The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-07
REVIEW OF A BUSY YEAR.
The Work on Streets, squares, and
Lanes-Sewerage and Drainage.

| The Work on Streets, squares, and
Lanes-Sewerage and Drainage.
The annual report of City Surveyor
VI. J. VIM is in process Of preparation,
and Col. VIM informs MORNING NEWS
reporter that he expects to be able to sub
NIT il to the mayor before the close Of the
week. It will necessarily be quite lengthy,
as it deals with the work of several depart
ments.
| The report has not progressed far enough
to reach reca pitulation, but it will disclose
a great deal Of work in the different Depart
ments which may tie epitomized approx
mately.
A great many improvements have been
made to the public squares Of the city during
| the past year. A she'll walk has been laid on
the Drayton and Whitaker sides of the
park from CASTOR to Hall street, and walks
have been laid in Columbia, Franklin,
Greene, Washington, and Oglethorpe
squares Walks have also been laid on the
north side Of Bay from East Broad to
Whitaker street, and also along the RETAIN
ing wall from Price to Lincoln street. Curb
ing has been laid around Telfair place and
Madison square Wright, & ippewa,
johnson, Telfair, Madison, and Monterey
squares have beer, surfaced and
fertilized, as have the grass plats
on Liberty street, and all the low
places in the park extern sion have been filled
up. Twenty new settees have been placed
in the park. Over one hundred and fifty
trees have been planted in the streets and
squares, and as many IL ore will be set out
In addition to these, ono hundred cedars
have been transplanted Ill the park. There
have been two hundred aud eighty-two new
street and lane crossings put down, S6,639
square yards Of paving have been laid, in
Guiding asphalt, granite blocks, cobbie
stone and repairs TO streets and sidewalks,
and over 5000 feet of curbing have been
put down. Portions Of Bull, Barnard,
Bryan, and Jefferson have been surfaced
with gravel. Portions of about twenty
streets have been graded and
the low places filed with sand or debris
from the burned district. Bull street has
been graded and shelled from Anderson to
Second street. Over 270 wooden bridges
have been laid over cutters and water ways.
A retaining wall has been built at the foot
of Abercorn street. Over 10 of the old
surface wells have been filled up. The Gem
trail has completed the grading of its share
of the Bay street extension. a wharf be-
tween Habersham and Price streets was
rebuilt and sold back to the original owners
who had let 1t go to sale for delinquent
taxes.
Over 1900 feet of pipe sewers, not includ-
ing 600 feet of the market sewer, has been
laid. One thousand feet of tile drains were
laid, and more than twenty new catch
basins were built. The West Boundary
sewer has been cleaned out its entire
length.
Extensive improvements were made to
the sanitary equipments Of the market
building and the sewer, plumbing. and
cold storage reforms have made the I'M
sanitary building one Of the most cleanly in
the south.
The dry culture work has been quite ex-
tensive. There have been laid $50 feet of
sewer on the Ogeechee road; 500 feet from
cemetery to drain outlying ponds; over 500
feet of box bitches aud over 1000 feet of
open bitches, have been constructed in the
southern portion Of the city. The dam on
Back river, on Hutchinson's Island,
has been raised for a distance of
900 feet, and repairs have been made to the
trunks. The back dam on the Springfield
plantation has been raised and repaired for
distance of about 500 feet. The trunks in
hog and Screven sewer have been repaired.
All the canals and bitches have been
cleaned out and repaired, and the main
veins deepened.
Increased facilities were added at the
quarantine station, including tramways
and hosting engine, and a new quaran-
tine station of large proportions will take
the place of the present station