The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-04
ROTARY G0NGS TO COME OFF.
STREET RAILWAY CANNOT USE
FIRE DEPARTMENTS BELLS.

cause City would Have to buy new
Bells for Apparatus If Depart
ment's GOngs Are Used on Other
VehicIes-HOpper and GIobe-Valve
Closets to GO-Street Railway to
BE Taxed for Length of Streets 1t
Occupies and Not 800 a Mile of
Track as observation-disclosures
Dixon Withdrew Ordinance Pro-
vidfng That All Wires Go Under
Ground in n Year.
The similarity in sound of the rotary
gongs used by the fire department and
those which are now being attached 10
street railway cars, prompted Council TO
pass an ordinance last night restricting
the use Of rotary gongs except by the fire
department. This will probably nip in
the head an Improvement the street rail-
way intended to make to better enable it
to keep tracks cleared. Gongs have al
ready been attached to some of the Hab-
ersham street CATS while it is said to have
been the intention of General Manager
Lotion to introduce them more extensive
ly.
quest of Superintendent Mcguire of the fire
department, who stated the use of this
gong by any other person, and particu-
larry the street railway, would compel
the city 10 adopt some other gong for the
fire department, owing to the fact the one
in present use will not be sufficiently out
of the ordinary. Any gong used on the
streets at all times, Superintendent Ma
suire said, will soon become useless to
the fire department. as the people become
too accustomed to the sound
Alderman Haas introduced the gong
ordinance and requested that it be put on
its second reading and passed, which was
done without objection. ITO give notice
OF tho approach of its engines and We
hicics. the ordinance provides, "a rotary
gong is used by the fire department. From
nd after the passage of this ordinance, il
shall be unlawful for a street car or other
company. or any person operating or us
ing any vehicle, except in the fire depart
rnent, to use rotary gong Violations
win ne punished by a fine not to exceed
800 or Imprisonment not to exceed ten
days, each or both in the discretion of the
court, for each and every days violation
thereof
passage of the ordinance. Alderman
Thomas said he was not prepared to vote
on it until he had obtained more informa-
ton. The service in the fire department
under the present arrangement is not COM
planned of, which accounts for the COM
mittee's reasons in not caring to have the
departments gongs duplicated. After a
brief discussion the entire board came to
the conclusion the use of these gongs had
best be restricted
Alderman Bacon, chairman of the wa
ter committee. introduced an ordinance
in the interest of health and the preven-
ton of the waste of water, the discon-
tnuance of al globe-valve and hopper
closets, and to require their replacement
with approved tank closets within the
time the ordinance provides. Following
is the law:
Section l. Be IL ordained by the May
or and aldermen of the city of Savannah
IN council assembled, as a sanitary meas
ure and also for the purpose of preventing
the waste of water, that all globe-valve
ana hopper closets shall be taken out
and removed in the city of Savannah and
shall be replaced with approved tank
closets as herein expressed and within
the time expressed, to-wit:
In the territory between the northern
line of the city limits and the northern
=
TO the eastern line of the city limits and
west to the western line of the CITY limits
the said globe valve and hopper closets
shau be taken out and approved tank
closets substituted therefor within two f2l
months from the passage of this ordin1
ance; in the territory between said north
ern line of Oglethorpe avenue extended
east ana west, and the northern line of
Jones street extended east to the cast
GTn boundary n ba oft
western boundary, within four al months
from the passage of this ordinance. IN
the territory between said northern lipo
or Jones street extended east and west
and the northern line of Huntinodon
street extended, east to the eastern bo1,nd
airy of the city and west to the westor,,
ooulluary' WITHIN six months from the
passage Oh TINS ordinance; in the terri
tory between the said northern line 80
Huntingdon street extended east ~
west, and the northern line of H..
street extended, east to the eastern hon.
dary OF the city and west to the wester,
boundary, within eight months go
the passage of this ordinance: and in ~
territory between the said northern line
OF Henry street extended and the so,,th
ern boundary line of the CITY of Sa,rarl
nah, within ten months from ~ .a,.-
sage of this ordinance. 1e pas
should the substitution herein nro,.ia
cd Tor not be done within the TIM -
Toned then 1t shall be done by the citv -
0aNauHah through its proper officers ana
at the expense of the property owners
After the time mentioned If shan 49,.
pe la"tuI Tor any person to use globe
waive and hopper closets in the Oh, 20
savannah and any person violating the
ordnance shall be subject, upon con,,ia
tion In the Police Court of the cit,, ~ Se
vannah. TO fine not TO exceed tvya,, 9a-
fve dollars and Imprisonment NOT -
exceed ten days, either or both in ~
discretion of the court for each ana me ene
days violation thereof. "'iN every
material change was made -
part of the tax ordinance referrins - tnat
taxing of the mileage of street ro,, ~ lhe
General Manager Lotion, who fled avs
non some time ago, asking for q ro,1,,l pgeI-
OF the tax of 800 a mile in addtio,, ~ ION ION
state and county ad valorem tax tba -. .ile
railway pays appeared before Council ~
caucus Director Barrow was also nre ~
ent. An understanding was reacb.5 ps
the Following amendment to the tar or Ia
nance was passed as a report on - oIui-