The morning news., 1898-10-17
TO CONSIDER TERMINAL GRANT.
Railroad Committee VIII Hold An
other Meeting To-day.


other Meeting To-day.
There will probably be another cling
of the railroad committee to-day for the
purpose of further considering the ordi-
nance it is intended to submit to Council
wednesday night granting city lands on
Hutchinson's Island to the Georgia and
Alabama Terminal Company The action
the committee takes will be watched with
interest, as the public is interested in the
prospective work, and hopes are entertain
ed that it will be successfully begun.
When the railroad committee decides def
initely on the conditions it will recommend
for incorporation in the ordinance they
will be submitted in the shape of a report
to the committee of the whole, by which
they will either be adopted or rejected.
Several aldermen have expressed them
selves freely on the terminal company S
ordinance, and are outspoken for granting
il every reasonable concession in carrying
on it's work. They take into considerable
that capital is timid, and recognize that
the upbulding and expansion of the city
depends largely on the inducements that
are offered to those disposed to come to
Savannah and spend large sums in the
development of property. One element of
the board apparently mas an eye single to
the advantages the city will get by a
conversion of the island from a swamp
to a plateau, and is looking to the large
amount of money that will be spent, but
equal Importance is attached to the sani-
tary improvement to come as one of the
results of the terminal company's work.
Il do not know what action Council
will take on this matter" said Health
| Officer LeHardy, but If the island is
elevated, as it will be necessary to do TO
| build the proposed terminals, the city
will ha inn baY-af3tta1
| pose for which the island lands were
| bought will have been accomplished.
| Much of the malaria that affects the
| people of Savannah yearly, comes from
| the marshy lands on the island, and if it
| is possible TO introduce improvements,
| which will be the means of having the
| land elevated, the city will certainly profit
| immeasurably by it from a sanitary stand
| point. Were the island farther from the
| city the demand for better drainage on it
| would not be so imperative. But as it is
| almost within a stones throw of the
houses where two-thirds of Savannah 5
/ business men meet daily, il seems to me
this feature of the good to come from
| the proposed improvements would enter
| largely into the consideration the city is
| giving the company's propositions"
| 1t is asserted the conditions it is pro-
| posed TO recommend will be looked upon
| scrutinously by the committee of the
| whole. Most of the aldermen favor pro-
| tecting the city, but they are not in ac-
cord with the policy of tacking on a lot
| of conditions calculated 10 accomplish lit
tie more than to convey an idea of lack
of faith in the terminal company by the
/ city. 1t is pretty safe every encourage
| ment will be extended the company, how
| ever and that all useless conditions will
| be killed by the committee of the whole.
| Mr.. J. r. Anderson will probably hear
| from his clients in New York before
| Council meets, and will thereby be en-
abled to advise the board as 10 what con-
| ditions will interfere with the company S
! plans. AS the turn the committee took
is not what the company expected, those
! interested will probably not hesitate to
make their views known on the subject.