The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-25
STREET PAVING NEXT YEAR.
CHAIRMAN DAVIS HAS SOMETHING
IN PROSPECT.

improvements Around the Market
COntempIated-St. Julian Street On
Both Sides May Be Put In Brick.
DraytOn Street VIII BE a Costly
JOb-BulI Street Improvement Es-
timated to Cost s25, OOO-Margaret
Street May Be Paved.
The appropriation of $4,000 for street
paving in the city budget for 1898 is none
too large in the estimate of Alderman Da-
Wis, chairman of the committee on
streets and lanes. In fact, if the commit
tee had twice that amount there is no
doubt that it could be expended to the ad-
vantage of the city.
THE paving of Drayton street will be
an expensive item to the city" said Alder
man Davis yesterday. Instead of the
property owners paying two-thirds of the
cost the city will come near paying it.
With the frontage of Forsyth park and
the park extension, the Savannah and
Telfair hospitals, and perhaps the court
house to be charged against the city, in
addition to the frontage of intersecting
streets and lane and the one-third of the
cost which the city pays under the law,
the city will pay considerably more than
half the cost. This will eat a big hole
in our appropriation. The Bull street i'm
provement is estimated to cost $25 600,
though it will hardly cost so much"
Anyway, Alderman Davis proposes to
squeeze enough out of the appropriation
or from any other convenient source to do
some other desirable work in the way of
street paving. An ordinance to have Mar
garet street paved may be introduced later
in the year, if the condition of the city's
finances will allow it.
A piece of paving which Alderman Davis
has especially in mind is on the eastern and
western sides of the market, on st. Julian
street, from Whitaker to the market on
the east. and from jefferson to the mar
ket on the west, including, of course, the
fractional intersections of Barnard street
on the east and west of the market.
Two dirtier looking blocks it would be
hard to find in the whole city than on st.
Julian street east and west of the market,
and il would be hard to find two which
are more frequently used. A cursory ex-
animation of the ground will convince
anyone of the desirability of the proposed
Improvement. Retail houses front the
street on both sides the entire distance of
the two blocks and these two books are
so constantly used that in wet weather the
street is simply an expanse of black mud
cut up with railroad tracks.
The eastern block is in the heart Of the
business district and its improvement in
conjunction with the asphalt pavements
on Bull and Congress streets would add
greatly to the appearance of that section.
The block on the western side is the chief
resort of the market trade and all the
country trade from the section west of the
city. A pavement would make a great
Improvement in the appearance of things
there, and one that would be an advantage
to the tradespeople there and their custom
ers.
The granite block pavement on Barnard
street from Bay street to the market is a
fine piece of work and with the new block
pavement on Bryan street adds greatly to
the appearance of things on that side. Con-
gress street being paved with asphalt it
is only necessary to pave the two blocks
on st. Julian street in order to complete
the paving around the market.
Alderman Davis idea is to pave these
two blocks with the best quality of vitri-
fed brick. The street being wide brick
pavement would show up we'll. The street
railway company would doubtless be will
ing to remove the switch on st. Julian
street between Barnard and Whitaker,
which would leave only one track there.
If such a scheme of paving is adopted,
and Alderman Davis believes that it will
be, a great improvement will be effected
in that portion of the city. When the
scheme is approved it might be we'll to in
clude the block on Barnard street from
Congress to Broughton, which would give
fine pavements leading to the market from
every direction