The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-14


ware. nails. lacks OF a-.e o-. g. substance
cacl-aie4 10 injure tl. .-.- az pel-S-
l14als or animals. and t.t wheels " 1i-
cycles or other Tehic.es
sec 2 BE q further 0rls.-ed, that any
person or persons ViOlat.as '.-- or1ll-alrt
sAa-i. upon conviction before the Pofrc
court OF the city or Sa.arri Dr. DE n8ed
20 a sum not 10 eXceed one hundred dol
lars or imprisoned no DO exceed thirty
adys' either or both il tn= discretion OF
the court
Sc g. Pc II further ordained that all
ordinances and parts o. ordinances in con-
peaied.
Resolution.
BY Committee on Harbor and Wharves-
resolved, by the mayor and aldermen Of
/ me city Of Savannah, in council assem-
biel, mat the time in VIII bond can be
Iied 10y the successful bidder for build
ING quarantine tug boat boiler shall be
limited 10 Monday. the 18th inst, ar y
o'clock m Upon failure 20 comply with
/ the terms Of this resolution the committee
on harbor and wharyes ls directed to ad-
vertise for new bids
Adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS
communication from the secretary
/ OF the board OF sanitary commissioners.
I transmitting resolution adopted hv said
[ board relative TO EXTENDING water service
| 70 colored portion of J.. g. cemetery. was
! whole.
communication from the secretary Of
| the board Of sanitary commissioners
transmit ing recommendation from said
/ BOARD relative to removing rank growth
| Of weeds in the city was read. and re-
| ferred 10 committee Cf the whole
savannah, Aug. p 1910 the Mayor
ana Aldermen of the City Of savannah:
| Genuemen-Ihe board OF commissioners
| OF house drainage. appointed bv his honor.
| tne mayor, July H. 1885 under and by viz
| Tue or an ordinance passed in council
| Apiil l. 1891, for the purpose OF reporting
/ TO the council OF the city of Savannah
such plan or plans as they may. after a
! tnorouSn investigation and cOnsidera ton
OF the subject, recommend as best adapt
co. o. proper system o. house drainage
/ for the said city Of Savannah. beg 10 re-
/ port as follows:
AFTER considering numerous plans and
/ IDEAS looking to the economical construc-
sion ana maintenance OF a system of out
/ IaIi and sewer, the commissioners of house
/ drainage recommend the ADOPTION of the
| plan outlined in the report submitted by
! Col w. J. VIM. city engineer, and which
Is herewith attached as a part of their re-
| port. - -.
The plan as stated I'm the city engineers
/ report embraces a population OF 200 900.
and the estimated cost of outfall and sew
| er Is $l5obSz45. The report provides line
| for sewage discharge cd Wilmington riv-
! er, and a storm overflow. via Harmon
/ street, TO the lower portion Of Bilbo canal
| u also contemplates the closing and
| ming IN of BiFbo canal from Bolton street
| to point 900 feet north Of NVl1ea -Dn
! street, after provision for'the drainage OF
! the tributary watershed IS made at a cost
OF $2209l00, making the total cost of said
work $l5S, 1915
The commissioners of house drainage
| further recommend that a right of way be
| secured so as to construct an avenue 60
| rect in width over said sewer and to run
the entire length Of proposed sewer to said
outIaIl Respectfully submitted
VIM. Garrard, Vice Chairman.
CITY ENGINEERS REPORT.
City Engineers Office. Savannah. June
| l. lS6.-To the Honorable, the Commits
| sloners on House Drainage: GentIemen-
| Since my report of September. 1896 made
! In compliance with the resolution of your
honorable body, TO secure a plan for an
| outlet sewer with a probable cost for the
| shortest and most practicable route from
! Bolton street sewer terminus Of the sewer
| OF the city of Savannah to the Savannah
river, other surveys have been made to
| ascertain the adYisability of constructing
an outlet sewer 10 some more desirable
| point
Any practicable outlet for the discharge
OF the sewage into the savannah river
| must be near or else in the midst of an
| important shipping locality of the city
| where the sewage will contaminate the
| river water, which is used for drinking
| by seamen, by many Of the residents of
! the city, and by others working on and
| near the wharves.
If we concede that the dilution Of sew
! age would be ample 1t is a recognized
Iact that neither this nor any ordinary
! chemical process viii destroy the organic
| or living germs of disease necessarily
! present in sewage matter (See article
| on relative efficiency of different methods
OF destroying impurities, by Charles Wat
son Foleard, r. To-, Van Nostrand EnCi-
neering Magazine of 1882, page 22s and
233).
No matter at what time of ebb tide the
sewage is discharged, 1t will present an
! uninterrupted stream from the outlet 10
! the point lower down where 1t meets the
| Hood tide, and with this food tide it will
| be borne to and above the outlet in fact
aIohg' ana beyond the whole front of the
| CITY, as indicated by a trial float that was
started near Fort Jackson on the first
/ OF the Hood and ioated up past the Her
! mltage before the turn of tide; and as pol
! luton increases so these objectiona BILE re-
SUITS Will be proportionately increased;
| ana even II the point of discharge is car
rled further from the city, this objection
! VIII stilI continue so far as the shipping
Is concerned, which will and in fact al
ready promises to extend down the river
sewage discharged into the Savannah
i river might prove in a single epidemic
1 IN money as well as in wrecked lives
! tar more costly than the additional cost
| OF a longer conduit discharging into salt
! or non-drinkable water, where contamina-
/ tlon cannot be dangerous and where d.
| lQuoh IS virtually as complete as if dis
/
James e. kirkwOOd. G. E. a prominent
| authority on sanitation, in a report 10
! the state board of health of Massachu-
! setts' says, on page 1853 of Van Nostrands
Magazine; The poisons may be so largely
slluted as to be beyond the readings of
analysis, and yet there may be SUFFICIENT
/ when fairly presented and understood Ia
! render water by reason of that knowledge
not merely repulsive or suspicious. but
more or less dangerous for family use. -
Col George Z. Warning, Jr., prominent
/ authority on sanitation, states on page
/ as in his work on Sewage and Land
| Drainage that delivery at the Immediate
wharf or shore ot-af town where the
/ water into which sewage is discharged
! Is moving back and forth at every tide,
/ IS sure to be, or in time, to become. OBJ
/ Jectonable and one of the first sugges-
! lions for improvement that is usually
| made is to construct an intercepting sew
! er which shall carry the sewage to a
! more distant point of discharge
lie states in reference to Boston. Mass.
! that the sewers of this city formerly
/ DISCHARGED a the foot of every street
/ or at the back of the house lot: Boston was
! practically surrounded by a deposit of
! sewage filth, some of it stranded and
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