The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-16
EXTENSION OF CITY LIMITS.
That, with other Matters, Will oc-
cupy Council Tonight.


The report of the Special Committee
appointed to consider the extension OF
the city limits will be submitted to
Council at its meeting tonight. The
committee carefully considered the
question of extension, and it's report
is declared by it's members to be the
best they could devise. 1t is just to
the city. they believe, and, as far as
1t could be made, just to all whom it
may affect.
The Morning News has described
the new territory to be taken in. 1t is
generally known, therefore, that a wide
extension is to be made on every side.
On the north is the most considerable
accession of territory. for all of Fig
and Hutchinsons Islands are to be in
cluded. On the east and on the south
the limits are to be pushed out far be-
yond where they now lie. On the west
the extension is not to be so great, as
the new line is to be a projection of a
considerable length of the broken line
that now forms the boundary.
The question is how the report will
be received. The members of the COM
mittee declare that there will be no
lit of any who may think that their
property lies too far from the present
limits to justify its being taken in by
an extension. 1t has been suggested
that the extension to be reported on
was made large in order to give Coun-
Gil room for play-for a drawing in of
the lines bit and thus appearing to
make concession to property owners
who might enter protest.
I In To ha haf hn
Gil will do with the report 1t is be-
lieved that it will be adopted, though
the chairman of the committee
said yesterday that he did not
know what it's fate would be. The cap
ton of the bill to be introduced in the
Legislature to authorize the extension
has already been published, and 1t
would seem that Council is thoroughly
in earnest in its intention to enlarge
the city's territory.
Several resolutions will be offered by
Alderman Thomas, chairman of the
| Committee on City Lots, for the pur-
chase of land for the opening of Bur-
roughs street. Nearly all OF the land
needed for this purpose has either been
secured or has ben placed at the dis
posal of the city. In one or two cases,
however property owners have not
agreed with the committee as to prices,
and it is not improbable that condem-
nation proceedings will have to be in
stituted before their lands can be OBJ
tanned. About SO per cent. of the land
needed for opening the street has been
secured.
Clerk of Council w. P. Bailey will
submit his quarterly report of the
| financial condition of the several de-
partments of the city government II
| is expected that the curtailed expendi-
lures of the third quarter will show
wholesome effect, and that the unex-
pended balances will be easily shown
as sufficient to carry the administra-
ton through the year well within the
appropriation.
Alderman Watson, chairman of the
Streets and Lanes Committee, will
have his ordinance for sidewalks on
Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth and Thirty
sixth streets read the second time, and
it will be adopted. He will also intro
duce an ordinance to pave one block
on Forty second street with vitrified
brick, making a connection between
Jefferson street and the Middle Ground
road. The Morning News stated some
| time ago that such a connection was
| to be made.
The Finance Committee will report
| to the Committee of the Whole upon
the question of the enforcement of
those sections of MacDonell's Code
calling for the weighing of coal by an
official weigher. The chairman of the
committee, Alderman Dixon, said that
there would be no recommendation
made, but that the views of the coal
merchants, who appeared before the
committee several days ago, will be
laid before the Committee of the
Whole. All save one of these mer
chants. the alderman said, seemed to
| think that the enforcement of the Sec
| tions of the Code would be impracti-
cable. 1t is doubtful if there will be
any official scale established, as the
aldermen do not seem to be by any
means a unit in favor of the ordinance
introduced by Alderman Thomas to
provide for one.