The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-19
TO TRY A NEW DEAL.
COMMISSIONER BoURQUIN ON AN
OTHER TACK.

| AAO ivy " Dc G4N6u q Ouhnc6 TO
Repair the Roads and in Event it
Refuses All Citizens Liable to Road
Duty VIII be Put to Work-The
Council to Hear from Commissioner
BourQuin Tonight.
There is a new development in the Louis
vile road matter.
The executions against the citizens of the
First district who were summoned and did
not work or furnish substitute are not to
be enforced.
This conclusion was reached yesterday,
Mr.. Gugie Bourquin said last night.
MIR. Bourquin proposes to start afresh,
and, sweeping away all the cobwsbs of
technical quibbling, he will address com
munlcation to the city council tonight.
In that communication he will tell the
council that needed repairs to the Louis
vile road are unfinished, and that
| the western extension of Gwinnett
street. neglected for three months also,
needs immediate attention. With the pre-
hmlnaries he will ask the council if it in
tends to put the streets in repair, and he
| VIII ask for an answer within a week. or in
lieu thereof the city is to repair the streets
at once.
| TO GIVE THE CITY A CHANCE.
The commissioner will then explain what
| he has done to repair the Louisville road
and as there is some difference of opinion
as to the calling out of hands in particular
district for city work, and as some claim
That only one street was named, it is thought
| best, in case the city council continues
In its neglect of the two streets
mentioned, to call out all persons in the
entire city between the ages of 16 and
| oO years, under the control of the eight
| justices OF the peace to work five or six of
the main streets that are now in bad order,
and to which attention has been called. and
that all those who have already worked on
the city's highways will be given credit for
the work
Mr.. Bourquin does not propose to have
his communication smothered in caucus.
but will send it direct to the long room,
signed officially as chairman of the road
commissioners
MR.. BoURQUIN'S ULTIMATUM
Mr.. Bourquin says that if the city council
does not act, he Will then serve notice on
Justices Endres, McDermout, SheftalI, Rus
sell, Naughtin, Patterson, Elsinger and
Reynolds to organize as road commissioners
ex-othcIo, apportlon the road work
and summons those subject to
work the streets under section
652 of the code, to turn out, and that it is
the law, as laid down in the code, not re-
pealed by the special act of 1876 with which
1t Is not in conflict, for he claims that sec
tlon OF the special act provides that citi-
Zens of Savannah are not liable for work on
the county roads, but that nowhere in the
act is section 652 voided, and that is the
opinion OF every lawyer he has heard an
expression from.
1t Is said that if Mr.. Bourquin attempts
TO carry out his programme to work Gwin-
nett street it will be in violation of the
ordinances of the city, and the city marshal
will then be called upon to interfere and
put stop to the work under the ordi-
nances.
WHAT THE CODE SAYS.
Sec 217 G2), MacDonell's Code D. 81, saws that.
among other duties of the MARSHALL it shall be
MS duty ito report any one who shall dig re-
move sand or earth, or deposit sand, earth or
other material at any point under the
bluff, or anywhere else upon the public do
main, or in the streets or lanes, without
the written authority of the chairman of the
committee con on streets and lanes, and section
l2l9 prescribes the penalty, which is, "S5 for
the first, SO for the second, SIS for the third
$50 for the fourth offense, and SO in the dis
erection OF the mayor. h-MacDonell's Code,
page 222.
Mr.. Bourquin says that he heard that an
effort was made to have the mayor send a
squad of police to interfere with the work
on the Louisville road last week, but he
supposed the mayor fell back on the CITY
attorneys opinion that the work was not
being done on main street, and therefore
he was not interfered with
WILL NOT BE INTERPRETED WITH.
The ordinance alluded to Mr.. Bourquin
does not think applies in such cases as that
| IN point, and he will prosecute any one at
tempting to interfere with himself and the
ex-otticio road commissioners in the DIS
charge OF duty prescribed in che code If
arrested and fined he will not pay his fine.
and he is wholly Indifferent as to being i'm
prlsoned for the default, and he proposes
to make it exceedingly interesting.
he says, If such high-handed measures are
| resorted to. The city council, he saws. can
avoid all these complications by putting its
street extensions IN repair. He says that
the city garbage and cemmode wagons
have cut up the western extension of
Gwinnett street, and it ought to re-
pair the street and cease its stubborness
for the people oan see that after all a few
hands and few days work work would be
all that are required, and they have paid
and will pay the axes to make the repairs.
ALL SORTS OF STORIES.
There are all sorts of stories afoat Mr..
Bourquin says, to create public sentiment
against him for doing his duty. 1t is re-
ported that he is working the streets to get
to his own property, and he added, 81 don't
own a foot of ground on the Louisville
road Every one knows that l travel
the Ogeechee road to my lands. Ii is also
asked, why I don't call out the
people of the county to work TIE
county roads, do. If I would
call out every man on the line oil
the Ogeechee road, outside of
the corporate limits to work thai
part of the road, it would take ten years te
get it in proper condition. l can only
compel them to work ten days in year.
call them out twice a year, and get five
days work each time
| ALDERMAN HARMoN'S SIDE OF TT.
Alderman Harmon, chairman of the
street and lane committee in Discus sing
the subject yesterday, said that the force
under his control is now engaged in an
important work of sewerage, and no time il
to be lost in works of excavation. 1t is, in
his opinion, of more Importance
than the work about which sc
much fuss has been made. The street
force is now finishing up the Anders On
street sewer, anu will begin on the Habe r
sham street sewer next week. These sewers,
Alderman Harmon says, are badly needed
to drain the improved portion of the south
ern part Of the city from Burroughs on the
west to Habersham on the east and from
Duffy to Anderson, and were largely petit
toned for by the taxpayers.
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