The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-23
A PLAN FOR HOUSE DRAINAGE.
DR.. Falligant Suggests One Without
Cost to the Lot Owners.

DR.. Falligant Suggests One Without
Cost to the Lot Owners.
Editor Morning NelVs: The very serious
state of affairs which has overtaken the
people of Savannah this fall brings us face
to face with the immediate necessity of put
ting in this city a well arranged and flushed
system of house drainage. When l pub
lished the open letter to the citizens OF Sa-
vannah, entreating them to pay into the
city treasury the balance of purchase money
due on the so-called city lots, in order that
the city might go to work at once on the
plans for house drainage and begin also
the construction of new water works, l was
authorized by council in caucus to make
that appeal-no one joining more heartily
In that authorization than the chairman of
the committee on streets and lanes.
When, however, the case was won, and
considerable sums of money began to come
In. that alderman. by one means or another.
succeeded in defeating every effort | made
to secure better health in our homes. Out
Of about $50 900 appropriated to the depart
ments of drainage and dry culture l was
stripped of nearly $50 900, leaving me but
paltry $4,000 with which to cover the pay
rolls of the ditch cleaners around the city.
About s., 900 Of drain pipes which the city
engineer reported to me as being at my
orders for drainage myseriously disap-
peared from my control and was appropri-
ated by the street and lane department; nor
could | ever recover a cent of it, though it
did not appear in the expense account of
that depat tment.
These and other similar ex-
periences have satisfied me that
1t is useless to expect to accom-
plish any house drainage unless the admin
istration has at its head man who will
press the work TO completion one who fully
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community. Realizing how many expendi-
lures we have already been called upon to
bear and that there is a great deal Of justice
In the view that the city itself ought to
remedy these unsanitary conditions which
1t forced upon the lot owners by the exer-
else of its official powers, have the follow
Ing suggestions to make for public consid-
GRAFTON:
The water works and drainage Depart
ments should be placed in the care Of COM
mssicners Of water works and drainage,
who should be created by act of the legisla-
ture with powers sufficient to enable them
TO raise upon bonds payable principal and
interest from revenues of the water depart
ment a sufficient sum to complete the sys-
tenn OF water works, and put in complete
flushed system of house drainage in every
portion of the city without charging the
property oiU1IeTS a cent for these house
drainage lines. In addition to this the
balances still due on the so-called city lots
should be set aside in a trust toward the
payment of these extraordinary expendi-
lures thereby tightening, IL only used as a
Collateral, the amount TO be paid out of the
revenues from water. These great meas
ures can easily be accomplished in this way.
The creditors of township in New York
recently made application for an injunction
TO restrain the town from issuing bonds for
the construction OF system of water works
on the ground that the indebtedness OF the
town already exceeded the constitutional
limitations; but the court refused the in
Junction, holding that the constitutional
provisions did not apply TO that kind of
property. The bonds were then issued and
The works constructed from their proceeds
Of sale
If the city of Savannah does not speedily
remedy her pestiferous system OF house
Drainage she will soon pay an awful price
ior her negligence-a foretaste of which is
now affecting her. No man pays his debts