The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-10

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with old age As the county gave this IN
stitution q 500 a year 10 was decided 20
send her there.
Applications for county aid were sent
Ia for Edward James an Old and disabled
colorcd man and j. w Love ouclegE1d
white man ana were referred To the com
mittee.
WHAT BECAME or MR.. HUNTER
In reading the minutes from the secret
meeting Of the commissioners the fol-
! lowing resolutions came forth.
Resolved, that William Hunter, chief
! engineer Of the Central railroad. be re-
quested 10 measure the amount Of earth
excavated from the Casey canal by the
steam dredge up TO July 4, 1892.
No notice Of any repeal OF that resolu-
ton was read anywhere on the minutes,
but this is the first that has been said
about Mr. Hunter in connection with the
| Casey canal work,
Perhaps that was another Of those little
| matters in connection with the secret
meeting that the commissioners didn't
want to come out.
Several small bills were put in by de
| tectives, for catching criminals, and this
led to some discussion as TO whether de-
| tective who is paid officer of the county
has the right to charge extra for his ser
! vices. This matter also went over until
| the next meeting
The report of Sheriff John T. Roman,
upon the successful use of electric lights
in the jail, was received as information.
The petition sent in at the last meeting
| to withdraw the liquor license of Bailey
| Carpenter, who runs bar on the bluff on
| the Ogeechee road, was read and it was
| decided to notify all parties and have
! them appear at the next meeting to state
! the facts in the case. The commissioner
| will then settle the matter.
] Cant Mg( tOyvQn'C panpRf tho in
! solvent tax list amounting to Sl3,500 was
| referred to the committee on finance with
power TO act.
Chairman Dale objected to giving to
! bacco to boys and women at the convict
| camp who did not use it. He had learned,
| he said, that each man got one plug, and
! each boy and woman half a plug each
| week.
Mai Blandford said this custom was
| handed down to him when he came into
| office. The cOnvicts, he said, used it as a
| currency, and it was the only luxury they
| had
Chairman Dale went on to say that he
! didn't think it policy to give tobacco to
men and women who don't use it and that
! he had seen pack of cards at camp No.
| l. which seemed to have come from
| NOahs ark. He supposed tobacco and
! cigarettes were used as chips. Some
! body had suggested, and it would be a
| good idea he thought, to furnish Bibles
! and tracts instead of tobacco.
| The other commissioners were of the
! opinion, however, that the convicts
! should not be deprived of their only lux
ury and their only pleasure and the mat
! ter was dropped.
MAJOR BLANDFoRD's REPORT.
| In his monthly report Mai Blandford
! showed that the cost of guarding and
| feeding the county convicts during the
| past month, has been 26.7 cents per capita
| per day, or counting working days only
| 3l.9 cents, a decrease of 81 over the
month of June, during which the cost was
! "a cents per capita per day
There are now 1913 conyicts in all en-
! ployed by the county, of whom 10 are
sick, leaving l79 able-bodied convicts,
who are employed On the county works.
OF these, eight are white men and 1871 col
ored men; 16 are boys, all colOred and "A
are women, one ofwhom is white. The
cOnvicts at camp No. /, are en-
gagged at work on the new
Casey canal; those at camp No.
are engaged in building the laterals to
| Dundee canal and work on the main
channel, and those at No. are working
on another branch of the new Casey ca
| nal.
1.-The force on the laterals of Dundee"
| said Mai. Blandford, 'have been making
as good Roadway as thesrains would per-
nit. l have been endeayoring to have
some work done on the banks of the canal
where they have slipped in near the out
| let, but the great quantities of water
| which come down from this canal since
| the Ogeechee canal has been turned into
! it renders the work very difficult, and it
| is only at short intervals during low tide
that the men can work in the canal.
A SOURCE OF IMMINENT DANGER.
The cutting of the Ogeechee canal bank
to turn the water into Dundee swamp,
has caused much mischief and will be the
cause of considerable sickness in the Vi
cinity of the swamp and perhaps in the
| city when the heavy rains have ceased
and the water in the pools and ponds
made by the overflow from this canal be-
gins to stagnate.
"lt was a serious mistake to turn all
the water in the Ogeechee canal into this
| swamp. There are several swamps above
into which it could have been turned and
that would have carried it into the Little
Ogeechee river, or it might have been
distributed by openings into the
several swamps without damage
to anyone particularly, but
to turn it all into Dundee swamp is an in
justice to the land owners there, and a
menace to the health Of the people in that
vicinity and in the city. At this time,
from the point where the Dundee canal
has been cut, up to the Ogeechee canal
the whole swamp is covered with water.
DETAILED REPORT.
at is my purpose to make a detailed re
port on this matter to the chairman oil
the committee on drainage"
Mai Blandford then went on to tell oil
the dredge operator he had secured from
Wilmington, n. c., who had come to Sa
vannah and had left without seeing him
He is trying now to secure another one.
since last month there has been used in
blasting stumps and distractions along
the route of the casey canal dynamite, fuse
and cap to the amount of S20l Oh and lab Dor O.
convicts and guards amounting to $50. 80,
total of 1888. "a, with which has beer
blasted SOP stumps and distractions al al
average cost of 50 l-3 cents each, over 81
per cent. cheaper than it could have beer
done by any other method,
SIMON STERNBERG ARRESTED.