ANNUAL REPORT OF O / RUFUS E. LESTER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF. SAVANNAH, FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31ST, 1883.- TO WHICH IS ADDED THE TREASURER'S REPORT, REPORTS OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT, AND COTTON AND OTHER STATISTICS OF THE PORT OF SAVANNAH. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. CITT OF SAVANNAH, MAYOR'S OFFICE, January 1,1884. Fellow-Citizens : In compliance with the requirements of the ordinances I submit an account of the receipts and expenditures of the city for the year ending December 81, 1883. The report of the Treasurer, which accompanies this report and is a part of it, shows the transactions of the Treasury in detail. Following the custom that has prevailed, I submit some general statements of the transactions of the city government and append'the reports of the officers in charge of the several departments. KECEIPTS. The receipts have been" $610,931.94. Of this 278,184.75 has been derived from taxes on real estate; $54,784.50 from specific taxes; $34,105.90 from licenses (liquor and transient); $17,043.52 from personal property; $17,259.13 from stock in trade; $7,113.19 from shipping; $910.00 from dog tax; $4,648.59 from income and commissions, making the total receipts from taxes, $414,049.58. The receipts from other sources, such as ground rent, Board of Health, Water Works, etc., have been $196,882.36. The collections embrace back taxes remaining uncollected on 1st January, 1883, collected during the year $84,721.45, on real estate, and $10,570.78 of other taxes. 4 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Included in the back taxes collected are the taxes for the last quarter of the year 1882. The receipts also include $12,000.00, the purchase money of the old Water Works tract; $35,836.15 received from the late Treasurer on account of transactions of the Treasurer's office prior to 1883, and $10,453.32 for city lots sold previous to 1883. According to the report of the experts appointed to examine the books of the late Treasurer, there was chargeable for errors $19,636.87, which does not appear in the Treasurer's report. Taking this into account, the Treasury has lost $11,909.43. The bonded debt of the city is as follows: New five per cent, bonds outstanding January 1st, 1883, $3,353,400.00; exchanged for old bonds during the year 1883, 84,000.00; canceled by Sinking Fund Commissioners during the year 1883, $15,400.00. Total amount of new bonds outstanding, $3,342,000.00. Old seven per cent, bonds outstanding, not compromised, $119,600.00; old bonds redeemed and canceled during the year 1883, $4,000.00. Total amount of old bonds outstanding, $115,600.00. Total bonded debt January 1st, 1884, $3,457,600.00. To this will be added $390,000.00 of bonds at 6 per cent, interest, which it will be necessary to issue to fund the city's obligation as indorser of certain bonds of the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad Company, issued in 1869, for which the city has been adjudged liable. EXPENDITURES. The expenditures have been1 $580,136.75. This includes all current expenses of the City Government in all its departments, the interest on the public debt, $184,546.03; sinking fund, $13,105.37; reduction of floating debt, $16,488.79. For bills contracted prior to January, 1883 (including $47,310.26 for balance due on Water Works improvement), $80,920.92. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 5 The balance in the Treasury is $40,214.43, but this includes $11,282.35, an amount of money which came into the Treasury in 1882 from the sale of a ground rent lot No. 55 Brown ward being the balance after deducting the dues to the city for ground rent, etc. This money is held ready to be paid to the person entitled to receive it; the right to it being the subject of litigation in the courts. What is known as the floating debt consists now only of a judgment in the Superior Court of Chatham County in favor of Eugene Kelly, obtained in 1878, on what were known as Mayor's notes given for borrowed money. This judgment has been reduced to $40,000. There will be an increase in. the necessary expenditures the year 1884, as follows: Increase in sinking fund, $15,000.00; additional sinking fund on new bonds to be issued, $6,000.00; interest on new bonds, $19,500.00; extension of Water Works mains, about $30,000.00; opening and widening streets (estimated), $40,000.00. THE CITY'S INDORSEMENT OF THE SAVANNAH, ALBANY AND OULF RAILROAD BONDS. In 1859 the city put its indorsement on $300,000 of the bonds of the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Bailroad Company. The railroad company suspended payment in 1877, and became insolvent. The bonds fell due in 1879. The entire principal of these bonds, with the accumulated interest from the time of the suspension, fell upon the city by reason of its indorsement. In the spring the city was confronted with the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, holding it liable for the payment of these bonds, and we were obliged to make some effort to provide for 78171 6 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. the payment of this obligation. A compromise, somewhat similar to the compromise of the debt of the city in 1878, was agreed upon in July last and an ordinance was passed to carry the compromise into effect. The terms of the compromise were, in the language of the ordinance, as follows: "That the Mayor and Aldermen shall issue for exchange and exchange new bonds ****** for each one thousand dollars of said bonds so guaranteed, and all coupons on the same (the coupons being those due January, 1877, July, 1877, January, 1878, July. 1878, and January, 1879), and all interest due thereon up to the first day of July, 1883, thirteen hundred dollars of said new bonds, which said new bonds shall become due and payable thirty years from and after the first day of July, 1883, and shall bear interest, coupons payable quarterly, at the rate of fire per centum (5 per cent.) per annum." This compromise was not to go into effect until the holders of $200,000 of the bonds had accepted the terms. That number have accepted and the exchange will be proceeded with at once. I am sorry to say that some of the holders of these bonds have expressed themselves unwilling to accept the terms of this compromise so liberal to them, considering the circumstances of the case and the financial condition of the city. What course they will pursue I do not know, but have reason to hope that all will eventually accept the terms, as it is impossible for the city to raise the ready money by which to liquidate this indebtedness, without resort to additional taxation unbearable at this time. The amount of new bonds necessary to effect this compromise, if all the holders of the bonds come into it, will be $390,000. The annual interest of which is $19,500, which the city must provide in addition to a sinking fund of a sufficient amount to retire $6,000 of this issue of bonds annuallv. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 7 POLICE. This force has maintained the efficiency for which it has heretofore been distinguished. As a means of preserving order by the suppression of violence and turbulence, it is as successful as a force of a like number of men could be. The very large expense of maintaining this -department precludes the increase of the number of men employed. The expenses have been for the year $50,766.81. The effort has been to reduce this expense, but it is hardly possible to do so without seriously impairing the efficiency of the force. STREETS AND LANES. This is an expensive department, nevertheless the expense of keeping up the bridges, sidewalks, crossings, sewers, parks and squares, etc., is so great as to make it impossible to pave the streets in such a manner as would be desirable. Yet, something has been done in this respect. During the year Dray ton Street has been paved from south side of Bolton Street Lane to twenty feet south of Duffy Street, and repairs have been made to several sewers injured and broken. The total expense of this department amounts to 126,020.50. 1 The buildings in a large portion of the city known as Yamacraw were destroyed by fire on 31st October. It was deemed advisable to provide at once for opening and widening some of the streets there before the houses should be rebuilt. To this end Council has looked, and measures have been taken for this purpose. This work will cost a considerable sum, but it has been thought best to proceed with it before the rebuilding on the old plan should make the opening more expensive. The extension of the city to the southward by act 8 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. of the last Legislature has made it necessary to look to the making of a convenient plan for that portion of the city and means have been taken to that end. But as the property there has been exempted by the Act from taxation for ten years, the means of doing what might seem necessary in the way of purchasing the land will necessarily be limited. But as the laying out of streets is a matter that will enhance the value of the property, it is probable that this matter may be arranged without very great expense. The known liberalty of the holders of property in that section is something of a guarantee of this. FIRE DEPARTMENT. This department has undergone some changes. The salary of the Chief has been increased to $1,600 per annum, and he is required to devote his time exclusively to the care and management of the department. The report of the Chief contains a full inventory and description of the property of the Department. The cost of the service has been $21,939.67. CITY LIGHTS. The expenses of lighting the city have been $18,- 204.41, but $4,000 of this amount was for the last half of the year 1882. A contract was made by the city in the year 1882 to extend for three years from January 1, 1883, with the Brush Electric Light and Power Company, at a cost of $18,000 per year. In the month of May this company commenced the performance of its contract, and continued to light the city with electricity until the 31st of October, when its works were destroyed by ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 9 fire. By an agreement with the City Council the company was allowed until the 9th of February, 1884, to rebuild their works and resume the fulfilment of their contract, subject to certain conditions as to the acceptance by the city of the system of lighting. . CITY COURT. The expenses of this court paid by the city have been $6,011.40. This includes $2,166.71 for the salary of the Judge, of which the city, by an act of the Legislature, will hereafter be relieved. CITY PUMPS. The work of this department is performed by contract. The expenses have been 2,773.90; of this $819.70 has been for new pumps and improvements. DOCKS AND WHARVES. The receipts from this source have been $275, exhibited in the Treasurer's report under the account of rents. The expenses for repairing, building and improvements have been $648.98. DEY CULTURE. This department has charge of the drainage of the city and the low lands in and about the city, including Bilbo Canal, Musgrove Creek, Springfield Plantation and Hutchinson Island. The expenses of this department have been $14,441.48. A large portion of this has been for building embankments on and around 10 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Hutehinson Island, to wit: the sum of $9,247.27. Hutchinson Island has for a long time been the source of great trouble and expense to the city. It is to be hoped that it will not be so in the future. The city having at great expense built and repaired the dams, has made a lease of that portion of the island owned by the city, for ten years, which places upon the lessee the obligation of keeping it in order and gives to the city a small annual income. JAIL. The expenses of this institution have been 89,964.11, and the income, $9,471.70. There is due the city for the care and maintenance of prisoners against some of the surrounding counties and the United States Government $4,509.90. By an Act of the Legislature the jail will pass out of the control of the city into the hands of the Sheriff of Chatham County on the 5th of January. By the provisions of the Act the city prisoners are to be cared for free of expense to the city. MAKKET. The receipts have been $17,780.80, and the expenses $3,712.22. PARKS AND SQUABES. The expenses paid on account of this department, which is under the supervision of the Street and Lane Department, have been $3,801.41, which includes the Keeper's salary. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 11 POLICE COURT. The receipts for fines in this court have been $4,776.25. The income from this court is appropriated, as much as is necessary, to supplying the police force with uniforms. The receipts are exhibited in the Treasurer's report under the head of Police Uniforms. SAVANNAH RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. The General Government has continued the work of improving the channel of the Savannah River under appropriations made by Congress. The project of the engineers in charge is to secure 22 feet at mean high water from the city of Savannah to Tybee Roads. The estimated cost to accomplish this is $730,000. On the 2d of August, 1882, Congress appropriated $200,000 $530,000 is required for the completion of the work. Under the appropriations jetty work was commenced in January last and dredging work was also done. A considerable quantity of work has been done, but the appropriation has been exhausted. Further appropriations have been recommended, and doubtless will be made, towards the completion of the work. For general information I append the report of Lieutenant Thomas N. Bailey, of the United States Engineer Corps, which has been kindly furnished by him, showing the work done during the year 1883. HEALTH AND CEMETERY. Under the ordinance of February 21, 1877, the general supervision and regulation of all matters pertaining to the public health is vested in the Board of Sanitary Commissioners, which is composed of five I 2 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. members besides the Mayor, who is Chairman, and the Health Officer, who is Secretary of the Board. Everything affecting or touching the public health is passed upon by this Board. The expenses and workings of the different systems connected with the Board of Health are controlled and directed by the Health and Cemetery Committee of Council, subject to the approval of Council. The systems of this department may be classified as follows: 1. For the Protection and Care of the Indigent Sick.This embraces salaries. City Physicians, hospital accommodations, coffins and burial expenses of the indigent, the cost of which for the year has been $12,165.30. To this should be added the expense of the City Dispensary, including salaries of Keeper and Assistant, medicines purchased, etc., which amount to $5,519.10, making total cost of this branch $17,684 40. & For the Direct Protection of the Public Health. This embraces the cleansing of privy vaults, the disinfecting of vaults, yards and premises once every two weeks, from the 1st of April to the 1st of November. The cost of this branch has been $13,494.90. 3. The Prevention of the Introduction ~by Vessels or Persons of Contagious or Infectious Diseases. This applies to quarantine and the small-pox hospital, which cost for the year $8,209.92. To these amounts add expenses of .Laurel Grove Cemetery, including salary of Keeper, wages of men, etc., amounting to $9,497.07, making total cost of health and cemetery for the year $48,886.29. The receipts in this department from collections for cleansing privy vaults, amount paid city by Chatham County for medicines furnished by City Dispensary to county poor, amount received for fumigation and boarding vessels at Quarantine Station, fees and sale ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 13 of lots in Laurel Grove Cemetery, etc., have been. $13,228.11 for the year. Appended may be found the mortuary statistics, which have been compiled by the Health Officer and indicate a very favorable state of health during the year. WATER WORKS. The supply of water is direct from the pumps at the works. About 4,000,000 gallons of water are forced through the mains daily. The power is adequate to a much larger supply, but this is the full capacity of the mains. The demand for a further and more extensive supply of water is now about to be met by the extension of mains, covering a distance of about twenty thousand lineal feet. This work of extension is expected to be completed by the 1st of April. A stand pipe would be desirable, but the enormous cost of such an addition to the works precludes the possibility of such a thing at present. The receipts from the Water Works have been, for the year, $45,275.01; ordinary expenses, $21,396.76, and improvements, $5,183.09: making total expenses for the year, $26,579.85. Notwithstanding the city has little means of revenue outside of taxation, and is burdened with a debt so heavy as to make taxation somewhat burdensome at present, her position and the spirit of her people assure us that she will soon outgrow her ills, and will continue to advance in prosperity and importance. Respectfully, RUFUS E. LESTER, Mayor. CITY TREASURER'S REPORT, _ _ ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER._ _^ _ I)u. Statement of Cash Received and Disbursed from January 1 to December 3J, .1883. CK. Cash in Treasury January I, 1883 . . . Badges Received from Clerk of Council for dogs .,..,....,,.... $9,814 24 910 oo Badges Paid for badges ........... Paid for impounding dogs and stamps for dog notices .......... Board of ffealtft Paid salary of Health Officer from June ist to November soth, inclusive . . Paid salary of City Physicians .... Paid for vaccine points and virus . . . Paid salary of Officers City Dispensary Paid for drugs, medicines, labels, etc.. Paid for fuel, lamps, etc. . ...... $215 oo 117 99 $332 99 $1,375 oo 1,300 OO 318 40 2,043 96 3,286 63 160 61 M"0 O 3 o 93 O z z f Paid for repairs at City Dispensary . . 27 90 Paid for printing mortuary reports, stationery for Health Officer and City Dispensary............ 387 3 Paid salary of Superintendent odorless excavating machine ........ 816 66 Paid for lime, cement and disinfectants 1,627 3 Paid for brick, sand, etc. ...... 344 to Paid for shoeing, repairs to harness, etc. 310 20 Paid for treatment of mules, horses, etc. 88 50 Paid for repairs to barrels, etc. . . . .. 152 70 Paid for pitting barrels ....... 176 75 Paid for forage, oats, corn, etc..... 1,103 97 Paid for time of hands, sanitary, disinfecting corps and odorless excavating machine, and for teams hauling . . 5,534 24 Paid for hire of extra teams, mules, etc., for hauling night soil, etc...... 2,008 50 Paid for hire of horse for use of Superintendent O. E. machine ...... 117 50 Paid for mules purchased ...... 370 oo Paid amounts refunded for odorless excavating machine charges .... 6 oo Paid Georgia Infirmary for keeping city patients. ............'. 2,350 oo 55 25 a owo3f< o 7) EC Board of Health Received from City Marshal for mules sold Received from Superintendent O. E. Machine for poudrette sold ..... Received from office collections odorless excavating machine ...... Received from County Treasurer for medicines for county poor from December, 1882, to October, 1883, inelusive .....,..,...., Received from Clerk of Council for repairs to sinks .......... $175 oo 304 oo 5,50* 38 55 60 490 13 $6,997 ii Paid Savannah Hospital for keeping city patients. ........... $3,338 50 Paid St. Joseph's Infirmary for keeping city patients for 13 months ..... 3,151 50 Paid Sisters of Mercy for keeping city patients. ............. 186 50 Paid for coffins for paupers. ..... 336 50 Paid salary of Keeper of Pest House . 450 oo Paid Keeper of Pest House for extra services. ............. 25 oo Paid for crockery, lamp and groceries for Pest House .......... 65 78 Paid for bedding, clothing, etc., burnt by order of Health Officer ..... 330 40 Paid for hauling dead mule and cow . 30 oo Paid salary of Policeman employed on sanitary duty .......... 720 oo Paid for ice tickets for poor, mattresses, blankets, etc., for Pest House ... 47 oo Paid for expenses of quarantine on the S., F. & W. Railway ........ City Clocks Paid salary of Keeper from December i, 1882, to December I, 1883 .... 83 65 $32.315 88 $241 63 00 3S 25 G M 3 o 9i O *! 5 ffi City Lots Received from sale of lot 9 Crawford Ward, second instalment. , ... $433 33 Received from sale of lot 73 Stephens Ward, second instalment...... 300 oo Received from sale of lot 76 Lloyd Ward, first instalment ....... 267 66 Received from sale of lot 64 Lloyd Ward, first instalment....... 301 oo Received from sale of lot 32 Lloyd Ward, third instalment ....... 200 oo Received from sale of lot 13 Calhoun Ward, second instalment...... 333 66 Received from sale of lot 45 Forsyth Ward, third instalment....... 183 33 Received from sale of lot 48 Forsyth Ward, third instalment....... 233 33 Received from sale lot 20 Stephens Ward, second instalment. ..... 30000 Received from sale of lot 20 Stephens Ward, third instalment. ...... 30000 Received from sale of lot 38 Forsyth Ward, second instalment...... 300 oo Received from sale of north half of lot 19 Stephens Ward, second instalment ............... 200 oo City Court Paid City Sheriff, fees ........ $1,929 50 Paid City Clerk, fees ........ i,oa6 80 Paid salary of Judge from November I, 1882, to December t, 1883 ..... 2,166 71 Paid Solicitor General, fees ..... 800 oo Paid Savannah Gaslight Co., for gas . 30 39 Paid for stationery ......... 58 oo $6,011 40 City Extension Paid time of hands on survey ... $12 50 City Lamps Paid N. F. Thompson for lighting city for six months of year 1882, as per compromise made .......... $4,000 oo. Paid for six months' rent of storehouse used for storing city lamps, January I to July i, 1883 . ......... 37 50 Paid Brush Electric Light and Power Co., for lighting city from January i to December i, 1883 ....... 14,166 91 $18,204 41 G > f POws O *>Oz2 Received from sale of north half of lot 19 Stephens Ward, third instalment ............... $ 200 oo Received from sale of lot 51 Lloyd Ward, third instalment....... 326 67 Received from sale of lot 16 Lloyd Ward, third instalment....... 441 67 Received from sale of lot 50 Lloyd Ward, third instalment....... 218 33 Received from sale of lot 44 Forsyth Ward, third instalment ....... 233 67 Received from sale of lot 17 Stephens Ward, balance ........... 1,924 oo Received from sale of lot 62 Forsyth Ward, third instalment..,..,. 334 oo Received from sale of lot 37 Forsyth Ward, second instalment...... 300 oo Received from sale of lot 47 Lloyd Ward, second instalment...... 237 oo Received from sale of lot 17 Crawford Ward east, third instalment. .... 251 67 Received from sale of lot 6 Forsyth Ward, second instalment...... 317 oo Received from sale of lot 7 Forsyth Ward, second instalment. ..... 31633 City Pumps Paid salary of Contractor from December i, 1882, to December i, 1883 . . Paid for pumps, catch-basins, repairs, filling up wells, etc.. ....... Docks and Wharves Paid for repairs to wharf foot of Whitaker Street. . .......... Paid for removing material under docks, cleaning catch-basins, etc. , . Paid for building platform and removing portion of dock at West Broad Street .............. Paid for rebuilding east side of dock foot of West Broad Street..... $J.954 3 819 70 $2,773 0 $85 oo 119 98 185 oo 259 too z ffi $64898 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 3 * 8 8 - S 3 c a 1 t K o $ b s S. U in TS Si b (X, 1 "CO (2 2 ,0 V. .O 'S2 c bo B c .M 1 e ' 3 E . G in" o cj O . C . c bo"? 3 S S (X, 3'rt .2 lumber _ o "o 10* c cfl" u o M-l F c O * CD CO . be . bo bo x-S -3 bo 3 3 t ^5 Vi hi 2 S S < w a S 1" en" u Cu 2 "?3 _S CO "o o o te bo H CO . M * C t-i . s & 4j OJ CO Q ^S rse o 1-* for o of Hart use <4-< *rt 0 V* u O O4 " S rt to * fa O "C s s -^ . o . o cog o S "S w S "3 2 S^ 5 S -~'rtOu5unU(fla)to^. o s S s 11 -s -g -s g -s -g -s --g ^ G w4 n>M nv4 w4 *^ Ut o . a 6 S o o OS Fire Department Paid pay roll from December ist, 1882, to December ist, 1883 ....... $11,590 35 Paid for forage. ,..,.,.... 1,181 49 Paid for horses purchased . ..... 1,575 Paid for harness and repairs to same . 357 36 Paid for shoeing horses ....... 195 37 Paid for carriage hire and hire of horses 38 co Paid for repairs to engines and trucks . 1,544 2 Paid for repairs to engine houses . . . 106 10 Paid for 2,500 feet of new hose .... a,55O 67 Paid for waste, oil, wicks, lamps, paint, tools, etc.. ...... .... 362 67 Paid for material and repairs to fire alarm. .............. 878 94 Paid for blankets, mattresses, cots, etc. 57 40 Paid for uniforms for firemen, bill of October, 1882 ........... 276 25 Paid for hauling dead horse to country 5 oo Paid for rent of Germania Hall and rooms .............. 4^0 oo Paid for services extra men at fire , . 46 10 Paid for meals for men ....... 33 75 Paid for coal and wood ....... 166 45 Paid for gas appropriation ....... aoo oo Paid for treatment of horses ..... 86 25 fcS2Zaw3 O jo 55 Z I Fire Department Received from sale of horses. Ground Rents Received from city lots Paid for damages by hose cart . . Paid for one new cart...... $927 5 P a'd appropriation annual parade Ground Rents $35,344 70 Paid amount refunded for overcharge Incidentals Paid for carriage hire ........ $16 oo Paid for carriage hire City Assessors . 180 oo Paid costs in suits, taking testimony, etc. 194 08 Paid for postage, telegrams, fares for paupers, etc. ........... 973 80 Paid for hauling cattle to country ... 8 oo Paid for rent of telephones at Police Barracks and Clerk' of Council's office to December 15, 1883 .... 123 oo Paid for rent of telephone from December 15, 1883, to December 15, 1884 ................ 60 oo Paid for registration and election managers ............... 700 oo 18 oo 50 oo 200 oo $21,939 67 X bO CO Paid for preparing lists of qualified voters .............. $ 400 oo Paid for compiling statistics ..... 35 oo Paid traveling expenses of Mayor and Aldermen to Atlanta to attend funeral of Gov. Stephens .....,.,. 136 65 Paid for decoration of Exchange at Governor's death ..,,,.... 50 oo Paid expenses Sesqui-Centenniai supper. ............... 423 71 Paid expenses reception President Arthur .............. So 75 Paid for map of Chatham County ... 10 oo Paid J. Rourke, for medical attendance of daughter ............ 300 oo Paid expert for examining accounts of City Treasurer during October, November and December, 1882, and January, 1883 ........... 500 00 Paid expert for examining accounts of City Treasurer as per contract. . . 1,214 85 Paid items for incidental expenses as per books kept by James E. Cope, late City Treasurer (see report of the Chairman Finance Committee, June 6, 1883), amounting to. ...... 817 07 $6,222 91 fcO a > r s 3 3 u> EC Interest Received interest on notes given in payment for city lots ......... Jail Received from Chatham County. . , $6,755 20 Received from Charlton County ... 76 40 Received from Bryan County .... 500 oo Received from Bulloch County. ... 18 go Received from Appiing County . . . 179 60 Received from Ware County. .... 675 90 Received from Scriven County .... 534 60 Received from Pierce County .... 74 70 Received from Glynn County .... 36 50 $749 67 Interest Paid interest on money borrowed in year 1882 ............. $40 oo Paid premium on New York Exchange 25 oo Paid difference in exchange of old bonds for new city bonds ..... 150 oo Paid new coupons at City Treasurer's office ............... 117,558 75 Paid new coupons at New York by Eugene Kelly & Co. . ....... 35.737 50 Paid old coupons .......... 8,024 63$161,535 88 Jail Paid salary of Jailer and Deputy from December I, 1882, to December I, 1883 ............... $3 399 96 Paid wages of cook from December I, 1882, to December I, 1883 ..... 180 oo Paid wages of guard from December I, 1882, to December i, 1883 ..... 2,340 oo Paid salary of physician from Decemcember I, 1882, to December i, 1883, 300 oo Paid for brick, lime and repairs ... 88 78 Paid for blankets, etc. ........ 88 37 Z Z G paw s 3 o 79 O *) Z > X 10 Ol L Received from United States..... $240 So Received from Jailer Chatham County for fees .............. 101 40 Received from sundry sources not enumerated ...... ..... 254 oo Received from State of South Carolina, 23 70 70 Ketly & Co, Received from them paid coupons . $55,380 00 Paid for beef, bread, rice and vegetables. .............. $2,898 84 Paid for uniforms for jail guard ... 158 25 Paid for wood, coal, oil, ice, etc. . . . 394 3$ Paid Savannah Gas Light Company for gas. ............... 115 56 $9,964 II Eugene Kttty cV CivPaid for New York Exchange , Eugene Kttty &* Co., General AccountPaid them on account of loan ..... Laurel Grove Cemetery Paid for salary of Keeper from December i, 1882, to December I, 1883 . . Paid for materials, repairs, etc. .... Paid for repairs to pumps ...... $74,493 60 $18,279 to z z w 8 o !0 O z z $999 96 135 86 55 oo Laurel Grove Cemetery Received from Keeper, burial fees . . (751 oo Received from Keeper, sale of lots . . 940 oo $1,691 oo Licenses Received from Clerk of Council . . . $5,412 50 Received from office collections of liquor licenses . .......... 28,692 40 $34,105 90 Paid time of hands . ........ Paid for building sewers in portion of cemetery devoted to burial of colored persons. ............. Paid for filling in excavation, deepening ditches and grading portion cemetery devoted to burial of colored persons, ............. Licenses Paid for services of special detective . Liquidation Paid balance of loss on purchase of $35,100 City Bonds made by former administration. .......... 3.451 75 4.473 SO z G 381 oo $9,497 07 r 50 M $118 75 o ye O"1 5 to $750 S 28 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. tn gs ^o 8 w 8 Market e ~ 1 1-2 o s en o a 1* 2. a . "2 35 o "- aid rt salary < December c~ . , " TJ "3 _| en "*- 2 0. 1 tn too "5. 3 wo O tn" cu "S : o, s - S . o _ O " be 3 s o " J3 " C '. 1 : w "O u ' o 1 a cu c . cm ^ . .H _ u " 5 "l I : S tos rt " !- u i 2.1 c >. s #S1 . | _re js '* 4) r 8 S eT2 w oo o S." 4) 3 If o|S rt "*^ CU repairing, * bO - S . oT "S * Is (5 s en w 00 S OO 'II - (X3 s if1 c . o .S ' S a -a " 5I "I 2a c 2s 1"0go 2 1 * S 11 ' 5 u ^ o a:0 a2s5 >, a g "<3c *9- "5 (/I o <8 P01 J3oO v SM j= "3e 'c I in Police w Paid pay roll from December i, 1882, ^ to December i, 1883 ........ $46,073 45 O Paid for materials, repairs, etc..... 169 06 ^ Paid for wood, coal, etc. ....... 147 90 g Paid for food for prisoners ...... 362 31 > Paid for stationery. ......... 124 55 5 Paid for forage ........... 2,411 52 Paid for shoeing horses....... 293 25 O Paid difference in exchange of horses 205 oo "^ Paid for treatment of horses..... 74 50 > Paid for repairs to saddles, reins, etc. . 220 go ^ Paid for rent of telephone from De- ^ cember 15, 1883, to December 15, 2 1884 ............... 6000 K Paid for a clock ........... . 20 oo Paid for blankets, etc. ......... 30 oo Paid Savannah Gas Light Company for $(0 oo gas, ............... 574 37 $50,766 81 o PoKct Uniforms Received from Clerk of Council for fines ............... 14,776 25 Received from T. McGuire for one overcoat ............. 10 po Received from Keeper City Pound, collections. ............ an 75 $4,998 oo Printing and Stationery Received from City Marshal for advertising ............... $146 oo FoKte Uniforms Paid for uniforms and helmets , Paid for impounding dogs , . , Printing and Stationery Paid salary of City Printer from January ist to December ist, 1883 . . . Paid salary of City Printer for month of November, 1882 .......... Paid for Remington Type Writer . . . Paid for printing and stationery for city offices, for circulars, notices, advertising, etc. ............ Public Buildings Paid for repairs, material, etc. Paid for insurance. ..... Paid for fuel for city offices . $5,404 56 5 75 $5,4io 31 $550 oo 50 oo 100 oo 3,333 81 $4.033 81 $1,171 04 435 oo 74 5 CO O z z CJ w 8 3 O 93 CO 5> z z > X Public Buildings Received dividends on insurance policies ................ Paid for decorating Exchange, March I5th, 1883, " Sesqui-Centennial" . . 6000 Paid Savannah Gas Light Company for $49 04 gas. ................ 69 69 $1,809 98 s. 55 Z G Qtiarantine > Paid salary of Quarantine Officer from December I, 1882, to December i, W 1883 ............... $1,020 oo o Paid time of hands......... 816 oo ? Paid for blankets, bedding, stove, gro- ^ ceries, for shipwrecked crew, etc. . . 104 63 j> Paid for fuel. ............ 29 50 < Paid for medicine, sulphur, brimstone, ^ etc.. ............... 203 43 o Paid for wheelbarrow, shovels, buckets, "0 oil, sail, etc., etc. ......... 81 42 Paid for charter of tug to take Health < Officer to quarantine station two trips 50 oo ^ Paid for charter of tug to take ship- 25 wrecked crew from and to S. S. City jjj of Columbus ........... 50 oo Paid expenses of Mayor and Aldermen to quarantine station, sundry occasions ...............$ 169 98 S Quarantine Received from various vessels boarding fees, fumigation, charges, etc , . Rents Received from wharf foot of Abercorn street ............... Received from wharf foot of Wliitaker street .............. Received from store foot of West Broad street ...... ........ Received from lots on Springfield plantation ............... Received from City Tombs ...... Received from rooms in Exchange Building ............. Received from McLeod mill site . . . Received from land on Hutcliinson Island .............. $4,540 oo Paid for metal, felt and G. M. nails for building purposes ......... $1,446 78 Paid for building wharf and tramway at quarantine station ......... 2,786 95 Paid for advertising quarantine notice in Jacksonville papers ....... Paid for ice at quarantine, six months , Paid for services of boatman ..... $200 oo 75 oo 350 oo 4QO 02 250 oo 1,270 oo 75 oo 30 oo $2,740 02 5 25 14 40 275 oo $7,073 34 Salaries Paid salaries city officers from Decemi, 1882, to December I, 1883 . , . $17,060 49 Paid E. J. Kelly for extra compensation as Deputy Marshal ...... 30 oo Paid salary of special detective from March 13 to December 13, 1883 . . 225 oo Paid salaries of City Assessors and clerk ............... 950 oo Paid for extra labor, assorting and pasting in coupons .......... Scavenger Department Paid contractor from December 1,1882, to December I, 1883 ....... TOO oo $18,365 49 $14,749 9* OS tt. 5! G PI fl o O o>J se 235* > X Streets and Lanes Received from Clerk of Council for sewer permits ........... $352 oo Received from City Marshal from sale of horses ............. 84 oo Received from City Surveyor for collections from the sale of wood cut from decayed trees ......... 100 oo Taxes, 1875 Received from real estate ....... Taxes, 1876 Received from real estate ....... Taxes, 1877 Received from real estate ....... Taxes, 1878 * Received from real estate ....... Taxes, 1879 Received from real estate ....... Taxes, 1880 Received from real estate ....... 3,ooo 58 Received from specific ........ 50 oo Taxes. 1881 Received from real estate ...... 4,670 08 Received from specific........ 200 oo Taxes, 1882 Received from real estate ...... $74,854 89 ISO 31 355 53 1,449 22 Sinking Fund Paid commissioners for bonds cancelled and retired .......... Streets and Lanes Paid time of hands . $13,105 37 $53 oo Paid time of teamsters , $86 40 Paid for forage Paid for hire of teams , 124 44 Paid for repairs to wagons, carts, harness, tools, shoeing, etc. Paid for treatment of mules and horses Paid for brick, lumber, lime, cement, etc., repairs to railings, for repairing pavements, for tools, etc. ..... Paid salary of Superintendent for December, 1882, and January, 1883 . Paid for carriage hire of Appraisers, $3>5O 58 opening streets Paid for stone and rock ballast and hauling portion of same . $4,870 oS'Paid for trees .......... (Paid difference in trading horses . Paid for stone for crossings, etc.. $9,997 61 4,492 37 1,687 oS 40 oo 827 88 79 65 2,549 47 133 34 8 oo 1,690 25 176 oo 50 oo 53 35 Z z G 90 M o 90 O*) Z 55 > X 00 CO Received Received Received Received Received sions . Taxes, Received Received Received Received Received Received sions . from stock in trade .... $ from personal ....... from shipping ....... from specific ........ from income and commis1883 from real estate ....... from stock in trade ..... from personal ....... from shipping ....... from specific ........ from income and commis3,483 38 3,393 75 l6 50 930 oo 3,498 15 $85,175 67 193,463 30 13,776 75 14,649 77 7,096 69 53,604 50 . 1,150 44$283,741 45 Paid for iron street-crossing plates . . Paid for material and labor on bridge crossing Savannah and Ogeechee Canal, Canal Street ......... Paid Savannah and Ogeechee Canal Co. for draining off water .,.,,,, Paid damages allowed for cow falling into sewer. ............ Paid damages settlement of case A, Brown and E. Brown for personal injury from running over stump . . Paid for portion of Lot No. 59, Gue Ward, taken for street purposes . . Paid for building cesspools ..... Taxes, 1882 Paid discount allowed on taxes of 1882, Taxes, 1883 Paid specific tax receipt issued but never used ............... $ 75 3,790 37 75 oo 20 oo 207 50 300 oo 290 63 $26,020 50 CO 2 a M 3 JO o o*> 3 73 99 4 oo Water Works Received for water sold to vessels . Received for hire of shingle flat. . Received from water rents . . . . , $30 oo 20 oo 45,225 01 $45,275 01 Water Works Paid salaries of officers and employes, Paid for running expenses of pumps, Paid for repairs to engines, mains, etc., Paid for connections ......... Paid for incidentals ......... Paid for extension of water mains . . . Paid for flushing, cleaning, etc., cesspools ............... Paid for forage ........... Paid water rents collected twice and refunded, and discounts allowed . . Paid for a new clock ......... Paid for mule, wagon and harness . . Paid for new cart and harness. .... Paid for buggy harness ........ Paid for rent of telephone line from October 19, 1883, to October 19, 1884 ............... E. A. Silva Received from him on account 30 oo $8,084 62 9,152 12 905 72 474 93 92 70 2.941 52 23903 139 35 64 50 15 oo 157 00 70 oo 24 oo 80 oo $22,440 49 M 13 o O o *J c/i > > z z > X OS V Water Works Improvement Paid on contract for building engine and boiler house . ........ $1,440 oo Paid balance due on brick work as per contract with W. F. Bowe ..... 1,170 6a Paid on account of pipe ....... 39,257 57 Paid time of hands laying water mains, 380 91 Paid dray age on boilers, brick, pipe, etc ................. 265 31 Paid for bolts, washers, tools, etc ... 373 53 Paid for check valve and work about same ............... 7 37 Paid for painting, lumber, brick, stone, lime, cement, etc ......... 1,297 03 Paid for stove, blankets, lamps, matting, incidentals, etc ........ 331 42 Paid for opening works ....... 6 oo Paid for pig lead .......... 340 91 Paid repairs to railing at First Baptist Church, colored .......... 10 oo Paid F. A. Exley for damages to crops on line of pipe. .......... 50 oo Paid George W. Whitman for inspecting pipes and castings ....... 348 oo Paid A. N. Miller, compensation for extra services ........... 300 oo Ctt Os 25 z c > r w"XJ oo*! ui > 2 52 >a yames E. Cope, late City Treasurer Received from him cash and other items as cash ........... $21,307 42 Received in compromise ....... 10,000 oo 31,307 42 Total $675,966 iS Paid J. D. Cook balance due for superintending ............. Paid for removing old pumps to new works, extra labor on engines, buildings, foundations, etc., and improvement of grounds .......... Paid balance due on pumping engine, Jama E. Cope, late City Treasurer Amount of cash balance on hand as per cash book January 18, 1883, charged to his account........... Balance on hand December 31, 1883 . 2.053 65 3,144 92 6,7*7 45 $57,367 69 $28,107 71 40,214 43 $675,966 18 We, the undersigned Committee on Finance, have examined the accounts and books of the City Treasurer from the 1st day of January to the 3ist of December, 1883, and find the same correct, with proper vouchers produced, and find balance in the Treasury of $40,214.43. SAMUEL P. HAMILTON. D. R. THOMAS. J. J. WILDER. ED. M. GKEEK. J. F. MINIS. SB z w 13 o o JO 55 55 CO DR. Trial Balance^ December SI, 1883. On. 313. 217. 231. 323. 235. 337. 238. 333. 35- 337- 339- 341. 344. 347. 353- 356, 58. 360. 361. 363. 265. 267. 373. 277. Badges ..................$ 333 99 Board of Health .............. 33.31$ 88 City Clocks ................ 341 63 . James E. Cope, late City Treasurer. .... 28,107 71 City Court . ................ 6,011 40 City extension ............... 12 50 City lamps. ................ 18,304 41 City pumps ............... 3,773 V Coupons, new ............... 174,526 35 Coupons, old ............... 8,024 63 Docks and wharves ............. 648 98 Dry Culture ........... .... I4.44I 48 Fees. ................... 1,865 oo Fire Department .............. 21,939 67 . . 6,318 51 . . 1.995 15 . . 9,964 ii , . 18.279 5 . . 79,021 33 9.497 7 7 50 . . 118 75 . . 3,712 23 Parks and squares ............. 3,8oi 41 Incidentals............. Interest account ........... Jail ................ Eugene Kelly & Co., general account Eugene Kelly & Co., coupon account Laurel Grove Cemetery ....... Liquidation account ........ Licenses .............. Market .............. 213. Badges .............. 217. Board of Health .......... 223. James E. Cope, late City Treasurer . 231. City lots ............. 344. Fees. ............... 347, Fire Department.......... 356. Interest account .......... 258. Jail ............ ... 260. Eugene Kelly & Co., general account 261. Eugene Kelly & Co., coupon account 263. Laurel Grove Cemetery ....... 267, Licenses .............. 273. Market .............. 281. Police ............... 286. Police uniforms .......... 288. Printing and stationery ....... 391. Public buildings .......... 295. Quarantine. ............ 298. Rents ............... 303, E. A. Silva ............ 313. Streets and lanes .....'..... 321. Taxes, 1875 ............ 335. Taxes, 1876 ............ 327. Taxes, 1877 ............ 910 oo 6,997 35.835 15 33,453 33 13,635 07 227 50 749 6? 9.471 70 1,790 26 76,535 49 1,691 oo 34.105 9 17,780 80 10 oo 4,998 oo 146 oo 49 04 4,540 oo 2,740 02 30 oo 536 oo 86 40 134 44 180 31 00 G > f *B W O # H X O ! O *! z 3 > a 28i. Police ................... 50.766 81 286. Police uniforms .............. 5,410 31 288. Printing and stationery ........... 4,033 81 291. Public buildings .............. 1,809 98 395. Quarantine.. ................ 7,073 34 301. Salaries .................. 18,365 49 307. Scavenger Department ........... 14,749 92 310. Sinking fund. ............... 13,105 37 313. Streets and lanes .............. 26,020 50 347. Taxes, 1882 ................ 73 99 353. Taxes, 1883 ................ 40 375. Ground rents ................ 2 oo 381. Water Works ............... 22,440 49 387. Water Works improvements ........ 57,367 69 391. Cash ................... 40,214 43 $703,599 66 331. Taxes, 1878 ................ 355 53 335. Taxes, 1879 ................. 1,449 22 339. Taxes, 1880 ................ 3,050 58 343. Taxes, 1881 ................ 4,870 08 347. Taxes, 1882 ................ 85,175 67 353. Taxes, 1883 ................ 283,741 45 375. Ground rents ................ 35,244 70 381. Water Works ...............' 45,275 01 400. Balance account of Ledger, ......... 9,814 24 1703,599 66 Z Z a 73 W T) O O JO O fl I Z Z CO 40 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. In presenting the annual statement of cash received and paid out by the Treasurer, it is but proper to say that in order to fully understand the city's financial condition for the past year, the report should be considered in connection with a trial balance taken from the city's ledger, and for the following reasons: The Accountant employed to examine the books kept by Mr. James E. Cope, late City Treasurer, deemed it proper to suggest that a journal should be kept for making entries which might not properly be considered as belonging to the cash book, but which had from necessity been forced through that book, on account of the Treasurer not keeping any other book of entry. Following out his ideas, the Finance Committee thought it advisable to start a journal, commencing same during the month of August, and consequently a few words of explanation are necessary to have an understanding of the differences in those accounts where the cash statement and trial balance do not agree. The journal entries affect five principal accounts and they will be considered in detail. FIBST.JAMES E. COPE, LATE CITY TREASURER. The cash statement shows that Mr. Cope was indebted to the city, as shown by the cash book, when he turned it over, the sum of $28,107.71. Against this the city received in cash, and collected on due bills and sundry accounts which were turned over by him, the sum of 821,307.42. The amount paid the city, as per terms of compromise, $10,000 in cash, also appears on the cash statement, and makes up the cash receipts of $31,307.42, while the trial balance shows a credit of 835,835.15, the difference$4,527.73being funds which Mr. Cope had in the hands of Eugene Kelly & Co., New York, for the purpose of paying coupons, but which not appearing on the ledger were ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 41 charged up to Eugene Kelly & Co. on the journal, crediting Mr. Cope at the same time, anrd making his ledger credit $35,835, as appears on the trial balance. SECOND.INTEREST ACCOUNT. By the cash statement there was paid for the redemption of new coupons at the Treasurer's office, $117,558.75, and by Eugene Kelly & Co., in New York, $35,737.50, making a total of $153,296.25. After opening the journal there was paid by Eugene Kelly & Co., new coupons to the amount of $21,230, and the same were entered upon and posted from that book, making the total amount of new coupons paid $174,- 526.25, as shown on trial balance. The difference between interest account on the statement and trial balance outside of coupons is $1,780.15, which arises from entry on journal of a debit to that account of $85.49 for interest on overdrafts and expenses, paying coupons at New York and also for interest, $1,694.66, on floating debt, both of which amounts were due to Eugene Kelly & Co. THIRD.EUGENE KELLY & CO. The cash statement shows there was remitted Eugene Kelly & Co., to pay coupons, $74,493.60. They were also debited on the journal with the amount of funds in their hands, turned over by Mr. James E. Cope, late City Treasurer, as explained under that heading, $4,527.73, making total debit of $79,021.33, as appears on trial balance. The credits on cash statement for coupons paid were $55,230, and for coupons paid since August, entered on journal and explained under interest account, were $21,230, and for interest on overdrafts and ex- 42 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. penses of paying coupons entered on journal, $85.49, making total* credit as shown by trial balance of $76,535.49. FOURTH.EUGENE KELLY & CO., GENERAL ACCOUNT. The interest due on floating debt, $1,694.66, was credited to Eugene Kelly & Co., general account, and with some incidental expenses, $95.60 due for advertising, make up their credit of $1,790.26, all of which being entered on the journal does not appear on the cash statement. It is proper here to add that we paid Eugene Kelly & Co. the credit above alluded to, $1,790.26, andS16,488.79 in addition, making$18,279.05, as appears on trial balance, and by paying the above sum have reduced the floating debt of the city to $40,000. FIFTH. INCIDENTALS. The difference between incidental account on the cash statement and trial balance is $95.60, which was the amount entered on the journal to the credit of Eugene Kelly & Co., general account, for expenses due for advertising sundry notices, and has been referred to under the heading of Eugene Kelly & Co., general account. C. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer. SINKING FUND COMMISSION REPORT. EEPOET OF SINKING FUND COMMISSION, SAVANNAH, JANUARY IST, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor: DEAR SIRThe Sinking Fund Commission beg leave to make the following report of matters connected with their department or coming under their jurisdiction for year ending 31st December, 1883: With the funds at our disposal, say $38.40 from previous year, and $10,000 appropriation for 1883, we have purchased bonds of the face value of $12,200, and have carefully cancelled same, with all unmatured coupons attached thereto, and have handed said bonds and coupons to the City Treasurer for such final destruction as Council may direct. The details of purchases are as follows: Feb'y 5, 1883,.... .$3,100 at 82 per cent.... .$2,542 00 May 4, " ..... 3,000 at 81 " " .... 2,437 50 Sept. 17, " ..... 3,000 at 80$ " " ...'.2,41875 Nov. 12, " ..... 3,100 at 80f " " .... 2,607 12 Total, 1883..... .$12,200 Costing. .....$ 9,905 37 Purch'dprev'ly. 49,600 " ...... 39,961 60 Total purchased .$61,800 " ..... .$49,866 97 Leaving $133.03 cash in hands of Treasurer, subject to our order, to be added to appropriation for present year. The Treasurer handed us bonds for $3,200, which were taken in payment for balances due on ground rent lots during the year, which bonds and the coupons thereto attached we have carefully cancelled and re- 46 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. turned to him for such final destruction as Council may direct. This $3,200, with the $6,000 previously reported as coming from same source, added to the $61,800 purchased, makes a total of $71,000 of new bonds cancelled to date. The amount of new bonds outstanding is $3,338,000, against $3,353,400 on 31st December, 1882. As there were no exchanges made during the year, the new bonds in hands of the Treasurer upon which we have signed certificates available for exchange remains unchangedsay $50,000. No provision has been made, that we are advised of, relative to retiring the $42,200 new bonds to which we called the attention of your predecessors in each of our previous reports. AD of which is respectfully submitted. JOHN FLA'NNERY, S. GUCKENHEIMER, C. C. CASEY, JOSEPH D. WEED, JOHN L. HARDEE, Sinking Fund Commission. CLERK OF COUNCIL'S REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 49 BEPOBT OF OLEBI OF COUMCIL. OFFICE CLERK OF COUNCIL, SAVANNAH, G-A., JANUABT 1, 1884. Hon. Hufus E. Lester, Mayor: SIRI have the honor to submit the following report of the transactions of this office from January 1st to December 31st, 1883: RECEIPTS. Badges (dog).......................... .. $ 010 00 Board of Health (repairs to sinks)......... 490 00 Fines..................................... 4,776 25 Licenses ....... . . ......... ........ ... 5,412 50 Sewer Permits............................ 352 00 Total.............. ................$11,943 75 The amount returned as fines was carried to the Police Uniform Account. The records of the city are written tip to date, and systematically arranged. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, FRANK E. REBARER, Clerk of Council. CORPORATION ATTORNEY'S REPORT, ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 53 BEPOBT OF COBPOBATION ATTOBNEY. SAVANNAH, GA., JANUARY 12fch, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor of Savannah: DEAR SIRI have the honor to transmit herewith a statement showing the operations of my department for the year 1883. The following ordinances passed by Council have been either prepared by me or passed upon during the year just closed : 1. To amend the ordinance establishing quarantine ground, and prescribing quarantine to be observed. 2. To prescribe and fix the amount of bond for plumbers and gas fitters. 3. To regulate the taking out of licenses for certain kinds of business, and to require licenses to be taken out before beginning business, and fixing penalties. 4. To prohibit the taking and removing barrels used for reception of offal, etc. 5. To amend an ordinance entitled an ordinance for the better promotion of health, to provide for the cleansing of privy vaults, etc. 6. To amend an ordinance to provide for increase of number of Inspectors of Naval Stores. 7. To amend the Tax Ordinance. 8. To permit persons to display in front of their places of business their goods, wares and merchandise. 9. To amend Quarantine Ordinance, passed June 21st, 1882. 10. To regulate the turning up of soil in the city, 54 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. between first day of May and first day of November of each year. 11. To abolish office of Lieutenant of Police and to create office of Assistant Chief of Police. 12. To amend ordinance fixing salaries of Engineers of Fire Department. 13. To require Assistant Chief of Police to enter into a bond. 14. To grant lots in Forsyth Ward, on which jail stands, to County Commissioners, and to provide for opening Howard Street through same. 15. To compromise that part of bonded debt known as Bonds of the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad Company, to provide for issue of new bonds and to provide for establishment of sinking fund for the redemption of same. 16. To prohibit bathing in the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal in certain limits. 17. To provide for the collection of the cost and expenses for the abatement and removal of nuisances. 18. To change the name of St. James' Square to Telfair Place. 19. To regulate the laying down, construction and operation of carriage railways in the streets of the city. 20. To amend ordinance in relation to assessment of real estate in the City of Savannah. 21. To provide for the appointment of a Board of Assessors for the purpose of ascertaining and fixing the value of real estate in the Cifcy of Savannah. 22. To repeal ordinance to forbid the purchase by the City of Savannah of land for the laying put of new streets. 23. To prohibit public funerals of persons who have died of contagious or infectious diseases. 24. To open, widen and lay out certain streets in western part of the city. 25. To amend an ordinance entitled an ordinance to ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 55 authorize the Directresses of the Savannah Widows' Society to sell and convey in fee simple Lots Nos. 1 and 2, Crawford Ward. 26. To require Chief Fireman to give all Ms time to the city. 27. To forbid encroachments on lanes. 28. To suspend ordinance for two weeks relative to display of goods, etc., by merchants. 29. To assess and levy taxes, and to raise revenue, etc. In addition to the duty of drawing ordinances for the several Committees of Council, I have attended a number of meetings of the several Committees, and have advised with them whenever called upon. The following proceedings have been had in the several Courts during the past year: In the Supreme Court of the United States, the case of The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah vs. Eugene Kelly, and the other cases involving the validity of the guarantee by the City of Savannah of the bonds of the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad Company, have been decided in favor of the validity of the bonds. The parties holding these bonds, which were put in judgment in the United States Circuit Court, had applied to the United States Court for a mandamus to compel the city to levy a tax to pay off these judgments. The mandamus was granted and the city took the same to the Supreme Court by writs of error in the several cases. These writs of error have been dismissed after the agreements on the part of the holders of the bonds in judgment to compromise the same. In the several cases brought on bonds of the same character in the United States Circuit Court below the jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court, motions for new trials were made in each and were 56 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. continued by the court until the final adjudication of the Supreme Court on the Eugene Kelly case. After the "decision of this case, the same points being involved in the several motions for new trial, the same were accorded by the court. Executions have been issued since the determination of these motions, and demands have been made for payment preparatory to proceedings for mandamus in United States Court. Demands have been made on behalf of the following parties, who hold executions against the city: Charles O. Witte, for..................... $3,366 83 Eobert Sewell, for.... ...... ........... 3,25563 James S. Gibbs, for....................... 4,134 02 George W. Witte, for .... ............... 3,368 83 The First National Bank of Charleston, for. 3,910 66 Andrew Simonds, for..................... 3,912 68 Total principal, interests and costs........$21,948 55 The case of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, versus Morris K. Jessup, surviving trustee et al., was also determined in the Supreme Court of the United States adversely to the city. This case was an intervention on the part of the City of Savannah, in the foreclosure suit brought by Morris K. Jessup, surviving trustee, against the Atlantic and Gulf Rail Road Company, and was for taxes claimed by the city against said company for the years 1877 and 1878. The Supreme Court held (Mr. Justice Miller dissenting) that, while the act of the Legislature of Georgia, passed February 28th, 1874, withdrew the immunity or limited exemption of the said company from taxation, yet it only withdrew this exemption in so far as the State was concerned, and did not put upon railroad property the burden of municipal taxation, which would have been forbidden by the charter had not the act of 1874 been passed. This case has been followed by the Supreme ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 57 Court of Georgia in the case of the city of Albany versus same company, and effectually settles the question of municipal taxation on the property of this company without additional legislation. In the Superior Court of Chatham County, the case of P. K. Shiels, complainant, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, defendants, has been settled, the fence erected by Mr. Shiels having been removed back to true line of South Broad Street. The case of Wilder & Co. et al., complainants, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, defendants, was tried in Superior Court and the decree was in favor of defendant. This case involved the question of the power of the city to tax the members of commission firms and also the determination of the question whether the payment of a tax as a commission merchant would cover the business of agencies for steamships, etc., on the ground that the latter business was incident to and a part of the commission business. The case was carried to the Supreme Court by the complainants, and has been argued in that court, but the decision has not yet been announced. The case of Thompson, complainant, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, defendants, was a case growing out of contract of N. P. Thompson for lighting the city, which was adjusted by Council and the case discontinued. There has been tried in the City Court of Savannah the case of William Donhelly versus the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for $1,500. This was a case of personal damage arising from an injury received by Mr. Donnelly by riding into an excavation made on Bay Street, near Lincoln Street, by Mr. P. E. Masters, a plumber, under a written permission from the city. A motion for a new trial was made and argued, and the decision of the court being adverse to the city, the case was carried to the Supreme Court, where it was 58 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH argued at the last month and the decision of the City Court was affirmed, the court holding that "it was the duty of the city to have superintended and overlooked the work which it permitted to be done on its streets, and to have seen that it was done in such manner that no injury should come to passers on the street from defects therein." The case of A. B. Hazzard versus the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah was also tried in this court. This was a case arising from an injury received by Mr. Hazzard on Bryan Street by falling over some small boards lying near curb stone in front of store of Philip Bowe. The jury returned a verdict for Mr. Hazzard in the sum of $3,000. A motion for a new trial was made, and, after argument, a new trial was granted by Judge Harden. The case was then carried to the Supreme Court by the plaintiff, where it was recently argued and the decision of the court has been rendered affirming the decision of the Judge of the City Court. The case of Alexander Brown and his wife versus the Mayor and Aldermen, pending in this court, was discontinued and settled. The following cases are now pending, in which the city is interested, in United States Circuit Court: 1. Alice Pye versus the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah. 2. United States ex rel. John E. Parks versus the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah. In the Superior Court of Chatham County: 3. S. B. Lufburrow et al., complainants, and Mary G-. Lufburrow et al., defendants. 4. C. F. Foy versus the Mayor and Aldermen. 5. John Williamson et al. versus the Mayor and Aldermen. 6. Church Wardens, etc., versus the Mayor and Aldermen. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 59 7. Walter Blake et al. versus the Mayor and Aldermen. 8. Lawrence et al. versus the Mayor and Aldermen et al. In City Court of Savannah: 9. T. B. Masters versus the Mayor and Aldermen. 10. John L. Hardee versus the Mayor and Aldermen. 11. A. B. Hazzard versus the Mayor and Aldermen. The city having opened and widened certain streets in the western part of the city, I have examined titles of parties holding land to be taken for these purposes, and have drawn deeds to the city from such parties as have accepted the award of the appraisers appointed by the city for the land taken. The following parties have executed deeds to the city for land taken: Central Cotton Press Company, Central Wharfage and and Storage Company, Dr. R. J. Nunn, Mrs. M. E. Jaudon. Very respectfully, H. C. CUNNINGHAM, Corporation Attorney. CHIEF OF POLICE REPORT, ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 63 REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE. OFFICE CHIEF OF POLICE, SAVANNAH, GA., JANUARY IST, 1884. Hon. Rufus J$. Lester, Mayor : SIRI have the honor to submit herewith my annual report of the Police Department for the year ending December 31st, 1883. The aggregate strength of the department is 60, as follows: Chief, ...................:...............! Assistant Chief,.......................... 1 Sergeants, ............................... 4 Privates, ................................54 Total, ........'. ..................60 The above does not include the Ocean Steamship Company's Police, consisting of Sergeants, ............................... 3 Privates, ................................16 Total, ...........................19 For City,................................60 For Ocean Steamship Company,..........19 Total, ...........................79 During the year 2,000 arrests have been made, being 2 more than the year previous. Of this number 947 were white, and 1,053 colored. 64 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. The following were the crimes and misdemeanors for which the arrests were made: OFFtNCE. Fighting. ...............',... Total. .................. j J= 31 12 9 140 61 8 17 3 i 18 37 237 O4.7 Colored. 96 32 3 ii i 254 ' 103 5 . . 179 4 14 >9 96 5 2 2$ 4i 66 97 1,053 Is o H 127 44 4 20 2 394 47 5 240 4 22 26 "3 8 3 43 78 116 IVA 2,OOO Number of lodgerswhite 372, colored 111, total 483 Number of animals impounded, ................ .199 Number of stores and dwellings found open,..... 82 Number of fires,................................ 45 Number of false alarms,........................ 3 Number of bales of Cotton found on the street unprotected,.................................. 36 During the past year twenty-one (21) privates were detailed as sanitary inspectors, who performed their duties in a thorough and satisfactory manner. Forty (40) breech-loading pistols are very much needed for the force, as those now in use by the footmen are old and unreliable. Some necessary repairs, such a,s plastering, kalsomining and painting, are needed in some of the rooms in the barracks. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 65 CASUALTIES AND CHANGES. The office of "Lieutenants of Police" was abolished by Ordinance, May 23d, 1883, on which date Lieutenant T. J. Sheftall was retired from service. The office of "Assistant Chief of Police" was created by Ordinance, May 23d, 1883, on which date John (areen was elected Assistant Chief of Police. ResignedPrivates Carroll, C., June 21st, 1883; Coffey, J, J., July 8th, 1883;. Dufour, E. A., April 25th, 1883; Heidt, J. F., April 25th, 1883; Jones, Alien, November 16th, 1882; and Sapp, J. C., January 5th, 1883. DismissedPrivates Bender, H. W., January 18th, 1883; Crowley, J., November 16th, 1883 ; Shea, J. J., July 5th, 1883 ; Warch, J., December 21st, 1883. DiedPrivate McGuire, Thomas, October 9th, 1883. AppointedPrivates Shea, J. J., January 12th, 1883; Bender, H. W., January 19th, 1883; Crowley, J., December 1st, 1883; Morgan, H. M., Neve, J. C., Bogers, J. P., Walsh, M. S., and Warch, J., on the 1st of October, 1883; Foley, M. J., November 2d, 1883; Johnson, W. M., November 20th, 1883; and Mathis, A. A., December 24th, 1883. RECAPITULATION. By office created by Ordinance, May 23d, 1883,.... 1 Appointed Privates,..............................11 By office vacated by Ordinance, May 23d, 1883,.... 2 Resigned,........................................ 6 Dismissed, ....................................... 4 Died, ............................................ 1 Gain, ...............................12 Loss, ...............................13 Loss, ......................... 1 Caused by reduction of commissioned officers from three to two. 66 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. ESVEXTORY OF CITY PROPERTY AT POLICE BARRACKS. 42 Springfield Rifles, cal. 45. 20 Smith & Wesson's Pistols, cal. 45. 83 Colt's Pistols. 62 Pistol Holsters. 42 Bayonets and Scabbards. 42 Cartridge Boxes. 1000 Ronnds of Rifle Ammunition. 500 Rounds of Pistol Ammunition. 61 Waist Belts. 120 Clubs. 61 Whistles. 78 Rattles. 61 Fire Keys. 16 Saddle Horses. 1 Wagon Horse. 17 Halters. 16 Bridles and Bits. 16 MeClellan Saddles. 16 Saddle Cloths. 16 Pairs of Spurs. 1 Wagon. 1 Harness. 1 Feed Cutter. '6 Curry Combs. 3 Brashes. 1 Rake. 1 Shovel. 60 Iron Bedsteads. 59 Mattresses. 59 Pillows. 55 Bed Spreads. 65 Spittoons. 3 Water Coolers. 12 Brooms. 6 Buckets. 6 Scrubbing Brushes. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 67 10 Chairs. 1 Hat Rack. 24 Towels. 2 Wardrobes. 39 Blankets. 7 Tables. 7 Desks. 1 Clock. 2 Stoves. 12 Tin Plates. 2 Cups. UNIFORMS OX HAND NOT IN HANDS OF THE MEN. 1 Overcoat. 16 Sack Coats. 8 pairs Pants. 10 Frock Coats. I am, Sir, Very Respectfully, R. H. AITDEESON, Chief of Police. CITY MARSHAL'S REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 71 BEPOBT OF CITY MARSHAL. CITY MARSHAL'S OFFICE, SAVANNAH, DECEMBER 31st, 1883. Son. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor: SIRI herewith respectfully submit my report for the year 1883: SIDEWALKS. I have given much time and attention to the sidewalks in the city. They are in as good condition as can be expected from the present system. I have served notices where repairs have been necessary, and lot owners who have not complied with the notice I have reported to Council, and carried out instructions received. GROUND RENTS. All lots reported to this office by City Treasurer, in arrears for ground rent, have been re-entered in compliance with ordinance. MARKET. I have collected from rent of stalls $4,364.25, and for rent of stores $2,651.10, making a total of $7,015.35. I have collected during the year $59,007.77, as follows : Real Estate, 1875......................... $ 86 40 Real Estate, 1876......................... 124 44 Real Estate, 1877......................... 180 31 Real Estate, 1878......................... 355 53 72 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Real Estate, 1879......................... $1,449 22 Real Estate, 1880......................... 3,000 68 Real Estate, 1881......................... 4,670 08 Real Estate, 1882..............'.......... 22,673 52 Real Estate, 1883......................... 210 00 Stock, 1882......................... 2588 Specific, 1880......................... 5000 Specific, 1881......................... 200 00 Specific, 1882......................... 81000 Specific, 1883......................... 7,328.00 Shipping, 1882....................;.... 1650 Vehicles, 1882......................... 12000 Privy vaults ............................. 117 97 Sale of horse and mule ................... 84 00 Sale of one mule......................... 50 00 Sale of one cow from pound............... 5 60 Sale of city lots.... ..................... 8,70682 Market stalls................. .4,364 25 Market stores ................. 2,651 10 7,015 35 Interest........................... r ...... 749 67 Advertising.............................. 146 00 Fees.... ................................ 83200 $59,007 77 I have the honor to be Your obedient servant, L. L. GOODWIN, City Marshal. CITY SURVEYOR'S REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 7ii EEPOET OF CITY SUBVEYOB, CITY STJBVETOK'S OFFICE, SAVANNAH, DECEMBER 31st, 1883. Hon. Rufus E. Lesler, Mayor : DEAR SIRI respectfully submit the following report of operations in the departments .enumerated during the past year: Streets and Lanes, Parks and Squares Alderman HAMLET, Chairman. Dry Culture Alderman MELL, Chairman. Docks and Wharves Alderman HANLEY, Chairman. Health and Cemetery Alderman WILDER, Chairman. STREETS AND LANES. The force employed at the commencement of the year consisted of: Laborers ........................................ 27 Teamsters.......................................14 Pavers .......................................... 3 Stableman .......:.............................. 1 Foremen of gangs................................ 2 Total, .....................................37 This force was reduced February 1st to: Laborers ...................... .................12 Teamsters .......................................12 Pavers .......................................... 2 Stableman ...................................... 1 Total, .....................................27 76 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. On the 15th of October six men were added for the purpose of cutting down trees throughout the city. PAVING. The paving of Dray ton Street had been completed to the south side of Bolton Lane. The work was recommenced May 23, and the paving finished to a point twenty feet south of Duffy Street, a distance of seven hundred and ninety feet. The width of the street from curb to curb is twenty-eight feet. Two crossings were paved at New Houston Street intersection, twelve feet in width and forty-four feet in length each. Four new catch-basins (with pipe connections) with the Duffy Street sewer were made and furnished with four cast iron covers and eight crossing plates. Twelve hundred running feet of 3x12 plank were used for curbing the s^des of the street; total number of square yards paved 2,704. At the intersection of South Broad and McAllister Streets there have been laid down for the purpose of protecting new cesspools built at this point 180 square yards of pavement. Repairs to pavements have been made in the following streets: Bay Street.......................1,200 square yards Congress Street, near Market.f .... 276 square yards Canal Street.................. ... 150 square yards River Street...................... 300 square yards Randolph Street.................. 60 square yards Reynolds Street.... ............. 118 square yards West Broad Street............... 350 square yards East Broad Street................ 300 square yards Wheaton Street .................. 240 square yards Whitaker Street, near River...... 137 square yards Total.........................3,121 square yards Two thousand feet of crossing stone were purchased for the purpose of replacing the decayed plank in the ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 77 crossings along the line of Whitaker Street, commencing at Liberty Street. This work has now been completed to Gaston Street. Number of yards taken up and repaved, 888. Sixteen new crossings have been put down in different parts of the city833 yards. RECAPITULATION. In new work ..................... 3,717 square yards In repairs.,... .. ... ............ 4,009 square yards Total ................ ....... .. .7,726 square yards SEWERS. The wood sewer, extending from Randolph to McAllister Street, in South Broad, owing to the decay of the planking, gave way in a number of places and has been rebuilt. The eastern end has been finished with a large brick catch-basin, and a brick outlet twenty feet in length. Three corner catch-basins, connecting with this sewer have been constructed at 'the corner of McAllister Street and Clifford Street. The old brick sewer in Whitaker Street, between Bay Street and the river, became undermined and gave way near the river. A retaining wall, twentyfour feet in length and ten feet in depth, was built at the wharf front, and a double row of sheet piling driven. Shortly afterwards the sewer again gave way near the top of the bluff, but, after considerable labor and difficulty was rebuilt. In all about eighty feet of the sewer was rebuilt. The branch sewer on the west side of the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad, at the Bolton Street intersection, was damaged by the giving way of the embankment. A retaining wall-was built for its protection twenty-one feet in length and ten feet in height. 78 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. A very large nnmber of breaks have occurred during the year in the various sewers of the city at points of connection with private sewers. About seventy of these breaks have been repaired, causing frequent interruptions to the regular work of the street force. 1 would again urge that this work be done by the city, as suggested in last year's report. BKIJiGES. The bridge across the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal, at Canal Street, has been thoroughly repaired. The piles forming the supports of the bridge have b^en cut off below the water level and new frame-work erected. All the joists and flooring have been renewed. The structure is now as good as new. The bridge across the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal, leading to the Savannah Brick Manufacturing Company's yard, has been replanked, as also a small bridge on the north side of the canal on the same road. Two bridges on Gwinnett Street, between the Bilbo Canal and Waters' Road, have been rebuilt. One hundred and fifty-two small bridges in the street crossings have been put down. GBADIXG. Hall Lane, between Abercorn and Habersham Streets, has been filled and graded, the filling being about four feet in depth. The material for the above was obtained from Henry Street, between Price and Lincoln, regulating the grade on Henry Street. The lanes of the city have received the customary work in the grading down and removal of the yearly accumulations of ashes, cinders, etc. Heavy washes occurred in many of the streets sloping east and west from Randolph and West Broad Streets during the heavy rain of the 7th of August; the ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 79 whole street and lane force were employed for a considerable time in making the necessary repairs. The following streets have been macadamized with gravel: Congress, between Barnard and Drayton; Bryan, between. Bull and Johnson Square; Bull, from Bay to Johnson Square, and St. Julian, from the Market to Johnson Square. REMOVAL OF DEAD TREES. An extra force of six men commenced work October 15th cutting down the dead trees in various parts of the city; the work has been continued to date. PARKS AliD SQUARES. The usual work on the squares has been performed during the year. Prior to the 1st" ol November the railings were all repaired, and two men have since been employed in repainting. At this date fourteen squares have been painted. Thirty-two new benches have been added in the Park. The railing around the Park Extension has been repaired by putting down seventy-five new posts and replacing the railing wherever decayed. December 18th commenced to relay the walks with shell, no work having been done on them since they were laid out in 1871. The force employed in this department consists of three men, besides the Keeper of the Park. Two men in addition are employed in the squares for the purpose of cutting the grass where needed. DRY CULTUEE. HUTCHINSOtf ISLAND. The contract made October 27th, 1882, with Mr. Thomas Cahill, was completed in April following, and included the western line embankment, extending from 80 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. the head of Kinsey's timber boom to Back River, and is on the dividing line between the city's lands and those of Dr. J. J. Waring; from thence along Back River to the eastern end of the island, and across the eastern end to the southern front. The remainder of the embankment along the south front was built by Colonel William J. Winn, under a contract made the 26th of May at eighteen cents per cubic yard. The location is the same as that built in 1878, except that portion enclosing lands of T. L. Kinsey & Co. The new embankment surrounds the city's land only. The breaks on the south front have been strengthened by adding to the margins, forming a berm of five feet in width on each side of the breaks. Bulkheads have also been placed to the trunksthe storm of 1881 having swept away all the timber, planking and sheet piling belonging to them. The cost of the above work, as will appear from the City Treasurer's report, has been considerable. The embankments, however, are much larger than those usually built for the pro tectioh of contiguous rice lands. The material used is homogeneous and well compacted, and I believe with a moderate expenditure of money, judiciously applied yearly, the embankments will be a sure protection against any but those phenomenal hurricanes which occur at long intervals only ; but, even with these, it is not likely the damage would be very great. Bermuda grass should be planted on the top and inner slope, and the growth of weeds prevented. Shrubbery, of a suitable character, should be planted on the outer margin, and by yearly topping induced to throw out lateral branches. After a few years the growth made would, in a great measure, neutralize the force of the waves. I would respectfully .urge that the embankments across the breaks on Back River be strengthened by adding material sufficient to form a berm six or eight ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 81 feet in width on each side. It is important that two of the existing trunks be put in proper order. Slight repairs are needed to two others. BILBO CANAL AND MUSGKOVE CREEK. Both of these important drainage outlets were cleaned out early in the year. The accumulations of sand, mud and weeds in Musgrove Creek were considerable, and a force of sixteen men for six weeks were required to complete the work of removal. The ordinary working force of the department during the year has been six men with a foreman, who have been constantly employed on the ditches and canals surrounding the city. The ditch extending from the Waters' Road, south of Gwinnett Street, to the Bilbo Canal, and that extending from West Boundary Street, in rear of the Cotton Factory, to the Springfield Canal, have been side-planked. DOCKS AND WHARVES. QUARANTINE STATION. Proposals for building an additional wharf and a tramway to connect with breakwater in rear of the quarantine building were received, under resolution' of Council, February 28th, authorizing the work. The contract was awarded to Mr. Francis M. Jones for the sum of $2,700. The new wharf was built fifty feet west of the old, and is one hundred feet in length. It consists of three rows of twelve by twelve inch piles, thirty feet long. Each pile is covered with yellow metal from high water mark to a point two feet below the bed of the river. The braces and caps are of the same size as the piles. The joist are four by twelve inches, with six by twelve inch joists, at intervals of . ten feet, the whole covered with three-inch planks. Eleven fender piles, protected with yellow metal as 82 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. a defense against worms, are driven along the wharf front and securely bolted to the piles and horizontal braces. The tramway is one hundred and feet in length, and consists of two rows of piles, with diagonal braces. It was not thought necessary to protect more than half the tramway pUes or up to the shor.e line at low water. The string-pieces forming the tramway have iron rails, it being designed to use a car for the transportation of rock and sand ballast from the vessels to the breakwater. This has not yet been done, however, and the work is being performed with wheelbarrows. . The accumulation of stone a,t the breakwater during the year has been considerable, giving additional security to the buildings. WEST BROAD STREET DOCK. The eastern side of this dock, which extended out as far as the regular wharf line, has been taken down and the line drawn in so as to give additional room for small boats. An inclosed way has also been constructed, ten feet in width, for greater convenience in loading and unloading. Yerv respectfully, " JNO. B. HOWARD, City Surveyor. CHIEF FIREMAN'S REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 85 REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE SAVANNAH FIRE DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF CHIEF ENGINEER SAVANNAH FIKE DEPARTMENT, SAVANNAH, G-A., JANUARY 1st, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor of Savannah : SIRI herewith present your Honor the ninth annual report of the Savannah Fire Department for the year ending December 31st, 1883, showing the condition of the apparatus, quantity and quality of hose in use, number of horses, and in what condition they are, and other matters appertaining to the department. I am unable to give a full and detailed report as to the number of fires that have occurred, locations, losses and insurance on same, nor a detailed report of the expenditures of each company, or the whole department, as there has not been any record kept of the number of fires occurring, or any account been taken as to the expenditures of the department by those preceding me; therefore, submit to your Honor the condition of the department at the present time: GENERAL OFFICERS. One Chief Engineer, salary..... .. $1,500 per annum One Assistant, salary.............. 450 per annum One Superintendent Fire Alarm 900 per annum ENGINEERS OF ENGINES AND DRIVERS. Three Engineers, salary, each..... .$1,000 per annum Seven Regular Drivers, salary, each. 720 per annum One Extra Driver, salary........... 720 per annum 86 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. One Tillerman of Truck, salary .... 720 per annum The members comprising the volunteer force of the department are as follows: Washington Engine and Hose Company No. 1.... 30 Waver Engine and Hose Company No. 2......... 30 Bartow Engine and Hose Company No. 3........ 30 Werner Hook and Ladder Company No. 1........ 30 Mutual Protection Hose Company No. 2..... ... 15 Making grand total of members.............135 HORSES. The number of horses in use and belonging to the department are eleven; of the above number four are in a very bad condition and are under treatment and incurable, but are kept under treatment to keep them in service, as the others are failing fast. Therefore, I would respectfully recommend to your Honor that Council be petitioned to purchase four new horses for the different engines, hose carts and hook and ladder truck. In regard to the four horses now under treatment they could be disposed of to better advantage at present than in the future, or same could be used in the other city departments where so much straining and fast driving does not exist. APPARATUS OF THE DEPARTMENT. Steamers in active service................. ........ 3 Steamer in reserve .......... ............ .. .. 1 Hose carts............ ....... ..................3 Four-wheel hose carriage in reserve .... ..:.....! Four-wheel hose carriage in charge of Mutual Protection Hose Company ........ . .......... 1 All of which are in good condition except the steamer of Engine No. 3the F. S. Bartowwhich has a boiler in a very leaky condition, and, very frequently, puts out the fire in the furnace when in use and is ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 87 * now past repairing, as there has been new tubes put in said boiler so often that the tube-sheet and rivet holes in steam dome are running into each other from taking them out so often; therefore I would respectfully recommend that a new boiler be placed in said engine, or else a new engine be purchased. This engine also has a crack in the barrels of its pumps, which is eight inches in length; this, with the other defects, will not prevent the engine from performing fire service, but will be unable to stand a strain of a heavy pressure of water. The reserve engine, the J. W. Anderson, will do for light fire service, as her boiler is weak and too small to keep steam up, and also is very slow in getting up steam for heavy work. HOSE. I have in service on the three hose carts the following hose, all new: 1,650 of Maltese cross gum hose, 600 feet of cotton rubber-lined hose, making a total of 2,150 feet of hose in use. I have also on hand 1,300 feet of old gum hose, which will only stand plug pressure. I would respectfully recommend that at least 1,500 feet of new and good hose be purchased, as, after fires, the hose has to be taken off the carts and dried, particularly the cotton hose; therefore, I am obliged to leave the carts bare, as I have no hose to replace it which will stand plug pressure, and some scarcely that. ENGINE HOUSES. WASHINGTON NO. 1. The floor of this house is in a very bad condition, the horses feet sink into it from its being rotten. I would respectfully recommend that a new floor' be placed therein, and that the stalls be changed so as to be on each side of the engine and hose cart facing the front of the building. 88 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. WAVER NO. 2. Is in good condition, but the men have very poor sleeping apartments, which are up in the third story of the building, too far away for paid men to sleep. The city pays a rental of $10 per month for the use of said apartments, which are seldom used, and also pays a rental of $25 for use of engine room. This is the property of the old Germania Fire Company. I would therefore recommend that better and more suitable apartments be provided for the men at this station, and that the stalls for the horses be changed to the side of the engine and hose cart, facing front. BARTOXV NO. 3. Is in good condition, and I have made some improvements in the engine room in the way of changing all the three stalls to the side of the engine and hose cart, face front, so that the horses do not back out of the stalls nor turn around to get to the apparatus. The front gates of the stalls will be opened by electricity as soon as the machine is completed, but the work is now done by hand, and the horses are unhitched and all they require is to go forward to their place on the apparatus to be hitched up. I also made some improvement in the sleeping apartments. HOOK AND LADDER TRUCK NO. 1. These quarters need remodeling very much in the way of changing the stalls. At present the horses are kept in a stable in an outbuilding in the yard of the house. They have first to be backed out of the stalls, turned and then go through the doors into the truck room, and in there they have to be swung around to ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 89 their place under the harness which hangs over the pole, as the truck room is so narrow the horses, in taking their places, have to turn around, and, by so doing, strike their hips in swinging around to their place on the pole, causing them to be bruised, and from which effects in coming in contact by striking the side of the wall, become lame. Another great difficulty are the arches over the doors going out or coming in with the truck, frequently the Driver or Tillerman are compelled to lower their heads fully one foot so as to clear the same; sometimes the horses become excited in going out and cause the Driver and Tillerman to receive some severe bruises on their faces by coming in contact with the said arches. The sleeping apartments are in good condition, and are on the same floor as that of the Bartow Engine Company No. 3, which is better known as Fireman's Hall. WAGON AND CART. One exercise, or supply wagon, which is in very bad condition, is only an expense, for it is being continually repaired; it has no springs and is pretty old, as it is just falling to pieces and am obliged to have it repaired once or twice a month, whereas, if it was replaced by a heavy spring wagon, it would outlast the old one by at least four years. - The coal cart is in good order, excepting the tires want resetting. HARNESS. Three double sets swinging harness for engine, two single sets swinging harness for hose carts, three double sets (old style) for engines, three single sets (old style) for hose carts. These old style of harness were in bad condition, but I have had same lately put in 90 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. good order. The new style of swinging harness is very much needed for engine and hose cart No. 3, the Bartow, as the stalls for the horses have been improved, and this harness would add greatly to the promptness of this company in responding to tires, etc. LOCATION OF APPARATUS. Engine and Hose Cart No. 1, Washington. Broughton, near Houston Street. Engine and Hose Cart No. 2, Waver.Congress, near Montgomery Street. Engine and Hose Cart No. -3, Bartow.Fireman's Hall. South Broad and Abercorn Streets. Engine and Four- Wheel Hose Carriage No. 4- Held in reserve. Fireman's Hall, South Broad.and Abercorn Streets. HooTf and Ladder Truck No. 1, Wernei:Fireman's Hall. South Broad and Abercorn Streets. Mutual Protection Hose Company.Hand hose carriage. Henry, near Whita.ker Street. Wagon, supply and coal cart are kept at headquarters, Fireman's Hall, South Broad and Abercorn Streets. To increase the facOities and the efficiency of the Fire Department, as the city is rapidly increasing in a direction where there is no fire apparatus protection, and not sufficient water and fire alarm protection, would respectfully recommend that eight additional firemen be appointed to the paid force of the department, as at present, there are nine hours out of every twenty-four when there are but two men in each engine house, and in the Hook and Ladder Company house there is but one man in the house, the other being at meals. The last two or three fires we have had occurred during meal hours, and if the occasion presented itself when all the companies were ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH 91 compelled to wait for the return of that one man from each company without the engineers, the engine drivers, hose cart drivers, hook and ladder driver or tillerman, the apparatus could not reach the fire, as strangers are not allowed to drive them for fear of accidents, for which the city would likely suffer damages. These additional men could then be formed into a floor watch at night, and, in connection with the present force, would add greatly to the promptness in going to fires, as the horses could be hitched up and ready for use and the men off watch asleep would be able to get dressed and be ready to accompany the apparatus when in readiness. Also the locating of a driver with a one-horse hose carriage and a small hook and ladder truck with one horse and driver at the southern portion of the city, placed in charge of the Mutual Protection Hose Company. This apparatus cauld be purchased for a very small sum by altering the hose carriage now* in their possession, which would not then cost over $500, except for horses and harness. By this means we would have two hook and ladder trucks, which if the one now in use should break down, we have no other to replace it, and it would save wear and tear of the present truck now in use, and also the horses. Then there would be one or two engines and two hose carts and one hook and ladder truck in the business portion of the city if a fire should occur in the southern part of the city. FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. In addition to the three new alarm boxes recommended by the Superintendent of the Fire Alarm I would respectfully recommend that three more boxes be purchased and placed: One on the north side of Bay Street, between Boxes 12 and 7; one on the north side of Bay Street, between boxes 6 and 7, for the 92 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. benefit of the shipping and warehouse interests under the bluff, as oftentimes the apparatus have passed the fire going to boxes 6, 7 or 12, and the fire would be in between the last mentioned boxes. For further particulars of the fire alarm, see report of the Superintendent. Yours respectfully, ADOLPH FERNANDEZ, Chief Engineer Savannah Fire Department. FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 95 EEPOET OF SUPERINTENDENT OF FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH, SAVANNAH, GA., DECEMBER 31st, 1883. Adolph Fernandez, Esq., Chief Engineer Savannah Fire Department: DEAR SIRI have the honor to submit the following report of the Fire Alarm Telegraph for the year ending December 31st, 1883: The alarm is now in good working order, and has been since it was overhauled as ordered by City Council. The expense of the battery has been reduced fully one-fourth by the wires being perfectly insulated, the same having been tested by an electrician after I had finished the repairs, .and since which time everything connected with the alarm has worked in a satisfactory manner. Owing to the vast improvement going on in the outskirts of the city, and the distance being so great to the nearest boxes (in addition to the boxes now in use) I would again respectfully recommend the placing of one box in the neighborhood of West Broad and Henry Streets, another in the neighborhood of Whitaker and Anderson, one in the neighborhood of Price and Hall Streets. It would be a great benefit, as it would enable citizens or police in said localities to give an alarm much earlier than they can do at present, thereby getting the department out in much quicker time. Very respectfully, J. W. JONES, Superintendent Fire Alarm Telegraph. 96 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. FIRE ALAKM TELEGRAPH PROPERTY. The following is an inventory of Fire Alarm Telegraph property on. hand: Alarm boxes............................ ........ 26 Station No. 3, Police Barracks................... 1 Large gongs ................................... 7 Small gongs ............ ....................... 3 Call bell.......... ..... .................... 1 Cells of battery, complete.......................117 Miles of wire, about ............................ 16 Repeaters, set of.... ........................ .... 1 Striking machine ............................... 1 Climbers, pair of................................ 1 Pulleys, set of.................................. 1 Hand vices ..................................... 3 Flyers, pair of.......... ....................... 1 Hatchet ............... ....... .......... 1 Saw........ ................................. 1 Screw driver............... ................... 1 Shovel ........... .......... v ..... ........ 1 On hand, not ia use: Battery jars. .... ......... ....... ........ 50 Coppers ........... ............................ 60 Magnets ....................................... 3 Small gong ......... .......................... 1 Battery jars, that are no use for our present system, about ........... ............................ 26 WATER WORKS REPORT, ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 99 EEPOBT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SAVANNAH WATER WORKS, SAVANNAH, JANUARY 10th, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor of Savannah : SIRI respectfully report the following as the workings of the Water Works Department under my superintendence for the*last year past, with a schedule of material, stock and tools on hand at the commencement of the new year: PUMPING MACHINERY. The workings of both pumps at alternate times have been continuous, with no accidents, and but slight repairs, performing their duties satisfactorily, having delivered directly into the distributing mains one billion one hundred and sixty millions seven hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and ninetyseven (1,160,733,397) gallons of water under a maximum pressure of eighty (80) pounds at the works, equivalent to a column of water one hundred and eighty-five (185) feet high, and, at the tower in Franklin Square of sixty-five (65) pounds, or elevation of one hundred and fifty (150) feet. This difference being caused by its elevation above the site of the works of twenty (20) feet and fractions through two miles of principal twenty-four (24) inch main. The tower has been closed off from the mains, kept filled and automatically arranged to deliver its contents in case of stopping of pumping engines from accident or to adjust parts that may have become deranged. The actual cost in delivering this large quantity of 100 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. water sums up twelve thousan/1 six hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-one cents ($12,625.91), paid for full two thousand five hundred and fourteen (2,514) cords of wood, salaries of engineer, fireman, oils, waste, repairs and horse feed. BOILERS Are in good order. The sum of three hundred dollars' ($300) has been expended for one set of furnace bars and the substituting of cast-iron linings for furnace walls, in lieu of special fire brick placed there by contractors, which proved very deficient, and had to be renewed at various times. SITE AND BUILDINGS. The engine, boiler and mill house are in good condition. Roofs will require a coat of paint, and ventilators to engine and boiler house become a necessity during the extreme hot weather of the summer months. The engineers and fireman passed the summer months with occasional slight fevers, thus proving the situation at the works much more healthy than from its former reputation we were led to expect. New improvements have been added during the year, viz.: One hundred and twenty-nine (129) lineal feet of old wharf has been raised four (4) logs and fastened to old ties with iron bolts, splicing, capping, piling, and covering new wharf sixty-three (63) feet long and twenty-four (24) feet wide, removing old boilers and placing them in position at new works, connecting them up and in operation, closets and oil tanks in boiler house, bath room tub, new stable, removing house purchased from P. A. Exley and new mill house, wood sheds, completing repairs on outbuildings, inclosing the whole site of twenty-five acres in a picket fence, grading and ditching roadway, mule, ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 101 wagon, dump cart, three sets of harness, furniture for Superintendent's house, furniture for engine r clearing up grounds, draining and tilling clay WATER SUPPLY. As far as is evident, without critical chemic analysis, the water is free from all polluting matter. A very simple filter, abstracting the coloring matter and a liquid as clear and pure as spring water, which, in the ordinary sugar test, shows no evidence whatever of pollution; from observations, daily made, fail to find any floating matter, such as carcasses, rotten vegetables, discoloration by drainage, or other cause of contamination. In the month of September past, for twenty-four hours, the water was unpalatable, being quite brackish; this was owing to a low stage of tide in the river and the sea water reaching to near the city. STREET MAINS. Laboring under the great disadvantage of distributing mains of inferior capacity has been the cause of frequent complaints from consumers, which could be only remedied by the addition of larger mains. This Council has liberally provided for in appropriating a sufficient sum for a sixteen inch main to connect with twenty-four inch main at Montgomery and Bryan Streets, through Bryan to Abercorn, and south to Anderson, west on Anderson to Whitaker, with ten inch main connecting with our new twelve inch main at Whitaker Street, connecting all lateral mains of four and six inch with sixteen inch. Favorable contracts have been made for all material, and should no delay occur in delivery, will, no doubt, be laid, connected up and completed by 1st of April. This additional distributing capacity will give, no 102 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. doubt, general satisfaction to consumers and prevent any just cause of complaint. WASTE. The waste of water from leakage and extravagant use by others by allowing taps to run incessantly, has become the source of great annoyance, contracting a heavy extra expense in the motive power, and should be corrected by the rigid enforcement of the ordinances now existing and appertaining to the same. In some communities a fine of $5, backed by an execution against the premises upon information and proof of dereliction, and service of water shut off, and is not allowed to flow again until fines and shut off expenses have been paid. Such communities have reduced their pumping expenses twenty-five and thirty per cent. EXTENSION OF MAINS. During the past year there have been extension to distributing mains 3,000 lineal feet of six inch, as follows: On Sims Street, from West Broad to Wilson, 750 feet On Harris Street, from West Broad to Purse, 450 feet On Charlton Street, from West Broad to Purse ............. . ................. 450 feet On Gwinnett Street, from Drayton to Lincoln . .................................. 750 feet On Bolton Street, from Jefferson to West Broad .................................. 600 feet Total................................ .3,000 feet Giving a total of twenty six and one-quarter (26J) miles of sixteen, twelve, six and four inch and fraction over two miles of twenty-four inch main from works to tower, a large proportion of which have been in the ground in use since the year 1854. Ii* tapping ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 103 frequently find weak points, not sufficient metal remaining ,tb secure the tap, and often a backing of stone or iron required to secure it. . . FIRE HYDRANTS. There are now two hundred and sixty-four fire hydrants in good order placed regularly on the distributing mains. Five new hydrants have been placed in position at the following points during the last year: On Sims, near Walker; Charlton, near Purse; on Harris, near Price; on Gwinnett, corner Abercorn; on Bolton, corner Montgomery; and, also, nine public or free hydrants. Twenty new fire hydrants will be placed on line of the new main and extensions on Hall and Grwinnett Streets. CESSPOOLS AND SEWERS. There have been no new cesspools built during the past year, and repairs have not been extensive. The attendance has been regular, being kept free from polluting matter and flushed by the free use of water nightly. The sewers have been kept in clean condition flushed by a system of stop-valves attached to water mains, which are. opened daily in different sections of the city. PUBLIC FOUNTAINS Have secured attention, and will require refittings of overflow pipe of larger dimensions to prevent discharge from basins where full jet is on. .CENSUS. During the year a census of water consumers and fixtures have been made, many irregularities discovered and corrected, by which the revenue was 104 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. sensibly increased, as well as enabling the City Treasurer to obtain a correct acconnt of consumers, water fixtures and rates, and to adjust charges heretofore in dispute. METERS. The many applications for water by large consumers', who, not able to give the required quantity for use, but the probable quantity, should be required to furnish a meter, and pay for the consumption of water by the gallon, would be more satisfactory to the consumer and the department. RUNNING EXPENDITURES OP THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT. There has been expended for the running, of this department, including ordinary and extraordinary expenses, as follows: Running account.............. ........ $13,922 87 Repairs account..... .................... 67923 Extension account.................. ..... 2,936 82 Connections account................ ..... 31469 Cesspools account........ .............. 147 91 Fountains account........................ 11 25 Pump hydrants account.................. 66 72 Incidentals account................. ..... 2065 Salaries account....................... .. 3,296 62 improvement account .................... 6,183 09 $26,579 85 STOCK ON HAND DECEMBER 31ST, 1883. 19 lengths 24-inch pipe. 13 lengths 12-inch pipe. 12 length*? 6-inch pipe. 3 short engths 6-inch pipe. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 105 19 lengths 4-inch pipe. 1 length 36-inch pipe. 1 length -16-inch pipe. 2 24-inch sleeves. 2 16-inch sleeves. 2 16-inch clamp sleeves. 3 12-inch clamp sleeves. 7 6-inch clamp sleeves. 1 4-inch clamp sleeves. 7 12-inch sleeves. 6 4-inch sleeves. 1 3-way 24xl6-inch branches. 6 3-way 12x6-inch branches. 1 3-way 12x3-inch branch. 1 3-way 8x8-inch branch. 4 3-way 6x6-inch branches. 1 3-way 6x4-inch branch. 2 12-inch plugs. 6 6-inch plugs. 6 4-inch plugs. 6 4-inch valves. 1 Woods' patent fire hydrant. 3 McLean's fire hydrants. 7 fire hydrant bends. 1 4x6 reducer Y. 1 20x18 reducer. 2 6x12 reducers. 5 valve boxes. I hand cart. 3 oil tanks. 3 5-gallon oil cans. 2 kerosene oil cans. II cans, various. 2 barrels valve oil. li barrels machine oil. barrel kerosene oil. 11J oil barrels. 2 gallons lard oil. 106 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 1 buggy. 1 wagon. 1 cart. 1 mule. 1 horse. 2 sets buggy harness. 1 set wagon harness. 1 set cart harness. 1 boat and oars. 250 cords of wood. 25 tons of coal. 1,000 gray bricks. 60 fire bricks. 1 barrel of lime. 3 lengths fire hose. 1 length old fire hose. 2 lengths small hose. 1 hose pipe. 3 lead furnaces. 4 lead ladles. 1 clay box. 6 sets caulking tools. 6 D point chisels. 4 yarning irons. 2 mattocks. 10 water buckets. 1 hand saw. 2 valve wrenches. 1 large pall wrench. 21 socket wrenches. 6 spanner wrenches. 2 monkey wrenches. 3 key wrenches. 1 platform scales. 33 shovels. 4 picks. 2 axes. 18 wheelbarrows. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 107 3 crowbars. 2 chisel crowbars. 1 scythe. 2 brooms. 1 small anvil. 1 old forge. 2 2-ton deferential purchases. 11-ton deferential purchase. 2 6x8 double blocks and falls. 25 iron wrenches. 12 pairs pipe tongs. 2 pairs forge tongs. 25 dies. 2 pipe cutters. 45 taps. 8 old files. 1 pipe vise. 1 jaw bent vise. 2 ratchet braces. 13 drills. 2 Rose bits. 5 augurs. 8 cape chisels. 2 flat chisels. 1 crosscut saw. 1 screw clamp. 1 swivel. 1 hand hammer. 3 sledges. 1 augur brace. 6 augur bits. 2 screw drivers. 1 pair shears. 1 scroll saw. 1 pair compasses. 1 pair callipers. 1 spirit level. 1 spokeshave. 108 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 2 hand lanterns. 2 roller bars. 2 wooden trusses. 1 glass case for tools. 1 Edison* register. 1 pump in well. 1 net for well. 1 brush for well. 1 basin for well. 3 6 inch wrought pipe flanges. 2 service bars. 3 hoes. 2 rakes. 3 coal shovels. 1 step ladder. 2 light ladders. 2 benches and platforms. 1 syphon. 1 water trough. 1 grindstone. 2 small tackles. 2 chain slings. 1 long chain. 1 wood mallet. 2 wood chisels. 1 wood gouge. 1 solder iron. 2 tube brush rods. 1 tube brush. 1 clock. 4 bracket lamps. 4 glass hand lamps. 112-inch clamp pattern. 2 plug patterns. 2 12-inch grooved pulleys. 1 pile driver trip. 4 P. engine wheels. 1 F. engine gooseneck. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 109 2 wood handspikes. 40 pounds pig lead. 1 bag hair. 6 pounds tallow. I 20-inch flange elbow. II feet 4-inch wrought pipe. 8 feet 3-inch wrought pipe. 11 feet 2-inch wrought pipe. 1 coil composition pipe. 1 set wheelbarrow wheels and iron. 14 pump valves. 19 air pump valves. 43 pump springs. 6 pump straps. 24 sets screws. 18 screw handles. 1 roll felting. 8 pump springs. 6 brass pump studs. 1 paper lamp black. 1 paper black lead. 1 paper glue. 1 paper red lead. J paper brass 2-inch screws. i paper brass 3-ineh screws. 1 paper brass f-inch screws. 8 6-inch carriage bolts. 6 3 inch carriage bolts. 1 2-foot rule. 1 tape measure. 1 -inch brass cock. 1 roll 4-inch rubber belting. &J rolls metallic packing. 1 piece of f inch rubber packing. 1 piece ^-inch rubber packing. 6 feet ^-inch rubber packing. 1 piece i-inch rubber packing. 1 water cooler. 110 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 1 wash basin. 1 doz cups. 1 scrub brush. 1 scrub swab. 1 stationary bath tub. 3 spittoons. 6 floor rugs. 2 arm chairs. 1 table. 1 wardrobe. 10 water glasses. Respectfully, A. N. MILLER, Superintendent Savannah Water Works. JAILER'S REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 113 REPORT OF THE JAILER. JAILER'S OFFICE, SAVANNAH, GA., DECEMBER 31, 1883. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor : SIRI have the honor to report, that on the 19th day of September, 1859, I entered upon my duties as Jailer of Chatham County. My duties in that capacity ceases on the fifth day of January, 1884, in consequence of the Legislature having passed an Act consolidating the offices of Sheriff and Jailer. During my terms in office I have had in my custody thousands of prisoners, and, I am pleased to be able to state, that there has not been a single escape. General good order and discipline has prevailed during my administration. I think it unnecessary to say very much in regard to the dilapidated condition of the present Jail structure. I sincerely hope that our worthy Commissioners will speedily select a site and build a new prison. I have given my personal attention to the Sanitary regulations, and .they are as perfect as it is possible for them to be in the present structure. The prison has been free from all contagious diseases, even during the time of our greatest pestilence. The number of prisoners committed to Jail during year 1883, for offenses, was as follows: FROM CHATHAM COUNTY. Murder.... .... . .. ........................ 12 Assault with intent to Murder.................. 44 Burglary .............. .................... 24 114 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Bastardy........ .. ..................... 8 Accessory to Robbery......................... 32 Perjury..................... ...... ......... 12 Bobbery...................................... 4 Larceny ................ .............. 155 Rape.................... .................... 1 Assault with intent to commit Rape............ 3 Seduction ............ ....................... 3 Forgery.... ...... .................... 5 Attempting to commit Burglary................ 1 Adultery........................... ......... 4 Mayhem ................. ................ 1 Misdemeanors from County of Chatham........ 410 Misdemeanors from Mayor's Court............. 336 Felony from Mayor's Court.................... 10 Larceny after Trust........ .................. 21 Lunacy.... ............... ................ 24 Possessory Warrant ............ ............ 1 State Witnesses.............................. 7 White .......... .... ...... ....274 Black.............................824 Total........................ ............. .1,098 From United States........................... 25 From Bryan County .......,....:............. 16 From Effingham County..... ................. 15 From Ware County........................... 8 From Wayne County..................... ... 1 From Liberty County......................... 5 From Appling County......................... 2 From Charlton County........................ 1 From Emanuel County........................ 1 From Dodge County .......................... 1 From South Carolina.......................... 1 Total committed in year 1883........... .... 1,174 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 115 Wblte. black. Total. January.......... 22 65 87 February......... 23 68 91 March.... ....... 28 60 88 April.. .... ...... 21 79 100 May.............. 17 65 82 June.... ......... 25 69 94 July ..... ..... 25 68 83 August.. ........ 16 110 126. September........ 19 85 104 October........... 29 61 80 November........ 30 52 82 December...... ..19 62 81 Total ..... 274 824 1,098 Prisoners from United States and other counties not in distribution.......... 761,174 To the above figures add thirty prisoners in Jail on January 1, 1883, brought over from year 1882................................. 30 Showing grand total of prisoners cared for during year 1883 . ..................... 1,204 The decrease was seventy prisoners as compared with 1882. Of the number committed to Jail during the year there are now: On the Chain-gang serving sentence ........... 67 In Jail....................................... 26 Discharged................................... 1,111 Total..................................... 1,204 AMOUNTS DUE TO CITY OF SAVANNAH TO 5TH JANUAKY, 1884, INCLUSIVE. Appling County...... ...................$ 169 50 Bryan County........................... 847 60 Chatham County................. ...... 1,924 30 116 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Charlton County.......... .............. $13010 Dodge County..... ..................... 720 Emannel County........: ............... 9760 Effingham County....................... 709 70 Liberty County.......................... 109 00 Ware County......... .................. 143 40 Wayne County.......................... 261 80 United States............................ 109 70 Total................................ $4,509 90 It having been asserted before and after the passage of the Act consolidating the offices of Sheriff and Jailer,"that such a measure would be a great saving to the city, I would invite a perusal of the City Treasurer's account with the Jail for the years 1881,1882 and 1883. Since the passage of the Act the city has derived thousands of dollars from the Jail over and above all of its expenses. Of the prisoners committed during the year 1883 there were 336 committed from the Mayor's Court, and maintained while in Jail at the expense of the city. Very respectfully, WARING RUSSELL, Jailer Chatham County. CLERK OF MARKET'S REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 119 EEPOET OF OLEEK OF MAEKET. SAVANNAH, JANUARY 1, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor : DEAR SIRI have the honor to submit herewith a statement of Market fees, collected through this office for the year ending December 31st, 1883, and turned into the City Treasury : Total amount collected................... .$10,765 65 Average monthly collections...... .$897 13 Average weekly collections........ 207 03 I have the honor to be Tour humble servant, WM. H. BORDLEY, ClerTc of Market. HEALTH OFFICER'S REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 123 EEPORT OF HEALTH OFFICER, OFFICE OF HEALTH OFFICER, SAVANNAH, DECEMBER 31, 1883. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor : SIRI have the honor very respectfully to submit this my report of the Health Office for the year ending December 31st, 1883: The Board of Sanitary Commissioners was organized for the year with the following membership, viz.: Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor and ex offido Chairman; Aldermen J. R. Hamlet and D. R. Thomas; Citizens J. F. Wheaton, J. R. Saussy, Wm. Duncan, M. D., and J. T. McFarland, M. D., Health Officer and ex officio Secretary. The requirements of the ordinance regarding the holding of regular meetings have been closely observed and special convenings have been assembled whenever deemed necessary. To enter into detail of the actions of the Board during the year would far exceed the space which this report is expected to occupy, consequently I will not attempt it. Nuisances known, or complaint of, have been promptly abated when the ordinances authorized the Board so to do. The sanitary condition of the city and suburbs has been zealously watched and improved whenever feasible. At this point I would call attention to the defective drainage on Waters' Road and Lovers' Lane. For years past the ditches along these roads have been dug deeper each year, seemingly with disregard to natural water shed and le'vel; the consequence is that the rain fall is forced to seek unnatural outlet, and what is not conveyed off remains in J 124 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. pools to be absorbed into the soil. During the past summer these ditches were frequently reported as nuisances by members of the Sanitary Board. I would most respectfully recommend that the drainage of this section be improved during the present winter. The general condition of the suburban drainage is excellent. Privy vaults have continued to be sources of constant complaint. The department of the city having this charge upon them have been active in discharge of their duty; still these vaults are reported as nuisances as frequently as ever. It is impossible to keep these vaults free from offensiveness for any length of time disinfecting only temporarily relieves the nuisance and complaints regarding them will continue to pour in until easy sewer connection is afforded citizens and compulsory abandonment of privy vaults within the city limits ordered by the municipal authorities. Another vital reason for the abandonment of these vaults is the benefit that would be derived in purity to well and pump water, which is now unquestionably seriously contaminated. The year has passed without a single case of suspicious fever, and with decidedly less of the usual nervous and false reports which are generally gratuitously circulated in our community. General good health has prevailed, as is shown by the annexed mortuary report. The ratio of deaths of the white population is favorable, and will compare well with other cities of the United States. The death rate of the blacks and colored is large; it is equally so in all cities of the South where this race is congregated in large numbers, and is uncontrollable, very many of them dying in poverty and want, without having applied for relief or medical treatment. By ordinance, the duties of the Health Officer was increased this year to the extent of issuing all burial permits, this has brought the differential race death ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 1 25 more forcibly to my observation; the fact is deplorable, and I regret not being able to offer any suggestion to remedy the same. The ratio derived by the consolidation of the deaths of whites and blacks, as used by compilers of vital statistics, is unjust in the extreme, and damaging to the interests of this city. QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. The quarantine regulations of this port have been enforced to the letter and spirit of the Code. It is not out of place here to state that the identical Code of Quarantine Regulations has been enforced at the port of Charleston, S. C., the Boards of Health of Savannah and Charleston having, after consultation, mutually adopted same. As year after year passes without an invasion of yellow fever, some citizens of this community become more and more clamorous for a lightening of the quarantine regulations, seemingly forgetting epidemic visitations of the past. The stringency of these regulations at this port has been severely criticised during the past summer; nevertheless, the Board of Sanitary Commissioners, after ceaseless investigation, determined that the welfare and the health of the community at large demanded a rigid enforcement of regulations as now published. I have visited the Station several times during the year, as prescribed by the ordinances. The building and wharfage are in good condition, the stability of each being much improved by the additional accumulation of ballast. I would suggest that the remnant of building upon the quarantine island, which was erected by the Treasury Department of the United States, be purchased by the city and converted, after repairs, into a ward for the accommodation of cases of contagious diseases which may be brought to the Station during the time of closure of the Sapelo 126 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Quarantine Station. Such extra ward is required, as isolation of such cases cannot be enforced with the present accommodation afforded. During the year the wharfage room at the Station has been increased one berth, now giving accommodation for two vessels to discharge ballast at the same time. .To the new wharf a tramway has been built, and it was intended to supply same with a dump-car, to facilitate unballasting, but up to this time no car has been there placed, and the work is accomplished still by wheelbarrows. This slow process does very well during the summer months, when vessels from infected or suspected latitudes are detained in quarantine fifteen days, but I think it unnecessarily impedes commerce during the winter and spring months, when detention in quarantine of such vessels depends solely upon the time taken in unballasting. I feel that the facilities now afforded these vessels are inadequate, and respectfully suggest that a tramway be built from the old wharf, and that both tramways be supplied with dump-cars. The facilities of communication between the city and Quarantine Station having been unsatisfactory in the past, and the impracticability of serviceable telephone connection having been decided, the Board of Sanitary Commissioners appointed a boatman to ply between the city and Station, whose duty it has been to take to the Station, at any time when ordered, provisions, letters, etc., and bring to the city any mail matter entrusted to him by the Quarantine Officer. The service of the boatman has been satisfactory, and has prevented indiscriminate visiting at the Station. K"o case of epidemic or contagious disease has been either brought to the Station or occurred on board of any vessel while undergoing quarantine. The Sapelo Quarantine Station was open from May 1st until November 1st, inclusive, the latter and much the greater portion of time under management of the ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 127 Marine Hospital Service of the United States. The keeping open of this Station, especially during the summer months of each year is, I think, of vital importance to this community, both in a sanitary and commercial point of view. The very fact of having a vessel lying at the month of this harbor, with yellow fever on board, would materially detract from the commerce of the port, as it would be asserted and believed that the disease was prevailing in the city. I therefore suggest that all means be pursued by the city authorities which will insure the continuance of this quarantine refuge. While cities closely connected with Savannah by railroads and steamers have suffered severely from small-pox during the year, I am pleased to report that but two (2) cases of this disease have appeared in this city during the year 1883, these being importations one from Baltimore in the month' of February, the other from Jacksonville in .the month of June. These cases were promptly removed to the Small-Pox Hospital, along with all bedding and clothing supposed to have been subjected to the infection. The spread of the disease was only prevented, in my judgment, by the prompt isolation of the cases and the burning of suspected articles of bedding and clothing. During the winter months of the year a.large number of persons, principally blacks and colored, were gratuitously vaccinated, the city authorities furnishing virus, and the physicians of Savannah generously giving their service free of charge. I cannot place too much stress upon the importance of vaccination being made as general as possible each year. In this community, with so large a negro population, it is doubly essential that the subject of vaccination be kept in active agitation; whenever small pox has been epidemic in the City of Savannah, it has been so caused by the colored portion of the population, who will conceal cases of this disease in their households and freely 128 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. mingle with the populace. A large portion of this class of population are unprotected by vaccination and cannot, or will not pay for it, no matter how moderate a fee be charged. I therefore suggest that the city authorities, for the protection of the community at large, offer gratuitous vaccination during the winter of 1884 to all those who are unable to pay for same. I report the Small-Pox Hospital in good condition. In accordance with ordinance, I have given medical and surgical attention to the Paid Fire and Police Forces. I am sir, your obedient servant, J. T. McFABLAND, Health Officer. MORTUARY TABLES, MORTUARY REPORT CO o -OFSAVANNAH, GA., FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 34sT, 1883. CAUSE OF DEATH. JANUARY TO JUNE, Inclusive. t Whites. i 3 I 9 i I 8 3 2 4 i 2 2 Blacks and Colored. I i I 2 6 i i 3 i i 2 I JULY TO DKCRMBER, Inclusive. Whites. 3 i 5 2 1 I Blacks and Colored. i 2 5 i I 6 i i I i i RACE TOTAL FOR YKAR. Whites. i 6 I I 14 I I 3 a i 17 4 3 5 2 I 3 3 Blacks and Colored. 2 2 i i 7 i i 12 2 2 4 2 . I 2 2 AGGREGATE FOR YEAR. 3 8 i 2 I 21 2 I 4 2 I 29 6 5 9 4 2 4 5 *> Z a r JO w T) 0 50 H S J> K^ O JO O "1 > 25 2J S Childbed .........;......... Colic ............ ........ Convulsions, puerperal. ............ Debility .................... Diphtheria .................. Dropsy, general ................ Fever, brain .................. i 4 ii 3 25 9i3i 3 3 i i i 102 2I6i 46 1824 7 5i 10 i4 i ii I i I I I26 26 2 I6 4 2 3 34 4I3 4 I It2 I I I 16 I 37 IS 2 2 3 12 6 I I 12I323 i I i i Ii 2 IOI 3 Si II29526 37* 424i 14i 3 I2 3I 2 22 III '83* 33 2 269 17 7iI 22II72II3I i4III2 4 32ii2I3 134 44 4 II II II 23 445i 24S2 21I5233I >Z NUAL PIoS2MAYO' ?a O "1 en> <1 > ZZ>E (-" COH- MOBTUABY BBPQBT OP SAVANNAH, GA.Continued, , CAUSE OF DEATH. Gout ..................... JANUARY TO JUNE, Inclusive. Whites. 2 2 3 2 I 1 5 2 I 2 a i I 5 3 Blacks and Colored. 2 a 3 3 2 2 3 4 I I i .1 II JULY TO DF.CF.MBKR, Inclusive, Whites. i 7 i 8 13 i i 2 I 2 I I .... 3 2 Blacks and Colored. 4 3 4 3 I 4 I i I I 2 3 RACE T Y Whites. i 9 3 ii 15 i 2 6 4 i i 4 i i 2 I T 8 5 tllilM,!.!/, RACE TOTAL FOR YKAK. Whites. i 9 3 ii 15 i 2 6 4 i i 4 i i 2 I T 8 5 Blacks and Colored. 4 6 6 3 I 6 3 I 4 4 2 I 3 i 14 AGGRF.- GATF. FOR YEAR. i '3 8 21 4 3 12 7 I i 5 4 i 'i 4 2 3 4 2 22 ! Oi to 2 2 a r M 13O s g x! 0 50 O*) en ^ 2 2 I1* >*. Old age .................... 4i2I42I86627i6I I 12II47266i 134i I43ii2 11374 7i4277 169X I83336 996 14I 10i 22 9II284 142 136III 29 132 222I 27 h I Z 4 5 1 3 I > o 1 ?S* ? i >fl w 3 2 s 2 14 2 i S 6 > i *** ir* 33 11 Q A M 22z - c/> 12 > 2 <5 I > I * 1 I >z I T* 43i 23 2 CO I c MORTUARY REPORT OP SAVANNAH, GA.-Continued. OS CAUSE OF DEATH. Syphilis .................... Teething ................... Tonsilitis ................... JANUARY to JUNK, Inclusive, Whites. 2 18 4 i i i i 3 i Blacks and Colored. i 3 3 I i 2 I 2 3 I 6 6 i I 20 JULY TO DECEMBER, Inclusive. Whites. 5 i 2 I I 2 I I I 2 I 6 Blacks and Colored. i 22 i 3 i I 20 I 6 14 i 14 RACE Tc YE Whites. 2 3 5 2 2 2 2 I I I 3 2 9 i >TAL FOR AR. Blacks and Colored. i i 52 3 i l i 5 i i i 22 3 2 12 2O 2 I 34 AGGREGATE FOR YEAR. i 3 75 3 6 i 3 5 3 I 3 4 i I 3 2 13 23 4 I 43 i 55 58 G M 3ja o"fl en > > z as. > a Whites January to June ....,..,.., Total whites for year ............. 3 233 16 33 . . . . .1 5 *55 15 329 i 8 488 31 659 39 I 1,147 zz q w T> o 3 K O 50 O 5S 5S > SB 09 O( AGE SUMMARY. CO OS AOKS. tinder 1 year of age. .... Between 1 and 2 years. . . Between 2 and 5 yean. . Between 5 and 10 years. . Between 10 and 20 years. Between 20 and 30 years. Between 30 and 40 years. Between 40 and 50 years Between 50 and 60 yearsBetween 0 and 70 years . Between 70 and MO years Between HO and 90 years. Between 90 and 100 years. . Total 1st quarter, 288, viz , . Total 3d quarter, an, viz. : . Total 4th quarterages, viz. : t w 5 4 8 io 5 6 8 2 3 60 B 13 8 1 2 7 2 3 6 1 1 2 43 . 9 5 w 6 1 2 1 5 5 4 1 1 1 4 2 38 B V 1 w 10: 8 8 * 3 8 1 60 B 0 .1 4 1 4 i 7 6 4 n 5 0 42 4 4 9 7 8 3 0 4 60 1 f w 7 7 2 1 1 1 1 4 3 8 1 31 B 9 5 8 2 2 7 2 4 2 2 1 1 40 W 8 2 5 1 1 6 11 1 2 3 40 B 22 5 3 3 3 8 8 6 2 4 2 1 67 a! ! w 10 7 1 4 1 2 4 5 1 1 1 37 B 22 0 (i 8 4 8 9 8 2 '2 1 60 1' B 5 1 20 5 i 11 a 1 2 4 g 5 1 41 1 2 2 7 10 1 1 2 4 62 ^ 3 ? w 5 5 8 8 2 1 4 5 1 1 1 83 B 12 4 3 4 1 7 8 2 '8 1 1 40 1 jj W 7 S K a a 4 2 4 2 3 2 ' 41 B 16 n 6 9. * 5 6 '3 2 52 & g W 9 7 2 5 3 4 6 8 3 1 58 B 21 B 8 B 4 2 8 3 6 '4 66 U *5 g w ; B 9 7 6 4 1 8 8 6 4 3 1 * ' 46 14 4 4 1 2 10 5 5 S 5 2 1 1 GO c a i a w 8 8 4 4 3 1 2 6 8 1 36 B 15 7 2 2 2 8 2 2 2 1 5 1 49 | 5 ., 1 W 51 48 sa 22 53 45 46 44 83 21 9 1 Total Blacks and Colored, Males, 822; females, 887.............. ................ .............. .....................................- Aggregate................... ................................................................................................................. B40 192 03 45 QQ 30 81 68 42 85 30 10 4 659 2 Si S ^ 874 114 1)3 52 134 113 88 79 63 47 19 5 ... 147 2555 G w"8 O 3 > < O O"1 z z > Population, 23,839 Whites; 16.652 Blacks and Colored. Total, 40,491. Annual ratio per 1,000 populationWhites, 20>47; Blacks and Colored, 89.57. Six (6) White and one hundred forty-five (145) Black and Colored died without calling medical attendaace. ACCIDENTS, VIOLENCE AND STILL BIRTHS. OATISB OF DEATH. Total first quarter .............. Total second quarter ............. Total third quarter ............. Total for year, whites ............ JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MAKCH. Whites. Blacks and Color'd. I 3 '1 4 APRIL, HAT, JUNE. WWtes. i Blacks and Color'd. 2 2 4 JULY, AUGUST, 8K1TEMBEK. Whites. . . . i i 2 I 5 Blacks and Co r'd. I I I 2 5 OCTOBER, NoVEMBKR, DKC'R. WWtes. i . . . i Blacks and Color'd. 10 i i I 13 TOTAL. WWtes. i i i 2 2 I 8 Blacks and Color'd. 10 i 4 i i I i S 2 26 AGGREGATE. II I 5 I I 2 3 7 3 34 w 3 H s 55 &E ii Still BirthsWhite, 25, Blacks and Colored, 95120. CO Premature BirthsWhite,, 14, Blacks and Colored, 1630, 0, E. M. REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 141 BEPOET OF STJPEBINTENDENT OF ODOELESS EXCAVATING MACHINE, . SAVANNAH, JANUARY 1st, 1884. Hon. Rufus JE. Lester, Mayor: SIRI have the honor to transmit herewith my report as Superintendent of the Odorless Excavating Machine Department from January 1st to December 31st, 1883: Vaults cleaned from Jan'y 1st to March 14th, 1883, under former ordinance,.. 117 Vaults cleaned from March 15th to Dec. 31st, 1883, under present ordinance,.. 732 849 In addition to which there were vaults cleaned in the "Burnt District," afterfireof October 31st, 1883 (free of charge),................. 151 Total vaults cleaned during year,......... 1,000 The amount of matter removed from the above vaults for the year ending December 31st, 1883,.......................... .(cubic feet) 97,588 The expenses of the Department for the year have been as follows: Salary of Superintendent,................ $ 816 66 Time of Hands............................ 3,670 49 Forage for Stock,........................ 1,103 97 Mules Purchased,........................ 370 00 Medical Treatment to Stock,.............. 88 50 Liniment for use of Stock................ 2 00 Eepairs to Wagons and Shoeing Stock,.... 294 02 Eepairs to Harness,...................... 19 90 142 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Pitting Barrels Purchased,............... $ 176 75 Repairs to Barrels,....................... 152 75 Charcoal,................................ 21 45 Tar,..................................... 10 00 Cement and Lime,........................ 167 60 Bricks,.................................. 241 00 Sand,.................................... 52 75 Printing Notices,......................... 9 00 Hire of Extra Wagons,................... 2,008 50 Hire of Horse for Superintendent,......... 117 60 Tools Purchased,.................... A .. 10 00 Total,............................... $9,232 84 Against which there were collected: Repairs to Sinks under former ordinance,................... $ 490 00 Cleaning and Repairing Sinks under present ordinance,..... 6,502 38 Mules Sold,.................... 175 00 Poudrette Sold,................ 304 00$6,471 38 Net Cost of Department,............. $2,761 46 There is still to be collected : For Cleaning and Repairing Sinks under present ordinance for which executions have been issued,.... .................. $1,153 62 For Poudrette Sold............ 438 50$1,592 12 Very Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant, W. J. CLEART, Superintendent 0. E. M. Department. CITY PHYSICIANS' REPORTS. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 145 EEPOET OF CITY PHYSICIAN, EASTERN DIVISION. SAVANNAH, G-A., JANUARY 1, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor: DEAR SIRI have the honor to submit the following report of work done by me, as City Physician of the Eastern Division, for the year 1883 : MONTHS. April ........... May ........... July ........... October. ......... Total. ........ No. Patients. 332 227 273 245 263 356 349 37i 304 287 241 249 3,497 Cfl . 6 Z 144 109 126 138 141 174 147 187 139 126 III 107 1.549 J Jt 3 5 0 Z 188 iiS *47 107 122 182 2O2 184 '*5 161 130 142 1,848 2 "5 > o !Z 721 529 659 "681 '743 849 '834 922 '760 7r 7 603 624 8,642 Deaths. 1A i V 0 I 2 I b i 6 2 i 2 6 o 10 A JA U M 5 4 5 5 10 . 2 9 7 3 5 3 0 o 53 Very respectfully, FRANK T. LINCOLN, M. D., City Physician Eastern Division. 10 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. REPORT OF CITY PHYSICIAN, WESTERN DIVISION. SAVANNAH, GA., JANUARY 1, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor : DEAR SIRI have the honor to submit the following report, as City Physician of the Western Division, from January 1st, 1883, to December 31st, 1883: MONTHS. March .......... Mav ........... July ........... October. ......... No. Patients. 382 380 518 379 476 366 415 447 491 394 446 427 Total. ........ 5.121 in V 2 o" Z 142 135 223 154 196 189 175 172 166 194 176 162 2,089 No. Colored. 240 245 290 225 280 177 240 275 325 200 27O 265 3.032 ' > 0 Z 710 584 910 822 878 815 916 748 824 776 722 749 9,464 Deaths. (n o % 2 0 I I I I 2 4 2 4 5 o 23 1 _o "o o 3 5 4 4 3 2 7 3 3 8 3 2 47 Respectfully, T. B. CHISHOLM, M. D., City Physician Western Division. CEMETERY REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 149 EEPOET OF KEEPER LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY, OFFICE KEEPER LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY, SAVANNAH, GA., JANUARY, 1st, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor: SIRI have the honor to report Laurel Grove Cemetery in good order, except the fencing on the western and southern portions, which are in bad order and require repairing. The fencing at the Colored Cemetery also requires repairing. During the past year brick sewers have been constructed on a portion of ground at the Colored Cemetery, which is contemplated to be laid out into burial lots and sold to colored persons. During the past year there has been received: For Sale of Burial Lots,.................. $ 940 00 For Burial Fees,......................... 751 00 Total,............................... $1,691 00 Amount paid for Keeper's Salary, Time of Hands, Tools, Lumber and Brick Sewers at Colored Cemetery,................... $9,681 23 Number of Interments at the expense of the city : WhitesFrom the City.................. 22 WhitesFrom Poor House and Hospital,. 18 40 ColoredFrom the City,................. 45 ColoredFrom Colored Infirmary,........ 58 103 Total,........ ...................... 143 Number of Interments during the year,.... 1,241 150 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Number of Interments in Laurel Grove Cemetery and Cemetery for Colored Persons from January 1st to December 3ltt, 1883. MONTHS. . May ........ July. ........ Total ...... WHITES. & u | C i Q 28 16 24 21 21 19 29 17 21 29 24 26 275 Other Interments 8 3 4 6 7 4 ii 2 10 15 8 7 5 1 H 36 9 28 27 28 23 40 9 31 44 32 33 360 COLORED. > "C V C i 5 44 62 60 41 59 56 63 49 51 74 68 49 676 Other interments 17 15 18 ii 15 19 20 J 25 22 16 205 i 61 77 78 52 74 H 58 69 99 s 881 both Total ininterments ICemeteries. 97 96 1 06 79 IO2 98 123 77 100 143 122 98 1241 I have the honor to be Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, A. P. TOBLAY, Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetery. CITY DISPENSARY REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 153 REPORT OF KEEPER CITY DISPENSARY. OFFICE OF CITY DISPENSARY, SAVANNAH, GA., JANUARY 1st, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor: SIRI have the honor to submit herewith the report of the City Dispensary for the year ending December 31st, 1883: MONTHS. January .... February. . . . May. ..... July. ..... September ... October .... November . . . December . . . Total . . . Applications ,544 ,521 ,537 ,345 ,365 3T 1 .4" ,587 ,724 ,048 .476 ,222 18,093 White. 878 769 763 531 616 675 810 1,139 756 608 8,975 Colored. 666 752 774 725 834 697. 736 777 914 909 720 614 9,118 Prescript'ns. 2,403 2,336 2,330 2,137 2,264 2,528 2,670 3.259 2,296 2,021 28,305 Country. 147 126 133 9 177 166 162 234 261 226 164 2,014 Respectfully, LEWIS CASS, Keeper City Dispensary. HARBOR MASTER'S REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 157 BEPOBT OF HABBOB MASTEB. SAVANNAH, JANUARY 1st, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor : DEAR SIRI have the honor to report that I have deposited with City Treasurer the sum of eleven thousand eight hundred dollars and seven cents ($11,800.07), amount of harbor fees collected for the past yearone thousand forty-nine dollars and sixteen cents in excess of last year. Tonnage eight hundred and fifty three thousand eight hundred and twenty-four tons. Fiftyfive thousand seven hundred and forty-six in excess of 1882. There has been ample wharf room for all classes of vessels arriving at this port. Annexed please find a tabulated monthly statement of tonnage and fees. I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, JOHN D. TENBROECK, Harbor Master. 158 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Q O s W C/3 O < 2 Q fc O O 2 H o O w 00 00 CO O O O OmOcoQMinOm co t^- n ^co HI c* *O en w * r n O ^ c co met c* mow en en -^co w O nvO M O* -Too ^~ HI HI co HI r^o o o r en en en acuisny ueissnjj tpuwj qsiuedg DBlSaMJOK eo O O r* trtO m v>o oo C7> g; a o M w r* r)O r*-o* enoo o r- r- HI M en a*O en HI HI O C*O M ^ o r^-o^o i-^ t*> ent-i HI M en o M co H" OsO en tn tn o ^ e M cno en m .wcoen ^ *O o* en 7^- a* O enoo o co m*c co w et *c o M ^ r* enco n en-o ^ M en ^fco" ci" " en ^ en in O_ r* o_ o_ e C> tf w en -^ HI ct ^t o O co %o O co M H.* r* HI en co w r* *^ enco n O tn r>- HI t->oor*-Hio%oen oo - HI r>mMO 4 I 4-2 !l 75. 76.9 65. 76. 71 78. 74-5 81.6 84.8 85.1 79-8 77-6 66. j : 59.3 45.5 57.1 50. ; 57- 54-3 58.9 60. 1 61.1 Si-5 59.4 72.4 i 74.7 63.8 73.5 71.5 79-* ?6. 81. 82.8 83 5 73-7 73.2 71 70. 58. 68. 64. 7i68- 73. 75. 76. 68. 70. 13 10 7 II 9 4 8 12 26 28 3! | 27 1' 16 6 3 4 i 5 4 IO 6 19 5 9 IS '9 6 15 6 8 '3 10 11 14 12 II 7 4 2 10 16 '4 8 10 18 6 17 7 '4 15 15 20 28 20 28 '9 10 4 12 15 I "I 19 1 18 13 14 7 4 4 II 10 10 '9 10 11 18 12 12 2 9 I IO 19 II 20 9 ii 3 7 5 9 7 12 13 I I O O o o o I 1 2 O I i 1 ! ii ' 16 i 1617 ' 16 16 12 > II 7 , 16 13 j 12 14 ! ii 15 8 8 9 6 '3 10 12 7 14 3 5 o o o o o o ; o i o i o o o o . 42.3 47-5 29.2 55-8 59-1 70.6 72.2 70.9 65-3 60.4 47-1 42.8 46.8 49.8 40.2 55 6 56.7 68.9 70-7 70. 65.2 60.8 47-3 49- 44.6 49-8 43-3 57-1 60. 71.2 73-3 72.1 67-4 63.1 49- 47-1 44- .49- 40. 56. 58. 70. 72. 7'- 66. 61. 47 46. Violent squall from the North on the iSth of February. Heavy blow on 3d and 25th of March. Northwest gale on I7th of April. Northeast gale on 1st of May. Frequent thunderstorms in June. Violent squall from the West on the afternoon of the isth of July. Cyclone on the gth and loth of Sept. First frost on the 3d of November. Violent thunderstorm on the 27th of (December. Sums ^Annual Means ) in hundredths \ I: 3 ' 5 5 52.7 62.8 44.7 53.5 l : 925. 68.0 00.5 83.7' 171 : 77 '140_^19 _| 200 129 124 126 I 7 Percentages. y- 4-4 -2 3-7 4-5 i! 77-1 S&-7 75-5 69.8 15.6 7.1 ' 12.9' 10.9^ 18.4! ii.8r 11.4' 11.5 .6 130 166 67 no 3 46 Percentages. Highest. Lowest. Range. 25.845.7 18.5 30.3! .o I .8 12.7 674.3 68.1 56.2 56.8 69.8 684.4 58.2 ; 57. The barometric observations ma}- be reduced to sea level by adding the following constants for the various months : January .... .100 | February . . ,090 | March . . . .090 | April .... .090 | May .... .090 | June . . A"No Data in this space. . .090 | July .... .090 | August . . . .090 | September . . .090 | October . . . .090 [ November . . .090 | December . . .100. H. W. FORD, Sergeant Signal Corps, U. S. A QUARANTINE OFFICER'S REPORT, I; ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 163 BEPORT OF QUABANTINE OFFICEE, QUARANTINE STATION, . SAVANNAH, G-A., JANUARY IST, 1884. Hon. R-ufus E, Lester, Mayor : DEAR SIRSince the last annual report from this office there has been nothing of general interest to report. The total number of vessels boarded during the year have amounted to four hundred and fifty-four (454), an excess of one hundred and eighty-two (182) above the number boarded the year previous. Some four or five cases of fever imported from Africa and the Carribbean Sea, assumed the type of intermittent of all climates, and yielded to a quinine diet. In relation to the plant of the Station, I am sorry to have to report that the foundations under both houses have sunk to the extent (in the case of the smaller house) of from eight to twelve inches. The water tank was the immediate cause of this, and, in the larger house, the northeastern end has been carried down by the pressure of the super-imposed ballast, showing conclusively that in the original structure the piling were never efficiently driven down to a firm sand foundation, and the whole is settling with the weight of rock surrounding it; but, it is to be hoped that this settlement will cease before the houses become dangerous to those who are obliged to occupy them. Stone ballast comes in slowly, so that the ring-wall cannot be extended around the building as fast as the sand ballast that is received, and which cannot by itself be exposed to the action of the waves. II 164 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Just here I would earnestly call the attention oi your Board to the fact that this loose material cannot, for years to come, be an efficient and permanent barrier against the inroads of such a gale as visited us in the autumn of 1881 ; and, as on that occasion, so there may again be many human beings who may be in deadly peril for many hours at a tune. It behooves us, therefore, to take all possible precautions to put this Station in a permanent position to resist even a heavier gale than the one just referred to; and, as a help to this end, I would respectfully suggest that by the judicious use of say fifty or sixty barrels of hydraulic cement the facing of the outer wall might be so con11 1 solidated as to present, so far as the material on hand ! | would permit, a wall that would be indestructible by i * the action of the waves. I have two plans to suggest | ) as to the manner of using this cement: I The first, and much the cheaper way, would be to [., simply make a thin mortar of it, with the proper pro- | portion of sand, and inject this between the loose < stones. This, I say, would be the cheapest, because I could have it done by unskilled labor, under my own supervision, by simply adding two men to the present force under my orders for about two months, at the rate of say sixteen dollars per month. ' ..; The other plan is to use the cement to lay a rubble : wall of about ten feet wide at the bottom, and five feet wide at the top, around the sea face of this Station. This would necessitate the employment of a much larger force to handle the material, and also of experts to build the wall. There is another most important matter which I feel it my duty to constantly impress upon the attention of your Board, and that is, that a strong line of demarcation should be drawn between a lazaretto and ; a ballast wharf, from which vessels are to proceed I i immediately to the city with clean bills of health. I : With this end in view, we have for the last seven years ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 165 insisted on fumigating all suspected vessels before allowing access to these premiseskeeping them at a safe distance below whilst being fumigated, and as isolated as possible, and this wise rule should under no circumstances be violated. Before concluding, allow me here to acknowledge, with thanks, the invariable courtesy that has been shown to me by all officers of the City Government whom my official duties have thrown me in contact with, and accept for yourself my most respectful consideration. J. A. HUGER, M. D., Quarantine Officer. U. S. ENGINEER'S REPORT. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 169 RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS, UNITED STATES ENGINEERS OFFICE, CHARLESTON, S. C., JANUARY 8, 1884. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor of Savannah, Ga. : SIRYour letter of December 31, 1883, to General Gillmore, requesting to be furnished -with a report showing the work done for the improvement of Savannah River and Harbor during the year 1883, has been referred to me, and in compliance therewith I have the honor to submit the enclosed. I also forward a sketch showing the locations of the works. I shall be happy to furnish any additional information you may desire concerning the work done or that contemplated. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant,' THOS. N. BAILEY, First Lieut. Corps of Engineers, U. 8. A. SAVANNAH RIVER AND HARBOR. The object of the present project is to secure twentytwo feet at mean high water from the City of Savannah to Tybee Roads. Estimated cost, $730,000. Amount appropriated by Act of August 2, 1882, $200,000. Required for completion, $530,000. 170 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. Jetty work was commenced in January, 1883, under the $200,000 appropriation and completed in September, 1883. Dredging ceased in December, 1883. Three hundred and seventy-nine mats, aggregating 103,029 square yards, and 25,274 cubic yards of stone were placed, and 186,098 cubic yards of material dredged. A small balance was reserved for a survey, now in progress, of the lower river. The work has consisted in confining the current by the construction of Wing Dams, and in directing and assisting the resulting scour by dredging, following the plan outlined in General (jillmore's report of January 16, 1882. The dams have been built of log mattresses, from fifteen to fifty feet wide, and of an average thickness of fifteen inches. The mats are covered with from four to nine inches of brush and loaded with from five to nine inches of stone, the top course receiving thirteen inches. In profile, the shore end of the dams are, at high water, level, or at the height of the adjacent shore; the crest then slopes down to about five feet above mean low water, which height is maintained to within about 200 feet of the outer end of the dam, the crest then falls gradually to the outer end, where a toe or wider mat is placed. GABDEN BAJsTK SHOAL. Two Wing Dams, supplemented by dredging, were constructed in 1882, for the removal of this shoal, which is opposite the lower part of the city. A third dam was built below these during the past season, and 8,193 cubic yards of material dredged. The shoal is now practically removed. The width of ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 171 channel along the dams, over twenty-two feet deep at mean high water, is more than 200 feet. WRECKS' CHANNEL. , A Wing Dam was built just above the Fig Island Training Wall, and the latter has been extended 1,000 feet, and eleven short spurs have been added along its southern side; additional stone has been placed on the old work of this jetty, to bring its crest to a uniform height of from two to three feet above the mean low water. Eighty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-one cubic yards of sand and mud have been dredged from the channel. A comparison of the surveys of December, 1881, and May, 1883, shows much improvement at the upper end of the channel. A twenty-two feet curve, mean high water, is working its way along where but nineteen feet was found before. The channel width between the nineteen feet curves has increased from 200 to 320 feet. This channel is now wider, deeper and more uniform than it ever has been. CLOSING DAMS. A Closing Dam has been built from the Carolina shore to the head of Barnwell Island, and another from the south shore of the latter to Barnwell Island No. 2. HEAD OF ELBA ISLAND. Prom the shoal at this point 29,084 cubic yards were removed and a dam built out from Barnwell Island No. 3. The dredged depth has been maintained. 172 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 1TPPEE FLATS CROSSING. A set of four dams, two on each side of the channel, have been built, and 32,090 cubic yards of material dredged. There is now a uniform channel, 450 feet wide and over nineteen feet deep at mean high water, when before the width of nineteen feet channel was but 160 feet, and did not extend entirely across. The practicable channel is over twenty-two feet deep; it was but eighteen feet before the improvement. CABBAGE TREE CROSSING. Three dams are contemplated for the improvement of this crossing; of these one has been completed and the foundations of the other two have been placed. A cut sixty feet wide, twenty-two feet deep, at mean high water (34,926 cubic yards), was completed at this place in December, 1883. This cut will widen under the action of the current. Ranges have been established at these two crossings and lights placed at the heads of the dams. Eleven hundred and sixty-eight cubic yards of stone was distributed on the old worksBig Gap Dam and Philbrick's Cut Dam. A good twenty-two feet channel, at mean high water, now exists from Savannah to Lower Flats, a distance of nine miles. Yessels drawing nineteen and one-half feet have passed from the city to Tybee Roads on a single tide. Only nine feet could be carried at mean low water before the present works were undertaken. THOS. ST. BAILEY, First Lieut. Corps of JOngineers, U. 8. A. EXPORTS, IMPORTS AND TONNAGE. ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 175 COASTWISE EXPORTS, PORT OF SAVANNAH, 1883. COMPILED BY FRANK E. REBARER, CLERK OF COUNCIL. ARTICLES. Bottles (198) ....... Cotton, Upland (162,959,043] Cotton, Sea Island (4,090,996 Cotton Seed ........ Cotton Seed Oil ...... Cotton Seed Cake ..... Cotton Seed Hulls Cotton Waste ....... Clay Casks. ........ Car Wheels. ....... Duck Cotton ....... Fruit in boxes, Oranges and Flour ........... Fish .......... hhd Hides, Dry ........ Hides, Green Salted .... Metal, Old (pounds) .... Paper, Stock ........ Rice. ............ Rice. Roueh ........ ...... bags ..... .bbis )...... bales ...... bbis ...... .old ....... old ...... bdls ...... bbis ...... bbis s. tierces and bbis ...... bbis ...... bdls ...... rolls ...... .bbis crates and bales ...... bbis Quantity. 46,600 276 22,000 77.823 209.28! 374.187 11,239 150 834 13,496 309 60 256 1,200 3,355 574 109,500 47,936 17,521 100 45 2,076 224.110 3,103 88 377 2,592 683 17 15 8,648 4.727 879 2.216 53.673.994 232,512 20,000 I3L033 20,000 143 118 361 77,857 1,000 54 783.560 2i,6";4 875 34.464 2,197 Value. $ 2,330 205 666 38,9" 130,805 17,944,852 1,063.649 1.500 6.255 441.994 3,090 300 4,486 31.560 16.7/5 1.148 5-475 7.190 175,210 7,200 4,500 415 448,220 12,112 528 55.042 12,960 13.660 213 45O 533.274 75.632 5,280 33.240 724.599 13,950 I,5OO 5 240 800 429 319 361 3,269.595 150 864 156.712 129.924 175 156.712 3.175 1 I 176 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. COASTWISE EXPORTS, PORT OF SAVANNAH, 1883. (CONTINUED.) COMPILED BT FRANK E. REBARER, CLERK OF COUNCIL. ARTICLES. Quantity. Value. Rice, Chaff. ......... Rope, Old ........... Skins, Deer .......... Turtle. ............ Vanilla ............ Wool ............. Total Coastwise Exports . . . . . . bales .... bbls . . . . bales .... bbls . . . .bales . . . . bales : . . . bbls . . . . bales .... bbls . . . .bales 194 485 576 288 50,855 1,585 659' 11,862 23 70 60 2.880 50' 3,750 4,353,941 21.768 75 937 17 544 3,947 663,096 .... $28,165,669 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 177 FOREIGN EXPORTS. PORT OF SAVANNAH. 1883. ARTICLES. Cotton, Upland (421,627 bales) Rosin (280 Ibs. to bbl.) . . . . Timber ........... Phosphate Rock ....... Cotton Seed ........ All Other Articles ...... . .... .Ibs ...... Ibs . . . . .galls ..... bbls ...... M . .... .Ibs Quantity. 200,158,558 372,736 3.529.039 17,605,000 148,475 111,000 1,675 15,922 416,826 .... Value. $20,528,879 116,194 499,246 246,686 16,421 15,557 768 11,180 T-l .1OO ".145 36OO 9,092 $22,725,268 12 178 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. IMPORTS, PORT OF SAVANNAH, 1883. ARTICLES. Coffee .........".... Cotton Ties ........... Salt .............. Fruits of all kinds ........ Ale. .............. Coal .............. Muriate of Potash ........ All Other Articles ........ . . . .Ibs . . .bdls .... Ibs . . . galls .... Ibs . . . tons . . . bbls . . . .Ibs . . . galls Quantity. 4,692,938 8,371 396 18,709,887 2,464 103,758 2,301 224,200 560 780 240,125 .... Value. 350,828 46,598 72.387 6,090 4.138. 4,281 2,462 2,676 5,526 ^ . 1,908 3,280 4,236 14,365 1.026 7.273 2.739 ii. 154 $567.182 'ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR OF SAVANNAH. 179 TONNAGE, PORT OF SAVANNAH, 1883. VESSELS ENTERED AT AND CLEARED FROM CUSTOM HOUSE. VESSELS. American Vessels Cleared ........ Total Entered and Cleared Foreign . . Total Coastwise ............ Total Foreign. ............ Grand Total ............ No. 7 26 275 278 586 38i 350 731 586 1,317 Tonnage. 4.719 13,248 157,595 170,677 346,239 468,226 928,379 04.6 2^Q Men. 88 309 3,773 ^ 8oj. 8,064 13.659 13,227 26,886 8,064 34. So COTTON STATEMENT. Detailed Statement of Cotton Movements at Savannah for the Years 1880-81, 1881-82, and 1882-83. SEASON. September. October . . . November. December. January... February. . Hatch. .. April....... May... .... July.. ..... August. .... Total.... GROSS RECEIPTS. 1880-S1, 128,586 184,850 159,001 146,606 72,060 59,247 49,774 22,506 28,843 9,433 8,268 28,833 881,161 1 119 1,670 8,484 2,300 2,586 8,205 865 8,085 804 4 "58 15,520 1881-82. i 100,425 160,043 159,070 138,993 00,108 34,811 32,951 14,710 10,807 7,898 8,019 8,414 786,148 I 201 1,430 8,931 8,471 8,305 2,189 495 143 2,895 6 87 76 17,229 1888-83. i 88,705 188,489 156,194 140,661 07,018 04,490 60,928 88,761 18,067 6,336 3,384 7,068 814,047 S 1 252 1,468 2,483 8,458 8,050 2,598 389 180 188 1 ""2 12,004 NET RECEIPTS. 1880-81. 1 121,794 183,804 158,397 146,051 58>94 49,658 28,888 21,571 9,420 8,200 88,811 874,301 Sea Island. 119 1,443 8,417 2,800 2,413 3,192 262 2,078 790 "68 15,082 1881-S2. . P 100,810 149,483 157,176 187,708 34*083 32,686 14,512 10,143 7,720 3,019 8,826 719,827 i 801 1,430 a',w 8,805 2,189 495 143 2,895 6 87 76 17,229 1882-S8. I 82,401 186,130 155,240 144,955 64,907 04,003 50,681 28,640 12,995 6,319 2,877 7,003 805,711 Sea Island. S52 1,463 2,473 2,452 2,046 2,583 828 177 188 1 "2 11,959 EXPORTS ORIAT BRITAIN. 1880-81. D 22,016 57,188 28,868 22,509 27,548 11,654 14,696 5,950 1,184 1,488 2,017 195,157 i '225 no 989 751 687 838 860 333 65 4,858 1881-88. I 87,997 14,487 14,690 21,487 22,310 16,382 6,890 13,611 138,708 i '559 194 "87 379 738 1,897 1882-88. 1 i i 10,178 22,910 22,184 23,949 9,188 8,291 4,370 4,189 4,520 "92 368 180 '"i 1 109,729 588 Detailed Statement of Cotton Movements at Savannah, Etc.Continued. SEASON. Sept'mlier October,.. November December January.. February. March.... April..... May...... July...... Total... EXPORTS FRANCE. 1880-81. t> 4,256' 2,918 15,677 4,622 8,050 6,740 87,168 o I 184 '2TO "is 234 708 1881-82. I 4,650 4,770 4,595 1,175 1,800 16,900 o i 80 210 240 1882-88. I 4,2 11,716 4,500 4,500 25,628 Sea Island. 'so' 30 EXPORTS CONTINENT. 1880-81. I 1.S07 27,808 85,941 78,918 28,994 26,888 48,049 16.273 6,799 4,642 269,914 1881-82. 6 B 4,296 20,102 611,2(19 38,200 18,712 8,467 18,095 10,122 8,532 182,795 1882-83. i 99, 089 64,594 43,494 31,699' 21,677 58,419 18,107 6,049 283,028 EXPORTS CHANNEL. 80-81. 1p 81-82. 1 82-88. Upland ' j i EXPORTS COASTWISE. t 1880-81. Upland. 82,385 ,ssr 78,006 03,895 42,836 20,288 17,218 17,055 30,151 14,708 10,527 12,926 374,832 Sea Island. 32 660 1,451 1,221 1,701 1,372 957 1,865 534 69 139 130 9,640 1881-82. p 82,797 67,418 78,083 57,077 50,911 84,331 33,735 16,475 17,006 11,721 5,874 4,016 394,833 I 177 313 1,496 8,405 2,895 650 1,870 724 1,390 113 364 39 15,404 1882-88. I 45,090 75,000 69,026 42,434 45,489 84,491 85,425 27,042 13,2(11 9,254 4,626 3,480 304,658 a i 148 960 1,287 1,777 2,691 8,407 617 324 140 90 1 11,442 SPOT SALES. 1880-81. Upland and Island. Sea 69,015 85,530 75,862 73,288 64,921 52,527 29,305 26,311 14,483 2,534 8,947 11,591 509,296 1881-82. 1 |l 51,834 75,477 87,685 69,584 53,081 40,883 37,071 21,226 6,978 4,092 852 8,311 449,602 1882-83. iiojj I* 55,797 98,023 75,727 G0.651 68,030 42,547 28,562 16,321 5,600 2,507 697 2,016 446,477 MANtJFACTUKKD1882-'88, 2,100 bale*. i fi MAYOR AND ALDERMEN. MAYOR AND ALDERMEN FOR 1883-84. MAYOR. RTJFUS B. LESTER. CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL. JOSEPH J. WILDER. VICE-CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL. DAVID WELLS. ALDERMEN. JOSEPH J. WILDER. DAVID WELLS. SAMUEL P. HAMILTON. DANIEL R. THOMAS. J. FLORENCE MINIS. JOHN R. HAMLET. WILLIAM B. MELL. GEOEGE K". NICHOLS., EDWABD M. GBEEN. JOHN DEEST. ANDBEW HANLET. PATEICK J. O'CoNNOE. r COMMITTEES AND CITY OFFICERS, STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL, 1884. AccountsAldermen Thomas, Minis, O'Connor. AssessmentsAldermen Wells, Thomas, Minis, Hanley, Hamlet. Docks and WharvesAldermen Hanley, Wells, Thomas. Dry CultureAldermen Mell, Wilder, Nichols. EducationAldermen Minis, O'Connor, Mell. FinanceAldermen Hamilton, Thomas, Wilder, Green, Minis. FireAldermen Green, Hamlet, Hanley. GasAldermen Derst, O'Connor, Nichols. Health and CemeteryAldermen Wilder, Thomas, Mell. JailAldermen Wells, Hamilton, Green. MarketAldermen Mell, Derst, Hanley. PoliceAldermen Green, Hamilton, Derst. Public BuildingsAldermen Nichols, Hanley, Hamlet. Public Sales and City LotsAldermen O'Connor, Minis, Wilder. PumpsAldermen Hanley, Derst, Mell. River and Harbor ImprovementsAldermen Minis, Green, Wilder. Streets and LanesAldermen Hamlet, Hanley, Wells, Nichols. Water WorksAldermen Wells, Hamilton, Derst. BOARD OF SANITARY COMMISSIONERS. Aldermen Hamlet, Thomas; Citizens J. R. Saussy, John F. Wheaton, W. Duncan, M. D. COMMISSIONERS OF EDUCATION. Alderman S. P. Hamilton; R. D. Walker, Commissioner Chatham County. CITY OFFICERS, Clerk of CouncilFrank E. Rebarer. City TreasurerCharles S. Hardee. City MarshalL. L. Goodwin. City SurveyorJohn B. Howard. Chief of PoliceRobert H. Anderson. Assistant 'Chief of PoliceJohn Green. Sergeants3. B. Killourhy, S. C. Lee, Henry Lingg, O. F. Reilly. Messenger of CouncilLuke Logan. Corporation AttorneyHenry C. Cunningham. Judge of the City CourtWilliam D. Harden. Clerk of the City CourtPhilip M. Russell. City Sheriff David Bailey. Clerk of the MarketW. H. Bordley. Harbor MasterJohn D. TenBroeck. Health OfficerJ. T. McFarland, M. D. Keeper of City DispensaryLewis Cass. Keeper Laurel Grove CemeteryA. F. Torlay. Keeper of Forsyth PlaceTheodore Meves. Keeper of Pest HouseMaurice Hardee. City PhysiciansF. T. Lincoln, M. D., T. B. Chisholm, M. D. Chief FiremanAdolph Fernandez. Assistant Chief FiremqjiGeorge Mouro. Sup't and Engineer Water WorksAlvin N. Miller. Scavenger ContractorWilliam Swoll. Pump ContractorAlfred Kent. Keeper City ClocksRobert Schneider. City Printer3. H. Estill. Port WardensT. H. Laird, Charles Yan Horn, Chas. . Werner, John Power, Alexander Abrams. Chimney ContractorsEastern Division, John W. Deacy; Western Division, C. Deubler.