The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22
PUSHING THE DRAINAGE.
Elective Work Being Done on the
Suburbs of the City.

Effective work Being Done on the
Suburbs of the CITY.
Inspector Desvergers, of the Citizens
Sanitary Ascociation, in his report of in
enections for last week to the committee
on public health of the association, gives
an encouraging outlook Of sanitary condi-
rioas around the city for the coming sum
mer He says the city aud county author
iries are both exerting the utmost energy
in rushing drainage forward.
the chairman of the drainage COM
ritUee OF the county is bestowing a great
deal OF personal attention to the work in
his department The systematic direc-
tiou Of the convict labor by Mai Bland
ford is producing wonderful sanitary i'm
movement in the condition of lands south
and southeast of the city An extensive
area of bog and swamp land has been made
an dry by his work as to render it avail
able for farming purposes, and it is now
baiug put under cultivation, and when the
work now laid out in progress shall have
bpen completed, the inhabitants of the
southern and southeastern sections of the
CITY win enjoy immunity from the mala-
rial influences whichthave heretofore so
seriously affected them.
The inspector says in reference to the
city drainage that Alderman Pollard
chairman of that department, is also
giving attention to the drainage under
Ris direction He has had the CITY sec
ton of the Minis canal thoroughly cleaned
out and is keeping gang of laborers at
work on both TANKS of the city. Col
Vim is personally overlooking and in
spectiug the drainage work of the cor
poIation,
The inspector says as to the low lands
Immediately east of the city, and which
are under lease of the city that they are
TO,
has ever seen them.
Mir. William e. Clark has returned to
Savannah, and is again engaged as one of
the supervisors in the city drainage de-
partment. The work performed under
his supervision always shows the evidence
Of good judgment, experience and thor
Oughness.
The inspector says there are two
wooden culYerts under the TyDee road
bed. between Jones' canal and Brewton
Hill. which are placed so much above the
level of the city bitches that they are ut
terly useless; and the city authorities
should require the railroad company to
lower them during the present dry spell,
and to also connect and clear out the bor-
row pits along its right-of-way. The old
abandoned ricefield, between Brewton
Hill and the river, and owned by the Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western Railway
Company, is in a very bad condition, and
steps should be taken by the authorities
to have the dams, which were carried
away by the last storm, repaired and
water kept off of the land.
The condition of Bradley's creek,
which belongs to the same company, needs
immediate attention, as MIR. Clark will
commence the work of repairing the pro-
lection dams to the eastern lOwlands
and the cleaning out of Jones' canal, for
which Bradley's creek is the outlet, next
week; and the logs, drift timber, and
mud. which has been for sometime ac-
cumulating in the creek, should be re-
moved from it in order to render the
drainage work of the city corporation eff
fCctiye there.
The inspector suggests that measures
be at once taken to enforce, on the part of
both the Central and the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railroad Companies,
a thorough and systematic drainage of
their river side lands, including not only
those Immediately about their wharves,
but on the TANKS of the city. He suggests
that while the eXpediency of entering into
a contract with the county commissioners
for having all S '5urban drainage done by
the convict force is being considered, it
would be well if the railway companies
would consider the expedlency of doing
likewise