The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-03
HAD FEWER BURIALS
NOT As MANY PEOPLE PUT AWAY
IN LAUREL GROVE IN 1902.
OFF YEAR FOR CEMETERY.
IORTUARY REPORT FILED WITH
PARK AND TREE COMMISSION.

Also Been Comprehensive Good
Work Done by His Commission
During the Past Year and With
the Report of Supt. Garwes VIII BE
Filed To-day-POIice Report Will
Also Go in During the Dny-Other
Reports Will Hardly Reach the
Mayor Before Monday.
Although the annual reports of the
various city officers are not required
to be delivered to the Mayor until
Monday it is probable that several viii
show UP at the City Exchange to-
day. That Of the city marshal is the
only one that has been seen by Mr..
Myers thus far.
In the Morning News Thursday
synopses of all the reports were given
for the first time and it was shown
just how successfully the various de-
partments had been handled during the
past year The police report was COM
pleted yesterday and viii be turned
over to the Mayor to-day. It's con-
tents have already been made public
through the columns of the Morning
News. There are no recommendations
and Supt. Reilly simply calls atten-
ton to the fact that his men made
nearly 400 more arrests than during
1901.
The complete report Of Supt Mcguire
win not reach the Mayor before Mon
day at which time the majority of the
reports will be turned in. The in
formation contained in this report has
oil IrV NJ
guire will have nice things to say OF
mis- men, and incidentally pat himself
on the back, because the year was the
most successful in the history of the
department. The report of the director
of public works, the health officer and
the city treasurer will be all belated.
1t requires a vast amount of work TO
compile the records in these depart
ments and it will be several days be-
fore they will be finished. The director
of public works and his clerk, Mr..
Leander Butler. are working assidu-
ously. There are u branches of this
department to be accounted for and
the task is a stupendous one.
Chairman Dafnn's Report.
The report of Chairman Daffin on
the work done by the Park and Tree
Commission. under his direction, is as
1t has always been, an interesting doc
ument. 1t is shown that with very
little money Mr.. Daffln did wonders.
The appropriation of $500 was ex-
pended and $144.S3 had to be borrowed
from this years appropriation for the
purpose of paying salaries. 1t was in
making this touch" on the city treas
ury that cents was left over from
the $4,000 for Laurel Grove Cemetery.
During the year 663 trees were plant
ed and 1883 dead trees were removed.
OF the trees planted there wre live
oak. 1922; magnolia, "a; dogwood 81;
sweet gum, 70: sugarberry, rs; palmet-
to. so; lagerstremia, 1876; elm "a; iron
wood, /; red bud, l. crab apple, g To
show the trees that are the hardest
the number of each that were re-
moved is given as follows: Elm, 49,;
mable, /; hickory, /; live oak, /; mag
nolia, g. sycamore, "a; water oak, 81;
chinaberry, 16; ash, 2; mulberry, Is;
wild olive, /; willow, l. sugarberry, l.;
sweet gum, 1. Quite a number of
these trees were blown down and had
to be removed
The report shows that the twenty
nine trees torn up on Thirty-ninth
street by the house drainage work
were replaced. The spring and sum-
mer planting was confined mostly to
plants raised in the greenhouses of
the commission. Enough plants were
propagated to bed out the whole of
Forsyth Park and the Bull street
squares. These plants comprise thou
sands of acalypha, alternanthera, CO.
leus, dahlias, salvlas, etc. For
spring flowers 11.150 hyacinth and tu-
lip bulbs were planted. In addition
to these 2, 100 bulbs that were left over
were put into the ground.
Wants More Room.
In the green house of the commits
sion there are in the neighborhood of
5000 young plants. Chairman Daffin
says that the commission is gradually
accommodating a stock of palms, ferns
and other hot house plants, but that
1t is badly in need of larger quarters
to hold them. on this line Chairman
Dafiin says: "Our present green house
accommodations are barely sufficient
to propagate plants for Forsyth Park,
and the consequence Is that other
parks and the squares are not beauti-
fed to correspond with that park.
What a beautiful effect ii would be
for all our parks and squares to be
embellished as we have succeeded in
having Forsyth Park beautified for the
past two years. The cost would be
small compared with the magnificent
advertising it would give to people out
side of the city and the great pleasure
II 'Woulu ulSlrlDute TO all classes OF cit
liens"
Special attention is called by Chair
man Daffin to the work done on the
Strand. Attention is directed to the
planting of a circle of short staple cot
ton in front of the Cotton Exchange
and In near by spot a plot of Mexi-
can sea island cotton. During the wear
a large quantity of wood was deliv-
cred to the worthy poor of the city.
Mr.. Daffin is greatly pleased-with the
condition of Laurel Grove Cemetery
and the manner in which Supt. Garwes
has performed the duties required of
him. In the report special mention is
made of the death of Foreman Gran
vile Bevill.
Were Fewer BuriaIs.
The report of Henry Garwes. keeper
of Laurel Grove Cemetery was hand
ed in TO the chairman of the Park and
Three Commission yesterday morning
and will be filed with Mr.. Dafin's re-
port to-day. II is shown that there
were fewer interments than during
the previous year by 1872. There were
many more negores buried than dur
ing 1901, but the number of whites
was reduced perceptibly. The number
of colored deaths in the city was the
same as for the previous year. The
figures given this report are of vital
interest and are given below: