The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-25
MAY BE oGLETHoRPE AVENUE.
ANOTHER EFFORT TO CHANGE THE
NAME OF SOUTH BROAD STREET.

alderman CharItOn's Ordinance for
This PurpOse-A Renewal of "a SIM
liar Effort Made by Him in the Nc
DOnOugh COunciI-He Thinks Ave-
nue. More Euphonius Than BOuIe-
vard-Othcr Reasons for the
Change.
BE it ordained, by the mayor and al
dermen of the city of Savannah, in coun-
Gil assembled, and it is hereby ordained
by authority of the same. that from and
after the passage Of this ordinance the
street extending from West Broad street
TO East Broad street, and now known as
South Broad street. shall be known and
called Oglethorpe avenue, In memory Of
the distinguished founder OF the colony
of Georgia.
The above is the body of an ordinance
introduced in the city council last night
by Alderman Charlton. Alderman Charl-
ton did not press the ordinance for i'm
mediate consideration, and under the
rules it went over to the next meeting Of
council without discussion. one of his
brother aldermen inquired why he did not
propose to name a street in honor Of Tom
ochichi, the Indian chieftain who wei
coined Oglethorpe and remained the firm
friend of the whites ever afterward.
THAT viii come later" replied Alder
man Charlton.
"Why don't you call it Oglethorpe boil
levard?" somebody inquired. avenue is
more euphonious. We must have some
regard for euphony you know" replied
Alderman Charlton.
a.. moi HiGp1lgEpH
could not be told whether the aldermen
or a majority of them viewed the propos-
ed innovation with favor. 1t will be re-
membered that Alderman Charlton made
a similar effort to change the name of
South Broad street 10 Oglethorpe avenue
during the last McDonough administra-
ton, but so much opposition to the alter
alton developed that the ordinance was
allowed to die. This one may have bet
ter fate
The residents of South Broad street and
many other citizens appeared to be very
much attached to the old name when the
previous effort to change it was made.
Perhaps the introduction of an asphalt
pavement and other modern improvements
may have made them less tenacious of
Old names 1t was said the name of the
street was a landmark in the city's his
tory having originated when the South
Broad, as it was then called, was the
southern boundary, the West Broad the
western boundary, and the East Broad the
eastern boundary of the city, and that
this was an interesting way TO recall his
tory to children and strangers.
Alderman Charlton is neither an icono-
clast nor rash innovator and is a be-
lever as well in maintaining old tradi-
tons. but he thinks that there is more
history in naming the principal
street of the city after the founder of the
city and state and more credit in thus re-
Numbering this founder than there is in
holding to an old name which no longer
means anything and which poorly BELTS
what will soon be the handsomest street
in the city. The name is not only nuts
In the city. The name is not only mis-
homer, but is confusing and the average
stranger, who is accustomed TO the divis-
ion of streets east and west, and north
and south, gets all mixed up when he
finds west, an east and a South Broad
street They very frequently inquire for
North Broad street. Now that the city is
numbered east and west from Bull street
and the streets known accordingly the
difficulty is added TO by having a South
Broad street, east, and South Broad
street, west, as well as a West Broad
street and an East Broad street.