The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-30
COUNCILS POT P0URRI.
General Matters That Were Passed
Upon Last Night.

Upon Last NlRht.
The city Council met in the Long Room
last night The chamber has been reno
waited. and is now far handsomer than the
aldermen had even hoped it might be-
After the correction of the published
minutes of the last meeting in which the
names of Aldermen Bacon and Colding, as
having voted for the Castor street paving
ordinance. were left out, the clerk read
the accounts passed for payment, which
amounted to 81. s9O.64.
The report of the Committee of the
Whole renting taxes to the amount of
S57 So against the Hebrew Cemetery lot,
was adopted. report was made ana
adopted granting Mrs Webbs petition to
have the city engineer free of cost to the
White Ribbon Mission, survey two lots
upon which it is proposed to erect build
ngs
The Committee on Finance reported Ia
vorably Upon the petition of the SaVan-
nah Volunteer Guards for the remission
OF taxes and the report was adopted
General Manager l.. II. McIntire of the
Savannah Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope
Railway petitioned for the right to lay
double track on Montgomery street
The board of trustees of Trinity Church
petitioned, protesting against the grant
ing of the petition of the Salvation Army
for the privilege of erecting a gospel tent
in St. James square. The trustees want
the privilege Of appearing before Council
to state their objections 1t is claimed
! that services conducted by the Army in
| the square would disturb those in the
church. The petition of the Army for the
use of the square was presented.
Objections of residents in the neighbor-
| hood of the hall at the corner of Bryan
| and Aberoorn streets to the balls and en-
tertainments given there by colored peo-
pie were read. The matter will be investi-
gated by the Mayor.
An ordinance was placed on its first
reading by Alderman Fripp, who wants
the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten sys-
TEN TO be given lot and a half at the
corner of Whitaker and Thirty-eighth
streets, instead of that at the corner of
| Bull street and Lamar avenue, to which
| the city's title, ii seems. is not clear
| Alderman Horrigan introduced the or
dinance recommended by the Committee
on Public Health to regulate
| the inspection and sale of
| milk The ordinance requires that
| all milk dealers engaged in the business
! of selling milk in the city of Savannah,
| from place of business located in the
| corporate or jurisdictional limits of the
city, or making deliveries to customers
! living in the city, are required to register
as milk dealers at the office of the health
officer within sixty days after the pass
age of the ordinance, and it shall not be
| lawful for any persons to continue to sell
or deliver milk in the city after the sixty
days. unless he or she shall have so reg
istered.
All diaries and other places of business
of milk dealers supplying customers in
the city shall be subject at any time to
| the inspection of the health officer or his
! authorized agent, and their milk shall be
subjected to inspection by the lactometer
and chemical analysis by the health Off
Ger or his agent.
No milk shall be sold or offered for sale
to the residents of the city unless it shall
contain no more than lightweight per
| cent of water or less than twelve per
cent. of milk solids. which solids shall
not contain less than three per cent. of
| fat. The said milk shall not be drawn
| from cows within fifteen days before and
! within five days after parturition, nor
| from cows fed on any substance in a fer
mentative or putrefactive state, or on
| other unwholesome food
| 1t shall not be lawful to sell or ex-
pose for sale any unclean, impure or
| unwholesome milk. and when skim milk
| is sold it must be sold as skim milk.
| Any person violating the provisions of
| the ordinance, or any one of them, shall
| be subject. upon conviction before the
| Police Court, to a fine not to exceed fifty
dollars and to Imprisonment not to exceed
ten days, either or both In the discretion
! OF the court. In addition, the Health
Officer shall be authorized to publish for
| the Information of the citizens of Savan-
| nah the analysis of any milk which he
may Inspect.
Alderman Fripp introduced an ordinance
| to purchase a portion of the Teynac gar
| dens at the rate of cents a square foot
The land is needed for opening streets
Alderman Watson presented an ordi-
| nance to fix the assessment roll of Thirty
! eighth street, paved with brick. The ordi-
nance was put on its second reading and
| passed.
The election for port warden resulted in
a victory for Mr. jerome G.. Sullivan. The
| applicants were MIR Sullivan, Mr.. G.. w.
Lamar. Mr.. T. b. Marshall Gen. p. Nc
Glashan and Mr.. M. j. Desverges. Mr.
Sullivan received seven votes on the first
ballot; Mr.. Lamar received four, and Mr..
| Marshall received one.
Alderman Bacon offered IA resolution to
have the superintendent of waterworks
attend the convention OF superintendent
of waterworks in New York $00 being
set apart for HIS expenses. The resolu-
ton was adopted.
A resolution was offered and adopted
for the purchase of some 5000 feet Of hose
for the fire department.
Mr. J. II. Saussy petitioned to be al
lowed to convert his ground rent lot at
the corner Of Gordon and Whitaker streets
into a fee simple holding Mr.. Saussy
represented the holders Of ground rent
lots in the case recently heard against
the city by the United States Supreme
| Court
The savannah Union station Company
pctitioned to he allowed to lay "A tempo
rary track across lots of abe Springfield
plantation in order that building material
may be laid down on the site Of the pro-
posed Union station.
A communication from Mi u. b. Lester
was received. Mr., Lester said that he
understood thas "A petition for a franchise
similar to one that ne had asked for would
he presented TO Council II the city would
grant him the franchise, he said, he would
guarantee TO trestle such points as will be
| necessary 70 cross over the Central Rail
roads tracks and that the proposed road
will give 10 the people Of Savannah 4
cent fare and agree 10 light tho Jty for
10 per Gene less than it b. now paying