The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-20
TO BEGIN PAVING AT ONCE.
THE ORDINANCES INTRODUCED IN
COUNCIL ADOPTED.

The Entire Length of south Broad
street and AbercOrn and Haber-
sham streets. Between south Broad
and Liberty. 10 BE Paved with Wit
rfhed Briek-COmmissiOne Will
link 10 Leave To-day on an In
specting Tour in Search of the
Best Paving Brick-LincOIn street
May Also BE Paved From south
broad 20 BrOughtOn-The City En-
gineer's Survey of south Broad
street shows the Green is out of
Plumb at the Western End.
The ordinances for the Improvement of
South Broad street and of Abercorn and
Habersham street, between South Broad
and Liberty streets were adopted yes
terday afternoon by the city council al
a special meeting. held for the purpose.
The material used is to be vitrified brick.
There were ten members OF council pres
ent and the mayor, the absentees being
Aldermen Tiedeman and Kolshorn. An
aye and nay vote was taken as prescribed
by law, with the result that the ordinances
were unanimously adopted
A resolution, offered by Alderman Gar
rard, was adopted, instructing the COM
missioner of public works to ascertain by
advertisement and otherwise the best
character of vitrihed brick to be used in
paving the streets named, and to report
back to council all the information he
may obtain on this subject as soon as
possible. When the council, acting upon
the Information, will select the brick to
be used Commissioner Willink will leave
tonight for Philadelphia and other points
where vitrihed brick is largely used as
paving material on this errand.
1t is highly probable that Lincoln street
from Broughton to South Broad. will bt,
paved this summer with the same mate
rial With Abercorn and Habersham
streets leading from Liberty street into
South Broad street, the paving Of In
coin street to Broughton street will fur
nlsh convenient access to Broughton
deal of the traffic which now goes over
street. - N"Neu
A resolution was adopted authorizing the
committee on opening streets 10 nav s500
TO Reppard, Snedeker & Co. for the MIR
pose or obtaining a clear title TO the dis
pute9 strip OF Sycamore street, south of
lots Nos. IS and SO. Springfield plantation
Inc area of the land in dispute is IL SIS &
square feet. The dispute as to the owner
snip rs OF long duration. the city claiming
tne land TO be a part of the Springfield
plantation devoted to Sycamore Street, but
Messrs. Reppard, Snedeker a co. being
IN possession and claiming title to the
ianu' under the circumstances it was
tnought best TO pay the small amount
named for the purpose of obtaining clear
the street
1t is the intention of council TO push the
paving of South Broad and the connect
ing streets named as rapidly as possible
ana the work will begin as soon as the
material ma r IS decided upon and contracted
Ior. me plans prepared i'm the city engi-
neers office for the improvement of South
Broad street show up a fact which is
PROBABLY known to but very few peo-
PIE. The double row of trees which line
the green along the whole length of the
street instead of being directly in the
center OF the street, varies considerably
from the center at the western end and
this variation is evidently the result Of
design and not accidental. On accout Of
this the present roadway on the south
slue OF the street at the western end is
narrower than that on the northern side
which is no doubt generally known. This
however, is not the result of the en-
croachment Of the green on the roadway.
the south.
The plan prepared by City Engineer
Minn shows that, while the trees in the
block between West Broad and Mont
gomery streets are in straight lines The
tree at ten western end of the block is sew
eral rect further south than the one at
t me eastern end. In the succeeding three
blocks the same thing obtains, but with
less variation in each block until Bull
street is reached, from whence the trees
run in lines parallel with the curbing.
Col Winn's explanation of this rather
queer system is that when the green
on South Broad street was first set ont
with trees many years ago the main mar
ket road leading into the city from the
country was along the line of West Broad
street and turned into South Broad on
the north side to Montgomery street. The
parties who planted the trees conformed
to the roadway, thus making the south
side of the street narrower than the
north side. In order that the rows of
trees might be symmetrical, the lines
were continued with decreasing variation
in each succeeding block until the exact
center of the street was reached Col.
Winn proposes to correct this by running
the curbing of the south roadway at the
western end of the street inside the line
of trees, paving around the trees and ex-
tending the green on the north side In
the next block it will be necessary to
run the curbing only to the line of the
trees. The paving will not hurt the trees,
and as they are gradually replaced, the
new trees will be set further in parallel
with the street line. This will be nee
esSary, as the ordinance provides for a
25-foot roadway on each side of the street
The plan for the improvement of South
Broad street was drawn by Mr. J. w
Howard of the city engineers office, and
is handsome specimen of the draughts-
mans art.