The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-25
NOT FOR EXTENSION
MAYOR MYERS QUESTIONS ITS WIS
DOM JUST NOW.
SAYS COUNCIL IS DIVIDED.
BY NO MEANS CERTAIN THAT
BOARD is FOR EXTENSION.

The Mayor Discusses the Question of
Extending the City Limits-Agrees
with MIR. Mackall That City Would
Have to Establish Communication
Between Southern Section and
HutchinsOn's Island, but Does Not
Think 1t Would Be Called Upon to
Build a Bridge-Would Not Have
to Maintain Drainage system Upon
Private PrOperty-Is Not for I'm
broken boundary Lines-other
Views of the Mayor.
Mayor Myers partially Endorsed the
position held by Mr.. w. w. Mackall
of counsel for the Seaboard Air Line
relative to the establishment of ade-
quate means Of communication and in
tercourse between the southern sec
ton OF Savannah and what would be
the northern section, If Hutchinson's
Island were incorporated. Mr.. Mackali
said in an interview that the city
would have to build a bridge over the
river, connecting the two sections, be-
fore city taxes could be collected up
on the Seaboard Air Line property on
the island.
THE Seaboard Air Line" said the
Mayor, would certainly have some
claim upon the city if the terminal
property were incorporated. I do not
admit that such a claim would extend
to a rightful demand for a bridge, but
some means of communication would
certainly have to be established and
maintained by the city. A ferry, l
should think, would be entirely ade-
quate, or at least as much as the city
could be called upon to do.
Il do not, however, agree with Mr..
Mackall that the city would have to
assume the maintenance of the drain
age system established on the island
by the Seaboard. The terminals and
the lands adjoining, owned by the Sea-
board, are private property, and the
city certainly could not be called upon
for the maintenance of such property.
Owners of private property have to
see to its drainage. They cannot de-
mand that the city drain it. There
might be some merit in a contention
limits to take in the Seaboard property
on the island, would have to keep the
great levee that now surrounds it in
repair"
No meeting of Council has been call
ed for the further consideration of the
question of extending the city limits,
but the Mayor said there will proba-
bly, be one within a few days. Great in
terest is felt in the result of the DELHI
; Of Ill
The Mayor said that it is by no
means certain that Council will agree
to an extension just at this time
He says there is quite a division of the
board upon the subject. He personally
questions the wisdom of any extension
just at this time, but holds that, should
one be made. it should be in such di-
rections as the city may require the
opening and extension Of streets. The
growth of the city in certain directions
makes it rather imperative, he holds,
that lands be incorporated in order that
the city may settle street lines and
lines for parks that may be formed in
the future.
Difficulties of Strengthening street
lines that have never been solved and
with which Council has been struggling
ever since were caused through the in
corporation of the section between An
derson and Forty-second streets after
it had been partially built up. The To-
cation of buildings on some of the
property made it impossible, without
tremendous expenditure, to straighten
lines, and the southern section of Sa-
vannah consequently lacks regularity.
Such a state of affairs in the Sec
tons that may next be taken in should
be avoided, the Mayor holds, and any
extension of the limits should be in
the direction of growth. Outlying prop
erty that is just without the present
bounds, when it is rendered valuable
by its contiguity to the city, should be
incorporated, the Mayor holds, and as
an instance he named the settlement
upon the site of the government hospi-
tails. now owned by Mr.. c. c. Cham
pion.
The idea of an unbroken line, or such
a line in so far as it is possible to
run one, for the city's boundary has
no charm for the Mayor. He holds
that the best results cannot be achiev-
ed by following such a plan. but thinks
the welfare of the city and the best
interests of all concerned may be bet
ter conserved by the extension of lin
its, if they are to be extended at all,
in order to include such property as
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