The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-09
PlLING UP BRICKS
PREPARING TO START STREET
PAVING AGAIN NEXT MONTH.
MUCH WORK TO BE DONE.
NO TIME WILL BE LOST IN FIXING
ABERCORN STREET.

Work of Street Paving Was shut
Down Because Bricks Could Not
BE Gotten in Sufficient Quantities.
Director of Public Works Goes
North This Week and Upon His
Return Street Paving Will be
Once More Started Savannah
Well on in Paved Streets-Hns
More Than Thirty Miles NOw-Aft-
or AbercOrn street VIII Come
Park Avenue and Whitaker
street.
Street paving will be taken up again
early next month and during Septem-
Der, October, November and December
It Is expected that a large force of
men will be employed and the work
will be pushed TO completion by the
Streets and Lanes Department.
Director of Public Works George NJ.
Gadsden will leave this week for the
North on his annual vacation and up
on his return to the city it is expect
ed that there will be a sufficient guam
tity of vitrified brick on hand to be-
gin work with. The cause Of the shut
down in street paving was due TO the
city's inability to get bricks in any
quantity.
shut Down Work.
When the director of public works
found that it was impossible to get
brick in sufficient quantities he ordered
the work shut down. Since that time
several carloads have arrived, but not
until enough to at least pave Aber-
corn street has put in an appearance
will the work be begun. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that the work can
be started the first week in Septem-
Der and continued until the close of
the year without interruption.
The factories first complained of
scarcity of railroad cars, and when
the railroads got their rolling stock
in motion the factory hands went on
a strike These facts are responsible
for the delay in street paving IN Sa-
vannah during the present year. 1t
is believed, however, that all of the
streets that it was figured would be
paved during the year will be attended
TO. ANY money that might be left
over from the appropriation made for
street paving cannot be dawn on
next year, but will remain in the city
treasury. For this reason when the
brick laying forces are again put to
work they will be kept in motion.
Many Paved Streets.
Already there are more than thirty
miles of paved streets in Savannah,
and with the amount of street paving
being increased each year, it will be a
matter of only a short while when
10 Of ba VaaU
in the South. If the work contem-
plated during the present year is COM
pleted all records in the way of street
paving will be eclipsed two-fold.
Abercorn street from Henry street to
Estill avenue will be the first street
tackled next month. With the paving
of this street the East Side will be con-
nected from Bay street to the limits
with vitrifed brick, Price street being
paved from Bay to CASTOR. and Hab-
ersham street from CASTOR to Henry.
On the West Side Jefferson street Is
paved from one end of the city to the
other. The streets running east and
west are pretty well connected up, and
the paving of Henry street through
Collinsville to Waters avenue, gave
that section of the city what it wanted
for a long while.
Helps Real Estate.
i ne vast amount OF street paving
being done not only enhances the value
of real estate but it attracts the at
tention of visitors to the city, and
causes general favorable comment.
The Myers administration has put it.
self on record as being a paving ad-
ministration, and the amount of work
that was cut out for this year is be-
yond anything of the sort ever at
tempted before in Savannah. OF
course, not so much paving can be
done next year. but there will not be
as many streets that will require i'm
mediate attention.
With ordinary weather conditions it
is figured it will take a little over
three weeks to pave Abercorn street.
When this work has been finished
Park avenue will be completed. Whit
aker street will next receive attention.
and the cobble stones from Bay street
to Oglethorpe avenue will make way
for vitrified brick. Alderman Davant.
the new chairman of the Streets and
Lanes Committee of Council, is now
familiarizing himself with conditions
and will be well posted when the paw
ing work is again taken up.