The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-18
CITY AND COUNTY TO CONFER.
HOSPITAL PROPOSITION TO DE DIS
CUSsED TO-MORROW.

County CommIssiOners Invited to n
Conference With the Committee OF
the Whole of CounciI-MayOr My
ers VIII submit His Annual Re
port to Council and VIII Also Re
port Upon EstiII Park Matter-Hos-
pitnI Proposition stands "A Good
shOwing-severaI Aldermen Favor
Its Acceptance.
A meeting OF the Committee of the
Whole. to be followed by a meeting of
Council, will be held at the exchange to-
morrow afternoon at O'Clock. Mayor
Myers expects to leave the city Saturday
to be absent several days, and there are
several matters which he wishes to dis
pose OF before his departure. The meet
ing was TO have been held this afternoon,
but was postponed on account of the alb
sence from the city of Aldermen Bacon,
Dixon and Williams.
There are several matters of interest to
come before che two NEE hngs. Mayor
Myers will probably submit his annual re-
port to Council, and will also make a re-
port of the recent conference Of the COM
mittee of Council, of which he was chair
man, with the County Commissioners upon
the future disposition of EstiH Park AS
has already been announced the confer
ence ended without any understanding be-
ing reached, the County Comm ssioners
insisting that the city should return the
park to them for agricultural purposes
and the councilmeu holding that the land
might prove of future value to the county
for park purposes, and that the city should
be allowed to retain it without expending
money in small amounts annually. as pro-
vided for In the terms of the deed from
the county.
Mayor Myers position in the mat tier was
stated in an interview in the Morning
News some time since. While not partic-
ularly welded to Estin Park as a site for
a city park, he thinks 1t would be unWiSe
for the city to surrender its title to the
ground until the matter has been thor
oughly looked into, and for this purpose
he thinks a typographical engineer and
landscape gardener should be employed 10
survey the ground and make a report as
to its availability for park purposes. His
report. as chairman of the committee, will
doubtless be on this line.
The most interesting meeting of the two,
however, is likely to be that of the Com
missioners have been invited to meet with
the Council in Committee of the Whole,
for the purpose of discussing the propo-
sition of the hospitals receiving pubic
support to name the Mayor, health officer
and chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners as members of their re-
spective boards of managers A resolu-
ton providing for such a conference was
adopted at the last meeting of Council.
at the same time that the hospital propo-
stion was received and referred to the
Committee of the Whole. Previous to its
reception in open Council, however, the
proposition was read in caucus and was
the subject of lively debate.
AS the Morning News has stated there
is a decided division in Council with re-
gard to the proposition. The aldermen
who nave been most strongly in favor of
interference by the city in hospital af-
fairs to the extent of naming members
of the medical staffs of the three hospi-
tails receiving city support, are opposed
to the acceptance of the proposition, as
they consider that it comedies practically
nothing. They favor a decided refusal
of the proposition, looking to the future
establishment of a city and county hospl-
tai. The members who have expressed
decided views to this effect are Aldermen
Graham, Dixon, Bacon and Wells.
On the other hand Aldermen Thomas,
opposed to any move antagonistic to the
hospitals and to consider the proposition
as a reasonable and satisfactory one. AL
derman Williams, who has expressed him
self as favorable to new hospital under
city control, has nevertheless stated that
he regards the hospital proposition as suf
fficiently complying with the city's de-
mands for representation and that he
will therefore favor its acceptance AL
derman Williams is understood to have
expressed his views quite forciby on this
line at the caucus preceding the last meet
ing of Council.
This leaves the decision of the matter
to Aldermen Tiedeman, Haas and
Schwarz. While the position OF these
gentlemen is not definitely known, it is
known that they are disposed 20 be con-
servative in the matter and hence more
likely to vote for the acceptance of the
proposition than its refusal
The conference tomorrow afternoon is
likely to prove an interesting one The
County Commissioners have never taken
any positive position in the matter, though
appearing to give passive countenance TO
the citys move for representation in the
hospitals. Consequently, with whichever
side the commissioners throw their weight
that side is likely to prevail. In calling
the meeting for tomorrow afternoon thu
fact that the day is a holiday and that
those ine attendance will be deprived of
the pleasure of witnessing the military
parade was not overlooked but 1t was a
case where Mayor Myers thought busl-
ness should come before pleasure
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VISITED THE COLLEGE.