The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
STREETSYET TO Be OPENED
The City'S Nap Of What Has Been Done
and What Remains to Do.

The Disadvantages the City Has to
Labor Under in Opening Streets in
the Southern section-The Streets
That Are Now Open North and'South
and East and West.
Steps are now being taken by the city
TO open up the streets in the southern
section through property which has re-
Gently been acquired FOR the purpose by
purchase or dedication and the city en-
Eineer has Just completed a map showing
what property has been acquired by the
city for the purpose Of opening streets,
and what portions of the new streets still
remain to be acquired
A glance at the map would be some
thing Of a surprise 10 many people who
are under the impression that the city
has done comparatively little in the way
Of acquiring and opening up streets. It
shows that the greater portion Of the
property required for opening up the
streets in the southern section has al
ready been acquired by the city. Much
of this has been opened up.
The trouble is, as will be seen by
glance at the map, that on nearly every
street which it is desired 10 open up there
is sCiu some small portion of property I'M
acquired, being less than block in some
instances and in others as much as half a
dozen blocks This property, as a rule. is
held by property holders with whom the
city has not been able to come to terms.
As great deal of the property in the
southern part of the city is held in small
lots, whose owners place a good valuation
upon their property, on almost every
street unacquired lots win be found living
situated in the middle Of the streets and
frequently at street intersections. thus
making IL impossible to secure the fun ad-
vantage from opening the property which
has been acquired on either side of the
uracquired strips
READY TO BE OPENED.
Among the property through which
streets will now be opened up are the
large tracts recently acquired by the city
from the Dasher estate, Charles Seller.
and the Schwarz property. The city en-
glneer's force IS now engaged in marking
the lines for the streets through these and
other acquired properties, which have not
yet been opened up. AS soon as the sur
veys are complete, the city marshal and
the street and lane force will proceed to
open the streets by removing the Obstruc-
lions and placing the streets in condition
for traffic.
The city engineers map shows that the
streets in the southern part of the CITY
are ready 10 be opened up as follows: On
the west side, Barnard street from An
derson to Twelfth, except one block be-
tween Third and Fourth; jefferson street
except a small portion of the Ehrlich
property between Anderson and First
Montgomery is already open its entire
length; West Broad from Fifth south to
Twelfth, the property between Anderson
and Fifth being yet unacquired Only a
small portion of Burroughs street, south
OF Anderson, has been secured
Several small streets in Brownsville
west of Burroughs, have been dedicated
TO the city and are now open.
EAST OF BULL STREET.
Beginning at Bull street and going east.
Bull street is ready to be opened south to
Tenth street, through the Seller property.
Drayton street is not ready to be salts
factorily opened, though the right of wav
has been acquired through the Prender-
CAST, Dasher, Seller and Houston proper-
ties. Abercorn and Lincoln streets are
ready TO be opened through the same
properties from Anderson to Tenth
streets, The right-of-way on Habersham
street has been dedicated to the city from
Anderson street south to the Savannah.
Florida and Western railway right-of-
way on Sixth street, and also portion of
the right-of-way beyond Anderson street.
East First street is open from Bull to
Habersham, where it becomes James
street to East Broad All of the streets
between Habersham street and the Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western railway.
running east and west, have been dedi-
Gated to the city and are now open. First
street is not open west of Bull. Second
street is open from Montgomery, east, to
Habersham street. West Third is open
from Burroughs to Montgomery.
and Third street from MONTGOMERY
to Barnard, and from Bull nearly
to Habersham. West Fourth is open
from Montgomery to Burroughs, and
property rights have been acquired for
Fourth from Montgomery and from Bull to
Lincoln. Right of way has been acquired
for Fifth street, from Montgomery 10 Bar
nard and from Bull to Lincoln Sixth,
from Burroughs beyond Lincoln Seventh.
from Barnard to Florence on the west
side; Eighth, Ninth and Tenth streets
from Barnard west TO Florence, Eleventh
from Whitaker west to Florence The
right Of way for Eighth and Ninth streets
has been acquired from Bull street all the
way to the Waters road.
MR. GAIT nuAN3G AnnDr5s