The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-06
ON (. BROAD STREET
is THE PROPOSED RIGHT OF WAY
TO DALE AVENUE TRACT.
COUNCIL TO BE PETITIoNED.
IF SITE COMMITTEE IS FAVORABLE
TO THE TRACT.

Some of the Aldermen Have Already
Given Assurances That There
Would De no Objection to the
Street Being Used for Tempo
rary Spur Track Intervening
Property, From Intersection of
East Broad and Thirty-Ninth
Street, 1t Is Said, Could BE Crossed
without Objection Being Offered.
Committee. VIII Visit the Tract
This Afternoon.
The City Council will be asked for
right-of-way along East Broad street for
a Plant System spur to run to the fair
grounds, if the directors of the Savannah
Dale avenue tract offered by the Mer-
chants and Mechanics Land Company as
site for the State Fair.
A number of the aldermen have been
approached upon the matter. and their
expression has, it is said been uniform
ly favorable. 1t is declared that there
will be no trouble encountered in getting
the right-of-way, provided the tract is
accepted by the directors. The express
will be taken as indicative of the action
of the City Council, should the formal re-
quest for the right-of-way be made.
The Plant System crosses East Broad
street at a point that is about a continu-
alton of the line of Thirty-second street.
1t is at so acute an angle that the cross
ing is affected, that the connection of
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be made without the slightest difficulty,
and the conformation of the land from
that point to the proposed tract is such
as to involve but very slight expense in
the construction of a track.
1t is proposed to run from the East
Broad street crossing, along East Broad
street to about Thirty-ninth street, when
curve to the east would be made. This
curve would be across vacant lots, as
there are no houses eastward of East
Broad street near it's south end. From
Thirty-ninth street to the proposed tract
there would be a stretch free from OBJ
structionS of any kind, and Capt. D. G.
Purse, president of the Merchants and
Mechanics Land Company, said yester-
day that he had already arranged for
right of way.
With the right of way arranged for and
struct a spur track provided the right of
way could be secured by the Savannah
Fair Association, it seems that the Site
Committee of the Fair Association has
what Chairman J. w. Jackson and Mr..
B. II. Levy, the two members favorable
to the Dale avenue tract desired, rail-
road connection for the transportation of
freight and passengers to the grounds.
1t is not contemplated to lay a perma-
IN E,ae Efr
the property intervening between East
Broad street and the proposed Dale ave-
nue. tract. The agreement of the Plant
System is to build a temporary track.
President Erwin wrote Capt. Purse that
the company would take up the crossties
and rails after the Fair had been held
Allowing some two weeks that might be
required for getting exhibits and material
upon the grounds and two weeks for the
continuance of the Fair, it would be
necessary to have the track laid for but
four weeks.
This afternoon, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Levy
and Mr.. P. A. Stovall will visit the Dale
avenue tract. Two or three days ago,
as stated in the Morning News, they Wis
tied the Ten Brock tract, and they now
feel that they should make an inspection
of the Dale avenue tract. Maj. G. NJ.
Ryals, the third member of the Site
Committee, will not go because of the
pressure of his business and Mr.. Stovall
will take his place, not as member of
the committee, but as a director. The
Site Committee will report to the direc-
tors at the meeting to be held next
Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. Jackson has been visited by three
men who went to submit bids for the
construction of race course on the Dale
avenue tract. Not one of them, he says,
has named an amount above So 900 as the
cost for the construction of a perfectly
graded and constructed one-mile track.
1t is not the track itself, Mr.. jackson
says, but the fences that must surround
1T that cost. The fences would have to be
erected at Ten Brock, he says just as
on the Dale avenue tract.
A visit has also been paid Mr.. jackson
by the representative of a Western COM
pany that seeks the contract for erecting
buildings for the Fair Association. The
gentleman showed Mr.. Jackson photo
graphs of many buildings that had been
constructed by the company, all of them
without the use of nails. The system fol-
lowed by the company is one of tongues
and grooves, and nails are not necessary.
1t is declared that very large buildings
can be so erected, and the beauty about
the system is that little cost for labor is
involved and that the buildings can be
put up quickly and, when no longer need
ed. removed without their having sus-
tanned any material damage.
delegation of colored citizens, headed
by DIR. j. H. Bugg, called upon Mr. Jack
son, saying that their race wants to make
an educational and industrial exhibit at
the Fair. They received every ENCOURAGE
ment from Mr.. Jackson, who told them
of the proposed premiums that will be Of
fered for competition among colored peo-
Dle.