The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-17
YEAR.
Paving Many Streets.

In fact, each of the last three years,
1902 1903 and 1904, has established a
new record in the amount of paving
done. 1t is doubtful if the record for
1904. though. will be broken in the
next year or two, owing TO the pres
sure of other improvements, which call
vigorously for attention. Mayor Myers,
though, confidently looks forward to
over five more miles of streets being
paved. mainly with vitrified brick, dur
ing the term of office to which he will,
in all human probability. be chosen
by the people on Jan. 10, just twenty
three days off.
IF this is done it will make fully
nineteen miles of streets paved during
the eight years he has been Mayor
continuously" said an alderman yester-
day in discussing the subject. Taking
the first two years he served, 1886,
when the first vitrified bricks were
laid in Savannah, for the entire ten
years Mayor Myers will have laid a
lasting monument to his administra-
ton of city affairs in about twenty
one miles of paved highways. Street
paving and the new City Hall will be
forever regarded as the chief features
of his direction of municipal affairs
Mayor Myers faith in vitrified brick
which he succeeded in having intro
duced as a paving material in 1896
has never wavered, and at the expira-
ton of his next term of office he will
be able to drive over about sixteen
miles of the finest vitrified brick pave
ments in America, laid under his ad-
ADMINISTRATION. This is record that
probably no mayor of any other city,
OF the same size as Savannah, can
enjoy"
"Citizens CIamOr for Paving"
There was a time" Mayor Myers
N n ftxxrta os&
looked with almost disfavor on street
paving, when many We're opposed to
the outlay, and others considered it
as unnecessary beyond a few BUSH
ness thoroughfares. This spirit still
fingered in a measure as near as ten
years ago. To-day the difficulty pre-
scented TO Council is how to satisfy
citizens, who wish to have the streets
improved, rather than overcome their
antagonism to such betterments. No
where is the public better educated to
the benefits that flow from good paw
ed streets than in Savannah.
The constant o' ect lessons they see
all around them have convinced even
those who were doubters that it pays
IN every way to pave city. to inn
prove the appearance of its highways
10 bring them up to the modern stand
ards of comfort and convenience.
without mourning any debt for the
municipality, without placing too
onerous a burden on our people, the
work OF paving can go forward stead
fly until Savannah takes front rank
among the cities of the world in this,
as IL already does in some other re-
spects. In the city, not including the
extended limits beyond, Forty-second
street, there are about one hundred
and twenty miles OF streets and lanes.
Eighty Miles Predicted.
1T IL my confident belief that at the
close Of another ten years we will find
not less than eighty miles OF them
paved. The unpayed street will then
be the exception. have no doubt
that the county Will continue It's policy
Of road Improvement, during the same
time and Savannah and Chatham
county viii lead the South IN emoot b
roadways, meeting the most eNacting
demands of business and ~ pleasure.
IL ~ such improvements AZ these
That VIII make Savannah the IDEAL
city fof residence a. well 81 tor COM
infrce, trade and manufactures. Il Il
fnch improvements that viii tend 30
accelerate that progress which we 40
irnlif hope and believe a. ~ exceed
NpfluN the neat decade. anything
winch Va have known in fhe past"