The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-14

Il is 10 stay there. the only question being
no" many oil her rivals that are leading her
WI ~ sooner or alter ia her wake.
GREAT ODDS OVERCOME.
But all these facts and figures Of Savan-
nah present status have Ii, tie sislii, al &c,
save by conn arlson. And even when.
IN their dry s'atislita al way, they tell
when compared with the figures of Years
gone hy-of great progress that has been
made and Of the wealth that Las Teen li.ed
up even then they give 10 adequate basis
on which TO measure the obstacles that had
to he overcome. the tremendous amount
Of energy that had to he put forth TO ac-
complish II al
There is in the evolution of all these New
South cities a story to tell that underlie-
ne obvious, tangible one Of the fabric
Of achievement that has been reared. II
IL impossible to measure the great work
that has been done at its true value and
with justice to those who have done il
except there be kept constantly in mind
he difficulties that beSct them, the some
times all but disheartening handicap under
which they labored
This is particularly the case with Sa-
~ II IlDN HIff'iN NHdl NdNdtllldll
ha, built up that must be considered. 1t
va. what she had to build before she was
ready to begin building that, of course.
and the varied assortment Of next -to-noth-
ing or mountaineering that. the war
left her TO build with
Scourged by war pestilence and recon
struction, all within the mcmury of men
now but little past middle age. il is only
in our own country that there could be
seen such oblit -ration OF it all and such a
setting forth once more with light hearted
huuyant confidence to win "A success greater
han anything that had gone before il
il only in our America that that spectacle
could I've scen and nowhere can it be seen
TO greater perfection than at this present
moment right here IN this beautiful city
II Savannah
savannah had just about come out from
under the worst tangle of the war wreck
age and the reconstruction blight when she
wa stricken down with yellow fever. That
was in 1870. Between July 80 Of that year,
when the first death occurred and Nov. IA
following, when he epidemic was formally
declared at an end. there were 500 deaf hs
from yellow fever, of which number III
were white. In the torty-six days between
Aug. 81 and Oct. Is there were 5,5i2 cases
Of the fever and at times during hat interval
here Were az many a. 400 persons down
with the disease at the same moment. And
this in population estimated at 10000,
of whom 10 600 were whites and IA 900 me-
groes. A. the disease was almost ex-
cluslvcly confined to the whites the above
figures mean that several times during those
a al
Of the entire white population of Savan-
nah was in bed with yellow fever
TIOROuGH HoUsECLEANISG,
After this terrible cxperiouc, it was sufli-
GENTLY clear that the one thing for Savau-
nah To do if she ever proposed TO amount
To anything was TO get her health on "A sure
footing. She not only must get rid of vel
low fever, but of the conditions which
made yellow fever possible. And this /,
precisely what Savannah did Notwth-
standing the fact that a new system of
sewers had been put in just before the
outbreak of the fever. the sewerage sys-
ten was again overhaulcd the surround
ing marshes Of the country were drained
and for the river and wells. which had been
heretofore the city's source of water sup
ply, system of artesian wells was put
into operation which taps at q great dept
the subtcTrancan watercourse| which flow
uiidcr that part of Georgia from the Ap-
palachian watershed into the sea.
-aNaunah ~ now supplied WITH az fro.
clear, pure water as can he found any e
where; her sanitary arrangements are of
the best, and the fever end mosquito breed
ing marshes of Hutchinson's Island, op-
po-to the city's northern front, are now
transformed into vast tracts Of firm re-
claimed land. on which are situate ed some
Of the extensive new terminals OF the water
front, which at no distant day will be
dotted with manufacturing plants; for
savannah has too many advantages AS the
seat of n varied line of manufactures not
To Decome great manufacturing as well as
great distributing centre
SO, then, the presan: evolution of Sa-
vannah. her reiuvenation. as it were the
beginning Of the era which has resulted IN