The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-26
SOUTH BRoAD,s PAVEMENT.
Pedestrians VIII Remember the En-
Zineer Who Planned the Crossings,

pedestrians VIII Remember the En-
gineer Who Planned the Crossings.
The new Bull street pavement is nearly
| completed, and the asphalt company is
making preparations to begin work on
President and York streets, north and
south of the court house.
Before the new pavement on South
Broad street is accepted by the city, it
will be subjected to careful inspectio for
the purpose of discovering whether the
grades given by the city engineer have
been accurately complied with. The
heavy rain yesterday brought out the fact
prominently that there are several places
on the street where the water remains
standing instead of draining off. As one
of the important requisites of an asphalt
pavement is that 1t shall shed water
promptly. these defects will have to be
remedied before the pavement is accept
ed by the city. 1t is likely that some por-
tions Of the pavement will have TO be cut
up and relaid in order to improve the
grades.
Now that the pavement has been nearly
completed, the mistake that was made in
not having all the crossing paved clear
across instead of broken by sidewalks in
the center of the street, at the abutting
intersections of the green becomes more
apparent. Had the sidewalk intersections
been paved clear across from curb to
curb not only would the appearance of
the street have been improved, but it
would have been much more convenient
for the thousands of people who have to
cross the street daily.
AS 1t is now a person going south on Bull
street steps down several inches from the
sidewalk on the north side of South Broad
street. walks twenty-five feet; steps up
several inches to the sidewalk on the end
of the green, walks forty feet, steps down
several inches, walks twenty-five feet
again, and steps up several inches to ale
sidewalk on the south side of the street.
At Liberty street the sidewalk intersections
are paved clear across at all the street
intersections, and the pedestrian has
clear walk across from one side of the
street to the other.
The Morning News agitated this feature
at the time the surveys for paving South
Broad street were made. A survey was
made by the city engineer corps at Bull
and South Broad, and a report was made
that it would cost about 81, 500 to make the
change at this point alone, owing to the
fact that 1t would have been necessary
to cut up and relay lot of the Bull street
pavement in order to meet the changed
grade. The heavy cost caused the idea to
be abandoned. AS there were no pave
ments TO be changed at any of the other
street intersections, the block and cobble
pavements of Drayton Whitaker and JEFF
ferson streets being replaced entirely by
asphalt, practically the only increase in
cost for the other street intersections
would have been the extra area to be paw
ed. To make the change now would cost
a great deal more than had the idea been
adopted in the first place, and consequent
~ there is little Likelihood that this will be
done.
Mayor Neldrim, when spoken to on the
subject yesterday, said that all the plans
for South Broad street had been prepared
during the previous administration and
the work being well under way when the
new administration took charge, it was not
desirable TO make any change in the plans,
had the matter been brought to their at
tention. Under the present circumstances,
he said the city is not likely to spend any
more money on South Broad street than
has already been contracted for.