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REPORT
JOHN SCREVEN,
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH,
For the Year Ending September 30,1871,
TO WHICH 18 ADDBD THE
TREASURER'S REPORT
REPORTS OF THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.
SAVANNAH:
MORNING NEWS STEAM-TOWER PRESS.
1871.

MAYOE'S ANNUAL KEPORT.
MAYOR'S OFFICE,
CITY or SAVANNAH, October 1, 1871.
Fellow-citizens
In compliance with the usage long observed by my predeces
sors, I have the honor to present the following report upon the
condition of the affairs of the city during the fiscal year ending
the 30th ultimo:
Under the ordinance of the 26th of June, 1845, it was declared
to be " the duty of the Mayor to publish or cause to be published,
on the first Monday in October in each year (or as soon there
after as he can procure the report of the Finance Committee), an
account of the receipts and expenditures of the city for the year
ending the 30th of September of each year, and that the account
shall undergo the inspection of, and be certified by, the Com
mittee of Finance, before the ptiblication of the same." This duty
is now performed, and the receipts and expenditures of the city
are laid before the public in the report of the City Treasurer, to
which I beg leave to refer.
But there are many subjects of public interest outside of a mere
financial statement, which can not be discussed in a satisfactory
manner without final and complete reports of the transactions of
each of the departments of the municipal government, as it is
from these reports that the necessary circumstantial information
must be derived. Such reports require, and should have careful
and exact preparation, or they may prove not merely valueless,
but, because erroneous, be productive of false impressions. The
municipal year closes on the 30th of September, and the munici
pal election for the present year occurs on the 9th of October.
It is right and proper, before the people proceed to a choice of
the future administrators of their government, that they should be
accurately informed of the condition and prospects of the public
4 MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT.
affairs. But on the present occasion, so brief a period is allotted
to the officers of the departments, that the report of the Mayor
must necessarily be either brief or should be entitled to the priv
ilege of future amendment.
The past year has been distinguished by a condition of the
public health so excellent that it should invite the serious, if not
the grateful, attention of our people. This has been accompanied
by conspicuous material prosperity. Commerce and trade have
assumed an evident advancement, and the City of Savannah has
finally secured the position of the second in rank among the ports
of the Southern States. Marked public and private improve
ments within the limits of the city have kept pace with these
happy advantages. The one should indeed be concurrent with
the other, and the municipal government, appreciating this and
hopefully anticipating the fulfilment of the flattering promise of
the public developments, and the demands of a growing and ener
getic population, has faithfully sought to meet the future as well
as the present exigences of the community.
But to initiate and. carry into execution a policy involving the
cost of laying the foundation of a system of large public im
provements, intended to meet the expansions of the future, as
well as to correct and supply the defects of existing works, extra
ordinary demands have been made upon the public resources.
The principal objects of expenditure have been the building of
a new market-house, the paving of certain streets, and the con
struction of sewers. For these the City Council, by ordinance
passed the 18th of October, 1870, authorized an issue of five hun
dred thousand dollars of bonds, payable thirty years after date,
and bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent, per annum.
By this issue the funded debt of the city has been increased to
two million eight hundred and seventeen thousand one hundred
and forty dollars, as follows: '
Funded debt, September 30, 1870 $2,318,640
Less bonds since redeemed 1,500
$2,317,140
Issue of November 1,1870 500,000
Total funded debt $2,817,140
Of the bonds of November 1, 1870, there are on hand ninetythree thousand dollars, applicable to the payment of part of the
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bills payable of the city, amounting to one hundred and thirty
thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and six cents.
The resources of the city in real estate and public property,
other than taxable property, amount to four million forty-eight
thousand dollars.
For information in detail as to these resources, reference is
made to the report of the City Treasurer, hereto appended.
The value of the taxable real estate of Savannah amounts to
fifteen million five hundred and seventy-nine thousand one hun
dred dollars, under the assessment of the present year, including
two hundred and thirty-seven thousand two hundred dollars of
improvements erected during the six months previous to July last.
The following table shows the increase in value of the taxable real
estate within the city for the last three years:
Valuation. Increase.
1869 $12,219,140
1870 14,861,464 $2,642,324
1871 15,579,100 717,636
Increase since1869 $3,359,960
These statements do not, however, express the full value of all
the real estate in the city of Savannah. It is not known to the
foreign public that a very large part of the real estate in the city
consists of lots sold on condition of the payment of ground rent,
and are, therefore, not the subject of taxation, and are not in
cluded in the assessments. These lots, six hundred and eighty
in number, constitute in large part some of the most valuable real
estate in the city, and, if included in the statement of taxable real
estate, would, at a moderate estimate, raise its figures to more
than seventeen and a half millions of dollars. A knowledge of
this condition of so large a part of the public resources is import
ant to a correct appreciation of the extent of the real estate with
in the city and to a just maintenance of the public credit, and for
these reasons, involving a matter of sound public policy, the
ground rent of lots should be assessed cotemporaneously with
those held in fee simplenot with a view to their taxation, but
to ascertain correctly the value of all real estate within the city.
It was expected that the new securities mentioned above would
fully cover the particular improvements for which they were au
thorized; but the cost of each has exceeded the original estimates
of construction, either because of contingencies impossible to be
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anticipated, or especially, as in the case of the new sewers, be
cause it became necessary to extend those originally designed,
and to locate others in various parts of the city. Thus, the main
sewer, passing through East Broad street, has been extended east
ward through Bolton street to the head of Bilbo canal extended,
and also south to Anderson street. The Drayton street sewer has
been carried to a junction with the Bolton street sewer, through
Hall and Abercorn streets. Sewers have also been constructed
on William, Margaret, Pine, Bryan, Waldburg, Sims, and Canal
streets.
Added to these, and to make the principal part of these import
ant and extensive works effective, and to relieve the city from
onerous and repeated claims for damages resulting from overflows
of the adjacent lands, and consequent destruction of crops, the
Bilbo canal has been deepened and widened from its mouth to
the extremity of the main sewer on Bolton street, and the culvert
on the Thunderbolt road, through which this canal passes, has
been entirely rebuilt.
When the new system of sewerage was projected, it was not
anticipated that such additional improvements, and on a scale so
extensive, would be immediately urged. On the contrary, it was
intended merely to lay the foundation of a system to be graduallyenlarged. But the great usefulness, developed by the very first
results of the system, invited a demand for its expansion which
refused all denial and forced a concession to well-founded public
necessities.
The report of the City Surveyor will afford correct information
as to the extent and character of these works. In addition to
those now especially mentioned above, extensive paving has been
\ accomplished. Bay street has been well paved from Whitaker to
East Broad street, and otherwise much improved. River and
Canal streets have been also paved. The greater part of the old
pavements in other streets have been thoroughly repaired, and
substantial crossings established on all the important thorough
fares, and elsewhere indeed, with a liberal regard to the public
convenience.
To these objects of extraordinary expenditure in this depart
ment should be added the cost of opening a number of leading
streets and lanes. The expansion of the city in nearly every
quarter, and the sound policy of anticipating the increasing val
uation of real estate, as well as of stimulating private improve-
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. I
ments, rendered these measures highly important. Postponement
would only have enhanced a burthen, devolving sooner or later
on the city, and making still more apparent the hardships of the
recent construction of the law governing assessments of damages
for the public right-of-way, by which full valuation of the prop
erty taken is exacted, and all consideration of the benefits con
ferred prohibited.
The new market-house, one of the most prominent objects of
expenditure, remains unfinished, but progresses slowly toward
completion. The delay attendant upon the work has been a con
stant subject of public complaint and of much disappointment to
the public authorities. But the delay, while traceable in part to
causes of a peculiar and somewhat complicated character, has
been produced in a great measure by the difficulty and embar
rassment encountered by the principal contractor in securing
material. While, however, the expectations of the community
have been thus disappointed, and its comfort and convenience
impaired, it should find some reconciliation in the reflection that
the building is one of unusual magnitude, and that the tardiness
in its construction tends to insure better workmanship and to
test the quality of the structure before its completion.
The public schools, justly so highly valued by the community,
have made increased demands upon the public funds; but there is
no object to which they can be more wisely and more beneficially
directed. The appropriation by the city to the public schools for
the year 1870 was $14,391, which was increased for the present
year to $35,000. This addition was principally demanded on
account of the amalgamation of the Catholic schools with the
common public system, which increased the number of scholars
enrolled from one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four in 1870,
to two thousand four hundred and thirty-eight in 1871.
The contract with the Savannah Gas-light Company for lighting
the city expired on the 1st of August, 1870, but the company
continued to light the city, pending the negotiation of the new
contract, which was finally agreed upon, to run for three years,
commencing January 1st, 1871. By this contract, the company
agrees to light the city, from dark until daylight, moonlight nights
not excepted. The following extract from the agreement may *
afford valuable information to the community.
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"That the said Savannah Gas-ligiit Company, for the < o;isid-
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eration hereinafter mentioned, hereby agrees and binds itself to
furnish the gas for the street lamps of said city, to light and ex
tinguish the same, supply all broken glasses, keep the lamps clean,
and supply the needful burners, for the sum of fifty-three dollars
per lamp per annum. Said Gas-light Company further hereby
agrees that each and every burner shall be of the size known as
four-feet burners; that the lamps shall be lighted from dusk until
daylight during the entire period of this contract, and that the
gas supplied shall be coal-gas. Said Gas-light Company hereby
further agrees to extend their mains (not exceeding one mile per
annum), whenever said city shall erect two lamps on each city
block along such extension of mains; said city advancing to said
company one third of the actual cost of such extension, said ad
vances to be credited to said city in account by said company
when and as soon as two private consumers of gas along such
block shall be obtained by said company. Provided, however,
that said company shall extend the mains at its own proper cost
and expense, in all cases, even beyond said one mile, when there
shall be two lamps to each block, as above, and, also, two private
consumers of gas; and said Gas-light Company hereby further
agrees, that all lamps that may hereafter be erected on the mains
now laid, or on those that may hereafter be laid, shall be supplied,
lighted, and kept in order and repair by said company, in the
same manner and on the same terms as hereinbefore specified.
And further, that the said company will superintend the repair of
all accidental or other injury to the lamp-posts, and will charge
said city only with the actual costs thereof; and, further, that no
part of said costs shall embrace a charge for superintendence."
"It is hereby further agreed, by and between the said parties,
that the standard of gas to be furnished, as aforesaid, shall be an
average of fourteen candles, and that the photometric tests of the
gas shall be made whenever desired or required by said city, the
expense of such tests to be borne by said Gas-light Company. It
is hereby further agreed, by and between the said parties, that
the protection of all property connected with the lamp department
shall be under the special care of the City Police. And, further,
that in case of any dispute or difference between the said parties,
touching any matter or thing within the scope of this contract, or
arising thereout, such dispute or difference shall, with all conve
nient speed, be referred to the arbitrament and award of two
suitable persons, mutually chosen, with power in them (in case
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 9
of disagreement) to call in an umpire; the decision of any two
of which persons shall be final between the said parties to this
contract.
" It being also hereby agreed and understood, by and between
the said parties, that the successor or successors of each of said
parties is, or are, also bound by the terms hereof.
"And the said municipal corporation hereby agrees to make
payment of the bills of said Gas-light Company, at the rate or
rates aforesaid, quarterly, on the first day of April, July, October,
and January, or at such other periods as may be mutually agreed
upon.
" This contract shall commence on the first day of January
next, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and continue for the
period of three years therefrom, that is to say, from the said first
day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one,
until the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and
seventy-four."
Nineteen fire alarms have occurred in the city during the past
year. A few of these were false, made by mischievous persons
tampering with the Fire Telegraph. Five alarms, however, proved
to be serious, the total losses amounting to two hundred and
eighty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. These losses are
small compared with those which have occurred in other cities ;
but, although unfortunate in themselves in any degree, they attest
the efficiency of the Fire Department, especially when some of
the disadvantages under which it has labored are taken into con
sideration. Not the least of these is a deficiency in the means of
general alarm in connection with the telegraph. The intrinsic
value of the Fire Telegraph can scarcely be doubted, for no sys
tem can be contrived to communicate alarms with greater prompt
ness and precision ; but, one bell only, situated on one extremity
of the city, is inadequate to give an alarm sufficiently general to
summon the scattered members of the Department, or the citi
zens, whose property may be endangered without their knowledge.
Measures have, however, been already taken to remedy this de
ficiency, and to develop more satisfactorily the usefulness of th
Fire Telegraph.
The Police Force now numbers one hundred and fourteen
officers and men, of whom four, one officer and three privates,
constitute the Detective Force. The main body of the Police
consists of the Chief, with two Lieutenants, six Sergeants, and
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10 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
one hundred Privates. No better evidence of the good discipline
and efficiency of the Force can be urged, than that at night only
thirty-seven men compose each relief on the watch, and but
eighteen during the daytime, while it is probable that no city in
the country, especially of mixed population, can boast of more
good order and decorum, or where security to person and prop
erty is more thoroughly ensured.
A detail of the Police Force has continued during the summer
months to act as sanitary inspectors. At no previous time has
this system of inspection been more triumphantly tried than
during the recent period when it became necessary to adopt ex
traordinary measures for cleansing and disinfecting the city, as a
precaution against the epidemic of yellow fever, which had as
sailed some of our sister cities. In this connection it affords me
the greatest pleasure to allude "to the almost universal alacrity
and good will with which all classes of the community observed
the rigid and unusual regulations to which they were subjected
for the preservation of the public health.
The community is again indebted to Dr. William Duncan for
valuable mortuary and sanitary statistics. From these it appears
that the whole number of deaths for the year ending the 30th of
September, 1871, is one thousand and thirty-three, or eighteen
more than for the previous year. The number of deaths among
the colored population being the same as in 1870 (namely, five
hundred and ninet}'), the increase of mortality above mentioned
is confined to the whites, among whom the number of deaths is
four hundred and fifty-four. But, of two hundred and thirty-five
deaths from miasmatic diseases, to which the most interested at
tention will be directed, it is found that one hundred and twenty
are of whites (of whom forty-six were foreigners), and one hun
dred and fifteen of colored persons, while the whole number of
deaths from this cause were thirteen less than in the previous
year. The gross increase of deaths in 1871, as compared with
those of 1870, must therefore be traced to other than miasmatic
diseases, and they will be found to proceed mainly from tuber
cular and nervous diseases, the deaths from which have increased
ninety-nine in number. These diseases, it is well known, are not
climatic, and that they occur most extensively in regions not con
sidered subject to tropical or Southern diseases. One of the most
conspicuous evidences of the improvement in the public health is
that the deaths from diseases peculiar to children have decreased
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 11
sixty-five per cent. Of the deaths in this class, the total number
being seventy-seven, twenty-nine per cent, were whites, and sev
enty-one per cent, colored.
These statistics, carefully compiled from the authentic records
of the city, should present a well-founded rebuke to the scandalous
attempts which have been made through public journals abroad,
and through the ill-judged, if not mendacious, assertions of indi
viduals, to fasten upon this city the existence of yellow fever
within its limits. Not a solitary case of this disease, or of any
akin to it, has been ascertained during the present season,
although every rumor of its occurrence has been systematically
pursued to its source, with a view not to conceal, but to proclaim,
the fact, if the disease had any existence.
Under Divine Providence, the exemption of the city from this
dreadful scourge may be ascribed, not only to the careful quaran
tine, rigidly observed against its introduction by sea, and to the
reasonable precautions enforced on land, but in a more eminent
degree to the cleanly condition of the public thoroughfares, to
the liberal system of sewerage which has drained the reeking hab
itats of malaria on the near outskirts of the city, and to the vig
orous sanitary measures of the public authorities when danger
impended, but especially to the prompt and careful hygienic
measures adopted in their homes by the householders of the com
munity.
The improvement in the harbor has been steadily pursued
during the past year, although this important and expensive work
is still unassisted by any appropriation from the general govern
ment. The labors of the Commissioners of Pilotage have been
well directed, and large results have been achieved when the
small means at their command are considered.
The attention of Congress has been repeatedly and earnestly
called to the importance of the restoration and improvement of
Savannah harbor, and to the burthensome expenditure endured
by this community for an object in which the national commerce
is interested; and finally a survey of the harbor has been ordered
by the General Government. This survey was made during the
late spring by Colonel Ludlow of the United States Corps of En
gineers, and we are encouraged to hope that his report will aid in
relieving the City Treasury of a burthen, which, though assumed
in a creditable spirit of public enterprise, is not the less unjustly
imposed.
12 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT.
Referring to the appended subsidiary reports for more partic
ular information as to the subjects heretofore mentioned, and also
for information on subjects not alluded to in this report, it affords
me pleasure to give my testimony to the efficiency and faithful
conduct of the officers of the city government in general, and to
express to my colleagues in the City Council my warm apprecia
tion of their uniform courtesy and consideration, and beg to be
permitted to offer them the thanks of the community for the dilligence, zeal, and self-sacrifice with which they have discharged
their often arduous and perplexing duties.
JOHN SCREVEN, Mayor.
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RESOURCES OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH.
RAILROAD STOCK
12,383 shares Atlantic and Gulf R. R. stock 1,238,300
1,307 " Montgomery and W. Point R. R. stock 130,700
419 " Augusta and Savannah R. R. stock.... 41,900
1 " Southwestern R. R. stock 100
14,107 " $1,411,000
CITY LOTS AND OTHEK PROPERTY
693 Lots under lease 2,01)0,000
40 " unsold 120,000
Springfield Plantation 40,000
Partof Hutchison's Island 10,000
Water-Works and site... 250,000
City Exchange 100,000
City Pound 15,000
Fireman's Hall . 12,500
City Dispensary 8,000
Dredge Machine, Scows, Steamer, aad Boats 55,000
Tombs east of Exchange 4,000
Powder-Magazine, Keeper's house, etc 7,500
Engine-houses and other Public Buildings 15,000
2,037,000
4,048,000
RENTS ACCRUING
Wharf-head foot West Broad street annually 1,000
" " " Whitaker " " 500
" Drayton " " 500
" " " Abercorn " " 1,000
Lower floor of City Exchange " 5,225
Four tenements in Tombs " 316
Strip of land on Savannah and Ogeechee Canal 75
Lots Nos. 81, 82, 83, and 90, and seven acres Spring
field Plantation 240
8,856
PROPERTY NOT VALUED
Line of Wharf-head between Hutchison and Fig islands
Wharf-slip foot Reynolds street
Twelve Mules and one Horse for streets and lanes
Eleven Horses for use of Police
AMOUNT OF TAXABLE REAL ESTATE AND IMPROVEMENTS $15,579,100
SAVANNAH, October 1, 1871.
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REPORT OF CLERK OF COUNCIL.
CITY OF SAVANNAH, OFFICE CLERK OF COUNCIL,
October 1st, 1871.
Hon. John Screven, 3Iayor of Savannah :
SIRHerewith I have the honor to submit to you the Annual
Report of the transactions of the Clerk of Council's office for the
fiscal year ending September i30th, 1871.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS.
FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1870.
BADGES. FEES. FINES. LlCEXCEg. SEWER PERMITS. TOTAL.
$13,924 00 $443 00 $5,101 00 $32,463 16 $600 00 $52,531 16
FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1871.
BADGES. FEES. FINES. LICENCES. SEWER PERMITS. TOTAL.
In the above comparative statement the fees received for Reg
istration have been omitted, from the fact that the State Legisla
ture abolished said fees at its last session.
In relation to the records of this office, they remain in the same
condition as reported last year, the current records to date being
brought up. The reports of the dift'erent Cemeteries have been
handed in promptly and placed on file, in accordance with the
State laws and city ordinances; as, also, the reports of the Board
of Health, properly consolidated and placed on record.
I am under many obligations to Isaac Beckett, Esq., of the
Savannah Custom-house, for the very complete tables of statistics
of Imports and Exports of the Port of Savannah, which appears
on the last pages of this report, which, after considerable labor
on his part, he kindly placed at the disposal of the city.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES STEWART,
Clerk of (Jouncil.
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 29
CITY MARSHAL'S REPORT.
SAVANNAH, October 16th, 1871.
Hon. John Screven, Mayor of Savannah :
SIRI have the honor to submit the following report for your
consideration.
GROUND RENTS.
The number of persons in arrears for ground rents, as well as
the amounts owing, have been greatly reduced from the list, ad
vertised one year ago. Next month a new list will be furnished
me by the Treasurer, when all lots in arrears for more than two
quarters will, in December, be re-entered according to Ordinance.
STREETS AND LANES.
It is useless to dwell upon this subject, as the unprecedented
good health of the city during the past season is mainly attribut
able to the excellent condition of the streets and lanes.
SALE OF CITY LOTS.
The following city lots have been sold under resolutions of the
City Council, passed from time to time:
October 11, 1870Lot No. 44, Stephens' Ward $1,827
31,
November 23,
December 31,
February 28, 1871
April 11,
25,
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59, Forsyth
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75, Lloyd
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2,625
4,300
3,850
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2,800
2,750
2,275
2,310
4,250
3,375
2,100
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Savannah, Ga. >
30 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT.
May 11, 1871Lot No. 9, Crawford Ward, East $2,230
2,225
3,130
June 7, " " " 42, Stephens' " 2,655
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$55,287
The following is a statement of taxes collected from executions
received from the City Treasurer, also for amounts derived from
the Pound, sale of Market Stalls, etc.:
Real Estate Executions for Taxes, 1807 $ 10 00
1868 40 91
1869 490 54
1870 26,836 23
1871 3,633 36
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Streets and Lanes
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Fees (Executions)
1870. 607 00
1,025 00
115 00
4,580 25
3 00
252 75
662 00
$38,256 04
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
GEORGE W. STILES,
City Marshal.
JPr&perty ofMayor's Office,
Savannah, Ga,
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 31
REPORT OF THE CITY SURVEYOR.
Hon. John Screven, Mayor:
DEAR SIRI respectfully submit the following report of work
in the departments of " Streets and Lanes," " Dry Culture,"
"Public Buildings," and "Docks and Wharves," for the fiscal
year ending September 30th, 1871.
In the department of streets and lanes, the energetic efforts of
Alderman Haywood, seconded by his committee, have been suc
cessful in accomplishing an amount of improvement scarcely
equalled by any previous year in the history of the city. At the
date of my last report, contracts for paving Bay street had been
awarded to J. H. Graybill for a wooden block pavement from
Whitaker street to Drayton street, and to Michael Cash for a
stone block pavement from Drayton street to East Broad street.
The former, a distance of seven hundred and sixty-nine feet, has
been completed at a cost of $20,133 00. Five thousand of'this
amount was paid in bonds of the city of Savannah, and five thous
and (also in bonds) reserved as security for five years, the con
tractor having guaranteed the work for that period. The latter,
a distance of two thousand and eight feet, at a cost of $45,823 45
for material and $17,260 57 for labor. The irregular curbing of
bricks and blue stone has been removed and replaced by a stone
curb of regular thickness and depth, and the mde-walks resurfaced
and brought to a uniform grade.
The remainder of this street west to West Broad, now paved
with cobble-stone, should be paved with blocks, either of wood or
stone, as soon as practicable, when the defects in grade now ex
isting both in the roadway and sidewalks may be removed.
The northern portion of Reynolds street in the rear and east of
the Gas-works has been paved with cobble-stone, and retaining
walls of brick built for the protection of the adjoining properties,
which had been badly washed to an extent endangering the safety
of the buildings. Cost of retaining walls, $3,044 00.
Bay lane, between Drayton and Abercorn streets, has been
paved with the same material, also Pine street from West Broad
to FahmCanal street from West Broad to Fahm, and River
32 MAYOR s ANNUAL REPORT.
street, between Abercorn and Lincoln (the latter under contract,
but not begun at the date of my last report). All the slips lead
ing to the top of the bluff have been resurfaced. One hundred
and fifty-five stone crossings have been put downthe gutters on
Bay street west of WThitaker taken up and relaid, and the paving
generally resurfaced.
A contract has been made with Mr. Cash, for the paving of Ran
dolph street from the depot of the Atlantic and Gulf railroad to
River street, at the rate of $1 45 per square yard. The work
will be begun on the first of October. In connection with the
paving of this street I would respectfully urge the paving of the
cross streets west to Arnold street, to prevent the constant wash
to which they are liable.
The total number of square yards of new work paved during
the year has been fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty..
SEWERS.
The bids called for at the date of my last report for the con
struction of the main sewer in East Broad street and secondary
branch in Broughton street, resulted in awarding the contract to
Mr. C. C. Casey at the price of $80,000, with an addition of $10,-
949 45 for an increased depth of five feet, commencing at the
lower end and gradually diminishing as it progressed northward.
This sewer has been finished to the Perry lane intersection. The
progress has been necessarily slow, owing to the great depth of
cutting and the exhaustive demand for brick for building pur
poses. The storm of the 18th of August also caused some delay
and damage, but no serious injury.
The Bolton street secondary sewer has been extended to the
East Broad street, intersection, distance 395 feet, cost $4,076,
diameter six feet. From this point it becomes the main sewer of
the city, and has been built eastwardly a distance of one thousand
six hundred and fifty feet, with a clear diameter of ten feet.
That portion between East Broad street and the Atlantic and
Gulf railroad at a cost of $6,115 by J. McCrohan, contractor,
and the remainder at a cost of $17,624 by Charles Vanllorn,
contractor.
A branch sewer extending from the intersection of East Broad
and Bolton streets to Lover's Lane, of the diameter of three feet,
has been completed at a cost of $6,743. Total distance one
thousand five hundred and thirty-six feet.
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. DO
Commencing at the western extremity of the Bolton street
sewer and extending northwardly in Abercorn to Hall street,
thence west in Hall to Drayton street, sewers have been con
structed of the diameter of four feet. Estimates have been called
for and the contract awarded to C. Van Horn for completing this
branch to WTest Broad street of the same diameter; amount of
contract $13,838. The completion of this sewer will be of inev.
timable benefit to that portion of the community living in the
southwestern portion of the city. During the prevalence of the
recent heavy rains and since, the spring water has been nearly
level with the surface of the ground, and in a number of houses
with basements, the rooms have been rendered untenantable.
The extension of short branches in Tatnall, Jefferson, and Mont
gomery streets will render the drainage perfect.
Mr. Wm. A. Thomas has constructed a cement-pipe sewer in
Drayton street from Jones to Huntingdon, of the diameter of
thirty inches, cost $2,405 50. From this point to Hall the con
nection is of brick.
Two brick sewr
ers of the diameter of thirty inches each in Wil
liam and Margaret streets, from Fahm. west to the Springfield
sewer, and two of cement pipe, from Lumber to the same outlet,
have been laid: the brick sewers costing $3,142 16, and the pipe
drains $1,241 60. These sewers have been of great benefit in
draining this section of the city, but owing to the rapidity with
which the Springfield sewer is filled, it being built entirely within
the range of high and low water in the river, they can not vent
themselves should a heavy rain-fall occur at or near high water.
The Springfield sewer was constructed for a specific purpose, to
wit: the drainage of the Springfield plantation. Necessity has,
however, required its use for the drainage of the low land east of
the Ogeechee canal, where the water of the western slope of the
city is deposited. As soon as the city can. do so, I would respect
fully recommend the thorough cleaning out of this drain and the
closing up of all the surface inlets, leaving it to perform only the
legitimate object of its construction. A new- sewer of large oapac-V
ity should then be built in West Boundary street, commencing at
Gwinnett street and extending northwardly to the river, with as
much inclination as it may be possible to obtain, and suitable
arrangements for preventing the deposit of sand in the river. The
Springfield sewer is evidently unfit for this purpose, as it is so
nearly level that the sand washed into it remains, and owiii< to
34 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
the quantity of water passing through it at all times is extremely
difficult of removal. This matter is worthy the serious consider
ation of Council.
A brick sewer of the diameter of thirty inches has been built in
Canal street from Fahm street east to the main sewer in West
Broad street, by Mr. C .Van Horn, contractor; cost $1,361. It has
served a valuable purpose in effectually draining this street, which
was wet and at times scarcely passable.
GRADING AND OPENING STREETS.
The grade of the streets crossing the A. and G. R. R., to wit:
Gwinnett, Bolton, Waldburg, New Houston, Duffy, Henry, and
Anderson, I have established at the same level of the railroad at
the points of crossing. The grading of the two first named is
nearly completed. All the above-named streets running through
the lands of Dr. Waring, Messrs. Hunter & Gammell, Dr. Schley,
and Col. Knapp have been tendered the city on certain condi
tions, to wit: the construction of a sewer in East Broad street,
the assurance of the proper drainage of their lots, and the grading
of the streets. The extension of East Broad and Price streets,
through the lands of the Catholic church, has also been secured
on the same conditions. Randolph street, from Broughton street
north, has been opened to River street, through the lands of Mr.
Lamar, giving the most direct and practicable route to the
wharves east. The west side of Lamar's canal has been wharfed
up for the protection of the street, at a cost of $2,670. The open
ing of St. Julian street east, from East Broad to Bilbo's canal, is
now under consideration by Council, a large portion of the right
of way having been secured.
PARKS.
The work of laying out the new Park was begun early in the
spring. Walks in the northern half have been staked, and the
lines defined by removing the grass and spading, preparatory to
shelling. The outer walk next to the railing around the entire
area has been shelled, and a number of trees planted. The re
maining portion was ploughed and levelled in the spring and
sown down with grass and clover. The outer walk, on the west
side of Drayton street, has been curbed and shelled. The unre
mitting efforts of the Chairman of the Park Committee has
greatly improved the appearance of the old Park. The walks
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 35
have been generally reshelled, and curbed with Eastern brick,
giving regularity to the curved lines.
The interior railings in Chippewa square have been replaced by
others of the same description, and of sufficient strength to pre
vent their being bent. A neat fountain has been put up, present
ed to the city by the owners of adjoining property.
BILBO'S CANAL.
The contract for widening and extending this canal was award
ed to Mr. J. McCrohan at the rate of thirty-four cents per cubic
yard, counting only excavation, the throwing up and shaping the
embankments being part of the contract for which no extra com
pensation was paid. From Lawton's bridge to the river the
width of the canal has been increased to forty feet top width, and
thirty feet bottom width. From Lawton's bridge to the Thunder
bolt road culvert, the new canal has been located parallel with
and adjoining the Gulf railroad extension, and the cut thirty-five
feet top and twenty-five feet bottom. The former location at the
base of the hill will be filled up, or used for purposes distinct from
the city drainage. It is also proposed to disconnect the canal
leading from the Perry lane sewer, changing its course so as to
run along the base of the hill to Lamar's canal. The line of new
canal has been continued from the culvert southwardly to the
main sewer outlet on Bolton street, where it receives the city
drainage. The width of this portion is thirty feet top and twenty
feet bottom. The embankments along the whole line of canal
have been raised to such a height that should there be an accum
ulation of water in the canal from excessive rains, in conjunction
with high water in the river, the drainage water in the canal must
still force its way out before it can overflow the banks.
It has been found necessary to sheet-pile the sides of the canal
adjoining the railroad extension, to prevent the settling down of
the embankments and upheaval of the bottom of the canal. A
timber frame-work acts as a counter brace in preventing the
piling being forced inward by the pressure of the embankments.
This portion of the work has been contracted at a cost of $4,934
44, and is nearly completed.
Destined as this canal is, to receive the drainage of two thirds
of the whole city, it is important that all weak points should be
effectually strengthened to prevent damage growing out of the
overflow or breakage of the banks and a repetition of the losses
36 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT.
sustained by the city in past years. In carrying out this object, a
sharp curve on the west side of the Thunderbolt road culvert has
been protected by retaining-walls of brick, at a cost of $2,092 90,
and though finished but a few days at the time of the storm of
August 18, this work, as well as the culvert, sustained not the
slightest injury.
Up to the present time the river outlet has been through a
trunk put down in 1859, of four feet by twelve. As this is insuf
ficient for the increased volume of water, and a flood-gate present
ing many advantages, plans have been prepared and the contract
awarded to L
(1
. Krenson for the construction of one with side
walls of brick resting on eighty-five heavy piles with proper sheetpiling and twelve inch thick gates. The clear opening between the
walls will be twenty-four feet. The length of the structure fortysix feet, and the height eleven feet above low-water mark. The
sides of the canal will be properly wharfed in to the river front,
and also on the south of the gate to the southern limit of the.
wharf lots. The total cost of the work will be $14,950 00. A
substantial brick bridge has been built across the Thunderbolt
road, giving sufficient capacity for the increased volume of water
passing through the canal. Cost, $2,216 00.
SPRINGFIELD PLANTATION.
The labor of keeping the low lands in proper condition has
been kept up with slight intermission by the employment of a
small force under the charge of Mr. J. K. Munnerlyn, whose long
experience in the management of lands of this description emi
nently qualifies him for the duties assigned. The ditches have
been cleaned and new ones dug, the canal raked out, the dram
west of the canal extended in a straight line to Musgrove creek,
and the portion crossing the inlet to the water-works removed.
A new bridge has been built across the Canal on the line of Gwin
nett street. The recent breaking of the banks around the timberbasins during the gale of the 18th August, in connection with
the extraordinary fall of rain, caused a complete inundation of
these lands. The culverts under the canal, the Louisville road,
and the Central railroad were utterly inadequate to vent the water,
the two latter giving way together with the embankment, a hun
dred feet of which was washed into the creek. In rebuilding
these structures, a clear span of not less than thirty feet should
be given as a water-way. I would earnestly recommend that the
MAYOR'S ANNUAL KEPORT. 37
Central Railroad Company, through whose lands it would pass, be
requested to co-operate with the city in straightening the line of
Musgrove creek to the river.
The damage caused by the storm, with the exception of the
culverts named, was soon repaired, and the plantation is now in
good condition.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
In the Exchange building, the Long room and Mayor's office
have been replastered and fitted up with new trimmings to the
doors and windows. The passage-ways. City Treasurer's and
Clerk of Council's rooms, have had the ceilings replastered and
the walls recolored. The portico, being so much decayed as to
be unsafe, is now being thoroughly repaired.
The new powder-magazine, located on Lot No. 45, Springfield
plantation, has undergone the necessary repairs in replacing with
new castings the ventilators, new doors, sheathing, etc. A keep
er's house has been built, and the premises, consisting of two acres
of land, enclosed. Cost, $1,625 00.
A commodious stable has been erected in the city lot used by
the street and lane department, in the rear of the police quarters.
Sheds have also been built for the protection of the carts, and a
keeper's house. Amount of contract, $1,444 50.
PUBLIC DOCKS.
By order of Council, proposals have been solicited for rebuild
ing the public dock at the foot of Lincoln street and the Union
Ferry dock. At its last meeting the contract for the latter work
was awarded to Mr. C. Van Horn, at $250. Believing it true
economy, I have recommended the substitution of brick for wood
in the rebuilding of the Lincoln street dock. Built upon a sub
stantial foundation of piles and not exposed to severe concussions
from the shipping (being recessed), there is no reason why a
dock so constructed should not last for generations.
Much damage frequently arises from the failure to drive sheetpiling behind the bottom log. Cavities are formed behind the
docks from the action of the hill-side springs, which have their
vent at or near low-water markthe effect being to carry the
sand out into the river.
The remaining wharves are in good condition.
Before closing my report, I desire to call your Honor's attention
38 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
and the incoming Board to a subject which seems to demand your
serious consideration. It is the early adoption of a plan for laying
out the proposed city extension south. Every owner of property
lying within the proposed extended limits, finding it in most cases
difficult to co-operate with his neighbors, lays off his land looking
simply to the pecuniary benefit. This results in an entire want
of continuity in the streets. There is in nearly every instance a
difference both in width and direction. The result is that scarcely
a building now erected will exactly correspond with the line of
any continuous street running east and west which it may become
desirable to lay out upon a proper plan of extension.
I respectfully recommend that, as early as possible after the ex
tension of the limits, a plan be prepared showing the boundary
lines of all properties, say south of Anderson street and between
Waters' road and the Ogeechee road. Upon this plan, in lines of
a different color, let the proposed streets, lanes, and squares be
delineated, by which arrangement the exact position of each in
relation to property lines" can be determined. Such plan, when
satisfactory, to be approved by Council and adopted. Granite
stones with copper nails set in the head of each to be then put
down on the side lines of every street, slightly raised above the
surface. The final opening of these streets will of course be done
only as the demand arises, but the owners of property will then
be enabled to build with a full knowledge of the position of each
street.
With gratitude for your kindness and the aid afforded me in
the discharge of my official duties,
I remain, dear sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN B. HOGG,
City Surveyor.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 39
REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE.
OFFICE CHIEF OF POLICE,
SAVANNAH, October 1, 1871.
Hon. John Screven, Mayor, Savannah, Ga.:
DEAR SIRIn making my report for the past year, I think I
may congratulate your Honor on the orderly state of the city
and the efficient state of the Police departmentso far as its
strength will allow of efficient action.
I can not, however, refrain from again calling your attention to
the necessity of an increase of the Forcethe rapid growth of the
city, and the extension of streets into the suburbs, rendering this
increase, in my judgment, imperatively necessary. Were it not for
the orderly state of the city, and the activity of the department,
the present strength would be entirely inadequate. Some idea
of this may be formed when it is stated that in the whole of this
extensive city only thirty-seven men (when all the men are well
and none on the sick report) are out on each relief at night, and
eighteen on each relief for day duty. I would therefore respect
fully recommend that the number of privates be increased to one
hundred and twenty-five, ten of whom shall be mounted.
The city has every reason to be satisfied with the efficiency and
activity of Lieut. Wray and his detectives, and their ability and
success in the arrest of criminals and the detection of crime. The
result of their vigilance, and active pursuit of criminals, has not
only been the detection of crime, but its preventionas many
have been deterred, from the almost certainty of arrest and con
viction.
I would direct your attention to the necessity of the passage of
an ordinance by Council for the retirement on half-pay of all the
members of the Force who have served the city faithfully for
twenty-five consecutive years. At the present time one sergeant
and one private would come under this ordinance, both of whom
have been unable for some time past to perform active duty, and
have been receiving their full pay from the city. No other mem
bers of the department would come under this ordinance for
some years to come. If not deemed advisable to pass a general
ordinance of this nature, I would recommend the passage of a
40 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
special ordinance in the cases of Sergeant Houlihan and Private
John Sullivan, both of whom have served the city long and faithfully, the former for thirty-two years, the latter for twenty-nine
years, and both of whom are now too old and feeble to perform
their duties.
The aggregate strength of the department, including the De
tective Force under Lieut. Wr
ray, is 114, as follows :
Police ForceChief of Police, 1; Lieutenants, 2 ; Sergeants, 6 ;
Clerk, 1; Privates, 100total, 110.
Detective. ForceChief Detective, 1 ; Detectives, 3total, 4 ;
grand total, 114.
Of the whole number of privates of Police only seventy-five
are available for patrol duty, twenty-five being detailed on special
duty, as follows:
Lance-Sergeants 2
Detail at Mayor's office 1
Station house, one in day, two at night . . 3
*Banks on Bay and Bryan streets, one on each night relief. 2
Park, one in day, two at night 3
In charge of working prisoners at Barracks 1
Market, four on each relief 8
In charge of Police stable 1
Police office, one in day, two at night 3
Exchange, one at night 1
Total 25
I have forty-one posts at the present time to be covered by
each night relief, requiring eighty-two privates for patrol duty.
Deducting the twenty-five men on special duty, my present
strength would furnish me only seventy-five privates for duty
(when all the men are well, which is never the case), which ren
ders it necessary for me to leave open and double a number of
wards every night.
At the present time that portion of the city embraced between
River and Gaston streets, on the north and south, and Randolph
and Fahm, on the east and west, is patrolled by footmen, and
that south of Gaston by two mounted privates, on each night
relief, and one on each day relief.
In addition to their regular duties, the Police Force has per
formed the duties of the Board of Health in a very thorough
* Paid by banks and nol by city.
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 41
manner, every portion of the city having been regularly inspect
ed once every week, between the 1st of June and the 1st of Octo
ber, and a consolidated report of the same made by me weekly to
your Honor.
During the year, two thousand eight hundred and twenty-four
arrests have been made, being eight hundred and three more
than the year previous. Of this number, one thousand four
hundred and seventy-three were white, and one thousand three
hundred and fifty-one colored, for the following crimes and
misdemeanors :
NUMBER OF ARRESTS.
Drunkenness
Disorderly conduct
Larceny
Obtaining goods under false pre
tenses
Street fighting
Vagrancy
Suspicious characters
Accidental shooting
Violation city ordinances
Contempt of Court
Murder
Deserting ships
Fast and reckless driving
Safe keeping
Accessory to murder
Assault with intent to kill
Interfering with Police officers in the
discharge of their duty
Lewd conduct
Manslaughter
Accidental killing
Forgery
Burglary
1,002
197
28
84
2
9
2
43
2
11
18
49
Totals 1,473
Arrests from Oct. 1,1869 to Oct. 1, 1870. .
Increase
252
434
236
1
140
9
43
1
59
4
5
76
52
3
4
1,254
631
264
1
224
11
52
3
102
4
2
16
94
101
3
5
2,824
2,021
803
In addition to the above there have been two hundred and
sixty warrants issued for violation of city ordinances.
6
42 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT.
Number of Fires at which the Police Force assisted during the
year, 12.
Stores, Stables, and private dwellings found open by the Police
Force during night time, and for which the owners were notified,
or a sentinel posted, 55.
NUMBER OF ANIMALS IMPOUNDED DURING THE YEAR.
MONTH
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
Total
| HORSES. I MULES. | COWS. | TOTAL.
23"
32
14
9
10
5
14
13
11
44
84
53
2 1 20
5 2 25
1 3 10
] 2 6
2 8
5
2 3 9
6 2 5
3 1 7
7 3 34
6 8 70
4 1 48
312
Lodgers during the year.White, 95; Colored, 15. Total, 110.
Houses of Ill-Fame m the City.Number of houses, 11. These
houses are located as follows- Brown Ward, 1; So. Co. Town
Ward, 1; Crawford Ward, 9. Total, 11, containing some sixtyfive women. Ten of these houses are kept by women, and one
by men.
Apart from these, there are some fifty street-walkers, most of
whom are colored, and some one hundred and fifty kept-women,
showing a total of some two hundred and sixty-five prostitutes in
the city.
Recapitulation.Inmates of houses of Hl-Fame, 65; street
walkers, 50; kept-women, 150. Total, 265.
Enclosed you will please find two inventories of property, one
of property belonging to the city, the other of property belonging
to the Department, and paid for out of the police fund, an ac
count current of the expenditure of which has been rendered by
me every month to your Honor.
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 43
Casualties and Changes in the Department.Died in service, 1;
injured in the discharge of their duty, 9; dismissed, 10; dropped,
4; resigned, 9; appointed, 27.
In conclusion, I can not but thank your Honor for the cordial
support and co-operation which, on all occasions, I have received
from you, and for the uniform kindness and courtesy with which
you have always treated me.
I am pleased to commend to your favorable notice my officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men, nd to bear testimony to
their zeal, efficiency, energy, and good behavior.
I am sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
R. H. ANDERSON,
Chief of Police.
INVENTORY OF PROPERTY AT POLICE BARRACKS
PAID FOR OUT OF POLICE FUND, OCTOBER 1, 1871.
ARTICLES. On Hand Lost.
Worn
out or
exp'd
Rifles ...:.... 99
99
2300
108
108
109
4300
110
1
7
4
1
2
1
2
1
12
32
4
1
1
7
Accoutrements
Ammunition (Musket) T?04
Belts
Clubs 79
Rattles
Caps (Musket) 500
Sockets 5
Stoves 1
Water Coolers
Spittoons
Clocks
Maps (City)
Map (State of Georgia)
Pitchers
Basins 1
Brooms
Chairs
Tables i
Wash-Stands 1
First Sergeant's Swords
44 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT.
ARTICLES. On Hand Lost.
Inkstands
Sponge-Cups
Docket (Prisoner's)
Property, Police
Projjerty, Prisoner's
Register
Blotter
Order and Letter-Book.
Docket, Police
Fund Book
Absentee Book
Paper-Folder
Erasers
Thermometer
Dictionaries
Bibles
Rulers
Soap-Stands
Wisp Brooms
Tumblers
Tin Cups
Lanterns
Buckets
Towels
Candle-sticks
Feed-Cutter
Horse-Card
Curry-combs
Horse-Brushes
Wheelbarrow
*Wagon and Harness . .
Locks
Keys
Sergeant's Badges
Spurs (pau-s)
Combs
Hair-Brushes
Dusting Brushes.......
Sponge (Floor)
Match-Safes
Looking Glasses . Paper-Baskets.
Chest
Wardrobes
Hat-Rack
Paper-Files . . .
7
4
3
2
3
2
8
3
2
1
2
1
2
1
3
1
2
12
2
24
2
3
6
135
3
1
1
5
5
1
7
7
7
6
12
12
2
2
10
11
4
1
2
1
4
' Sold at Auction.
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 45
ARTICLES. On Hand Lost.
Worn
out or
exp;
d
Knives 7 : Forks 4
1
4
5
7
2
1
2
2
6
105
4
1
1
6
1
' '}
Boiler
Scrapers
Tubs
Mats
Sofas
Saws 1
Shovels
Stable Forks
Blacking Brushes
Bed-Spreads ....
Hand-cufi's (pairs)
Floor-Brush
Hatchet
Plates
Fryine' Pan
INVENTORY OF CITY PRpPERTY
AT POLICE BARRACKS, OCTOBER 1, 1871.
ARTICLES. On Hand
Horses
Mules
Blankets (Prisoners).
Saddles
Bridles
Halters
Saddle-Cloths '.'.
Badge-Die
Pistols
Holsters
Regulation Books
Ammunition (Pistol).
Badges
Old Star Badges
Maltese Crosses
Lost.
Worn
out or
exp'd
11
29
10
10
10
10
1
106
109
112
2500
104 3
15
*1
*1
2052
1
Condemned by a Board of Survey, sold at Auction, and proceeds turned
over to the City Treasurer.
46 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT.
ARTICLES. On Hand
Worn
out or
exp'd
Pistol-Moulds
Pistol Screw-drivevs .
Spurs
Iron Bedsteads
Mattresses
Pavilions
Pillows
Spittoons
Window-Shades
Hose (feet)
Mats
Hose-cart and Reel. .
Wagon and Harness.
Coal-Scuttles
Book-stand
Gas-lighter
Scrubbing Brushes. . .
Pope's Heads
Fire-Screens
Pokers
Scythe
Criminal Register
98
84
105
105
105
105
103
50
150
8
1
1
3
1
1
6
2
9
6
1
1
R. H. ANDERSON,
Chief of Police.
ROSTER OF THE POLICE FORCE,
OCTOBER, 1871.
R. H. ANDERSON Chief.
J. T. HOWARD First, Lieutenant.
(1. H. BELL Second Ueutenant,
JAMES LEONARD Sergeant.
J AMES FOLEY
MARTIN HOULIHAN
JOHN GREEN
W. M. MORAN
HENRY LINGG
FRANK E. REBARER Clerk.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 47
PRIVATES.
NO. NAMBS. WHEN APPOINTED. NATIONALITY.
1. Andrews, C. W July 22, 1870 American.
2. Ash, John Aug. 28, 1869 Irishman.
3. Buckley, J Jan'y 3, 1866
4. Bryan, Jno Mar. 30, 1868 "
5. Brantley, J. H Oct. 7, 1868. American.
6. Burns, James Feb'y 2, 1870 Irishman.
7. Boyd, B. H July 19, 1870 American.
8. Barry, M Oct. 12, 1870 Irishman.
9. Boyle, George Feb'y 11, 1870
10. Brown, Peter Oct. 2, 1871 German. .
11. Clark, T Nov. 6, 1865 Irishman.
12. Clancey, Daniel Oct. 31,1865
13. Corish, J Aug. 16, 1867 "'
14. Counihan, T Aug. 20, 1868
15. Curtis, H Nov. 12, 1868
16. Corbally, George Aug. 31, 1869 "
17. Cotter, R June 7, 1870
18. Curry, W Feb'y 27,1871
19. Cook, F May 29, 1871 German.
20. Curran, John Oct. 2, 1871 Irishman.
21. Dillon, Patrick Nov. 3, 1865
22. Duignan, M Oct. 31, 1865
23. Doyle, L Nov. 7,1865 "
24. Dowden, Charles April 12, 1866 EngUshman.
25. Davis, E Sept. 21, 1868 American.
26. Dougherty, W May 31,1869 Irishman.
27. Davis, R. E Sept. 15, 1869 American.
28. Dasher, James Oct. 3, 1871
29. Evans, John Jan'y 17, 1870 Irishman.
30. Fleming, M Dec. 15, 1865 "'
31. Floyd, B. G Oct. 20, 1870 American.
32. Fahrenbach, H. L Oct. 23,1868 German.
33. Galloglay, James Jan'y 25,1866. .! Irishman.
34. Gelston, J. W Aug. 18, 1868 American.
35. Graham, G. S May 27,1871
36. Hauck, J. C Dec. 19,1865 German.
37. Hall, E Nov. 1, 1865 American.
38. Hazel, W. M Jan'y 21, 1868
48 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
WHEN APPOINTED. NATIONALITY.
39. Handlon, S
40. Hart, H
41. Heidt, I. F
42. Horton, S. D
43. Hodges, A. E... .
44. Hunt, R
45. Harvey, H. H. . . .
46. Harrington, John.
47. Jones, T
48. Jones, N. J
49. Jones, Allen
50. Keays, James
51. Killhoury, J. B . . .
52. Kiernan, Wr
53. Lee, J. C
54. Langbell, F. W. ..
55. Lingg, A. A
56. Lane, A. H
57. Lee, S. C
58. Leech, F
59. McGuire, T
60. Metzger, O. E
61. Morgan, T
62. McMahon, P
63. Murphy, M
64. McCabe, T
65. McCormick, E
66. Murphy, T
67. Malone, P
68. McQuade, M
69. Murphy, John
70. Mell, T. B
71. Miller, A. B
72. Maher, James....
73. McElligott, M....
74. Maloney, James. .
75. O'Hara, T
76. O'Beirne, James. .
77. O'Connor,W. J...
78. Penton, G. O
April 27, 1868. . . . . . . Irishman.
Oct. 7, 1868 a
.June 1, 1869.. .. . . . American.
Sept. 15, 1869. ..
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.Aug. 1, 1870 <(
Feb'y 18, 1871. . .
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Aug. 16, 1871.. ..
It
Sept. 11, 1871.. . . . .Irishman.
Oct. 31, 1865 ...
May 26,1871.... it
July 27, 1871.... . . . American.
Jan'y 3, 1866.... . . .. Irishman.
.Dec. 19, 1869.. ..
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Sept. 7, 1871.... a
Nov. 7, 1869 . .. American.
Jan'y 2, 1871 . . .
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Feb'y 24,1868. ..
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Feb'y 25, 1871.. .
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Sept. 16, 1867. . .
a
Sept. 8, 1871 . .. Englishman
Dec. 4, 1865 .. . Irishman.
Dec. 22, 1865.... American.
Mar. 22, 1863.. .. ...Irishman.
Feb'y 27, 1808.. . . ...
Aug. 26, 1870. . .
It
June 26, 1871. . .
it
May 7, 1871 it
Nov. 8, 1869 ((
Sept. 14, 1868. ..

Oct. 24, 1868....
Feb'y 2, 1870.... *'
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Jan. 28, 1871.... a
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Sept. 26, 1867. ..
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Sept. 29, 1871. ..
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MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 49
WHEN APPOINTED. NATIONALITY-
.
79. Power, J Jan'y 25, 1871 American.
80. Patterson, J. A June 20, 1871
81. Reilly, P. 1st Oct. 31, 1865 Irishman.
82. Reed, M Dec. 15, 1865
83. Reilly, P.2d Oct. 23, 1868 '^
84. Russell, P Jan'y 9, 1869
85. Reilly John Aug. 26, 1869
86. Sullivan, J Nov. 1, 1865
87. Sullivan, W Jan'y 1, 1868 "
88. Smith, G. J Oct. 22, 1868 American.
89. Sheftall, E. E -..Dec. 30, 1870
90. Smith, L. B Oct. 4, 1871
91. Townsend, M Jan'y 31,1866 Irishman.
92. Taylof, W. M Nov. 17, 1867
93. Thompson, W. A Sept. 14, 1870 American.
94. Tant, J. E Feb'y 9, 1871
95. Walls, T Oct. 31, 1865
96. Walsh, J Mar. 3, 1866 Irishman.
97. Walsh, M Oct. 27, 1866
98. Wood, J Mar. 3, 1866 American.
99. Wall, F. M Aug. 1, 1869
100. Zulawsky, S June 6, 1870 Hungarian.
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50 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
REPORT OF THE JAILER.
SAVANNAH, October 2, 1871.
Hon. John Screven, Mayor of the City of Savannah, Ga.:
SIRI have the honor to submit herewith the following report
of the Jail for the year ending September 30, 1871.
Of the total number of prisoners received during the year :
There were from the United States Courts 49
" " " Chatham county 615
Other counties 20
The Mayor's Court 497
" " Lunatics 13
Total 1,194
The amount due the city of Savannah by the county of Chat
ham for dieting prisoners is $5,600 70, and from other counties
$550 30, making a total of $6,151.
The fees for dieting prisoners have been reduced to thirty cents
per diem by the Ordinary, from which at least five per cent, is
deducted for auditing the account, so that at present it is an
expense to the city to feed them. The Jail-fees ought at least to
be fifty cents per day for dieting.
There have been during the year thirteen lunatics confined in
the Jail, of which three were sent to Asylums, one sent to the
hospital, one died, five discharged, and three at present are con
fined in Jail.
Two deaths have occurred during the yearone that of a male
lunatic, badly diseased at the time of his commitment, and the
other that of a dying man picked up in the street and conveyed
to the Jail as a temporary refuge.
I can not conclude without urging the importance of a new
Jail being built, as the present structure is wholly inadequate to
the demands of our fast growing and prosperous city. The Jail
was originally built to accommodate forty-eight prisoners, while
during the past year there has been an average of eighty confined
in it. The cells are small, and necessarily damp from insuf
ficient ventilation and little light, and in these I have been obliged
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT. 51
to crowd two and three prisoners at a time, giving them scarcely
room to lie down.
The walls are in such a dilapidated, tumble-down condition,
that I am compelled to keep the prisoners in their cells a great
portion of the time to keep them secure. The roofing is also in
need of repairs, and the iron gratings so badly eaten by rust that
a prisoner with a case-knife could easily cut his way through
them in a few minutes.
From estimates, to put the Jail in repair so as to make it
secure, and at the same time look to the reasonable comfort of
the prisoners, it would cost over $20,000an outlay that is
demanded if a new Jail can not be built at present.
In conclusion, allow me to say that the past two years spent
under your administration have been made pleasant by the assist
ance which you have ever rendered me in the discharge of my
duties.
I am sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
WARING RUSSELL,
Jailer, C. S.
52 MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT.
REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER.
OFFICE CHIEF ENGINEER FIRE DEPARTMENT,
SAVANNAH, GA., October 1, 1871.
Hon. John Screven, Mayor City of Savannah:
DEAR SIRIn compliance with your request, I have the honor
to submit herewith statement of affairs in this Department at
present, and its operations and expenses during the current year.
The property belonging to the city and pertaining to the Fire
Department, is:
Steamer No. 1John W. Anderson; a "second-class Poole & Hunt
engine, in good condition.
Steamer No. 2 Washington; a second-class Jeffers engine, in
good condition.
Steamer No. 3J. J. Waver; a second-class Amoskeag engine,
in good condition.
These engines, with coal-carts, tenders, and tools, I value at
$4,500 eachMaking for the three $13,500 00
Building known as Fireman's Hall, corner South Broad
and Abercorn 10,000 00
Building on Tatnall street near Gaston (Oglethorpe
Engine-house) 6,500 00
1,500 feet new Combination Hose 1,900 00
2,000 " old " " 1,000 00
Fire Alarm Telegraph
Original cost 10,000 00
Addition to apparatus and extension of lines 1,678 00
Total $44,578 00
There is in service with this Department, but property of the
several companies: Steamer No. 4, F. S. Bartow, a third-class Jef
fers engine, in good condition.
Hook and Ladder Apparatus, Mechanics.
Hose-Carriage No. 1, Marshall.
Hose-Carriage No. 2, Screven.
Hose-Carriage No. 3, llussdl.
Hose-Carriage No. 4, Cleburne.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 53
Making as total effective apparatus : four Steam Fire-Engines,
four Hose-Carriages, and one Hook and Ladder Truck.
The number of alarms during the nine months of the present
year, ending 30th September, was nineteen. Of these, five were
of a serious nature, the total losses amounting to $287,800.
The expenses of the Department are:
Ordinary $5,444 98
Extraordinary 2,218 00$7,662 98
Alarm Telegraph
Ordinary Expenses 389 53
Additional apparatus and line extension.. . . 1,377 95 1,767 48
Total $9,430 46
There is not a sufficient supply of hose for emergencies, but if
the Department was complete in detail, I consider it generally
adequate for the city. A most serious defect is ivant of horses. It
seems hardly credible that Savannah should be willing in time of
fire to depend for safety upon the miserable plan of hunting up
livery-stable horses, losing ten to fifteen minutes of valuable time,
even supposing the horses will work when found, and it is strange
we should select with care skilled men to manage our engines at
a fire, yet leave chance to decide when or how the engine shall
get to a fire. It certainly it as essential that the horses should be
trained as that the engineers should, and I would even rather de
pend on chance men to run an engine than chance horses to draw
one. No horses could be expected to take kindly to an object
breathing flame and smoke, or to start off readily with a weight
of five or six thousand pounds, perhaps at dead of night and
amid the excitement and confusion of the surroundings. There
is needed for this service horses of extra size and strength, and
they should be thoroughly familiar with an engine and with
the peculiar work required of them ; for this they must be kept
with the steamers and often practiced as are horses in the artillery
service. The cost of the horses needed by this Department would
not exceed twenty-five hundred or three thousand dollars, and
they can easily be made self-supporting so as to avoid expense for
feeding or attendance. No other city within my knowledge is
so poorly provided in this respect as Savannah, and I can not
think that our people, for so small an amount, will be willing to
have this Department labor under so great a drawback and to
expose the vast amount of property here to a risk so unnecessary
54 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
that it seems almost criminal. I earnestly trust, therefore, that
your Honor will urge this matter upon the public consideration.
The want of a Bell sufficient to give general alarm is a serious
source of complaint among firemen and the citizens generally.
There is only a small bell of a few hundred pounds weight,
located on an extreme verge of the city, and how utterly inad
equate this is, may be shown by the fact that, whilst the most
serious conflagration we have had for years was raging, a num
ber of the business men of Bay street (your Honor among them),
assembled at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in the very
centre of the city at an early hour of the night, had no intima
tion whatever of any cause of alarm. There should be (as in
other cities) a bell to be used only as an alarm, located centrally,
and, for Savannah, this should weigh not less than six thousand
pounds ; such an alarm I think highly essential, and I believe it
would give general satisfaction.
Thanking your Honor for official courtesies, and the uniform
kindness characterizing your action toward the members of this
Department,
I have the honor to be, dear sir,
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOS. A. ROBERTS,
Chiej Engineer, S. F. D.
MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT.
MARKET REPORT.
OFFICE CLERK OF THE MARKET,
SAVANNAH, GA., October 4, 1671.
Hon. John Screven, Mayor of the City of Savannah :
SIRI have the honor to submit herewith a statement of mar
ket receipts, etc., for the second year of my clerkship, viz: from
October 1, 1870, to September 30, 1871, including both dates, for
which I have Treasurer's receipts.
Fees for time above named $10,635 60
Same time last year 9,395 60
Increase (being IS-^ per cent.) $1,240 00
Received for sale of stalls in temporary marketsheds (for terms of fractional parts of the year :
many of the stalls were vacant during three
months of the year, and some even longer) .... 4,580 25
Sales of stalls last year 8,315 00
Decrease, being nearly forty-five per cent $3,734 75
The condition of the new market is such as to inspire the hope
that it will be opened to the public at an early day in the ensuing
year, and that the discomforts and inconvenience of the tempo
rary sheds now occupied for market purposes will soon be termi
nated. These sheds were first occupied in the month of Novem
ber last, and it was hoped they would be removed by or before
the present time. This, of course, can not be done until the
completion of the new structure.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY L. DAVIS,
Clerk of the Market.
56 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
ANNUAL REPORT Ob1 HEALTH OFFICERSAVANNAH.
FROM OCTOBER 1, 1870, TO OCTOBER 1, 1871.
OFFICE OF HEALTH OFFICER,
SAVANNAH, GA., October 1, 1871.
To the Honorable John Screven, Mayor of Savannah:
SIRI have the honor to submit this my Quarantine Report for
the year ending September 30, 1871. I had published this:
"Special Report to Pilots and Masters of Vessels.
OFFICE OF HEALTH OFFICER,
SAVANNAH, September 26, 1870.
From October 1 to November 1, the following Quarantine Regu
lations will be enforced :
1. All vessels arriving at this port from, or having touched at,
Key West, Florida, the West-India or Bahama islands, South
America, or Mexico.
2. All vessels from foreign ports without clean bills of health,
or from ports where contagious or infectious disease is known or
supposed to exist, or having had sickness on board during the
passage; also, all vessels from portsin North America south of Sa
vannah with sickness on board will anchor in Tybee roads, oppo
site the light-house, until visited and inspected by the Health
Officer.
3. No sick seaman or passenger shall be brought from any
vessel in the harbor without permission of the Health Officer.
Pilots and Masters of vessels will be held rigidly responsible for
any violation of the above regulations.
J. C. HABERSHAM, M. D.,
Health Officer, Port of Savannah, Ga. .
Approved by JOHN SCREVEN, Mayor."
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 57
LIST OF VESSELS AND STEAMERS VISITED AND INSPECTED AT QUAR
ANTINE GROUNDS FROM OCTOBER 1, 1870, TO OCTOBER 1, 1871.
1870.
OCTOBER 1Brig Michel et Anna, from Buenos Ayres, S. A.
" 5Ship St. Genevieve, from St. Thomas.
" 10Steamer Achilles, from New-Orleans.
" 12Schooner Coquette, from Nassau, N. P.
" 17Ship William and Annie, from Guadaloupe.
" 21Schooner Brilliant, from Nassau, N. P. ,
" 22Schooner Franklin, from Indianola, Texas.
" " Steamer Perrit, from New Orleans.
" " Bark St. George, from St. Thomas.
" " Steamer San Jose, from Havana, Cuba. This
steamer was detained five days at Quarantine and disinfected,
as the captain reported having lost a fireman on passage; disease
unknown, perhaps yellow fever.
OCTOBER 27Bark Idaho, from Aspinwall.
NOVEMBER 7, 9, and 12San Juan, from Havana, Cuba. Ar
rived at this port November 5th; at first visit found two cases of
yellow feverthe first engineer, and his son aged sixteen years.
The boy had black vomit on the sixth of November. These cases
recovered under treatment on board steamer, which was released
from Quarantine on November 13th, was loaded at Tybee, and
did not at any time come to the city.
Although the regular " Quarantine period " expired on the first
of November, it was found to be necessary to exert extreme caution
in regard to steamers and vessels arriving from the West Indies
up to a late date in the fall, on account of the protracted warm
weather and late frosts.
Vessels and steamers arriving at any season of the year with
infectious or contagious disease on board, are anchored at Quar
antine grounds until visited and inspected by the Health Officer,
and are disinfected and subjected to such term of Quarantine as
he may deem necessary and direct.
JANUARY 9, 1871.A seaman was sent from the steamship
Sidonian, loading at the wharf at the lower end of Barnard
street, to the United States Marine Hospital, and thence to the
Pest-house at Thunderbolt. This proved to be a severe case of
confluent small-pox, and died January 17th. The ship was dis8
58 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
infected, and no more sickness occurred on board up to the time
of her departure.
JANUARY 24Bark Young England, Pointe a Pitre, Gaudaloupe, with one case of remittent fever, which was sent to the
City Hospital.
JANUARY 28Ship Southern Rights, from Liverpool. This ves
sel sailed from Liverpool on the 24th of December with a clean
bill, crew of nineteen men, ten colored. A case of small-pox oc
curred on the 27th of December, five others subsequently, three
died during the passage. At first visit found three colored sea
men affected with small-pox, and had them at once removed to
Pest-house. The ship was detained at Quarantine and thor
oughly disinfected until the 7th of February. No sickness occur
red on board this vessel while loading at the city.
FEBRUARY 20Ship Constitution, from Liverpool. Arrived with
clean bill. One of the crew died on the 19th of February from
dysentery; corpse examined by Health Officer, much emaciated
and no eruption on any part, was by order of Health Officer buried
on Tybee island. There being no sickness on board, vessel was
granted permit to come to the city. On the 9th of March, a sea
man of this ship was sent with slight fever to the City Hospital.
On the 12th of March, an eruption appearing on his face, he was
examined by the Health Officer, and transferred to the Pest-house.
This proved to be a severe case of varicella, or chicken-pox,
which disease was at this date mildly epidemic in the city. One
or two other cases of varicella occurred on board this vessel.
MARCH 22Schooner S. S. Bickmore, from New York. A case
of phthisis was sent from this vessel to the City Hospital.
MAY 1Brig St. Quinlin, from Havana, Cuba. A case of chronic
hepatites was sent from this vessel to the hospital.
MAY 3Schooner Hattie E. Sampson, from New Orleans. A
case of remittent fever, sent to the City Hospital.
MAY 16U. S. Steamer Mayflower, from Havana, Cuba. The
captain's wife died of cardiac disease on the 10th of May.
During stormy weather it was found difficult to board vessels
at Tybee roads. It being deemed advisable to establish an upper
as well as a lower Quarantine ground, the following was published:
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 59
" Quarantine Notice to Pilots and Masters of Vessels.
OFFICE OF HEALTH OFFICER,
SAVANNAH, May 26, 1871.
From and after this date the following Quarantine Regulations
will be enforced:
1. All vessels arriving at this port from, or having touched at,
Key West, Florida, the West India or Bahama islands, South
America, or Mexico; also, all vessels from foreign ports without
clean bills of health, or from ports where contagious or infectious
disease is known or supposed to exist, or having had sickness on
board during the passage, shall anchor at Quarantine grounds
until visited and inspected by the Health Officer.
Pilots are instructed to anchor all vessels with clean bills of
health at the ' Bight of Long island,' which anchorage shall con
stitute the ' Upper Quarantine ground.' All vessels without clean
bills of health shall be anchored in Tybee roads, opposite the
Light-house on Tybee island, constituting -the 'Lower Quaran
tine ground.'
No sick seaman or passenger shall be brought to the city from
any vessel in the harbor, without the permission of the Health
Officer.
Pilots and Masters of vessels will be held rigidly responsible
for any violation of the above regulations.
J. C. HABERSHAM, M. D.
Health Officer.
Approved by JOHN SCREVEN, Mayor."
1871.
JUNE 2Visited schooner Northern Light, Cuba.
" " " bark Paquila, Matanzas, "
" 5 " schooner Elta M. Tucker, Cuba.
" " " ship Cynosure, Liverpool.
" 12 " schooner Willie Mowe, Matanzas, Cuba. Re
mained five days in Quarantine.
JUNE 12Visited brig Mary A. Davis, Sagua le Grande.
" 20 " schooner Somerset, Nassau, N. P.
JULY 3Visited bark Priscilla, Callao, S. A. This was a "guano
vessel," had been three months at sea without sickness among
crew or on arrival. Was not subjected to Quarantine detention.
60 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
JULY 3Visited schooner Mary E. Van Cleaf, Cardenas, Cuba.
" 26 " " Frank Lucas, Ruatan, Honduras.
" " " bark Virtuosa, Havana, Cuba. This vessel had
been eleven days at sea. No sickness during the voyage or on
arrival. Vessel not detained at Quarantine longer than was neces
sary for disinfection. No sickness on board while in port.
JULY 31 AND AUGUST 2Visited bark Torryburn, Havana, Cuba.
Left Havana on the 21st, arrived on the 29th without clean bill, but
no sickness on board during the voyage or on inspection; vessel
clean, with exception of very foul bilge-water in hold, which was
pumped out; vessel freely disinfected by carbolic acid solution.
Released from Quarantine on the 4th of August.
AUGUST 2Visited schooner Somerset, Nassau, N. P.
" 8 " bark Virgin de la Neives, Havana, Cuba.
This vessel remained in Quarantine until the 11th of August.
AUGUST 9Visited schooner Wave, San Salvador.
" 15 " " Annie Sims, Nassau, N. P.
" 24 " bark America, Havana, Cuba. Left Havana
on the 12th August, was dismasted in storm of 16th August, came
up to the city on the 25th August.
AUGUST 28-Visited bark Noveau Mexique, New Orleans. Left
New Orleans on the 1st August, disabled during storm of 16th
August, arrived on the 25th August. A seaman, convalescent
from bilious fever, was sent from this vessel to the city hospital.
SEPTEMBER 2Visited at the city wharf a sick seaman brought
from the ship Crimea lying ready for sea at Tybee. It proved to
be a case of intermittent fever, and was sent to the city hospital.
In this instance a Quarantine regulation was violated, the captain
bringing this man up to the city without the permission of the
Health Officer. The plea of ignorance of a published regulation
was admitted in this case, and no penalty imposed.
SEPTEMBER 14 AND 25Visited schooner Bertha, Beaufort, S. C.
16 " steamer Ajax, from Charleston,
S. C. This steamer had laid up two months for repairs in
Charleston, and was detained five days at Quarantine ground.
SEPTEMBER 19Visited brig Fannie Fothergill, Rio de Janeiro.
Clean bill of health.
I am particularly indebted to Dr. Robert P. Myers for valuable
assistance during the year, in performing the duties of Health
Officer during my absence from the city.
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 61
It being rumored that yellow fever had appeared in Charleston,
S. C, on the 22d August, I sent a dispatch of inquiry to Dr.
Lebby, the Health Officer of Charleston, and received in 'reply:
"A few sporadic cases have originated from local drains since
August 1st to this date. Fourteen doubtful cases, principally
children. Three deaths, none since 16th inst. Not epidemic."
At same date I received a letter from Dr. Lebby, in which he
stated that the first case sickened on the 31st July, immediately
after the opening of a drain for repairs, contrary to his advice,
the date of the last arrival of a vessel at the Charleston Quaran
tine being the 27th June, and that not a single sick man had
arrived into the. harbor during the summer. The sanitary con
dition of the city had been shamefully neglected, owing to the
perfect inefficiency of the street department, etc.
Again, on the 25th August, the following from Dr. Lebby:
" Since 7 o'clock, P. M. reports have come in from the Physicians
to the Board of Health, that the disease is believed to have
assumed an epidemic form."
Upon the reception of this information, a special meeting of
the City Council was held August 26th, 1871:
" The Mayor announced to the Board that he had called the
present meeting to take into consideration the best means of pre
venting the occurrence in our midst of yellow fever, which is now
prevailing in our sister city, Charleston, and to take such other
steps as will tend to preserve the present excellent sanitary con
dition of our city. The Health Officer has been directed to take
all necessary means in the Quarantining of vessels from the
infected locality, and the cars of the Savannah and Charleston
railroad ordered to be stopped at Monteith station, for the purpose
of disinfection and fumigation prior to their arrival in this city."
Alderman Basinger offered the following resolution, which was
adopted unanimously:
" Whereas, The existence of yellow fever in the neighboring
city of Charleston renders it proper that extraordinary precau
tions be taken to prevent the occurrence of disease in our city,
therefore, Resolved, That the Mayor be authorised to take such
measures and make such expenditures and regulations in addition
to those provided for in the standing ordinances of the city as he
may judge necessary for the purpose until the further action of
the City Council in the premises."
62 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
In obedience to the above action of the City Council, this Quar
antine notice was published:
" OFFICE OF HEALTH OFFICER,
SAVANNAH, August 26, 1871.
To Pilots and Masters of Vessels.
" From this date, until further notice, vessels and steamers
from or having touched at Charleston, S. C, will anchor at Quar
antine ground until visited and inspected by the Health Officer."
By order of the Mayor.
J. C. HABERSHAM, M. D.,
Health Officer.
Also the following instructions were furnished the agents and
conductors of the Savannah and Charleston railroad by the Health
Officer:
OFFICE OF HEALTH OFFICER,
SAVANNAH, August 26, 1871.
SIRHaving official information that yellow fever exists in an
epidemic form in Charleston, S. C, I have been authorised by the
Mayor to issue these instructions to the agents and conductors of
the Savannah and Charleston railroad:
1. After this date, until further orders, no sick person or per
sons shall be brought from Charleston to Savannah by railroad.
2. Should any person be taken sick on the trip from Charleston
to Savannah by railroad, the train must be stopped outside the
city limits until visited by the Health Officer.
3. No bedding, blankets, nor household furniture shall be
brought in the cars from Charleston to Savannah.
4. Disinfectants will be furnished to the agent and conductors
by the Health Officer, and they must see that they are used in
the manner directed by the Health Officer for the thorough puri
fication of the cars.
5. All freight, baggage, and passenger cars shall be kept well
ventilated, and shall not enter the limits of Savannah unless puri
fied by the use of such disinfectants as the Health Officer may
direct and supply.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 63
It is most earnestly requested that the agents and conductors
will comply with and carry out the above regulations so necessary
to preserve the health of our city.
J. C. HABERSHAM, M. D.,
Health Officer.
To WT
. T. Marshall,. Esq., Acting Agent, Savannah and Charles
ton railroad.
P. S.As soon as possible, an inspector will be located at Mon
teith station, for the purpose of inspecting the cars. The train
must be stoppef! at that point a sufficient time to permit the in
spector to ascertain that these instructions are fully carried out.
The following order was also issued:
" MAYORALTY OF SAVANNAH,
August 28, 1871.
" MAYOR'S ORDER, NO. 34.
The Health Officer will notify the agent of the Savannah and
Charleston railroad that, from and after this date, no person or
thing transported over the Savannah and Charleston railroad from
or through the city of Charleston, or from the depot of said rail
road nearest to said city, will be permitted to enter the limits of the
city of Savannah, and any car or locomotive transporting such
person or thing shall be stopped at the station of said railroad
nearest to the Savannah river on the Georgia side, and there be
subjected to Quarantine with the person or thing so transported.
In order that the foregoing may be carried out, the Health
Officer will appoint a competent person, to be approved by the
Mayor, who will be stationed on the Savannah and Charleston
railroad nearest to the Savannah river, and whose duty it shall be
to carry the foregoing orders into effect."
Mr. J. C. Harris was appointed railroad inspector at Monteith
station, and has faithfully performed the duties assigned him up
to the present date.
Subsequently, Order No. 34 was modified, in so far as to permit
merchandise from Charleston as freight to pass directly through
the city from the Central to the Atlantic and Gulf depot, after
being disinfected at Monteith station by the inspector.
64 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
I received this official dispatch, September 5, 1871:
" BEAUFORT, S. C.
" There have been two deaths here from yellow fever during
past week. No new case since August 25th.
(Signed) JOHN A. JOHNSON, M. D.,
Port Physician."
Whereupon the following was published :
" Quarantine Notice.
OFFICE OF HEALTH OFFICER,
SAVANNAH, September 6, 1871.
From this date until further notice, all steamers, vessels, or
boats from, or having touched at, Beaufort, S. C, will anchor at
Quarantine grounds until visited and inspected by the Health
Officer.
By order of the Mayor,
J. C. HABERSHAM, M. D.,
Health Officer."
A notice was published September 28, removing Quarantine
restrictions as regards Beaufort, S. C.
The change recommended by your Honor, and made two sum
mers since, in the location of the Quarantine grounds of this port,
from near Fort Jackson (three miles from city) to Tybee island
(eighteen miles from city), has proved by experience to be highly
conducive to the interests of commerce and of the city. The safe
anchorage, the salubrious air, and remoteness from the city ren
der Tybee roads and the Bight of Long island points eminently
suitable for Quarantine grounds.
In order that speedy information of the arrival of vessels in the
harbor may be obtained, and that there be as little delay as pos
sible in the boarding and inspection of steamers and vessels, I
respectfully request that as soon as practicable a telegraphic line
be established between the city and Tybee island.
In my last annual report I urged upon the City Council the
necessity of erecting a Quarantine hospital on Tybee island, to be
in readiness to meet any emergency which may arise, as in the
instance of the French sloop-of-war Limier, which arrived at the
Charleston Qiiai:intine January 26, 1870, from Port-au-Prince,
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 65
with twenty-five of her crew sick with yellow fever. Three of
these died on arrival, twenty sick with the fever were removed by
order of the Health Officer to the Quarantine hospital or lazaretto
on Morris' island, and were treated there. A large proportion of
these cases recovered, which would probably not have been the
result had they been forced, for want of hospital accommodation,
to have remained on board a crowded and infected vessel.
There have been no cases of small-pox, yellow or typhus fever
brought into this harbor during the past summer or this fall. It
would be unreasonable to expect this happy exemption every
year. The time has come when the interests of the city and of a
rapidly increasing commerce demands the location of a Quaran
tine hospital or lazaretto on Tybee island, with all the appliances
necessary for the accommodation and treatment of seamen affected
with contagious or infectious diseases.
CITY POLICE.
During the year ending September 30, 1871, I have given med
ical and surgical attendance to the privates of the City Police,
holding a " sick-call" each morning at 10 o'clock, at the Police
barracks, and also visiting at their private residences those unable
to attend the " call."
My thanks are due to the Pilots of this port and to the officers
of customs, for their careful observance of and carrying out pub
lished Quarantine regulations and for their uniform courtesy to
myself as Health Officer.
During the year I have attended at the Pest-house, located at
Thunderbolt, the following seamen:
Richard Brown, confluent small-pox, from the steamship Sido
nian. Entered hospital January 9, 1871; died January 17, 1871.
Abram Wilson, confluent small-pox, from ship Southern Rights,
Liverpool. Entered hospital January 30,1871; died February 4,
1871.
Joseph Antoine, small-pox, from ship Southern Rights, Liver
pool. Entered hospital January 30,1871; discharged February
4, 1871.
Richard Wright, varioloid, from ship Southern Rights, Liver
pool. Entered hospital January 30, 1871; discharged February
11,1871.
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66 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
John Dixon, varicella, from ship Constitution, Liverpool. En
tered hospital March 12, 1871; discharged March 23, 1871.
Under the energetic supervision of the chairman of the Health
and Cemetery Committee, Alderman John Schwarz, the Pesthouse has been kept furnished with the necessary repairs, bed
ding, supplies, etc.
I remain sir, very respectfully,
J. C. HABERSHAM, M. D.,
Health Officer.
ANNUAL REPORT OF KEEPER OF PEST-HOUSE.
PEST-HOUSE AT THUNDERBOLT,
October 1, 1871.
To the Hon. John Screven, Mayor of Savannah:
SIRI have the honor to state that I took charge of the Pesthouse, January 9, 1871, and found the following articles on hand:
38 Bunks, 6 Mattresses, 6 Pillow-cases, 1 Stove and fixtures, 1
Tub, 3 Buckets, 4 tin Basins, 10 tin Cups, 1 quart measure, 11
tin Plates, 10 Knives and Forks, 1 Clock, 1 Rake, 1 Hoe, 1 Scale
and Weights, 8 Table-spoons, 6 Tea-spoons, 6 Whitewash-brushes,
4 Lamps, 1 Saw, 1 Hatchet, 1 Axe (without handle), 1 Coffeemill, 2 Brooms, 1 Shovel, 1 Spade, 1 Wheelbarrow, 2 Dippers,
and 1 Ladle.
I have these articles still on hand, and have received since
during the year up to this date:
6 Blankets, 7 Mattress-ticks, 7 Pillow-ticks, 4 Barrels Lime,
and 1 Keg Nails.
During the year, Dr. Habersham, the Health Officer, has sent
four seamen from vessels to this hospital with small-pox, and they
have received medical treatment from him.
No patient has been sent from the city by the city authorities
or by the Health Officer.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. , 67
Alderman John Schwarz, chairman of the Committee on Health
and Cemetery, has constantly visited the hospital, and has fur
nished lumber, with which I have kept the fences in repair and
built a wharf with, for the Health Officer's boat to land at. I
would state that the houses leak, the weather-boarding wants
changing, and the chimneys are in bad order. Privies need
under-silling. About six chairs are wanted. I have also on
hand a few medicines, one graduated glass, and one lancet.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. J. STOKES,
Keeper of the Pest-house.
68 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
REPORT OF KEEPER OF LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY.
OFFICE KEEPER LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY,
SAVANNAH, October 6th, 1871.
Hon. John Screven, Mayor, Savannah, Ga.:
SIRIn compliance with orders No. 31, I have the honor to
report Laurel Grove Cemetery in good order and condition as
regards its general appearance. A great deal of draining or
ditching is required. Since the very heavy rains of the past sum
mer it is impossible to bury as deep as should be done; in the
very highest ground we come to water at five feet, and in the
lowest at two and a half feet. When we buried the late Confed
erate soldiers we reached water at three feet, and that part of
the cemetery was considered sufficiently dry heretofore for burial
purposes. Several lot-holders who lost their relatives and friends
could not use their lots, but had to bury them in the strangers'
ground (which is the highest, part), and they were loud in their
complaints of the imperfect condition of the drainage of the
cemetery, which can be remedied by having several underground
brick sewers or drains constructed.
Another fact to which I would call attention is the imperative
necessity of enlarging the present grounds. Burial lots are
wanted very often, and I would suggest the taking in of that por
tion of land belonging to the city, containing about six acres,
lying east of and between the Cemetery and the Ogeechee road,
now under lease by Mr. Narcisse Meunier, which, with a brick
sewer constructed through the centre and running back of the
Hebrew cemetery to the low lands, could be made available.
Another improvement, which I think would meet with general
satisfaction, would be in having' a neat ornamental iron-front
entrance, in place of the unprepossessing picket-fence and gates
as at present. Also, that a wall of brick, or at least something
more substantial than the present picket-fencing, which requires
renewal every three years, and needs constant repairing. It
could be accomplished by doing a portion each year.
" The dead demand some attention at. our hands." It is also requi
site that more ground, available for burial purposes, be added to
that portion of the Cemetery allotted to the burial of colored
persons.
MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 69
The receipts and expenditures during the past year have been as
follows : Amount received, $919 25 ; amount paid out, $7,119 91.
The number of interments during the past year are as follows:
NUMBER OF INTERMENTS IN LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY AND CEMETERY
FOR COLORED PERSONS FROM OCTOBER 1ST, 1870, TO SEPTEMBER
30TH, 1871..
MONTHS.
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November
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I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
A. F. TORLAY,
Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetery.
70 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT.
MORTUARY STATISTICS.
BY WILLIAM DUNCAN, M. D.
A Comparative Statement of Deaths in the City of Savannah from
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REPORT OF CITY DISPENSARY.
OFFICE CITY DISPENSARY,
SAVANNAH, Oct. 1st, 1871.
Hon. John Screven, Mayor, Savannah, Ga.:
SIRI have the honor to submit the following report of the
operations of the City Dispensary for the past year.
On taking charge of the Dispensary in January last, the inte
rior of the building and roof was found to be in a very disorder
ed and leaky condition, and the stock of medicines reduced to
the very smallest quantity, with a great deal of the same of an
uncertain character, thereby rendering them unsafe for use, and
obliging them to be set aside. This state of things necessitated
what would at first seem a larger outlay than usual to properly
renovate the premises and resupply the stock of medicines so
as to meet satisfactorily the wants of the medical profession and
facilitate the preparation of prescriptions.
Upon seeing what was needed, the chairman of the Health and
Cemetery committee was immediately informed of the fact, who
at once made a thorough inspection of the premises, and had
the place put in as comfortable and secure a condition as was
possible under the circumstances with a building so old and so
much out of repair. One of the rooms, formerly' of no use, was
neatly fitted up as a reception-room for patients, so as to make
them more comfortable and satisfied while awaiting the prepara
tion of their medicines. The whole place was also thoroughly
whitewashed, and papered wherever needed. A dry-well in State
street, which was considered useless, was found in good order,
and a new connection, by laying earthen tiles, was made with the
Water-works, thereby supplying a much needed convenience.
During the months of July and August, on account of the
repeated illness of myself and assistant, it became necessary to
change our sleeping-quarters ; during this time the Dispensary
was opened at seven in the morning and closed at ten o'clock at
nightkeeping open this late to meet, as near as possible, the
10
74 MAYOR s ANNUAL REPORT.
wants of any who might need assistance. It also became neces
sary, to properly keep the premises clean and in good order, to
employ a porter, which we have done at our own expense.
The Dispensary is now well supplied with medicines, having a
full and complete stock on hand of whatever might be required.
There has been no prescriptions received at the Dispensary that
would indicate the existence of yellow fever or any other infect
ious disease within the city during the past season; on the con
trary, all have shown that whatever diseases prevailed wereof a
simple and mild type and easy of control.
The following table will show the number of prescriptions pre
pared as far back as there has been found a record of the trans
actions of this department, beginning with the year 18G7 and
ending September 30th, 1871.
1867 1868 1869 1870 1871
January
February
March <
421
383
469
664
593
808
1322
2048
2233
990
994
1147
1135
1305
1434
1620
1419
1875
1017
844
1540
1301
1288
1276
1465
1558
1912
1756
1748
1729
1549
1572
1636
1740
2337
3208
1842
1580
1830
April
Mav
1914
1811
June
July
August
September
1697
2208
2285
2560
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1867 1868 1869 1870
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1442
1082
1992
1543
1009
2113
1820
1409
3089
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It will be seen by the above that the amount of medicines dis
pensed has been on a steady increase up to the present time;
this is owing to the fact of the extreme destitution prevalent
among the colored population, as two thirds of the quantity of
medicines given out lias been for the benefit of this class of our
people.
We could not properly close this report without first returning
our most sincere thanks to the Honorable Mayor and Aldermen
for the encouragement they have given us by the ready manner
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 75
in which they have sanctioned all that has been done about this
department, and especially to our worthy Chairman of the Health
and Cemetery committee, Alderman John Schwarz, for the active
interest he has ever manifested in behalf of the City Dispensary,
as well as to the Clerk of Council, Mr. James Stewart, for the
courteous manner in which he has always imparted to us valuable
information relative to its management.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
E. W. MILLER,
Keeper City Dispensary.
76 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS.
REPOET OF SUPERINTENDENT OF RIVER DREDGING.
CITY DREDGE-BOAT,
SAVANNAH RIVER, September 30, 1871.
SIRThe following statement of work performed by the Dredge
and party under my command, during the last twelve months, is
respectfully submitted.
For the purpose of giving to the water between the city and
head of King's island an unobstructed flow, and thus encourage
the diversion of the current from back to front river, an openingwas made through the shoal on the north side of Marsh island.
This shoal is some three hundred yards in extent, and the depth
of water upon it at low tide was, for a great portion of the dis
tance, but two and a half feet. The cut made through it was
one hundred and twenty feet in width by nine to nine and a half
in depth. The impetus given to the current by dredging this
channel has already had the effect of deepening the water over
the entire shoal.
To further develop this plan of the Commissioners, that is, to
divert, by dredging simply, the waters of back river into front, I
proceeded next to trim still further the deflecting point at the
cross tides, and to widen correspondingly the dredged channel
leading from it. That portion of the point which projected from
below Pipemaker's creek was cut off to the width of forty-five
feet, and the channel widened from forty-five to sixty feet.
I was pleased to find, on resuming operations at this locality,
that the above channel, dredged in 1868, had been both deepened
and widened by the rush of the current through it. The deepen
ing of the water extended, in fact, quite to the southern shore,
there being along this shore a current of considerable strength
where at one time the water stood in dead eddy.
These facts would seem to prove conclusively the accomplish
ment, to a very great extent at least, of the result sought to be
attained by dredging at the cross tides and below.
The dredge was engaged some three months in cutting an en
trance to the dry-dock recently constructed by Messrs. Usina &
Jones and in deepening the water for the railway-dock in course
of construction by Mr. H. F. Willink, Jr. In addition to the for
mer work, a berth for vessels was dredged on either side of the
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 77
entrance to the dock. The dimensions of the channel opened to
the gate of the dock were as follows: length, two hundred and
seventy feet; width, eighty to ninety feet; depth, ten to twelve
feet (low water). The inclination of the land through which the
entrance was dredged was from ten feet below to six above lowwater mark; consequently, the greatest depth of the excavation
was eighteen feet, and the mean ten. The progress of the work
was much impeded by obstructions, such as piles, wrecks, and
masses of debris. One of these wrecks, apparently a schooner of
about seventy tons, was imbedded in the marsh fully a hundred
feet inside of low-water mark, and from six to sixteen feet below
the surface.
From time to time during the year the following work was ac
complished : the water deepened at Goodwin's and at Claghorn
& Cunningham's wharves; at the slip foot of Lincoln street and
at the city wharf foot of Abercorn; the mouth of the canal, full
of raft-oars, raft-binders, etc., was opened; a large crib, which
had slided into the gap of the obstructions, was raised timber by
timber, and, with its ballast of bricks and live-oak limbs, removed;
the river and its margins were, in many places, cleared of logs,
stumps, and impending trees. During an interval of work at the
dry-dock, considerable progress was made at reopening and
widening the channel at the " Wrecks." Upon this latter work I
am now engaged, but regret that the busy season, which is at
hand, will not permit me to thoroughly execute it. All that I am
now attempting to accomplish is the removal of the most promi
nent shoals, leaving the rest until there will be less interrup
tion from passing vessels. The number of cubic yards dredged
throughout the year was sixty-eight thousand.
I would, as a conclusion to my report, respectfully annex the
following copy of a statement submitted (at his request) to Col.
Ludlow, U. S. A., who you are aware visited our port in May last
for the purpose of making a survey and reconnaissance of the
river, with the view of reporting to a committee of Congress the
amount of dredging required, with the probable cost of the same.
I would add that Col. Ludlow expressed surprise at the cheap
ness with which this work of dredging had been carried on by
the city. Very respectfully,
J. S. KENNARD,
Superintendent of River Dredging.
Mr. JOHN L. VILLALONGA, Chairman pro tern. Commissioners of
Pilotage.
78 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
SAVANNAH, GA., May 12, 1871.
Col. Ludlow, JJ. S. A.
DEAR SIRIn compliance with your request, I respectfully sub
mit the following statement of dredging operations carried on by
the city of Savannah within the last four years:
The work was initiated on the 27th of March, 1867, and, with
the exception of an interval of some seven months, continued,
with slight interruptions, to the present time. During this time
two hundred and eighty thousand cubic yards were dredged up.
The character of the bottom dredged was, at times, sand, clay,
mud, and a mixture of one or all of these with stones, bricks,
and every species of debris. But this was not all the duty per
formed by the dredge. She was employed much of the time in
dredging up roots, stumps, piles, and sunken logs, raising ob
structions (ballasted cribs), sunken wrecks, flats, etc.
The total of expense connected with the undertaking has been,
up to the 1st instant, as follows:
Dredge (original cost) $ 29,500
Three flats " " 12,000
Tender " " 15,000
Flat, just finished but not yet in use 2,400
Current expenses 106,000
Interest on original outlay 15,680
Interest on current outlay 15,176
$195,756
The expenditures (current) embraced in the above period would
give a daily average of seventy-one dollars. From this average
I have deduced the cost, per cubic yard, of dredging in the fol
lowing substances:
Sand 29 cents.
Sand and clay 23 "
Mud and clay 18 "
Very hard bottom (densely packed debris) 60 "
To this should, of course, be added the interest on the outlay,
which would enhance, by a few cents, the cost of each cubic
yard. Respectfully,
J. S. KENNARD,
Superintendent of River Dredging.
GENERAL STATEMENT,
BY ARTICLES AND COUNTRIES, OF IMPORT ENTRIES OF COMMODITIES BROUGHT FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES INTO THE CUSTOMS DISTRICT OF SAVANNAH, GA., DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED SEPT. 30, 1871.
VALUES IN AMERICAN COIN IN THE COUNTRIES WHENCE IMPORTED.
- r
So
ll
Dolls.
[ 2 3
> H i
f s
Dolls, j
a z a
ARTICLES
FREE OF DUTY,
A 1(' 1 '1 C ; 1 iHlfc-? !r-Sl J I-5J JUCJ'X' i'O XJU'-L' if.
M H
J H
s
0 2
t* 0
m
Dolls.
si
COUNTKIES WHENCE
OATS.
.a a fc a <J
P6MI
IRON AND STEEL, AND MANUFACTURES OF
SALT. SUGAR. MOLASSES. CIGARS.
5
***
a S
a K u
* to "
IMPOKTED.
GUANO.
All Other
Free
Commodities.
POTATOBS. ; COAI.. COFFEE. I g J !| j ! BAB IKON. RAILROAD RAILS. HARD
WARE. MACHINERY
OTHER MANUF.
OF IRON
AND STEEL.
- 2
HOMO
0 ^ H &,
Tons. Dolls. Dolls. Bush. Dolls. Bush. 1 Dol Tons. [Dolls. Lbs. Dolls, j Dol Is. Dolls. Lbs. Dolls, i Lbs. Dolls. Dolls, i Dolls. Dolls. Lbs. Dolls. Lbs. Dolls. Galls. Dolls.] Lbs. Dolls. Dolls. Dolls. Dolls. Dolls.
England. 22,484 4 71Q:19 59Q 113.287 643,945 11.7031 11.855.986 189,092 4.904! 9 252 143,386
8,712
1,742
25,762,167 44,248 | 4,317 18,077
1,433
475
1,027
58
490
230
1,205
225
153
70
75
85
60
250
125
22,484
228
25
373,280
450,795
10.277
4,074
5.191
8;695
4,953
230
22,179
225
153
82
149,446
"'i[362
50
i 12,980
50
93
323,833
10;277|
4,074
5,191
8,695
3,819
180
9,224
175
60
82
213,888
88
125
112,880
"' 163
140
10,367
473,279
Scotland 65
697
132
1,857
'"' 021
' ' ' 10,277
Ireland 4,074
Dominion of Canada 10,347
19,604
3,630
7,716
2,601 534
1
5,191
8,695
British West Indies 228 9AI 89 4,118 13 "109,686 300 5,181
Spain 230
Cuba... 25 2,247 80,018 4,743 62,571 13,39i iss 575 18 22,204
^orth German Union 225
. 153
*! 12 82
Brazil.. . 7 6 2,142,776 213,807 213,888
85
213,888
Argentine Republic
folland
85 85
| 28 ! 88ii
2501 250
88
Belgium ._. 250
J-ruguay
! 125
242
183
140
10,367
260,400
242
30
f 424,988
125
S
eru
---
19. 370; 373 9Rn 1 373.280
Central American States ' ' ! 242 242
Danish West Indies 1 183
140
183
j -t 140
Sweden 486,203 10,367 I 10,367
COMPILED FBOM RECORDS OF SAVANNAH CUSTOM HOUSE, BY ISAAC BECKETT, ESQ., OCT. IST, 1871.
GENERAL STATEMENT,
BY ARTICLES AND COUNTRIES, OF COMMODITIES, THE GROWTH, PRODUCE, AND MANUFACTURE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPORTED TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES FROM THE
CUSTOMS DISTRICT OF SAVANNAH, GA., DURING THE E'ISCAL YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 1871.
COUNTKIES 11
COTTON.
1
PROVISIONS. WOOD, AND MANUFACTURES OF. +i JO
211
***
All Other
Unmanut 'd
Articles.
Exported in American
Vessels.
I
s
!
TO WHICH EXPOKTED. SEA ISLAND. UPLAND.
BACON
AND
HAM.
BEEF. FORK. RICE.
BOARDS,
DEALS,
PLANK, ETC!
SHINGLES.
Logs and
Other W hole
Timber.
Staves.
TIMBER, jAll Other
SAWED AND [ Timber
HEWN. \k Lumber
000
Dolls. Bales! Lbs. Dolls. Bales. Dbs, i Dolls. Lbs. Dolls. | Lb. Dol Lb. Dol Lb. ;Dol Ft. Dolls. M. j Dols. | Dolls. Dolls. |Cub. Ft;Dolls. Dolls. Dolls; Dolls Dolls. Dolls.
England
Ireland
2,386 786,303 287,638 326,145
20,588
165,875,180! 22,700,525
9,713,306: 1,447,641
1,149
27
18,611
423
53,164 391 275.074 48,457
5,857
10,973
......
79,658
12,340
7,074
2,478
fi72
13
3,0601 39,729 10,112,338
911,259
16,485
5,025
""W,690
.-12.640
2,844
388,702
351,266
8,647
5,862
496,951
74,112
""36,577
- 937,487
97,501
65,916
595,452
4,179
314
5,452
1,114,216
9,398
1,843
23,230.871
"645 "47
6,650
1,092
314
42
39,438
49,939
'''380
323
34,800
1,478
""917
3,775
338
1,606,711
20,664
, | 314
2,050 12,399
'380
1,105 6,096 443 249
228
1,282
633
128
5.693! iei 869 10,477
15,860 7,319,772 1,098,847 4,785
25,671
13,202
2,819
4,289:
824 69 400 34 800 100
Porto Rico .:::::.::::::::
150 945 1 14,483
2,844 Ail 2,107,002 other Spanish Possessions..
North German Union
France
25
""si "1^099 '"3,736
30,874
7,471
'26,636
2,982
3,707
"'20,266
2,610
1,450
M.'ei'e'.ass ' '2,105,662
3,516,673 462,503
12,838,186'' i.Ys'ioei
1,427,861: 202,045
1,749,923! 242,661 ' '...!
1 l
] i ' 2,666 1,718,300
116,174 .... ....
1,200 467,439
..v 323
285
6 460 7,290 2,187 8,647
160 6,852
Holland 434 1,287,544
127,983
242,661
9,381
438,206
83,263
31,756
1,784,494
50
""366
'"360
"726
202,095
....
"2,192
....v........
242,661
Uruguay
Russia '."
Sweden
Austria
"**: 44,938]....;
9.500,673 1,375.693 1 1..'
1,250,791' 180;764
687,7201 97,312
1
i::::::
.....
1,375,693
180,764
97,672
COMPILED FROM RECORDS or SAVANNAH CUSTOM HOUSE, BY ISAAC BECKETT, ESQ., OCT. 1st, 1871.
NAMES OF MAYOF^AND ALDERMEN
FOR
1870 and 1871.
MAYOR:
JOHN SCREVEN.
CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL:
ROBERT H. FOOTMAN.
1. ROBERT H. FOOTMAN.
2. MOSES J. SOLOMONS.
3. GEORGE N. NICHOLS.
4. ALFRED HAYWOOD.
5. JOHN O. FERRILL.
6. MICHAEL LAVIN.
ALDERMEN:
7. JOHN SCHWARZ.
8. EDW'D C. ANDERSON, JR.
9. MATTHIAS H. MEYER.
10. JOHN T. RONAN.
11. WM. S. BASINGER.
12. JOHN R. DILLON.
CITY OFFICERS1870 AND 1871.
CLERK OF COUNCILJAMES STEWART.
CITY TREASURERJNO. R. JOHNSON.
ASSISTANT CITY TREASURERJNO. D. DELANNQY.
CITY MARSHALGEORGE W. STILES.
CITY SURVEYORJOHN B. HOGG.
CORPORATION ATTORNEYEDWARD J. HARDEN.
JUDGE OF CITY COURTWALTER S. CHISHOLM.
CITY SHERIFFCHARLES J. WHITE.
CLERK OF CITY COURTPHZLIP M. RFSSETX.
HEALTH OFFICERJos. C. HABERSHAM, M. D.
KEEPER CITY DISPENSARYROBT. W. MILLER.
HARBOR MASTERTHOMAS LYON.
JAILORWARING RUSSELL.
CLERK OF THE MARKETHENRY L. DAVIS.
PUMP CONTRACTORALFRED KENT.
KEEPER OF LAUREL GROVE CEMETERYA. F. TORI.AY.
KEEPER OF CITY CLOCKSA. THEIME.
KEEPER OF POWDER-MAGAZINEEDWARD POWER.
KEEPER OF PEST-HOUSEJ. J. STOKES.
CITY PRINTERJAS. R. SNEED.
CITY" SCAVENGER (Contractor)WILLIAM SWOLL.
MESSENGER OF COUNCILLUKE LOGAN.
KEEPER OF FORSY'TH PLACEJAS. WALSH.
PORT WARDENSR. T. TURNER, WM. H. PATTERSON, W. W. WASH,
LAURENCE CONNELL, ALEXANDER ABRAMS. CLERK : T. J. BULLOCH.
CITY ASSESSORSROBERT D. WALKER, JOHN C. TAYLOR, AUGUSTUS
BAEIE.
CHIMNEY CONTRACTORSEASTERN DIVISION : MICHAEL NAUGHTON.
WESTERN DIVISION : AUG. SOHEIDBMAN.
POLICEROBT. il. ANDERSON, Chief; WM. WRAY, First LieiUenanl mid
Chief of Detective Force; 3. T. HOWARD, First Lieutenant; C. H. BELL,
Second Lieutenant; JAMES FOLEY, MARTIN HOULIHAN, JOHN GREEN, JAMES
LEONARD, WM. M. MORAN, H. LINGG, Sergeants.