The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
TWILL BE A BIG BUDGET.
CITY DEPARTMENTS FIGURING ON
NEXT YEARS EXPENSES.


Department, Sanitary, Police, Water
and Street and Lane Departments
to Call for the Heaviest Appropria-
tions- Some OF the Improvements
Contemplated for Next Year.
As the time pproaches for making up
the city budget. there is considerable inter
est in what each department Of the city
government viii want. 1t is too early yet
to give figures. City Surveyor VIM has
not yet made up the estimates for the de
partments, and crowded as he is with work,
it will be a task for him when the members
of council begin 70 ask for estimates to
shape the aggregates which they will ask
to go IN the budget.
THE DRAINAGE DEPARTMENT.
Alderman Faligant who is chairman Of
the drainage committee, will want another
appropriation fer his house drainage sys-
tenn. OF the S45, 600 set aside on the last
budget, very little remains, but Alderman
Falligant is not TO blame for that as it was
borrowed for street improvements. They
tell me IL is tied up IN the Liberty street
pavement" Alderman Falligant said last
night, land that they will return it when
the Liberty street asphalt Assessments are
collected" It is proposed to drain the
southeastern section of the city by a sewer
on Price street from Anderson to Seventh
street.
TIE FIRE COMMITTEES WANTS.
The fire department will want a big ap-
preparation, and it is not difficult to figure
up in the neighborhood of SGO,O00 If all the
equipments wanted are asked for. The
new La France engine, the aerial truck and
the chemical engine already run up TO ST.
410. 1t is also considered necessary to have
full-pad fire department OF As men, in
1fl D hot tzHan hea
close to $35, 900. The extension of the
fire alarm system. the addition of more
boxes a new repeater for the one now nearly
worn out, and three additional telephones,
with the amount required for fuel, repairs,
new hose and other incide1tals, will not fall
far short Of the amount mentioned.
THE NEW QUARANTINE STATION.
The health and cemetery committee, Of
which Alderman Harris is chairman, will
want to provide for the new quarantine
station. lit Is proposed he said last night,
''to have a quarantine station of the best
possible kind by next summer, and where
there will be practically no detention to
vess els which are not from infected or sus-
picious ports" The crematory as an agency
for the sanitary disposition Of garb-
age has not been lost sight of,
and while the Hughes crematory
failed to meet the requirements, the city
lost no money by it, as the contract with
the builder was conditioned on its practical
operation, and its failure in that direction
only ENABLED disappointment and delay to
the committee. DIR. Harris says that he is in
correspondence with another party who has
improved on the Engle crematory, and
when it is established that garbage ere
matory can be practically operated with a
reasonable degree of economy, the crematory
matter will again be revived in the council,
and steps taken TO provide one for the city.
He will doubtless want to provide for the
approximate cost Of garbage crematory
in the new budget.
MORE POLICE NEEDED.
The police force is thought to be made
quate for the proper protection of the city,
and the city has grown so rapidly south of
Castor street in the past two years that ali
of that portion is very Intellectually patrolled
by the few mounted men, whose beats are
over two miles long. They form the
skirmish line, so to speak, of tne force, and
few years ago there were but few houses
on their beat. Now the city has built up
densely from East Broad to Burroughs, and
from Castor to Anderson, and there are no
sklrmlshers on the new outposts. An addi-
ton of ten to fifteen policemen is talked of.
THE NEW WATER WORKS.
The water committee, of which Alderman
Wells was chairman, will Of course want
the budget to anticipate the nucleus for a
AOh Blhnb On Nub tcAJILLRlltlu pldHLaDlOl. 1T
Is argued that another plant is not only
needed to supply the additional demand for
water occasioned by the citys growth, but
that with the present system Of water works
an accident might produce water famine.
or compel return TO the river water, I'M
sanitary at best, but at some seasons Of the
year fraughu with the most unsanitary re-
suits; while, in case of fire, the city would
be at the mercy Of the flames. 1t is pro-
posed to sink one or two more wells near
the one now being drilled and to
pump the water from a reservoir.
and avoid some of the mistakes of the
present water works system. IF we get a
100000 flow from the well now being
drilled" said Alderman Harris lone other
well OF equal depth will be sufficient, and if
we get no more flow than we now have, two
more such wells will be all that is necessary
to supply the CITY,"
THE STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
The street and lane committee will want
a greater appropriation than it had last
year. 1t had reduced appropriation last
year. 1t is learned that the department
Will ask to be provided for in
the budget so that the Jefferson
street graywacke pavement can extend
from its present terminus at Charlton
street to Anderson, and westward to Laurel
Grove cemetery. 1t is also contemplated to
pave Price street from Bay to Anderson
WIN gray Wacke, 1t being considered neces-
sary to have a street in the eastern part of
the city, from the Bay to Anderson, in a
condition to facilitate the fire department
In reaching fires in that portion of the city.
A PAVEMENT FOR BULL STREET.
The asphalting of Bull street from State
TO harris, is also under advisement, and it
is understood that the committee will want
the expense of the work provided for in the
budget. An extension Of the sewers to the
southern part Of the city is also contem-
plated, and improvements to the parks and
squares.
In brief, the Improvements in view are
house drainage, an extended system of
sewerage, an increased paid fire department,
new quarantine station, garbage crema-
tory, an Increased police force a new water
works plant, paved streets and improve
ments to the parks and squares.