The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-13
WHERE MONEY GOES
WHAT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
WANT TO KNOW.
EDUCATION AND CHARITIES.
AMOUNT APPROPRIATED THERE
MUST BE ACCOUNTED FOR.

Board of Education and Several
Hospitals Must Make Monthly
Statement How They Spend the
Money Received From the County.
That Is What the County Commits
| sioners Have Asked fOr-Board
viii Not Permit Laying of Tracks
ON EstiII Avenue-Large Amount
of Drainage Done Last Month.
Contracts for Supplies Awarded.
The County Commissioners have ex-
pressed a desire to know how the
money appropriated for education and
charities is spent They want an item
lied statement monthly from those
who are benefited by the appropria-
tions. 1t is the purpose of the COM
mssioners they say, to discover where
every dollar appropriated by the coun-
| ty goes and what is received for it.
The matter was brought up at the
September meeting of the board yes
terday, and the clerk was instructed
to address letters at once to those who
receive the money from the county.
Letters setting forth that the commits
sioners desire certain information each
month were written to the Board of
| Education, Georgia Infirmary, ST. Jo-
seph's Hospital, Park View sanitari-
| um Little Sisters of the Poor, Abra-
hams Home, Savannah Hospital and
| Day Nursery of the Kings Daughters.
The members of the board say the
county has appropriated in the neigh
borhood of $10s,000 for education and
charities this year, and that they
should know how every dollar is paid
out. The monthly reports asked for
from the hospitals and the Board of
Education are expected to be complete
| and will be gone over by the commls-
sioners at their monthly meetings.
The letters were only written last
] night and it rs not known what action
the institutions will take about the
matter. In the event that the request
for particulars is ignored it is not
known what steps the commissioners
would take to get the information. 1t
| is quite probable that the letter ad-
dressed to the Board of Education will
be read at the next meeting of that
| body Whether the board will con-
| sent to go into details with the COM
| missioners, and what would happen in
the event of their refusal, are matters
of conjecture. The commissioners,
however, do not appear to anticipate
| any difficulty in securing the informa-
ton which they are seeking.
| Vice Chairman Moore presided at the
meeting, with Commissioners Vetsburg
| and Lathrop present. Bills amounting
| to $12,22S42 were passed for payment,
and contracts were awarded for fur
nishing the county with supplies for
| the next three months. ]. E. Grady &
Son got the contract for groceries and
grain and hay. Wood will be furnished
by Brown Bros, and coal by D. R.
Thomas & Son. Fred SchwarZ was CIV
en- the contract for supplying bread, H.
Logan, fresh meat, and Leopold Adler,
shoes.
Leases for oyster lands were granted
to ten applicants who had complied
| with the law.
A communication from Waring Rus
| sell, Jr., clerk of the City Court, ask
| ing for compensation for having made
out the new jury lists and arranging
slips for the jury box. was referred to
the vice chairman. with power to act.
The appeals of George Stelljes and l.
D. LaRoche. agent of the estate of A.
S. Hartridge, for relief from double
taxes followed the same course.
The calling of an election for Ordi-
nary on Oct. % did not come up for
discussion and the call will probably
be made at a special meeting of the
commissioners,
The County Commissioners refused to
permit the Savannah Thunderbolt and
Isle of Hope Railway Company to lay
tracks on Estill avenue, from Dale
avenue to Bull street. The company's
application for the right of way on the
county road was acted upon at the
meeting of the commissioners.
The board promptly returned the pc
tition with the information that it's re-
port was an adverse one. Sol The COM
missioners feel that the putting down
of car racks would impair the beauty
of the road and make it anything but
desirable as a driveway. The commits
sioners say that the road is already
narrow enough without the addition of
car tracks 1t was the desire of the
street railway company to connect it's
Isle of Hope line with the one that
goes from Waters road into Dale ave-
nue.. This line passes the Fair grounds
and continues out to Thundrebolt.
The monthly report of Superintend-
ent of Public Works Chaplin showed
that the misdemeanor convicts dug
300 linear feet of new canals and
bitches last month. The convicts
slushed $1,000 feet of bitches and ca
nails.
The work of slushing has been car
ried on west of the city and the Vale
Royal, Exley and Dundee canals re-
ceived the attention of the county
forces. On the Waters road 3,400 feet
was resurfaced and R,040 feet of clay
was surfaced at the Fair grounds. One
of the camps is still held at the Fair
site, and it is expected that the work
on the race track will be completed
by tomorrow.
On the last day of August there were
233 men, women and children doing coun-
ty work. There was only one death dur
ing the month. One of the convicts
employed on the race track attempted
to escape and was shot and killed by
a guard. Five prisoners escaped and
seventy-one were discharged. Fifty
six new prisoners were received from
the jail.