The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-09
TO BE DECORATED
COUNTY COURT HOUSE IMPROVE
MENTS SOON TO BE MADE.
FIRST SINCE 1T WAS BUILT.
JAIL ALSO TO BE INCLUDED IN THE
IMPROVEMENTS

work as Soon Plans Can BE
Drawn and Advertisements for
Bids Made-InteriOr of Court House
to Receive "A Thorough Removal
tiOn-ReDairs in Plumbing System
at the Jail to BE Made-DOrmitOry
for Juvenile Misdemeanants Nears
COmpletiOn-Draina and Road
work Done by Convicts During
Past Month.
Contracts will soon be awarded for
the work of improving and repairing
the county Court House and Jail The
plans and specifca tions will be adver-
tised for four weeks and at the end of
that time the bids will be opened,
the contract awarded and the work
begun.
This plan of action was determined
upon al the meeting of the County
Commissioners yesterday. It was
agreed that to have the work done by
contract. after due and legal advertis-
ing. would be the cheapest to the
county.
The plans and specuhcations will be
prepared as soon as may be by the
Committee on Court House and Jail
The contract will be awarded to the
lowest bidder, who viii be required to
give bond with security for the faith
full performance of his obligation. There
will be separate contracts for the work
of improvement of each building.
AS previously announced in the
Morning News extensive improvements
are contemplated. This is especially
true as to the interior of the Court
House, which it is universally agreed
needs attention about as much as any
public building could. Practically moth
ing has been done to improve it's APP
pearance since its erection. The inte-
rier will be gone over in it's entirety
and an elaborate and attractive scheme
of decoration carried out.
The Improvement of the jail, if less
elaborate, will be altogether as thor
ough. Such Improvements as are nee
essary to provide in better fashion for
the comfort of the Warders and their
prisoners will be made and the plumb
ing of the building renovated and made
to accord with modern sanitary re-
quirements.
The entire work will be completed
during the summer, when the Court
House is less used than at any other
season of the year and when the pres
ence of the workmen will least inter-
fere with the comfortable transaction
of public business.
Dormitory and Mess Hall.
Superintendent Chaplin reported to
the commissioners that the new dor
mitory at the county farm, intended
for the exclusive occupancy of misde-
meanor convicts under the age of 16
years. has been practically completed
and win be ready for use during the
coming week.
Bunks are yet to be put in position
and there are some additions yet to be
made to the interior of the building
There will be shower baths for the
use of the youthful offenders and such
other appliances as will serve to teach
them the value of cleanliness, decency
ana thrift.
AS soon as the dormitory is in read
mess the boys from all the county
camps will be removed and kept there.
OF fit subjects for it's occupancy there
are now fifty or more serving SEN
fences for various misdemanors. Most
of these are already at the county
farm, where the dormitory has been
erected.
An additional work of improvement
for the comfort of the convicts was
determined upon at the meeting of
the commissioners. This is the cree
ton of mess halls at each of the
camps where conviCts are confined
work on which. under the direction of
the superintendent of public works
and roads, will be begun at once.
The average number of convicts in
the several camps during the month
of April was 306,5 and on the first day
of the present month there were 297
on the gang.
These have been engaged in various
forms of county work. During the
month of April S,765 linear feet of new
road was surfaced and 1885 feet of old
road was rebuilt. The new Montgom-
cry road was that which was paved
and the road, now entirely completed
offers a comfortable and beautiful
drive to the suburban resorts in that
section. The Telfair road has been re-
built along part of its length and the
rest of it will be completed when the
force of convicts now at Tybee is re-
turned. This will be in the course of
the next two weeks.
In drainage work the convicts have
bCGI nut ltSS DuSliN tuSdSeQ. DuTlnS
April 1860 feet of old bitches and
canals were slushed and cleaned and
4,430 linear feet of new bitches were
cut. The work that has been done has
been largely in the section of the coun-
ty west of the city. where the entire
MuSgrove creek watershed has been
drained.
A petition was received from various
residents of Beaulieu and the con-
tigious section asking the construction
of road between Beaulieu and Mont
gomery The road will be about 4,600
feet in length. A board of survey. con-
sisting of MeSsrs. Albert Wylly, Hal
H. Bacon and T. J. Davis, was appoint
ed and the board was instructed to
examine the course of the suggested
road and if it appeared to be of public
utility 10 mark out lines for it's con-
struction.
Messrs. j. r. Saussy, Jr., and w. J.
Miscally, Jr., were named as commits
sioners of the county to make titles,
in cases where the county has pur-
chased lands at sheriff's sales and de-
sires to dispose of them to their origi-
nal owners or to others.
Joseph Broderick, recently elected
constable of the Seventh district, ap-
peared before the commissioners and
qualified to discharge the duties of the
Office