The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-17
WANT MORE TIME
FAIR DIRECTORS WANT MORE OF
THE CONVICTs' WORK.
ONE WEEK MORE NEEDED.
TO COMPLETE THE ROUGH WORK
OF GRADING THE TRACK.

Thirty Days for which the Use of
the Forty Convicts and Fourteen
Mules Was Allowed the Fair Assoc
citation by the County COmmi ssh on
ers Are Up This Week-DirectOrs
VIII Ask for Week LOnger-Mr.
A. b. Moore Says the Work Can BE
Finished by the COuvicts in That
Time-The Surfacing Will Then
Remain, and MIR. Moore Thinks
That VIII Cost the Association
Some $4,000
The time for which the convicts were
loaned the Savannah Fair Association
by the County Commissioners will be
up this week, and the convicts will be
Withdrawn from the work of grading
the Fair grounds on Dale avenue. The
work has advanced rapidly under the
labor of the convicts, but about one
week more of their efforts would be
needed to finish up the rough grading
of the track.
request will be made of the County
Commissioners for one week more of
the convicts' time. Mr.. A. b. Moore,
chairman of the Building Committee of
the Savannah Fair Association, which
has charge of the grading of the
grounds, as we'll as the construction of
the buildings, said that the plan is to
ask the County Commissioners to eX-
tend the time for which the convicts
were turned over to the Fair Associa-
ton.
Mr.. Moore is a member of the board
of commissioners. so he will take no
part in the effort to get more work
from the convicts. He will not bring
up the matter at the meeting of the
board, nor will he vote one way or the
other He said, however, that lie fear
cd that the commissioners will not be
| able to comply with such a request,
| as a great demand is made by people
| living in the county for the construe-
| ton of certain roads. The commission
| ers appreciate the need for this work,
and they will begin building the ex-
| tension to LaRoche avenue as soon as
| the convicts' time with the Fair Assoc
citation is up.
1t is quite possible. however, that
| the Fair directors may succeed in in
| ducing the commissioners to give them
| Just one week more of the conViCts'
time for the grading. Mr.. Moore said
that the work could be completed by
| the COnVlctS In tnaC time. whereas, IL
new men were put to work, it would
probably require two weeks. The con-
victs are familiar with the work and
| have grown accustomed to handling
the soil with the mules and scrapes,
| and, naturally. they could accomplish
a great deal more in a given time than
| new men.
Mr.. b. H. Levy and Mr.. Albert
| Wylly, directors, will probably present
| a petition to the commissioners. They
| did so some thirty or more days ago,
when the commissioners agreed to al
low the Fair Association the use of
forty convicts and fourteen mules for
| thirty days.
A considerable saving to the Fair AS
ISOLATION would result from an extern
1 sion of the time of the convicts upon
the work. Several thousand dollars have
| already been saved. Mr.. Moore esti-
mates that it will cost the Association
something like $4,000 to surface the race
| track after the grading has been com
| pleted. 1t will be necessary to put on
a layer of clay and then a layer of
| mould or other springy soil that is used
on tracks. This will be done under the
| expert supervision of Seth Griffin, whose
| services have been engaged.