The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-16
ADDRESSES HARD TO FIND.
The Retail Merchants Urge a New SyS-
tenn Of Numbering.

They Heartily Favor the Proposition
to Reminder the 'City-It Is Some
thing Which They Find In Their
Daily Business to Be Very Much
Needed-Do Away With Halves and
Quarters They Say.
The proposal for REMEMBERING the
city appears to meet with general favor
/ 1t is generally admitted that the re-
numbering of the houses is something
very much needed, and that the sooner
| it is done the better. The retail merchants,
whose business requires them TO deliver
| goods in all parts of the city are especi-
ally in favor of it. Several who were
| seen yesterday Endorsed the proposal in
! very high terms.
''I think the idea a good one,' said MIR.
B. H. Levy. 1.-THE city is certainly very
much in need of renumberlng. l have
an instance right here at door My num-
Der is 159 and my next door neighbours is
the same. How this happened l do not
| know, but it is a fact, and has been so for
several years. We both cannot be en-
titled to the same number. Perhaps one
of us should attach Is to our number. I,
for one do not care TO use fraction. l
think the system of using
fractions a very poor one, espec-
tally where they are so freely used
as they are now in Savannah. We not
only have halves and quarters, but even
eighths. In the most thickly settled por-
tions of the town, especially over on the
east side and the west side, some of
tloc - harv E.,
than anything else. In REMEMBERING the
city sufficient nun bers should be allowed
to each block 10 make the use
OF fractions as rare as possible.
About the only trouble we have
in delivering goods is with the
fractional numbers. OF course
nobody ever gives any such address as
By or ks, because they know we would
never find it. Parties living in houses
numbered in this style always give their
address as so many doors from the corner
of the next cross street. The letter num-
bers are seldom referred to. There are
a great many reasons why the city should
be remembered and | am very much in
hopes council will decide to have the work
done this summer"
THE DELIvERYMEN's WOE.
Mr.. Joseph w. Jackson, Of Jack
son, Metzger s. Co., expressed
himself strongly on the subject. My
| heart gave a great bound of 10Y" he said
when 1 saw from the MORNING News
that Mr.. Sholes had made a proposition
to reminder the streets which il was
possible might be accepted. The present
| system of numbering is one of the thorns
in our pathway. We do a very
extensive city delivery business,
sending our delivery wagon to the
! remotest parts of the city. 1t is
a 6oilV Opp11rrar luooaf fOu tho 4
| return with the report that he cannot
find No 1909 on some streets in the south
ern, southwestern or western part of the
city Another thing is that if the city
were systematically numbered, as Mr..
| Sholes proposes, the delivery man would
| be able to save half his time by ar
| ranging his bundles in regular series ac-
cording TO the street numbers instead of
pursuing haphazard course as at pres
| emit II he knew that No. sos Broughton
| street was in the fifth block of that
street aud that No. Clio State street was
| the sixth block of that street, and so on,
he would have no difficulty in planning
| out his course so as to save time. A sys-
| tematic manner of street numbering is
what is wanted, and l am in hopes coun-
| Gil will give it to u.s."
THE GRoCERs WANT IT.
| Mr.. w. G. Cooper expressed himself
|
| evidently very much in need of renumber-
| ing" said Mr. Cooper Il am in hopes
that some system will be adopted by coun-
Gil Whatever system is adopted should
allow for the growth of the city so that
there will be no difficulty
in numbering new houses on
growing streets. There should be
| enough numbers to the block to allow
! each house number and do away with
the use of fractions in mum herring houses
| as far as possible. Most of the houses in
the city are built upon half lots of thirty
feet front, and number should be al
lowed for this distance on each side
of the street. The use of letters should
be done away with altogether. AS some
of the streets begin at East Broad and
some begin a short distrance east of that
street. while Others are growing east rap
idly, do not see how 1t is possible to
number the streets evenly so as to give the
same set of numbers in each successive
block from north to south. The city might
be numbered east and west from East
Broad street, though that would hardly
be satisfactory TO the people hving
on those streets which run only short
distance beyond East Broad street | dc
not think the city is large enough yet to
divide it in the middle and number east
and west from Bull stree: Suggestions
would be in order on this subject should
council decide TO reminder the city, as [
hope it will"
The present system of street number
ing is'very unsatisfactory" said Mr.. s.
Il. Theus, land 1t is to be very much
hoped that the council will proceed tc
order n REMEMBERING at once"
Half dozen other merchants and bus.
mess men were seen and expressed prac-
tically the same opinions as those quoted