orovements have besn
made on West Broad street in the way of
street crossings, and others are to be put
down. Two cesspoOls have been put down
at Duffy and We t Broad to drain that sec
ton, which needed it very much.
FILLING UP THE OLD WELLS.
At West Boundary and Railroad streets
an old we'll is being filled. 1t was full
of water. Alderman Harmon says his
committee has filed up about 100 OF these
abandoned wells. Walks have been laid in
Columbia square. A force is now doing
similar work in Franklin square, and
Greene and Washington squares will next
receive attention. 1--WE are endeavorine to
put the streets in a sanitary condition" said
Alderman Harmon. "We have laid over
seventy street crossings in the southern and
eastern portions of the city, in addition to
those laid elsewhere; we have clea led up
under the bluff, have clea ed up the Old
Fort from o end to tie other, aud are
now working in Yamacraw and in the
heart of the city"
On West Boundary street, between Little
Jones aud Railroad street, tiliug is to be
put down as at gas house hill, and the Cen
trail railroad has consented to drain its
premises AUDITING on West Boundary street,
which improvements were suggested By
interviews in the MORNING News a short
while back. Thing is also to be laid or
West Boundary between the two bridges
over the Ogeechee canal.
Lumber street is to be graded and filled
up. Thing is to be laid on that street in the
neighborhood of Margaret street, along
which the water is now standing covered
with disease breeding scum in several
| places. This wo will be taken up when
| the West Boundary sewer has been cleaned
out. "When this work has been completed, y
said Alderman Harmon, "Yamacraw will
be cleaner aud in a better sanitary condi-
ton than it has been for ten years"
THE JEFFERSON STREET WORK.
Jefferson street needs grading to drain
| the cross streets, and as 1T is feeder from
the Ogeechee road Alderman Harmon says
the traffic is very heavy ON it, and it needs
paving badly. West Broad street is too
broad and would be too expensive to pa g.
The contemplated paving of Jefferson
street, for which there is $4,000 available,
seems to hang fire for some reason. The
street and lane committee will hold
meeting to-day to determine
begin at once, or be postponed until
next fall. Aldermen Harmon and Bailey
are in favor of beginning the work at once,
and paving the street as far as the appro-
priation will extend. The street will be
easily graded, as but little grading will be
required.
Alderman Harmon's objection to post
poning the work until fall Is that it will be
a busy season with the railroads then, and
delays will be encountered in procuring
stone. Besides it is season of
activity among business men when
the councilmen will not be able
to give so much of their time to the city'S
affairs as in the summer season. He says
that the consent OF the health and cemetery
committee has been obtained to work on
that street beyond May / and that the
saving of $500 in the construction Of the
Barnard street sewer for the market shows
conclusively that tue city can do its street
work much more economically and salts
factorily than TO let it out by contract
The meeting Of the street. and lane commit
tee to-day will settle the question Of paving
Jefferson street at once or later in the sea-
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