The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-01
IN SESSION ONLY a5 MINUTES.
COUNCIL PUT BUSINESS THROUGH
WITH 4 RUSH.


opted Against Littering Streets
and Squares With Waste Paper.
City Donates the Female Or
phan Asylum the Amount of Its
street Assessment No Action
Taken on similar Petitions From
other Charitable Institutions
Several Propositions for the Pur-
chase of Lands Accepted and
Number of Others Taken Under
Consideration.
The City Council disposed of its business
in just thirty-five minutes last night. This
members came out of the Mayors office
shortly before o'clock and little more
than half an hour later the meeting adj
journed. Mayor Myers. and Aldermen
williams, Thomas, Mills Doyle, Tiedeman,
Graham, farrell, Schwarz and Wells were
present.
The business consisted almost entirely
of committee reports upon petitions and
new petitions, which were referred TO the
proper committees. Clerk Bailey had
everything in shpshape so that everything
was disposed of in very short time.
The action OF the board of most general
interest probably was the adoption of an
ordinance offered by Alderman Mills, pro-
hibting the throwing of waste paper and
| other waste material in the streets ana
squares of the city and providing a pen
| atty for the offense The penalty is
fine not exceeding $40 and imprisonment
not exceeding five days, either or both,
i'll the discretion of the court The ordi-
nance was unanimously consented to and
| was Immediately adopted on its second
| reading.
The action of Council will meet with
general approval. The careless manner
| in which the streets and squares have
been Uttered with paper and other waste
has long been subject of complaint and
| has frequently been called attention to by
! the Morning News.
The Collinsville property owners do not
get what they asked for. The committee
| of the whole, 10 which the petition of
Mr.. ]. S. Collins had been referred, re-
| ported, recommending that the petition be
| received as information, and that the en-
tire matter be referred to the joint COM
mittee on streets and lanes and opening
streets to Investigate the cost of the de-
| sired work, and to report back 10 Council
the section known as Collinsville should
not become subject to taxation until Boil
! ton, New Houston and Henry streets rum
ming east and west, and OFT, Harmon and
| Paulsen streets, running north and SOUTH
be opened, leveled and graded.
On recommendation of the committee
of the whole, it was decided to donate
| $914.7O to the Savannah Female orphan
Asylum, on the condition. that this amount
| ebN ba in ba er1f
| against the institution for the improve
ment of Oglethorpe avenue in front of its
| property No action was taken by the
board upon the petitions of the Savan-
nah Hospital and the Telfair Hospital for
similar favors and for tax exemptions.
The Louisa Porter Home peutioned the
board for a donation of the amount of the
assessment against that institution for the
paving of Drayton street.
A communicati ton from DR.. J. G.. farrell,
as acting health officer, was read, recon-
| mending the discontinuance of Laurel
| Grove cemetery for burial purposes the
| cemetery being already crowded, and its
| further use a menace to public health, and
recommending that Council take measures
looking to the purchase of a suitable site
| for a new cemetery. The communication
| was based upon recent action by the san
i4ary board to-the same effect The mat
ter was referred TO the committee of the
whole with the understanding that the
| sanitary board is to be invited to confer
with the committee on the subject.
The committee on street opening report
| ed by resolution upon several propositions
which have recently been made to the city
| to purchase land for street opening and
| other purposes. The proposition of MIR. c.
H. Dorset to sell the city lots IS and 81,
Springfield plantation, for $500 was re-
ported unfaVorably. The offer of w. w.
AIetzger of lot 66, L. A and r. A. Falli-
/ giant of lot Go, and ID. c. Carson of lot 81,
all in Brownsville ward. at $3.50 a lot, were
accepted. The lots are to be used in open
ing Ninth street.
The offer of C. H. Dorsett, president and
| w. j. Lindsay, vice president, of the City
| and Suburban Improvement Company to
sell the city the land necessary to open up
Price street across East Seventh street,
estimated at 9,4O0 square feet, at u cents
per square foot, was accepted.
The offer of r. NJ. Smith, Jr., to sell the
city lots II and rs and 1863 2-l0 square feel
of lot 50 for the opening OF Habersham
street for $3.50, was accepted.
The following propositions for the pur-
chase Of property by the city for street
opening and other purposes were referred
to the joint committee on street opening
and city lots for investigation and report.
The Twelfth Street Land Company Of
fered 10 donate to the city the land neces-
sary for the opening of Thirteenth, Four
teenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seven
teenth streets, a width of 80 feet for the
opening of Florence street and all lanG
necessary for the opening of Bullock and
Stephens streets through the property oil
the company upon the condition that the
city will curb and grade the streets NAM
ed and will drain the tract of land inter-
sected by these streets by putting in I'M
der-drains. Agnes Crotty offered to sell
the city certain lots for the opening OF
Burroughs street for 5000. Solomon Shelf
tall offered to sell the city his interest in
lot 45 Springfield plantation at the rate
of $500 an acre or to buy
the city's interest at the sam,
rate. This is the lot on which the ole
powder magazine was situated. Col. j. II
Estll made an offer to sell the city from
such lands as he owns, for the opening
of Habersham street, at the rate of II
cents per square foot, conditional upor
the citys deciding to him the strip of land
between the old line of Habersham street
| and the prpsent line adjoining LOT 76