The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-10
OBSTACLES SWEPT ASIDE.
COUNTY GIVEN THROUGH RIGHT OF
WAY FOR LaROCuE AVENUE.


MrsWnIden. and This is to be Con-
demned-New Road VIII be Con-
yenience to Residents mt Isle of
Hope, and n Boon to Those Living
at BonabeIIa and Cattle Park-WilI
Be Pushed to COmpIetiOn-Other
Applications Turned Down-PrOp-
erty That Can't Be Found, Save for
! Levy.
BY force Of an order passed by the
Board of County Commissioners yesterday
afternoon, the obstacles that have stood
in the way of the completion of LaRoche
avenue were swept aside and steps taken
that will result in opening to the public
this important addition to the county sys-
TEN of roads within a very short time.
LaRoche avenue is the highway that is
to connect, when completed, the Skidaway
road and the old military causeway at Isle
of Hope. 1t begins at the four-mile post
on the Skidaway road and reaches the
causeway, on the map, by a route that
leads past Bonabella, Cattle Park and
other saltwater suburbs of the city in
that section of the county. When it is
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cut to Isle of Hope, but it will provide the
residents of Cattle Park and Bonabeila
with road to the city that Is almost di-
rect In the past they have been com
PEELED to follow a most circuitous road
and, in consequence, to travel almost twice
the distance that viii be necessary after
the completion of LaRoche avenue.
| mill # he ba1 oil dvr
constructed, work having been ended
where the land of Barnes begins At yes
terday's meeting of the commissioners a
number of residents of the district through
which the road will run when completed
filed with the board deeds to the right of
way through all the lands the road will
traverse, with the exception of the lands
of Mrs. Walden.
Mrs. Walden, it appears has had in the
past an experience with some railroad
company. which she permitted to cross
her lands AS she did not find the expe-
rience agreeable. she refused 20 treat with
! the property-owners for the right of way
and resolutely and fatty declined either
| to permit the road to cross her lands
without charge. or to sell a strip wide
| enough for the purpose. Several of the
| property owners have therefore filed with
| the commissioners their personal bond,
| conditioned to repay the county what
ever sum shall be decreed to be due when
the land is condemned, and condemnation
! proceedings have been instituted. 1t is
not anticipated that any great length of
| time will elapse before the condemnation
of the last remaining segment of the right
of way will have been accomplished and
the work may then be pushed 10 rapid
| conclusion.
The report of Superintendent of Public
| Works and Roads Chaplin showed that
| the hgh-water mark had been reached
In the number of convcts in the county
| camps and at the county farm. On Aug
l. this number was 2S8, and since that time
1t has been increased by 10, making 10
tai of 901 convicts. For the month of
| July the average number was 2S2 Never
before in the history of the county has
! there been this number of misdemeanor
convicts employed on the public works
These were fed and guarded last month
at cost to the county of 20 cents per day
per capita.
During the month of July much atten-
ton was paid to the drainage work
| around the city, $3.50 feet of new bitches
having been dug and lis, $50 feet of old
bitches slushed. The number of linear feet
| of bitches slushed amounts to 221a miles
less a very small fraction. All of this
work has been at points within two miles
and half of the city limits, the design
being to prevent the possibility of mala-
rial conditions during the summer months
! A communication was received from Mr.
| H. M. Lotion, general manager of the
Savannah, Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope
Railway, requesting the commissioners to
offer reward for the arrest of Sea born
| Hayes, the murderer of Motorman L. B.
| Varnadoe. The communication recited the
a ri e nod
offered by the street railway company and
suggested that the offer of an additional
reward by the County Commissioners
would greatly facilitate the capture of
Hayes and his punishment for the brutal
and cowardly murder of which he is
guilty.
AS there seems to be some doubt of the
right of the county TO offer reward in
such cases, the communication from Mr.
Lotion was referred to the county attor-
ney, with instructions to investigate the
law and report to the board.
Several offers of rights of way made
to the cities by various parties for the
construction of roads were turned down
because they were not in proper form,
falling to specify that those who offered
them were the sole owners of the property
and in a position to give the county a
good title. Among the applica lions that
suffered this fate was one from the res
idents of West Savannah, Offering the
right of way of Cecil street TO the County
Commissioners, for the purpose of con-
structing county road. This street of
| West Savannah connects the Louisville
and Augusta reads and it has been repre-
scented TO the County Commissioners that
to pave il would result in great conven-
fence to residents of that section.
1t is probable that this application and
others that have been temporarily dis
missed because rot in proper form, will
have their formal defects remedied by the
petitioners and then again filed with the
commissioners.
A petition that reveals an interesting,
though somewhat unfortunate condition
of affairs, was read at the meeting. IL
was from Maj. c. NJ Ryals, and recited
that in 1898 he had bought from the COM
missioners a piece of property on the
Ogeechee road, which had been sold for
taxes and bought in at the tax sale for
the county. He has made number of
unsuccessful attempts 10 have the sheriff
put him in possession, hut IL now appears
that neither the sheriff nor anyone else
knows where the property is situated.
Mai. Ryals wants the board to repay him
the purchase price and taxes, or put him
in possession; either course, he says in his
petition, win be perfectly satisfactory 90
him.
1t is said that there are number of
pieces of property in the county that are