The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-15
THEY WANT A RAILROAD, TOO.
PEOPLE on BAY STREET EAST Pc
Triton COUNCIL.


They Ask That IL Any Railroad
Tracks BE Allowed on Bay street
That 1t Shall BE on the Condition
That the Tracks lie Extended tO
East Broad-AIatters to Come He
fore Council TO-niEht-The Cft3
Has Forgotten About n Park 1t
Promised 10 Make in the South
eastern section.
If there Is to be any railroad on Bay
street the property owners on the eastern
end Of the street want 10 get the benefit
of it. A petition Will be presented to Coun-
Gil tonight from business firms and prop
erty owners on Bay street requesting that
in case permission be granted to any rail-
road to use Bay street that the grant be
made with the condition that the tracks
be extended as far as East Broad street.
The signers Of the petition indorse the
idea of a railroad track on Bay street in
the following statement: I'VE think It
would increase the value of our property
for railroad to be placed on Bay street,
and we respectfully request that your hon
orable body will allow a railroad down
Bay street 10 its fun extent, so as to put
the property owners on the eastern end
in the same position as those on the
west. AS 1t is now much >of our property
is unproduetive, and we are being taxed
as II it were bringing enormous rents"
The petition is signed by the following
property owners and business men: p.
d. Dafin, the Home Building Company,
by P. d. Daffn as secretary and treas
urer; ]. f. Grady & Sons, Mcmillan Bros,
Ellis-Young Company, Peacock & Hunt
Naval Stores Company, E. b. Hunting &
Co, Lumbermen's Supply and Equipment
Company, E. s. Player Savannah agent
Standard OIL Company and the Anheu-
ser-Busch Brewing Association.
1t is not likely that any action will be
taken by Council tonight with reference
10 the Bay street track project, Ii Seem
Ing to be the understanding that further
consideration of the subject will be post
poned until the return of Mayor Myers.
The petition will doubtless be referred to
the Committee of the Whole.
An invitation to the Mayor and alder
men from Col. John Screven as chairman
of the Joint Committee in charge Of the
Confederate Veterans reunion, will be
read at to-nights meeting. The Mayor
and aldermen are invited TO participate in
the reunion exercises, and in the parade
ana review of the veterans and military
on the afternoon of Nov. %.
communication win come before Coun-
Gil from Emily w. Lowell, by Edward F.
Lowell, and Robert 2. Lowell, admlnlstra-
tor of the estate of Frank Dasher. calling
attention of the failure of the city to keep
an agreement with the petitioners In re-
gard to certain park a St. Michael
Fifth and Lincoln streets, the petitioners
TfFagr aff L..
certain streets in that section with a strip
of land which was to be used In connec-
ton with the abutting portion of Fifth
street for park purposes. The petitioners
state that over five years have elapsed
since the deed was made, and nothing has
been done by the city in the matter al
though the understanding was that the
park was to he made at an early date
They~resp ectfully ask that steps be taken
by the city to carry out the terms of its
agreement.
Messrs. G. T. & ]. F. Cam have filed
petition with Council in behalf of Mrs
Elizabeth Creek asking for damages for
loss and injuries incurred by their client
by reason of her horse falling into an ex-
cavation on Barnard street while she was
driving in her buggy. The petition states
that the buggy was broken, the horse in
jured, and that Mrs Creek suffered pain
ful injuries.
petitioned Council. asking that the laws
relating to Sunday closing be changed so
as 10 permit of their delivering meats, sold
the Saturday before. on that day. The
petitioners claim that the law as It stands
is being generally violated by grocers who
are permitted to keep open on one ground
or another, and that in this way those
who regard the law are deprived of Gus
tom that rightly belongs to them
The Southeastern Fair Association of
Brunswick wishes the presence of the
Mayor and aldermen of Savannah at the
fair on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 80, which
will be Governors day. at the fair An
invitation from President j. A. Butts will
be read at the meeting tonight.
Mr.. s L. LaZaron has filed a protest
with Council against the dumping of city
garbage on the Lowell lands near West
Savannah, as the effect is to make life
very unpleasant for people living in that
suburb.