The morning news., 1899-01-14
rIvFgIcAL STREET NAMES.
SUGGESTION FOR REMAINING
TIE STREETS INDORsED'

PR street and TWeltth
lhirN III Be Forty-secOnd
sree' ~, ,iercer Thinks BUN
Stree .,ould BE Renamed in Hon
"f' oaIetBorps and the Present
or eome other Street.
N'~' ....u of the Morning News
In' -,a.y in yesterdays issue that
na'' Co. .outa Of Anderson, which are
The 'p- l..up by numbers, should be re-
nov ,omeueilly SO as to convey a
naHi'l A., ol .heir location with regard
TIP@ Ian a. .he city, met with general
,r,, amo1s those who gave the mat
~ consideration.
A by giving the streets
'',. # Anderson their proper numbers
''u.- s,b teey are entitled by counting
10 '4,' Paw better idea of the growth
Hun o, IF the city would be given,
SHu ..,,.srs Vs would only need to be told
''' ~. streets were numbered il their
''' ton the river or Bay street to ung-
"O.3 the system. Now a stranger has
| !. his bearings by Anderson street
~.,e his calculations by the number
:. .,...ts south of that street.
,5 es,rre A. Mercer of the Park and
commission. to whom the matter was
,,,al said: Il consider the idea an
,.,,,5rs one. 1t would be much better
,,rs the streets south of Anderson
s',rler43 according to their distance from
~. river than by their distance from An
.,-.oo street. If the streets south of An
,.. street. we're given names as are
'S,.s urther north it would be long
,i9s baore the people in the city genef-
.rr v,rd become familiar with the names
~ these streets. The more streets we
S.ys tbe more difficult it is to locate any
n.,,,1,r street by It's name. The numer-
i,sl system has many advantages. Ehe
lima will. come, doubtless, when the nu-
vas5,al system will be generally adopted
for t5e whole city, and the majority OF
,bs streets running east and west will be
trour by their numbers, according to
tbsr distance from the river"
uSna3kng of the. change of the name OF
Nev Houston street TO Park avenue, Col.
Mercer said he thought it very inappro-
b1ate THE street does not in the least
resemble a park" he said NOR does it
touch or pass through any park, nor is it
entitled to lie known is an avenue"
"Tae change which 1 had hoped would
be made some day in the nomenclature
Of our Streets" continued Col. Mercer, lis
that the name of Oglethorpe avenue should
he bestowed upon Bull street, that old
South Broad street. now known as Ogle-
thOpe avenue. should be called Live oak
avenue, and that the name of Bull street
should be bestowed upon New Houston
or some other less conspicuous street. The
name Bull is not an euphonious one, and
there is no reason why Gov. Bull of South
Carolina should be honOred by giving his
name to our principal avenue. His serv-
ices to the young colony of Georgia were
not very great, the present of a few bar
Tes Of gunpowder on one occasion, I be-
leye Oslethorpe, as the founder of the
colony and of the city of Savannah, should
be hon0Ied by giving his name to our
principal street The name would be thor
oughLy appropriate, and its significance
would at once be comprehended by citi-
zens and visitors alike"
Mr. c. H. Dorsett, who has always
taken an active interest in the southern
section said that he thought the idea
oi remaining the streets there numerically
was frst-rate one. The people living
IN that section have become accustomed
TO the names of the streets, of course"
sad Mr, Dorsett, but it is difficult to
explain to a stranger why we should be-
gin numbering streets First. Second.
IAEl' etc. away out in the southern sec
uoh Numbered according to the order
y. laef removes from the river the logic
oi Iae matter would be very simple In
Vss0Wng these new numbers, however,
! would omit River street, and number
Mom Bay street, as I believe the Morning
news intended. This would give thirty
sueVE from Bay to Anderson, inclusive.
am The first street south of Anderson
wouo be Thirty-frst street, and SO on.
H'ef street Is merely the river front. and
would consider it, in the light of a dies
uOu' as the lawyers sometimes say. This
wold make the enumeration easy. Fv-
Uyv'uy would soon understand that there
vs. Jls- thirty streets north from An
o'.sOn or south from Bay, and that all
e-a' ana west streets south of Anderson
dos rUlH9tIed IN regular numerical or
IAe llfne VIII doubtless come. soon
r VI Ia'er when we shall have to add
,bg S~eeIs IN the southern section. as
roe. grows southwark. With the nu-
'.'',al In. a. system suggested by the Morn
ei5, Ne"s we should only have to add
Street" l" reach tlttleth
ts,se vuuse Thomas NJ. Norwood. who is In.
,,r, ~,esea IN land in the southwestern snh-
salI ne thought the numerical idea
west s,-' o"e' as applied to the east and
Of fbs 's. he present nomenclature
we'll e,. I w. ana south streets will do
tend4d s..r' ne sad. They can be ex-
strI r1,s'-!" 7oI'-! ward iol miles, il need be. and
orIy '." lAelr present names. There are
mn. 13" Ie" Oh these streets, so there is
psr'.. ''Atuhood Of confusion as to their
w+s, 0H The other hand, the east and
thai Iee's are becoming so numerous
prog. s numerical system is likely tc
''g'e OF advantage" -
Of s.." latK city the numerical svstar,,
The e'l numbering is used altogether 70,
ton of ,, streets. outside the older sec.
berejs rol lIe city and the streets so mum.
No" exceed 200
chlBse il, 'ldrim was asked about the
Anj.g..i' -' 11Enbering the streets south ~
with r So that they will corresnonl
vince %, u. number from Bay street, Con.
is 3f.', .,"J the best way to name street.
been H.. ,.oiainent persons who may havt
nah 5r u, ...."ed with the history of Savan,
to s5r 1s'i 5il, the Mayor was not nroa,.
Of ngmt',.H .'o.H about the numerical svsten
sa5la l5s eminently proper the ci,,
be s1i5 'D9l ,! us dead citizens in This wav I:
fr ''' Io name a street for ,ii'1 way