The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-26
SAVANNAH DURING ITO YEARS.
MIR. THOMAS GAMBLE's HISTORY OF
THE CITY GOVERNMENT.

a computation OF InteresInE racts
From the City's Archives and the
Records of the Georgia Historical
Society, Presented in an Attrac-
tive styIe-Published With the
Mayors Annual RepOrt-GIimpses
of Life in Savannah Century
! Ago-The Compilation a Valuable
/ Work.
The first copy of the report of Hon.
Herman Myers. Mayor, for the year 1900,
with the reports of the city officers, to
which is added the History of the City
Government from 1890 to 1900" compiled
| by Thomas Gamble, Jr., secretary to the
Mayor, and considerable other matter of
public interest not heretofore published,
came from the bindery Of the Morning
News yesterday afternoon. The delivery
of the reports to the clerk of Council
! will begin tomorrow, and they will be
distributed free to the public at his office.
Inasmuch as there will be an unusual de-
mand for the book this year 1t has been
decided to furnish but one copy to an ap-
plicant, so that the 1900 copies with paper
covers intended for general distribution
win go as far as possible.
There are 1853 pages in the volume. not
including thirty-six full page engravings
and number of inserts of tabulated
statistical matter. OF this the first 81
pages are given up to the reports of the
Mayor and the city officers, the ordinances
passed in 1900, and commercial and other
matters of interest A new feature in
this portion of the book which will be
appreciated are short historical sketches
of the public institutions of Savannah.
The reports of nearly all of the public
institutions for 1900 also appear. Weather
reports for each month for thirty years
in detail are given and the commercial
statistics are more complete than ever be-
fore.
The illustrations in the book are full
page, printed on heavy calendered paper,
and include Mayor Herman Myers, AL
dermen Tiedeman, Dixon, Wells, Schwarz,
Haas Thomas, Graham, Bacon, farrell,
Mills, Doyle, Horrigan; Chairman Os-
borne of the tax assessors; City Marshal
Power City Treasurer Hardee, City At
torney Adams, Superintendent of Police
Screven. Senior Sergeant NOW superin-
tendenD Reilly, Superintendent of Fire
Department Mcguire, engine houses Nos.
i, 4, 5, 4, o, ana o. superintendent VI w dlSl
Works Kinsey, Director of Public Works
Gadsden, City Engineer Winn, Chairman
Daffin, of the Park and Tree Commission
Clerk of Council Bailey, Mayors Secre-
tary Gamble, City Exchange police bar
racks, police Jail, Savannah water-works.
The history of the city government, for
convenience sake is printed entirely as
an appendix, beginning with page l again,
and is indexed separately from the re-
mainder of the book. The indexing is
quite thorough, thirty-eight pages being
given UP to it. The history is divided into
sixteen chapters, exclusive of a complete
roster of the mayors and aldermen of
Savannah for the past 10 years, arranged
alphabetically, and giving their terms of
service, which takes up twenty pages.
The headings of the chapters give gen.
eral idea of the divisions of the DOCKS,
and are as follows:
Chapter l. colonial and revolutionary
days; chapter 2, organization of a city
government ;chapter 3, opening years of the
century; chapter 4, a decade of war, pes
| thence and fire; chapter 8, history OF the
exchange; chapter 6, ten years OF peace
and prosperity; chapter Z, era Of internal
| improvements chapter s, commercial and
political progress; chapter 9, the building
| of the Gulf road and the Introduction OF
| gas, water and free public schools; chap
ter 10, days of Civil War and reconstruc-
ton; chapter IL, the refunding of the pub
bic debt the epidemic of 1876. and extern
sive local improvements; chapter Z, the
twenty closing years of the century; chap
ter 49, commissions In Savannah: chapter
a. the Mayors Court, Court of Common
Pleas, City Court, recorder. city attorney,
etc chapter 10, grants from the city for
religious and other purposes; chapter 10,
lists of city officers, United States census,
etc.
In the preparation of the history, which
a preface states is not history of Sa-
yanpah but a compilation of facts from