The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-18
He WANTS A BELT
n. d. LESTER FILES ANOTHER Pc
Triton WITH COUNCIL.
COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER 1T.
AT COMMITTEE OF WHOLE MEET
ING THIS AFTERNOON.

Price, ms wei Montgomery
Street. Asked for by MIR. Lester for
His Projected street Railway Sys-
tem-He Also Asks for Connections
at the North and south Ends of
Those Streets-His Comment Upon
Recent Grant to the savannah
Electric Company-Mr. Lester Says
he Is Anxious to Get Franchise
So That His Work Can Start Be
fore Summer.
Mr. D. b. Lester is keeping up his
efforts to get a franchise for a street
railway system. He has written some
of the members of the board of alder
men personally, requesting them to give
his petitions consideration. He also
wrote the Mayor, requesting him to
bring up the most recent petitions he
has submitted at the earliest meeting
of Council.
A representative Of the Morning
News saw Mr.. Lester yesterday and
asked him about his street railway
plans. He replied that he was very
anxious to have his petition acted upon
the approach of spring renders it nee
essary that something be done at once,
if his hopes are realized and he can
get his line constructed before the
summer begins.
Some time ago Mr.. Lester presented
a petition, asking for the use of Mont
gomery street. from Forty-second to
Bay street. Still another petition was
submitted yesterday, in which Mr.. Les
Price
Montgomery.
1.-THE present railway system Mr..
Lester wrote has been granted
great many street privileges and 1 I'M
derstand they are only going to be re-
quired to pave about 200 feet on Rob-
erts street
The petitioner said that, if he could
get no more. he would be willing to
use one street. but that he wanted two
Price and Montgomery, with connec-
lions between them at the north and
the south ends.
A meeting of the Committee of the
Whole of the City Council will be held
this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, when,
among other matters, Mr.. Testers petit
lions win be considered. 1t is not ex-
pected that Council will go into open
meeting at all. though il may do so.
The regular weekly meeting of the
body is to be held tomorrow night, and
the question Of Mr.. Testers petitions
might have been reserved until then,
had it not been that Mayor Myers,
with the o her members of the COM
mittee appointed for the purpose, will
leave tomorrow afternoon for Wash
ington. where they will appear before
the congressional committee to which
was referred the bill for the estab-
lishment of a branch of the sub-treas-
ury of the United States at Savannah.
1t is not improbable that the Com
mttee of the Whole may also take up
the petition sent in by Mrs. Edward
karow, regent of the Savannah Chap
ter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, asking that Council aid in
the arrangement of the ceremonies that
will mark the refinement of the re-
mains of Gen. Nathaniel Greene. No
action viii be taken this afternoon, but
it is probab bic that the request of Mrs.
karOw VIII be ultimately granted.
At the last meeting of Council the
resolution of Alderman Horrigan for
the appropriation of $500 to be eXpend-
ed in the Improvement of Emmett Park
was referred to the Committee of the
Whole. and there may be discussion
upon that subject this afternoon.