The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-24
AFTER ALL TIE STREETS.
rwo More Railways seeking Rights
OF Way

Wo d ore railways ceekinR Rights
of Way
Two new street railway companies pre-
sented to the city cou lcil yesterday petit
| tions for rights of way through the streets
# the city, and if all the petitions now
before the council be granted Savannah
will not lack for inte Tor and suburban lines
Of railway.
A petition signed by W. K. Wilkinson,
j. Ra dolph Anderson, Thomas Nugent. H.
Logan, Walter G. Charlton. Jacob s. Col
Inns, r otert II. Hicks, Jacob Paulsen, W.
F. McCauley and w. W. Mackall, Jr., was
laid on the table to be taken up at an ad-
jcurned meeting. The petition sets forth
that the petitioners will apply to the Iegisle-
ure at Its app oaching session for an act
Incorporating them to build, equip and
operate railway through the streets of
Savannah to be run by horse or electric
power, and asking the council in advance
of the action of the legislature to grant
them the privilege # constructing their
railway on the indicated route 81 that it
may be Incorporates in the act The fol-
lowing is the route designated:
From st. Julian street, Immediately east
Of the market, on st. Julian street TO
johnson So are; thence to the left around
said square and On Bryan to st. JUL IN i'm
medlately east of the square; along St
Julian to P ice; along Price to Gwinnett:
on Gwinnett TO OFT street, and thence along
OFT street to lands in which the petitioners
claim to be Interested in the southeastern
se.tlon Of savannah, returning over the
same route. with suitable turn-outs and
stopping places.
THEY SAY THEY MEAN BUSINESS.
The petitioners say that they are in
earnest, ami are not seeking to pre-empt
streets upon which they have neither the
capital nor tue disposition to build. They
submit several reasons why their petition
sAould be granted, among which are:
That as they are interested pecuniarily in
real estate in the south estern section of
the city, 10 which the road will run, t. ey
are therefore interested in the rapid aud
substantial develo Iment in that section;
That their proposed route IS simple, ira
We sing suc1 streets as are necessary to
| carry out their objects;
That the route will run through streets
unsuppled with such facilities, and will
thus place pppulous portion Of the city
in direct CO nectlou with the business sec
ton, pubic offices and market;
That work Of construction and equipment
will begin as soon as the legislature grants
the charter;
That he road will result in the rapid de-
velopment of a section of the city which at
|
taxes, and it is safe TO predict that the city
revenue resulting from its o. eraIion will,
as to that section, be immensely increased.
THE SOUTH LAKE COMPANY.
| The South Lake and Germantown Rail-
way Company, by Wi liam Rogers,
Thomas Gadsden, William Schroeder,
| Thomas F. Stubbs Benjamin 8. Wells,
James T. Wells, Nathaniel F. jackson,
James c. Shaw, Peter Reilly and Charles
P. Rossignol, presen ed petition, which
| was also referred to the adjourned meeting
of council, setting forth that they have
formed a company and it is about to be in
| corpora ed for the purp SO of constructing
and operating a railroad from the corner If
Montgomery and Twelfth streets to Rose
dew, and thence to some accessible point on
the Vernon river. and that they propose to
use electricity for the propulsion of their
cars on the city line, and ask the right to
lay railroad tracks and to erect poles aud
wires to operate the road through the
streets by the following route:
THE ROUTE ASKED FOR.
Beginning at Montgomery and Twelfth,
east TO Barnard, north Oh Barnard to Con-
gress, on Congress around the southeast
corner of the market to st. Julian, on st.
Julian east to johnson square, around the
northern side of The square to st. Julian,
east on st. Julian TO Lincoln, south on Lin
coin to South Broad, west on South Broad
to Abercorn, south on Abercorn to Macon,
east on Macon to Lincoln, south on Lincoln
to New Houston, west on New Houston to
Barnard, interesting its line Also from
the corner of Barnard and Congress, around
the southwest corner of the
market to st. Julian, on st. Julian west to
Montgomery, north on Montgomery to
Bay, west on Bay, west to an unnamed
street, fifty feet wide, recently acquired by
the city, north on the unnamed street to its
terminus; with the option to the company
to build it's railroad through Jefferson
street from Twelfth to Second, aud east on
| Second to Barnard. Also on Bryan street
from Mon gomery to Farm and north on
Farm to Bay street.
WILL DEVELOP THE SOUTHERN LIMITS,
The petitioners say that the suburban
| railr ad, in connection with the CITY line
will develop and improve large and valu-
able section of the county tributary to the
city, and great public benefits will flow
from the operation of the Suburban and
| City lines.
The petition of the Belt Line company,
which was publis led in the MORNING News
at the time of its presentation at the last
meeting of the city council, was also
referred to the adjourned meeting of coun-
Gil, which, Mayor Schwarz informs the
MORNING NEWS, will be held on the return
of Alderman Harmon, chairman of the
street and lane committee, fro II Florida
The three street railway companies were
represented by counsel and individual
stockholders, who remained in the long
room for three-quarters of an hour until
council came out of caucus, when a hint
was dropped to them that action would be
deferred on the petitions. after which they
withdrew.