The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-29
pIFFEnENcE or A poLLAR.
Mr.. Krousl<OH Says Artificial stone
Is About as Cheap as Brick.

Is About as Cheap as Brick.
When the southern section sidewalk or
dinance comes before the City Council
again. the chances are an effort will be
made to show that artificial stone is bet
ter and the cheaper material than brick.
Figures Will be submitted by those in
c-ined to artificial stone to prove IL. The
people are anxious for an early settlement
of The sidewalk question. as many are
growing weary of the futile efforts which
have thus far been made In this direction.
Ex-Alderman Krouskoff, father of the
artificial stone ordinance that may be re-
pealed by the present Council, says 1t Is
a mistake to depart from the original in
tention of having uniform walks. The
beauty and grace of an entire section Of
walks of the same material has been Al
derman KrouskOf's IDEAL and in INTRO
ducjng the ordinance he did not act Whh-
out first fully investigating the reiatlVe
cost of artificial stone and brick walks
granite and wooden curbing, and such
other materials as are required. The re-
suit is that he is well posted on the cost
of the different materials, and can give IN
formation in this connection that VIII Dc
valuable to Council.
After all the talk by property owners
during the last few weeks a 5 to the mate
rial they prefer, said Mr.. Krouskon, the
difference In cost between arthclal stone
and brick on a thirty-foot lot is only
dollar My figures make the artificial
stone cost SIS for a thirty-fcot walk, while
the brick with granite curbing costs 81.
In view of these figures 1t seems an easy
matter for property owners to decide What
they want.
ITO go into detail, my figures on artih-
cial stone are: Thirty feet of artihclal
stone at S1.00 a square yard Ghe city S
contract price is IS cents), Is $3.50, and 30
feet of curbing at Is cents, is $780, making
the cost $500. With brick, 30 feet Of
granite curbing at 30 cents a foot is $500.
and 100 square feet Of brick at 615 cents,
is $3.50, making $3.50, In some Of these
figures 1 have put them higher than they
should be, as, for instance, that of curb
ing at Is cents a foot, when l only paid 10
cents a foot for that around my property.
1t seems these figures which can be relied
upon, are indubitable evidence against the
position that IL is cheaper to give UP uni-
formity.
During my term in the Council" said
Mr.. Krouskoff, my desire was to see these
Improvements started. Everything could
do to encourage the work was done, and
the ordinance that finally passed was the
result of long laborious investigation. do
not mean TO criticise the present Council
in its efforts to pass a better ordinance, but
l think better results would have been
accomplished by q thorough investigation
of the cost of materials before any changes
were made. / do not recall any measure
Of more importance 70 southsiders than
this Uniformity is the thing, and who
won't give a dollar more to have it, and
also get what is considered to be the
best material for modern walks
Many people who have seen the stone
sidewalks already put down west of Bar
nard street and have investigated the cost
Of the material have become convinced
that, after all the talk in favor of brick
artificial stone is by far the better ma
terial. A few examples of brick sidewalk
that have recently been put down are suf-
ficient evidence OF the laxness that is al
lowed by the city in the work to create
sentiment in favor of stone.