The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-09
GADSDEN WILL
TEST CITY LIGHTS
COUNCIL EXPECTED TO ACT.
AT MEETING NEXT WEEK RESOLU-
TION MAY BE OFFERED.

Director of Public Works Will BE
instructed TO Make n Test of Some
of the street Lights and Report
to AIdermen-Matter Has Been Up
TO streets and Lanes Committee
for some Time and il VIII Now
h BE Taken In by Board.
Although Alderman Davant has can
celed his order for an electric light
testing machine. because it was not
known whether the city would pay for
it, the light question is not going to
be dropped and there is every reason
to believe that it will be brought up
al the meeting of Council next Wed
nesday night According to a plan now
on foot resolution is to be introduced
in the Committee of the Whole to have
the director of public works make a
test of the lights and report to the
aldermen.
1t has been charged that the lights
which the Savannah Electric Company
is furnishing the city are not up to
the standard set in the contract. The
officials of the electric company deny
that this is true. The charge against
the company was made by Alderman
Davant in an open council meeting
and Mayor Myers, presiding, stated to
the chairman of the Streets and Lanes
Committee that the matter should be
investigated. The Mayor said the city
should get what it was paying for or
else stop paying.
Will Test at Once.
The Streets and Lanes Committee
has now had the matter in charge
for some time and Council as a whole
will probably take a hand, unless the
committee decides to look into the
question at once. The present plan
is for Council to instruct the director
of public works to test some of the
lights and report. He is a man of
recognized ability and any test that
he might make will be accepted as
absolutely correct.
1t is thought the resolution will ask
the public works director to make the
tests as soon as he can, as the mat
ter has been hanging fire for so long
If the city is getting as good lights as
are called for in the contract, then
the tests by this official will, of course
end the matter. If the lights are not
=
ed, then the city officials will take
steps to make the company furnish
the lights called for.
As to More Lights.
Alderman Glatigny is getting tired of
waiting on the light investigation, and
intends to push the petitions that have
been made for additional lights at once
He says he thinks he will be out of
the city at the time of the next Coun-
Gil meeting, but at the meeting fol-
lowing he intends to introduce a reso-
luton for the placing of seven addi-
tional lights in the South Side.
The lights are badly needed said
Alderman Glatigny last night Here
tofore they have been held up because
of the question of the quality of the
| lights now in use. / am not going to
wait any longer on that, though At
the next meeting l am going to put in
resolution for some of the lights
needed in the South Side.
If the lights that the city is getting
are not what the contract calls for,
why the company should be made to
make the lights good. But new lights
are needed and there is no use waiting
on the other matter any longer. l have
had the matter before the Streets and
Lanes Committee and have been put
off repeatedly. l am going to try Coun-
Gil now, and l am not going to stop
until l get the lights, either"