The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-31
GETTING READY TO REMINDER.
THE HOUSE NUMBERING SYSTEM
NOW IN PROGRESS.

The city Being Mapped out For the
Purpose of Ascertaining the Num-
Bers Required-HOvv II Is Proposed
TO Put the Decimal system Into
ERect-TweIve Numb Estimated
ns Sufficient For Each Side of Each
Block East and West-The Plan
Proposes TO Make the Numbers at
Each End of Each Block Tally
with the End Numbers ON All Cor
responding Blocks.
Preparations for REMEMBERING the city
in accordance with the ordinance recently
adopted by the city council, have begun in
the office of the public works commission
er.
Apparently to reminder the houses
ought to be a very simple matter, just
simply going along and lacking up num-
bers. some people might think, but a lit
tie study will show that just the opposite
is the case.
The city is divided into sections, and a
plat is made of each section. Each plat
contains nine blocks three wide and three
deep, and it will require about 80 Of these
plats for the whole city. After a plat is
made up, a man is sent to go over the
section. He takes note Of every house,
and indicates its location in its particu-
lar block by a mark on the plat also
showing whether it is a house
with stoop and basement. If
there is a basement used for
an Office OF other purpose, two numbers
will be allotted to the house, one for the
! basement and one for the house proper.
AS the plan for Remembering allows 100
numbers to'the block, the city can afford
/ to be liberal with its numbers and give
"a citizen just as many as he thinks his
/ business requires. There will be no halves
/ and quarters under the new system
neither any mystical P d Q's, or similar
| numbers which are now found in por-
| lions of the city.
The city will be numbered east and west
! from Bull street. the streets running east
/ and west being Bay street east or west,
! Broughton street east or west, and so on.
! East and west 100 numbers are allowed
/ to each block. There is no way of using
/ up any such amount of numbers TO a
! block, however or even half that many.
Actually requirements can be satisfied
| with One-fourth that amount, and in
| the majority of cases less than
one fourth. The general verdict was in
! favor of the decimal system, however,
/ and the only way to put that system into
! effect was to allow 100 numbers to each
/ block or section. Odd numbers will be
/ placed on the south and west sides of the
| streets and even numbers on the north
/ and east sides. For instance the custom
| house will be No. l Bay street east. 1t is
| estimated that twelve numbers on each
! side, or twenty-four to the block will be
/ sufficient More may be required on the
north side of Bay street, between Bull
] A -
! be the only exception. BY this plan the
| Savannah Bank and Trust Company at
/ Bay and Drayton streets, will be No %
| Bay street east, or East Bay Street
which ever it is decided to call 1T. In
| crossing Drayton street. however, the
number jumps up to the 100 and the board
/ of trade building. or rather the Postal
Telegraph's Company's office, in the base
ment at the corner, will be No. 10l. 1t is
necessary to adopt a system of this kind
! 1t would not do to attempt the use
| up all the 100 numbers allotted to a block
by numbering one house As, for instance,
| and the one next to it So. This would
only result in confusion and it would be
better not to renumber at all 1t is nee
| essary to number regularly from the cor
ner at which the numbering begins and
then jump to the next hundred in cross
ing to the next block. Then every one
| will understand that If the southeast
corner of Bay and Drayton is 1O1, the
| southeast corner of Bay and Abercorn
| will be POI, although the southwest cor
ner of Bay and Abercorn may be num-
bered only 123.
1t is desired to make the numbers at
the ends of the blocks furthest from the
| starting point correspond, as well as the
numbers on the ends nearest the starting
point. For instance, not only will the
| southwest corner of Bay and
Lincoln be 223 but the south
west corner of Congress and Lincoln, will
/ be 223 and the southwest corner of Liberty
| and Lincoln the same, and so on to the
end of the street. In numbering, each
| residence, store and office will be allowed
a number, and a number will also be esti-
mated for each twenty-five feet of vacant
! space.
In numbering south the system will be
a little different. Instead of allowing 100
numbers to the block, the sections from
| Bay to Broughton, BrOughton to South
/ Broad. South Broad to Liberty, Liberty
to Jones and Jones to CASTOR streets will
be counted as blocks with 100
/ numbers allowed to each section
From CASTOR street south one hun
| dred numbers viii be allowed to the
/ block. Even the sections viii not use up
( all of the 100 numbers allotted them, how
| ever. In numbering the houses ten num-
! bers viii be allowed to each large block
| and three to each small block on each
4 six numbers are estimated on each side
In crossing irregular streets, such as
Howard and Floyd, number will be al
lowed for the street intersection, the same
| as for "a vacant lot. Irregular streets
! will be numbered so a : to make the num-
bers correspond with those of the regular
| streets running parallel with them.
The object of making the pats is to find
out exactly how many of the metal num-
Der plates of each denomination are
wanted, and where they are wanted
| While the blocks on Bay street will prob
ably require every number allotted them
the majority of the blocks in the city
will require not more than one-half. 1t
would be a great mistake to suppose that
because No. III is required for one street
that every corresponding block on every
other street would require that number.
There might be only half a dozen plates
with this figure needed. It viii require
some time TO make up the plats, but after
this is done the work of REMEMBERING will
be very simple.
Injured in Runaway.
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