The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-17
NO PAVING FOR SOUTH BROAD.
ONLY $1,000 OF THE STREET Paw
ING APPROPRIATION LEFT.

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Alderman Gleason VIII Leave the
south broad street Improvement 20
the Public Works Commissioner.
The Jefferson street Pavement May
BE Extended or New Houston street
May BE Paved Along the Park Ex-
tension. but That Il All This Year.
Condition of the streets.
Alderman Gleason said yesterday that
he has no expectation Of paving South
Broad street or any other important street
with ebert or anything else this fall
Il will leave that TO the public works
commissioner when he comes into office"
he said. 4 only had $4,000 for paving this
year. and a good part or that went to
pay debts contracted the year before. /
have only about $4,000 left now and that
would not go very far in paving a big
street. II is my intention to either com
plete the paving Of jefferson street with
Belgian block or TO pave New Houston
street south of the parade ground with
shell OF ebert. The section Of jefferson
street from Bryan 10 Broughton is paved
with shell, while all the rest of the street
is paved with block. Why that section
was left in there 1 can't imagine. New
shells have been placed in it from
time to time 70 ill up the holes
until the pavement is higher than the
street and is very uneven. 1t will take
about $500 10 replace the shells there
with block, and l think it is about as
good a place as any to put the remainder
of my appropriation If we don't do that
we will probably pave two to four blocks
on New Houston street. 1t has been my
idea for some time to connect Drayton
and Whitaker streets on Houston street.
Some of the residents Just east of the pa
rade ground want the block from Aber-
corn to Drayton paved and some of those
on the west side want the block from
W hitaker to Barnard paved; If we ac-
cede to their requests we will pave four
blocks on that street"
The street and lane department forces
are now engaged in opening up Aber-
corn street south of Anderson and Seventh
street through the Glaugny tract. for
which rights Of way We're recently &C
quired by tho city.
Alderman Gleason says the streets are
cleaner than they ever We're before The
asphalt streets are gone over every week
and the other paved streets as often as
required. The people who are advocat-
ing turning the goats loose to eat up
the waste paper are not hitting me- said
Alderman Gleason. THE scaVenger de-
partment looks after that. You will have
to go to Alderman Falligant about that.
the street and lane forces rake the waste
paper and other trash in piles and leave
II for the scaVenger department to carry
IL away. You can't Keep the waste pa
per from flying over the streets wmen
IL is dumped out on the street in front OF
every business house. Boys rummage in
it and kick 1t about to see If there Is
anything that they want in the piles,
and the wind picks 1t up and scatters 1t
about"
There is an ordinance against dump
ing trash of this kind on the street, but
IL is not enforced. Alderman Falligant
differs with Alderman Gleason, however.
when the latter says that the scavenger
department is responsible for the trashy
condition of the streets.
The scavenger department has moth
ing to do with the trash except to re-
move it after II has been placed in piles
by the street and lane forces" said DIR.
Falllgant, when spoken to on the sub
Ject. Properly, / do not think il is the
business of the scavenger department to
do that much. The street and lane de-
partment has entire charge of the
streets, including keeping them clean
and logically the scaVenger department
should have nothing TO do with them.
The business of the scavenger depart
accumulates in houses and yards. If AL
derman Gleason would get lot of com
mon crocus sacks and would have his
men pack the paper and other light trash
in the bags when IT is raked up Instead
of leaving IL in piles to be kicked about
there would be no cause for complaint
about waste paper on the streets. The
scaVengers would empty the bag into
the wagons and return the bags 10 be
refilled. That would put a stop to the
nuisance. This IS the system which
New York. l think 1t would work well
here"