The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-13
PAY DAMAGES FIRST
COMMISSIONERS INSTRUCT COUNTY
ATTORNEY TO ASCERTAIN
AND PAY.
THEN OPEN WEST END ROUTE.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT DE-
CLARED OF PUBLIC UTILITY.

Crossing at Augusta Road and Cen
from Bay street Extended to
River Also COndemRed-As soon as
Toll Gate Is Removed. the County
VIII Give $1,000 Check to skid
away she'll Road Company-RcSi =
dents Want Road Between Isle "a
Hope and Bethesda PAY cd-Wcst
Savannnhinns Complain of In
sanitary Conditions.
By an order passed at the March
meeting of the County Commissioners
yesterday afternoon the proposed West
End route was declared of public util-
ity and the county attorney was in
structed to take the necessary legal
steps to ascertain and pay the dam
age resulting to property owners, be-
fore the road is laid out and estab-
lished or worked upon by the county.
An order was also passed abolishing
the grade crossing on the Augusta
road, where it is intersected by the
Central of Georgia Railway, the award
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The action of the commissioners is
comprised in several different orders,
an order being passed relative to the
opening of each of the different roads,
and for the adjustment of the cross
ing. New Factory road is ordered
widened, as are also the other ave
nues, the order reciting that it is neces-
sary in order to make road of fifty
feet, THAT sixty feet be condemned.
This action is supposed to be taken to
meet the contentious of the DIRECTORS
that the law does not provide for the
opening of a road more than fifty feet
in width.
Day street to River.
Notification is also given of the con-
demnation of the new public road
commencing on Bay street extended,
about 1850 feet west of Schwarz ave-
nue., and running in a northwesterly
direction $500 feet to Stiles avenue,
the road leading from Bay street ex-
tended to the Savannah river.
A warranty deed to the Skidaway
road was rendered to the board by
the Skidaway Shell Road Company, the
commissioners ordering that upon the
removal of the tell gate, on written
authority of the county to do so, the
clerk of the board, G. Reuben Butler,
shall draw a warrant on the treasurer
of the county for $4,000, the amount
bargained for between the parties.
A petition asking the county to sur
face the road between Bethesda and
Isle of Hope with shell or Augusta
gravel was read to the board and re-
ferred to the Committee on Roads and
Bridges with power to act. The road
begins at a point about a mile to the
east of Sandfy Station and extends
along behind Cedar Hammock and the
settlement between Cedar Hammock
and Bethesda to Bethesda avenue, its
length being about two miles.
Residents Register Kick.
A petition of the residents of West
Savannah, calling the attention of the
commissioners to the unsanitary con-
dition of the vicinity, caused by the
accumulation of water in the streets,
was read, and referred to the Com
mittee on Drainage with power to act
petition from the members of the
Savannah bar, asking that the county
have the maps in the office of the
clerk of the Superior Court bound, was
referred to the Committee on Court
House and Jail with power to act.
The superintendent Report.
The report of Superintendent of Pub
III WORKS w. H. Cndplln was read 10
the board. This disclosed the enor-
nifty of the work at present being
done by the county. The convicts, of
which there are 305 now in the camps,
have done much work during the past
months in the following localities:
Pipemaker swamp near the Hermitage,
the Dean Forest road, Augusta road,
old and new bitches az Isle of Hope,
Levy avenue, Telfair canal, Telfair
road and fremont road. More than
HOO lineal feet have been surfaced on
LaRoche@avenue.
The commissioners awarded the con-