The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-15

anren Needed lInrrof Nfth.
D.H.e tf,f..t r.r,c or f1.r fears th.
Nar>rN. Nre- h4~ pointed u8t mlr.
faee that thc ,.tF -hald bavs nev
ctrhlI. 70 new cemetery. and THAT taH
o'd cemetery 0u south Broad street
should Boz improved by removing
She rcmans of those buried there
and changing the place INTO
pork Why should not the work of
HazjuL these Improvements be- begun at
aaccf twill take several years 90 com
pIrto them. ANA why should there be any
further delay in beginning thom'
10 is admitted that the present city
hail. or exchange as IL is called is
not such public building as city Of
the Importance OF Savannah should have.
T. did well enough when the city was a
much less pretentious place than tits now,
but it does not answer present demands
satisfactorily.
The city has only one cemetery, that of
Laurel Grove. There is not much more
room in il, and it viii not do to enlarge it,
because the city already reaches it, and
will soon be beyond il.
Bonaventure is a magnificent cemetery.
1t is one of the most attractive in the
whole country. The unimproved parts
of it can be improved at a very small
cost. The city, it is believed, can obtain
it at a very reasonable price. If not, land
for a cemetery that will be satisfactory
both as to price and location can be read
lily obtained.
Public sentiment is strongly in favor of
making the old South Broad street
cemetery a more presentable place.
1t is blotch upon the
fair face of the city and it is a question
whether its sanitary condition is not bad,
not because of neglect, but because of
the difficulties in the way of making it
healthful place without entirely chang
ing its character. The city owns one
part of it and Christ church claims the
other part. There are good reasons for
thinking that the city and Christ church
could easily reach an agreement relative
to the improvement of it.
What the MORNING News suggests is
this: Let the city buy Bonaventure Gem
etery and at its own expense, remove the
tOmbs and tOmbstones, and such remains
as can be recovered, to Bonaventure, and
use the old cemetery for a site for a new
city hall, or at least that part of it which
the city owns. 1t is hardly probable that
anybody would object to having the re-
mains Of his ancestors removed from the
old cemetery to Bonaventure. 1t is about
as certain as anything can be that at no
very distant day the old South Broad
street cemetery will be used for some pur-
pose. When the present DIRECTORS to it's
improvement have passed away there will
be none to protest against disturbing the
remains of those buried there, and
when the hand of progress is
laid upon the old place little if
any respect will be paid to the dead that
have reposed there so long. 1t is far bet
ter from every point of view that the ten
ants of the crumbling tombs and sunken
graves should be reinterred beneath the
solemn moss-draped oaks of Bonaventure
where they will not likely be disturbed
again as long as the placid river that
borders the cemetery GIBBS and flows in
response to the tides Of the sea.
All of these suggested improvements
can easily be carried on in connection
with each other. The first thing to be
done is. to get possession of Bonaventure.
The next is to remove the tombs and re-
mains from the old cemetery and the last
is to erect new city hall on the site thus
secured,