The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-09
RAISED HIS SALARY
BECAUSE OF MORE WORK COMMITS
SIONERs ORDERED INCREASE.
$1,000 FOR co. PHYSICIAN.
DALE AVENUE WILL BE REsUR-
FACED.

Dean Forest Road VIII be Put in
Good CondItiOn-New Road from
Augusta Road to Dundee Canal
Route of Causten's Blur Road Will
he Chnnged-ROnd to Wilmington
! VIII Not be Built SOOn-GnrbaGe
Question to Come Up at Next Meet
inE-West End Extension to be
Then Considered.
! In consideration of the additional
! services required of the county physi-
| clan by reason of the Jail hospital, his
| salary was advanced to $1,000 year
| by the County Commissioners at their
! January meeting yesterday. The in
| crease is operative from Jan. l, and
| will continue until the further order
| of the board. The former salary of
the county physician was $1,000, the in
| crease being $500 per annum.
| Many other matters came up for
consideration by the commissioners,
most of which were relative to the
| Improvement and construction of coun-
| ty roads and drainage. The superin-
tendent of public roads was directed
to put the Dean Forest road, from the
Augusta road to the Ogeechee road, in
proper condition for public travel. This
means that in addition to the construc-
ton of the road-bed and the removal
of broken bridges and trunks of trees,
the railroad crossing near which Bour-
duin was killed will be graded, so that
a crossing may be affected.
To Resurface Dale Avenue.
The commissioners also ordered that
Dale avenue be resurfaced with ce-
ment gravel and directed the clerk of
the board to call for sealed proposals
for the work. The work contemplated
by the board comprises the resurfacing
of the entire road, a distance of two
| and a tenth miles.
on cOnsiderat ton of the petition OF
| A. S. Nichols, and others, to open a
new road from the Augusta road
| to the Dundee canal - distance
of about 500 feet-the board decided
| that such a road would be of public
| utility, and appointed a board of re-
| viewers, consisting of w. w. Kellar,
! u. c. Newton and Harris Cope, Road
| Commissioners, to examine the pro-
posed course of the road and mark
same off, and report back to the
| hoard.
The Committee on Drainage of the
| County commissioners was authorized
to lay out and construct a drainage
system for the Telfair swamp in this
county. Reviewers We're appointed to
change the direction of the Causten's
| Bluff road running from a point near
| the Catholic Cemetery, through the
golf links and the Screven property, to
| salt water, so as to make the public
road conform to the streets. the land
| having been slrbdivided into building
| lots.
After considering the petition of w.
| w. Gordon and others, for the con-
| struction of road to Wilmington ISL
and, the board decided that it was not
able at present to undertake the con-
struction, since there is now mapped
out enough work to engage the county
| forces for two years, to say nothing
of the funds available for the pur-
| pose Two other petitions, for work on
the underground and Monteith roads,
| took the same course, for the same
| reasons.
Question of Oyster Rights.
The much mooted question of the
| Wilmington Island oyster beds came
up before the board. Several parties
had applied for oyster leases on the
! Half Moon river. a small stream back
| of Wilmington Island. The grant of
| the applications was resisted by certain
citizens of the island, who commended
that the beds are now, and have for
| thirty years, been natural oyster beds,
and that the commissioners have there
| fore no authority to grant leases, since
they are, therefore, public property.
The applicants were represented by
Beckett & Beckett. while the services
of r. l.. Colding were retained by the
citizens who are resisting the grant.
The matter was not determined al
the meeting yesterday, but was con-
tinued over to a special meeting to be
| held on Wednesday next. At the meet
ing yesterday the county attorney in
timated his decision in the matter, say
ing that he was of the opinion that I'M
der recent decision of the Supreme
Court the parties could not resist the
grant of the leases, except in the event
they had themselves planted the oys-
tiers; and that the only recourse which
those resisting the grants had other
wise was in the Superior Court
A petition of the Georgia Telephone
Company, to be allowed to construct
poles along the eastern side of the Tel
fair road, commencing at point where
the old Savannah and Ogeechee canal
lnterSeclS ana running TO the main line
of the Georgia and Alabama Railroad
was referred to the Committee on Roads
and Bridges, with power to act.
Reports Filed Too Late.
Neither the matter of the garbage
| contract with the city or the extern
sion of the West End Line of the Sa-
vannah Electric Company were taken
up, the contract in the garbage case
having been drawn up too late, and
the report of the reviewers having
been filed too short a time before the
meeting of the board. Both of these
matters will probably be taken up at
the meeting of the commissioners next
Wednesday, as both will by that time
be ready to be taken under advise
| ment.
Superintendent Chaplin rendered
his monthly report of the work done
by the county forces during the month
past, showing in what localities the
| convicts are now employed, and the
amount of work done in the various
departments of ditching, surfacing and
drainage.
Before the commissioners met in
caucus, and directly afterwards, three
of the constables recently elected were
sworn in. These were w J. Barrett,
| from the First district; w. F. Con-
stantine. from the Second district, and
joe Brown. colored, from the Fifth dis
| trict.