The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-07
III. MS" REPLY TO ~Jusr1oE.r
a Spicy Letter from the Financial
COmmittee's Chairman


SAVANNAH, GA, Dec. 6.-Editor Morn
ing NelCs: l regret TO be compelled to
again trespass upon your kindness, but 1
beg to be allowed the use Of your columns
to refute certain charges made against me
by ''Justice," in your issue Of Dec. 6. and
which charges gentlemen are not ia the
heolt OF making unless they can prove the
same beyond doubt.
u, In order to put myself properly before
the readers, would ask an indulgent public
TO read the following application to council.
and which application was alluded TO in
my communication which appeared in your
issue Of Dec. 5:
SAVANNAH. Sept. &c. 1889.
10 me mayor ana Aldermen City of SAVANNAH:
0ESTLEAEH-I respectfully submit this, nv
petition, to have the water pipes extended on
maple street, west OF West Broad street. | de-
sire 70 improve my lots on this street, but il
wa pe impossible for me to do so, unless the city
PROVIDES some means to get water. There is no
pump In this neighborhood, so am entirely de-
pendent upon supply from the water mains
II would % impossible for me to rent my
houses without water facilities and useless for
ms 70 build. II, however, the city viii make
TINS extension, costing less than S400
VIII erect eight houses, which will pay 10
per cent. on the amount The city will also re-
celve taxes from the improvements so the 500
Will be well invested. There are other lots on
TINS street that will, in time, be improved
which will better this investment Respectfully
r d. GUERARD.
1889. ''H' ~ ''H'nsH'' huiioinE oc'' l.
This application was granted, and the
whole matter explains ITSELF After the
passage OF the recent water ordinance Mr..
K. ID. Guerard called on me personally and
criticised severely said ordinance. stating
that bad he known that such an ordinance
was ever contemplated he would not have
built the thirty houses alluded to, nor
would he have made the application for
the laying OF the main. With these facts
L simply ask the public to judge as to
whether any incorrect statements have
been made by me.
do not deem it necessary to correct the
erroneous conclusion that this council
would increase taxation. Whence did he
derive the information! Certainly not
from me-
40 not profess to have the legal acumen
OF Justice" and it is therefore quite posi-
Die that may, upon the advice of the legal
adviser Of the city, advocate in council
chat the same rate of taxation should be
levied upon all property, whether the same
be real estate or personal in its nature. In
passing, 1t may be stated that every city in
this state has adopted this mode of taxation.
AS private citizen, consider this mode
injurious to the commercial growth and
prosperity or Our city, and it is to be re-
GREETED that we are forced to adopt it by
our state constitution, and the construction
placed upon same by our supreme court.
l would also beg an indulgent public to
read "Justice's' article which appeared in
your issue of the Sd inst, and judge there
from whether he has made a single prac-
ticable suggestion which would enable
council to decrease taxation and give us
additional mains, etc. The growth Of the
city will require larger pumps, and these,
with the mains, will cause an outlay of
$l5O,O00; besides the new quarantine sta
ton entails very heavy expenditure The
tire department, new system of sewerage,
and other unavoidable and pressing i'm
provements, will need very considerable
annual appropriations from the city treas
ury. In my humble judgment, there have
been more practicable progress and i'm
provements madein our city in the past five
years than in the fifteen years preceding.
In dismissing this subject simply beg to
add that, while it may be- no concern of
the public, the one who questions my
veracity and good faith in the premises
either does so from ignorance or willful
perversion Of facts. Respectfully,
HERMAN MYERS.