The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-16
TIE SIBERIAN DRAINAGE.
Engineer Blandford's Report TO the
County Commissioners.

County Com mtssiOners.
The county commissioners held q short
meeting yesterday afternoon and transacted
merely routine business. Commissioners
Walker, Meinhard, Estill and Smart were
present
The application Of Julia Brown (colored }
for aid from the county for injuries she
alleged to have received while in jail by the
breaking Of the strap Of her bunk was dis
missed. DR.. Chisholm and Sheriff Roman
testified that the hunks in the jail are hung
so low that it is a matter of impossibiIity
for anybody to be injured by their break
! ing down. The Brown woman was in Jail
several weeks for ohstruchng legal process
and will be remembered as the party who
/ tore the clothes of Constables Hartigan
/ and Nathans at the time of her arrest. At
another time she took Policeman Jernigan's
! club away from him, and the probability is
J that she injured herself during some Of her
violent outbreaks of temper, but thought
she could put it on the county.
| Commissioner Estill asked the discharge
of the committee to which was referred the
/ application of the Savannah Rifle AssOcia-
/ tion TO purchase q portion OF the county
farm, in view Of the decision Of the board
I at its last meeting not TO dispose OF any OF
the land until the city council acts on the
park proposition submitted by the commits
sioners. The committee was discharged.
County Engineer Blandford submitted the
following communication, which was re-
ceived as information:
sAyANNAH. GA, Feb. 49, 1898.
\ To the Honorable Commissioners Chatham
| County, Georgia:
GENTLEMEN-In the matter Of the communi-
! cation Of his honor the mayor to your honor
able body inclosing a letter 20 him from Alder
m / a huf n
| tee on drainage. accompanied by report OF
| Mr. W. p. Carmichael, superintendent OF drain
| age for the city. upon the condition OF the
canals and bitches outside OF the city limits
and contiguous thereto''-which was referred
to me at your January meetng-I beg to report:
The several canals and bitches referred 20 by
Mr. Carmichael are, as he states, in a bad con-
dition. These facts / have several times re-
ported to your honorable body myself. For
Casey canal DeRenne canal, and particularly
the large ditch in Minis swamp, there is no
remedy of more than transient nature until
better outlets can be obtained for the waters
discharginR through them. You are endeevOr-
ing to obtain such an outlet for the first two
named by constructing the new Casey canal
Springfield canal is the outlet for the large
ditch in Minis swamp. The lower part OF this
ditch lies within the corporate limits. Spring
field canal is Inadequate to discharge the waters
coming into it now.
TO open up these bitches and canals above
before proper outlets are made for them would
only aggravate the evil below by flooding the
swamps the channels being insufiiciently large
to carry the water. l most heartily concur in
the necessity for cleaning out the canals and
bitches and keeping them clean, but the only
remedy of service and OF permanent nature is
to construct channels Of proper conditions and
of sufficient capacity to carry the waters
quickly to the dischargIng points.
Having some outlet for the Vale Royal system
of drainage, one of my first acts after taking
charge OF the cOunty's work. was to clean out
the entire system outside Of the corporate lin
its. This was done last June
All these bitches and canals should be cleaned
out twice year if possible. Respectfully sub
mitted, r. A. BLANDFoRD,
County Engineer.
Engineer Blandford reported an increase
of one convict since his sport of Monday
msking in all l4l. Only four convicts are
on the sick list which speaks well for the
sanitary condition of the camps.
The commissioners will meet next Wednes-
day 70 make their final tour Of inspection of
the county work before turning over affairs
TO their successors.