The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-10
THE CITY WILL PAVE
VITRIFIED BRICK TO GO DOWN ON
EAST BROAD STREET.
ON HENRY STREET ALSO.
COUNCIL WILL PASS TWO PAVING
ORDINANCES.

East BROAD street VIII Be Paved
with Brick From Jones to Gwin-
nett-From That Point to Duffy the
savannah Electric Company VIII
Use SheII-Henry street VIII Have
Brick From Price to Waters Road.
Paving of Thirty-eiEhth street Is
StrenuOusly Opposed.
East Broad street will be paved with
vitrified brick by the city between
Jones and Gwinnett streets. An or
Cinance to this effect Will be intro
duced in Council tonight by Alder
man Watson. chairman of the Streets
and Lanes Committee.
The street is now paved from Bay
street to Liberty with cobble stones
and from Liberty to Jones with Bel
gian block The Savannah Electric
Company has agreed to pave from
Gwinnett to Duffy with shell and to
keep this paving in repair. When the
work is finished East Broad street
will be paved as far south as Duffy
and with four paving materials. 1t
was figured out by the Streets and
Lanes Committee that it would be well
for the city TO connect Jones and
Gwinnett street with brick pavement,
rather than have the street paved in
sections.
At the same time Alderman Watson
will introduce a resolution providing
for the paving of Henry street with
brick from Price to Waters road. This
improvement has been contemplated
for quite awhile, and has been urged
by property owners in CollinsVille.
When this work has been done Henry
will be the only east and west street
paved entirely across the city. in a
straight line. 1t is not at all unlikely
that arrangements will be made to
pave the block from Duffy to Henry
on East Broad and in this way con-
meet Collinsville with the main streets
by a paved roadway.
To start Paving Soon.
1t is probable that the work of paw
ing these streets will follow the lay
ing of the brick on Habersham from
CASTOR to Henry. This street will be
paved shortly after the first of the
year. The Savannah Electric Company
has not yet completed the work of
putting down its heavy rails on Haber-
sham street and the clty's paving force
cannot get to work until this has been
done. The railway company will also
have to lay rail on Abercorn street
from Henry south, before that street
can be paved. For this reason it is
believed that Henry will be tackled
by the city first. The street railway
company will probably begin patine
East Broad from Gwinnett to Duffy
next month. The city will take up the
work from Jones to Gwinnett within
the next month or two.
There win be considerable street paw
ing during the coming year, but just
what streets will be selected by the
Streets and Lanes Committee cannot
be stated, but it is not unlikely that
some more paving will be done on the
South Side. If Thirty-eight street is
paved 1t will be over the pro-
test of a large number of property
owners.
Against Thirty-eighth Street.
A petition from many of those own
Ing land east of Bull, street will be
read at to-nights meeting of Council.
The property owners will ask the city
not to pave Thirty-eighth street for
some time to come. 1t has, been sought
TO have the street paved to Waters
road. None of those who signed the
petition against the paving own prop
erty east of Waters road. Owners OF
property east of that point would be
benefited by the paving and would
have no assessment to pay.
So far as is known no other ordi-
nances of Importance will be intro
duced at to-night's meeting of Coun-
Gil. A petition asking that something
be done about the exposed portion OF
Bilboa canal will be read, and it is not
unlikely that some action will be taken
on it, 1t is hardly likely that the
meeting will be a very lengthy one