The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-11
COMPROMISE AGREED UPON.
PROPERTY OWNERS AND DRAIN
AGE COMMITTEE REACH AN
AGREEMENT.

Owners of Houses Valued Under $500
Allowed Three Years to Make
Sewer Connections and an Ordi-
nance to be Passed Making Ten
ants Responsible for the StOppage
of Pipes-The Compromise to he
UcpOrted to Council at Its Next
Meeting.
House drainage appears to have a clear
field before it now. The last stumbling
block in the way has been removed. The
house drainage committee and the com
mittee representing the dissatisfied prop
erty owners met together yesterday aft
ernoon, and arranged a satisfactory cont
promise, and one which will doubtless be
ratified by council. The property owners
were not exorbitant in their demands, and,
both parties having met in a spirit of
compromise, an agreement was readily
reached.
The meeting was held in the Office of
Maj. T. S. WILLY, chairman of the drain
age committee. Those present were AL
dermen Wylly, Owens and Davis of the
drainage committee and Messrs. Selg
Il
ard, representing the property owners.
The latter committee submitted three
demands, as follows:
That the city should require the con-
tractor to lay all pipes necessary for the
house connection at cost to the property
owner of 10 cents per running foot.
That on all houses valued at less than
$500 the city should allow the owners
three years from the time the sewer
passes the property line in which to make
the necessary connections and put in clos
ct.
That the committee on drainage will en-
deavor to have council frame an ordi-
nance that will protect the property own
eTs, by making the occupants of all rented
houses responsible for the stoppage OF
sewer pipes.
After a discussion of the subject by the
two committees, the committee represent
ing the property owners, consented to
withdraw the first demand. The city hav-
ing already contracted TO pay the con-
tractor % cents per running foot for house
connections, could notswell agree to charge
the property owners only 10 cents per foot.
The property owners will have the option,
however, of making their own connections
and their committee was of the opinion
less than the price agreed upon with the
contractor.
'Our committee thought the request rea-
. sonable," said Alderman Wyily, in speak
ing of the matter after the conference.
1--WE agreed to present the request 10 coun-
Gil and have no doubt whatever but that
council win agree to them.
Messrs. Mendel, Guerard and Fawcett
stated that they represented the dissatis-
fled property owners and that they We're
authorized to say that If council would
grant the requests named that the fight
against the house drainage system would
be dropped, and that the property owners
represented by them would do all in their
power to aid in the successful completion
of the work.
Alderman Wyly expressed himself as
very much pleased at the satisfactory re-
suit of the several conferences which have
been held with the dissatisfied property
owners, and said that he hoped that no
further obstacle would be placed in the
way of house drainage from any quarter
1t will be seen that the main points
made by the property owners at the begin
ming of the controversy, being the issuing
of notes by the city and the placing of
the sewage in the river were abandoned
by them. The city council and Col War
ing have decided upon the river outlet for
the sewerage system, and this responsible
ty rests upon them. The issuing of notes
In payment for public work or property
is not new practice with the city and so
long as 1t is conducted as cOnservativey
as 1t has been in the past, the most timd
property owner need have no cause for
alarm. The new water works costing twice
what the house drainage system is expect
ed to cost, were paid for in this manner,
and in half the time in which it is pro-
posed to pay for the house drainage sys-
TEN.
Mr.. Daniel Delaney, the contractor in
charge of the work, informed a Morning
News reporter yesterday that he had ar
ranged with a New York bank to take the
notes at par, thus enabling him to secure
cash for his work No difficulty whatever
was experienced in finding a purchaser for
the notes, he said
Work was continued yesterday on Ran
nolph street, the gang being increased
somewhat the force will be gradually
increased now until the material arrives
on the ground. The force will then be
largely increased and the work will pro-
coed rapidly A large eXcavating machine
has been ordered from Chicago, and is ex-
pected next week. Mr., Henry N Nelson.
an experienced contractor, has arrived
from Chicago, and will assist MIR. Delaney
in experimenting the work.
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GOOD CHANCE OF SUCCESS.