The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-17
CITY'S NEW LIMITS
WILL BE DISCUSSED BY ALDERMEN
AND LEGISLATORS.
|. AT A SPECIAL MEETING.
SENATOR CANN WANTS TERM OF
EXEMPTION FROM TAXES.

| Unless Such Clause Were EN-
bOdied-Business Before Council
Last Night Was Speedily Dispatch
ed-OId Ordinances Regulating the
Sale of Coal Were RepeaIed-Dray-
men Protest Against Infringemen nat
by Hackmen Upon Their Rights.
Resolutions for the Purchase of
| Land Were Adopted.
The report on the extension of the
city limits will be considered at a spe-
cial meeting of Council some day next
week. Mayor Myers said after the
meeting last night that it had not been
decided just when the meeting will be
held, but it has been agreed that the
question is one of such moment as to
demand a special session of the board
for its consideration.
The Mayor will invite Senator Cam
and the representatives from Chatham
to attend the meeting, as their aid
will be required in getting bill
through the Legislature to provide for
| the extension. They will go over the
situation with the board, will examine
the report of the special committee
and will be in position to lay all the
facts before the Legislature should
there be any fight made upon the
measure.
Senator Cam said to a representa-
tive of the Morning News last night
that he would oppose the extension of
the city limits in the Legislature I'M
less it agreed that the new territory
be exempt from taxation for a term
be either three or five years-certainly
not less than three.
The business brought before Council
did not require much time for its dis
position. The members present We're
the Mayor and Aldermen Holland
Thomas, Horrigan, Schroeder, Dixon,
Watson, Fripp, Bacon, Jones, Colding
and CAVITY.
Clerk Bailey read the report of ac-
counts for the preceding weeks,
amounting to S29,28393, were approved.
The petition of T. B. Masters for
| pension after fourteen years service
| in the police department was reported
upon adversely by the Police Commit
tee, and the report was adopted. The
term of service for which a pension
Is granted is twenty years.
Coal Question Settled.
The Committee of the Whole report
ed adversely upon the petition of the
Domestic Coal and Wood Company for
the enforcement of certain old ordi-
| nanceS regulating the sale of coal. 1t
was upon this petition that the Finance
Committee heard a number of coal
| dealers several DAYS ago
| An ordinance will be introduced at
| the next meeting to grant Dr. Ralston
baltimore authority to build apart
ment houses at the corner of Hall and
Lincoln streets. A favorable report
was made by the committee to which
the petition had been referred, but the
| question was raised as to the charac-
| ter of the buildings, and 1t was decided
that, norder to comply with regula-
lions forbidding wooden houses to be
connected within a certain limit. an
ordinance would be required. This Or
dinance will be passed.
"A protest against the granting of
the right requested by the Seaboard
AR Line to establish railroad tracks
on Bay street, west of the City Ex-
change, was received from Mr. John l.
Stoddard, who holds that the value of
| property would be impaired IL such a
privilege were granted
The Central Railroad offered the city
proposition through which the COM
pany VIII pave Water street which ex-
| tends between Bay and River streets
provided that the city will deed Ger.
tain property to it. The offer was re-
ferred to the Streets and Lanes Com
mittee and the Finance Committee
jointly.
Against Free and Easy,
From Mr.. John e. Mcguire and some
| forty other citizens was received a pe-
tition, protesting against the esetab-
lishment of a proposed free-and-easy
resort at West Broad street and Bay
iane' Inc petition was referred to the
| t'olice Committee, and no nuisance
| Will be tolerated.
A petition from sundry citizens for
! the erection of an electric light on
! Maupas avenue was received and re-
ferred to a committee.
Mr.. j. w. Jackson petitioned that
| the rental for water used for the wa
ter-motor operating his elevator be
nxed at $40 a month"; as he regards the
| present charges as excessive The pe-
| titlon went to the Water Committee.
A protest from draymen of the city
! was received and referred to the Com
mittee of the Whole. The draymen in
sist that the hackmen are infringing
upon their rights, and that drays are
despoiled OF much of their business
through the hacks operating in the
same line. 1t is alleged that the hacks
| VIII not only carry passengers, but
that they will solicit trunks and bag
gage When there are no passengers
The hacks, the draymen declare. will
even haul wood.
Alderman Thomas ordinance for the
repeal of the defunt ordinances of Nc
DonelPs code that the Domestic Coal
and Wood Company wanted enforced
was put on its second reading and
adopted.
Street Lines Defined.
The ordinance for the defination of
the lines of Forty-second street was
put on its second reading and passed
me street will be forty feet wide from
Bull street to the Ogeechee road.
Another ordinance, establishing side
walks, grassplots and roadways on
Thirty-fourth. Thirty-ffth and THIRTY
sixth streets was put on its second
reading and passed.
An ordinance for the purchase ~
land east Of the Waters road was in
PRODUCED by Alderman Thomas. A
tract is TO be bought from E. /. Okar-
ma for Sl05. A number of resolutions
for the purchase of land for the OPEN
ing OF Burroughs street were intro
duced by Alderman Thomas and
adopted. These were as follows: A
portion OF the estate OF S. p Harnil.
ton at II cents a square foot: a portion
OF the estate OF Eve Campbell at is
cents square foot; portion of the
land OF J. II McKenna. from which
buildings are TO be removed within