The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-24
A NEW ALDERMAN ELECTED.
ADOLPH VI. LEFFLER CHOSEN TO
FILL THE VACANCY IN COUNCIL.

the Name of Perry street TO Colo
NAL PIace-The Amendment to
Pave south Broad Street With
Asphalt Withdrawn, Leaving
Brick as the Material Specified in
the Ordinance-statemen of the
Cost of Paving hay street Extend
ed and Part of Habersham street.
The city council was in caucus last
night until 1890 o'clock, and In the half
hour session that followed. rushed through
whatever it had to do.
Mr.. Adolph NJ. LETTER was elected to fill
the vacancy on the board caused by the
resignation of Alderman Carolan about
/ three months ago.
The nomination was briefly made by Vice
/ Chairman Screven.
There has been a vacancy in the board
| for some time said Alderman Screven,
and I think it is about time to fill it. With
/ that view 1 nominate Mr.. Adolph Letter
/ to fill the vacancy"
/ No other nominations were made, and
the mayor was authorized to cast the vote
Of the board for Mr.. Letter. This was
done, and Mr.. LETTER declared elected.
No intimation had been given before
| hand of the intention to elect Mr.. LETTER,
and the fact is that his election was not
decided upon until the caucus, when the
matter was brought up by Alderman
screven.
Mr.. Letter is a well-known young bust
ness man, the junior member of the firm
of A. Letter & Son, and has numbers of
friends who have every confidence in his
ability to fill the position with credit 10
/ himself and benefit to the city.
An ordinance was introduced by Alder
man Garrard to dedicate the city pound
| lot south of the Colonial park to the park
/ to be added to it for park purposes. 1t is
| specified that the dedication of the pound
lot shall not place the lot under the con-
ditions of the decree passed by the court,
/ embodying the agreement between the
city and the wardens of Christ church
and John Williamson, ct al, and the right
to erect such buildings as may be desired
| is also reserved. The lot has a depth of
| 492 2-10 feet by a breadth of 574 feet.
! An ordinance was also introduced by
| Col. Garrard to change the name of that
| portion of Perry lane, bordering on the
! Colonial park, to Colonial place Both
these ordinances go over to the next
meeting.
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/ nance was taken from the table and
| Alderman Garrard was permitted to with
| draw his amendment to the ordinance,
! substituting sheet asphalt for vitrifed
| brick.
This leaves the ordinance with vitrl-
| fed brick as the paving material speci-
/ fed. Col. Garrard stated that the investi-
cations with regard TO sheet asphalt had
! proven unsatisfactory, and it had been
/ found that the city could not advantage
ously make contracts for the use of this
| material.
Itemized statement of the cost of inn
/ proving Bay street extended with chart
/ and crushed stone and Habersham street
between South Broad and Liberty streets,
with vitritied brick, were submitted by
| Public Works Commissioner Willnk. The
| cost of the Bay street Improvement WAS
as follows: Total cost $6,439.25; frontage
2,90S feet cost per front foot, $1.47. THIS
| includes curbing and catch basins. Thc
| city pays one-third of the cost, or So
1861, and the Ocean Steamship Company
as the owner of all the abutting property
the remaining two-thrds, or $4292.S4.
The statement of the cost of improving
Habersham street by paving with vitl1-
fed brick was as follows: Total cost SO.
! 755.6S. Deduct amount to be paid by Sa-
vannah, Thunderbot and Isle of Hope
railway for paving between its tracks and
on each side of it's tracks l. 4O5.8 square
leaves S3,99t.69. The city's one-third Of
this is Sl,3Sl.56, in addition to the cost for
its property frontage and street intersec-
tons. The cost OF $1964 per square yard
includes curbing and catch basins. Exclu-
sive of these the cost per square yard for
the brick alone is about Sf.74.
A protest against the establishment of a
lamp black factory in the old Lamar mill
building in the eastern section of the city
was received from the local board of UNI
derwriters The grounds of the protest
were the well known combustible charac-
ter of lamp black and the fact that in that
immediate neighborhood are some of the
largest business establishments in the city
and a number of cotton warehouses; all
of which would be endangered by the es-
tablishment Of the factory and the insur-
ance risk increased The protest was re-
ferred to the committee Of the whole.
A petition from j. r. Shuptrine to be al
lowed to establish a lamp black factory in
the Lamar mill building was also receiv-
ed and referred to the committee of the
whole
A communication was received from
the City and Suburban railway, stating
the reason for its removal of its Abercorn
street switch. The communication was
on account of the fact that the mayor and
council seem to have misunderstood the
intention of the company in removing its
track. The second track ii was stated
Grated by horse power, and since the line
has been operated by electricity. was UNI
necessary though sometimes used. The
petition stated. II council would make it Ia
the advantage of the road to use double
track on the street, by granting permission
to the company to place a double track
from Bay TO Gordon street, the company
was willing to relay the track and to pay
| the additional assessment on Abercoru
street. The communication was received
as information
The water rate by meter measurement
was reduced from 10 cents to u cents per
1000 gallons, on recommendation of the
water commission.
Alderman Falligants ordinance pro-
hibiting the pasturage of mich cows on
lands bordering on the Bilbo canal, unless
such lands are fenced from the canal
was taken from the table and passed.
A petition was received requesting the
council TO pave Bull street from south
of the park extension to Anderson street
The petition of the Suburban and West
, End Railway Company, with regard to It's
track on the Louisville road, was UNI
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