The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-14
WANT WATERS ROAD
ED. A. RICHARDS ASKS ITS USE FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF TROLLEY LINE.
TEN FEET FOR THREE MILES.
ASKED BY SYNDICATE OF THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

One of the Applicants for City Fran
chise for Trolley system Also
Wants Privileges From County.
His Petition Referred for Report
to Committee on Roads and
Bridges-Savannah, ThunderbOIt
and Isle of Hope Railway Granted
Use of Block ON Waters Road.
Paving of Louisville Road Has
Been Completed Through the
Town of POOIer.
At yesterdays meeting of the County
Commissioners a petition was read from
Mr.. Ed. A. Richards, in which the county
is asked to grant permission to Mr. Rich
ards and his associates in the construc
ton of a street railway system in and
about Savannah to use part of the road
way of Waters road.
Mr.. Richards and his associates want
to use Waters road for the construction
of one of their suburban lHes, which are
to connect White Bluff, Montgomery and
Rosedew with the city, in the event that
franchises can be obtained from Council
for the construction of lines within the
city limits The petition says that not
more than ten feet of the extreme west
ern side of the roadway will be utilized,
from Dale avenue to the Montgomery
cross roads, a distance of about three
miles and a half.
In return for the privilege the petition
er offers to secure and present to the
commissioners a thirty-foot right of way
for the construction of a public road, TO
begin at some point on the Montgomery
| cross roads, between Waters road and
the Vernon shell road. and extend to the
Davidson road In partial return for the
gift of the right of way, Mr.. Richards
| says he and his associates Will expect the
county to open, grade and pave the pro-
posed new road which he says is greatly
needed, and the construction of which, he
AYERS, will serve materially the conven-
fence of a large number of people living
in that section of the county, who now
| have 10 depend exclusively upon toll roads
as a means of reaching the city. And
then he wants a ten-foot right of way
| for the construction of trolley line
along this road.
The petition was referred to the com
mittee on roads and bridges, with in
|
! the next meeting.
| Mr.. Richards, who is making these APP
| plications for franchises to the City
Council and the Board of County Commits
sioners, has been living in Savannah for
two or three years. In that time he has
been concerned in the promotion of
number of enterprises.
/ In Savannah he inaugurated a move
ment for the organization of a new gas
| compapV which n soma waV fell through
Mr. Richards was also the lessee of the
| Northeastern Railroad. He is recognized
| as a man of good business sense, and at
one time and another has been concerned
in the control of large business interests.
From that committee, Commissioner
Moore reported that the Savannah. Thun-
| derbolt and Isle of Hope Railway had
been granted permission to lay its tracks
on Waters road, on the block between
| Henry and Anderson streets, for the pur-
| pose of making connection with its lines
to the Fair grounds. The grant of per-
mission to lay the tracks has been sur.
rounded by such conditions as will pro-
tect the interests of the county and the
| people.
| The commissioners granted fourteen
| oyster leases, applications for which had
been filed for the length of time required
| by law and the law in other respects hav-
! ing been complied with by the applicants
| Among the leases granted was one to the
| Tybee Inlet Club, for five acres Of oyster
beds in Half Moon river.
The report of the superintendent Of
public works and roads, Mr.. w. F. Chap
| lin, showed that during the month of
May the paving of the Louisville road
had been completed through the town of
| Pooler. The work of surfacing the road
was interfered with during the spring by
unavoidable delays in receiving the gravel
of which the surface is composed and sew
| eral months were lost on this account
The entire roadway however, has now
been completed.
! The county is now daily receiving large
| consignments of oyster shells, with which
the Montgomery road is to be paved, from
| the Montgomery crossroads to Mont
! gomery 1t will require about three hum
dred thousand bushels of shells to do the
paving and about one-third of this
amount has been already delivered to
| the county.
The number of prisoners on the chain
! gang decreased from 260 on May l. to 237
on the first day of the present month
| The force of convicts was largely en-
! ployed during the month of May in look
| ing after the drainage of the lands stu
ated Immediately about the city. During
May 1880 linear feet of new bitches were
cut and 81 $50 feet of old bitches sushed
Most of this work was done near the city,
and it was reported that the sanitary con-
dition of the county. so far at least as It
depends upon drainage, is excellent.
Contracts for county supplies were
awarded as follows: Groceries. hay and
grain, to ]. f. Grady & Sons; bread. 40
Fred Schwarz; beef 10 Hugh Logan;
wood, to Aimar &, Co.; coal to Allan
Bond & Co.; shoes, to Joseph Rosenheim
& Sons.
The full board was present at the meet
! ing, Chairman Dale, Vice Chairman
| Moore and Commissioners Lathrop. Vets
| burg and Pausen 1t was a busy meet
! ing for even after spending an hour and
q half in caucus. the commissioners de-
voted a similar amount of time to the
| consideration and disposal of routine, mat