The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-09-09
City Council Held Quite
an Interesting Session
Last Night
A LIVELY DISCUSSION
ON SEWERAGE SfSTEM
Special Committee Rendered a Report
Which Created Considerable Talk
Among Members-other Bus
iness Handled.

The regular semi-,nonthly meeting
of the city council occurred last night
and quite a bunch of important mat
ters were transacted. Those present
were Mayor Crovatt and Alderman
Downing. Dart. Tupper. Wood. Aiken,
and Newman.
The minues of the last two meetings
were read ana before confirmation of
the minutes of the last meeting, Judge
Courtland Symmes. as attorney for
Gilbert Williams, requested that coun-
G., amend the minutes so as to make
certain voucher read in favor OF
himself as attorney, instead of Gil
bert williams On vote of council the
clerk was instructed to amend his
minutes accordingly.
A communication was read from e.
n. Dart. agent for the estate of E. G.
= Dart, protesting against the unsan-
itary condition OF certain property
south of Johnson and east OF Prince
streets. alleged to obtain because OF
certain open drains passing through
said property. The communication
was referred to the committee on pub
lc works,
G. E. Paine, general superintendent
h The Postal Telegraph-Cable Compa-
ny made application to council for the
gtanting Of permission to construct
his telegraph lines in this city. The
application was tabled on account OF
an ordinance on the subject would be
introduced later in the evening.
AT this stage of the meeting reg
u.ar volcano was precipitated by the
r, aiding of the report of the special
ct mmittee appointed to Investigate
the plumbing conditions in the city.
qhe report in full is as follows.
TO the Mayor and Council; Your
special committee on inspection OF
plumbing beg to make the following
rerort on same After spending the
q eater part Of two days in this work
ycnr committee has come to the con
cmsion that the plumbing in the city
is done without any regard to the or
c.pance governing the same. We find
at sections $40 par. d. AMI f. 379,
3s5. 1856, 1888, SS9, 800. 399, 4l6, 42O
and APT OF the code have been most
fagrantly violated and the health OF
our city jeopardized to that extent
that it win take heroic measures to
remedy the evil before it is too late
These violations are still going on in
new work that it not yet completed,
and we fully realize that our only safe
ty is in the strict enforcement of our
sewerage laws which were framed
b one of the greatest sewerage eX-
lerts this country has ever produced
Ine responsibility of the intorcement
Gl these laws rests upon this board,
and grave indeed is this responsiblt
Ity.
Your committee would earnestly re
commend that the present inspector
IL dismissed for passing plumbing
mat IS constructed IN violation OF the
sewerage ordinance, and that the city
employ a first class plumber rs
inspector who shall make a house &c
house inspection Of all the Plumbing
knd have such changes made SO thai
ali plumbing shall comply str.
with the ordinance governing the
spme. Respectfully submitted,
w. r. Dart,
Chairman.
w. NJ. Upper.
Immediately after the reading ol
the report Alderman Dart TOOK the
II, Or and in very strong speech ray
cIed its adoption. He pointed ou
the fact that plumbing was being dont
here in Brunswick without respect u
c.ty ordinances and that the pubht
heath was being ieopardized day b,
cay. Alderman Dart stated that thu
p. esent sewerage system was the hop'
Ct Brunswick, that 1t was planned an
Iut into active effect by the most ex
pert sanitary authority in the co4ntf.
and he thought it great pity that tn
, system was being fuincd aud tn
health Of the city impa'-9i y presen
conditions.
Alderman upper agreed with Aide
an Dart. He had pceet,ih.iy son
into this ins nssstigation he SAID, au
willie he kew nothtng OF sduItas
Plumbing al rhe same ;IEe be Wa
p, sitiye that the sanitary inspecto