The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31
COSTLY BODYBUILDING.
Lack of Proper Drainage RuinOus to
the New Roads.

the New Roads.
Editor Morning News: There are three
principles in BODYBUILDING" says a good
roads contemporary Drainage. drainage
drainage" Savannah Press, oct. 29)
This truism applies with such force to
road work in Chatham county that it
would be wei for the commissioners and
Superintendent Chaplin 20 commit it to
memory, and profit by it,
what the citizens committee said about
our roads in their report News, Sept. g,
Is so IN harmony with it, aud so appro-
pirate at this time-as well as when It
was made that a repetition may also.
be wholesome reminder to these county
ofncials. The committees words are:
Water is the greatest enemy to a road
and thorough drainage is an indispensa-
bic requisite in its construction and main
tenance, Particularly is it true in this
county, where the annual rainfall is so
great, the precipitation at times so large
and the country so fiat that, even with
the best constructed drains, the water is
slow in reaching the channels and streams
which carry it off. It may be accepted as
an axiom that without good drainage no
good road can he b,,il, o,,7 ,,i4., -
cept at great cost and constant attention.
We regret TO say that from our observa-
ton of the road work, drainage seems to
be entirely ignored. Not a single road
recently built or improved appears to have
system of bitches for draining it-on
the contrary, we rarely saw q ditch of
any KIND on the sides of the roads, We
pits had beeD di,o- - ~ iloI9S anu
earth for renairs or milne, IN 80 ~. g.
frequently that the -t,5or Ell -
nant water. In baa,,v rsins e. ~ J stds
side bitches the 4,,atsr i -, %
take the roads IN tt.t. ,5,t ill 'Iiieu 70
what viii he their 5s+7r'tt,, Gnu ,
tant day. unless nr,ner ironro,,oro,,,t, 10 -
made and more irtaIil.,lt ~ al
nloved .t III iii0'llOus GILL
Several of tho c,,,,.o.+- ,,,, o.,....,.-
under the roads oltho,Jcl - "a ',i,i9
we saw in q dapoat,1 o,ittSo -, pullt'
to destruction and orr hsar,, 80 oi,is
in the main opI,-- ,..,o1 ii was
particularly ava,,,t,irlr ~ a. we were not
full inspection Of f+ar, a GiLts
Would devotion a r,,,,lt, - In ,ii ~
| than we have. rer,rasente1 i'ioi'
| In Justice to he neonIo Tho ,,4,,..,....
having control If tbis r,rI1 80 'ie9
| penditura of tho ,ut1io 80. Hil ~ tle eA-
| fairs" ''' '''''e u a.
Anv one familiar NTH ~, ,..,.,. -,
IMPRESSED viii tbo ar,,iinai,'Id.I WIZ pe
above to their nTesa,t ,4itty Vi Tue
bitches which ,,rera H. 80 IN ~ ne
the Waters road ~ -. e@i1 40 aio1s
cleaned o,,ts ~ ~ 80 my iot peen
them were actI,aI1,, eI1a s1''is ouI 9olIe OF
81 obsfrnctad tbat 80 sa up a.Iu otheIs
centacios for star,1;,rs 81 t We OiIIy as re-
culverts and droi-e n,7 ~iIIe tne
Montpomert crots~oo5 ',,,, ~ ios'o anu the
worse conditio,, 80 az, ~ Hnuch
Opeecbee road c,,a - tir. 'liose on the
Waters ROAD -Non,,ae ro+1 ~ - SuiNslt on
dito vi, ~ - ~ ~ Sucn pau con-
down sinca 1,les ~ r. Iuoe nave gone
obsa,.,-atio,, - DeeH IeL az Gu Ihe
the Montao,o, on
| ooo arr,1IteS - '7a S otid9 1"o months
| ala nm 1rba't ea; liioio ioi0e ho" thdn 1t
.sySttara tr1.s 'oi''
swannns arc croesad ~, ~ nr,stl1, a.