The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-14

! at southeast corner south BTOdu anu
Price streets; Neil McShane. 10 retail
liquor corner Sims and West Boundary
streets; Joseph A Galina, 10 transfer
liquor license from Bay lane, near
Bull street, to No. Drayton street, cor
ner Bay lane; James Mcbride, to trans
fer liquor license to S. Schoen, southeast
corner Price and South Broad streets.
The following application for permission
TO make sewer connections were referred
to the commissioner of public works and
sanitary board, with power to act: Fred
Meyers, Price street sewer, premises Hun.
near Price; Mary Solti, Barnard street
sewer, premises Barnard and Jones lane,
j. w. Smith, West Broad street sewer,
premises Berrlen and West Broad streets;
J. r. Finn, Montgomery street sewer,
premises Henry and Montgomery streets;
Georgia Hussars, Bull street sewer prem
Uses Bull and Liberty streets, j. b. Chest
mutt, Hall street sewer, premises Whita-
ker and Hall streets.
ORDINANCES.
Ordinance read in council for the first
time, Aug. &c. 1896, read second time
Sept. 9. Withdrawn by consent of council
By Alderman Watson
An ordinance to fix tax for transact
ing or Offering to transact, within the cor
porate or jurisdicuonal limits of the city
Of Savannah the business of selling water
to vessels in the port of Savannah.
OIQtudHtt vi lAN INST ANahAAAo ~ NCAAA7
mttee on streets and lanes.
An ordinance to permit Charles A. Conk-
lin & Co, to keep a powder magazine, as
herein provided, in the city of Savannah
Sec. /. Be it ordained by the mayor and
aldermen of the city of Savannah, in coun-
Gil assembled, That permission is hereby
given Charles A. ConlSlin & Co., of Sa-
vannah, Ga, to keep a portable powder
magazine within the city of Savannah, on
Bay and Barnard streets, near their ware
house. No. Williamson street, as asked
for in their petition, as to which a report
was adopted by council at its meeting OF
Sept. g. 1896. The said magazine is to be
made Of heavy sheet iron, with overlap
ping and projecting cover and Is to have
capacity of holding not exceeding four (4OO
pounds of powder.
Sec O. BE it further ordained, That the
right is reserved by the mayor and alder
men of the city of Savannah to cause the
removal of the said powder magazine at
any time It is determined by the said may
or and aldermen of the city Of savannah
that the same is dangerous.
Sec. g. Be it further ordained, That all
ordinances and parts of ordinances in con-
hict with this ordinance are hereby re
pealed.
Ordinance read in council for the first
time Sept 8, 1896, and by unanimous con-
sent read a second time and laid on the
table.
BY Alderman Falligant-
An ordinance for the preservation of
the public health of the city of Savannah.
Whereas, Impure milk is a constant and
prolific source of disease, and is injurious
to the public health of the city of Sa-
vannah, and
Whereas, The drinking of polluted
water by mich COWS makes the milk of
such cows impure, and
Whereas, The waters of Bilbo canal are
polluted by sewage:
Section l. Be 1t ordained by the mayor
and aldermen of the city of Savannah, in
council assembled, that from and after
the passage of this ordinance it shall be
unlawful for the owners or tenants of
lands adjacent to said Bilbo canal to use
such lands as pastures for mich cows,
unless access to said canal by such cows
is prevented by the erection of a good,
| substantial fence between such lands and
said canal or by some other effective
| means.
Sec. q Be it further ordained, that any
| person or persons guilty of a violation
of the provisions of the first section of
this ordinance, shall upon conviction
! thereof before the police court of Sa-
| vannah, be subject to fine not to eX-
coed fifty dollars, or imprisonment not to
| exceed ten days, either or both, in the
! discretion of the court and each day that
| such lands are so used in violation of the
| terms of the first section or this ordinance
| shall be deemed and held to be a separate
/ offense
Sec. g. Be it further ordained, That all
| ordinances and parts of ordinances in
conflict with this ordinance be and the
| same are hereby repealed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A communication from Messrs. Kenan
& Hartridge, attorneys relative to claim
81 . st,g inst ha off
and referred to committee of the whole.
| Savannah, Ga, Sept. g. 1S96.-To the
Board of Sanitary Commissioners of the
City of Savannah: Gentlemen-In compli-
ance with your instructions of Aug. %,
1896, I submit, for your consideration, a
reply to the paper entitled Sanitary Prog
ress in Savannah, Georgia." published in
the August number of the Sanitarian.
| The writer Of that remarkable article
has lived in this city for nearly fifty years,
| hence having lived here for
nearly half century, he should
| be thoroughly acquainted with
the acts of the city government in
their every detail. A careful investiga-
ton of his paper shows that the entire
article is an attack against the health
authorities and the city government. His
first attack is against quarantine. He
says: with the experience of 200 years
showing that quarantine has never pre-
vented the return of yellow fever to the
United States. and the verdict of the
Quarantine and Sanitary Congresses,
composed of our best sanitarians, as you
well know, which met in Philadelphia,
Baltimore. New York and Boston in 1857
1858. 1859 and 1860, declaring that a quar-
antine was utterly useless as preventive
against yellow fever in default of local
sanitary measures"
According to his statement, his last
quarantine and sanitary congress met in
1860. just thirty-sx years ago. and he is
willing to judge modern quarantine by
the results of ignorant methods in vogue
forty years ago He might have gone fur
Their and stated that the international
sanitary conference held in Constantinople
in 1866, in Vienna in 1874 and Rome in 1855
were unable to arrive at a practical so
luton as to the efficiency Of quarantine
In the meantime the state board of health
Of Louisiana, by practical demonstrations
proved the efficiency of maritime santa
ton. This board began its work in 1880
and during the following year New Or
leans enjoyed total exemption
from cases OF yellow fever, "a
thing previously unknown in its history