The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-05
new CITY LIMITS
HOW THE MAP OF SAVANNAH is TO
BE EXTENDED.
ENLARGED ON ALL SIDES.
10000 INCREASE IN POPULATION
AND $4,000. 900 IN TAXABLE
PROPERTY.

Special Council Committee Has Map
ned Out the Plan for the Extern
sion of Limits-AIdermen Estimate
That From 5000 TO 10000 VIII De
Added to the City's Population
and Between $4,000, 900 and &c.
100000 to the Real PrOperty-In-
stead of FOrty-secend Fifty-sec-
ond street Will BE the Southern
Observation-Disclosures Lines on All
SIdcs-North shore of HutchinsOn's
Island Will BE Northern Limit.
A meeting of the special committee
of the City Council to consider the pro-
posed extension of the city limits was
held yesterday, and a plan for the ex-
tension was agreed upon. At the next
meeting of Council the committee will
report, but, in the meantime, it is prob
able that the caption of the bill to be
introduced in the Legislature providing
for the extension will be published, as
the publication of such a caption was
made a part of the duties of the COM
mittee.
Some days ago the Morning News
gave a report of the intention of Coun-
Gil to extend the limits, giving inter-
views with the Mayor and others. The
details of the plan, however. could not
be secured until they had been passed
upon finally by the committee. The en-
tire city is interested in the proposed
extension, and a decided interest has
been manifested by those whose prop
erty, now outside of the limits, will
be taken in. The majority of these
property owners would probably de-
sire the limits to remain unchanged, as
they enjoy police and fire protection as
IL is without having to pay city taxes.
The extension is to be no slight one.
1t has been so Lonesome eleven years,
since the limits were extended, that
the suburbs are populous. They have
been enjoying the privileges of the sec
ton included within the limits, and
the aldermen on the committee think
it is about time that they should be
taken into the fold. The extension is
to be much greater than that of eleven
years ago, for it is to be made in all
directions.
VIII Swell Population.
From 5000 to 1900 will be added to
the population of the city by the ex-
tension, while the list of realty will
be increased by something like $5,OOO,-
900. These are the estimates of the
aldermen who comprise the special
committee that is dealing with the ex-
tension.
The committee has nothing to do
with recommendations as to a term of
years of exemption from taxation for
the new sections of the city. That is
a matter for Council to determine.
There is division of sentiment in that
body upon this point, and it may be
that the property taken in will be i'm
mediately subjected to taxation, just
as is that now included within the
limits. In order to bring this about,
however, it viii, in justice, be for the
city administration to see to the open
ing and maintenance of streets and
sidewalks through the new sections
and the establishment of lighting IA
cilities. Water mains, also, will have
to be run where they may be needed.
Quite a large appropriation for the
several departments of the city admin
istration, under which these improve
ments will fall. viii have to be pro-
vided by Council.
what Extensions VIII BE.
The southern limits will be extended
ten blocks. This means that the south
ernmost street in the city will be Fiji
-ty-second, instead of Forty-second. The
extension in that direction will be 1850
feet south of the southern line of For
ty-second street This provides for lots
Jos feet deep, for streets so feet wide
and for lanes 16 feet wide.
From the present southwest corner
of the corporate limits, a line is to be
run southwark 1850 feet, and from the
present southwest corner northward to
the back river, including Hutchinson's
Island.
Two thousand, eight hundred and
sixty feet south of Forty second street
and parallel thereto. running eastward,
VIII be the line from Bull streets as far
as the western side of Waters
road. Right there will be found the
only breakfn the regularity Of the new
corporate limits. The straight line viii
be broken. The land that would be in
cluded were the line run further east
ward than Waters road is low and not
particularly valuable, so ii was decid-
ed to cut it out by running the new
line northWard to the north side of
Dale avenue, thence eastward 5000
feet from the west side of Waters road.
Then the limits on the east are to be
defined. From the point forming the
southeast corner, the line will be run
northward, at right angles to the
southern limits, to the back river, in
Guiding Fig and Hutchinson's Island.
The northern limits will be the north
side Of Hutchinsons Island.
Industries Affected.
On the outskirts of the city have
been established industries that have
been conducted without having to pay
city taxes. Many of these will be
brought into the city limits, and from
property and specific taxes the reve.
nues of the city will be considerably
swollen.
1t is from the corporations operating
these industries that objections, II
any. Will be raised to the extension
of the limits. 1t is now believed that
all of the Chatham county represent.
tatives VIII favor the measure for the
extension of the limits, and. that be.
ing the case, the Legislature would
pass the bill. In local measures in
troduced before the body, II is almost
invariably the case that the members
from the county interested can secure
such legislation as they may desire.
The Gorrie Ice Company, the Sa.
vannah Cotton Mil, the Savannah
Guano Company, the National Tank
and Export Company, the Savannah,
Florida and Western RafIuvaxt