The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-11
THE OUTLOOK FOR SIDEWALKS
CITY INTENDS TO MEND ALL THAT
ARE FOUND FAULTY.

injector Gadsden Is Building Brick
walks in Reynolds sGuare-Artifi-
ciaI stone Required in Sections
Rounded by AbercOrn, Bay, West
Rroad and BrOuGhtOn street Lane.
street and Lane Committee Has
OptiOn as to Material the City
Tses, However.
With the sidewalks to be built in the
eastern part of the city within the next
sixty days. together with what the city
Is doing at present, Savannah's walkways
VIII be decidedly improved. Director
C3dsden and the street and lane commit
tee are giving attention to sidewalks just
now. and the prospects are the good ef-
fects will begin TO show in the near fu
ture.
New brick walks are being laid by the
city I'm part of Reynolds square. The
walks running north and south are being
rebuilt for the reason they are used more
than those running in the opposite direc-
ton. That part of the square west of the
center of Abercorn street is in the section
that the paving ordinance requires arti-
neial stone. Director Gadsden stated it is
not the intention of the street and lane
committee. which has the option of using
any material for the walks, 20 adopt ar
thcial stone for the squares at present.
He said it may be stone will be exclusive
Nv used later but brick has always been
the material for squares, and as a change
will be costly, the city will forego this
kind of walks at present Director Gads-
den said that property owners are required
10 build new walks of artificial stone, how
ever, in the section between the western
side of Abercorn, the eastern side of West
Broad Bay street and Broughton street
lane.
Where the city is compelled to build the
artificial stone walks, the work is turned
over to the regular contractor, who gets
all orders the city gives out. The contrac-
tor receives his pay when the work is
done while the city charges the amount
against the property owners, and in some
cases has TO wait months to collect the
account.
When new sidewalks are ordered built
by The inspectors, the property owners are
required to use the material the ordinance
specifies. The long string of artificial stone
paving on Broughton street is due to this
ordinance, and if the amount of paving
done last year is done this year, the
chances are the central section walks win
he far better and decidedly more uniform.
Director Gadsden has not stated what
his policy will be about requiring new
walks. Under the former administration
the ordinance was rigidly enforced, though
patching was allowed to a great extent.
In this way the portion of a brick walk
that was damaged might be patched and
the process continued ad infinitum. A
sweep was occasionally taken however,
and an order issued by the commissioner
requiring all the property owners in an
entire block to put down artificial stone.
Whether Director Gadsden will take it
this way is not known, but he has stated
that he favors good, serviceable walks, and
when they cease to fill the bill, he favors
replacing them with others.
The committee of Council on streets and
lanes, TO which was referred the southern
section sidewalk ordinance, will probably
consider the petition for an amendment of
the ordnance on Monday. The committee
held short meeting yesterday afternoon
Tor the purpose of discussing matters re-
lefred TO it at the last meeting of Council,
ana TO map out the work il has to per-
form pending the next meeting. A recon-
mendation will be made that will probably
meet the desires of the compliments.