The morning news., 1894-05-10
TO RENUNBER THE HOUSES.
Mr., ShOleS Makes a Proposition to the
City Council.

He Offer s to Do the Work for 50 500
or for % Cents a Number and Wait
Until Next Year for His Pay-A
Chance for the City to Accomplish a
Much Needed Reform-Sa S
Egyptian System of House Number
ing Behind the Age-some Sugges-
tions on the the Line of Reform.
1t is possible that steps will be taken
to give the city the much needed i'm
proved system of house numbering at
last. A communication was received by
the council at its meeting last night
from MIR. A. E. Sholes, offering
to undertake the work for &, 500.
Mr.. Sholes estimates that there are r.
500 houses in the city, including those in
the lanes, which are most in need of num-
bering He made proposition to do the
work for y cents number or for the
lump sum.
Mr.. Sholes is actuated in his offer by
desire to see the city properly mum bered
before the expiration of the present year.
He offers to do the work this summer or
in the fall, aud wait upon the city for his
money uutil the following January, in or
der that the cost may come out Of next
years budget.
NO COST TO THE CITY.
AS matter of fact, the cost to the city
of REMEMBERING the houses will be prac-
tlcally nothing, as each house owner will
be required to pay for his number, say %
cents, so that there need be no delay on
the score of economy. The need of re-
iC 50 llxr
n1zed that it is hardly worth while to
urge the matter. 1t has been the inten-
tion of the council for the last several
years TO order the REMEMBERING of the
city each year, but the budget was al
ways filled out before this matter was
reached, and i'll this way it has been post
pOned from time TO time BY having the
work done this year, and the cost trans
ferred to next years budget, and assess
ing each householder for the numbers as
signed him as the work is done, the money
to pay for the work will be in the city
treasury before the city is called upon TO
| pay for It,
THE LETTER STYLE OUT OF DATE.
That outside of a certain limited area
| the system of numbering is something so
| complicated and inextricable as to be i'm
| possible to be understood even by the resi-
| dents, is fact well known. The Q oepx
I
| vannah is something to delight the heart
| of an antiquary, and to drive the average
| business man to insanity. There are now
| several thousand houses in the lanes
| which have never been numbered at all
| The streets in the newly annexed sec
| tion in the southern part of the city, east
of the Savannah, Florida and Western
| railway, need to be numbered at once
| The numbers on many of the streets west
of West Broad street are badly tangled
| and need to be Strengthened out. In re-
mum bering the city it is probable that a
| system of numbering east and west will
be adopted. This will allow of the growth
of street for any distance in either di-
rection. AS all the streets running
| north and south begin at the river, there
| is no necessity for dividing these streets
in numbering them. A certain sum of
numbers will probably be allowed to
each block, say 100 numbers, in order
| that the same set of mum bers may prevail
upon every successive block, north and
south and east and west. For instance,
| No. $50 should be in the middle of the
block between Bull and Drayton streets,
it would occupy this position on every
block between those two streets, whether
Bay, Broughton, Liberty or CASTOR
streets.
CHANGES IN THE STREETS.
There are several streets west of West
Broad street which are simply continua-
tiOns of these streets to the east of West
Broad street, but which have been given
| different names. There is no reason why
the same name should not be given the
entire length of these streets. For in
stance Congress street becomes Pine street
after it crosses West Broad street There
is no reason why it should not continue as
Congress street the whole distance.
What was formerly known as old Joachim
street isrnow part of Bay street River
street beyond West Broad street was
formerly known as Canal street. 1t is
now all River street. Pine street is only
an instance of several changes that It
would be well to make This, however,
is not so important as an intelligent and
comprehensive system of numbering, and
it is to be hoped that council will take
stems at once To cOmnlY with the oaneraI