The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-27
FIVE WERE DEFEATED
TWO SURPRISES SPRUNG WHEN
NEW ALDERMEN MET.
K0PS AND MELVIN OUT.
J. w. HOWARD AND J. J. STAT
FORD GET THEIR PLACES.

went through WltnOut n break.
GarfunkIe as superintendent of
Police and Lucas as Tax Assessor
the New Men Who HGd No OppOsi-
tiOn - CourshOn New City Physi-
clan and Hennessy N Port Warden.
Reilly on a PensiOn-FIeming is
Lieutenant of Police Standing
Committees Named.
Two city officers in the appointive
class and three in the elective were
defeated in the election before City
Council last night. ]. w. Howard
was elected assistant engineer in place
of ]. deBruyn Hops, appointive, and
]. ]. Stafford was elected chief sani-
tary inspector in place of Chris Melvin.
These were the surprises.
Ordinances were introduced and
passed putting Superintendent of Po-
lice Reilly on a pension of $666.66 a
year and creating the office of lieu
tenant of police, to which Sergt Wal
ter Fleming was elected. Another or
dinance provides that the Mayor shall
appoint a food inspector. Assistant
(iCih vi lllG Wal hCl ~ '" NA
will be appointed and Paul H. Broome
will be named by the Mayor as as
sistant clerk of the market. Charles
Garfunkel for superintendent of police,
and Marion Lucas for tax assessor
were elected without opposition. In
every case where there was no OPP
position, except in that of the city at
torney, the Mayor was instructed to
cast the ballot of election.
New Police Ordinance.
The ordinance passed for the bene-
fit of Superintendent of Police Reilly is
a general one and provides that the
officer on pension must render active
service in case of emergency, if called
upon by the Mayor or superintendent
of police. 1t also provides that If
charges are preferred against such a
pensioned officer by the superintendent
of police, or any citizen, for conduct
unbecoming an officer, and they shall
be proven to the satisfaction of Coun-
ell, he shall be stricken from the PEN
sion roll. The ordinance was intro
duced by Alderman Dixon and was
unanimously passed. 1t provides fur
Their that such retired officers must
reside in the city and that in the
event of their removal their pension
shall cease. .t,.'.i ~ tkCa III
Following the passage of this gem
eral ordinance an ordinance was intro
duced by Chairman Grayson of the Po-
lice Committee putting Supt. Reilly on
the roll of retired officers on pension.
There was a petition read from mare
than a hundred citizens asking that If
a pension should be granted Supt. Reil-
ly that he be allowed 500 a month.
This petition was read and received as
information.
The City Physician Contest.
In the election of three white city
physicians DR.. Osborne received 10
votes, DIR. Johnson IL, DR.. Courshon
IL and Dr. Saliba 4. The first three
were declared elected. For colored
physicians F. S. Belcher received one
vote and Dr. Love and DIR. Bugg were
reelected. For chimney contractor fog
the western division McEvoy got 9
votes and e. M. Pittman 4. w. H.
Barclay did not receive a vote. j. Levy
& Co. and Robert Schneider each asked
for 5000 for keeping the city clocks.
Schneider was reelected. For two port
wardens Sullivan received votes, Hen
messy II and Roberts 8. The first two
were elected. For chief sanitary in
spector Stafford got votes and Mel
vim 3.
The first petition read to the new
board was one from George j. Baldwin
asking that a committee of three be
appointed to confer with a committee
from the Georgia Historical Society
with a view to establishing public
library. This was done at once. The
committee is made up of Mayor Myers
and Aldermen Dixon, Thomas and Da-
want.
Standing Committees.
The standing committees of Council
announced by Mayor Myers, are as fol-
lows:
Accounts-Aldermen Davant. Schroe-
der and Dixon.
Observation-Disclosures Canty, Cold
ing, Watson, McKenna and Hartman.
City Lots and Opening Streets-Alder-
men Thomas, Glatigny and Schroeder.
Drainage-Aldermen McKenna, Da-
want and Hartman.
F'inance-Aldermen Dixon, Schroeder
Thomas and CAVITY.
Fire-Aldermen Colding, Garfunkel,
Glatigny, McKenna and Davant.
Harbor and Wharves-Aldermen Har-
man, Grayson and Thomas.
Market-Aldermen Schroeder, Canty
and Grayson.
Police-Aldermen Grayson, Hartman
anu schroeder.
Public observation-disclosures Glatigny,
Colding and Watson.
Streets and Lanes-Aldermen Watson.
Dixon. Garfunkel, Glatigny and Nc
Kenna.
Water-AlderInen Garfunke1, Watson
and Davant.
Special Committee House Drainage
Aldermen Thomas. Dixon and Colding.
Sanitary Board-Hon. Herman
Myers, chairman; Health officer w. f.
Drummer, secretary: Aldermen Dixon,
Hartman and Citizens ]. NJ. Solomons,
Rev. w. c. Schaeffer. Col. Beirne
Gordon.
City Officers.
The balloting for city officers result
ed as follows:
Clerk of Council, William P. Bailey.
City treasurer, Charles S. Hardee
City marshal, Henry Z. Dreeson.
City engineer, William ]. Winn.
City attorney, William Garrard.
Didector of public works, George NJ.
Gadsden.
Health officer. William F. Drummer,
NJ. d.
City physicians (white), Elton S. os-
borne, @. H. Johnson, B. Courshon;
(colored), j. H. Bugg, P. E. Love.
superintendent and Engineer water
works, l. U. Kinsey.
Harbor master, James Mcbride.
Recorder, Shelby Myrick
Clerk of market, Alex Mendel.
Assistant clerk of market, -
Superintendent of police, Charles
Garfunkel.
/. Lieutenant of police, Walter Flem-
ing.