The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-26
BAY TO ESTILL AVE.
NORTH AND SOUTH STREETS TO
BE PAVED WITH BRICK.
PRICE, HABERSHAM,ABERCORN
SECTIONS OF EACH OF THESE
STREETS WILL BE PAVED.

Price Street VIII BE Paved From
Ray to Gaston-Habersham vii:
Be Paved From CASTOR TO Henry.
AbercOrn VIII BE Paved From
Henry street to EstilI Avenue.
Cost to the street Railway Com
pany on Hnbersham and AbercOrn
Streets VIII BE Heavy-This Plan
liz Regarded as Offering the Best
Division of Traffic Between Dray-
ton and the Plant system Yards.
Bids for Brick to BE in March L.
1t is expected that here will be some
eight or ten bids for the contract to
supply the city with $4,000 square yards
of paving brick. The bids are to be
submitted March 1 to the director of
public works. Advertisements have
been published that the city wants to
buy that number of brick, and it will
not be from ignorance that any of the
paving brick manufacturers fail to bid.
The brick are to be used in paving
streets during the current year. The
cost will represent that proportion of
the appropriation for paving that is
allowed for the material. Price, Hab-
ersham and Abercorn streets. or, rath-
er, portions of those streets, are to, be
paved. Price street will be paved from
Bay street to CASTOR; Habersham
street will be paved from CASTOR to
Henry, and Abercorn will be paved
from Henry street to Estill avenue.
Price is the narowest street of the
three. There is no railway track upon
it, so that the cost will fall entirely
upon the city and the owners of abur-
ting property. Habersham street, from
Castor to Henry, has tracks, so that
the Savannah Electric Company will
have to bear a considerable proportion
of the expense of paving there, es-
pecially as there are double tracks for
a considerable part of the distance that
is to be paved. Paving Abercorn will
cost the company pretty penny, too,
for there are double tracks on that
street as far out as Fortieth.
1t is expected that ordinances pro-
viding for the pavements as indicated
will soon be introduced in Council by
Alderman Watson, chairman of the
Streets and Lanes Committee. The
plan is regarded as wise in that by
paving Price streets, the great cost
that would be entailed in paving either
Habersham or Abercorn, from Bay to
CASTOR, because of the squares and
roadways about them, is avoided. In
selecting Habersham and Abercorn
streets as those upon which the pave
ment, south of CASTOR and Henry
streets, respectively, shall be laid, the
street railway comes in for no mean
proportion of the expense.
Traffic, especially that of a business
character, seeks a direct route, as is
shown by Bull and Drayton streets.
Vehicles usually use Drayton street in
preference to Bull, because there are
no squares to be rounded on Drayton.
This would be the case If there were
no restrictions upon the use of Bull
street by heavy wagons and trucks.
BY paving Price street between Bay
and CASTOR, instead of Habersham or
Abercorn, a direct route, the sort that
is sought by drivers, will be afforded.
Price street is looked upon as the
proper dividing line for traffic east
and west of it to find it's way north
and south. Because the tracks of the
Plant System begin an eastwardly
trend at CASTOR. Habershams south of
CASTOR, is regarded as a more equi-
table line of division than Prince. Be
cause of this continued eastwardly
trend, Abercorn is regarded as prefer
able to Habersham south of Henry,
and there is the addirlonal advantage
of il being but one block from Dray-
ton, which is already paved. Traffic
will be expected to turn from Drayton
to Abercorn at Henry street, there
by relieving Bull street south of Henry
of the congestion that marks it.
This plan for paving north-and-south
streets on the East Side was outlined
in the Morning News some time ago.
1t has met with favor and seems to be
regarded as preferable to paving any
one of the three streets for its entire
length.