The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-08

White BIun Property Owners Petit
ton the legislature.


The property owners along the White
Bluff road and at White Bluff have taken
an active interest in the movement to Sc
cure the construction Of an electric rail
way from the city 70 White Bluff. Sew
eral well known property owners In that
section met Yesterday, and after discussing
the matter with Mr.. D. b. Lester, owner
Of the shell road prepared a petition
which was afterwards circulated for sig
natures.
The petition is addressed to the senator
from this district and the representatives
from Chatham county, and requests them
10 SO amend the charter Of the Vernon
Shell Road as to permit Of the laying Of
"a railway track along either the extreme
eastern or the extreme western margin
Of the road from the city to White Bluff,
with permission to extend the same 10
Rose Dew. The petition also requests
that the right granted TO the shell road
company 10 make use Of other county
roads with which il may connect by its
main stem or branches under the act Of
1870, be eliminated from the charter 1t
further requests that the company be
given the same rights to use the city
streets subject to the permission of the
Mayor and aldermen, as 1t enjoys under
the present charter The petition further
states that the power to be used on said
railroad shall be electricity or other mo-
tive power except steam.
Three copies were made Of this petition
and taken in hand by as many different
gentlemen. One Of these, which was cir
culated among the property owners along
the White Bluff road residing in this city
was forwarded to Atlanta last night. The
following signatures were attached: Mrs
Louisa NJ. Comm, by Henry Blum, attor-
ney; 3. S. Wells, r. II. Cornwell, Belle
C. Dykeman, ]. Il. Constantine, G. II.
Remshart, Charles F. Graham. Edward F.
and Robert =. Lowell, executors estate of
Edward Lowell; Graham & Hubbell, Rob
ert Fl. Tatem, Albert n. Hill. w. 1.
O'Brien. G. Noble Jones; G. Noble Jones,
administrator; William T. Constantine,
William NJ. Davidson, II. Kiene, A. Ehrl-
ich, J. f. Kollock, d. Y. Dancy
1t was stated that no one to whom this
petition had been presented had refused
to sign. The other two copies of the petit
ton are being circulated among property
owners IN both city and country, and will
probably be forwarded tonight. AS the
petitions were not drawn up until about
noon yesterday there were many property
owners who could not be reached by last
night. 1t Is believed that the petition will
be very generally signed by the property
owners.
WIN the condltlOn Speclned by the prop
erty owners in their petition included in
the amendment to the charter It would
seem that the last vestige of objection to
the amendment would be removed. Much
of the hue and cry which has been raised
against the amendment has been because
Ii appeared on its face to be a grab game
of all the roads in the county which the
company might choose to make use,
and another strong objection was that
ha 1t7F IA
purposes Of business and pleasure should
a railroad track be placed on the driveway.
The proposed changes VIII remove all of
these objections and will permit the con-
struction Of an electric railway between
the city and White Bluff on the very lines
laid down by the directors themselves.
Mr.. d. B. Lester said yesterday that the
proposed changes were entirely satlsfac-
tory to him, and simply in line with what
had been intended from the beginning.