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TO GRANT TIIE PETITION.
THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE
STREET RAILROADS.
An Ordinance Permitting the Use of
Electricity and the Overhead System
by All the Lines Under Certain Re
strictions—The Committee of the
Whole Submits Two Reports to the
Council Alderman Falligant Turns
Loose on the City and Suburban and
Coast Line Managements—The En
terprise Company’s Petition for an
Exclusive Franchise Sat Down Upon.
It was street railway day with the city
council yesterday. The issue began
in the caucus, which lasted forty
minutes, and it is understood that the ordi
nance below, which was read the
first time, and which will pass at the next
meeting, had a section whacked out of it in
the caucus room which provided that, in
addition to the usual and regular taxes re
quired of such companies, the sum of SI,OOO
annually should be paid, and as soon as the
companies should adopt, with the consent of
council, some system regarded as safer and
more acceptable than the overhead Trolly
system, and should remove the poles and
wires from the streets, the levying of the
tax would be discontinued.
When the matter came up in open coun
cil the following majority report was re
ceived as information:
That the petitions of the Savannah Street
and Rural Resort Railway Company, City and
Suburban Railway Company, and the Coast Line
Railroad Company, for the use of electricity as
a motive power be granted, and they are here
by authorized to erect an overhead system, sub
ject to such conditions and restrictions as tbe
city council may from time to time adopt.
A WHACK AT MR. PARSONS’ LINES.
A minority report by Alderman
Falligaut was listened to with the closest
attention by the council and Capt. John
ston, president of the City and Suburban
and Coast Line. It was as follows:
In the matter of the above petition. I do not
see on wbat grounds the City and Suburban and
Coast Line railway companies can come before
a council, who are trustees of the people of Sa
vannah, and expect any more favors to be
granted to them. Tbe Whitaker street car line
is a part of the Savannah, Skidaway and Sea
board Railway .Company's original line, granted
to the stockholders of that line with two pur
poses in view: one tbe advancement and
growth of the city southward, arid the
other speedy and direct connection with
tbe suburban residences of a
number of our citizens who helped to build the
road and whose summer places were along its
lines. Riebts of way within and without the
limits of tlie city were obtained for the railway,
and many thousands of dollars have been in
vested along its lines by citizens of Savannah,
and good faith requires that these lines shall be
maintained or else the charter forfeited. The
city granted t! e use of the line in the city as a
part of an inside and outside line for tbe con
venience of the people of Savannah: and the
abandonment of one (art of the line should be
an abandonment of all parts, leaving the city
free to dispose of the Whitaker street privilege
to such new party and on such new terms as it
pleases. In other words, the city did not grant
the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Rail
way Company the use of Whitaker street
in pervetuo, but only for such term
as the charter itself had to run, which, I be
lieve, was twenty years, and which has there
fore now expired, the railroad company ohiy
remaining in possession as a sort or tenant at
wilt The council, therefore, may be in position
to retake possession of this franchise, especially
as it seems to have been originally obtained
without consideration, and is certainly not
being used now with that respect for the prom
ises under which it was obtained which is re
quisite to a proper regard for the Interests of
the people of Savaunab. The streets of the
city are for all useful purposes the property of
the whole people, and not that of a class or corpo
ration, and all uses to which they may be put by
consent of council must be for the good of the
whole people, and not for the special benefit of
a class or corporation.
THE CITY AND SCBCRBAN’S HISTORY.
The City and Suburban railway is tbe out
growth of the wrecked Savannan, Skidaway
and Seaboard railroad, in which $200,000 of the
good earnings of our people were swamped, it
is the further product of $:r>0,000 more of
watered bonds and stocks, to make which g< od
the citizens of Savannah are made to pay
double fares in going from one part of the city
to another, and are compelled to go by devious
and tedious routes in order that such
double fares may be exacted from them. This
company bad a track on Anderson street, con
necting with its Whitaker and Abercorn street
lilies, so that parents and families wishing to
visit tbeir dead at Laurel Grove cemetery could
take the cross line and save time. The astute
president of that road saw coin in grief, and
under pretext that this connecting link did
not pay makes the tributes of love a measure
of profit by requiring sucli grief-stricken suf
ferers to come down to Liberty street for one
fare, and go back again on the liarnard and
West Hroad street line with another fare, thus
making each tribute of love pay 20 cents for a
10 cents ride.
The same thing occurs now in going to the
Coast lAne depot. Passengers must pay 5 cents
to get to the Broughton street line, and 5 cents
more by that line to the depot, again squeezing
out of the people of Savannah 10 cents for a
6-cent ride, when if these changes had not been
made the 5-ceut ride gave more convenient and
less tedious service. These entire new arrange
ments have been made not to benefit Savannah
or her citizens, but to find means of squeezing
out of her long-suffering people more money
for less service, and this service itself vexatious,
roundabout, unnecessarily costly, and by no
means w hat the people of Savannah are en
titled to in return for the use of the streets for
street car purposes.
This company, also, has grossly outraged a
goodly number of the citizens of Savannah
whose summer homes are at or near its termini.
With the malignant threat made by its presi
dent that he would ruin a valuable section of
this county, its policy has been directed to ac
complish such ruin anti to take vengeance upon
and inflict material loss upon many of our
worthy citizens, who are put by him in the posi
tion of having to abandon their business in the
city for half of every day or abandon their sum
mer homes, where large sums have been in
volved and where their families spend their
summers.
1 repeat that a company or companies pur
suing and still pursuing sucn a malicious course,
and using artifice, pretext and cuming whereby
to fleece the people of Savannah, have poor
grounds on whicu to come before a body like
this, the trustees of her people’s wellfare, and
ask further opportunity to make more money
by a more comprehensive application of the
squeezing process.
THE ORDINANCE AGREED UPON.
The minority report was not argued, but
was also received as information, and was
followed by au ordinance by Alderman
Carson, which was read the first time. The
ordinance, omitting the title, Is as follows:
Section 1. Be it ordained by the mayor and
aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council
assembled, That, subject to the terms and con
ditions hereinafter expressed, the Savannah
Street and Rural Resort Railroad Company, the
City and Suburban Railway Company and the
Coast bine Railway Company, turee corpora
tions located in the city of Savannah, be, and
they are respectively authorized and empow
ered, to use and operate railway carriages and
cars to be propelled by electricity on and over
their tracks now laid and used in
the said city of Savannah. The electricity
to be used as a motive power shall be sup
plied by means of a single overhead
line or conductor such as is ordinarily employed
in the system commonly called the single
troliey ranway system. The poles for the sup
port of the cross-section wires and protection
w ires, as well as the parallel wires overhanging
the traces, shall be placed and the work shall
be done under the supervision of the mayor and
aldermen of the city of Savannah, or of such
person or persons whom the said municipal
Corporation may designate to represent it the
respective railway companies paying for such
services as tue said mayor and aldermen of the
city of Savannah may determine. The said
parallel wires shad not be less than nineteen
feet from the level of the street in the center
and shall be protected by two wires suspended
above them at a height of not less than six
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, that the said
railway companies shall run and operate their
tmrs on the said streets at a careful and cau
tious speed, which shall not exceed at any
time north of Liberty street in said city a rate
ot six miles per hour, and south or said Liberty
street a rate not exceeding ten miles per hour
In turning a corner of any street In anv part of
the city, it shall be the duty of the emuloyes of
the said compay to proceed very smwfy and
cautiously and by ruining a bell, or by some
other good and suffice nt notice, to signal
the approach of the cars of the said com
panies. It shall also bo the duty of the
sad employes, whether turning a corner or not
to give ample notice to drivers of vehicles and
pedestrians of the approach of the said cars
and to afford all reasonable care for said drivers
and pedestrians to avoid collisions or accidents,
tbe said employes being bound la ail these re
spects to use great caution and carefulness.
Should any employe fail or neglect to comply
with the provisions of this section, or any one
of them, he shall on conviction before the
police court of the city of Savannah be punished
by a fine of not less than $lO or more than SIOO,
with the alternative of imprisonment not ex
ceeding thirty Jays,in the discretion of the court.
Sac. 3. lie it further ordained. That all the
works and shops of said companies which shall
avail themselves of the privileges herein
granted to employ electricity in operating its
Bant lines and systems shall be built and located
within the limits of the said city of Savannah,
and shall be kept w ithin said limits, and if this
be not done the rights herein granted shall be
i/jso facto forfeited.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, that the
poles, wires and other appliances shall be
elected and used so as not to interfere unnec
essarily with or unnecessarily impede the public
travel in said city, and so a* not v' iro rfere
with or injure the property of the citizens of the
said city, and so as not to interfere with or
impair the efficiency of the city's tire alarm
system. If the mayor and aldermen of the city
of Savannah snail determine, the city shall
have the privilege of attaching, without charge,
any of the wires for its fire alarms to tbe poles
used by a railroad company. Tbe said com
panies shall attach and string tbeir wires in
sucti manner as not to interfere with the at
tachments of or come in contact with the wires
of any electric light or telephone company.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, that in order
that the citizens of Savannah shall be assured
of an improved street railway service, it is
made one of the conditions of ibis g -rvice, upon
tne adoption under this ordinance of electricity
as a motive power, the railway company adopt
ing and using the same shall be required to
commence running its cats not later than C
o’clock a. m.. and to run them continuously to
U o’clock p. m„ at intervals not exceeding fif
teen minutes, and from a o'clock p. in. to 12
p. m. not exceeding one half hour. The fare
to lie charged by the said companies from any
point on tbeir line of road w ithin tbe said city
of Savaunali shall not exceed 6 cents to each
passenger to any other point ou its hue of road
by day or by night.
Br.c. 6. Beit furt her ordained that a railroad
company using the privileges granted by this
ordinance shall guarantee to save and hold
harmless the mayor and aldermen of the city
of Savannah against all claims of damage to
property or person arising from or based ou tbe
erection or use of any of the appliances con
nected with the motive power of electricity, or
from the running of cars or the laying of
tracks, or from any other means or causes con
nected therewith, and each of said companies
shall defend at its own cost and expense any
suit that may be brought against the mayor and
aldermen of the city of Savannah to assert any
claim or claims of this character.
Sec, 7. Be it further ordained. That each of
the said companies using electricity under this
ordinance shall be subject to tbe paving, police
and other ordinances w inch the said mayor and
aldermen of the city of Savannah may see
proper to pass, and particularly such ordinances
as may he hereafter passed looking to the pro
tection of persons or property; and nothing
herein contained sliall he held or construed as
in anywise limiting or abridging tbe power of
tbe said major and aldermen of the city of
Savannah as to future ordinances.
Sec 8, Be it further ordained that in the
event the use of the said electric system shall
at any time be declared dangerous by tbe coun
cil of the city of Savannah, all of the rights
and privileges herein granted, shall be at once
terminated, and the said mayor and aldermen
of the city of Savaunali hereby expressly and
fully reserve the power to cause the discontinu
ance of the use of electricity as a motive power
in the streets of the said city whenever, in the
judgment of the said Mayor and Aldermen of
the city of Savannah, the public safety sore
quires.
Sec. !. Be it further ordained that before
any of the railway companies shall begin the
construction of the electric system under this
ordinance, it shall enter into a written contract,
to be prepared by tbe city attorney, to be filed
with the clerk of council, agreeing to be bound
by all the terms and conditions and stipulations
of this ordinance, and tbe privilege hereby
granted Is confined to the tracks now being
used, it being necessary to obtain consent of
council for the use under the electric system of
any new street or Bidetrack.
Sec. 10. Repeal ; conflicting ordinances.
AN INVESTIGATION TO BE HAD.
Alderman Falligant was not, however, to
let the matter rest, and be introduced the
following resolution:
litarth'ud, That the city attorney be requested
to inform council whether the City and
Surburban Railway Company, by al andoning
the line of the Savannah, Skidaway and Sea
board Railway Company from Second street,
south, have not forfeiteu any rights to the use
of Whitaker street, which was originally
granted to the Savannah, Skidaway and Sea
board Railway Company as a part of its line;
and further, whether the privileges granted to
the said Savannah. Skidaway and Seaboard
Railway Company by the city extend beyond
the life of the charter of said Savannah, Skid
away and Seaboard Railway Company.
Alderman Myers opposed the resolution
on the ground that the city had nothing to
do with what the’ railroad company had
done outside of the city.
Alderman Falligant supported the resolu
tion in an earnest speech in the same line of
argument as ran through his minority re
port.
Alderman Carson said he thought there
was no harm for the city council to know if
the company had forfeited any of its rights,
and he, therefore, favored the adoption of
the resolution.
The resolution was then put and carried,
the mayor voting on a tie vote in the
affirmative, stating: “I vote to investigate
matters.” The vote stood:
Ayes —Aldermen Bailey, Harris, Mills,
Read, Falligant, Carson and Mayor
Schwarz— 7.
Nays —Aldermen Harmon, Myers, Cann,
Haines, McDonough and Nichols—G.
TILE ENTERPRISE CO.’S PROPOSITION.
The communication from W. B. Stillwell,
president of the Enterprise Street Railway
Company, asking council to name a sum at
which it would grant the right of the streets
for the exclusive use of electricity as a mo
tive power on vehicles and street cars, was
cuffed about like an interloper in the camp.
Alderman Falligant said that a proposi
tion providing for such a monopoly oughtn’t
to be considered.
Alderman Carson suggested that an
answer be returned that the city is not dis
posed to give the exclusive right to any
company.
A motion was made that the letter lie on
the table, and Alderman Falligant moved a
substitute that it lie under the table.
At this point Alderman Nichols, after a
whispered consultation with City Attorney
Adams, announced that the city hadn’t the
power to grant an exclusive right of this
character, and the proposition ceased to be
the foot ball of the meeting.
Among those who wore present at the
council meeting were W. G. Cooper, presi
dent of the Belt Line; Capt. H. C. Cunning
ham, counsel for the company, and Capt.
Janies H. Johnston, president of
the City and Suburban lire. Capt.
Cunningham was asked last night
if the ordiuanoe introduced by Alderman
Gann, in its present shape, will be accept
able to the Belt Line company, and he re
plied that unusual powers are reserved by
the mayor and aldermen in section 8. It,
could be very objectionable, for Instance, if
the city should fall into the hands of a
mayor and board of aldermen not up to the
standard of intelligence. On the whole,
however, he expressed the opinion that if
the ordinance is passed it will be accepted
by the Belt Line company.
CITY COUNCIL CHIPS.
A Budget of Information from Yester
day’s Meeting.
The city treasurer was instructed by the
city council yesterday to proceed to collect
the assessments for asphalting Bull and
Harris streets in the vicinity of the De Soto.
“Two anchors out,” was the comment of
an alderman when Mayor Schwarz cast the
deciding vote on the Falligant resolution to
investigate the City and Suburban railway
affairs.
The street railway shed across the
Ogeechee road at Battery park is to be re
moved, Mayor Schwarz having requested
President Johnston to take it down. This
is the outcome of Mr. Bourquin’s complaint
on account of the accidents to vehicles by
reason of the obstruction.
E. W. Tilton, dismissed from the police
force by the mayor for insubordination and
neglect of duty, appealed to council and
made a statement to that body yesterday
afternoon. It was followed by an eloquent
speech by the mayor, which carried the
council by storm, and the mayor’s action
was unanimously indorsed.
I The clerk of the market having selected
TIIF. MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE-26, 1890.
Richard Johnson as his assistant the ap
pointment was referred to the mayor and
committee on market for approval.
The city treasurer has been instructed to
return the purchase money received from
the owner) of the Springfield planta
tion, whioh by mistake was received on the
ban:* of tbe 30 per cent, discount allowed
the ground renters.
The Central railroad l as been authorized
to raise the bridge over tbe Ugeechee canal,
at Bay street, from two to three feet to en
able it to move its lighters to and from the
wharves and the Central compress.
Gabriel Bowen wants tbe city to pay him
S4O for damage to his truck garden by the
backing up of the waters of Bilbo canal.
The matter has been referred to City Attor
ney Adams for an opinion as to the city’s
liability.
A petition was sent in to council yester
day for an electric lamp at Congress and
Whitaker streets. •
Yesterday was the first afternoon meet
ing under the Nicholls resolution for day
meetings during the heated term.
Great broad palmetto fans of a Dew
pattern were laid in front of each member
of council yesterday, and they were used
vigorously.
Every member was in his seat yesterday,
and it was what might be called a working
meeting. More than the usual amount of
business was transacted.
WEST BROAD’S IMPROVEMENT.
Alderman Harmon’s Paving Plan
Tabled by the Council.
A resolution by Alderman Harmon,
authorizing the street and lane committee
to pave West Broad street with granite
blocks, from Stone street to Henry street,
a width of forty feet, developed somo oppo
sition in the city council yesterday after
noon, and the resolution was laid on the
table until the next meeting.
Alderman Bailey tried to get a substitute
adopted authorizing the committee to pur
chase the blocks at one". They can now te
bought for $43 per thousand, or $23 less
per thousand than the same kind of paving
material for Jefferson street cost. The sub
stitute was also laid on the table.
Tbe opposition came from Alderman
Myers. He is opposed to paving now.
Alderman Harmon said they could never
get tbe blocks cheaper. They cannot be
moved by the Central during the cotton
season, but there would be no trouble to get
them now, and West Broad street can be
paved for $42,000. The heavy sand retards
the fire department and the general traffic.
Alderman Myers replied that taxes are
already too high, and he favored keeping a
surplus, so that they will be lightened next
year. He argued that the city will want all
the money available for water improve
ments decided upon.
Aldermen Harmon and Bailey contended
that it would not do to suspend paving im
provements and direct all the funds to the
water department.
Alderman Harmon said after the meeting
that he will bring his resolution up at tbe
next meeting.
Alderman Falligant said that everything
ought not to go to tbe water department;
the other departments were as much en
titled to a share of the city’s funds as the
water committee.
TO OPEN NEW STREETS.
The City Closes a Trade for Rights of
Way in the lixtension.
The city council at its meeting yesterday
authorized the special committee on open
ing streets to close a trade with the execu
tors of the Waldburg estate, which will
open up several streets in the southern ex
tension. Tbe resolution authorizing the
trade details the streets to be opened, and is
as follows:
That tbe special committee on opening streets
lie and they are hereby authorized to close a
trade with the executors of the estate of Jacob
Waldburg upon tbe following terms:
The said executors to convey to the city of
Savannah the land necessary to bo taken for
the opening of the following streets through
the property of the estate, viz.: Second. Third.
Fourth, Fiftu and Sixth streets, running east
and wed; Jefferson and West Broad streets,
running north and South; and also any and all
rights or title the said estate may liavo in Bar
nard and Montgomery streets.
In consideration of the above, tbe city to
convey to the said estate of Jacob Waldburg
all thattractof laud lying between the southern
line of the property of said estate and the
northern line of Seventh street as opened on tho
plan of said city, said tract being bounded east
by western line of Barnard street, west by east
ern line of Burroughs street, exclusive of Jeffer
son, Montgomery and West Broad streets as
already opened, according to the plan of said
city. The city also to convey to said estate the
land necessary to bring the western line of the
estate’s property, known as lot No. 15, up to
Burroughs street.
Tho committee has closed tho negotiation
and the streets will be opened at once.
BEND IN YOUR NAME.
The City Council’s Resolution on the
Census.
The city council took a hand in the cen
sus yestr rday afternoon by unanimously
adopting the following resolution, intro
duced by Alderrtmu Cann:
That his honor, the mayor, be and he
is hereby requested to Lsue a procla
mation urging all citizens whose names
have not been taken by the census enumer
ators to hand their names in to Supervisor
Beckett at once. Also urging citizens who
know of any residents whose names have
not. been taken to forward the names of all
such to the supervisor. That his honor is
further requested to urge the supervisor to
keep his returns open for such corrections
as long as possible.”
MR:. WIH.HRS’ APPEAL.
She Asks the City to Help Her
Children.
Mrs. Mary A. Wiehrs, widow of Fireman
John F. Wiehrs. who was killed by falling
walls at the Miller fire last summer, has
petitioned council for aid, and the petition
was referred at yesterday’s meeting to the
committees on finance and fire.
The petition says that the petitioner “is
the widow of John F. Wiehrs, who was
killed whilo performing his duty as a fire
man on July 1. 1889; that he left her with
five children, the eldest of whom is 14 years
old, and barely earns enough to clothe and
maintain himself properly, and the others
are aged 9, 5 and 3 years, and
15 months, respectively; that she
finds it not only difficult, but
almost impossible to obtain sufficient
money for their support. That in view of
the fact that her husband and the father of
her children was killed in the performance
of his duty as a fireman, she respectfully
and earnestly appeals to your honorable
body to grant her an allowance that will
assist her in clothing and maintaining said
children. She asks nothing for herself, but
invokes help in behalf of her children.
The Citizens’ Land Company.
The Citizens’ Land Company, with a paid
up capital of $40,000, which obtained its
charter a few days ago, organized yester
day by electing the following board of
directors: C. A. Reitze, R. G. Erwin, G.
W. Allen, IL C. Davis and A. Minis. After
the stockholders’ meeting the board met and
elected the following officers: President,
C. A. Reitze; vice president, H. C. Davis;
secretary and treasurer, A. Minis.
G. A. R.’B Going to Boston.
W. S. Hancock Post, Grand Army of the
Republic, held an enthusiastic meeting last
night, and discussed the arrangements for
attending the national encampment in Bos
ton in August. Several members of the
post will attend the encampment.
“Rough on Itch"
Ointment cures Skin Humors, Pimples, Flesh
Worms, Ring Worm, Tetter, Salt Rheum,
Frosted Feet, Chilblains, Itch, Ivy Poison, Bar
ber's Itch, Scald Head, Eczema. 60c. prug
gists or mail. E. S. Wells,
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IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
NO PEACHES THIS YEAR.
Tbe Crop Almost a Total Failure
The Causes.
Although near the end of June no peaches
have yet been brought to the Savannah
market, and the lovers of the luscious and
juicy fruit are beginning to wonder at the
unusual delay. The early peaches usually
come in by the last of May, and by the
middle of June the market is well sup
plied.
The fact is there is no peach crop this
year, and the worst of it is there is not
likely to be any, that is, not to amouut to
anything. Although late in the season not
a single peach has yet been received in Ba
vauimb, and tbe dealers are not expecting
any for some time yet.
To inquiries by the dealers the shippers
have replied that the peach crop is a total
failure this year. There are two good rea
sons for this. Last season the trees bore so
heavily as to completely exhaust them, and
the natural result would have been
a small crop, even under favorable
conditions. Tne second reason is that the
warm spring caused the trees to put out
very early, and the young fruit was caught
at a tender age by the March freeze and
was entirely killed out. Not only was the
fruit cut off, but a large number of
the trees are dead. The exhaustion conse
quent upon last year's heavy production
left them in poor condition to withstand
the freeze just at a period when they were
most subject to its injurious effects.
The warm winter, which failed to arrest
the ravages of insects, probably had some
thing to do also with the loss of the trees.
The nursery grown trees, which are chiefly
grown in the peach orchards now, because
of their quick growth, are not as hardy as
those grown from the seed in the native
soil, and they succumb more readily to the
attacks of nature.
Savannah is chiefly supplied with peaches
from the section of countrv along the Cen
tral and Southwestern roads, in Lower and
Middle Georgia. Marsbaliville and the
country below Macon is the great peach
growing district of the state, though most
of the fruit from this section goes
to Atlanta and the north. Tennille and
other stations along the Central chiefly sup
ply the Savannah market. Advices re
ceived from shippers state that the orchards
in that section are practically in the con
dition described above. The Florida
orchards are no better off.
Where some Arms in the city were receiv
ing 1,000 crates a day last year at this time
they have not been able to procure a peach
this year.
One merchant said there are no peaches
in any of the markets north, except a few
California peaches in New York. The
peach crop was enormous last, year and the
fruit was shipped northward by carloads.
In many of the interior towns it was given
away, and thousands of bushels were
fed to hogs. Last year’s over
production is largely responsible for
this year’s lack of fruit.' Peach growing is
a young industry in Georgia, and the grow
ers will doubtless learn by their experience
to limit the production of their trees here
after.
Patrons of hotels and restaurants will be
furnished with last year’s canned goods
irstead of the fresh articles this year. For
lusciousness and flavor the Georgia peach is
second only to the Georgia watermelon, and
by mauy is esteemed its superior, but
epicures must content themselves with the
latter this year.
CONDITION OF THE DITCHES.
Col. Wlnn’a Report to the Council on
Dry Culture Lands.
At a rocent meeting of the city council
there was a heated discussion between
Alderman Falligant of the drainage com
mittee and Mayor Schwarz as to the sani
tary condition of Hutcbinson’s island, the
outcome of which was that City Engineer
Winn was requested to report the condition
of the lands under dry culture, aud this
report was submitted at yesterday’s meet
ing and vt as received as information.
in brief Col. Winn reports that the
ditches on the Twickenham plantation are
clean, and in many places deepened and in
good order. Repairs are in progress on the
trunks of Jones and Lamar canals. Bilbo
and Ferry Lane canals have been cleaned
out, and the ditches east, southeast and
southwest of the city have been cleaned
out, and the city forces are going over them
for the fourth time. The same is said of
the ditches on the Springfield plantation.
On Hutchinson’s Island the engineer re
ports the ditches on the Waring lands over
grown and in some places holding water,
but they are being cleaned out. The tim
ber basiu near Kinsey’s mill is overgrown
with aquatic growth, but does Dot impede
the flow of water.
On that part of the island under lease to
Mr. Massey, Col. Winn found most of the
ditches overgrown with aquatic vegetation,
but with very few exceptions the ditches
were dry. Somo water was found in tho
face ditch at the place where the dam
broke in 1881, and at the pond near Back
river. In the face ditches Mr. Massey has
had to admit water for his stock.
Col. Winn excuses himself from making
a formal report to the ebairmau of the
committee ou drainage on the care of the
ditches under Mr# Massey’s charge, as a
superfluous work, as the mayor, the chair
man of the committee on drainage and the
health officer, having inspected the island,
and the mayor aud chairman of the drain
age committee having had a conference
with Mr. Massey on the subject, the chair
man of the drainage committee was “per
fectly cogniz tnt” of the situation.
Col. Winn adds: “In justice to myself, I
beg leave to say I have invariably, once a
week, and frequently oftener, inspected
some portion of the lands under dry culture,
and in addition thereto received a weekly
report from the foremen of the city forces
of the condition of these lands and all mat
ters therewith connected."
WEDDED A MID FLOWERS.
Mr. H. F. Beils Leads liiss Martha
Helmken to the Altar.
The wedding of Mr. H. F. Reils and Miss
Martha Helmken took place at the Lu
theran church last night at 8 o’clock. The
altar and chancel were very prettily dec
orated. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Dr. Bowman. The bride entered
leaning on the arm of her father, Capt.
Martin Helmken. Bhe was attired in a
white satin costume, with white lace front
looped with lilies of the valley. She wore
a diamond necklace, earrings and
pin, wnich were presents of the groom.
The bridal veil was decked with orange
blossoms. The bride, very handsome,
carried a bouquet of cut flowers and
ferns. There were six bridesmaids, and
each carried a bouquet of white roses and
ferns. The bridesmaids were Miss Josie
Miss Carrie Scheihing, Miss
Gussie Klug, Miss Amelia Quint, Miss
Christe Goerz and Miss A. Schultz.
The groomsmen were Mr. G. B. Reils,
Mr. J. A. Wagner, Mr. J. W. Brnning,
Mr. James Reils, Mr. John Geil and
Mr. John Koester. The organ played
softly during tho entire servico.
The marcliei were the Lohengrin and
Mendelssohn.
The grodm is a well-known business
man of Charleston, which will be the
bride and groom’s future home. They
leave this morning for Atlanta, where they
will spend the honeymoon. The gifts to
the bride and groom were many and hand
some.
Presto! Change! Gray and faded beards
made to assume their original color by ap
plying Buckingham’s Dye for the Whiskers.
It never fails to satisfy.— Adv.
Free Ice Cream
To introduce that which has to be seen for
you to believe it, a 15-second freezer,
Heidt is giving away Ice Cream to ladies
and gentlemen. Call and see it.—Adv.
BTORY OP AN ANCIENT FEUD.
An Old Canal That Recalls a Planters’
Quarrel.
Oa the new section of the Coast Line rail
road, between Thunderbolt and Bandfly
station, tbe track crosses a very deep cut
It is somewhat similar in appearance to the
numerous hills and hollows to be found
along the coast country, which indicate tbe
remains of breastworks and ditches of old
confederate fortifications.
The cut or dry caral through the pine
lands of Boca Bella, however, is not a relic
of ttie late conflict between the states. The
excavation tells tbe story of, or rather illus
trates, as it were, a feud between two plant
ers who owned adjoining plantations away
back in the early years of this century.
Considerable curiosity has been excited
among those who travel on the railroad
about this deep excavation, which extendi
as far as the eye can see through the pine
lands.
Yesterday Dr. S. F. Dupon, who’ has
lived in that neighborhood since he was a
boy, gave a Morning News man an inter
esting history of the canal. The doctor
said the canal was the outcome of
a quarrel which had long existed
between a Mr. Flournoy, who owned
Bona Bella plantation, and a Mr. Wilkins,
who owned the Placentia plantation. It
t-egan with little things and eventually
ruined both properties, and also destroyed
the health of the neighborhood.
Placentia was a back-water plantation,
that is, it depended on water held in re erve
in the adjacent swamp for water to irrigate
the growing rice crops. A portion of the
swamp land belonged to the Bona Bella
tract. It was not, and is still not, unusual
for back waters for irrigating purposes to
extend over the swamp lands owned by
others. It was to cut off tbe supnly lrom
his neighbor’s rice plantation that tbe owner
of Bona Bella plantation dug his canal.
As stated before, the quarrel between the
planters continued for many years. It is
said, the doctor remarked, that on one
occasion Flournoy sent Wilkins a covered
plate, the contents of which were the entrails
of a sheep. The recipient of this insult made
the negro who brought the dish the vica
rious sufferer, and Wilkins, meeting his
master a few days after riding on the SUida
way road, administered to turn a severe
chastisement. Flournoy then deter
mined to enforce hia riparian rights
and drain his part of the swamp,
and thus bring ruin on his foe. Letting the
water off one portion of course drained
the entire swamp. Ha had a large planta
tion in Washington county, on which he
worked 200 negroes. Abandoning his crops,
he marched the entire force from Middle
Georgia to Bona Bella, and with these
negroes and his home hands he dug a canal
a mile and a half in length, extending from
the Placentia line to Warsaw river. When it
was opened the water from the swamp rnsbed
into the riwr and Placentia’s value was
gone and it so wrier almost ruined. No more
rice could be raised because there was no
water for its irrigation.
Seventy years have passed by since Flour
noy dug his canal, ' but Placentia has
never been worth what it was before he
took away its life. The lines of the canal
show that it was well built,
und with the determination to accomplish
the work of drainage thoroughly. From
what can be seen now it appears to have
been about thirty' feet wide at the top and
fifteen feet at the bottom.
While Flournoy’s canal prevented any
accumulation of water in the Placentia
tract it didnot thoroughly drain theswamp.
The result of this was that the place became
very malarious, and the surrounding coun
try, which had always been known for its
bealthfulness, became quite sickly. This
state of affairs continued until eight
yearsago, when the county commissioners
drained the Placentia tract, bv opening its
old plantation canal (not Flournoy’s cut)
and deepening its outlet through the Bona
venture lowlands. Since then tbe former
healthfulness of the neighborhood has been
restored.
THE HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY.
The Number Reduced to Six—An As
sistant Principal for the Academy.
The adjourned regular meeting of the
board of education was held last night.
President Mercer, Vice President Read ami
Messrs. Hunter, Saussy, Blun, Tattnall,
Schwarz, Myers, and E till wore present.
A resolution was offered and adopted
reducing the number of teachers in the
high school to six. The board unanimously
re-elected the following teachers:
H. F. Train (principal)—lnstructor in
classics.
W. R. Thigpen—lnstructor in mathe
matics.
Otis Ashmore—lnstructor in natural
science.
J. Al. Ganno t —lnstructor in English.
Miss F. A. Dorsett —Assistant.
Mrs. M. E. Harden—Assistant.
The office of assistant principal of the
Chatham grammar school was created and
Mr. C. H. Carson was elected to tbe position.
The annual report of the treasurer wa9
read and received and was referred to the
finance committee.
A plan for the proposed Henry street
school was handed in by Capt. Blua, and
on his motion was referred to the committee
on school buildings.
Smith’s Bile Beans cure sick headache.—
Adv.
CITY BREVITIES.
Haupt Lodge No. 58, I. O. O. F„ meets
to-night,
Regulnr meeting of Southern Star Castle
No. 7, K. G. E., to-night.
George Gerber’s 13-months old child died
of indigestion coming up on the Tybee train
yesterday.
A large tarpon was among the fishes re
ceived yesterday by M. M. Sullivan from
his fishery at Punta Uorda, FJa.
The character of the persons carried to
Montgomery on excursions, which has
created so much indignation among the
reputable citizens of this onoe popular out
of town resort, may be gathered from the
lawlessness of last Monday. It was picnic
day for a colored military company, the
Georgia Cadets, and a lot of roughs, armed
with revolvers, were in the party. During
the day the pistol practice was reckless, as
usual. A stray ball from a revolver struck
a flute which one of the musicians was
playing for the dancers, carrying away one
of the flute bands and splitting the instru
ment wide open. The ball caromed on a
woman's cheek who was in the dance, but it
was well spent. She screamed out that she
was shot. The ball was picked up at her
feet.
To Build a Quarantine Tug.
In the inability of the health and ceme
tery committee to get a steam vessel suit
able for disinfecting purposes for quarantine
such as was contemplated, without paying
more than it was worth, it has been decided
to have a boat built especially for the pur
pose. It is understood that a vessel of this
kind can bo built for about ill,ooo, which is
SI,OOO less than the committee was au
thorized to expend. It is too late to com
plete the boat for service this season, but it
will be ready for use before the close quar
antine seasou opens next year.
The Fords To-night.
The Fords’ benefit performance to-night
promises to draw one of the largest audi
ences the association has ever had. The
bill to be presented, the forum scene from
“Julius Caesar,” with Lawrence *Hanley as
“Antony,” and Mr. Beach as “Brutus,”
the laughable comedy “Pink Dominoes,”
and the Busch Zouaves’ exhibition drill, is'a
brilliant one. In the comedy Mr. Harlan
will give his specialties, and the entire pro
fessional strength of the association will
appear.— Adv.
No other blood medicine so utilize* the
results of scientific inquiry as Ayer’s Mania- 1
parilla.— Adv.
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only in cans. Royal Bakins Powder Cos., 108
Wall street. New York.
LOCAL PERSONAL*
R. M. Smith of Macon is at the Screven.
Mrs. P. M. Dougan is at Pans Mountain.
8. C.
C. L. Youmans of Baxley is at the
Screven.
W. H. McPhaul of Sylvester, Ga., is at
the Screven.
D. B. Overton of Brunswick is registered
at the Screven.
R. F. Lyon of Macon registered at the
Screven yesterday.
John D. Easteriin and John M. Fogle of
Macon are at the Screven.
C. P. Ostein of Sumter, S. C., registered
at the Screven yesterday.
J. T. Tillman of Statesboro, Ga., was
registered at the Screven yesterday.
Wm. Pritchett of Dublin and T. J.
Pritchett of Gotham are at the Screven.
Mrs. George T. Cann and family will
leave to-day for Virginia for the summer.
Mrs. Percy Sugden and child are spend
ing a few weeks at the Ocean house, Tybee.
John Kennedy of Oliver, of the firm of
Lanier & Kennedy, was in town yesterday.
Mrs. L. P. Hart has gone to Boston. Mr.
Hart accompanied her as far as Washington
city.
Mrs. Sagurs and Miss Viola Kennedy re
turned yesterday from tbe mountains of
Georgia, where they have been visiting for
several weeks.
Miss Hartridge and Miss B. Hartridge,
daughters of Maj. A. L. Hartridge, re
turned home from tbe nor tit last night on
the Tallahassee.
Master Jack Murphy, who has teen in
the office of D. J. Murphy for sometime,
will leave to-day with Principal Taliaferro
of the Savannah academy for a three
months’ vacation in Vnginio.
Mr. Kirk Munroe, the gifted writer of
child lore, who has been spending several
days with Col. Haines and family, left yes
terday oa the City of Birmingham for New
York. Mrs. Munroe left several days ago.
They will remain at their homo in New
York a short while and then go to Corn
well-ou-the-Hudson, and from there to
the Maine mountains for the summer.
For a disordered liver try Beecham’s
Pills.—Ado.
Ice Cream in Half a Minute.
Ice cream free for the indies and gentle
men at Heidt’s. The milk is poured in at
one end of anew ice cream freezer, and in
less than half a minute comes out frozen at
the other end. It is a curiosity, aud anew
departure in ice cream manufacture, and
Heidt, with his usual enterprise, has taken
advantage of it.
A Morning News reporter dropped in at
Heidt’s yesterday afternoon when the
thermometer registered 92°, to find the
simple little machine grinding out the frozen
liquid as if it were midwinter, and ladies
and gentlemen could hardly believe what
they saw, and the wonder did not cease
w’hen they sampled a dish of the excellent
ice cream.
The “liquid freezer” is the recent inven
tion of a gentleman of Gainesville, Ga., and
patented in April. It is so simple that the
wonder grows why it wasn’t invented long
ago. It is a grindstone, so to speak. A
cylinder, shaped like a grindstone, is filled
with ice and salt. The cylinder is then
slowly revolved, aud passing through a
trough of milk at the bottom the milk
freezes on the surface of the revolving
cylinder, and is scraped off by a knife and
falls into a spout which delivers it to the
plate. Every revolution of the cylinder
means ice cream, compactly frozen and
without the grainy body of cream frozen in
the old way. Four pounds of ice will make
ice cream for an hour. It will revolutionize
ice ere mi manufacture, aud everybody
ought to drop in and see it work, besides
getting a plate of ice cream free.
AT THE COURTS.
Gossip Picked Up Here and There in
the Court Booms.
A. N. McNish was acquitted in the Supe
rior court last night on a oharge of em
bezzlement. The prisoner was remanded,
as there are two other indictments against
him alleging a like offense.
A jury in the superior court brought in a
verdict of acquittal in the case of Alonzo
Bennett, who was on trial far assault with
intent to murder J. C. Alien, whom he was
charged with stabbing on Oct. 5 last.
Of the eight cases tried in the mayor’s
court yesterday morning seven were for
disorderly conduct, and six of the offenders
were white. W. H. Allen, for drunkenness,
and disorderly conduct in the streets, was
fined $3 or five days. David Pritchard, for
lying drunk under a shed on
River street, was given $7 or
fifteen days. J. A. Shaffer assaulted
Serena Brisbane (colored) while under the
influence of liquor, and was given $7 or
fifteen days. Minis Gaillard, for throwing
watermelon rinds in a vacant lot at the
corner of Liberty and East Broad streets,
in violation of the city ordinance, was fined
$2 or five days. Thomas Davis and Cinda
Lobey, both colored, had a fight Tuesday
night, which cost Thomas $2 and Cinda $5.
B. J. Joyce behaved in a very ugly manner
while under the influence of liquor Tuesday.
His honor fined him $lO or ten days. J. ft.
Harrison was found lying drunk in the
street and Was fined $3 or five days.
MUST GET READY IN JAIL.
Judge Speer Refuses to Release Hall
to Prepare for His Trial.
Judge Speer has declined to grant Luther
A. Hall ten days to prepare for his trial,
which takes place July 7. The application
for the ten days’ release was made by the
petitioners’ attorneys before Judge Speer in
Macon Tuesday, and was refused. As tbiß
favor had been granted him to prepare for
his former trial, it was expected' that it
would be granted for this one. Judge
Speer was not disposed, however, to graut
the privilege.
A-, Morning News reporter saw Mr
Hail in the jail yesterdav. He said he did
not understand why Judge Speer should not
grant him the ten days time as he did in the
former case. It is a great inconvenience to
him, he says, aud makes a great deal of
writing and telegraphing necessary. How
ever, he will be able to prerare his case in
time, and, he says, will meet his accusers
with a bold front. He is anxious for an
early trial. He said bo had no fears of the
result, as he is confident of his ability prove
his innocence.
Simmons Liver Regulator always cures
and prevents indigestion or dyspepsia.— Adv.
LUDDEN A BATES 8. M. H.
NOT ONE
NOT HUNDREDS.
But THOUSANDS of satisfied
buyers of PIANOS and OR
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the unequaled Instruments, prioes
and terms offered by us for twenty
years. When you think of buying
that greatest beautifler of your home
—a good Piano—you will not be
tafe without first visiting the ware
rooms o
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Cots from $1 50 up.
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TRANSLATION.
DURING my sojourn here I
had frequent opportunies
to make myself acquainted with
the Knabe Vianos, and from full
est conviction I declare them to
be the beat instruments of Amer
ica. Should I return here for
artistic purposes—which may be
the case very soon—l shall most
certainly use the pianos of this
ce ebrated make. I give this
testimonial with pleasure, vol
untarily, and entirely unsolic
ited tor by the house of Knabe.
EUGEN D’ALBERT,
New York, May 16,1890.
DAVIS BROS.,
SOLE AGENTS.
