The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-03
NO PRICE IS NAME D
THAT FEATURE OF FRANCHISE
REPORT REMOVED.
BIDDERS ARE NOT BOUND.
To REACH A MINIMUM PRICE IN
THEIR PROPOSALS.


sion for Payment, Council Unani-
mousIy Adopted the Report of the
Streets and Lanes Committee in
the Matter of Street Railway
Franchise-No Change at All in
the Route Fixed Upon-Memberso of
the Board Believe a Satisfactory
Offer for the Franchise Will Be
Received.
The Committee of the Whole agreed
upon the matter of the sale of a fran
chise for a street railway at the meet
ing of Council last night. No price was
named, and Council reserves the right
to reject any and all bids. The report
was read in open meeting and was
unanimously adopted.
The second paragraph, that Axing
| $4,000 as the minimum price, in the
special report of the Committee on
Streets and Lanes was changed en-
tirely and made to read as follows:
THAT sealed proposals be received
within so days from the passage of this
resolution for a franchise to use the
portions of the streets of the city of
Savannah for street railway purposes.
Council reserves the right to reject any
and all bids. A certified check in the
sum of $1,000 shall accompany each pro-
posal.'
No change is made in the proposed
route, and no other changes are made
III the special report of the Streets and
Lanes Committee already published
| in he eel
paragraph was added to the report:
Each applicant shall state in his pc
tition what territory outside of the
corporate limits of the city of Savan-
nah he proposes to develop, so that
! Council may consider this in passing
upon the BIDS
1t is believed by members of Coun-
| Gil that under the resolutions a salts
factory offer will be made for the fran
| chise.
Council deliberated for over two
| hours and it was after 10 o'clock when
the meeting adjourned. The matter
of railroad tracks on the Strand and
on Bay street proper was not taken
up, and there was no discussion of the
| petition of the Seaboard Air Line
The ordinance for the paving of
| West Broad street with vitrified
brick, from Stone street to Gwiunett
was taken from the table on motion
of Alderman Watson and passed AL
! derman Jones voted for the ordinance
and made no reference to paving the
street as far south as Henry street.
| Alderman Dixon'S ordinance for the
| bonding of clerks in the office of the
| treasurer was placed on it's second
| reading by the unanimous consent of
Council and became a law. The meas
ure provides that the clerks in the Of
| nee shall give a surety company bond
of $4,000. and the porter a bond of
| $4,000. Further provision is made for
the appointment of an acting treasurer
in the absence of the regular officer.
The clerk so acting will sign checks as
| acting treasurer, to be Eountersigned
| by the Mayor, or acting Mayor.
The ordinance providing for road
ways, sidewalks and grass plats on
Thirty-Fourth, Thirty-Fifth and Thir-
ty-Sixth streets, was not put on its
| second reading. Alderman Watson
asked that he be permitted to go over
| the ordinance again before its passage,
with view to making some changes.
The petition of the Mormons to sell
| literature without a license was turn
ed down by the Finance Committee on
the ground that it would be against
| the tax ordinance.
The Little Sisters of the Poor were
| the laying of curbing.
The petition of exPolice Clerk T. B.
| Masters for a pension was referred 10
the Committee on Police.
The recommendation of the Park and
Tree Commission that John Kelly be
| paid $22.50 for damage done to his cab
by the branch of a tree was agreed
| to, the money to be taken from the
| appropriation for the commission.
Every member of the board voted in
the affirmative in a loud voice.
Several petitions for the transfer of
green grocery or liquor licenses were
| read.
Bills amounting to s11,S7S44 were
| passed for payment.
The Womans Christian Temperance
| Union was relieved of a bill of $405
| for the laying of a sidewalk.
| The petition of William baltimore to
be allowed to begin the construction of
seven two-story houses on Hall and
Lincoln streets was referred to the
| Committee on Fire.
| On a resolution by Alderman Dixon,
| the building and rooms in the City Ex-
| change, together with the halls and
steps, were placed in charge of the
messenger of Council, whose duty it
shall be to see that the place is cleaned
| between and 10 o'clock each morning.
| The several porters are to report to
| the messenger under the resolution.
The opening of Burroughs street is
| provided for under an ordinance intro
| duced by Alderman Thomas.
On motion of Alderman Colding, a
| committee of three was named to see
that the records of Council since 1880,
are properly indexed.
Alderman Bacon's resolution, asking
that the Water Committee be authoriz-
| ed to call for bids for the furnishing
| of an air lift for the water-works was
passed. The air lift will increase the
water supply and satisfactory tests of
the contr.vaDce were made several
/ weeks ago.
The resignation of W. F. Gilbert as
keeper of the powder magazine was