The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-25
DON'T WANT NEW NUMBERS.
A FEW PROPERTY OWNERS KICK
ON THE CHANGE.

An Amendment TO BE Adopted 20 che
House Numbering Ordinance Re-
auiring All Property Owners to
Have Their Houses Numbered Ac-
cordinE to the New System-A
Penalty to he Fixed For Failure to
Do so-streets Are Now Numbered
East" and West" From Bull
street.
The REMEMBERING Of the city is progress
ing rapidly The force engaged in the
work Included six men yesterday, and this
number will be increased to eight to-day.
Further increases viii probably be made.
The balance Of the order Of number
plates arrived yesterday and are now
spread out on the floor in Commissioner
willink's ONCE. There are over 1900 num-
Der plates.
The house numberers met with several
people yesterday who refused to let the
new numbers be placed above their
doors Some wanted to retain their old
numbers, because their places Of business
are known by those numbers and be-
cause their stationery is printed with the
present numbers. Others gave no par
ticular reason, except that they just
didn't want the new numbers. The result
Of this will be the Introduction Of an
amendment to the house numbering or
dinance at the next meeting of council,
fixing a penalty for people who refuse to
have their houses numbered according to
the new system The city has authority
to do this. The house owners cannot be
required to use the numbers furnished by
the city, If they do not wish, provided
they supply the proper number them
selves. which they can do of any design
they see fit. The city furnishes its num-
Der plates free of charge, however.
The few DIRECTORS. who have been met
with so far are hardly sufficient to cause
the enactment of the amendment named,
but 1t Is feared that objectors will become
more numerous, as the work extends into
the business district.
The remembered district up to last night,
included all the section between Bay and
Broughton streets, and jefferson and Alb
ercorn streets. On all streets running
east and west, 100 numbers are allowed
to each block. On streets running north
and south, this is not done north of CASTOR
street, 100 numbers being allowed to each
section Of four blocks. The sections are
Bay TO Broughton Broughton to South
Broad, South Broad to Liberty, Liberty to
Jones, and Jones to CASTOR. These are
we'll known divisions of the city, and the
numbering is not likely to cause con-
fusions, all the sections having the same
depth. South of CASTOR street, 100 num-
bers will be allowed to each block.
Portions of streets running north
from Bay street will be numbered north
from that street, as West Broad street
north, Farm street north, etc.
Business and professional men, in order
Ing new supplies Of stationery, should re-
member that the city is now divided east
and west at Bull street and that the
words east" or west" must follow the
name of the street, as for instance '175
Broughton street, west" or '175 South
Broad street east"
In spite of the frequent mention which
has been made Of the fact that the new
house numbering plan was to be put into
effect this fall, there are business men
who ordered large supplies Of stationery
with the old numbers printed as the ad-
dress.