The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-28
SIGNS FOR MORE STREETS.
THE SECTION or THE BLUE BOARDS
WILL BE WIDENED.

Director of Public Works Has Or
dered Another supply of the En-
ameIed signs to show the Names
of streets-They VIII BE Put in the
Old Section of the City, Widening
the Limits Where the Signs are
Already Used Difficulty About
Putting Up Signs in the Southern
Section.
Another supply Of signs 70 indicate the
names Of streets 10 strangers has been or
dered. The order was placed by Director
Of Public Works Gadsden. and It is ex-
pected that the signs VIII soon arrive.
None will deny that there IS need for the
sigus in ali save one section Of the city.
Wherever the old painted boards deface
the sides Of the buildings upon which they
are nailed there is need for a change 20
the bright blue-enameled signs that are
to be seen in the section included by Bay
ara CASTOR and Whitaker and Drayton
streets
The signs ordered are Of the same kind
as those showing the names of the streets
IN the section mentioned. The blue signs
have been found very satisfactory. They
are as bright and distinct as when they
were put up, the enamel sticking well and
showing every indication OF holding for
many years. All OF the larger cities are
using signs Of this type ana they will be
employed in Savannah TO show the names
Of the streets just as rapidly as it may
be found possible to secure them.
About 30 cents each IS the cost of the
signs. As the director Of public works
can spend no more than 800 without the
special authority OF Council, out a small
supply can be bought To put up the
signs on the streets in the section now pro-
vlded, $50 worth Of the signs was required.
and the same quantity will suffice for three
of the following streets. Barnard, Jeffer-
son, Abercorn and Lincoln. and the east
and-west streets that intersect them.
The first supply Of the blue signs suf-
feed for Whitaker, Bull and Drayton and
the interesting streets. so il is concluded
that the same number OF corners may be
provided for with d similar supply. IL is
not known whether Lincoln or Jefferson
Will be embraced in the new district, bu,
one or the other will be new limit to
the blue-si gned sect ion.
Until all important sections in the older
part Of the city nave been given signs,
there will be none put up in the south
ern section. A difficulty about putting
them there is that many OF the corners
are without buildings or even fences,
though putting them on fences is not re-
garded as the best policy, as some per-
sons seem 10 be possessed by an insane
desire TO knock off the enamel whenever
they can reach IT, Until the southern
section has been buit up more compact
ly the signs will he confined 10 the older
part of the city.
A system of putting the signs on south
east corners has been followed thus far,
and it VIII continue. This offers another
difficulty to the signs being put up in
the southern section, as, while there
might he a house on some other corner
Of a street intersection, the southeast cor
Ter would be bare. little reflection
viii show that there are many such un-
improved southeast corners, and the sys-
tenn, therefore, would be interfered with
should the signs be put up.
In ordering the first supply of signs,
an omission Of the letters Z and W 10
indicate east and west for the streets run
ming that way leaves It doubtful in the
minds Of a stranger regarding the signs
now in place as 10 whether he is east
or west OF Bull streets. This has been
corrected, and the next signs that come
out will have E or W after the names
Of the east-and-West streets