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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
TO UK TUII I) FOR MIItUER.
A special term of the Cherokee Su
perior Court will be convened at Can
ton to try Will Archer, Will Taylor
and Luther Dowda, the three young
men who are charged with the murder
of Mrs. Ann Holcombe and her daugh
ter a few weeks ago.
WOUDRI FF KI.KI TKI) CAPTAIN.
The City Light Guards of Columbus
have elected James W. Woodruff cap
tain of the company, succeeding Capt.
John H. illges, who resigned recently.
Mr. Woodruff has been first lieutenant
of the company.
urf.km: \\n uaynor’s hegrets.
Athens Banner: Capt. Carter will
walk from his prison cell a free man
Saturday and Messrs. Greene and
Gaynor will no doubt wish they had
begun on their sentence at the time
Carter did.
ASSESSMENT l TON STOCK.
Macon Telegraph: At a meeting last
night of the directors of the Macon
Fair Association an assessment on the
stockholders was ordered mr the pur
pose of paying the outstanding indebt
edness to local parties. The treasurer
was instructed to pay no bills until the
funds from the assessment are re
ceived.
FELL INTO A WELL.
Sarah Cook, a negro woman, living
near Culioden, fell into a well Tuesday
afternoon and died in a few hours after
being taken out. She was standing on
the curbing arranging the rope and
lost her balance, fading sixty feet.
FLORIDA.
SCHOOL BOISE SET ON FIRE.
It has been discovered by the police
that school building No. 2, at Pensa
cola, which was burned Tuesday, was
fired by incendiaries. Several old oat
sacks, saturated with kerosene, were
found near the building and others had
been placed inside of the place and
set on lire. The building was badly
damaged, as it burned for some time
on the inside before the flames burst
through the roof.
IH'NTA GOUDA ELECTION'.
The election at Punta Gorda Tuesday
resulted as follows in the mayoralty
contest: Joseph H. Concannon was
elected, receiving 82 votes; John C.
Lewis, 5: Charles G. Davis, 76.
WORK ON NEW DREDGE.
Work on the new United States
dredgeboat Florida, to be used on the
various rivers of the state, is steadily
going on at Jacksonville. The hull is
now being placed together under the
shed near the docks. A large force of
men are kept working on her every
day. and in the course of a few weeks
the hull will be linished and the boat
will be shoved off into the St. Johns
river. This dredge is of steel. The
Florida will be fitted out with electric
lights, and will be up-to-date in every
respect. She will cost the government
about $60,000, when ready for use.
KILLED THE WRONG MAN.
The Kscamtiia county sheriff has
captured Dillard Perdue, a negro, who
shot and killed Chester A. Hantshaw,
also colored, at Muscogee, Wednesday.
Perdue ran as soon as he fired the
shot, but about forty citizens scoured
the adjoining swamp for the murderer,
compelling him to seek open ground,
where he was soon captured. Perdue
admitted he had killed the wrong man.
He fired into a dark loom, where there
was half a dozen negroes, including
Eaton Haynes. The latter was not
touched, but the bullet went through
Hantshaw’s * heart, causing instant
death.
THE WEATHER.
Morning News barometer, Nov. 27,
11:30 p. m 30:02
Morning News thermometer, Nov.
27. 11:30 p. ill 30
Washington, Nov. 27.—Forecast for
Saturday and Sunday:
Georgia. Eastern Florida and West
ern Florida —Fair Saturday and Sun
day, with rising temperature. Light
to fresh north winds, becoming varia
ble.
South Carolina—Fair Saturday and
Sunday: warmer Sunday; fresh north
west winds.
Yesterday's Weather at Savannah—
Maximum temperature 3:30
p. m 38 degrees
Minimum temperature 8:30
a. m 28 degrees
Mean temperature 33 degrees
Normal temperature 56 degrees
Deficiency of temperature . 23 degrees
Accumulated deficiency
since Nov. 1 7 degrees
Accumulated deficiency
since Jan. 1 25 degrees
Rainfall 00 inch
Normal 08 inch
Deficiency since Nov. 1 ... .20 inch
Excess since Jan. 1 3.87 inches
River Report—The hight of the Sa
vannah river at Augusta, at 8 a. in.
475th meridian time) yesterday, was
7.5 feet, a rise of 0.3 foot during the
preceding twenty-four hours.
Observations taken at the same mo
ment of tune. Nov. 27, 1903, 8 p. in.,
75th meridian time.
Name of Station. ; T. 1 V. I R
Boston, .loudy 26 14 I .00
New York city, clear 26 : 18 | .00
Philadelphia, clear 26 18 .00
Washington city, clear ..24 12 T
Norfolk, cloudy 30 j 8 | T
Hatteras, clear 30 40 j .00
Wilmington, clear I 28 Lt .00
Charlotte, clear | 28 Lt j .00
Raleigh, clear 28 8 .00
Charleston, clear 32 8 ] .00
Atlanta, clear 30 Lt .00
Augusta, clear 32 Lt .00
Savannah, clear 34 Lt : .00
Jacksonville, clear 34 8 j .00
Jupiter, clear l 44 18 | .00
Key West. pt. cloudy ....j 58 20 | .00
Tampa, clear 40 ) Lt I .00
Mobile, clear ! 40 ; Lt j 00
Montgomery, clear 38 Lt .00
Vicksburg, clear 40 Lt j .00
New Orleans, clear 44 Lt | .00
Galveston, clear 62 6 ; .00
Corpus Christi, clear 54 Lt I .00
Palestine, clear 52 6 .00
Memphis, clear 36 Lt ! .00
Cincinnati, clear 26 Lt .00
Pittsburg, snowing 22 12 T
Buffalo, clear 24 12 T
Detroit, clear 26 8| T
Chicago, cloudy 26 2) .00
Marquette, cloudy 22 8 ! .00
St. Paul, pt. cloudy 28 8 .00
Davenport, cloudy 28 6 .00
St. Louis, clear 32 6 .00
Kansas City, clear 40 6 | .00
Oklahoma, clear 58 .. .00
Dodge City, pt. cloudy ....I 52 Lt .00
North Platte, clear 48 I 6 .00
Asheville, dear 20 |lO .00
H. It. Boyer,
Local Forecaster.
Chent) Settlers* Tickets,
On the first and third Tuesdays of
each month till April, 1003, the Frisco
System (St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad.) will sell reduced one way
and round trip tickets from Birming
ham, Memphis and St. Louis to points
in Arkansas. Kansas, Missouri, Okla
homa, Indian Territory and Texas.
Write \\. T. Sanders, general ag-nt
passenger department. Atlanta Ga„ tor
full information.—ad.
The [best
at one-half p^see
It takes five of the ordinary " quarts " to make a trallon, but a HAYNER QUART is a
full quart, an honest quart of :i2 ounces, four to the zallon. Now, you pav your dealer at
least $1.25 a bottle for whiskey that cannot possibly be any better than HAYNER. if as
good, or $6.25 a gallon. If you buy HAYNEK WHISKEY you save at least $3.05 on every H
gallon. We sell two gallons for about the same as you pay for one gallon of probably poorer H
whiskey. Just think that over and remember that HAYNEK WHISKEY goes direct from kj
our distillery to you. carries a UNITED STATES REGISTERED DISTILLER'S GUAR- I
ANTEE of PURITY an J AGE and saves you the dealers' enormous profits. That's why E
it’s so good and so cheap That’s why we have over a quarter of a million satisfied cus- :
tomcrs. That's why YOU should try it. Your money back it you’re not satisfied.
EBlrocf fi*®an our disfiiSery to YOU
Saves Dealers’ Profits I Prevents Adulteration I
PURE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD RYE
4 FULL s*g;2o EXPRESS
QUARTS & PREPAID^
We will send you FOUR FULL QUART BOTTLES of HAYNER’S SEVEN
YEAR-OLD RYE for $3.20. and we will pay the express charges. Try it and UFs
if you don’t find it all right and as good as you ever used or can buy from Hyl
anybody else at any price, then send It back at our expense and your $3.20 Jr-y 1 ’
will be returned to you by next mall. Just think that offer over. How could V
It be fairer? If you are not perfectly satisfied, you are not out a cent. Better
let us send you a trial order. If you don't want four quarts yourself, get a SC™
friend to join you. We ship in a plain sealed case, no marks to show what's ■ fjlj
inside. •
Orders for Ariz., Cal.. Cos!.. Idaho. Mont., Nev.. N. Mex.. Ore., Utah, Wash. ttlvunf' :
or Wyo. must be on the basis of 4 ((unrls for *4.00 by Express gMU PiUKP
Prepaid or 'M <fcuartn for 10.<M> by Freight Prepaid,
Write our nearest office and do it NOW.
THE HAYNER DISTILLING COMPANY
ATLANTA. GA. DAYTON, OHIO ST. LOUIS, MU, ST. PAUL, M.'IN. R'flreJSjgx
150 Distillery, Trot, 0. Established 1866. CgfifiiP**:
OFFICIAL.
Olllcial Proceedings of Connell.
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 25, 1903. The
regular meeting of Council was held
this evening at 8 p. m. Present, Hon.
Herman Myers, Mayor presiding. Al
derman Jas. M. Dixon,-chairman of
Council, Alderman R. L. Colding, vice
chairman of Council, Aldermen Har
man, Glatigney, Schroder, Thomas, Mc-
Kenna, Wright, Garfunkel, Davant,
Grayson and Canty. Minutes of meet
ing of Nov. 11, 1903, were read and
confirmed as published.
REPORT OF COMMITTEES.
The Committee on Accounts report
that they have examined and found
correct bills against the city, amount
ing to twenty thousand, eight hundred
dollars and thirty-one cents as per ac
companying schedule and recommend
that the same be passed for payment.
W. H. Wright,
Chairman Committee on Accounts.
Report received and accounts passed
for payment. Herman Myers,
Mayor.
Aldermanic Salaries—
J. Robt. Creamer, C. C $l2O 00
Board of Health—
Harriett Adams $ 50 00
Officers and employes 1,337 50
H. Logan 3 25
John Sullivan 60
Nat. V. A. Stbe.... 60 00
M. S. & D. A. Byck... 7 70
Dixon
Time of hands - 580 *
Henry Ward 27 00— 1,495 82
City Clocks—
Robt. Schneider 16 66
Dispensary—
Officers and employess 190 00
L. D. Strut ton 1 00
Mutual Gas Lt. C 0... 9 12
Kiernan Plumbing Cos 90 *
A. Kessel 40 00
J. H. Helmken 6 60
Gorrie Ice Mfg. C 0... 5 58
Columbia Drug C 0... 149 69
D. It. Thomas & Son. 1 00— 404 01
Dry Culture—
John G. Butler ......$ 1 70
Woledge & Pliilpot... 3 93
Pay roll 257 24 262 87
Fire Uniforms—
Falk Clothing Cos $ 440 00
B. M. Garfunkel 34 00— 474 00
Fire Department—
Electric Supply Cos. . $ 57 29
Savannah Grocery Cos 12 16
Andrew Hanley C 0... 3 95
M. S. & D. A. Byck... 16 40
Neal, Blun Cos 20
Sav’h W'denware Cos. 15 60
Palmer Hdw. Cos 7 19
Insurance Herald Cos. 3 00
Livingston Phar. Cos. 10 00
Lippman Drug Cos.. 1 50
F. W. Storer 6 50
Mutual Gas Lt. C 0... 39 34
C. A. Cox 3 50
E. Lovell’s Sons 5 45
H. G. Blaek 2 35
W. Taylor 10 25
Knight’s Phar. C 0... 19 25
P. McGlashun 7 75
F. Chris Kramer 2 00
Heidt Plow Cos 2 50
Maguire & Cos 7 00
.1. W. Hunt, Jr 6 38
Maguire & Cos 4 45
Herman Coal anti
Wood Cos 96 20
Sav'h Electric C 0.... 5 00
Dixon Lumber C 0... 27 99
West. Union Tel. Cos. 1 25
R. H. Clements 16 13
Dr. M. A. Morris 28 00
Thos. McDonnell .... 4 25
B. M. Garfunkel 6 03
A. S. Bacon & Sons.. 50
W. & H. H. Lattimore 9 66
Electric Supply C 0... 45
Mingledorl’ & Cos 33 80
Dixon Lumber C 0... 26 61
Cohen-Kulman C. aigi
Wagon Cos 79 75
Dixon Lumber C 0... 383 40
M. S. &D. A. Byck.. 4 50— 967 43
House Drainage (City)—
Perrien, Seamans &
Cos 16 00
W. W. Dixon 118 35
E. Lovell Sons 5 88
A. Hanley Cos 15 00
Ocean S. S. Cos 45
Pay roll 220 50
Pay roll 90 00— 466 18
Harbor and Wharves—
R. H. Clements 1 25
Cohen-Kulman C. &
W. C 7 75
Cohen-Kulman C. &
\V. Cos 5 50— 16 50
Hospitals—
Park View Sanita
rium 250 00
Charity Hospital, col
ored 75 00
Georgia Infirmary .. 376 00
St. Joseph's Infirm
ary 250 00
Savannah Hospital... 250 00 — 1,200 00
Incidentals —
Henry E. Dreeson .. 20 00
P. Klllorin 5 00
John Sullivan 50
Mrs. Annie McStay.. 12 00
Mrs. Margaret Fen
der 12 00
Cornwell & Chipman 8 00
League of American
Municipalities 40 00— 97 50
Laurel Grove Cetemery—
Time of hands i63 25 163 25
Col. W. Garrard 50 00
Market—
M. Katsman ........ 23 00
Geo. Schwarz & Son 5 00
E. Lovell's Sons .... 4 05
Savannah Oroc. Cos. 3 90
Herman Coal and
Wood Cos 2 25
Muluhl Gas Light
Cos.. 2 12
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS’ SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 28. 1903.
OFFICIAL.
Savannah Elec. C 0... 45 00
W. W. Aimar & Cos.. 3 00
Alexander Grocery .. 5 50
Jordan Kelly 3 60
F. M. Bell 5 50
Officers and em
ployes 283 50— 386 42
Opening Streets—
Lucy Williams and
Rosalie N. Getson . 35 00
Sophie Bailey 45 00
Thos. J. Dboley 26 42
Catherine Mcßae .. 10 62
Oglethorpe S. and T.
Cos 25 00— 142 04
Paving—
Mingledorff & Cos $ 41 00
John G. Butler 3 60
A. B. Cummings 18 72
Ed. Welsh 26 02
Henry Gill 20 47
P. McCarthy 19 60
T. McDonald 17 85
M. Roach 20 30
Thos. MoGrath 31 85
L. Jones is 72
John McGrath 9 97
Joshua Gill 20 12
Palmer Hdw. Cos. .. 2 25
E. Lovell’s Sons .... 990
C. of Ga. Ry. C 0.... 152 00
S. A. L. Ry ’ 229 90
A. C. L. R. R 17 10
R. Fogarty 22 86
W. W. Hurst 29 38
J. U. Grover 11 44
Thos. Houlihan .... 144 60
A. S. Nichols 3 00
Pay roll 1,284 87— 2,155 52
Parks and Squares—
Time of hands $245 25
Police—
Savh. Grocery Cos $ 20 54
A. Leffier 3 90
Electric Supply Cos.. 12 50
Joihn G. Butler 5 10
G. I. Taggart & Cos.. 35 00
M. S. & D. A. Byck.. 1 00
Heidt Plow Cos 5 00
Wm. & H. H. Latti
more 2 25
Walter Allen 40
J. W. Heidt. Jr 8 15
Ga. T. and T. Cos 192 00
Dr. Geo. L. Harman 15 00— 301 69
Printing and Stationery-
Morning News $ 7 50
C. N. Stern 42 00
Rand. McNally & Cos. 5 15— 54 65
Public Buildings—
John Sullivan $ 90
Mutual Gas Lt. Cos.. 1 75
John G. Butler 80
Cornwell & Chip
man 21 80— 25 25
Plumbing Inspector—
Pay roll .$270 00
Salaries —
Officers and employes $3,400 50
Scavenger Department—
Daniel & Cars well.. $ 62 50
Cornwell & Chip
man 5 55
Savh. Electric Cos.. 1,376 00
Pay roll 710 31— 2,154 36
Streets and Lanes—
Daniel & Carswell.. $ 62 50
M. S. & D. A. Byck... 29 10
John Sullivan 80
Heidt Plow Cos 18 25
Leo Frank .. 18 32
Gillette C. W. C 0... 3 50
J. P. Ward & Son.. 28 50
Davis Forest M. Cos.. 6 20
J. G. Butler 70
Southern Asphalt Cos. 99 79
George Lelnvald 6 00
A. G. Guerard & Son 40 00
M. W. Dixon 8 31
E. Lovell's Sons .... 19 81
A. Hanley Cos 6 50
Atlantic Coast Line.. 85 00
George Lohwald .... 30 00
Southern C. G. C 0... 32 40
Savh. Electric Cos. .. 71 22
Pay roll 1,446 18
Sidewalks —
E. Lovell's Sons ....$ 135
Seaboard Air. Line.. 54 22
F. H. Upper 189 26
A. Hanley Cos 8S 80
F. H. Opper 97 95
George Lelnvald .... 60 40
Thomas McGrath .. 900
R. Fogarty 23 78
M. W. Dixon 361 79
Frank Barker 1,604 35
Pay roll 249 02— 4,753 00
Streets (Grading New) —
Palmer Hdw. Cos $ 9 40
E. Lovell's Sons ... 393
Pay roll 52 30— 65 63
Sink Deoiirtment—
B. O. Rogers $ S3 33
Patrick Buttimer .... 413 00
Savh. Grocery C 0... 10 10— 506 43
Savannah Female Or
phan Asylum 50 00
Special Appropriation. Public Library—
J. M. Thomas, Treasurer 250 00
Special Appropriation, Powder Maga
zine—
M. J. Martin 10 00
Working People’s
Home .. .. 25 00
Waterworks (New) —
E. Lovell’s Sons ....$ 95
L. Frank 35
Standiird Oil Cos 27 30
Standard Oil Cos 2 00
M. S. * D. A. Byck. 21 65
Cohen-Kulman C 0... 16 50
Electric Supply C 0... 5 75
T. A. Ward 2 25
Pay roll 19 50— 146 25
Waterworks Extension—
J. D. Weed & Son ..$ 99 80
Pay roll 24 00— 123 30
Total $20,800 31
The Committee of Whole to which
was referred the petition of John Glenn
asking Council to transfer his repair
shop license from corner Jones and
Jefferson streets, to W. 8. Swlnson
at No. 425 West Broad street, beg to
■•epo'rt adversely to same.
OFFICIAL.
Adopted. Herman Myers.
Chairman Committee of the Whole.
The Committee of the Whole to which
was referred the petition of sundry in
surance agents, asking that eighteen
hundred dollars be appropriated per an
num as salary of building inspector
and that Harry Bartlett be appointed
as inspector, beg to report that same
be received as information.
Adopted. Herman Myers.
Chairman Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Finance to which
was referred the petition of A. P.
Canady, asking to be relieved of taxes
years 1903, except one hundred dollars
on personal property and relieved of
double tax, beg to report adversely to
same.
Adopted. Jas. M. Dixon,
Chairman Finance Committee.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes
to which was referred the petition of
H. F. Willink, for permission to erect
a brick house on lot No. E y 2 of 4
and W % of 5 second tything, Anson
ward beg to report favorably.
Adopted. R. J. Davant,
Chairman Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
PETITIONS A?JD APPLICATIONS.
The following petitions of sundry
liquor dealers to retail liquor during
the year 1904 was read and referred to
Committee of the Whole:
Abel, Charles, 201 Bay street, east
corner Abercorn street.
Anderson, Jos. M., No. 42 Reynolds
street.
Beckman, George, No. 112 Whitaker
street.
Cottingham, John, No. 208 Broughton
street, west.
Cottingham, John, southeast corner
Broughton and Drayton streets.
Dedelong, Pano, 263 Wheaton street,
corner Randolph street.
Fitzgerald, Thos. E., No. 912 West
Broad street.
Galina. J. A., No. 9 Drayton street,
corner Bay street lane.
Gildear Neil, No. 120 Broughton street,
east.
Gildea, Neil, No. 34 Bull street (Screv
en House).
Hicks, R. M., No. 19 Congress street,
west.
Kelly, A. TANARUS., Bay street lane, near
Bull street.
Lubs, John F., northwest corner Lib
erty and Habersham streets.
Remler, It., southeast corner Liberty
and Drayton streets.
Sullivan, John, No. 15 Congress street,
west.
Application of Ors> 11 Bros, for per
mission to transfer their liquor license
from 223 Congress street, west, to cor
ner of Anderson and West Broad
streets, deferred to Committe of the
Whole.
Petition of sundry contractors and
builders and dealers in building sup
plies, recommending Mr. Harry Bart
lett to the position as building inspec
tor. Referred to Committee of the
Whole.
Petition of John M. Bryan, treasurer
Savannah Female Orphan Asylum, ask
ing Council to continue with appropri
ation made to them last year for Sa
vannah Female Orphan Asylum. Re
ferred to Committee of the Whole.
Petition mercantile agencies, the
Bradstreet Company and R. G. Dun &
Cos., asking to reduce license on said
business to SSO. Referred to Commit
tee of the Whole.
Petition of Clarence Smith, asking
for compensation for articles destroy
ed by order of health authorities. Re
ferred to Committee on Public Health
and Finances.
Petition of sundry citizens resident
of Price and Thirty-sixth streets, ask
ing that an electric light be placed
at corner Price and Thirty-sixth
streets, referred to Committee on
Streets and Lanes.
Petition of Dr. C. P. Brannen, ask
ing to refund him 4salf of amount paid
for cleaning out vaults on Bismarck
street, as said va'tiU have a spring
bottom and fills with .water as soon
as cleaned out. referred -to Committee
on Public Health.: a.
Petition of B. D. Rosenbrook for per
mission to erect one-story, 20x30, frame
shed and stable, metal roof, lot 28, Es
till ward, referred to Committee on
Fire.
Petition of Estate William Wade, for
permission to cut two light areas ex
tending on sidewalk two feet at No.
15 Jones street, cast, one-half No. 8
Montery ward, referred to Committee
on Streets and Lanes.
Petition of James Mcßride for per
mission to add two stoops about 4x6,
metal roof, one stoop to 'be on Bay
street and one on Houston street,
building No. 525 Bay street, east, re
ferred to Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
Petition of Isidore Collat, calling at
tention to fences not removed on Thir
ty-eighth street, between East Broad
and Waters road, referred to Commit
tee on City Lots and Opening Streets.
Petition of P. D. Baffin, chairman
Park and Tree Commission, asking
that appropriation of SI,OOO for Em
met Park not used be expended for
the general park maintenance and tree
nursery, received for information.
Petition of John Schwarz, calling at
tention to the condition of Margaret
street and to have said street paved,
referred to Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
ORDINANCES.
By the Finance Commlttte—
Ordinance on its first reading.
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, the administration of the
government of the city of Savannah,
for the fiscal year, 1904, will cause an
expenditure in the various departments
of said government in sums estimated,
to-wit:
Board of Health $
City clocks
City lighting
Dispensary .. .A.-
Drainage and dry culture
Fire uniforms
Fire department, maintenance..
Harbor and wharves
Hospitals ..
House drainage
House drainage, maintenance .
Interest bonded debt
Incidentals ..
Law department, incidentals ..
Laurel Grove Cemetery
Market
Parks and squares *
Parks and squares and streets.
tree planting
Parks and squares. Emmet Park
improvement ..
Parks and squares. artificial
stone pavement, Bull street
walk, Forsyth Park
Opening streets, including de
ferred payments
Paving streets
Police
Police uniforms
Police reserve
Printing and stationery
Public building, including re
pairs to building corner West
Broad and River streets ....
Plumbing inspector
Storm sewers —,
Salaries
Scavenger departnfent ;...
Sink department, O. E. M. ....
Sinking fund
Savannah Female Orphan Asy
lum
Streets and lanes
Streets (grading new)
Streets (resurfacing gravel
streets)
Working People's Home
Waterworks, uew maintenance
Waterworks, bid. including
fountain on Montgomery
street
Waterworks, one-third dupli
cate compressor and repairs..
Waterworks, extension
An ordinance to assess and levy
taxes and raise revenue for the city
of Savannah; for the regulation of cer
tain kinds of business in the corpor
ate and Jurisdictional limits of said
city; fixing penalties for the violation
OFFICIAL.
of the revenue ordinances of said city,
and for other purposes connected with
taxes and revenue of said city.
Section 1. The Mayor and Aldermen
of the city of Savannah, in Council as
sembled, do hereby ordain. That from
and after the first day of January,l9o4.
the inhabitants of said corporate and
jurisdictional limits of said city, and
those who hold taxable property within
the same, and those who transact, or
offer to transact, business therein, ex
cept such as are exempt from taxation
by law, shall pay toward the support
of the government of said city, and
for the safety, benefit, convenience and
advantage of said city, the taxes here
inafter prescribed.
Sec. 2. Every person and corpora
tion owning real property in said city,
including improvements, shall pay a
tax to be assessed by Council upon the
value of said property by the first day
of April. 1904, at the rate of one and
forty-five one-hundredths per centum
upon the value thereof, except on such
property as may be exempt from taxa
tion under the laws of this state.
Sec. 3. Every person and corpora
tion owning or holding in trust or con
signment household, kitchen or office
furniture, private or professional
libraries, watches. jewelry, plate,
musical instruments, billiard tables in
private residences, stocks in money
corporations, bonds, notes, or other ev
idences of debt, money, solvent debts,
stock in trade, and every other kind
of personal property whatsoever, shall
pay a tax at the rate of one and forty
one one-hundredths per centum on the
value of such personal property what
soever owned or held on the first day
of January, 1994, and if any person or
partnership shall engage in business as
a wholesale or retail dealer in goods,
wares or merchandise of any descrip
tion whatsoever after the first day of
January, 11104, they shall pay a tax
on the value of such goods and mer
chandise (as they may be possessed of
on the day of the date of their be
ginning business in said city), which
tax shall be of such proportion of said
tax as the time left in said year shall
bear to the whole year; provided,
nevertheless, that such tax for a por
tion of the year shall in no event be
less than one-fourth of such annual
tax, except such as may be ex
empt from taxation by the laws of this
state or of the United States.
Sec. 4. Every shipmaster, captain,
supercargo, agent or other officer of
any vessel, or other persons who shall
charter or offer to charter his vessel,
or who shall sell goods or articles of
any kind from any vessel or wharf,
personally purchase cargo or collect
freight, except through a licensed bro
ker or commission merchant, shall be
considered a commission merchant and
pay the tax hereinafter prescribed for
commission merchants.
Sec. 5. Every persons transacting,
or offering to transact, any of the
kinds of business hereinafter specified
(whether in connection with any other
business or not), shall pay the tax
hereinafter prescribed for every sep
arate place in which he shall transact
or offer to transact business, viz.:
Auctioneers and commission mer
chant with the privilege of selling at
auction, two hundred dollars.
Dealers in goods, wares and mer
chandise, including dealers in drugs,
etc. (in addition to liquor tax or
license), as follows:
Dealers exclusively retail, except
those conducting a department store,
thirty dollars.
Dealers conducting a department
store, one hundred dollars.
Dealers exclusively wholesale, or re
tail dealers selling at wholesale, one
hundred dollars; those conducting de
partment stores in no event paying a
smaller tax than that provided for in
the preceding paragraph.
Dealers in liquor doing a wholesale
business, two hundred dollars.
Brokers in liquor, two hundred dol
lars.
Banker or bank agent or agents of
bankers engaged in buying or selling
exchange, including every person or
company doing a banking business,
fifty dollars.
Every bank or trust company with
out a savings department attached,
and every savings bank, fifty dollars.
Every bank or trust company with a
savings department attached, seventy
five dollars.
Every person, firm or corporation,
other than those paying the license just
mentioned required of banks, and bank
ers buying and selling exchange, fifty
dollars.
Cotton brokers, or brokers or deal
ers in stocks, bonds and real estate,
and every produce, grocery, and naval
stores broker, and every resident agent
representing non-resident dealers, mer
chants and manufacturers, exclusive
of brokers in liquors, seventy-five dol
lars.
Persons other than a pawnbroker en
gaged in the business of lending money
on personal property, whether a mort
gage or bill of sale or other security
be taken or not, three hundred and
fifty dollars.
A money lender as contemplated by
this ordinance being one who carries
on the business of lending his own or
other people's money, and not as a
stock and bond broker, chartered bank,
private banker, negotiator of loans on
realty, real estate agent, or dealer in
bonds and stocks, but who carries on
the business of lending money on per
sonal security or personal property
other than stocks and bonds, such an
one shall be deemed a money lender.
Brokers or agents buying and selling
futures on a margin, five hundred dol
lars.
Brokers or dealers in stocks, bonds,
real estate and live stock, with the
privilege of selling same at auction, one
hundred dollars.
Brokers or dealers in real estate may
collect rents without paying further
tax.
Brokers who may handle or receive
goods on consignment, one hundred dol
lars.
Ship brokers, one hundred dollars.
Dealers in butter, lard and cheese,
eighty dollars.
Dealers in hides, wax and tallow,
eighty dollars.
Brokers engaged in the sale of horses,
cattle or mules, who keep no stables
for the sale of same, one hundred dol
lars.
Pawnbrokers, five hundred dollars;
said pawnbrokers shall be authorized
to sell only goods pledged with them,
and shall be subject to forfeiture of
license by the Mayor for the sale of
other goods.
Proprietors of each pool room kept
or maintaned in the city of Savannah
for the sale of pools on races, shall
pay the sum of fifteen hundred dollars
per annum.
Building and loan associations, one
hundred dollars.
Loan Associations, doing a banking
business, one hundred dollars.
Persons and corporations carrying
on the business of furnishing abstracts,
land titles or warranting the same’
fifty dollars.
Every fire or life insurance company
doing business, whether directly or
through an agency or through a broker,
two hundred dollars for each and every
agency or broker.
Every agent or broker doing business
in the city of Savannah for every fire
of life insurance company which he
may represent in any way, including
each company to which be may send
business, shall pay the tax of two
hundred dollars in all cases where the
company does not pay the tax itself.
Brokers doing business under the act
of the Legislature of Georgia, approved
December, 14, 1891, and entitled "An
Act to provide for and regulate the
business of insurance brokers in this
state, and to authorize insurance to be
procured by them beyond the limits of
the state upon property within the
state, and for other purposes," are ex
pressly Included, the meaning and in-
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tent being to make the agents and
brokers referred to responsible under
the pains and penalties of this ordi
nance for the specific tax of two hun
dred dollars, as provided for by ordi
nance of the city of Savannah, adopted
on the 25th day of September, 1895.
Every marine, surety or other insur
ance company doing business whether
directly or through an agency or
through a broker or an attorney, fifty
dollars for each and every agency or
broker or attorney. Every such agent,
broker or attorney doing such business
in the city of Savannah for every such
company which be may represent in
any way, shall pay a tax of fifty dol
lars in all cases where the company
does not pay the tax itself, and this
provision shall apply to any agent,
broker or attorney who does business
for a marine company on what is
known as "open policies.”
Every accident insurance company
doing business, whethar directly or
through an agency or through a broker,
one hundred dollars, for each and every
agency or broker. Every company,
corporation or person not doing
the business of a regular life insurance
company or of a regular accident in
surance company, but nevertheless en
gaged in the business of paying sick
or accident benefits to policy holders,
shall pay a specific tax of fifty dollars.
Every person who shall be sworn by
the Mayor (who is hereby authorized
to administer the oath for such pur
pose) as a public weigher of any goods,
wares or merchandise, twenty-five dol
lars.
Every average or insurance adjuster
for companies for which he is not the
local Insurance agent, fifty dollars.
Keepers or proprietors of hotels, con
ducted on either European or Ameri
can plan, that contain seventy-five
rooms or upward, one hundred dollars.
Keepers or proprietors of hotels, con
ducted on either European or Ameri
can plan, containing under seventy-five
rooni|S, fifty dollars.
Sewing machines agents or agencies,
fifty dollars; the same for each and
every agency.
Dealers in sewing machines, or deal
ers in sewing machine supplies, or re
pairers of sewing machines, fifty dol
lars.
Dealers in coal, one hundred dollars.
Dealers in stationery or books, sell
ing exclusively at wholesale, or at re
tail and wholesale, one hundred dol
lars.
Retail dealers in stationery or books,
thirty dollars.
Oil mills, one hundred dollars.
Manufacturers of or dealers in fer
tilizers, not paying tax as a commis
sion merchant, one hundred dollars.
Owners, proprietors, lessee or lessees
of each cotton compress plant, one
hundred and fifty dollars; every hand
cotton press, twenty-five dollars.
Owners, proprietors, lessee or lessees
of a junk shop, or junk dealers, three
hundred dollars.
Cotton pickeries, to be confined ex
clusively to the purchase or sale of
cotton, one hundred dollars.
Buyers of loose cotton, who buy from
others than cotton merchants, one
hundred and seventy dollars.
Proprietors or owners of cotton gin
establishments, one hundred dollars.
Every commission merchant or fac
tor, one hundred dollars.
Every dealer in live poultry or coun
try produce, one hundred dollars.
House cleaning and upholstering, ten
dollars.
Dealers in bicycle supplies, thirty
dollars.
Repalrers of bicycles, who are not
dealers in bicycle supplies, ten dol
lars.
Exporters of cotton, lumber, naval
stores, or other merchandise, foreign or
coastwise, agency or representative of
firm of exporters, two hundred dollars.
Stevedores, fifty dollars.
Every lighterage or river transfer,
individual firm or company, one hun
dred dollars.
Every tow boat company, person or
persons, firm or corporation conducting
a tow boat business, fifty dollars for
each boat used In the business.
Every dredging company, person or
persons, firm or corporation conduct
ing the business of dredging, fifty dol
lars for each dredge used in the bus
iness.
Proprietors or owners of lumber
yards, fifty dollars.
Dealers in brick or agents for sale of
brick, seventy-five dollars.
Dealers in wood, thirty dollars.
Keepers of warehouses for the stor
age of cotton, merchandise, goods, etc.,
for each warehouse, thirty dollars.
Proprietors or owners or keepers of
billiard or pool tables, other than those
used in private dwellings, ten dollars
for each table.
Proprietors or owners of bagatelle
tables, ten dollars for each table.
Proprietors or owners of ten pin al
leys, ten dollars for each alley.
Proprietors or owners of saw mills
or planing mills, with or without lum
ber yards attached, one hundred dol
lars.
Each sash and blind factory, or
agency of sash and blind factory, fifty
dollars.
On the owner or proprietor of every
steam engine used for hoisting pur
poses, or any other Business where
steam is used, not regularly taxed, as
in this ordinance stated and enumer
ated, twenty-five dollars.
Cotton shippers, twenty-five dollars.
Cotton weighers, twenty-five dollars.
Shoemakers, ten dollars.
Merchant tailors, thirty dollars.
Every circus, with or without a men
agerie, for each and every day per
forming in the city, two hundred and
fifty dollars, without discount.
Itinerant shows, one hundred dollars
per week or any part thereof, without
discount.
Flying horses, twenty-five dollars
per month or any part thereof, without
discount.
Other minor exhibitions, ten dollars
per week or any part thereof, without
discount.
Athletic exhibitions, where entrance
fee is charged, fifty dollars.
Dealers or vendors of goods, wares,
merchandise, drugs, and small wares,
selling or Introducing the same for sale
by means of public exhibitions. one
hundred dollars per week, or any part
thereof, without discount.
Hand organs, or strolling bands of
musicians, five dollars per week, with
out discount.
Every person, company or corpora
tion engaged in the business of operat
ing or running a theater for theatrical
exhibitions, three hundred dollars per
annum.
Every theatrical troupe, minstrel
troupe or other troup acting or per
forming in any public hall in this city
other than a theater, shall pay five dol
lars for each performance, without dis
count.
Every proprietor of a concert hall or
variety show shall pay a license of five
hundred dollars.
Persons or partnerships running a
grist mill, thirty dollars.
Every person running a flour mill or
flour and grist mill, thirty dollars.
Bread or cake bakeries carried on by
means of steam, machinery or other
motive power, fifty dollars.
If carried on without steam or other
motive power, thirty dollars.
General contractors, whose contracts
are not confined to any particular line
or department of work, seventy-five
dollars.
Master builders, masons, mechanics
and others, whether dealers or not, who
do hot pay the tax required by the pre
ceding paragraph of general contrac
tors, thirty dollars.
Architects or other persons acting as
superintendent of construction, civil
engineers, surveyors, contractors
thirty dollars.
Collectors, twenty-five dollars.
Cut rate ticket dealers, agents or
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brokers and ticket scalpers, fifty dol
lars.
Proprietors or owners of intelligence
offices, ten dollars for each office.
Mercantile or commercial agencies
one hundred dollars.
Daily newspapers printed by steam,
or other motive power, one hundred
dollars.
Boot-black stands, not inside of a
building, to be located by the Street
and Lane Committee, each, chair, fiv e
dollars.
Every weekly or other newspaper
printed by steam or other motive pow
er, fifty dollars.
Every daily newspaper worked by
hand, twenty-five dollars.
Every weekly newspaper worked by
hand, ten dollars.
Job printing offices worked by steam,
gas, water or other motor, fifty dollars!
Job printing offices worked without
steam, gas, water or other motor,
twenty-five dollars.
Every proprietor of a book bindery
without a printing office, fifteen dol
lars.
Manufacturers of soda water, selling
from founts, twenty-five dollars.
Manufacturing and bottling soda,
fifty dollars.
Selling soda water from founts, ten
dollars for each fount.
Public laundries, run by steam or
electricity, fifty dollars.
Public laundries, run without steam
or electricity, twenty-five dollars.
Bottlers of beer or ale. fifty dollars.
Soap boilers or tanners, for each es
tablishment, ten dollars.
Barber shops, four dollars for each
chair; and if cigars or tobacco be sold
therein, an additional tax of ten dollars
shall be paid.
Persons engaged in the business of
gas fitting or plumbing, or both, shall
take out a license, for which he shall
pay thirty dollars, and shall comply
with the provisions of an ordinance
adopted February 9th, 1898, and amend
ed November 30th, 1898, and further
amended April 19th, 1899.
Dealers in paints, oils and builder’s
supplies, other than manufacturers,
seventy-five dollars.
Daguerrean artists, photographers,
ambrotypers and portrait painters,
twenty-five dollars.
Steamboat, vessel or other agencies,
fifty dollars.
Every agency for ocean steamships,
each line, one hundred dollars.
Broom factories, thirty dollars.
Lampblack factories, fifty dollars.
Manufacturers of plaster or cement,
fifty dollars.
Coppersmiths, fifty dollars.
Manufacturers of stills, one hundred
dollars.
Ice factories, one hundred dollars.
Each and every veterinary surgeon,
thirty dollars.
Wholesale dealers in ice, one hun
dred dollars.
Every retail dealer in Ice, ten dollars.
Each and every museum, twenty-flva
dollars.
Gas companies, five hundred dollars.
Every electric light company, five
hundred dollars.
Restaurants or eating houses, twen
ty-five dollars.
Rice pounding or cleaning mills, with
or without grist mill attached, one hun
dred dollars.
Fortune tellers, palmist or astrolo
gers, five hundred dollars.
Pressing or cleaning clothes, ten dol
lars.
Breweries or persons manufacturing
any malt liquors, or agents of same
who have not already paid the whole
sale liquor and wholesale dealer's tax,
five hundred dollars.
Breweries or manufacturers having
a storage place in the city of Savannah,
or regularly supplying customers in
Savannah by means of vehicles, using
the streets of Savannah, shall be sub
ject to this tax.
Manufacturers of cider or vinegar, or
either, fifty dollars.
Telephone companies or exchanges,
six hundred dollars each.
Each Independent telephone of two
stations, two dollars and fifty cents.
Street railroad companies, whether
under the control of another company
or not, in lieu of the specific tax here
tofore required, shall pay to the city
of Savannah for the privilege of doing
business in the city and for the use of
the streets of the city, at the rate of
one hundred dollars per mile or
fraction of a mile of track of the main
line, eliminating all switches and dou
ble tracks, and conforming the charge
to one line of track on each street used
in the city of Savannah by said rail
road company, (and it shall be the duty
of street railroad companies to make a
return under oath, through their prop
er official, of the amount of their track
age in the city of Savannah), and in
addition thereto, twenty-five dollars for
each and every car at any time used
by such company in the city; it shall
also be required that each and every
railroad company doing business in this
city shall take out badges for all cars
employed by them, which badges shall
be furnished, by the City Treasurer,
and which shall be numbered. It shall
furthermore be required that each and
every car employed by each and every
street railroad company shall have
such badge as hereinbefore provided se
curely fastened in a conspicuous place
upon the inside of each car.
Every automobile or locomobile used
as carriers of passengers for hire, con
veying six or less passengers, ten dol
lars; more than six, twenty-five dol
lars.
Proprietors or keepers of a skating
rink, twenty-five dollars.
Undertakers or coffin warehouses,
thirty dollars.
Persons engaged in loading or unload
ing vessels by horse power, twenty-flve
dollars for each hoisting apparatus
used.
Express companies, five hundred dol
lars; and, in addition thereto six dol
lars for every one-horse baggage ex
press wagon, and twelve dollars fbr
every two-horse baggage express wag
on employed by such companies.
Bill posters or distributors of bills,
or advertisements forty dollars.
Blacksmith shops, each forge, eight
dollars.
Cooper shops, twenty dollars.
Carriage repositories, one hundred
dollars.
Every carriage or wheelwright shop
for manufacturing or repairing, twen
ty-five dollars.
Cigar manufacturers or retailers,
twenty dollars.
Dye houses, twenty dollars.
Millinery establishments, ten dollars.
Gunsmith establishments, ten dollars.
Foundries, exclusively brass, thirty
dollars: other foundries, fifty dollars.
Machine shops, fifty dollars.
Every foundry and machine shop, one
hundred dollars.
Menageries, fifty dollars per day.
Marble and stone yards, fifty dollars.
Wholesale or retail dealers or ship
pers in fish or oysters, doing business
outside of city market, fifty dollars.
Shipping masters, one hundred dol
lars.
Shooting galleries, one hundred dol
lars.
Proprietors or keepers of green gro
ceries, one hundred dollars.
Stencil cutters, twenty dollars.
Tailors, not registered as merchants,
ten dollars.
Proprietors or owners of marine rail
ways or dry docks, fifty dollars.
Dealers paying a tax as wholesale
dealers, and every green grocery, shall
be permitted to do any business in the
way of buying and selling goods, wares
and merchandise, hereinbefore taxed,
paying a less tax than tax for a whole
sale dealer, without paying any other
specific tax.
Every person engaged In the busi
ness of transporting or carrying goods,
wares, merchandise, passengers or bag
gage for hire, by means cf wagons,
drayk, trucks, carts, omnibuses or_c£2
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