The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-26
IS MAKING GREAT PROGRESS.
HOUSE DRAINAGE WORK MOVING
ALONG RAPIDLY.


over 300 Feet of Brick sewer on East
Broad street aud .42:I Feet Across
the Gordon Wharf Already Com
pleted-The Eastern Outlet 10 He
Put In Place Next Weck-AIdermnn
Thomas Wen Pleased with the
Progress of the WOrk-This Weeks
Pay Roll Il Nine Feet Long ana
Contains 352 Names.
The house drainage work is making re-
markable progress. Already more work
has been accomplished on East Broad
street than was done by the contractors
during the whole of last season. aud in
addition the extensive work on the eastern
outlet is well on the way to completion
Up to last night 900 feet of brick sewer
had been completed on East Broad street
the present terminus of the sewer being
opposite Huntingdon street. while the ex-
caVaton extends to Gwiunett street The
Carson trench machine is doing great
work at this point and is aiding very ma
terially in facilitating operations. The
force on East Broad street was working
yesterday a a depth Of eighteen feet, hay
ing just passed the deepest portion of the
work. which was twenty-five feet. Here
after the grades will be much lighter, with
the exception of one or two natural rises
one of which Is at Bolton street
The large amount of sheet piling used
to retain the sides of the excavation on
East Broad street is being left In the
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lies between and beneath the old East
Broad street sewer oil one side and the
large gas main leading from the new plant
of the gas works 10 the old plant on the
other. Should the banks of the cut give
way in the removal of the pings very Sc
rious damage would almost certainly re-
suit to both the sewer and the gas main.
Splendid progress has been made on the
eastern extension. The forty-foot brick
sewer has been completed from the ter
minal point near the Bilbo ca
nal entirely across the Gordon
wharf property to Bay street a
the force is not finding the work on Bay
street very easy. Beneath the cobble-
stone pavement was found a surface OF
ballast and underneath this were layers
of planks, representing three different
plank roads laid on the street in years
past. each road having evidently been laid
on top of the other, the old road being
kept as a foundation for the new.
The way has been cleared for the out
let and some time next week will be wit
messed the ceremony of laying a line of
fifty feet of iron piping, already jointed,
into the river beneath low water mark
This Will be very neat piece of work in
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tered in preparing the way for the outlet,
the route being almost entirely through
made ground, filed with old piling and
ballast The iron outlet pipe will be only
thirty inches in diameter, whereas the
40-inch brick sewer which 1t will drain
is forty inches in diameter. The pur-
pose In narrowing the outlet is to concen-
trate the flow and give it a head which,
In connection with the impetus given by
the fall in the grade will force the sew
age into the river.
A force is also at work filing in La
mar creek, where a large drainage sewer
has been put in. The filling in of the
low ground at this point will result in
creating a new street which will furnish
access between Bay and St Julian
streets, something which has been very
much needed. Alderman Thomas. who Is
chairman of the special committee which
has the house drainage in hande is very
much pleased with the progress of the
work and especially with that on the
wharf where the neat turns in the brick
work met his especial commentator.
Besides the work mentioned, the Direc-
tor Of Public Works now has three gangs
engaged in laying sewer pipe, in Gwin-
rett street lane, Duffy street lane and
Fifth street. The number of gangs will
be increased as the work progresses
There are now over 300 men regularly en-
gagged on the house drainage work The
payroll, as made up for this week by
Chief Clerk Leander Butler, of the public
works office, contains 352 names, and Is
about nine feet long. The roll will go to
the city treasurer's office to-day and
Treasurer Hardee and his assistants will
have the pleasant task of preparing the
1852 envelopes and placing in each the
correct amount of change One of the old
city vaults in the slip leading from the
Bull street dock has been fitted up for a
pay office and is occupied by the treasur-
er's force every Saturday afternoon.