The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-19
TO SEPARATE RACES
ORDINANCE INTRODUCED IN COUN-
GIL LAST NIGHT.
BY COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
REQUIRES SEPARATE SEATS NOT
SEPARATE CARS.

The Ordinance Imposes the Duty of
Enforcing Its Requirements Upon
the Conductors, who Are Made LII
able to Penalties for Failure 10 Do
Soft Is Made the Special Duty OF
the Police to See That the Ordi-
nance Is Observed and TO Prose-
cute Those who Violate It's PrOvf-
sions ia the state Courts, as Well
as Before the Recorder.
There is a very fair prospect that
Savannah will have separation of The
races on the street cars at an early
date. AT last nights meeting of Coun-
ell an ordinance was introduced, which
appears to cover the subject thorough
ly, and as the ordinance was intro
duced from the Committee of the
Whole, the probabilities are that it
will pass.
The heading of the ordinance states
that it is one to require conductors of
dummy, electric and street cars to as
sign all passengers to seats on the cars
so as to separate the white and col
Oreu races as MUCH as pTdCtlCdDle,
while such cars are within the jurisdic-
tional limits for police purposes of the
city of Savannah.
A couple of ''whereases" state that it
is the settled policy of the laws of the
state of Georgia to require the separa-
ton as much as practicable of the
white and colored races, when passen-
frfo nd
street cars, and that such separation
of the races is in the judgment of the
board. necessary and requisite for the
security, health, peace and good gov
eminent of the city of Savannah and
the inhabitants thereof.
Section / ordains that it shall be the
duty of conductors to separate passen-
gers as stated, assigning members of
the two races to separate seats as far
as practicable, and provides, as a pen
atty for failure on the part of the con-
ductor to comply with this require
ment, a fine not exceeding 800 or i'm
prisonment not exceeding thirty days,
either or both in the discretion of the
court.
Section makes it the special duty of
police officers of the city to observe
whether conductors in charge of stleet
cars within the jurisdictional limits of
the city comply with the requirements
of section l and to make cases against
them and prosecute the same wherever
violations come under their notice. 1t
is also made "a special duty of such po-
lice officers to make cases against and
prosecute in the state courts eny pJs-
sengers whom they shall nn1 remain
ing in any car, or compartm ant or seat
of any railroad car, or any dummy
electric or street car, or any compart-
ement or seat thereof within the jurIs-
dictional limits for police purposes Of
the city of Savannah in violation oi the
provisions of section 52S, volume III, of
the Code of Georgia of 1895. Section
is the repealing clause.
The ordinance was received without
comment, and went over on it's first
reading. AS the subject is one upon
which there has been considerable ag-
itation recently 1t is presumed that
the ordinance is presented with the APP
prevail of a majority of the board and
that it will be adopted when brought
up on its second reading.
The only other ordinance introduced
was one defining roadways, sidewalks
and grass plats of Thirty-fourth, Thir-
ty-fifth and Thirty-sixth streets, be-
tween Habersham and Montgomery
streets. The ordinance provides that
the roadways between the curbs of the
streets named shall be thirty-two feet
in width the sidewalks on each side
nine feet in width and that there shall
be grass plats on either side of five
feet in width. The provisions of the
uniformity ordinance with reference to
sidewalks. adopted April 5, 1899, are
also applied to the streets named with
in the limits specified. This ordinance
went over on its first reading.
1t was decided to close the deals for
several small pieces of land needed in
opening up Abercorn and Burroughs
streets in the southern section. From
Is cents to 20 cents per square foot was
paid for some of this land, while sew
eral tracts were bought for lump sums,
the usual terms of part cash and the
balance In one to five years being speci-
fled.
A contract with Mr.. D. L. Zipperer
for the lease of the old waterworks
tract for one year was authorized.
Mayor Myers announced the recent
death of Mr.. NJ. j. Solomns of the Park
and Tree Commission and the appoint
ment of Mr.. 1. A. Solomons to fill the
vacancy. The appointment was con-
firmed.
petition was received from the
Trades and Labor Assembly, asking
Council to give consideration to the
petitions for street railway franchises
for the purpose of encouraging compe-
tition. The petition appeared to be
numerously signed. 1t was referred to
the Committee OF the Whole.
An invitation was received, inviting
the presence of the members of Council
and the city officials at the union serv-
ices to be held at the Lutheran Church
of the Ascension at IL o'clock to-day
in memory of the late President Nc
Kinley. The invitation was accepted
and it was decided that Council should
assemble at the Exchange at 1915
O'Clock this morning and proceed to
the church, accompanied by the heads
of the several municipal departments