The morning news., 1897-08-28


Chats Buckhalte)
Where never footprint was left on the
sand
And discord, or trouble. ia never at hand,
Except when the iddlers raise Cain on the
strand
CHATS Buckhater)
Yes. sing Of land without friends. with
out foes.
Chats Buckhalte) Z.
With no fire chleftan to turn on the hose;
Where no living man ever comes, ever
goes.
And the pollywog reapeth whatever he
CHATS Buckhalter)
stripped of all its ifs and 'ands.' the
bare proposition of draining Buckhalter
swamp at this time of the year s, in all
frankness, to be deplored," remarked
wen-known Savannah man yesterday who
has been serving in public duties one way
or another pretty much all his life. Just
leave everything out of the question and
ask yourself if il be a wise scheme to take
away from the swamps near the city the
convict force and put them to work away
over on the other side of the county dur
ing the most trying months Of the year.
Drainage is not like farming. There is
no laying by season. bitches need to be
watched and worked regularly Swamps
are apt to fill up and stagnate unless the
water is kept going, and to keep it going
the drains must be watched faithfully,
cautiously Grass growing in their beds
stop the flow in a very short time.
"Buckhalter swamp is 100 far away
from the city to receive such attention
as rubs the several swamps close around
Savannah of the attention they require.
on the principal of doing the greatest
good to the greatest number there is no
reasoning in the world that would justify
the removal of every available laoorer
from the swamps near US in city of
about seventy thousand people with its
undrained suburban villages under any
consideration and taking the
bulk of them away over
in the valley of the Little OReechee river.
"Sfted down to a final analysis there is
no further question in it than TINS; IS IL
right? The Harmon committee o. the
grand Jury on the close vote Of three 20
two has said that many of the swamps
around Savannah, are in an 'unsanltary
condition Mores the pity that these
three men could not also see That these
swamps are more important to l'e drained
at this time than Buckhalter swamp,
Speaking of drainage said a gentle
man standing near, Il understand that
several letters have been written by truck
growers and planters from around the out
skirts of the city to certain members or
the grand jury stating that II IS lrot true
that they have refused 10 allow the coun-
ty commissioners to work on the Dram
age through their lands l understand
that the chairman Of the county commits
sioners when the grand jury committee
was going over the drainage excused
some bad places by saying that the ten-
ants and land owners had refused 10 al
low the work of drainage needed 10 De
done on their lands, and that certain
members OF the jury asked Tor written
statements concerning such retusads from
the truck farmers. The replies 1t IS
said. stated that the chairman OF the
county commissioners musu nave oeen Ia
boring under a false impr6 eSlon When ne
said they had ever refused TO allow the
work to be done, as such was not the
case For the most part tn, sy were an
xious TO have the work done, and
one of them, am tod, SAID
he had been compelled to leave his coun-
try place with his family on ac counE or
sickness caused py the lack of dSalnnge.
Another stated that he had been toreed
TO drain one Of the countys bitches AT an
expense of $50, which expense was pot ne
by himself
with such a state of affairs in the IN =
mediate vicinity of the corporate limfn !,
/ cannot see the wisdom OF taking all ths
convicts away from the drainage here and
placing them. excepting the squad on
road work out at Buckhalter during the
months of midsummer remarked the
gentleman just quoted.
with the close of the season at Ty-
bee SUNDAYS will be more duh than they
have been this summer for Savannah peo-
pie" remarked a young man whose wrists
we're sun-blistered and whose face was
tanned like a Spaniard's. 1t has been
a great comfort 70 the y-at-homes, -
he went on to say, Ito have some place
TO go when Sunday came during the long
months OF the summer, and when the
season breaks up down there not few
viii be lonesome on Sunday.
YES, IL has been great season at Ty-
bee. The hotels have done better bus
mess than ever before and the railroad has
hauled twice the number or people they
hauled last year, though al a greater ex-
pense, so IL is claimed. on account OF the
improvements necessary. Nobody has
played to "A losing business at SaVannah's
popular resort this season unless It be
bluff out on the hands they held. and even
they came out with enough to pay their
way home-at least. they are about all
gone back 20 the up-country now some
how or other"
There are more dogs IN this town to
the square inch than any city looked down
upon by the moon." said "A fellow who
cant tolerate the beasts. doncher-know. 4"
mo wonder the members Of the Gcor-
gia Historical Society at their last meet
ing got of the subject OF books and be-
gan talking dOgology. Why. / was going
up Bull street the other night when the
whole town was asleep. and was amazed
90 hear pack Of dogs come tearing down
after a house cat from towards the park
barking as though they were on a hot
train Of a red fox. They an came gallop-
ping az fun tlt. barking as they went some
wheeling around the corner by the De
Soto hotel ana going tearing towards Abb
crcorn street, and others rlp-snorting to-
wards whitaker
81 have never seen such proceeding
in my NE, ana am completely at a
loss Co know what those DOGS