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ITEMS IN THE THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SO AT II
IAHOLIAA HRIEFLY PAHA
GRAPHED.
The Georicla Haanrt Figure* In n
*>rn*atiou at New Vork-An Ordi
nance to Drive Hrciian From the
Street* of Atlanta—The Capacity
of the Cotton Mill at laifuyett©
Delate Increased SO Per Cent
GEORGIA.
At Thomasville Saturday pears were
Se!iing at 10 and 15 cents per bushel on the
tre.-s.
Mrs. M E. Bean, the wife of a well
known contractor of Atlanta, died Friday
at her home on Pulliam street.
The negro arrested at Athens, supposed
to be Jackson the murderer of Wilson of
Atlanta, proved to be someone else and
was released by the authorities.
The directors of the Valdosta Tee and
Packing Factory met at the company's
office on Tuesday evening and declared a
s*. mi-annual dividend of 4 per cent.
Jars to hold contributions for the Grady
hospital are placed in several public
places at Atlanta. Last week someone
stole five of them with their contents.
Mr. Frasier, who died about a week ago,
was one of the oldest citizens of Brooks
county. At the time of his death he was
92 years of age. and had been a member
of the Baptist church for seventy years.
Mrs. Lucinda Fridell of Cobb county,
who is 76 years old. and her little gran 1-
daughter made plenty of bread and meat
at home last year to do them, and a
splendid crop this year, working the l'artn
unaided.
Mrs. J. Irene Adams of Jacksonville,
Fla., has had a man known as W.H. Bald,
win arrested by detectives of Atlanta, on
a charge of misappropriating sl9i In mom y
and a diamond ring tielonging to her. He
will return to Jacksonville.
Chairman Johnson of the board of police
commissioners of Atlanta will ask the
city fathers to adopt the ordinance now in
force In New Orleans fer the protection
of the people against street beggars and
to keep the city free from vagrants and
crooks. This law is a very stringent one
and covers the ground fully.
C. L. Hand of Pelham was in Americas
Friday en route to Cincinnati to super in
Jend the sale of a large shipment of grapes
rom his vineyard. One carload of 30,000
pounds of the fruit went forward Friday,
while two more cars will follow In a day
or two. The grapes were of the ‘Tves"
variety, and the shipment will net Mr.
Hand a round sum.
A .regular building wave has struck At
lanta and Imprbvements on a huge scale
are being made throughout the city. Many
elegant and substantial business houses
ore being built and the carpenters and
architects are busy with the plans and
buildings. Several costly residences are
also In course of construction and it is
predicted that a great many more will be
started In the next thirty days.
A meeting of the city council of Amerl
cus was held Friday night for the purpose
of considering the proposition recently
made by a Cincinnati mill owner relative
*o the removal of his entire plant to
Amerleus. After a full investigation of
the matter council consented to defray
*he exjienses of two citizens who will go
to Cincinnati at once for the purpose of
examining the machinery and taking other
Initial steps that may be deemed neces
sary.
Pear shipments from Valdosta have been
remarkably heavy thus far this season
In spite of the blight from which so many
trees are suffering. More than a thou
sand barrels have already been shipped
by express from Valdosta. Five express
cars have been kept on a side track to
accommodate shippers and several solid
express trains have passed there loaded
•with pears for the northern markets.
Eighty barrels brought from $4 to $8 per
barrel.
John D. Boyd died nt Columbus Friday
Mr. Boyd was well known throughout the
city. Ho was a confederate soldier, und
during an engagement In the army ht
mind was affected by the passing of a
minlo ball near his head, causing con
cussion of the brain. For a number of
years Mr. Boyd has been a conspicuous
figure around tho court house., his favorite
place for whiling away the time. Although
demented he wus quite harmless, and was
liked by every one who knew him.
“Uncle" Alfred Livingston, aged about
94 years, conducted the devotional exer
cises at Oak Hill, Newton county, recent
ly, and read a lesson from the scriptures
without using any glasses. Ho is in fine
hcajth and keeps cheerful at all times.
It Is said that for the past fifty years
he hag been a regular attendant at Bcth
any Sunday school, having been Its sup
erintendent for full half a century. Dur
ing all those years his pleasant face has
been seen at old Bethany church every
Sunday.
Grace & Jones of Macon, counsel for old
man Wlggers. who recently figured in the
papers so conspicuously because of his
connection witli an insurance case in
which a young man in his employ was
said to have met an untimely death un
der suspicious circumstances, have been
notified by one of the companies In which
*he young man was insured that payment
■will, be resisted. A suit will follow. Some
of the Insurance men claim Mr. Wlg
gers' actions were suspicious, Inasmuch as
he was beneficiary.
Dr. C. C. Thompson, who was arrested on
a warrant for cheuting and swindling
Mrs. Zottler of Macon, was put In jail
In default of 1150 bond Thursday, had a
Hearing in the city court Saturday and
■was acquitted. Dr. Johnson was charged
■with having told Mrs. Zettler, who runs
a boarding house, thai he had some money
deposited in a safe in Macon, the pros
ecutor claiming that on this representa
tion he secured SSO or more of
board. On refusal to pay he was ar
rested. The justice of the peace placed
him under bond, but the city court did not
find him guilty..
Mrs. Annie Abbott, the “Georgia Slag
net,” has come to the front again, this
time In a rather sensational role. She
■was married about a year and a half ago
to J. C. Hearn of New York and disap
peared from behind the footlights. A day
of two ago she appeared at one of tho hc
pltals at New Y'ork with her five months'
old baby in her arms, and alleged that her
husband had given the chl!J poison. She
says she lived unhappily with him and left
him for revenge he attempted to poison the
child, using morphine. At Bellevue hos
pital Dr. Braunwick said the baby was
only suffering from cholera infantum.
If poison had tieen administered, the child
had swallowed none of it.
One of tho most unique and original con
ventions that has been called In Georgia
this year, Is oalled for July 27, at Chleka
tnauga. It is to be a convention of the
North Georgia Fiddlers' Association, of
which Bob Jones of Walker countv is
president. Every town on the Chat tanov,
pa, Romo and Coumbus railroad between
Romo and Chattanoui-vi has at least half
e dozen fiddlers, and in Lafavette the
fiddlers are unanimous, Including Col.
Napier of Tho Messenger, who is an ex
pert. A splendid programme is being ar.
ranged for the fiddlers, and prizes will be
offerer! fnr the best old-fashioned “break
down” tunes, as well as for the more mod
ern music. Every evening during the
convention there will be a big ball at which
tile most famous fiddlers of North Geor
gia will appear In their official capacity*
Dr. J. A. Somerfield, a prominent young
practitioner of Atlanta, who has been suf
fering with appendicitis for some time,
(had an operation performed some time
ago. He is rapidly recovering, and will
be able to sit up in a few days. Dr. Mc-
Rae performed the operation, which was
extremely successful. “It is one of the few
peculiar cases,” remarked Dr. Mcßae,
the appendix had been pushed around to
the side several inches from its original
position. It was similar to the ease of
Guv. Atkinson, only it had not gained us
much headway. There was considerable
Inflammation and adhesion.” Dr. Bomer
field has been suffering with pains in his
etomach for some time and after the at
tack of a few weeks ago they found It to
be appendicitis. Realizinz his condition
Dr. Somerfield asked for the operation to
be performed, even before the attending
physician thought it was necessary.
Alex Bmith, who Is In charge of the pub
lic comfort department of the Atlanta
exposition, has cloSfd a fontract for two
more hotels. One is with the Venable
brothers, for the Venable building, corner
of Hunter and Forsyth streets. Tills is
the large granite front building In which
the eonvention of the railway conductors
was held. By the terms of the contract
** he converted into a splendid ho
tel of the first class, with 200 rooms. The
rooms will be furnished and splendidly
kept. The hotel will be supplied with elec
tric lights and all modern conveniences.
It will l>e put in readiness without the
loss of a day. and will be thrown open be
fore the opining of the exposition gati-s.
The second hotel secured by Mr. Bmith
will be a structure containing ISjj rooms,
an 1 will be the hands&mest hotel in the
city when completed. It is to le built by
Mallard & Stacy, real estate dealers, and
wllg be covered with staff, after the fash
ion of the world's fair buildings. The
building will be of the old-fashioned south
ern style, with immense piliars in front.
It will le built on a permanent scale, and
will have every modern convenience. The
site on which it will stand has not been
given out yet.
Tha capacity of the Union cotton
mills at Lafayette Is being increased 50
per cent. Capt. A. R. Steele, president of
tho company, has been very successful
with these mills, beginning about five
years ago with SIOO,OOO capital and putting
in a plant of MIG spindles and 102 looms.
They have bad such a demand that it has
been decided necessary to increase the
capacity fob the next season. Capt. Steele,
however, is averse to Increasing the capac
ity. “I believe.” said he, in speaking Sat
urday. "that it Is a mistake to pay in an
enormous commercial capital on which
you lose the interest while It Is lying Idle.
We started on a capital of IIOU.WM, of
Which $93,7(0 has been paid In, and I never
Intend to raise It. The additions we are
making to the Union mills consists of 3,072
spindles and eighty-four looms. Increasing
our capacity to 7,488 spindles and 208 looms
which will all tie paid for out of the earn
ings of the mill A properly managed cot
ton mill will build anew mill every ten
years, and the great mystery to me is that
oilr southern people do not turn their at
tention to building more cotton mills, as
there is no industry In the world more
peculiarly adapted to this section. The
Union mills were built with capital sub,
scribed by the farmers and business men
of Walker and adjoining counties. This
Is my fourth experience in cotton mill
building, and I was never connected with
one yet that did not pay handsome re
turns.”
FLORIDA.
\V. H. Bighatn, sheriff of Levy county,
has resigned.
A double-headed calf, since deceased,
was born at Sanford last week.
E. C. F. Sanchez, the well known lawyer
of 'Gainesville, Is just now recovering
from a long illness.
Knight & Cable, merchants at Flora
City, Citrus county, have assigned. Lia
bilities, SI,BOO, assets, $2,500.
At Chipley. Tuesday, J. N. Daniel A Cos.
sold to H. Fiser fy Cos. of Mobile, Ala.,
35,000. pounds of wool, receiving nearly
SG,OOU for It.
All the mines around Alldon are closed
with the exception of Gen. E. B. Bailey’s,
and it is thought that the phosphate In
dustry will be at a standstill for several
months In' Alachua county.
Clark Carter, the 4-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Watts, who resides near
Levyville, was accidentally, and It is
thought fatally shot Tuesday by the dis
charge of a gun In the hands of Mr.
Watts.
Hanford Chronicle: Avery fair crop of
Japanese persimmons are maturing on the
trees of Dr. Seth French. These trees, as
also the same species elsewhere in the
state, wore but slightly, if at all Injured
by the freeze.
Myrtle Lodge, Knights of Pythias of De-
Land ha* surrendered the lease on the
opera house, with the consent of the own
er. and in future Mr. Bushnell will mun
age It himself. The Knights will continue
to occupy it as a lodge room,
Adam Eichelberger of Ocala has enter
ed Into a partnership with W. E. Thomas
with the Intention of engaging in the man
ufacture of choice cigars from Florida
raised tobacco. Col. Elehelberger wilt open
a factory on his farm. Just beyond the city
limits of Ocala, and it is probable that at
least twpnty men will he employed. A
considerable quantity of tobacco is now
on hand.
At Jacksonville Saturday J. R. Challen
attorney for Gamaliel Knight of Charles
ton, 8. C., filed In the clerk's office or the
United Slates court notice of a suit for
$”>.000 damages against the Florida Central
and Peninsular Railroad Company. The
declaration states, among other things,
that on Aug. 15, 18!>4, the conductor of a
passenger train of tiie abovo railroad,
at Yulee station. Nassau county, that com
plainant boarded the train then, going to
Savannah, and the conductor, without
waiting for Knight to enter the car and
take his seat, met him (Knight) on the
platform, and without saying a word be
gan to kick him (Knight) and continued to
do so. notwithstanding the train was run
ning fast, until he kicked his handhold
loose and threw him, the complainant
violently to the ground, where he remain
ed in a-desolate place many hours, insen
sible and suffering, and that he has spent
over SI,OOO In being cured of his injuries.
SOFTH CAROLINA.
A lithla spring ha 9 been discovered near
Lancaster.
The new Methodist church at Landrum
In Spartanburg county was dedicated last
Suday.
The annual reunion of the confederate
veterans of Newberry countv will be held
at Newberry on next Thursday, the 18th.
Dr. T. J. Strait has effected the organi
zation of a company to quarry granite on
his Cedar creek place in Lancaster county.
The corner-stone of the new graded
school building of Anderson will be luid
Friday by Hiram Lodge No. 68, A.
Tiie county board of control ofLextngton
gives notice that a dispensary will be es
tablished nt lirookland, on or about the
Ist day of August.
B. F. King of Greenville, planted 120
acres 1n oats last spring and made 2.(810
bushels. After deducting expenses hl9
profit was over S7OO.
The reformers throughout Orangeburg
county are in favor of giving the conserv
ative faction two delegates from that
county to The constitutional convention.
A charter has been issued to the Mills
Manufacturing Company of Greenville
This is one of the many new mills that
Un nville proposes to finish this year.
While Spartanburg county is paying her
bonds the city is also allowing tilde finan
ciering. Thirteen thousand dollars of city
bonds were placed Monday—twenty-year
6s, st 108.
Tha board of trustees of Davidson Col
lege, N. C.. have been Inspecting the
Presbyterian High (School property of
Rock Hill with the view of purchasing it
It will be run in connection with the col
lege.
Rev. George L. Sweeney, D. D„ until
recently rector of the Church of Our
Saviour at Rock Hill, has been called by
Bishop Talbott to the church at Rawlins,
M yoming, and has accepted. He will prob
ably leave the latter part of this week.
Col. S. M. Snoddy, chairman of the com
mittee of arrangements, announces that
the descendants of Patrick Crawford anil
their friends are cordially invited to at
tend a family reunion at Nazareth church
in Spartanburg county, Saturday, July 27!
Ezekiel Long, a white boy, was killed
about fourteen miles above Walhalla Mon
day morning. He was driving alone on
an ox cart, and in going over a rough
place in the road he was thrown off His
foot caught under a cross bar and his
head under a wheel.
On Wednesday Donald Harrison, form
erly of the Columbia police force, now an
employe at the mill of the Fowles Lum
ber Company of Columbia, met with a
most painful accident. He was operating
the planing machine, when the large belt
broke and hit him on the left shoulder
and arm, badly slashing them.
A commission for a charter has been
Issued to the Bridges & McKeithan Lum
ber Company of Sumter. The company
proposes to operate one or more saw mills
near Lneknow. The corporators named
are: Preston L. Bridges, Daniel T Mc-
Keithan and J. T. Barron. The capita!
stock of the company is to be $5,000, with
the right to Increase.
The stores of A. F. H. Dukes, W. L.
Reeves & Cos., the state dispensary and a
vacant store, known as the Saul's house
at Branehvllle were destroyed by fire
Saturday morning. The store and dwell
ing of P. C. Dukes was also damaged. A
large part of the stock was saved in all
except the dispensary. All the building*
and stocks are believed to be Insured.
A commission for a charter has been
issued to the Hickory Grove and Lockhart
Shoals Transportation Cotnpnny. The
company propose* to operate u transpor
tation company between Hickory Grove,
Ninety-nine Islands, on Broud river, down
Broad river to Lockhart Shoals, and up
THE .MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 15,1893.
the Paeolet river for eight or ten miles.
The company proposes to start with a
capital stork of SIO,UO, and will use wagons
and steamboats until a railroad line is
built.
A large negro excursion arrived at
Greenwood to witness a match game of
base ball between negro clubs. After the
t( otiii Inning, exceptions were* taken to
the rulings of the umpire and a riot en
sued. Pistols were fired recklessly into
tho dense throng of negroes. The row was
started by a negro tough from Clinton,
and a Greenwood outlaw. Silas Rowrden
was shot In the bg, and has several
wounds about his heaJ. Dan Hester, a
bystander, was shot through the thigh.
Col. James O. Gibbes of Columbia has
placed in the office of the secretary of
state what he claims to be the first photo
graph ever taken In America. It was
taken by Col. Gibbes himself in December.
1854, and the imprint Is on ordinary writ
ing paper. There were no artists' mate
rials then on the market and each pho
tographer had to manipulate the chemi
cals and manufacture his own materials.
The art of making photographs as differ
ing from claguerreotypes, had Just been
discovered in the early part of 1851, and
Col. Gibbes. who was in Baris at the
time, learned the art and practiced it for
his own amusement upon his return to
this country. At the satne time that he
learned, Meade, who afterward became a
famous photographer in New York, was
instructed in the art by the same teacher,
but Meade did not come to this country
until the spring of 1855.
Columbia News: The regents of the
state asylum and Superintendent Bab
cock are confronted with serious problems.
Thursday’s meeting was one of the most
important that has been held In years.
The situation Is pressing, as the census
shows 84fi patients. The regents examined
thirty-eight whom It was thought might
be sent home on probation, but only twen
ty-three were sent home on trial. The in
crease appears among the whit© women
and colored men. As compared with the
first eight months of the fiscal year for
for four years there has been a material
Increase. The admissions since Nov. 1
have been 234. In view of these facts It
was considered Imperative that more quar
ters must be built. The asylum authori
ties have a contract for a million and a
half of brick and 180,0UU of them have been
delivered. Convict labor Is used for their
manufacture. With the brick on hand and
those that are being dally received, work
will be started In a few days. The whole
matter was referred to the building com
mittee, consisting of Drs. Talley and Tay
lor und Mr. White, and the committee has
full power to act. Work will be started
at once on the women’s and colored men's
department additions. Tho regents au
thorized Dr. Taylor to negotiate for the
purchase of the Wallace property, which
embraces 118 acres, and which is near the
present property. This, It is thought, will
be a splendid site* for a future building,
which, in course of time, will be a neces
sity. For the present tt will be used for
agricultural purposes, as tho present lands
are beinjjjt severely taxed.
PLAN ~OF OUTLET SEWER
FOR THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, PRE
PARED IIY PERCY HAGUE.N, C. K.,
For I,(HX Petitioner*, Asking Abate
ment of Illlho Canal Nniannee, anil
Rend by Hint Before Committee of
the Whole of Connell, Monday Af
ternoon, July 1, 1H!)5.
To Messrs. J. S. Collins, D. G. Purse, F.
B. Papy, D. Grimm, C. H. Dorsett, J.
Paulsen. J. L. Whatley, Committee rep
resenting 1,600 Petitioners: >
In answer to your request for a fuller
report on iny plan of outlet sewer for the
city of Savannah, I beg to submit the fol
lowing:
In deciding upon outlet for the sew
age of a city there abc several considera
tions that should govern our final decis
ion.
First, It }s of primary importance to fix
upon an outlet that shall finally dispose
of tho sewage In a permanent and Inof
fensive manner. Then we should be very
careful In considering our own Interests,
In carrying the outlet to a distance, that
we do not disturb or Impose upon the
rights of others.
Where there are two or more points of
outlet equally good, the question of cost
and maintenance should be the primary
considerations, Irrespective of sentiment
or prejudice.
Natural lines and outlets should be used
when practicable and not conflicting with
any of the preceding provisions.
We can only consider the plan for final
disposal In a comparative manner based
upon the estimated increase of population,
together with the life of tha sewer con
struction Itself. In this way a work may
be considered permanent if, under varying
circumstances, it Is planned to cover a
period of from fifty to 100 years.
The city of Savannah occupies one of
the best possible positions for natural
drainage, both as regards ease and econo
my In construction and having >a wide
range of outlets, which may be reached
through natural or artificial channels.
Situated upon a high plateau, with sandy
soil, almost free, at average depths, from
subsoil Water the construction of sewers
In and about the city Is robbed of much of
the labor and contingent expenses so of
ten met with In works of this description.
That Savannan does not have one of
the most complete systems of sewerage In
the world Is not the fault of the city's
formation or contour, but of the citizens
themselves, who have been content to see
at various times a few sewers buried un
derground, thore to remain until the time
for their resurrection, which. In the ease
of one sewer In a leading thoroughfare,
Is an annual event. Before discussing the
question of outlet let us look for a mo
ment at the manner In which Savannah is
at present sewered.
There are several large main sewers,
which have boon constructed at consider
able expense and whieh act as leaders into
which smaller arteries run.
There is a largo sewer along Broughton
street to East Broad street and running
down East Broad streut to Bolton street,
and receiving on its way a
large main in Perry lane. Another main
wins out Hall and Abercorn streets to
Bolton street, where it unites with one
coming from Duffy street. The two com
bined then run out Bolton street to East
Broad street, where It unites with the
first mentioned sewer. The whole then
combine into one large sewer, whieh runs
out Bolton street to its outlet Into Bilbo
canal.
The section west of West Broad street
sewers directly Into the river on the line
of West Boundary street.
Along the river front of the city there
are several smaller outlets from various
streets. The Internal portion of the city
has no system or plan for the sewers
they being scattered around promiscuous
ly.
They are the growth of years, many
being there before the advent of modern
plumbing and never being intended for
work of that kind. Most of them have
been put in at different times for purposes
or surface and subsoil drainage, while
some few were put in for the purposes for
which they are now used.
The portion of the city south of Ander
son street relies for its drainage upon the
Hixth street sewer, which runs across the
plateau from west to east and empties
Just across the Savannah, Florida and
Western railway into an open ditch, where
it commences its Journey across country
for eight miles to the Vernon river.
It will not be long before we have a
duplicate of Bilbo canal, only six miles
longer, if this state of things is allowed
to continue and intensify in the southern
and growing section of our city.
What is wanted,, and what I have of
ten advocated. Is a complete survey of
the city, old and new, and of all the ex
isting sewers In good condition. A plan
should then he prepared for the drain
age of the whole city, using as much as
possible the sewers already there.
The advantage of this work would be
that any new drain put in by the city
however short, could be made a part of
the general plan, and thus In time a com
plete system would be evolved of marked
efficiency as compared with the present
heterogeneous network of drains of max
imum expense and minimum utility
The preliminaries of this work would
cost the city very little compared with
the ultimate good that would be obtained
and that spread over a number of years
Several plans have been made by emi
nent engineers of house drainage for the
city, but they all ignored any existing
set****, and thus made it a double t x-
PfiMt for those who had already contrib
uted to the cost of the present construc
tions. Neither did any plan take in fur
ther south than Anderson street
One point of unanimity in all the plans
is that the sewers are made to converge to
the one point, ia the neighborhood of 80l-
“Millions
of Money
For an Inch frr-'fl
of Time,” p_gj£ ff/tmM
wailed poor Queen Bess. y :''
Time is just as valuable to- J* *, I
day—it is priceless. How I 1 f'l % i> ™
many Queens of American homes could save half their time
by using in their daily, monthly, yearly cleaning,
Gold Dust
WASHING POWDER.
This wonderful preparation not only saves a woman’s monev,
but it saves her time and strength. It s the home comfort
that makes other home comforts possible. All grocers sell
Gold Dust in large packages —price 25 cent 9. Made only by
THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY,
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SEASONABLE GOODS
AT
LINDSAY &• MORGAN’S.
Matting, Refrigerators, Baby Carriages, Mos
quito Nets, Lawn and Piazza Rockers and Settees,
Hammocks, Bed Bug Poison and Roach Food, etc.
Goods of all kinds advancing in price. Call
early and buy cheap.
ton and East Broad streets, and thence
to the present outlet at Bilbo canal. The
universality' of this convergence would
demonst+ate' that. bo matter where our
outlet maty ultimately reach, we always
start at th* same point of commence
ment—Bolton and Paulsen afreets.
The various schemes already proposed
to provide an outlet for the sewage of
Savannah are wide and varied. Ignoring
thoso which have been mere suggestions,
and which, on account of expense of con
struction or physical reasons, have died
at this stage, we may consider those
which at one time or another have been
freely advocated.
First, we have Timber Landing Creek
suggested, which, as Its name imports, 1*
only a creek—long, narrow, tortuous—
and of such construction that the time for
the commencement of ebb tide at Its head
Is closely allied to the time for the com
mencement of the flood tide at its mouth.
This one fact Ought at once to condemn
this outlet, for,,-’ll! the nature of things,
the sewer outlet being at the head of the
creek. It is only a question of a very
short time before it would be a banked up
mass of sewage, with no possible means
of dilution.
Then we Rave the route of the Casey ca
nal to Vernon river—a river only in name,
since it has no head water, except the
drainage from the Casey canal.
This outlet has all the objections which
attach to the Timber Landing outlet, in
tensified by the cost and lack of grade
necessitated by a sewer eight miles In
length.
Th* Idea of establishing a sewage farm
In this paotlon we may also dismiss as
impracticable for various reasons, among
them being the great expense in construc
tion, cost of maintenance* and the lack of
a suitable site, irrespective of any climatic
objections.
The outlet whieh for some time was in
most favor und which has been suggested
by several engineers, taking various
routes, but all reaching near the same
point of discharge, is that into Warsaw
or Wilmington river In tho neighborhood
of Bonavspiture.
Tl)is point was exhaustively examined
and criticised by Mr. Rudolph Herring,
tho eminent sanitary engineer, a few years
ago. He went Into the matter thoroughly
and after having tidal observations taken
and securing full data as to the flow and
currents ho unhesitatingly condemns this
as an outlet for the city's sewage even
with the present population.
I had a personal observation of the cor
rectness of one of the main objections
against this outlet only a short time ago,
whilst engaged upoh some pile worke be
low Thunderbolt.
One dftv on the early ebb tide a boat
and a log—the end of a pile—got adrift
and went floating down the channel. It
was some time before another boat could
be dispatched after the derelict. When
regained the boat had drifted about three
miles and the log was still floating near.
Five day after, at about three pans flood,
tide the same log came float
ing back past tha work and
must have reached as far as
Bonaventure before the tide slackened,
unless captured In the meantime.
This demonstrates that a discharge Into
a purely tidal stream, without any head
water of its own or tributary to it, will
not finally dispose of the sewage in a
sanitary manner.
One has only to see the manner in which
the dead rush collects on the shore at
Thunderbolt to readily perceive another
serious objection to this outlet.
Another outlet, recommended by Mr.
Rudolph Herring, is into the Savannah
river, about two miles below the city.
This outlet Is perfectly feasible and
free from objection, except in one direc
tion. that It only provided for the sewage
proper of the old portion of the city, mak
ing no provision for the extension, and
left the Bilbo Canal to be still a perennial
nuisance by allowing the storm water to
overflow into It.
Col. George E. Waring, the present su
perintendent of New Y'ork's sanitary de
partment, and a prominent sanitary en
gineer, also advocates the Savannah river
as an outlet for the city’s sewage.
In a communication published in the
Morning News about a year ago he states
emphatically that the Savannah river is
well able to take-care of all the city's sew
age without being in any way fouled, and
says that if discharged some distance be
low the surfaoe, “No human being will
ever know, by sight or smell, that the
sewage has gone Into the river at all.”
This brings me to the plan whieh I have
worked up and which was laid before
the committee of the last council at the
interview in behalf of the petition for
closing Bilbo canal.
This plan proposes, what no other plan
has yet done, to make provision for
taking sewage and storm water off In a
closed sewer.
It is unique In providing for extensions
embracing not only the present extended
limits, but what may reasonably be ex
pected to be included in the next seventy
five or 100 years.
It is the cheapest outlet that has yet
been conceived.
It also frees the city from securing ex
pensive rights of way by following the
lines of streets already opened. It com
mences nt the outlet of the Sixth street
sewer where it empties Into the ditch at
the Savannah. Florida and Western rail
way and Price street, at such a depth that
it can he extended to take in the whole
of the ridge as far south as Tatemsvllle
and still be ten feet deep. At Its commence
ment the proposed sewer will he five feet
In diameter running down East Seventh
street until It reaches llerdon street where
tt makes a turn to the north ami is In
crease dln size to six feet in diameter It
runs north down Berdon street to Ander
son street and then turns east to Harmon
street at whieh point the size is increased
to seven feet diameter. Thence north oa
Harmon street to Bolton street at which
point It meets the continuation of the
present Holton street sewer. At this point
both sewers unite Into one of nine feet
diameter, which still continues under Hnr
mon street to Wheaton street which it
crosses and runs down Third street past
the Savannah Cotton Mills, and joins the
line of the present Bilbo canal at Perry
lane. From this point it follows the line
of the Bilbo canal to the river.
At Wheaton street the sewer changes
form and becomes two, the smaller one
for the regular sewage of the-ettv and ca
pable of serving a population of 100,000 peo
ple, the larger one being for storm water,
to come Into use when the smaller one is
surcharged, and Is estimated and con
structed to carry oft the heaviest rainfalls
of the district.
The storm water sewer for a considera
ble distance follows the bed of the Bilbo
canal, and the smaller sewer runs along
side to the Savannah river, Into which it
empties live feet below low water.
One reason for constructing the smaller
sewer for sewage proper Is to allow It to
now off more rapidly and continuously,
and at high Water to have a smaller
quantity banked up than would otherwise
be were it flowing through a large sewer.
The bed of the EStlno canal from Bolton
street to Perry lane would be filled In af
ter a 24-Inch pipe had been laid for the
service of those placed Immediately con
tiguous to the depression through 'which
the canal In part runs.
The line for the outlet has been care
ully selected, and gives a line where the
sewer will be under ground for most of
the way; where the excavation will not
be severe, the deepest cut being eighteen
feet at Duffy street and fifteen feet at
Wheaton street; and where advantage can
be taken of all available grade.
The grade of the sewer is uniform all
the way, being one foot In one thousand
feet, and can be carried out on this grade
to any part of the southern section of the
city, or as far south as Tatemsrille, and
still have a depth of ten feet to the grade
line.
It will be seen that this outlet is availa
ble to every portion of the city that can
by any means drain to the eastern side.
Of course that portion on the western
slope will still be compelled to find its
outlet direct to the river on that side.
Assuming then, that the location of
the outlet sewer Is satisfactory, from a
topographical point of view, let us con
sider the advantages of an outlet into the
Savannah river.
As already stated, the sewer would
discharge into the river at the mouth of
the Bilbo canal, and the outlet would be
five feet below low water, so that beyond
the occasional rising to the surface of
a cork or correspondingly light substance,
there would be no indication of its pres
ence to any casual observer.
Savannah river has always been the re
ceptacle of Savannah’s sewage, and re
ceived It in tlie most crude manner and
most objectionable form, yet, until re
cently, the city drew Its wa
ter supply from the same river,
and within a few hundred feet
of one of the main outlets. Still we never
had it claimed that our drinking water
from the river was contaminated with
sewage. For the past twenty-five years
Bilbo canal Ims discharged at one point
the accumulated sewage of a growing city
becoming within Itself each year an In
creased nuisance, but once it reached the
river it ceased to be A cause of complaint.
Let us look for a moment at the compo
sition and dilation of the sewage of Sa
vannah as It reaches the outlet.
The mean daily discharge of sewage
from the present Bolton street
outlet, according to the care
ful observations taken by Mr. J
deßruyn Kops. assistant city engineer
on Aug. 13th and 16th, 1894, amounts to
016,976 cubic feet, or 3,877,320 gallons In
twenty-four hours. Assuming the popula
tion which dally makes use of this sewer
to be 30,000, this would give a daily pro
portion of 129 gallons to each individual.
According to standard English au
thorities, a population of 10.000 will pro
duce in a day 24,434 pounds of urine and
foeces, which in a population of So.OOO is
equal to 8,793 gallons. This would make
the dilution at the outlet 440 gallons of
water to one gallon of crude or original
waste matter.
According to the government (1894) re
ports of Capt. O. M. Carter, the average
amount of fresh water which passes down
the river in front of the Savannah, Flori
da and Western wharves is 1.1,840 cubic
feet per second, or 1,388,376,000 cubic feet
In twenty-four hours, which is equivalent
to a flow of 10,236,<48,480 gallons of fresh
water in a day of twenty-four hours
T his w'ould represent the diiutent capac
ity of the river, as it is water which is
being daily renewed, coming fresh from
the headwaters of the river, and not de
pendent upon tides or winds as the streams
are into which the other proposed outlets
would empty.
This quantity of fresh water is equal to
suplying 2,840 gallons to dilute each gallon
of the already diluted sewage *
Or, to state it in another way. the one
gallon of original matter, of urine and
foeces by the time it is well into the Sa
vannah river will have been taken up and
absorbed by 1.1044219 gallons of fresh
water. llcan
The most deadly poison would lose all
effect with such dilution, whilst the mo "
powerful aromatic would be left without
the semblance of a bouquet unout
To Still further show the 'completeness
with which the Savannah river can take
care of the sewage of the city I would
refer to the careful and complete analy
ses made by Mr. 1). F. Finney Lj m,
C, M. Clarke, analytical
gust of 1594 The results ofth,£ an alyl
ses show that the sewage as it
the outlet is so freely diluted'ai to con
tain a very small percentage of deleterious
components in a given quantity, J
Comparisons with the analyses of other
sewage from different cities show that
they contain from five to six times more
of ammonia and about twice as much
chlorine. After the large dilution the
sewage receives in the river—2.64i> gallons
to I—lt would be difficult with the most
careful research to find any trace of the
sewage matter.
These examples of dilution are facts
upon which we can base a pretty certain
assumption that the river would not be
in any way fouled by the addition of the
sewage of the etty.
But to be doubly assured of the cor
rectness of our assumption. I* would re
fer to a standard axiom which has been
laid down by the leading sanitary engi
neers of this country: “that a flow of from
180 to 200 cubic feet per minute will suf
ficiently dilute the sewage of one thousand
people."
The average amount of fresh water
passing in front of the city being #30,404,
cubic feet per minute, on the basis of 200
cubic feet for each 1,0(W people would be
sufficient to dilute the sewage of 4.782,000
people. And yet objection Is.raised to
our making It the outlet for a present
population of 50.000.
As actual experience Is always the most
valuable data to be found upon which
to base assertions, we may with advant
age consider the means employed at Mil
waukee and Chieago for diluting the sew
age in the streams into which they dis
charge so as to render them Inoffensive.
At Milwaukee during the dry season,
when the water from the river is not
sufficient to fully oxidixo the sewage in
the stream, they pump water from Lake
Michigan into the river above the sewer
outlet in quantities sufficient to fully ox
idize and dilute the sewage.
From actual experience it has been
found that a dilution of thirty-four times
the amount of sew age is sufficient to keep
the stream In a perfectly sanitary condi
tion.
At Chicago the authorities are construc
ting works at a cost of 328,000,000 to pro
vide an outlet for the sewage of the city
based upon the same principle as Mil
waukee, but they only allow for a dilution
of 26 of water to 1 of sewages
Taking these two Illustrations, which are
upon the basis of sewage only diluted to
the extent of 104 f&tlons per head, we see
that Savannah, with a much more dilute
sewage as a base, has a stream which is
able to reach a one hundred times higher
standard than that which the city of
Chicago will reach at such an enormous
outlay, or that laid down as a basis for
sanitary prospecting.
Another point strongly in favor of the
Savannah river as an outlet is the fact of
its being fresh water. The latest experi
ments have fully demonstrated beyond
doubt that the organic matter in sewage
is oxidized by the action of living bacteria
In the streams into which the sewage
runs. It has also been demonstrated that
these organisms are much more active
in fresh than tn salt water. The organic,
matter will oxidize, dissolve and be dis
seminated much more rapidly in
fresh than In salt water Is thus well
established.
From this data we can establish the as
sertion that, giv'en the choice of two out
lets, one into a fresh water stream and
one into a salt water stream, each of
equal capacity, the preference should be
given to the discharge Into fresh water.
Or, if We are given the choice between a
large, flowing river of fresh water, where
the oxidizing bacteria are being renewed
and replaced every second of the day, and
a large salt water creek, which has only
tidal influence to renew Its waters. It
ought not to take much deliberation to
decide In favor of the former, especially
as we can reach it at one-third of the cost.
One word as to the effect of tides. In
tho Savannah river the velocity of the
ebb flow is about twice as great as that
of the flood, caused by the large Volume
of fresh water constantly pressing from
above. You thus have a complete change,
of water each tide. In Warsaw river, be
ing a purely tidal stream, you have a
most variable velocity of How which is
governed, almost entirely by the wind,
and instead of having a change of water
each tide you have very much tho same
water returning as flowed out, so far as
the head of tho stream Is concerned. No
matter how great the velocity of ebb, or
how slow the flood, the tides flow back
and forth, and with them, almost the
identical water, depending almost entirely
on the wind for any change.
It may appear an absurd assertion, yet
it Is a fact that, should the outlet he con
structed toWarsaw river, the ultimate di
lution would he dependent entirely upon
the direction and velocity of tho wind.
With all this data before us I do not
think it possible to deny the feasibility,
the advantage and th perfect harmless
ness of making our outlet for the sewage
of the city Into the Savannah river.
The cost of this plan Is also a great
point In its favor. Before giving the de
tailed figures I would like to point out the
advantages of the proposed line down Har
mon sreet In preference to running a sewer
down tho line of the present Bilbo canal
from the outlet at Bolton street. If we
were to take the present Bilbo canal we
should have a very crooked alignment,
Instead of a straight one as proposed.
The sewer crown would be all above
ground, lnstead'of being well under. The
grade of Gwinnett street would have to be
raised about live or six feet, Instead of be
ing undisturbed. It would be very difficult
to obtain a foundation for a sewer in the
canal, whilst on Harmon street it will be
excavated to a solid bed. The grade of
the shell road would have to be raised at
the Bilbo canal..
The following are the estimates for the
construction of the proposed sewer in
Harmond street, etc., in different sections,
which may be constructed separately and
If desired, at different times, thus spread
ing the cost over a number of years:
Outlet Into river $ 5,000
River to Perry lane 48 780
Perry lane to Wheaton street 3c’381
Bolton street to Wheaton street H\42t
Bolton street sewer extended 54)00
Bolton street to Anderson street .... 14 27’
Anderson street to Seventh street 12 61G
On Seventh street to Price street ... 13850
24-inch pipe in Bilbo canal and fill
ibS in 6,500
$149 823
This could very readily be constructed
In three sections: First, from the Bolton
street sewer to Ferry lane: second, from
Ferry lane to the river; third from Bolton
street to Price and Seventh streets The
cost would then be divided as follows-
Section No. 1 $53,780
Sect on No. 2 55,305
Section No. 3 40 738
lam convinced that the work coind’be
done at this time much cheaper than at
any time in the past or, with a business
revival, any time in the future.
I have not mentioned in this report any
thing of the nuisance of the present Bilbo
canal in its offensive and nauseating con
dition, taking it for granted that the nuis
ance is admitted and a remedy desired
I have endeavored to place the advant
ages of my proposed plan fully before
you, together with such data as I have
been enabled to gather bearing on it
and trust it may be of service in helping
to decide the city to- undertake the work
at an early date.
Before closing lot me thank the mem
bers of the committee for their valuable
suggestions in connection with the plan
of proposed route, and also for the re
ports, books tables, analyses and data
they so kindly obtained for me whilst
preparing this report. Respectfully sub
mitted. PERCY STTGDEN.
o . _ , , Sanitary Engineer.
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