The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-14
URGED ITS PASSAGE
COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY BEHIND
EXTENSION BILL.
COUNTY'S REPRESENTATIVES
ASKED TO PUT THE MEASURE
THROUGH.

p.ss-ordina=eA for Few Streets
Under the Bill Passed by Council.
New Parks Will Be Called After
Mayor Myers and Senator Cam.
An Ordinance Governing the POST
ing of Bills, and Similar Forms or
Advertising, introduced by Alder
man Fripp-VariOus and Sundry
Petitions Disposed of at the Reg
uIar Session of Council
The bill for the extension of the cor
porate limits of the city was discussed
by Council at its meeting last night,
and the representatives from Chatham
were urged to secure it's passage.
A resolution. unanimously adopted
by the Committee of the Whole. en-
dorsed the bill and requests the repre-
sentatives from this county and the
senator from the First district to sup
port it. The clerk of Council was di-
rected to send a copy of the resolu-
ton adopted to each representative
and to Senator Cam.
There was some talk of City Attorney
Adams going to Atlanta next week in
Adams said that he does not know
that this is necessary. Senator Cam
said yesterday that with all three rep
resentatives asking for the passage of
the bill there can hardly be but one
result, it's passage. Senator Cam did
not appear to think it at all necessary
for any one to go to Atlanta to ad-
vocate the bill, and seemed to think
that there is no question that the bill
will pass, and that the limits will be
extended as planned and Endorsed by
City Council.
The following telegram was received
from Atlanta last night:
Maj G. NJ. Ryals, representing his
own interests and those of some of his
friends, will pay visit to Atlanta next
week for the purpose of fighting the
bill in comm ttee. Maj. Ryals has no
objection to the bill as an abstract
propositions; what he does object to is
it's tendency to include some portions
of his land. southwest of the city, in
the corporate limits. He has a num-
Der of objections to the proposed in
cusion of his property. For one thing
it is to be included, while other tracts
of land between it and the city are to
be excluded. There are two cemeteries
in the way, and it would be practical
ly impossible to open streets. The land
is undesirable for residence purposes
naturally and it's natural disadvan-
tages have been latterly increased by
the erection of a twenty-foot embank-
ment for the lines of the Savannah
Union Station Company.
1.-THE city has done nothing for this
section of the county" said Maj. Ry-
ais. mot a street has been opened or
even plated and I don't believe it will
be possible to open streets. The people
in this section don't want to be brought
into the city limits and there is only
one voter on the entire tract of 400
acres The tract is wholly unfit for
admission to the city and it is my be-
lief that to bring it in will do very
much more harm than good 1t is un-
lust to force into the city limits land
which is naturally untitled for develop
ment and whose only urban character
istic. will be that it's owners will pay
city taxes"
The ordinance providing a plan for
streets and lanes south of the present
limits, was placed on its second read
ing and passed by Council. The ordi-
nance directs that the Committee on
City Lots and Opening Streets, in its
negotiations for purchasing lands
south of Forty second street, follow
a uniform plan, already described in
the Morning News.
Under the ordinance there will be
two parks, and their names were chos-
en- by Council in caucus last night.
The park to be bounded on the north
by Forty third street, on the south by
Forty-fourth street, west of Bur-
roughs, and 800 feet in width will be
called Myers Park. That portion of
the area bounded on the north by For
ty-fifth street, the south by Forty
sixth street. on the east by Bulloch
street, and on the west by Stevens
street. will be known as Cam Park.
An ordinance by Alderman Fripp,
regulating the business of bill post
ing, was placed on its first reading. 1t
permits the granting of a license to
any person of good standing. who de-
sires to paint signs, post bills. distrib-
ute circulars, or perform other acts
of advertising" of a similar nature,
upon the payment of $40 for each year.
The ordinance provides that each
person engaged in the work of posting
bills shall wear a badge, fully ex-
posed to view, upon which shall be
stamped licensed bill poster, Savan-
nah, Ga" The ordinance permits any
political organization, art society.
tnuTcn dSSOCldIlOH Vi SOCloA vi
ton to distribute circulars of its
meetings and other gatherings, without
a license.
A resolution was offered by Alder
man Thomas, and passed, asking the
Legislature to permit the closing OF
Center street, a needless roadway IN
the southern section of the city.
The petition of the central OF Geor-
gia Railway Company offering to pay
the cost of paving Water street from
Indian to River in return for two
strips of land on the street, was re-
ferred to the Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
The petition of Mrs. Margaret Fen
der, widow of Patrolman Harry b.
Fender, who was assinated while on
duty, asking for a pension for self and
children, was referred to the Commit
tee of the Whole.
The petition of Lee Platshek asking
that his pension, which expires on Dec.
J., be continued, was referred to the
same committee.
The application OF the Hebrew Social
Society asking for land for cemetery
was referred to the Committee Of the
Whole.
Numerous petitions for retail liquor
.ioeneee We're referred to the Commit
tee Of the Whole. and several licenses
were allowed transferred.
The special committee named Ia
consider the ACCESSIBILITY Of having the
back records OF Council properly IN
aeNed reported favorably. but RECON-