The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-23
THE CITY'S QUARANTINE.
A SURVEY FOR THE NEW STATION
TO BE MADE NEXT WEEK.


ton for Quarantine improvements
Will be l6sde.
There is TO be a survey Of the proposed
location for the new quarantine station
next week, and arrangements are being
made for gathering all the data necessary
TO submit to the city council so that in max
ing up the budget the necessary appropria-
ton may be made for carrying out the de-
sign of charging the facilities for the
prompt and efficient fumigation of vessels
and their discharge with the least possible
detention.
The health and cemetery committee met
yesterday and accepted the recommends
tions of Health Officer Drummer as to the
location of the new station, and ordered the
survey for the purpose Of establishing the
location Of the wnarves and the buildings.
1t is thought that Engineer Curtis will be
detailed to make the survey.
Health Officer Brunuer, City Surveyor
Winn, and w. r. Curtiss, typographical
engineer, accompanied by a MORNING
NEWS repor er, visited COckspur point,
day before yesterday, to take soundings in
the basin, and DR.. Drummer says he found
the water deeper than it was year ago.
soUNDISGs IN coCKsPUR BASIN.
reaching Cockspur point went off in small
boat and took a number of soundings along
the front of the proposed site of the
wharves, after which visit was made to
the quarantine station, a short mile west of
the proposed new station.
DIR. Drummer will recommend that the
wharves be built at Cockspur point, a point
of land at the lower end of Long Island,
twelve miles from the city, which puts out
into a deep basin 1000 feet long and about
quarter of a mile wide, the depth of water
varying from twelve to twenty feet at low
tide. 1t is a beautiful sheet of water, and
the wharves will have to be extended but a
very short distance from land, as the water
is deep well up towards the shore.
THE SITE OF THE NEW wHARvEs.
Many objections raised to the former
quarantine station will be obyiated by the
location OF the new station at Cockspur
point, and in referring to them DR.. Brun-
ner, in his forthcoming report to Alderman
harris, chairman of the health and ceme-
terry committee, will show the advantages
of the new station. Col. W. j. VIM, city
surveyor, agrees with Health Officer Brun-
ner in the desirability of Cockspur point as
site for the quarantine wharyeS, and
as Col. VIM was located on the island
for several months experimenting the erec-
tion of the light stations and buildings for
Ouo bOFeIuu1oub elllplOybS, ne Is ldillIlldT
with both the topography of the land and
the adaptability Of the basin as a safe and
| commodious anchorage for vessels.
The present quarantine station was built
only for temporary use until such time as a
permanent site could be obtained, and the
quarters Of the quarantine officer are more
than a mile away on the Oyster Bank
Island, the site of the old quarantine station,
so that the present station is not immedi-
al 10 ali / 10 hali
by DIR. Drummer it should be. He will,
therefore, recommend that buildings should
be erected Just back of the proposed
wharveS at Cockspur point for the quaran-
tine officer and his force.
OUTSIDE OF HARBoR LINES.
The proposed station, it is understood
| from Lieut.. o. M. Carter, will be outside
| of the harbor lines as it will not be in close
proximity to the channel and vet it will be
but a short distance out of the course of
yessels-say 500 or 900 yards.
At present only five vessels are permitted
to come to anchor at quarantine and YES
sells for this port have to lie in Tybee roads,
after being brought over the bar, until
their turn comes, and it requires, with the
present facilities, about three days to dis
charge ballast.
1t is proposed to make the basin an an
| chorage for vessels, and it will accommo-
|
| wharves, nearly three times as many as are
now accommodated, and it is expected, with
the proposed double hosting engine and
mechanical appliances for running the bal
| last cars, to unload a vessel in twenty-four
hours. Vessels in the roads are liable to
damage from storms and gales, and there
will seldom be- a necessity for any but seek
ers to drop anchor there after the new sta
ton is established.
TO RIDE AT ANCHOR IN THE BASIN.
1t is proposed that vessels shall moor in
the basin, and not cast their anchor. Mush-
room anchors with buoys, will be provided,
400 feet apart, and vessels will moor to a
buoy fore and aft. 1t is claimed that the
mushroom anchors will hold the buoys in
the highest gale, but a broad expanse of
shoal water east of the basin, it is claimed,
breaks up the highest sea, so that the
basin will afford a safe anchorage, and it is
additionally protected by the Blind Beacon
Island and the Oyster Bank Island, both of
which are opposite on the north.
If the plan suggested by Health Officer
Drummer is adopted there will be no such a
station on the Atlantic coast south of Bal
timore, and DR.. Drummer says that Savan-
nah can soon win back her coffee trade,
which was lost by the lack of quarantine
facilities, and mismanagement.
THE PLAN TO BE RECOMMENDED.
The general plan which he will recon-
mend is the building of two wharves for
accommodating two vessels in the discharge
of ballast, with mechanical appliances SO
arranged that the ballast will be rapidly
hoisted and dumped in cars, which will be
operated by mechanical power, and not by
hand, the slow and tedious process now
employed, although the ballast is hoisted
by steam power, an improvement over the
old plan in vogue until quite recently. In
the rear Of the wharves buildings are to be
provided for the quarantine officer and the
operatives of the engine, cooks and boat
men. The present quarters are to be
taken down on Oyster Bank Island.
THE TUG AS DIsINFECTING AUXILIARY,
A disinfectant tug, such as is in use at the
New Orleans quarantine station, is to be
recommended. The tug is to be used for
generating sulphurous acid gas for fumigat-
ing vessels, and provided with a large tank
containing bi-chloride of mercury, and a
pump for spraying vessels with the bi-chlo-
ride solution. The tug will also be used for
removing vessels to and from the ballast
wharves, and removing infected vessels out
of the river to the roads for other tugs to
pick them up and tow them to
the government quarantine station at
Sapelo. 1t will also be used as a boarding
vessel, and IT, during the malarious months,
it should be found unhealthful for the
quarantine officer and his force to sleep in
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