ANNUAL REPORT RUFUS E. LESTER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1884, TO WHICH IS ADDED THE TREASURER'S REPORT. REPORTS OF THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. 8AVANXAH, GA.: MORNING NEWS STEAM PRISTIJJO HOUSE. 1883. Tir MAYOR'S ANNDAL REPORT. Crnr OF SAVANNAH, MAYOK'S OFFICE, January 1,1885. FELLOW-CITIZENS : I submit mj report of the financial receipts and expenditures for the jear ending December 31st, 1884, with a general statement of the transactions of the City Government, and append the reports of the officers in charge of the various departments: The receipts for the year, exclusive of the balance on hand '.*.' at the commencement of the year, have been $670,321.27. f H Of this, $325,484.17 is from taxes on real estate, $28,292.44 : r from ground rents, $89,862.85 from specific taxes, $33,925.00 I from liquor licenses, $6,560.50 from transient licenses, $17,- pi 715.84 from personal property, $9,440.55 from stock in trade, $6,074.50 from shipping, and $675 from dog tax, showing the total receipts from taxes and ground rents to be $518,030.85. Prom the Water Works, the Board of Health, and other sources there has come into the Treasury $152,190.42. The expenditures have been $661,539.64. This includes all current expenses of the City Government in all its departments, the payment of judgments, the retirement of bonds, the interest on the public debt ($190,755.12); the sinking fund, $30,064.50; the extinguishment of the floating debt, $42,367.96; opening streets, $34,422.51; extending city limits, $1,417.77; the extension of the Water Works mains, $36,- 426.61, etc., as the Treasurer's report, hereto annexed, more particularly shows. , 4 MATCH'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. The balance in the Treasury is $51,481.90. This balance includes a sum of money for some years held in the Treasury to be paid over to the persons entitled to receive it. It is the balance of the proceeds of sale of lot 55, Brown ward, sold by the city under the ground rent ordinances in 1881. The principal and interest of this amount to something over $14,000. There will be a decrease in the expenditures for the year 1885, and in view of this the Council has been able to reduce the rate of taxation very materially. The bonded debt of the city now consists of the following outstanding bonds: $3,331,900 of the issue of 1879 five per cents; $356,750 of the issue of 1883 five per cents; $111,100 of old bonds issued prior to 1879, not yet exchanged;.$9,500 of Atlantic 'and Gulf Railroad indorsed bonds not yet exchanged. The issue of 1879 is known as the compromise bonds issued under an ordinance and an act of the Legislature, by which the old bonded debt of the city was compromised by the issue of new bonds bearing five per cent, interest for the principal of the old Bonds and a portion of the interest. The issue of 1883 is known as the compromise bonds for the city's indorsement on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad bonds. The compromise with the holders of these indorsed bonds was similar to the compromise of the other bonds. Of the issue of 1879 there was outstanding, according to the Mayor's report, on 1st of January, 1883...................... .. ..$3,342,00000 There were exchanges during 1883 of more than reported to the Mayor.................... 2,500 00 Outstanding January 1, 1884............... $3,344,500 00 The report of the Sinking Fund Oommission the 1st of January, 1884, showed outstanding $3,338,000. This report did not embrace $6,500 of exchanges in 1883, these elchanges not having have bean reported to them till after the making up of their report, and $2,500 of these were not re- MAYOR'S ANNUAL KEPOBT. 5 ported to the Mayor till after the making of his annual report as above stated. During 1884 there have been exchanged $2,000, and $33,- 000, which were deposited as security on appeal case, were reported sold by the trustee, of which mention will be hereafter made. These added to the amount outstanding 1st January, 1884, make ........................ .$3,379,500 The Sinking Fund Commission has purchased and canceled of this issue.... $29,500 The city has purchased and retired.... 18,100 47,600 Outstanding 1st January, 1885...... ........... $3,331,900 _ Of the bonds of 1883 there have been issued in exchange for Atlantic and Gulf Railroad bonds, in- - dorsed by the city............................ $377,660 Bedeemed and canceled......................... 20,000 Outstanding 1st January, 1885.................. $356,750 The bonded debt of the city therefore is to-day $3,812,100. i 3 V Judgments were obtained against the city upon its in- (iC dlorsement of certain Atlantic and Gulf Bailroad bonds in a fa dumber of cases, amount, principal, interest and costs, to \ $26,134,17. By mandamus the Mayor and Aldermen were ' ty< required to levy a tax to pay these judgments. It was ^ thought best to exchange the new bonds for the old, and to pay the difference directly from the treasury. Accordingly, $20,150 of new bonds of 1883 were issued, for which the city was allowed at the rate of 87 per cent, for $10,000, viz.: $8,700; and 88J per cent, for $10,150, viz.: $8,982.75. The balance, viz.: $8,451.42, was paid out of the treasury. On the Treasurer's books the city has been credited with $17,- 682.75; the two items for the bonds issued and debited, with $25,768 and $365.25, the amount of the judgment and cost paid John M. Guerard, attorney. , When the Mayor and Aldermen, in 1881, appealed the case of Eugene Kelly against the city to the (Supreme Court of the United States, to test the validity of the city's indorse- 6 MAJOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. ment on these railroa 1 bonds, security being required, bonds of the issue of 1879, of the denomination of 1300, were deposited with T. M. Cunningham, as trustee, as security to the plaintiff in the suit. When the case terminated adversely to the city the trustee, under the authority given him, sold the bonds. In the final adjustment of this judgment, and the bonds upon which the judgment was obtained, the plaintiffs paid into the Treasury $25,101.63. This money was devoted by the city to the purchase and redemption of outstanding bonds. With that sum and $4,057.69 taken from the Treasury besides, making $29,159.32, the city has purchased and canceled during the present year $19,100 of the bonds of 1879, and $1,900 of those of 1883, and $10,000 of the Atlantic and Golf Railroad indorsed bonds, besides $555 paid for coupons of the last mentioned bonds. Consequently, besides providing the Sinking Fund Commission with the $25,000 required by the ordinance for the purchase and cancelation of outstanding bonds, the city has paid in cash for the purchase of retiring bonds $13,064.11 over and above the $25,101.63 above mentioned. The compromise of these indorsed bonds mentioned and explained in my last annual report, was commenced since the beginning of the year, and is nearly complete.. Only about $9,500 of these bonds remain unexchanged. Appended to this report will be found tabulated statements showing the particulars of the issue and cancelation of the bonds of 1879 and 1883, and the present status of the entire bonded debt. The floating debt amounting to $43,367.96 has been paid off during the year, and the city owes nothing but its bonds. THE POLICE. . The force consists of the Chief, the Assistant Chief, four Sergeants and fifty-three privates, besides the fore* known, as the Ocean Steamship Police, consisting of three Sergeants and sixteen privates, under the control of the Chief of Police. ji MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 7 jj' " This force is under most excellent management, and is distinguished for efficiency. It cannot be improved except by an increase in its numbers, which the financial condition of the city does uot at present warrant. The expenses of t : this department have been $51,609.82. STREETS AND LANES. The expenses of this department for the year have been $33,138.59. The receipts properly to be credited are $818,70. During the year a number of streets in the western portion of the city, commonly known as Yamacraw, have been opened, and others have been widened. The expense of this, including the purchase of the right of way, has been $34,422.51. A little more than a year ago, by an act of the Legislature, the city was extended over considerable territory, on the southern limits. It has not been within the means of the authorities to do anything towards the purchase of the land necessary for the streets and lanes there, but the entire extension has been surveyed and laid out upon a plan conforming to the plan of the city. The expense of this work has been $1,417.77. It is hoped that some progress will soon be made to put the plan into practical effect. FIRE DEPARTMENT. A change has been made in the system of this department by which "call men" are substituted for the volunteers. The ''call men," like the regular force, are under the direct command and control of the Chief. It is generally conceded, I believe, that the system is better than the mixed one. So far it has proven satisfactory, and I am encouraged to believe that the department under the present arrangement will continue to improve in efficiency. The cost of this service for the year has been $23,408.79, which includes $1,600 paid for rebuilding the Bauiow fire engine. THE CITY COUUT. The expenses of this court have been $4,160.21. This in- 8 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. dudes $277.77 salary of the Judge from the first of December to the twentieth of January, 1884, from which time this salary has been paid by the county. CITY PUMPS. The expenses of this department have been $2,845.04. This includes the salary of the pump contractor. By ordinance 31st December, 1884, the office of pump contractor was abolished and his duties were assigned to the department of water works. DRY CULTURE. The drainage of the city and adjacent lands is in charge of this department. The expenditures have been $9,539.07. Besides the ordinary work, a permanent sewer has been constructed on the eastern side of the city, at a cost of $900, charged to this department in the Treasurer's books. THE MARKET. . The receipts from the market have been $18,243.45, and the expenses $3,913.00, showing the net income for the year $14,330.45, an increase of $261.87 over last year. PARKS AND SQUARES. Three thousand nine hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty cents have been expended on the parks and squares. This includes $900 for the salary of the keeper of Forsyth Place, and $1,967.88 for hands employed. POLICE COURT. The receipts for fines in this court have been $4,872.76 for eleven months ending 1st December. The receipts for December, amounting to $615.00, is carried into the January accounts of the Treasurer, and does not appear in the Treas- KAYOE'S ANNUAL BKPOET. 9 orer's report ending yesterdaj. The receipts for twelve months are therefore $5,487.75. WATEB WORKS. Extensive additions to the water supply have been made since the last annual report was published. New mains have been laid extending 11,326 feet. Of sixteen-inch pipe 9,001 feet have been used, 1,050 feet of ten-inch pipe, and 225 feet of six-inch pipe. Extensions of 9,235 feet of six-inch pipe, 420 feet of four-inch pipe and 767 feet of twelve-inch pipe have been made. Thus it appears that 21,748 feet or 4| miles of pipe have been added to the means of supply during the year. This addition to the old pipes makes 32 miles of pipe now laid. Seventeen new fire hydrants have been put on the line of the new mains, and fifty-seven valves at the cross streets. The outlay for the improvement has been 136,426.61, and for the extensions from the mains $5,037.34. The expenses proper for operating the water works, not including the $5,037.34 above mentioned, have been for the year $19,567.83. The receipts from water rents have been $44,637.38. The management and working of this department have been highly satisfactory. The efficiency and zeal of the worthy superintendent, Mr. Miller, and the subordinate officers deserve recognition. HEALTH AND CEMETERY. Two physicians appointed by the city have attended the indigent sick, hospital accommodations have been provided, medicines furnished at the City Dispensary, and the burial expenses of the indigent dead have been paid. These charities have cost for the year $16,135.22. The cleansing and the disinfecting of vaults, yards and premises, including the salary of the Superintendent of the Disinfecting Corps, have cost $15,011.26. The property owners are required to pay for much of this work, and the 10 MA TOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. receipts have been $8,416.03, which, deducted from $15,011.^ 26, leaves $6,595.23, the net expense of this service. There has been no occasion to use the small-pox hospital for patients during the past year, and there has been no expense in keeping it except the salary of the keeper ($450) and $34.37 for repairs. The maintenance of a quarantine with reasonably strict regulations to prevent the possible introduction by ships of epidemic and contagions diseases has come to be regarded a necessity in all seaport cities. The Quarantine Station established some years ago near Tybee has been kept up, and the regulations prescribed by the Board of Sanitary Commissioners have been enforced as far as practicable. The amount paid out for account of this service is $4,877.08. This includes the salary of the physician, the pay of hands, boatman, the tools, implements and appliances for unloading ballast, medicines, fumigating and disinfecting material, etc. It also includes $1,290 paid for a hoisting engine,' which has been placed in position but not jet used. The effort has been made to make the Quarantine Station self-supporting. So far the eftort has been nearly, if not quite, successful. The amount collected daring the year for quarantine fees has been $4,851.05, only $26.03. less than the outlay. The entire expenses of the Health and Cemetery Department, including Laurel Grove Cemetery, have been for the year, $46,509.04; the receipts $15,713.18. RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. The General Government at present has entire charge of the matter of improving the navigation of the river. The object of the present project for improving the channel is to secure twenty-two feet of water from the city to Tybee Roads at mean high water. The estimated cost of this undertaking was $730,000. The project, the plan and the cost were set forth in General Gilmore's report of 16th January, 1882. 1 up 1 I MAYOR'S ANNUAL sypovt 11 Oft K August, 1882, Congress appropriated $200,000, under which jetty work was commenced by the Government in January, 1883, and suspended in September following. Dredging ceased in December. Another appropriation was made in 1884, but work was not resumed until October. For some cause dredging, a necessary accompaniment to the other work, has not been yet resumed, although, as I am informed, the contract was given out some weeks ago. The main cause of the delay in prosecuting the work has been the lack of timely appropriation by Congress. Some harm has come of this by the notion of the fides on the unfinished work. Says Captain Bailey, the engineer in charge: " The enforced delay through lack of appropriation not only retarded the work, but increased its ultimate cost. Shoaling has taken place, which could have been readily controlled by a less expenditure than will be required for its removal." He says: " Dredging will soon be resumed. No fear of further shoaling need be entertained, provided funds are appropriated for continuous working until the project is completed." Captain Bailey is certainly sincere in what he says on this subject, and I have faith in his assurance that the completion of the work proposed will produce the effects originally planned. It is to be hoped that Congress will duly appreciate the importance of this work and make it sure by a proper appropriation of the means at its disposal. The population of our city has increased during the year. Several hundred new houses have been erected, and the signs of general prosperity are evident. Confidence in our securities is continually manifested by the incteising demand for our city bonds, and the market prices continue steadily to advance. The destiny of Savannah is in the hands of her own people, and when they shall realize that the large amounts of money squandered in annual pilgrimages abroad spent or invested at home will most materially add to the prosperity of their city, and when those who accumulate fortunes shall 12 KAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. learn their duty to invest them here, we shall no longer have to complain of onr heavy pablic debt, for it will soon become insignificant in proportion to the vagtness of oar material wealth. . . . Respectfully submitted. RUFU8 E. LESTEB, Mayor. STATEMENT OF CITY OF SAVANNAH BONDS. ISSUE 1879. BLA l> vm. $1,0110.... son.... 800.... 100.... NK BONDS HINTED. N.. 2,000 S,OiK) 1.000 1,000 Am'nt. $2,000,000! 1,500,1)001 800,000 lOO.OUffl W.MO.OOO1 SIGNED J1Y g. F. COMMISHIONKK8. No. 2,000 2,S9S 400 400 * Am'nt. $2,000,000 l,2!l,000 120,000 40,0110 $3,458,0001 ON HAND NOT HIONKD. No. 400 000 600 Am'nt. $200,0011 180, mo 60,000 f440,00oi SIGNED AND ISSUED. No. 2,00:' 21508 378 381 Am'nt, $2,000,000 1,290,000 113,400 88,100 13,450,5001 ON HAND SIGNED. No. 22 10 Am'nt. 9 0,600 1,900 S 8,500! AVAILABLE. No. 21 19 Am'nt. t 6,300 1,900 $ 8,2'. OMMISSION KK3. No. 47 104 SI 43 Am'nt. $ 47,000 52,000 15,3 0 4,300 f 118,6001 AMOUNT OUTSTANDING. No. 1,953 2,494 327 338 Am'nt. $1,953,000 I,2i7,0:)0 08,100 33,800 ?3,H31,t)00 *The actual amount signed was $3,460,000, but two bolids of $500 each, having been withdrawn and canceled by the S. F. Commissioners in place of'two others issued in their stead, these two canceled bonds have been deducted by the 8. F. Commissioners in their report of January 16th, 1881, and the City Treasurer deducts them from the report of this year so as to make both statements agree. fOne bond incorrectly signed. ot> I I ISSUE 1883. BLANK BONDS FEINTED. VAL. $1,000 500 50 No. 800 200 300 AMT. $300,000 100,000 15,000 $415,000 e B Con No. 300 150 300 IGNED YS. F. IMISS'KB. AMT. $300,000 75,000 15,000 $390,000 ON HAND Nor SIGNED. No. 50 AMT. $25,000 $25,000 SIGNED AND ISSUED. No. 300 126 293 AMT. $300,000 03,1)00 14,650 $377,650 ON HAND SIGNED. No. 24 7 AMT. $12,000 350 $12,360 CANCELED BY B. F. COMMISS'afl. No. 19 2 18 AMT. $19,000 1,000 800 $20,900 AMOUNT P g OUTSTANDING. of No, 281 124 276 AMT. 3 $281,000 62,000 a 13,750 | $358,760 | MAYOB 8 ANNUAL REPORT. 15 PRESENT BONDED INDEBTEDNESS. Bonds, Compromise 1879, issued .. $3,450,500 Less redeemed and canceled by Sinking Fund Commissioners... 118,600 Amount outstanding.............. $3,331,900 Bonds, compromise 1883, issued... 377,650 Less redeemed and canceled by Sinking Fund Commissioners ... 20,900 Amount outstanding ............. 356,750 Old Bonds outstanding ........... . 111,100 Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Bonds, indorsed, outstanding .......... 9,500 Add 30 per cent., as per compromise agreement ............... 2,850 12,350 Total Bonded Debt Dec. 31, 1884.. $3,812,100 STATEMENT OF OUTSTANDING BONDS, ISSUE 1879. Bonds outstanding January 1, 1883 $3,353,400 Canceled during year 1883 by Sinking Fund Commissioners....... 15,400 Outstanding, as per Sinking Fund Commissioners' Report 1883 .... $3,348,000 Exchanged for old Bonds during year 1883..................... 4,000 Total bonds outstanding, as per report, 1883................... $3,342,000 Canceled during year 1884 by Sinking Fund Commissioners........ 47,600 $3,294,400 Exchange during year 1884 .. .... 2,000 Issued in settlement of judgment.. 33,000 Exchange during year 1883, and not reported..................... 2,500 37,500 Outstanding Bonds January 1,1885 $3,331,900 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER. DB. STATEMENT OF CASH RECEIVED AND DISBURSED FROM JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1884. CB. Cash in Treasury Jan. 1,1884 . dish In hands of Eugene Kelly & Co., us per balance sheet of Dec. 31, 1883 ......... 40,214 43 2,485 84 Hoard of Health Paid salary of Health Officer from December 1,1888. to November 30,1S84, Inclusive , . $ 1.500 00 Paid salary of City Physicians . 1,200 00 Paid salary of officers City Dispensary ........... 2,043 00 Paid for drugs, medicines, labels, etc. ............. 3,276 39 Paid for fuel, lamps, filter, etc . 114 47 Paid for printing mortuary reports, circulars, sundry reports, and stationery for Health officer .............. 174 05 Paid for copperas and carbolic acid ............. 1,707 10 Paid for bottles, scoops, dippers and sundry incidentals ... 9"> 20 Paid for lime. ......... 241 80 Paid for time of hands Sanitary Disinfecting Corps. .... 1,67600 I o 00 > d e* w Hoard of Health Received from County Treasurer for medicines for county poor from November, 1883, to September, 1884, inclusive .... 675 CO Paid salary of policeman employed on sanitary duty . . . Paid for desk, stand, seats, lamp, basin, etc., for Morgue . . . . Paid for advertising sanitary notices and circulars ...... Paid for ice tickets for poor . . Paid St. Joseph's Infirmary for keeping city patients for one year .... ........ Paid Savannah Hospital for keeping city patients for one year . Paid Georgia Infirmary for appropriation from December 17, 1883, to December 17, 1884 . . Paid salary of Keeper of Pest House one year. ..... Paid for lumber and repairs to Pest House ......... Paid for coffins for paupers . . Board of Health O. E, Machine Pnld salary of Superintendent odorless excavating machine for one year ......... Paid time of hands odorless excavating machine for one year Pair for hire of extra teams, mules, etc., for hauling night soil. ............. 720 00 38 80 33 00 35 00 3,742 00 3,649 00 2,400 00 450 00 34 37 385 00 $23,417 09 091 63 4,508 65 2,309 00 Board of Health O. E, Machine-* Received from offloe collections odorless excavating machine . $6,508 .'!4 Received from City Marshal for collections for account of odorless excavating machine . . . 1,1801!) Received from Superintendent O. E. machine for poudrette sold ............. 667 50 8,410 03 Paid for forage, oats, corn, etc. Paid for four mules ...... Paid for hurncHH and repairs to name, shoeing, blacksmith Ing, etc .............. Paid for lime, cement, brick and sand ...... .,,., Paid for two heavy wagons and two hand trucks ....... Paid for new pitting barrels and freight on game ....... Paid for charcoal, nails, shovels, oils, etc., and repairs to barrels Paid for hire of horse for use by Superintendent O. E. M . . . 1,279 16 800 00 395 2:2 240 55 100 00 352 5 141 04 141 15 11,35ft IB 00 Bond Compromise Paid for $19,100 City Bonds, issue of 1879 ............ 16,053 20 Paid for $1,900 City Bonds, issue of 1883 ............ 1,581 12 Paid for $10,000 8., A. & G. R. R. | Indorsed Honds, with coupons ! attached ........... 11,525 00 [Paid John M. Guerard, Attor- ! ney, for $15,500 S.. A. & G. R. R. Indorsed Boiuls and interi cat on same .... .... 25,768 92 Paid R. K. Hlnes, Attorney, tc., inmaklngexchange 15641 Bond Compromise Received from John L. Hardee, Chairman Committee Bondholders, as per his statement. Received from sale of $10,000 City Bonds, issue of 1883, at 87 per cent ............. Received from sale of $10,160 City Bonds, issue of 1883, at 88} per cent ............. Received from sun dry parties for missing coupons of 8., A. & G. R. R. Indorsed Bonds .... CUy Lote Received from sale of Lot No. 13, Calhoun Ward, third installment. ............ Received from sale of Lots No. 53, 60 and 57, Forsyth Ward, third installment ...... Received from stile of Lot No. 31, Lloyd Ward, third installment ............'. Received from sale of Lot No. 76, Lloyd Ward, second installment. ............ 23,101 3 8,700 00 8,982 75 1,207 50 41,991 333 66 son oo 235 00 30000 Paid J. M. Guerard, Attorney, costs on motion new trial, ooste of writ, etc. ....... 36-> 25 Paid J. E. Park, C. C. Jones and George A. Mercer, Plaintiff's Attorneys, fees, etc. ..... 1,650 00 Paid express charges on City Bonds forwarded to sundry parties ............ 198 50 Paid for coupons from 8., A. & G. R. R. Indorsed Bonds, same having been deducted when exchanging bonds and afterwards paid when found and presented ........ 555 00 67,851 40 City VlockB Paid salary of keeper from Dec. 1st, 1888, to Dec. 4th, 1884 . . 20868 Received from snlo of Lot No. 7J, Lloyd Ward, second and third installment* ......... Heoci ved from sale of Lot No. 70, Lloyd Ward, third installment. ............ Received from snlo of Lot No, 88, Forsyth Ward, third installment. ............ Received from sale of Lots No. 00 and 01, Forsyth Ward, to tho 1st Volunteer llcglment. Received from sale of Lot No. 47, Lloyd Word, on account of third insuillincnt ...... Received from wile of Lots No. (I anil 7, Forsyth Ward, third installment. ......... Received from snlc of Lot No. 59, Forsyth Ward, third installment, ............ . Jas. E. Cope, Late City Treasurer Received for sundry due bills collected, with interest on same 4T)0 00 30000 300 00 4 00 100 00 033 33 300 00 3,755 99 100 58 Oitf/ Court Paid Sheriff for attendance on Oity Court und fees ..... Paid Sheriff for costs in solvent criminal eaves and serving subnonnus ............ Paid City Clerk for fees and attendance on Oity Court. . . aiti salary of Judge from Dec, 1st, 1888, to Jan. 20th, 1884, inclusive ............ Paid Solicitor General, fees . . Paid Clerk of Court, insolvent criminal costs ........ Paid .Savannah Gas Light Co. for gaa ............ Paid tor stationery, books, etc. . City Extension Paid W. J. Winn and assistant for services rendered ..... Paid time of hands ...... Paid for 75 granite blocks and 10 pieces stone, drilling holes in stones, etc........... 1,312 25 GOO 00 450 00 277 77 800 00 538 70 22 (iO 152 80- 4,100 21 780 12 411 75 225 90- 1,417 77 r OUf/ Paid Brush Electric Light and Power Co. for lighting streets irom December, 1888, to November, 1884, inclusive, , . 17,173 00 City Pumps - Paid salary of Contractor from Dec. let, 1883, to Dec. 1st. 1884 Paid for pumps, catch basins, new wells, repairs, etc .... 2,00004 845 00 2,845 04 Dock* and Wharves Paid for cleaning and repairing catch basins, luraber and sundry repairs to wharves . . . Paid for dredging at West Broad street slip as per contract. . . 16741 40000 65741 S3 Dry Culture- , Paid .salary of trunk keeper at Hulchimon Island ..... 15 00 Paid time of hands and Superintendent at Hutohtnson Island 1,422 01 Paid for lumber and tools for use at Hutchinson Island .... 296 82 Paid for advertising Hutchinson Island for rent In November, 1882 ............. 16 80 Paid Martin Cooley for building sewer in St. Julian street, extended east of Randolph street 1,76500 Paid Martin Cooley for extension of sewer to Lnmar's Creek . . 900 01) Paid for repairs to flood gates on Liimar't) and Bilbo Canal. . 77 50 Paid for buggy harncftx and carriage hire .......... 2700 Paid time of hands. ...... 4,658 15 Paid salaries of trunk keepers . 208 00 Paid for lumber, nails, tools, etc. 68 43 Paid for forage, oat, corn, etc . 84 36 9,539 07 FeesPaid salary of Harbor Master from Dec. 1st, 1883, to Dec. 1st, 1884 ............. 1,500 00 Feet Heceived from Harbor Master, collections from Jan, 1st to Dee. 81st, 1884, inclusive . . . Received from City Marshal,collections from Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st. 1884, inclusive ..... 11,8(56 30 848 50 12,713 Paid for hire of horse for use of Harbor Master. ....... ;Paid for stationery and printing j for Harbor Master ...... Paid remission of charge for ten execution^ for cleaning vaults. 171 00 4 00 10 00 1,685 00 Fire Department Paid Pay Roll from Dec. 1st, 1883, to Dec. 1st, 1884 ....... 13,770 91 Paid for forage, oats, corn, etc . 1,228 92 Paid for four norses purchased . 900 00 Paid for harness and repairs to ! same. ............ 399 74 ilPald for Bhoeing horses .... 163 27 L Fire Department Received from sale of horse . . 40 00 Received amount for work charged twice on bills and returned to Fire Department. . 615 Paid for rebuilding Jeffere Steam Fire Engine as per agreement 1,60000 (Paid for repairs to engines ami trucks ......... . . !Xi!> 00 'Paid for repairs to engine houses loo OH Paid for suction tubes, hose and nozzles. ........... 1,035 07 Paid for waste, oil, lamps, paint, tools, rope, Fire Department badges, etc .......... 471 W Paid for new wagon and painting and lettering same . . . . 21000 Paid appropriation annual parade ............. 200 00 Paid for meals for men, four new clocks, repairs to wagon, and incidentals, ......... 79 05 Paid for gas and gas appropriation ............. 130 47 Paid for rent of Germania Hall and rooms for one year to Nov. 1st, 1884 ........... 420 00 Paid for lumber and sawdust. 131 62 Paid for medicine and treatment sick horses .......... 163 40 Paid foi-coul and wood .... 98 00 Paid for stationery and printing 127 65 Paid for blankets, sheeting, mattresses, etc .......... 127 2"> Paid for two new signal boxes . 250 00 Paid for material and repairs to fire alarm ......... 553 81 Paid for eighteen firemen's cape 48 16 and suits .......... 260 00- 23,408 79 KI Ground Bents Received from city lots. 28,292 44 Incidentals Received from U. S. Supreme Court charges iu sundry cases overpaid and refunded.... 62 06 IncidetitatH Paid for carriage hire and stationery for City Assessors . 39 80 Paid first Board of City Assessors for services rendered . . . 1,250 00 Paid Clerk hire of first Board of City Assessors ........ 200 00 Paid Assessor for adjusting changes of ownership of property during year 1883 . . . 100 00 Paid second Board of City Assessors, for services rendered . 1,250 00 Paid Clerk hire of second Board of City Assessors ....... 350 00 Paid for costs in suits, taking testimony, etc. .......... 71 85 Paid Q. A. Mercer's expenses to Washington in city's interest. 74 70 Paid sundry expenses entertaining Postmaster General and at Governor's reception ..... 02 50 Paid for postage, telegrams, fares of paupers, ice tickets, etc. . . 1,61*6 00 Paid for gas at Exchange ... 77 91- ow , 00* p 5,203 36 Merest Received Interest on notes given in payment for City Lots . , 434 56 Jail Keceived for jatl fees, less commissions paid for collecting, as follows: From Chatham County .... From Wayne County ..... From Chnrlton County .... From Bryan County...... From Ware County ...... From Appling County..... From U. 8. Government.... From Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Co. .... .Received from John Nicolson for umount refunded for overcharge ............ 2,073 25 235 37 00 00 450 00 603 36 72 98 01 123 03 Interest Paid Eugene Kelly & Go. commission for paying coupons from City Bonds ....... 105 38 Paid coupons from City Bonds, issue of 1870 ......... 100,277 50 Paid coupons from City Bonds, issue of 1883 ......... 20,fi24 74 Paid old coupons from City Bonds, face vulue $1,018,50, paid at 5-7 of full value ... 727 50 100.735 12 bO as 4 75 3,118 06' Jail Paid salary of Jailer and Deputy from Dec. 1st, 1883, to Jan. 5th, 1884, inclusive ........ 330 53 " Puid wages of cook from Dec. 1st, 1883, to Jan, 5th, 1884, inclusive 1750 ' Puid wages of guards from Dec. 1st, 1883, to Jan. 5th, 1884, inclusive ............ 210 00 Paid salary of physician for month of December, 1883, . 25 00 Paid for bread nnd beef, etc.. . 450 65 Paid for wood, coni, sweeping I chimnies, efr. ........ 36 40 Paid Savannah Gas Light Co, for gas ............ 23 52 1,098 60 Laurel Grove Cemetery Received from keeper, burial fees 810 50 Received from keeper, sale of lots 960 00 1,770 50 License* Received from Clerk of Council K for Transient and Hucksters . 6,500 50 Received from office collections for Liquor Licenses ..... 33,925 00 40,485 50 Eugene Kelly & Co., General Account Paid them in full for for loan -. . Paid them in full for interest on loan ............. Laurel Grove Cemetery Paid salary of Keeper from Dec. 1st, 1883, to Dec. 1st, 1884. . . Paid for new fencing, materials, tools, whitewashing, etc . . . Paid for pumps and repairs to same............. Paid time of hands ...... Paid for 200 markers and painting same ........... Licenses Paid amounts to be refunded sundry parties for deductions allowed on liquor licenses . . 40,000 00 2,867 96 42,367 96 I 999 96 2,131 00 44 00 3,658 75 123 00 6,856 71 m I 97 60 MarketReceived from Clerk, fees . . . lleoeived from City Marshal, for rentof stores ........ Received from City Marshal for rent of stalls......... 10,959 90 2,666 80 4,616 75 18,243 4o Market Fnid sulary of Clerk and anslutitnt from Dec. lnt, 1883, to Dec. 1st, 1884 . ......... Paid time of hands ...... Paid for brooms, glazing, buildsteps, repairs, etc. ...... Paid Savannah Gas Light Co. for j?aH ....... .... Paid for gas fitting and plumb ing. ............. Paid Brush Klectric Litfht mid . Power Co. for lighting Market from Fi'li. .7 to Nov. 80, 1KH4 . Paid for painting tin rout'. . . Opening Street* Paid Planters' Bice Mill Co. for ground taken for opening streets ............ Paid Mrs. M. E. Jaudon for ground taken for opening streets ............ Paid K. J. Nunn for ground taken for opening streets . . . Paid Central Cotton Press Co. for ground taken for opening tret ............ 1,300 02 60000 88700 380 M) 145 90 SKI (18 2SJ4 00 52000 78080 170 96 66260 X> c (HI Received from City Tombs . . 202 ">(> Received from rooms in Kxehange Building . ...... 1,57500 Received from MeLeod Mil! site 100 00 Received from C'anal Lot No. I). 75 00 2,4 ] | .River and Harbor Improvement* '[Paid expenses B. E, Lestorand i (ieo. A. Mercer to Washington 26150 ijl'uid for ivmovliiK obstructions ' In Kiivunnuli river ...... 2 .50 204 00 Saliiriex Paid salaries City Officers from '! Dec. 1st, 1888, to Dee. 1st, 1884 17,430 7 IPaid salary of Kpeciiil directive , from Dec. 18th, 1883, to Dec. . 18th, 1KS4 .......... iPaid T. B. Musters salary, costs, I etc ............ j*. : Paid for compiling statistics for Mayor's report, etc. 300 00 57 85 35 00 17,828 02 Scavenger Department Paid contractor from Dec. 1st, 1883, to Dec. 1st, 1884 ..... o* x SS 1 M 2 14,749 92 Sinking Fund Bonds of 1879 - Paid Commissioners for bonds, ismie of 1879, canceled and retired ............ 25,08450 Sinking Fund Bonds of 1883 Paid Commissioners for bonds of the issue of 1883, canceled and retired ............ 4,980 00 c K 00" I Streets and Lanes Paid time of hands. .,'.... 12,17845 Pnid time of teamsters ..... 4,301 83 Paid for forage ......... 1,281 38 Puid for repairs to wagons, carts, harness, tools, shoeing, etc . . 855 38 Paid for lime, cement, oil, paint, tools, bluestone, crossings, etc. 2,138 62 Paid for stone and rock ballast, and oyster shells ....... 2,788 21 en Streets and L'mea Received from Clerk of Council for sewer permits. ...... 62S 00 Received from City Marshal for repairs to sidewtilks ..... 165 71 Received fromCity Surveyor for collection for paving portion Liberty street, near ., F. & W. Ry. Depot........ 25 00 Paid for repairs to pavements . . 10008 Paid for gas at city stables ... 15 65 Paid for bridges and railings and repairs to same, building plank roads, etc ....... 657 16 Paid for lumber ........ 1,821 93 Paid for building sewer in Habersham street and services of Inspector for same ...... 1,00225 Paid for building cesspools and repairing traps, etc ...... 421 88 Paidfortrees. ......... 31 00 Paid time hands and teams macadamizing Qwinnett street road ............. 184 50 Paid W. J. Donnelly amount of judgment in City Court and interest ........... 1,612 79 Paid T. Colson for damages to horse and wagon from tailing Into sewer .......... 25 00 Paid Alice Pye for personal damages sustained ........ 1,500 00 Paid Ocean S. S. Company for lumber, labor, etc., relaying southern half of Canal street, west of canal ........ 1,230 46 Paid Qeo. H. Remshart for land taken on Jefferson street an 04 Received from Personal .... 14,871 55 Received from Shipping .... 5,05:1 18 Received from Hpectlio..... 8(J,3K7 ;!T> Kecoived from Clerk of Council for collections for Dog Budges G75 (Ml ;!'>:>,.sjti; 0!) Water Worku Received from Water Rents and water sold to vessels ..... 44,B.'i7 ;!8 Received from Chatham County for iron- pipes ......... Received from Hnrmon & Remshart for water pipes and hydrant ......,.....". Received from United Hydraulic Cotton Press Association for pipes, valves, etc ........ Received from J. P. Daily for old supply, pipe .......... Received from City of Jaeksonsonville for water gates ... 63 00 4.'!2 00 14000 1)91) 77 9 25 Taxes, 1883 Paid sundry parties for taxes over paid by them, and accordingly refunded ........ Tajw, 1884 - Paid sundry parties for taxes overpaid by them, and accordingly refunded ........ Paid for badges......... Paid for impounding dogs and stamps for dog notices .... Water Worku Paid salaries of officers and employes for one year ...... Paid for wood ......... Paid for running expenses of pumps ............ Paid for oats and forage .... :Paid for repairs to engines and i mains, etc. .......... I'aid for connections ...... [Paid for extensions ...... Paid for hydrant account, plumbing, etc. ........... Paid for incidentals ...... Paid for flushing, cleaning and repairing cesspools, etc .... Paid for rent of telephones and lines from Oct. 19,1884, to Oct. 19,1885. ........... 8,707 12 7,570 29 629 21 191 3o 1,179 53 434 29 5,037 34 162 17 145 22 316 72 8000 ,'W 87 790 21 175 00 113 28 1,084 4o K 3> I Received from McDonough & Ballanty ne for cast iron and for boilers, stack, steam pipe, etc. 947 14 47,228 54 \\ r. Outstanding at date of our last report .......... $3,338.000 Issued in exchange for old bonds since.... .... .. 8,500 Issued by sale of T. M. Cunningham, Trustee, (as per details already given in this report)........ 33,000 Total..................................... $3,379,500 CANCELED DURING THE YEAR 1884, VIZ.: By purchases by S. F. Commission .... .$29,500 Purchased by Finance Committee as partial offset to $33,000 sold by T. M. C., Trustee ... ....................... 18,100 $47,600 Leaving outstanding this day................ $3,331,900 There are $8,500 of these new bonds in hands of Treasurer available for exchange, certificates on same having been signed-by us. ISSUE OF 1883. Issued-in exchange for $290,500 S., A. & G. R. R. Co. bonds, as already stated. .................. $377,650 MAYOB'S ANNUAL BBPOBT. 43 CANCELED DURING THE YEAR 1884, VIZ.: By purchase by S. F. Commissioners ......$ 6,000 By purchase by Finance Committee as partial offset for $33,000 bonds issue of 1879 sold by T. M. C., Trustee .............. 14,100 $20,100 Leaving outstanding this date................. $357,550 There are $12,350 in hands of Treasurer available for exchange, as already stated. We had hoped that the $42,200 of new bonds to which we called attention in each of our previous reports, would have been retired during 1884, as the city finances would seem to have warranted it. All of which is respectfully submitted. JOHN FLANNEBY, . S. GUCKENHEIMEB, JOSEPH D. WEED, JOHN L. HAEDEE, C. C. CASEY, Sinking Fund Commissioners. 44 MATCH'S ANNUAL EEPOBT. REPORT OF CLERK OF COUNCIL. OFFICE CLERK OF COUNCIL, SAVANNAH, GA., January 1,1885. Hon. Bufits E. Lester, Mayor: SIRI have the honor to submit the following report of the transactions of this office from January 1st to December 31st, 1884: Receipts Badges (dog) ....;...........................$ 675 00 Fines................ ....... ........... 4,872 75 Licenses .................................... 6,560 50 Sewer Permits............................... 628 00 Total....... ........................ ..$12,73625 The records of the city are written up to date and systematically arranged. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, FEANK E. BEBARER, Clerk of Council. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1 REPORT OF CORPORATION ATTORNEY. SAVANNAH, GA., January 31,1885. Hon. Bufus E. Lcster, Mayor of Savannah : DEAR tilRI have the honor to transmit herewith a statement showing the operations of my department of the city government for the year 1884. The following ordinances passed by Council have been either prepared by me or passed upon during the year just closed: 1. To increase number of Inspectors of Naval Stores. 2. To authorize Savannah, Florida and "Western Railway to employ certain policemen for its wharves. 3. To prohibit the use of velocipedes upon any sidewalks, squares, or parks of the City of Savannah, and to prohibit playing ball in extension of Forsyth Place. 4. To consolidate the ordinances of city for regulating the Market and green groceries. 5. To amend tax ordinance. 6. To amend tax ordinance, and fix penalties for violation of revenue ordinances of the city. 7. Providing rules for better government of the Fire Department. 8. To increase Fire Department. 9. To promote public health, by requiring occupants of premises where fish or poultry is prepared for market or shipping to keep premises in sanitary condition. 10. To provide for forfeiture of bonds for appearance at Police Court. 11. To provide for assessment of real estate. 12. Defining articles green grocers may sell. 46 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REBOOT. 13. To grant certain lots in Forsyth Place to Commissioners of the County of Chatham. 14. To amend ordinances in relation to sweeping chimnies. 15. To prohibit the disinterring or removal of the remains of any person from any of the public cemeteries of the City of Savannah, without the permission of Health Officer. 16. To prohibit playing ball in extension of Forsyth Place. 17. To project and lay out south of Anderson street certain streets and lanes. 18. To define the quarantine ground, and affixing penalties for breach of same. 19. To regulate width of pavements on sidewalks on River street. 20. To amend ordinance laying out streets and lanes south of Anderson street. 21. To authorize a deduction of 10 per cent, for prompt payments of water rents, etc. 22. To provide for cleaning of surface drawers and privy vaults. 23. To increase efficiency of the Fire Department. 24. To amend ordinance in reference to quarantine grounds. 25. To amend ordinance laying out streets south of Anderson street. 26. To amend an ordinance to provide for the opening and to declare opeu certain streets, and to extend plan of city over limits west of the Ogeechee Canal. .27. To name certain unnamed streets. 28. To regulate manner of making sewer connections and laying gas pipes, etc. 29. To suspend ordinance of April 25th, 1883, relative to obstructions on the sidewalk. 30. To provi le for appointment of Committees of Council. 31. To abolish offices of Pump Contractor and Keeper of City Clocks. 32. To increase bond of City Treasurer. 33. To fix salaries of citv officers. J MAYOU8 ANNUAL REPORT. 47 34. To assess and levy taxes, and to raise revenue. In addition to the duty of drawing ordinances for the Committees of Council, I have attended a number of meetings and advised with the Committees whenever called upon. The following proceedings have been had in the several Courts during the past year: In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia a peremptory mandamus in each of the following cases has been issued against the city : Chas. O. Witte vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah. Robert Sewell vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah. Jas. S. Gibbs vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah. Geo. W. Witte vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah. First National Bank of Charleston vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah. Andrew Simonds vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah. In the case of Wilder & Co. et al., complainants, and The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, defendants, to which reference was made in my last report, the decision of the Supreme Court was rendered, and the decision of the Superior Court was affirmed, the Court holding that "under the charter of the City of Savannah (Code, 4847,) the municipal authorities have power to classify and arrange the various business trades, etc., carried on in the city into such classes of subjects for taxation as may be just and proper. When such classification has been made, and a tax imposed upon persons engaged in the business of commission merchants or factors, and also upon agents of steamboats and vessels, and upon agencies for ocean steamships, persons conducting more than one of these businesses could be required to pay a tax upon each, unless it should be made to appear that there was a custom of conducting the two occupations together of such universal practice as to justify the conclusion that, by implication, they were one and Ihe same business. "Authority to tax all persons exercising any profession or 48 MAVOB'S ANNOAL BEPOBT. business may be exercised by taxing each member of a firm so engaged separately." The case of C. F. Foy vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Superior Court of Chatham County, was dismissed on objections to certain interrogatories being sustained by the Court. The case of T. B. Masters vs. The Mayor and Aldermen was non-suited on the trial in the City Court of Savannah. The case of A. B. Hazzard vs. The Mayor and Aldermen was again tried in the City Court of Savannah, and resulted in- a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $3,700. A motion for a new trial was made in the City Court, and, after argument, the same was granted. The case was then carried to the Supreme Court by the plaintiff, and, in that Court, the decision of the Court below was affirmed, and the case now stands for trial at next term of City Court. The case of John L. Hardee vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah was non-suited on the trial in the City Court of Savannah. In the case of Pano Pope vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of the Uity of Savannah, which was a bill for an injunction to restrain the city authorities from removing fruit stands, etc., from the streets, the Superior Court refused to grant the injunction, and, on the case being carried to the Supreme Court, the decision of the Court below was affirmed. In the case of Proctor B. Lawrence et al., complainants, and The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah et al., defendants, on the coming back of theremittitur from the Supreme Court overruling the demurrer of Christopher Murphy, trustee, to the bill of complainants, the said Christopher Murphy, trustee, filed an answer in the nature of a cross bill against the City of Savannah, whereby he prayed, among other things, that the Mayor and Aldermen should be decreed to pay such damages as should be assessed against them for an alleged illegal sale of Lot No. 55 Brown Ward and the improvements thereon. The case was tried at the June Term of the Superior Court, and the following ver- MAYOB'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. 49 t diet was rendered by the jury: " We, the jury, find for Christopher Murphy, trustee, the amount of eleven thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty cents, net balance of sale of property No. 55 Brown Ward, with lawful interest from date of sale, and ten per cent, on principal and interest for attorney's fees." In the trial of the case it was admitted that eleven thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty cents was net balance in the City Treasury, arising from the sale of Lot No 55 Brown Ward and improvements; and the only portion of the verdict that was unexpected and unwarranted by the if evidence in the case was the portion finding attorney's fees | against the city. This verdict was brought to your attention, and by yon was referred to the Board of Aldermen, and it was stated to the Board that the only legal way to get rid of the verdict was to move for a new trial in the case before the end of the term of the Court at which the verdict was rendered. But, after some consideration by the Board, I was instructed not to move for a new trial, in the case. A new trial was moved for by Christopher Murphy, trustee, and the same was denied by the Judge presiding in the Superior Court, whose decision was as follows: "The first question which we encounter in this ease is the right of Murphy, trustee, to attack the validity of this sale; we are clear that he has not this right. June 27th, 1881, he filed his bill in this Court, asking to recover the proceeds of this sale less the ground rent and other charges. Whether the sale was valid or not, he then and there elected to treat it as valid. On the same day the city filed its answer, there being no waiver of discovery. Un- > 1 j der an agreement of counsel, the cause was submitted and the decree of July 1st was the result. "We have not time to notice these pleadings in detail; we refer to them. If there be in law or in equity such a principle as estoppel, it is shown upon the face of this record, and protects that sale from the attack now made. 4 48 MA JOB'S ANNUAL REPORT. business may be exercised by taxing each member of a firm so engaged separately." The case of C. F. Foy vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Superior Court of Chatham County, was dismissed on objections to certain interrogatories being sustained by the Court. The case of T. B. Masters vs. The Mayor and Aldermen was non-suited on the trial in the City Court of Savannah. The case of A. B. Hazzard vs. The Mayor and Aldermen was again tried in the City Court of Savannah, and resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $3,700. A motion for a new trial was made in the City Court, and, after argument, the same was granted. The case was then carried to the Supreme Court by the plaintiff, and, in that Court, the decision of the Court below was affirmed, and the case now stands for trial at next term of City Court. The case of John L. Hardee vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah was non-suited on the trial in the City Court of Savannah. In the case of Pano Pope vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of the L'ity of Savannah, which was a bill for an injunction to restrain the city authorities from removing fruit stands, etc., from the streets, the Superior Court refused to grant the injunction, and, on the case being carried to the Supreme Court, the decision of the Court below was affirmed. In the case of Proctor B. Lawrence et al., complainants, and The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah et al., defendants, on the coming back of theremittitur from the Supreme Court overruling the demurrer of Christopher Murphy, trustee, to the bill of complainants, the said Christopher Murphy, trustee, filed an answer in the nature of a cross bill against the City of Savannah, whereby he prayed, among other things, that the Mayor and Aldermen should be decreed to pay such damages as should be assessed against them for an alleged illegal sale of Lot No, 55 Brown Ward and the improvements thereon. The case was tried at the June Term of the Superior Court, and the following ver- MAYOB'S ANNUAL REPORT. 49 diet was rendered by the jury: " We, the jury, find for Christopher Murphy, trustee, the amount of eleven thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty cents, net balance of sale of property No. 65 Brown Ward, with lawful interest from date of sale, and ten per cent, on principal and interest for attorney's fees." In the trial of the case it was admitted that eleven thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty cents was net balance in the City Treasury, arising from the sale of Lot No 55 Brown Ward and improvements; and the only portion of the verdict that was unexpected and unwarranted by the ;i! evidence in the case was the portion finding attorney's fees $ against the city. This verdict was brought to your attention, and by you was referred to the Board of Aldermen, and it was stated to the Board that the only legal way to get rid of the verdict was to move for a new trial in the case before the end of the term of the Court at which the verdict was rendered. But, after some consideration by the Board, :.|i I was instructed not to move for a new trial, in the case. A ' new trial was moved for by Christopher Murphy, trustee, and the same was denied by the Judge presiding in the Superior Court, whose decision was as follows: "The first question which we encounter in this case is the right of Murphy, trustee, to attack the validity of this sale; we are clear that he has not this right. June 27th, 1881, he filed his bill in this Court, asking to recover the proceeds of this sale less the ground rent and other charges. Whether the sale was valid or not, he then t and there elected to treat it as valid. On the same day the city filed its answer, there being no waiver of discovery. Under an agreement of counsel, the cause was submitted and the decree of July 1st was the result. "We have not time to notice these pleadings in detail; we refer to them. If there be in law or in equity such a priiiciple as estoppel, it is shown upon the face of this record, and protects that sale from the attack now made. 4 50 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. "The sworn statement in Murphy's bill is that the sale was made under an agreement with the city whereby the city promised to turn over the proceeds of the sale less its charges to him. It is argued, and with some reason, that this alone is sufficient to estop Murphy; but whether this be true or not, it is very clear that he elected to treat this sale as valid, and cannot now dispute its legality. Upon this assumption all the pleadings and the entire course of the case was based. There seems indeed to have been no real difference between Murphy and the city; both parties acquiesced in the decree of July 1st. " On September 13th following the Lawrences filed their bill, alleging that they had an interest in this property, and consequently in the proceeds of its sale. It was determined by the decree that the city by its re-entry acquired an absolute title to the property, without accountability to any one for the proceeds of the sale, and that these proceeds should go to the Murphy children, because the city so determined. The Lawrences attacked this conclusion of the decree; they were permitted to do so because they had not been parties to the case in which the decree was rendered. This bill filed by them and the argument of their counsel proceeded mainly upon the idea that the persons who held the title at the time of the re-entry were entitled to the surplus of the proceeds, because it had been the custom of the city so to dispose of this surplus. We had no difficulty in overruling this position. The view taken by the Supreme Court that the city held the title as security for its debt was not presented ; or rather we will say we have no recollection: of its having been presented. We do not see how we could have failed to be impressed by it. At any rate, the very able and satisfactory opinion of Justice Hall leaves no room to doubt its correctness. The distinguished counsel who represented Mr. Murphy then, and who represents him now, defended this decree, maintaining that the re-entry did vest an absolute title in the city; that it did have the right to dispose of the proceeds as it pleased, and that consequently the Lawrences had no of Murphy. But whether this decree is re viewable at the instance of Murphy or not, it is very certain that the sale is not open to attack; his election to treat it as valid makes it unassailable; any other conclusion would be in the highest degree inequitable. We instructed the jury that there was no evidence to support a finding in favor of Murphy for attorney's fees against the city. It is idle to submit an issue to the jury where the evidence does not warrant it. If it is perfectly clear that the court would set aside a finding as being without evidence to sustain it, then the Court should not say to the jury that they may make such a finding. " Now there is not a scintilla of evidence to sustain the charge of bad faith or stubborn litigiousness against the city. It was thought that the city had absolute right to the proceeds of this sale. As eminent and able a jurist as Judge Fleming so held. So satisfied with the correctness of this ruling does Murphy seem to have been that he did not appeal from it. His counsel maintained its correctness when it was assailed by the Lawrences, and yet, notwithstanding this, the city at once and throughout these proceedings expressed its willingness to pay over the net proceeds to the properly constituted representative of Murphy's children. It was a delicate and difficult question whether this trust did not become executed on the death of Mrs. Murphy. If it appeared that the trust was executed, and that the legal interest had vested in the children, and was not in Murphy aa trustee, then payment to Murphy would have been no MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. 51 claim upon the fund. Their argument convinced me, and hence the decision which was subsequently reversed. In view of these facts it appears to us quite doubtful whether Murphy can attack this decree at all. Indeed, upon reflection, we think he cannot. We, however, held otherwise on ~'| the trial, and charged the jury that Murphy's trusteeship did not terminate with the death of his wife ; that he was still trustee and entitled to receive whatever was due the trust estate, and that in this particular said decree was erroneous and in accordance with this charge the jury found in favor 52 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. protection to the city. The children could have held it liable. The effort of the city seems to have been to guard against this contingency. This, it was not only its right, but its botmden duty to do. It appears to have been ready at all times to pay this money over to whomsoever the Court determined to be authorized to receive it. To impose damages in the nature of attorney's fees against the city on the ground of bad faith or stubborn litigionsness, in view of the facts of this cause would shock the rudest sense of justice and right. The jury, however, disregarded the charge of the Court as to this point. From the high character of the gentlemen who composed the jury, I am sure they erred unwittingly. If the city asked to have this verdict set aside I should feel constrained so to do, because in this particular it is contrary to the charge of the Court and to the evidence. The city does not ask, and I do not know that it is the province of the Court to dispense gratuities. The same observation Applies to the finding against the Lawrence claim. If the Lawrences had an interest in the property, I think they are entitled to some part of its proceeds; they, however, do not move for a new trial. As the verdict does not express our view as to the legal rights and merits of this cause, we have considered whether we ought not to grant the motion now made and set it aside. If we thought that the morents would be satisfied with this disposition of the case we should make it; we presume, however, that he desires the verdict set aside upon the grounds taken in his motion, and not otherwise. If set aside for the reason we have given, the result will be that the movent cannot take a writ of error to the Supreme Court, but must file his exceptions pendente life, and await another trial. This will cause delay, and he is entitled to prompt adjudication of the questions made. If the rights which he asserts are his, there should be no delay in their recognition. We think that this verdict is more favorable to this trustee than the law and the evidence authorize; the parties who have cause to complain seem satisfied, however, to abide the result. To set aside the MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. 53 verdict under these circumstances and because of the views herein expressed would delay the adjudication of the question made by this motion, and impede and embarrass the movant's cause. We think, therefore, that it is our duty to overrule the motion, and to leave the verdict undisturbed. j " In the event that the said verdict remains as the final . | adjudication of this controversy, we are in some doubt as to whether it is a matter of duty or discretion with the Chancellor to require a bond from the trustee for the protection of the minors, or whether it is a matter of right with him to receive the funds without bond; and this question we sub- ^ li mit for the judgment of the Supreme Court. As we have :,$ I been advised that a writ of error is to be taken to the higher ^j f Court, we prefer not to pass upon the decree, which has been | \ presented for our signature, and to which objection is made. l It may be filed, and the motion for the same will be hereafter determined. " It is considered and ordered that said motion for a new trial be and the same is hereby overruled. "A. P. ADAMS, "August 6th, 1884. Judge." The case was then taken to the Supreme Court by the defendant, Murphy, trustee, and, after argument in that Court, a decision was rendered; and I insert herein such part of the opinion of the Court as will show the view of that Court as to the charges of bad faith so persistently made by said Murphy in this matter : " The city undertook to sell this property at the request of the plaintiff in error, in order to relieve his title of an incnmbranco that seriously impeded its free use and disposition ; it acted not so much for the protection of its own rightsfor in any event the property was bound for the claims it held against itas for his relief. He acquiesced in all that was done, and insisted in the courts upon his right to have the fund held by the city; he even went so far as to set tip the right of the city to dispose of the fund, and to disregard the claims of others to the same. 54 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. " The city seems to have reeogaized his claim, and to have aided him to every turn; it has been involved on his account in serious litigation, and has incurred expense in consequence thereof. Surely this party is now estopped from undoing what has been done at his special instance and request, and which, upon consideration, he has, in various ways, ratified and confirmed. Every presumption is in favor of so much of this record and decree as we have seen cannot be reviewed, etc. (Code, 3753); to hold otherwise would be to enable him to take advantage of his own conduct to determine of a party who had graciously and gratuitously served him. " While we cannot approve the finding of the jury so far as it saddles the cost of this litigation upon the city, which is, from anything we can see in the case, free from the charge of being stubbornly litigious, or from any (the least) imputation of bad faith, such as renders it liable for the counsel fees of the plaintiff in error, yet, on account of its failure to make any motion to get rid of this part of the verdict, we find ourselves unable to interfere for its relief, and must let both the verdict and the decree rendered on and pursuance of it stand. These views preclude the consideration of other questions made by this immense record. " Judgment affirmed." No final decree has been made up to this time in said cause. The case of 8. B. Lufburrow et al., complainants, and Mary G. IJafburrow et al., defendants, has been disposed of in the Superior Court, and there is no impediment to deter the city from collecting its taxes. The cases of Mr. Williamsou et al., complainants, and The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, defendants, and Church Wardens, etc., of Christ Church, complainants, and. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, defendants, involving the Litigation about Old Cemetery, have been put on suspense docket in Superior Court, and may be called up by either side, after notice, at any time. J MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 55 I! The following, cases are now pending in which the city is interested : In Superior Court of Chatham county: 1. Walter Blake et al., complainants, and The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, defendants. 2. Proctor B. Lawrence et al., complainants, and The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah et al., defendants. 3. William Spears vs. W. S. Lawton, Savannah Florida & .]. Western Bailway, and The Mayor and Aldermen of the City j of Savannah. .; > 4. McAlpin et al., complainants, and The Mayor and I Aldermen of the City of Savannah, defendants. "'; 5. J. H. M. Clinch, executor, et al., complainants, and The , i Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, defendants. i In City Court of Savannah : ' 6. 'A. B. Hazzard vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah. \ i 7. Geo. T. Nichols vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of the ; City of Savannah. . f ; 8. Robert Baiford vs. The Mayor and Aldermen of the . !$ City of Savannah. * i Most of the persons whose land has been taken for open- V ing and widening streets in the western part of the city have If been settled with, and deeds made for land taken by the city ; j have been drawn. '' Vary respectfully, : H. C. CUNNINGHAM, Corporation Attorney. 66 MAYOR'S ANSCAL IIEPOKT. REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE. OFFICE CHIEF OF POLICE, SAVANNAH, GA., January 1,1885. Hon. Rufus E. Leater, Mayor: SIRI have the honor to submit herewith my annual report of the Police Department for the year ending December 31st, 1884. The aggregate strength of the department is fifty-nine (59), as follows: Chief....................................... 1 Assistant Chief ....... ...................... 1 Sergeants. .... .. .......................... 4 Privates ......................... .......... 53 Total...................................59 The above does not include the Ocean Steamship Company's Police, consisting of Sergeants............ ...................... 3 Privates ............................... ....16 Total............ ................. .....19 For city ....... ........................69 For Ocean Steamship Company ........... 19 Total...............................78 During the year 2,118 arrests have been made, being 118 more than the year previous. Of this number 891 were white, and 1,227 colored. MAYORS ANNTAIi REPORT. The following were the crimes and misdemeanors for which the arrests were made: OFFENSE. Adultery .................... Aiding, Abetting and Inciting Riot ...... Assault with Intent to Murder . . ..... Burglary ................... Carrying Concealed Weapons. ......... Disorderly Conduct .............. Drunkenness. ................. Disorderly Driving. .............. Fighting .................... Gambling. ................... Insanity .................... Interfering with Officers ............ Larceny .... ............... Lost Children ................ Resisting Officers. .... .......... Safe Keeping. ................. Violating City Ordinances ........... Total. ............. White. id 6 2 154 373 71 5 24 1O 5 11 9O ie 136 891 Colored. 1 4 68 26 1 13 7 316 138 10 1OO 16 6 23 110 5 1 28 44 64 163 1227 3 i 4 102 82 3 {*> 7 470 511 10 254 18 11 47 m 10 6 39 73 80 ?9 2118 Number of lodgerswhite. 570; colored, 132; total..... .702 Number of animals impounded.......................352 Number of stores and dwellings found open........... 54 Number of fires.................................... 42 Number of false alarms.............................. 3 During the year twenty-one (21) privates were detailed as sanitary inspectors, who performed their duty 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, worn-out and unreliable. Some necessary repairs, each as plastering, calcimining and painting are very much needed in the Police Barracks. 58 MATCH'S ANNUAL REPORT. CASUALTIES AND CHANGES. Resigned.Privates Foley, M. J., June 23,1884 ; Hazel, W. M., August 19, 1884; Coffins, J., November 20, 1884 ; Jones, N. J., December 17,1884. Dismissed.Privates Bender, H. W., September 19,1884; Coffins, J., February 19, 1884; Evans, J., January 30,1884; Johnson W. M., March 21,1884; Maher, J., July 5,1884. Died.Private Counihan, T., December 29,1884. Appointed.Privates Coffins, J., March 1,1884; Evans, J., March 1, 1884; Maher, J., July 15,1884; Bender, H. W., September 26,1884; Fleming, T. W., Goss, T., Hymes, H. S. and Mikell, J. T., December 1,1884 ; Baughn, H. W., December 20,1884. RECAPITULATION. Appointed Privates ................................. 9 Kesigned .................. ........................ 4 Dismissed... ....................................... 5 Died ............................................. 1 Gain.... .............................. 9 Loss ...................................10 Loss................... 1 INVENTORY OF CITY PROPERTY AT POLICE BARRACKS. 42 Springfield Rifles, cal. 45. 19 Smith & Wesson's Pistols, cal. 45. 84 Colt's Pistols. 62 Pistol Holsters. 42 Bayonets and Scabbards. 42 Cartridge Boxes. 1000 Bounds of Rifle Ammunition. 500 Rounds of Pistol Ammunition. 61 Waist Belts. 120 Clubs. 61 Whistles. MATOB'S ANNUAL REPORT. 59 78 Battles. ' 61 Fire Keys. 16 Saddle Horses. 1 Wagon Horse. 17 Halters. 16 Bridles and Bits. . 16 McClellan Saddles. 16 Saddle Cloths. 16 Pairs of Spurs. 16 Pairs of Spur Straps. 1 Wagon. 1 Harness. 1 Feed Cutter. 3 Curry Combs. 3 Brushes. 1 Rake. 1 Shovel. 60 Iron Bebsteads. 59 Mattresses. 59 Pillows. 60 Bed Spreads. 65 Spittoons. 3 Water Coolers. 12 Brooms. 6 Buckets. 6 Scrubbing Brushes. 10 Chairs. j; 1 Hat Rack. in| 24 Towels. ' -'jf 2 Wardrobes. ' ,! 39 Blankets. ; \' 1 Tables. !i,i 7 Desks. iv 1 Clock. |l 2 Stoves. 12 Tin Plates. 2 Cups. Lifl 60 JIAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Uniforms on hand not in hands of the men : 8 Frock Goats. 9 Sack Coats. 2 Old Overcoats. I am, sir, Very respectfully, B. H. ANDEHSON, Chief (/ Pdice. MAYOR'S ANNUAL BBPOBT. 61 REPORT OF Cm MARSHAL Cm MARSHAL'S OFFICE, SAVANNAH, December 31,1884. _ i t Hon. Rufus E. IJester, Mayor: >j SIR-I herewith respectfully submit my report for the ;?j jear 1884: j! SIDEWALKS. !! 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 oat instructions received. *\ GROUND RENTS. f All lots reported to this office by the City Treasurer in | j arrears for ground rent have been re-entered, in compliance *' with ordinance. ji MARKET. !]| '! I I have collected from rent of stalls $4,616.75, and for rent ; j of stores $2,666.80, making a total of $7,283.55. 'j I have collected during the year $58,922.31, as follows : ' Real Estate, 1876. ................$ 7763 ( Eeal Estate, 1877................. 54 14 Beal Estate, 1878................. 119 01 Keal Estate, 1879................. 19538 ',: Eeal Estate, 1880................. 2,58475 ,: Real Estate, 1881................. 1,85419 . Eeal Estate, 1882................. 2,41345 !;' Eeal Estate, 1883 1............ .... 17,888 68 !,' $25,187 23 ! 62 HATCH'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. Stock in Trade, 1880.............. $40 00 Stock in Trade, 1881.............. 60 00 Stock in Trade, 1882........... .. 6000 Stock in Trade, 1884.............. 7 50 $ 167 50 Specific, 1878 ................... .$ 60000 i Specific, 1879........ ............. 30000 I Specific, 1880..................... 50 00 [ Specific, 1881..................... 4000 | Specific, 1882.... ................ 4500 i Specific, 1883...........;........ 1,24050 } Specific, 1884..................... 17,452 36 > $19,727 86 j Saleof CityLots............................. 3,75599 i Interest .................................. 434 56 I Privy Vaults................... ........... 1,18019 i -Fire Department, Sale of Horse ............. 40 00 | Pound Sales............................... 1325 I Sidewalk, repairs........................... 165 71 Market Stalls .................... .$4,61(5 75 ! Market Stores..................... 2,666 80 : $ 7,283 55 I Advertising................................ 11900 * Fees...................................... 847 50 Total ................................... $58,922 34 I have the honor to be Your obedient servant, L. L. GOODWIN, City Marshal* MAYOB'S ANNUAL BEPOBT, 63 ANNUAL REPORT OF CITY SURVEYOR. CITY SUBVEYOR'S OFFICE, SAVANNAH, December 31, 1884. Hon. Sufus E. Lesler, Mayor : DEAR SIBI 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 WILDEB, Chairman. City Extension Alderman THOMAS, Chairman. STREETS AND LANE8. The average number of men employed during the year in this department has been as follows: Superintendent of Streets........................... 1 Laborers ...................... ,. ............... 21 Teamsters ... ... .. ............................. 11 Pavers............................................. 3 Stableman ................... .................... 1 Foreman of Gangs.................................. 1 Total......... .......... ....................... 38 64 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. The force was increased daring the months of April and May, for the purpose of grading Canal, now River, street, widened by ordinance November 15th, 1883, from thirty to sixty feet, and Indian street, extended westwardly from Lachlison'a foundry under the same ordinance. PAVING. * ' The extension of the pavement on Drayton street was be- | gun in January at the south side of Dnffey street and com- | pleted to the south side of Henry street February 7th, the ;f length paved being 307 feet, and the number of square yards it 1,040. i The extension of the pavement on Whitaker street was *5 completed in March from the south side of Gaston street to '; the south side of Hall street, a distance of 783 feet; numi ber of square yards paved, 2,435. The space between the rails of the street railway was paved by the company and is * included in the above. jj A pavement has been laid at the intersection of Liberty |* and Reynolds streets, opposite the offices of the 8., F. & W. : R'y; number of yards paved, 733. 1 1 Two new crossings have been put down on Huntingdon \\ and Hall streets, 171 yards; making a total of 4,379 square I* yards of pavement laid. In repairs to streets already paved the following work has been done: YARDS. Bay Lane........................................ 460 St. Julian Street Gutters... .................. ... 25 Bronghton Street at Marshall House................ 133 Reynolds Street, rear of gas house.... ............. 50 Bay Street, opposite gas house ..................... 100 Bay Street, between Drayton and Bull.............. 100 River Street, north of Exchange ................... 100 Bryan Street, between Bull and Barnard ............ 900 Congress street, south side market........... ...... 66 River Street, east of Randolph..................... 200 Foot of Lincoln Street......... .................. 60 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOUT. 66, Drayton Street........... ...........;........... 150. Randolph Street..................... ............ 150 Reynolds Street, between Wheaton and Liberty ..... 200 Whitaker Street ................................ 260. Wheaton Street, to lay water main.................. 120 Total ...................................... 3,074 CROSSINGS. Sixty new crossings have been put down, principally in the southwestern portion of the city; of these fifty have plank footways and ten flagstone. Thirty-five old crossing have been taken np, supplied with flagstone foot-ways and relaid. The number of square yards of pavement embraced in the above is 4,444. RECAPITULATION. SQ. YARDS. New Pavement.................................. 4,379 Repairs........................ ................ 3,074 Crossings....................................... 4,444 Total ........................... ............ 11,897 The following streets have had a surface dressing of gravel and small stone: Bull street, between Bay and Bryan; Congress street, from Drayton to Jefferson; St. Julian street, from Bull to Jefferson; Bryan street, from Barnard to Jefferson; Jefferson street, from Bay to Broughton; south side Brotughton, between Drayton and Abercorn. Wheaton street has been shelled from the stone pavement Opposite Hawkins' mill to the brick bridge crossing Bilbo canal, completing the connection with the Skidaway shell road. SEWERS. A brick sewer of the diameter of twenty-seven inches, single ring, with branches of twelve-inch pipe for house 66 MAYOR'S ANNUAL KEBOBT. sewage, has been built from the center of Hall street lane to Bolton street, a distance'of 491 feet. Four catch basins with iron covers and pipe connections with sewer have been built. CATCH BASINS. Eight new catch basins have been built and furnished with iron covers and twelve-inch pipe connections with adjoining sewers. The widening of the sidewalk on Broughtou street, between Whitaker and Barnard, necessitated the removal to the curb line of the catch basins at the corners of said streets. GRADINGWork was begun on River street, west of West Broad, on the 14th of April, with fifteen hired teams and twelve extra hands. This street has been widened from thirty feet to sixty feet. The cutting has been made along the base of the hill on the south side, and in some portions has been eight feet in depth. The material has been used for filling the portion of the street west of the Savannah and Ogeechee canal, which is covered with plank resting on piles. The work was discontinued May 12fch by order of the Board of Health, and resumed November 10th with the regular city hands and teams, and the addition of four hired teams. During the interval the hands were employed in taking down so much of the Lachlison Foundry building as encroached on the street, and the office building adjoining. The office building of the upper rice mill was removed in November. The whole street is now opened and graded. The warehouse blocking up Indian street was removed in May and the portion of the street covered by the building graded. All the obstruc:ions in the streets opened by ordinance November 15th, 1883, in this portion of the city (North Oglethorpe Ward) are now removed, and the buildings erected since the fire conform to the new street lines. All the lanes iu the city have had the usual semi-annual grading and cleaning iu tlie months of Mnrcli and Septem- ICAYOB'S ANNUAL REPOBT. 67 her. The heavy rains in July and August were productive .of the usual damage to the streets on the eastern and western slopes of the city, involving weeks of labor in repairs. Fifty breaks at points where sewer connections vere made have been repaired. The new ordinance requiring all sewer connections to be made by an appointee of the city, and on certain specified days, it is hoped, will remedy to a great extent this evil. During the summer months the labor of the street hands has been specially directed to keeping the streets and lanes in a clean and healthy condition. BRIDGES AND PLANK ROADS. The bridge crossing the Savannah and Ogeechee canal on the line of Railroad street has been entirely rebuilt; length, eighty-eight feet; width, thirty feet. A plank road has been laid in St. Julian street, east of Randolph, to the new cotton warehouse; length, three hundred and ten feet, by a width of thirty feet. The northern side of the plank road from the Savannah and Ogeechee canal, west to the street leading to the wharves of the Central Railroad, has been renewed; length, eight hundred and thirty feet; width, twenty-one feet. There have been two hundred and sixty small bridges to street crossings put down during the year. WOOD TRUNKS AND WATER WAYS. The grade is so steep at the western end of Gwinnett street that it has been found necessary to put down an uncovered trunk on the south side of the street to confine the water during heavy rains and prevent the washing which ensues. The length of the trunk is seven hundred and thirty feet. The street has been graded, and covered with broken brick. Covered trunks have been placed at the north and south sides of St. Julian street and Bryan street, where they intersect 1 Jefferson, in lieu of the open paved gutters. A covered .trunk has also been placed across Gwinnett street, east of 68 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BBTOBT. the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway, and acroM New Houston street at Habersham. DEAD TREES. For several years past it has beeu found necessary to cut down a large number of dead trees, principally water oaks. This work was begun on the 20th of October, with five men and one team, and is still in progress. A retaining wall has been built on the southern side of | River street, and on the northern line of the Electric Light j Company's lot, extending also across Ann street, the whole i length being one hundred and fifteen feet. A substantial > | flight of blue stone steps has been built in connection with '* the wall, leading down from the level of Ann to that of River street. A similar flight has also been built at the foot of Whitaker street, from the level of the Bay to River street. There have been received during the year eleven hundred and six tons of stone ballast and sit hundred and forty-four tons of gravel. Three thousand one hundred running feet of flagstone have been laid in crossings. PARKS AND SQUARES. There have been four men employed in this department regularly during the year, besides the keeper of Forsyth Place. When the grass in the squares required cutting, two additional men were employed. Forty-one new benches have been placed in the park and four in the squares. Eight turn-gates have been put up in Green Square, and four in Crawford Square. One hundred and thirty trees have been planted in the park, squares and streets. DRY CULTUREHUTCHINSON ISLAND. At the beginning of the year the embankments on the city's lands on Hutchinson Island had been completed. MAVOU'8 ANNUAL IIEPOIJT. 69 Four of the old breaks on Back river and one on the south side have required the construction of marginSj both within and on the river side, to give greater strength and prevent settling. The amount of labor in accomplishing this has .been considerable, owing to the depth of water at the breaks. The margins on four of the breaks have been finished. The western break on Back river required a .different arrangement. The embankment across this break is built over an important trunk, which, owing to the nature of the laud at this point, had settled considerably below the level of lotr water mark. There being no convenient place in the neighborhood in which to place another trunk, it was therefore deemed best to retain the present trunk and place another for greater safety at a distance of about one hundred yards inland, where a secure foundation could be had, and connect this trunk by a canal and embankment of the same height as the river embankment. This work has been done, and fully answers the purpose desired. . A new trunk has been placed at the head of the canal on the east side of the dry dock, in lieu of the one destroyed in 1881. This trunk is of extra capacity and length, and was essential to the efficient drainage of this side of the island. _ A few points in the river embankment which had settled have also been raised. A considerable portion of the inner slope of the embankment on Back river has been planted in Bermuda grasa by the lessee, and grew finely until frost. LOW LANDS AROUND THE CITY. Seven hands and a foreman have been regularly employed during the year, except during the months of June, July and August, when the force numbered fourteen. This increase was rendered necessary by the extent of the work on the Springfield and Bilbo canals and the rapid growth of weeds daring these months. The work on the canals and embankments, ditches ami drains has beeu unremitting. 70 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. SEWER. A brick sewer has been constructed on the southern side of St. Julian street, from the ea t side of Randolph street to Lamnr's creek. The sewer is built in the open ditch previously used for carrying off the hillside drainage, and was rendered necessary to give free access to the new cotton warehouses erected on the adjoining land. The length of the ewer is one thousand and fifty-five feet, and is built on a foundation of three-inch plank resting on stringers. The diameter is three feet sis. inches horizontal, and two feet nine inches vertical. HEALTH AND CEMETERY. The fences surrounding the white and colored cemeteries had become much decayed, and required a considerable amount of labor and material to put them in good condition. Those in the rear and on the south side were constructed with ordinary pine posts and slats nailed, horizontally. The new fences which have been built are of a much better character. Ten thousand six-foot pickets have been used, and five hundred cedar posts. The spaca on the western side of the cemetery grounds not previously enclosed has been taken in, and the street adjoining, forty feet in width, laid out, ditched and graded. The entire area embraced in the white cemetery is now enclosed with a substantial picket fence, and in all tho new work on this portion cedar posts have been used. The new picket fence extends also along the rear of the colored cemetery, nearly up to the back water dam. All decayed posts, stringers, base-boards, pickets, etc., have been removed and new ones substituted. A portion of the land drained by the sewers constructed last year has been laid off into lots, and the lots designated by iron markers, numbered. DOCKS AND WHARVES. jjj Bepairs have been made to the plaaking covering the city's wharves at the foot of Abercorn and of Dray ton street. i MAYOB 8 ANNUAL HEPOKT. 71 The catch basin at the foot of West Broad street has been Cleaned of the sand accumulation three times during the year. CITY EXTENSION. Shortly after the act of the Legislature extending the city limits south, passed September 21st, 1883, work was began, having for its object the location of all existing buildings in the area taken in, in order that the proposed streets and lanes might be located to the best advantage. As soon as the field work was finished a map was made on which the location of every building was carefully laid down. On May 21st of the present year an ordinance was passed opening the various streets and lanes and defining the boundaries of a public park and naming the streets, iu accordance with the report of the Committee on City Extension. Substantial granite blocks have been placed at the street intersections so as permanently to designate the streets laid out. Very respectfully, Joes B. HOWARD, Cily Surveyor. r 72 MAYOB'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER SAVANNAH FIRE DEPARTMENT. ' OFFICE CHIEF ENGINEER SAVANKAH FIRE DEPARTMENT, : SAVANNAH, GA., January 1,1885. " Hon. Rvfws E. Lester, Mayor of Savannah .- SIRI herewith present your Honor the tenth annual report of the Savannah Fire Department for the year ending ' December 31,1881:, showing condition of same and cost of - maintenance; also, number of fires, locations and causes; 'owners and occupants of buildings, etc.; loss and insurance of property ; strength of permanent, call and auxiliary force of the Department, with compensation received; also, recommendations for further improviug the efficiency of the Department for the better protection of the lives and property of the citizens who live on the outskirts of the city. The change from a volunteer to a call paid Department was accomplished in a few days with much less trouble than was expected, the change being made on the 24th of September and going into effect on the 1st of October, 1884. The result of the change is already apparent in the very prompt manner in which all alarms are responded to. The discipline of the officers and members of the department has most wonderfully improved, and the working of the game since the change has given entire satisfaction. PERMANENT FORCE, WITH COMPENSATION. One Chief Engineer.......................... $1,500 00 One Superintendent Fire Alarm ............... 900 00 Three Engineers............................. 3,000 00 Three Drivers of Engines..................... 2,040 00 Three Drivers of Hose Carts ................ 2,040 00 MAYOR 8 ANNUAL REPORT. 7:$ One Driver of Hook and Ladder .............. 600 00 One Driver of Hose Co....................... 600 00 One TUlerman of Hook and Ladder............ 720 00 Two Relief Drivers ......................... 1,200 00 Three Hosemen.............................. 1,800 00 Total..................................... $14,400 00 CALL FORCE, WITH COMPENSATION. Oiie Assistant Chief Engineer. ................. $ 450 00 Pour Foremen of Companies.................. 600 00 "Twenty-five Hose and Laddermen .......:..... 1,500 00 Total........ ................ .......... $2,55000 AUXILIARY FORCE OF VOLUNTEERS. One Foreman of Company. Fifty Hose and Laddermen. ESTIMATE VALUE OF FIRE DEPARTMENT PROPERTY. .Apparatus .................................. $20,250 00 Hose and Couplings.......................... 3,200 00 Horses and Harness ......................... 4,300 00 .Supply Wagon and Cart ........ ....... ..... 25000 Bedding and Furniture....................... 750 00 . Fire Alarm Telegraph.............. ......... 12,000 00 Supplies and Tools.................. ........ 600 00 Real Estate ................................. 16,000 00 Department Uniforms and Badges..;.......... 650 00 Fire Bells and Frames ............. ......... 2,000 00 Total..................................... $60,600 CO PROPERTY OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Four steam fire engines, three two-wheel hose carts, two four-wheel hose carriages, one hook and ladder truck, one supply wagon, one coal cart, two thousand feet of rubber hose (good), one thousand feet of rubber hose (middling), three hundred feet of cotton hose (worthless), one house for hook and ladder company, two houses for engine companies, 74 MATCH'S ANNUAL thirteen horses, twenty-five horse blankets, seven sets of doable harness, seven sets of single harness, twenty-five beds and bedding complete, four eight-day clocks, one lot of furnitnre, twenty-five badges, one lot of supplies, etc., one lot of tools, etc., four fire bells. For further property of the Fire Department, I respectfully refer you to the accompanying report of the Superintendent of Fire Alarm, as to its condition. LOCATION OF APPARATUS. Engine Company No. 1Bronghton street, north side, west of Houston. One steam fire engine, one hose cart, three horses, six hundred feet of rubber hose. Engine Company No. 2Congress street, south side, west of Jefferson. One steam fire engine, one hose cart, three horses, six hundred feet of rubber hose. Engine Company No. 3Southwest corner of South Broad and Abercorn streets. One steam fire engine, one hose cart, three horses, six hundred feet of rubber hose. Hook and Ladder Company No. 1Southeast corner of South Broad and Floyd streets. One hook and ladder truck, two horses. Hose Company No. 1Henry street, north side, east of Whitaker. One four-wheel hose carriage, one horse, three hundred feet of cotton hose, one hundred and fifty feet of rubber hose. Stationed at headquarters, South Broad and Abercorn streets: One reserve engine, one reserve hose cart, four hundred and fifty feet of hose, three reserve ladders ranging from thirty to forty-five feet, one supply wagon, one coal cart, one extra horse, six hundred feet of old rubber hose and general supplies. COST OF MAINTENANCE. Pay Koll from December 1st, 1883, to December 1st, 1881.................................. $13,770 91 Fire Alarm Material and Supplies .... ........ 803 81 Beds, Blankets, Sheeting, etc................. 127 25 MAYOU8 ANNUAL UKPOUT. 76 Forage .................................... 1,228 92 Lumber and Sawdust. ..... ................. 131 62 Eent................. ...................... 420 00 Harness and Repairs .. .... .... .......... 399 74 Apparatus Repairs... . . . .... .......... 962 69 [Rebuilding one Fire Engine ... .. ....... . 1,600 00 Parade Appropriation ... .................... 200 00 Fuel.......... ................ ... ...... 98 00 Uniforms and Badges ........... .......... 332 25 Stationary and Printing ......... .... ....... 127 65 Hose, Suctions and Nozzles ................. . 1,035 67 General Supplies ............... ........... 401 51 .Incidentals.... . ... .. .................. 86 65 New Wagon.... ...... ....... ........... . 210 00 Horses Purchased.................... ....... 900 00 Horse Treatment and Medicines ... .. ....... 163 40 Houee Repairs and Improvements............. 109 08 Horse Shoeing .......................... .. 163 27 Gas . ............. .. ................... 136 47 Total........... ..................:...... $23,408 79 RUNNING CARD OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, WITH LOCATION AND NUMBER OF STATIONS. ON FIRST ENGINE COMPANY NO. 1. LOCATIONS. 3 Police Barracks. fi Broughton and Abercorn sts. 6 Gas House. ' 7 Bay and Drnyton sts. 15 Broughton mid Lincoln sts. 16 South Broad and East Broad sts 17 Bull and South Broad sts. 24 Drnyton and Liberty sts. 258., V. AW. R'yDepot. 27 Lincoln and Jones sts. 31 Bull ncd Gaston sts. 37 Lower Hydraulic Cotton Press. 41 Drayton and New Houston ets. 1 40 Huntingdon and Price sts. ON FIRST ALABM, ENGINE COMPANY NO. 2. LOCATIONS. West Broad nnd River sts. 12 Bay and Jefferson sts. 13 Broughton antT West Broad sts. 14 Whitakerand Broughton sts. South Broad and Montgomery. 23 Central Hailroan Depot. Whitakerand Charlton sts. Wnyne and West Broad sts. 34 County Jail. River, near Farm, Cotton Press. Margaret, near West Broad St. 42 Central Rnilroad Wharf. 4?|Cent:al Railroad Cotton Shed. 45(Duffy and Montgomery sts. 76 XAYOlt'g ANNUAL ItEPOKT. Engine Company No. Jt responds to all stations on first alarm. Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 responds to all stations on first alarm. Hose Company No. 1 responds to following stations on first alarm, viz: 27, 31, 32, 34, 41, 45, 46. . Companies not responding on first alarm remain hitched up in readiness for thirty miuutes for a call to first alarm; and will attend all alarms of fire that occur during the progress of the first fire; for which the signal will be given of its extinguishment by one blow. SIGNALS. One blow when companies in service at fires have taken op. Two blows calls Hose Company No. 1. Three blows calls Engine Company No. 1 or 2. Two blows will be sounded every morning at different times for testing. Instructions for sounding an alarm are only given to responsible parties having keys in their possession, said instructions being given on receiving keys from the Chief, Assistant Chief or Superintendent of Fire Alarm. : CALL FORCE. This force consists of the most efficient firemen that were connected with the old volunteer system, and also having secured the services of other good and reliable men that were not connected with the old system, in order to make up the full compliment of men on the present force, and are now becoming perfected with the working of the Department, and in order to retain their services I respectfully and earnestly recommend an increase in the pay of the members of this force to such an extent as in your judgment you may deem just and proper. I know of nothing that will add jnore to the efficiency of this force than remunerative pay for those who. are willing to make the saving of life property of their fellow-citizens a profession. MAYOR'S ANNUAL RETORT. 77 PERMANENT FORCE. This force consists of nineteen men, including Chief and Superintendent of Fire Alarm. The balance of that number are engineers, tillerman and drivers, with the exception of one hoseman at No. 1 Hose House, and one ladderman at No. 1 Truck House. Since the appointment of these few permanent firemen on this force, the efficiency of the Department has so much improved that I cannot but earnestly recommend to your Honor that Council be petitioned to appoint an extra engineer and six more permanent firemen, as this force is required to be on duty day and night to understand their business and to perform their duty in all seasons and under the most exacting conditions, often at the peril of their lives, and always at the risk of their health. Their work is more exacting than that of any skilled mechanic, and requires an equal amount of skill and training, yet they receive less pay. This comes from an erroneous idea that any one can be a fireman, and that no training is required. By increasing the number of permanent men, the number of call men could be reduced to sixteen instead of twenty-five, whereby the efficiency of the service would be improved at least seventy-five per cent. By increasing the permanent force, it would enable the Department to have a Fire Patrolman in the neighborhood of each fire station, and one in each station day and night as a watchman to receive any local, telephone or regular alarm that may from time to time come in. Very often there is a miscount in the alarm with the confusion of dressing, hitching up the horses, etc. Often a fire occurs at one end of a policeman's beat while he is at the other end, they having such an extensive beat to patrol; whereby, having these Fire Patrolmen in the vicinity of their respective stations, on seeing or hearing of a fire, they would give the alarm to or from the nearest station. CONDITION OP ENGINES. Engine No. 1 in good order, excepting wheels, which will have to be renewed. 78 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BETOHT. Engine No. 2 now being rebuilt, and to be furnished with the La France nest tube boiler. Engine No. 3 having been rebuilt bj the La France Works and furnished with their nest tube boiler is as good as new, excepting the wheels, which will shortly have to be renewed. Reserve engine in good order, except the boiler, which is weak and in a leaky condition, and past calking or patching, and should be renewed, or the engine sold and a new one purchased. All the engines are now supplied with automatic relief valves, so that the water can be shut off in a building without injury to hose or engine by overpressure. CONDITION OP HOSE CARTS. All three hose carts are in bad condition, having, been in service for ten years. The wheels are being repaired one at a time. They also require new axles and boxes for the wheels, as they have been in service for so long they have become worn and weak, and are continually breaking down, causing great delay in going to fires, whereby the lives of our firemen and that of our citizens, as well as their property, is at stake. CONDITION OP HORSES. Four horses have been purchased during the year, and at least five more will have to be purchased during the present year, as there are some of the horses that are sixteen, eighteen and twenty years old. During the past year one horse died, one was sold, one condemned oh account of lameness, and is now used as an extra horse, and one transferred to Hose Company No. 1. All of them are in fair condition, considering the long time some of them have been in service. HOOK AND LADDER TRUCK. The trucK has had some extensive repairs done during the year, having had almost new springs and made heavier in all its parts where weakness developed itself, and is now in better condition than when purchased. . MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOET. 79 FOUR-WHEEL HOSE CARRIAGES. All in good condition, excepting some minor repairs. HARNESS. . All the harness of the Department is in good order. All the engine companies and hook and ladder company have the patent swinging harness, and one set is now needed for Hose Company No. 1. CONDITION OF HOUSES. Hook and Ladder Truck house having been built new, with improved stalls facing front on sides of truck, with swinging gates connected to fire alarm telegraph. Engine Company No. 1 house has gone through some changes by placing new floors, new stalls, facing front with swinging gates to connect to fire alarm telegraph; also new feed houses and new fuel bins erected. Engine Company No. 2 house still remains without any improvements, this riot being city property, and on that account would recommend that some provision be made to improve the house in such a manner as will give the men better sleeping quarters; also a change of the stalls, etc., or that new quarters be provided for said company. Engine Company No. 3 house has been improved similar to that of Engine Company No. 1. Hose Company No. 1 house has been improved since the two permanent men have been stationed there, by two sleeping rooms, horse, and stall for same. Old truck house is now used for storing extra hose, ladders, feupply wagon, apparatus supplies, and is also going through some changes by the erection of a work bench and supply lockers. This house will be used as a repair shop for the Department. The engines and hose companies have all been furnished with shut-off and spray nozzles. I take pleasure in recommending them, as they, as well as the relief valves on the engines, h;ive more than paid for themselves at the first firo 80 MAJOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. they were used by preventing unnecessary damage by water, as very often before great damage was done to property by waiting to have the water shut off from an engine or plug. HOSE. The Department has on hand only two thousand feet of good, reliable hose, one thousand feet of middling hose and three hundred feet of worthless hose. ENGINE SUCTIONS Are all in poor condition, except four out of twelve; these, having been in the service nineteen years, have become so hard and rotten that they crack in moving, and will have to be replaced during the present year. SHUT-OFF NOZZLES AND PIPES All in good order, nine shut-off nozzles having been purchased during the past year. LOCALITIES WHERE THE LIVES AND PEOPERTY OF THE CITIZENS ARE NOT PROPERLY PROTECTED. I have to call attention to the large area in the southern, southwestern and southeastern parts of the city. Some parts of these sections are thickly built up with first-class dwellings, and other parts of same section consist of a poor class of dwellings which are owned and occupied by the poor class of white and colored people, who have virtually no protection against damage by fire, as the nearest companies are so far away and have such heavy sand roads, high crossings and rough streets, particularly where street car tracks are laid, which tracks very often cause accidents by the men being thrown off, injuries to horses, the breaking of axles and wheels of apparatus, etc., thereby causing delays in getting to the fire. For instance, the fire at the Coast Line Railroad depot, on Bolton street, east of East Broad, and on West Broad and Henry streets, the drivers were compelled to stop their horses on the way to the fire to keep them from breaking down altogether. MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. 81 RECOMMENDATIONS. The necessity of purchasing a two-horse four-wheel hose carriage of one thousand five hundred feet of hose capacity, as the quantity of hose carried to fires is insufficient, owing to the growth of the city. Also to purchase at least three thousand feet of hose. There is not a city in the Union of the size of Savannah but has ten thousand feet of hose on hand and apparatus to carry five thousand feet to each fire. Also to purchase one four-wheel hose carriage for one horse of a capacity of eight hundred feet of hose, to be located in the vicinity of Hall and Habersham streets, and by the purchasing of the large two-horse hose carriage and stationing it at the Fire Department headquarters, the twowheel cart now in use at headquarters could be located in the vicinity of Hall and West Broad streets. Also to purchase a chemical engine with side ladders. These engines have demonstrated their value as a means of extinguishing fires time and time again, and experience has abundantly shown that there is a class of fires where the chemical engines can do prompt and effective work better than the ordinary engine, and minus the damage by water incident to the use of the latter; aud the hose used on them being light, can be carried on a man's arm up the stairway to the top of a high building in a short time and the fire extinguished, when it would take considerable time to carry up the heavy hose; and this loss of time often allows the fire to get a headway and causes a serious loss of property. Some of the advantages of the chemical engine are summed up in the following statement: In its simplicity it dispenses with complex machinery, experienced engineers and steam. Carbonic acid is both the working and extinguishing agent. Its promptnessit is always ready. The chemicals are kept in place and the gas generated the instant wanted. Besides, it uses the only agent that will extinguish burning tar, oil and other combustible fluids and vapors. One cylinder can be recharged 6 82 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOUT. while the other is working, thus keeping up a continuous stream. Its small dimensions require but small area, either for work or storage, and in saving from destruction by water what the fire has spared. These machines are the only apparatus that can be put into service when fires occur in certain localities where there is no water or where the hose will not reach, and all the force required to handle these chemical engines, hook and ladder track and hose carriages (all one machine) are three permanent men with two horses. Also to purchase six tarpaulins and four six or eight-gallon hand fire extinguishers, to be placed and carried on the hook and ladder truck. Also to purchase additional fire alarm boxes of the noninterfering improved pattern, to be placed in the several localities named in my last report. Also recommend the urgent necessity of telephone connection to each of the fire stations. During the past year private telephones and also that at police barracks have been used to a great extent in sending and receiving fire or other messages, whereby the sallyport man at the police barracks is dispatched to Fire Department headquarters on receiving any messages and there is a delay in cases of fire. Also recommend the purchase of certain tools that would be useful and saving to the city in the line of repairs, not only for the use of the Fire Department, but could be used by the Water Works Department also, as there is ample room at the Fire Department headquarters for a repair shop. ADDITIONAL FIRE HYDRANTS. There are certain localities in the city which are thickly inhabited, where the nearest hydrant would take from two to three thousand feet of hose. For instance, all south of Koberts street and west of West Broad and south of Anderson street there nre row after row of tenement houses; St. Mary's Orphan Home, which is a great distance from any water supply. MATCH'S ANNUAL REPORT. 3 FIRES AND ALARMS. There has been a total of 77 alarms daring the year, an increase of over 30 for the preceding year; the prompt at- tendance of the Department in all cases preventing serious losses. Alarms by telegraph.................................. 61 Alarms by telephone ................................. 6 Alarms, local........................................21 For losses and insurance of fires, see statistics. INSPECTION OP BUILDINGS. In accordance with the ordinance requiring the recording and inspection of buildings by the Chief of the Fire Department, I have to report a total of 752 buildings, as follows: Buildings, new ..................................... 710 Buildings remodeled ................................ 42 MATERIAL OF CONSTRUCTION. Wood ................. ......................... .593 Brick ........................... ................115 Iron............................................... 2 Above buildings to be occupied as follows: Wood dwellings .................. ........... ... 528 " stores .............. ....................... 21 " kitchens ..................................... 14 " stables ............ ...... .................. 9 " shops ....................................... 8 41 lodge hall............ ....................... 1 " churches.................................... 2 " factories....................... ........... 2 " sheds...................................... 8 Brick dwellings .... .........!.,............... ... 68 " stores ....................................... 28 " stables ................. . ... .. ...... '< " warehouses ..... ...... .... .. .... ... \1 " gas works.............. ...... . . . . . I " electric light works ..... . ... ...... . . 1 $4 KAYOB'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. Brick schools ...................................... 2 " fire stations.......... ....................... 1 " factory .......... .......................... 1 " shops ....................................... 4 " hospitals .......... ......................... 1 Iron factory................................ ........ 1 " warehouse..................................... 1 A general desire on the part of owners and builders to conform to the ordinance requiring permits to build or repair before any work is begun. CONCLUSION. In conclusion, I beg most respectfully to tender my acknowledgments for the cordial encouragement I have received from your Honorable Board in my efforts to maintaim and increase the efficiency of this branch of the public service. I would take also this opportunity of expressing the renewed obligations under which I have been placed by the valuable co-operation of the police force, the Superintendent of Fire Alarm Telegraph, the Assistant Chief Engineer, and other members of the Fire Department. All these, in the varied lines of their duties, have rendered valuable services on all occasions. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, ADOLPH FEBNANDEZ, < Chief Engineer Savannah Fire Department. SAVANNAH, GA., December 31,1884. Adctph Fernandez, Chief Savannah Fire Department': DEAB SIRI beg to submit the following report of the city fire alarm telegraph system for the year ending December 31, 1884: During the year there has been purchased and placed in operation two additional signal boxes. I now recommend i MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 86 that several .more be procured, for the better protection of property. There have been fifty alarms given since my last report; in several instances more than one box was pulled at the same time. As fifty-three keys were relieved, out of this number only two boxes failed to work; the magnet was burnt by lightning in one, and the wires were crossed with other wires at the time, which caused the failure of the other. The expenses of the system for the year have been as follows: Maintenance of battery......................... .$371 68 Purchase and erection of poles, line, material, etc... 182 13 Two signal boxes................................ 250 00 Total......................................$803 81 The original cost of the system, including nine boxes since purchased, is about twelve thousand dollars. It is now in first-class order and working satisfactorily, as is evidenced by the few failures of the alarm to sound during the past year. PROPERTY ON HAND AND IN USE. 27 Signal Boxes. 1 Station, Police Barracks. 6 Large Gongs. 4 Small Gongs. 131 Cells of Battery, complete. 16 Miles of Wire. 1 Set of Repeaters. 1 Striking Machine. 1 Pair of Climbers. 1 Set of Pulleys. 3 Hand Vises. 1 Pair of Pliers. 1 Hatchet. 1 Saw. 1 Shove). 86 MATCH'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1 Screw Driver. 1 Set of Inspector's Tools. 1 Hydrometer. NOT IN USE. 18 Battery Jars. 25 Zinc. 25 Coppers. 1 Large Gong. 1 Call Bell. U Miles of Wire, Very respectfully, J. W. JONES, Superintendent Fire Alarm. i. RECORD OF FIRES, LOSSES AND INSURANCE, FROM JANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1884. ' TIME. AiARX. Jan. 1 4.00 am 23 j 1 10.00 m, Local I e 1.00 am| 14 ! 6 8.30 am 36 : 7 i 8.00 a m 32 20 , 1.45 am 13 20 9.45 am 6 20 1.30 p m Telephone 23 6.00 p m Telephone 81 . 1.40 am* 13 , Feb. i 9 2.50 a m 16 10 10.00 p m 25 27 Z.OO am 84 27 ' 3.20^ m Local Mar.; 4 3.15am 42 8 3.40 a m 17 11 i 4 .30 p m 14 11 10.80 p m 35 13 2.00 a m 21 17 7.00 p m Local 18 12.46pm & Apri 5 SJ p m Local 7 1.30 am 25 14 : 2.00 am 26 14 2.40 a m 36 26 2.00 a m 14 May' i 8 4 JO p m Local 11 4.00 p m Local 16 6.00 p m Local 17 11.20pm, 14 23 2.15 a m 26 27 3.40 am 31 81 1.00 a m 82 June 2 2.1S a m Local 2 10.4S p m 23 11 1.40 p m 27 11 . 7.30 p m Local 14 10.25pm 7 20 2^0 am| 5 28 ; 4.00am Local 21 9.45 pm 41 July. \ 17 11.13 p m' 14 28 10.45pm 25 Aug. i ' 10 ' 1.10 a m' 17 13 ' 1.20 am 82 24 , 4.40 p m 12 27 4.10 am 5 27 11.00 p m 31 Sept.' i 3 9.30 p m1 45 24 9.00 p m Local 25 , 1.00 am 41 27 1.30 a m Telephone Oct. | i 10 9.00 p m Local 12 1.40pm 23 15 12.45 am 42 21 10.00 am 7 23 3.15 am' 36 24 5.00 p m Local 31 3.20 p m 23 NOV. ; 5 2Jpm 6 7 : 2.05 am 7 11 . 4.30 p m Telephone 11 9.20 p m 41 14 i30 p m Local 14 5M p m Local Dec. j i 3 . 9.00 a m Local 8 1.55 p m 23 8 : 5.30 p m Local 9 . 6.45 p m 37 10 . 3.10 am 42 12 4.00 p m Local 13 6.30 p m Telephone 14 5.00 am Local 24 9.00 p m Local 25 5% p m Local M 11.30pm 16 81 ,11.20pm 21 ! ! ; t OWNKBS OF PBOFKBTY. Qeo. Hawking. 3. Tbomanon. Mrs. H. Foley. Jag. O'Byrnes. Mrs. Cullen. S. T. McFartand. S. P. Dibble. Mrs. Wilson. J. T. Kollock. RosaMagnire. O. Loewenstein. Coast Line Railroad. Several. Mrs. Week*. Central Railroad. John Flannery. Dr. Waring. Richardson & Barnard. Oeo. U. Remabart. L. Remlon. Mary A. Mehrten*. M. Hamilton. O. W. Oarmany. J. A. Sahaefee. J. A. Sahaefee. Ed. Lovell. 8., 8. A 8. Railroad. John Flannery. Mrs. Miller. R. R. Richard*. Melnbard Bros. Clem. Sansiy. Mrs. Fink. Kit. E. C. Andenon. T. Daniels. Robert Mclntlre. 3. D. Weed. Dnncan Estate. EM. R. D. Arnold. M. Schroder. 8am. Rogers. Oeo. W. Owens Estate. A. Barte. Union Society. Et. Hiram Roberta. Wharf Property. F. X. Douglas*. Apparatus time. Chas. P. Small. Dr. L. Falligant Several. Several. Meinhard Bros. John Mclntlre. Central Railroad Co. Several. R. Klrkland. P. Rellly, agt. Central Railroad. Slacken 4 Co. "Tug Boat Co. Ocean Steamship Co. Cooper Harris. John H. Monahan. E*t E. C. Andenon. i Alex.Donn. W. B. Sturdivant .Luke Canon. Richardson A Barnard, agt*. Ocean Steamship Co. ! J. 8. HIgglns. Jas.B. West A Co. Henry Bleyert jAnnaBnntz. Church Property. Wm. Kehoe A Co. Sounded on oceerpAjrrs. Vm. Rails, ames Bowe. Moon A Kollard. In. J. Burke. Irs. Hancock. Tnoccnpled. Several, ilnty Cannon. . T. Kollock. Peter Johnson. G. Loewnstein. Coast Line Railroad. Several. Mrs. Week*. Several. Several. Alex. Doyle. Several, 'eter Sampson. j. Remlon. Murphy A Mehrten*. M. Hobart. fobn Tanlm. tflchael Ray. Michael Hay. Unoccupied. Inoccnpled. Several. Several. S. KrouBkoff. Mn. E. J. White. Etobert Ford. Helen Quarterman. Wm. B. FerrlU. mma Scott. Several. favloPano. Several. Ed. Karow. M. Schroder. Sam. Rogers. U W. Wortsman. Several. Several. R. Kogarty. C. L. Gilbert <* Co. Sweat ft Murphy. 3X minutes. C. P. Small. Several. Several. Same fire. A. R. Altmayer. Several. Several. Several. Several. Several. Several. On street. Several. Several. Cooper Harris. MaryLeon. R. Habersham. Several. Mrs. F. Sturdivant R. M. Butler. Several. Several. Several. Several. John Hanf. Thos. H. Enright Several. Wm. Kehpe A Co. the gong* CLASS. Frame. Brick. Brick. Frame. Frame. Frame. Frame. Frame. Frame. Frame. Frame. Frame, rrame. Frame. Cotton. Brick. Brick. Cotton. ?mme. Brick. Brick. Brick. Brick. Brick. Brick. Brick. Frame. Brick. Frame. Brick. Frame. Brick. Frame. Brick. Brick. Frame. Brick. Brick and wool Frame. Frame. Frame. Brick. Brick. Frame. Frame. Frame. Brick. Test. Frame. Frame. Frame. Ruins. Brick. Frame. Brick and fr'me Brick. Frame. Frame. Wood. Street. Wood. Iron. Frame. Frame. Brick. Brick and wood Piame. Brick. Iron. Iron. Frame. Wood. Frame. Frame. Frame. Frame, one BUSINESS. Qrocery and Bar. Swelling. Jar. dwelling. Swelling. Swelling. Swelling. Swelling. Swelling. Qrocery store. Jrocery and Bar. Car Depot. Dwelling*. Dwelling. Depot. Shop. Srocery. Ship, fruit Store. Dwelling. Grocery. Dwelling. 3rocery. Grocery. Qrocery Dwelling. Dwelling. Shop. Dwelling. Millinery. Dwelling. Fruit Store. Dwelling. Restaurant Dwelling. Dwelling. Fruit Store. Shop and dwelling. Dwelling. Grocery and dwelling Dwelling. 9hoe store. Dwelling. Dwelling. Stable. Straw on wharf, Hay loft and shop. Alarm. Dwelling. Dwelling. Dwelling. Millinery. Dwelling. Cotton Press. Offices. Grocery and dwelling Dwellings. Cotton Yard. Cotton Pile. Tug Boat. Cotton on board. Dwelling. Dwelling. Barber shop. Dwelling, Dwelling. Dwelling. Cotton on boird. Cotton on board. Dwelling. Cotton on board. Grocery and dwelling Dwelling. Dwelling. Foundry, round. LOCATION. ISStTB'KCE. S.W. cor. Harris and West Broad sts. St. Julian, IS. side, W. of Lincoln St. Vbltaker, E. side, S. of Bronghtou at. William, N. side, W. of Farm st. Wilson, W. side, bet. Purseand Biras sts. 1. E. cor. Farm and Orange streets. Jay lane, N. side, W. of Houston st. Minis, W. of Jefferson st. I.W. cor. Bull and President sts. ' S. E. cor. Farm and Olive sts. > Total...... 1 Waters road and Lovers lane (in country). Bolton, K. of East Broad st. lenry lane, E. of Went Broad st. N. E. cor. Jefferson and Andenon sts. Total ...... Central Railroad Wharf. i. E. cor. South Broad lane and Floyd st. Jryan, S. side, W. of Wbltaker st. Central Cotton Press Wharf (bark John Boyd). efferson, E. side, N. of York lane. Jronghton, 8. side: W. of Jefferson. S. K. cor. State and Dray ton sts. Total...... South Broad, K. side, E. of Drayton st. 3. K. cor Jefferson and Liberty sts. *. W. cor. Farm and Wlllimn sts. M. W. cor. Farm and William sts. State, W. of Whitaker st. Total Whitaker, W. side of Anderson st. S. E. cor. Floyd st. and South Broad lane, lenry lane, N. side, E. of Vest Broad. Whitaker St., N. W. cor. Congress lane. Charlton, N. side, W. of Whitaker st. SL W. cor. Gordon lane and Whitaker st. Jefferson, W. side, N. of Berrien st. Total...... Bronghton, N. side, bet. Bull and Drayton sts. 8. E. cor. Liberty lane and Tattnall st. Taylor, N. side, E. of Price st. Broughton, N. side, bet. Drayton and Bull sts. Abercorn, E. side, bet. Brytin and Bay sts. State, N. side, W. of Abercorn st. S. E. cor. West Broad and Liberty Hts. 8. E. cor. East Broad and Tuffy sts. Total...... Congress, 8. side, E. of Barnard st. Harris, N. side, E. of Lincoln st Total...... President, N. side, W. of Whitaker st. N. W. cor. Sims and West Broad st. Whitaker st. Wharf, River st. President, N. side, K. of Lincoln st. Bull, N. W. cor. Gaston St., Station 31. Total...... N. E. cor. Henry and West Broad sts. Whitaker, W. side, S. of Anderson st. Reppard, 8. side, W. of Lincoln gt. Reppard, 8. side, W. of Lincoln st. Total...... Broughton, S. side, E. of Wbltaker st. West Broad. E. side, S. of Charlton st. Ocean S. S. whurf, over Canal. Kelly Block, N. side Bay, W. of Drayton st. N. W. cor. Harrlson and Poplar sts. Charlton, N. side. W. of Montgomery st. W. of West Broad, opposite Liberty st Total...... Bay, N. side, W. of Price st. Middle of River, opposite Abercorn st. Steamship Nacoocbee, at S., F. & W. Ry. Wharf. New Houston, E. of Drayton st. East Boundary, E. side, 8. of Broughton st. Broughton, N. side, E. of Bull st. Total...... Rear of State, on Inne.Wjof Lincoln st. 8. E. cor. Stone and Mont .winery sts. 8. E. cor. Broughton and vbercorn sti. Steamship Wilton, at Lo' er H. Press Wharf. Steamship City of Augus i, at Ocean 8. S. wharf Bronghton, in rear, \V . of Price st. Steamship Wm. Crane, a Bait. 8. S. Wbarf. N. E. cor. Ogeechee Road md Bismarck st. South Broad, S. side, W. i.f Floyd st. Perry lane, N'. side. W. of Floyd st. N. W. cor. Randolph aufl Broughton sts, Companies responded, tampering with wires. Total..... Grand Total .. 8 2,50000 3,10000 1,350 INI 1,3011 00 800 OU Sone. None. 60000 7,80000 2,00000 S 19,450 00 2,50000 15,90000 10,00000 1,20000 t 29,60000 51,00000 400000 4,700 00 95,50000 4,30000 4,00000 4,30000 * i&vwooo 2,80000 2,50000 2^20000 None. * 7,50000 None. 8 2,00000 1,60000 2H.OOOOO 2,00000 8,00000 1>DOOO t 87,700 00 6,60000 1,500 00 2.0UOOO 1,50000 19,00000 8,50000 5.7UOOO None. S 38,80000 11,50000 4,70000 * 16,20000 8,30000 1,80000 None. None. LOSS. $ 1,25000 200 30000; 25 OU 3000; 10 00 3000 800 None. < 23500 $ 1,89000 1,00000 12,10000 4,700 00 500 * 17,805 00 2200 . 5 UO 40 00 20.00000 35000 60 OU 2 00 8 20,479 00 2300 85000 84000 7 00 * 1,22000 800 200 1000 9,20000 70 OU 43 OU 4500 * 9,373 00 500 20000 20000 40U None. 200 2500 60000 $ 93600 83000 None. * 83000 300 1 50 300 4000 . ................ | f 8,100 00 1,000 00 60000 2,90000 * 5,100 00 81,00000 2,:tOOOO 200,500 OJ 125,00000 2,50000 1,00000 40.80000 t 453,100 00 6,00000 None. 150,59000 1,20000 1,50000 2,30000 t 161,. WO 00 2,00000 2,500 OC 8,000 OC 100,000 OC 126,00001 1,000 OC 90,800 (X 8,OUOO( ; 8 200 01 1 2,400 None. 'S 332,00001 8 1,275,750 01 * 4750 5200 550 1,40000 * 1,457 50 45000 1000 5000 1900 1,50000 200 3,00000 S 5,031 00 20000 4,00000 8,00000 600 1500 200 $ 12,22300 800 2000 900 5,00000 15,50000 200 1,500 OC 2,800 OC 30C 2 OC 9,000 Ot g 3334401 * 105,136 Ot CAUSE. Incendiary. Detective flue. Incendiary. ipark from chimney, bracked chimney. Incendiary, spark from chimney. Spark from chimney. Defective flue. Incendiary. Ten alarms. Incendiary. L'arelessness. Lamp explosion. Sparks. Four alarms. Unknown. Incendiary. Defective flue. Unknown. Incendiary. Carelessness. Accidental. Seven alarm*. Defective flue. Incendiary. Incendiary. Keklndling. Incendiary. Five alarms. Incendiary. Accidental. Spark from chimney. Unknown. Incendiary. Incendiary, incendiarySeven alarm*. Incendiary. Lamp explosion. Spark from chimney. Carelessness. Defective chimney. Incendiary. Incendiary. Spark from chimney. Eight alarms. Lamp explosion. Fire ball. Two alarm*. Incendiary. Incendiary. Carelessness. Unknown. By Chief. Five alarm*. Incendiary. Lamp explosion. Incendiary. Rekindling. Four alarms. Accidental. Unknown. Unknown. Gas explosion. Incendiary. Spark from chimney. Spark from locomotive. Seven alarms. Careless smoking. Carelessness. Unknown. Fireworks. Spark from chimney. Lamp explosion. Six alarms. Lamp explosion. Spark from chimney. Child play ing with matches Unknown. Unknown. Spark from chimney, unknown. Incendiary. Cracked chimney. Stovepipe. Incendiary. False. ) Twelve alarm*. i -Seventy-seven alarm*. The event of the past year should admonish us of the need of vigilance as to one constantly recurring abuse, to-witv that of incendiarism. Therefore, it becomes my duty to aak at the hands of His Honor, the Mayor, and City Council some measure, some offer of reward, or other steps that will be eff 7ft 750 26 1,477 02 736 01 743 51 753 76 703 70 713 51 $ 8,707 10 s s " 8 11 V o 0 5 $ 7 00 50 20 45 45 73 0 04 0 00 10 00 $95 72 ^ *2 c o s t> o | 1 c. S M $ 1,311 9 Totals. $ 3,681 82 13,165 3d! 15,102 97 15,324.39 17.910 39 3,155 47 '495 50 50 00 ..... 4,G(JO 57 ?: O"-*t 1 Q 2,(i44 79 2,737 48 1,068 58 1,373 72 1,436 80 7KB "> 2 O'JfI A1 $35,965 34$01,413 48 S? MAYOIt 8 ANNT'AL 11EPOHT. STOCK, MATERIAL, TOOLS. 95 With an addition of near two thousand dollars worth of specials and water mains, the condition is the same as schedule of last report. METEE8. I repeat my recommendation of last year for the introduction of meters for large consumers of indefinite amount of water consumed. It would be beneficial to consumers as well as the Department. WATER MOTORS. Under present circumstances the Committee on Water Works have acted wisely in prohibiting the issuing of any further permits for water motors. Our largest engine is now working up to its full capacity. Motors are large consumers of water, and many additions to the number at present in use would require additional pumping power. Even at present we have to carry an additional head of eight or ten feet for that purpose alone. The outlay for an additional pump, say thirty thousand dollars (130,000), would be an ill-advised expenditure to compete with the many small motors, such as the gas engine, electric, Shipman petroleum, and others running automatically, and at an expense of less than the water motor, safely and without fire risks. FILTERING OUR WATER SUPPLY. The Savannah river, from which we obtain our water supply, is fortunately .never-failing, and no doubt as pure and healthy as desirable, as scientists contend that absolutely pure water is not healthy; still we have to contend at various times with a discoloration which renders it unfit for domestic purposes. This occurs immediately after the heavy rains falling within the area of the water shed from which the river receives its supply; and oftentimes it is so impregnated with vegetable and earthy matter as to be frequently termed "semi-fluid." This happens more frequently now than for many years back; caused, no doubt, by the clearing up and 90 MAYOR'S ANNUAL IIEPOBT. greater cultivation of the lands immediately bordering on the river to a much greater extent than formerly. To endeavor to rectify this objectionable feature and furnish consumers with clear, sparkling water, I have availed myself of every opportunity offered bearing on the subject. The many filters that I have examined and tried have all failed to do the work required to a greater or less extent. Among the number are the Hyatt, Cocker, Excelsior, Arctic, and the Daily filter now operating at the Savannah Hospital. The firstnamed (Hyatt) has peculiar features about it well adapted for our purposes in facility of filtering, requisite quantity and washing, the filtering bed doing the same under pressure requiring but small additional head to elevate to same height and force as directly from the main, performing its duties regularly and perfect, with the assistance of a coagulator, which is the only objection, in the judgment of professionals and the public, so as to render its adoption impracticable. Repeated trials have proved that the chemicals used cannot be discovered in the filtered water, or in taste, or other use for domestic purposes. The Cocker, Arctic and Excelsior failed to filter water satisfactorily. Nor can I find anything new about the Daily filter at the hospital from what has been in use here and in Europe for a long time back. To build a filtering dam of sufficient capacity to supply a consumption of 5,000,000 gallons in 24 hours, allowing it to do the best work that is known to be done, say 600 gallons in 24 hours per one foot face area, would require a filtering dam 850 feet long and 10 feet high, and longer, and if fed by canal from the river, with a duplicate and receiving basin, with possibly a lifting pump of large capacity, and cleaning of filtering bed once a month, would be expensive. Added to cost of construction of the entire plant of a very large sum would postpone all efforts in that direction for a future time. Now, other cities inconvenienced as we are for clear water, and comparatively free from sewage or other pollution, have adopted the subsidence or settling basin, which aflords such water as they desire at a very heavy cost, MAYOR'S AHOTAL BEPOBT. 97 frequently running up to and in some cases over the million. Again, we desire to have clear water at all times. Having one of the best appointed water works of all the different cities, it would be a remission on the part of our authorities not to undertake to correct the evil, provided a proper site presented itself which could be utilized for the purpose at comparatively small cost. Such a site has now presented itself, in my opinion, which covers both points applicability and cost.' Directly opposite the works is a small marsh island, the accretions of years, which, to the extent of onehalf mile, divides the Savannah river, and has been navigable until lately for the Augusta steamers and small sailing vessels. Within a few months past it has been partially closed at its eastern end, and I have been informed is part of the U. S. Engineer's plan for improving the channel flowing to the south of it, or main channel. This enclosed at both ends would make a bettling basin of one-half mile in length, averaging 300 feet wide, and six feet or more deep, holding from 35 to 50 billions of gallons of water. It would be necessary to reinforce and raise the bank on Hutchinson Island, as well as to bank Babbit Island. With intake valves at the western end, surface outlets, and swinging gates at the eastern end for flushing, would give us a basin answering our every purpose and at small cost comparatively. Taking for a basis the price paid by the United States Government to contractors for similar work, the whole work could be completed in a durable and satisfactory manner for the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. In my judgment the project is worthy of earnest consideration, and would recommend a plan be made, and if there is among ourselves any doubts of its feasibility, obtain the views of the best hydrostatic engineers. Respectfully, A. N. MILLER, Superintendent. ,| 98 MAYOR'S ANNUAL RKPOBT. REPORT OF CLERK OF MARKET. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1,1885. Hon. liufus E. Lester, Mayor: DEAR SIBI have the honor to submit herewith a statement of market fees collected through this office for the year ending December 27th, 1884, and turned into the City Treasury: Total Amount Collected.............. $10,959 90 Average Monthly Collections....... .. $913 32 Average Weekly Collections..... ...... 210 76 I have the honor to be Your humble servant, WM. H. BOBDLEY, Cleric of Market. LATITUDE, 32 5' 0". LONGITUDE (West of Washington), 4 7' 0". MEAN BAROMETER. (Corrected for Temperature and Instrumental Error onlv.) MEAN TEMPERATURE. FROM THE THREE TELEGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS. Elevation of Barometer Cistern above Mean Sea-Level, 87 Feet. MOXT.H, 1884 Washington Time. 7.00 3.00 11.00 A. 51. P. M. P. M. Local Time. 6.44 j 2.44 10.44 A. M. P. M. P. M. .Tanuarv. . . 30.145 30.097 30.152 February . . 30.04!) 30.014 30.044 March ". . . 30.00S at.964 80.004 April .... 2r.892 29.831 29.873 Mav .... 29.1)26 29.879 20.9:>!> June .... 29.95'i 29.925 29.952 Julv. .... 29.901 29.850 20.89-5 August . . . 29.967 29.921 29.963 September. - 30.tX>8 29.969 30.0.)2 October . . . 30.071 30.017 30.050 Noveml>er. . 30.061 29.995 30.0:55 December . . 30.107 30.047 30.08S .Sums .... 300.091359.5143-59. 907 AivualMean* 30.008 29.960 29.999 r . ] ff > P : i 1 ^10 % i ,C% >> ! *. o Z \ % ' % Z ' ~ o - W> = : sc -S f , - ^ = = c s s. E. ! K a ^ s ea ' 30.131; 30.532 27 29.530 8 1.002 30.03i 30.351 16 29.584 28 .767 29.S92 30.374 16 : 29.63 28 -738 29.86-5 30.082 27 :!9.446 2 .636 29.908 30.144 3 29.65-5 27 .489 29.944 30.149 16 29.656 11 .493 29.884 30.075 23 29.723 10 .352 29.950 30.12-5 19 29.742 30 .383 29.993 30.188 26 29.710 10 .478 30.046 30.349 20 29.827 !) .522 30.030 30.307 7 29.490 2S .817 30.081 30.406 27 29.696 6 .710 i 359.860 ... ......... ... 29.989 30.532 .... 29.446 ... ... SELF-REGISTERING INSTRUMENTS. (Set daily at 11 P. M.. Washington time.) Elevation of Thermometer Bulbs above Ground, 41 Feet. Washington Time. i 7.00 ' A. M. 3.00 11.00 P. M. P. M. | Local Time. 6.44 j A. M. 41.6 i 52.5 56.6 59.9 72.1 72.6 , 79.3 75.4 , 72.2 : (i-5.1 52.3 49.5 1 749.1 1 62.4 2.44 10.44 P. M. P. M. 52.6 65.3 68.0 72.0 83.3 80.5 87.8 84.2 82.1 77.7 66.8 60.8 872.1 73.4 45.5 57.1 60.6 63.9 73.0 73.6 80.1 76.6 74.9 69.0 56.9 52.8 784.0 65.3 c M t*> j>> 2 M gM rZ 46.6 68.3 61.9 65.3 76.1 75.6 82.4 78.7 76.4 70.6 68.7 54.4 804.8 67.1 3 3 3 1 % 68.5 76.5 83.5 86.7 90.5 91.0 96.0 92.5 88.2 92.0 75.7 75.5 96.0 1 31 7 25 29 12&20 9 6 4 18 7 4 11 3 5 "3 i 18.5 26.0 34.0 45.0 58.0 58.5 68.5 69.0 60.5 44.5 37.0 27.5 1 ft 6 29 1 10 31 3 8 12 15 24 25 20 July 6 I 18.5 Jan. 6 1 i 1i < 50.0 50.5 49.5 41.7 32.5 32.5 27.5 23.5 27.7 47.5 38.7 48.0 "V . . WIND. Washington Time. 11.00 P. M. to 7.00 A. M. 7.00 A.M. to ' 3.00 P. M. 3.00 P.M. to 11.00 P. M. Miles. 1790 1540 1689 1681 1242 1142 1222 766 1217 1221 1395 1396 1994 1927 2494 2036 2122 2089 1910 1235 1980 2161 1690 1606 1805 1818 2166 1837 '2072 1781 1659 1324 1635 1596 1241 1525 Total. 5589 5285 6349 6554 6436 5012 4791 3325 4832 4978 4326 4521 60.898 I Maximum Hourly Velocity During Month. Miles. 26 26 26 38 23 28 18 24 24 26 30 25 Direction from W. W. N W. W. N.E. N.E. E. N.E. E. N.E. N.W. S.W. . . .1 . . . Date. o 20 3 2 27 15 21 23 10 10 29 6 RAIN OR MELTED SNOW. Elevation of top gauge above ground, 58 feet. In Inches and Hundredths. * c I <"3 1 3.89 3.44 2.91 3.78 1.22 9.37 3.68 8.41 4.55 2.29 1.72 3.21 In any 24 consecutive hours. Largest Amount Date. i 2.43 ! 7&8 1.37 .16&17 1.71 i 23 1.35 12 .61 27 3.45 22A23 1.38 1 1.81 ! 22 3.16 10 1.30 i 12 .60 i 19 1.21 5&t> . . . : ... 1 ... MEAN CLOUDINESS. RELATIVE MONTH. HUMIDITY. WIND DIRECTIONS. THREE DAILY TELEGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS. 7 A. M., 3 P. M.. and 11 P. M., Washington time only. I ! 1884- IN TENTHS. : PERCEN-I A. M. P. M. January. . . 5.5 5.0 February . . 3.8 3.5 March. ... 4.8 4.4 April .... 4.3 4.7 Mav. .... 3.6 3.3 June .... 56 6.2 Julv. .... 4.3 5.3 August ... 4.8 5.8 September. . 2.7 4.4 October ... 2.1 2.0 November. . 3.7 3.1 December . . 5.9 6.2 Sums .... 51.1 54.5 Annual Means . 4.3 4.5 STATION, SAVANNAH, p. M. Mean. > A. M. 5.2 5.2 74.8 3.1 3.5 ' 80.3 4.5 4.6 ! 76.4 3.7 4.2 70.0 3.7 3.5 i 71.1 4.7 5.5 84.2 4.0 4.5 79.5 5.4 5.3 87.4 2.3 3.1 88.1 2.0 2.2 84.3 3.3 3.4 78.4 5.0 5.7 81.7 46.9 50.7 jl 901.2 3.9 4.2 ii 75.1 GA. P. M. 54.9 55.7 52.8 45.7 47.1 63,3 57.2 64.5 62.0 5-5.3 47.5 62.5 668.5 55.7 AGE OF I) NUMBER OF TIMES OBSERVKD BLOWING FROM THE i (Three telegraphic observations only.) p. M. Mean. i 71.0 ! 66.9 75.2 ! 70.4 71.6 60.9 67.4 61.0 7-5.7 66.3 82.5 76.7 78.2 71.6 85.4 79.1 84.6 78.2 79.6 73.1 73.2 66.4 79.5 74.6 923.9 851.2 i 77.0 70.9 N. 9 6 7 8 8 6 9 16 20 18 25 20 152 N. E. V 4 2 5 8 S 23 li 96 E. 13 5 8 13 8 13 23 21 7 12 134 S. E. 3 10 9 9 17 20 7 16 10 11 7 4 123 . 14 29 28 10 2-2 22 20 8 6 4 9 15 187 S. W. 12 5 14 16 10 10 21 9 3 4 4 8 W. 17 13 11 22 15 5 20 5 7 7 13 4 N.W. 23 13 10 17 6 4 3 16 13 116 1 139 120 S"3 O 8 o fc 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 2 1 5 15 PERCENTAGES. 14.0 ! 8.7 | 12.4 11.4 17.3 | 10.7 12.9 | 11.1 1.4 NUMBER OF DAYS. a 3 o 12 12 15 14 7 9 4 16 21 15 10 10 15 11 9 14 12 17 19 7 8 11 9 143 ' 142 '1 0 12 2 8 6 3 8 5 4 3 2 4 12 69 2?*^ O -U s "^ 35 0 -H * O 13 13 11 13 7 17 10 16 10 5 6 12 133 o L oJj 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mill, temperature below 32. Max. temperature above 90. 9 ! 0 i ! o o ; o 0 i 0 0 i 2 0 i I 0 14 0 j 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 2 m i 1 2 5 3 1 8 7 9 0 0 0 0 12 - 21 39 PERCENTAGES. 40.4 | 40.1 19.5 37.6 0 3.3 i 54.9 11 8. C. EMERY, Sergeant Signal Vorpe, U. S. A. MAYOK'S ANNUAL BEPOHT. 99 REPORT OF HEALTH OFFICER. SAVANNAH, GA., December 31,1884. Hon. Svfua E. Leater, Mayor : SIRI have the honor to respectfully submit the following report of the workings of the Health Office, embracing the mortuary report of the City of Savannah, for year ending December 31st, 1884 The Board of Sanitary Commissioners has remained unchanged in membership from January, 1883, to this date, viz.: Hon. Bufus E. Lester, Mayor and ex-officio Chairman, Aldermen J. R. Hamlet and D. R. Thomas, CitizensCaptain Jno. F. Wheaton, J. R. Saussy, Esq., W. Duncan, M. D., and J. T. McFarland, M. D., Health Officer and ex-officio Secretary. Members have been regular in attendance upon meetings, and have been vigilant in protecting the sanitary interests of the community. General good health has prevailed continuously during the year, without report to this office of any suspicious case of fever, or even the rumor of same. Excepting cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever, the city and surroundings have been exempted from contagious or infectious diseases. Scarlet fever has been present in the community in a very mild form, only two deaths having resulted from this disease during the year. Diphtheria has prevailed to some extent, as it has done throughout the States, but to lesser extent than rumored, the number of deaths from this disease during the year being twenty-seven (27), while during 1883 there were forty-four (44) deaths from same. The dread in the minds of the community of diphtheria is justly great; to this fact, coupled with the reporting of other affections as said disease, is 100 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. attributable the magnified reports regarding its prevalence. It is worthy of note that this disease has largely predominated during the latter six months of the three past years. I have kept the Superintendent of Public Schools informed regarding the locality of cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever, and children from infected houses have not been allowed to attend school until they presented a certificate from this office that they could do so without risk to the other scholars. Infected premises have been visited and inspected, and unsanitary conditions, when detected, have !! been rectified. The ordinance prohibiting the upturning of the public I domain from May 1st to November 1st, annually, without i permission of the Sanitary Board has been rigidly enforced, causing much cavil and considerable feeling, comment being freely made that it seemed strangely inconsistent to refuse permit for the digging of a ditch in the. street, when any property owner can with impunity upturn as deeply and as great a space as he pleases upon soil belonging to him. The ordinance does not work smoothly, it being very difficult to determine when upturning of the public domain ceases to be necessary. The usual number of complaints against offensive pi ivy vaults have been made. These vaults will always continue to be nuisances to the health and comfort of this community, disinfection of them giving only temporary relief; the only remedy is the establishment of sewers conveniently located to the outbuildings, and the abolishment of these vaults. It is appropriate for me to here state that by resolution of the honorable The City Council I attended as delegate the conference of State and municipal boards of health, which met in Washington, D. C., on December 10th, 1884. The conference was convened on account of the expected visitation of cholera to the United States during the > year 1885. The committee on municipal legislation submitted a series of resolutions, which were adopted by the conference. Although they were submitted as directly bearing upon chol- , MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOBT. 101 era, they as a whole contain suggestions worthy of confidence and following by cities at all times, and I respectfully submit them : First.That all surface wells should be closed at the earliest possible moment, and that great care should be taken that the water supply of all cities, towns and villages shall be of undoubted purity. Second.That all privy vaults should be abolished wherever water-closets can be supplied, and that wherever the existence of such vaults is necessary they should be rendered water-tight in such a manner as to prevent the saturation not only of the ground surrounding them, but also of the materials of which they are built, and that the contents of such vaults should be kept constantly disinfected, and removed to a proper place at frequent intervals. Third.That all stagnant ponds, when practicable, should be disinfected, and when possible the water removed by drainage or pumping, and the further accumulation prevented by filling with fresh earth or other material free from garbage or other filth. Fourth.That great care should be exercised to keep at all times clear and free from obstruction all sewers into which passes the refuse from dwellings, factories and other buildings, and that such examinations should be made as will detect imperfect plumbing in all buildings, and the defects immediately corrected. In this connection special attention is directed to the necessity for the thorough ventilation of all soil and waste-pipes, and to the dangers connected with untrapped and unflushed soil-waste and overflow pipes. Fifth.That extraordinary care should be exercised in reference to all tenement houses, lodging houses, and in general all places where large numbers of human beings congregate, that no accumulation of garbage or other fifth be permitted in cellars or yards, and that frequent and thorough cleaning and whitewashing of such structures be required; and that householders should frequently and thoroughly examine their yards, cellars, closets and other. out-of-therway I 102 MAJOR'S ANNUAL KEPOBT. places, to see that no "filth of any kind has been deposited there. Sixth.That the food supply be vigorously watched to exclude from the market all unwholesome meat; all milk adulterated or from diseased animals; and all unripe fruits and vegetables; and that cow stables be kept at all times clean, well whitewashed and free from all excremental accumulations. Seventh.That all garbage, kitchen and household refuse should be promptly removed from dwellings, stores and other buildings to a proper place, where it may be destroyed by fire or otherwise disposed of in such manner as to occasion no nuisance. Eighth.That such material should never be used in the filling of lots or disposed of by throwing the same in streets or vacant property, where it may decompose and exhale offensive and deleterious gases. Ninth.That the attention of the authorities of all institutions, both public and private, and of individuals as well, be drawn to the great importance of maintaining a habit of personal cleanliness in the persons under their charge, as being one of the most efficient means of warding off an attack of cholera, or if it has once appeared, of greatly reducing its virulence and fatality. Tenth.Should the cholera appear in any place in this country, tbe health authorities of the place should have immediate notice of the first cases in order that prompt action may be taken for complete isolation and disinfection. Eleventh.That all authorities of States, cities or villages be urged to adopt measures which will result in the amelioration of all conditions such as have been referred to in th* foregoing propositions, with the warning that, in the opinion of this conference, such conditions, if permitted to continue, will greatly promote the spread, of cholera when it cornea, pad with the assurance that, if requisite measures ar promptly taken to remove them, the disease will be less likely to attack a community so prepared, and if attacked. IL MAYOB'S ANNUAL BEPORT. 103 such a community will be better able to cope with the disease and to reduce its ravages to a minimum. The mortuary report for the year presents a favorable showing, so far as regards the death rate of the white population, but I regret to say that the death rate of the black and colored population continues heavy to extreme, but not more so in this city than is the case elsewhere where the negro race is congregated in large numbers. An exhibit of the annual death rate of the whites and blacks and colored for the past five years will give official data, and is as follows : Annual ratio per thousand population : 1880. Whites ............... 19.8 Blacks and Colored 45.5 1881. Whites ............... 23.6 " " 54.4 1882. Whites .............. 19.2 " " 44.3 1883. Whites .............. 20.4 " " 39.5 1881, Whites ........... .... 19.5 " " 42.2 During the past year 466 whites have died out of a population of 23,839, and 703 blacks and colored out of a population of 16,652. Of these 13 whites and 119 blacks have been furnished from this office with burial permits, having had no physician in attendance. With City Physicians and a free Dispensary it seems singular that such a large proportion of the deaths among the negro race should so occur, but I state simply the facts as deducted from the mortuary record. The quarantine regulations of this port have been closely adhered to by the Sanitary Commissioners. On January 23d the City Council, upon recommendation of the Sanitary Board, made a reduction of about 33 per cent, in the port quarantine charges. The quarantine station has only wharfage for two vessels to discharge ballast at the same time, and twice during the year bankings up of vessels have occurred, which occasioned unnecessary detention to commerce and great annoyance to the Sanitary Board. Greater facility is demanded for the unballasting of vessels. It is authoritatively stated that the depth of water of the quarantine anchorage will be so seriously lessened within 101: KAPOK'S ANNUAL REPORT. the next year or two, in consequence of the river improvements, as will necessitate its abandonment. Such being the case, it would be unwise to incur any expenditure at present location for new wharfage, and I therefore recommend that additional wharfage be built along the north bank of Long Island. This location is near enough to the Quarantine Officer's quarters to be under his surveillance; it affords sufficiency of water near the bank at low water; will give safe moorage, and will not interfere with the channel. Communication between the city and the Quarantine Station from May 1st to November 1st was kept up by row boat service. This method proved satisfactory during fait weather, but in stormy weather it frequently happened that for several successive days communication was impossible, and I respectfully recommend that a sail boat of proper size be purchased, in order that communication with the station can be kept up at all times. During the month of June the ] quarantine regulation which interdicted the bringing to the city between May 1st and October 1st, annually, of any cargo from an infected port, was so modified as to allow of the lightering of such cargoes under specified stipulations. [' Section 10 was also modified by Council, upon reeommentj dation of the Sanitary Board, during month of September, so as to lessen, after October 1st, annually, the detention time at Quarantine Station from fifteen days to ten days of vessels from infected or suspected ports, having had no sickness on board during voyage or while at the station. No case of sickness of contagious or infectious disease has been at the station during the year, if I except a convalescent case of small pox brought by the bark Abel from Bio, on 29th of October. / One seaman was drowned at the station while bathing, and one birth occurred on board the bark Matilda, while she was undergoing detention. The buildings at the station are in serviceable condition. The wharves require some repairs to insure permanency^ even for the period of a year or two. HAIOB'B AMTOAL BEPOBT. 105 The Small Pox Hospital property has been well cared for, and the buildings are in condition ready for use. Some work is needed upon roof and shutters of main building. I here report the death of Maurice Hardy (keeper) from malarial fever, which occurred on September 25th, 1884. During the past summer Council added to the duties of the Health Officer the medical and surgical attendance upon prisoners in police barracks, which hare been performed by me. I have given medical and surgical attendance to the police foree and paid fire department. The health of the police department has been good. I report one death from this body (Thos. Cunihan); cause of death, consumption of lungs. I am, sir, Your obedient servant, J. T. McFABLAND, M. D., Health Officer. 106 MATOE'S ANNUAL REPORT. MORTUARY REPORT OF SAVANNAH, GA., YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31,1884 FOR 1 i January to June, inclusive CAL'SE OF DEATH. ', ^ i is-gg : I !l s Aneurism, aorta .... I ... Angina pectoris .... I . . . Apoplexy ....... 4 3 Brain, congestion ... 10 1 1 Brain, inflamation .... 1 1 Brain, softening . . . . : I I Brain, undefined .... j 2 Bronchitis, acute .... i . I Bronchitis, senile . . . : 2 2 Bronchitis, undefined . . I ' 2 Cancer stomach .... I ... Cancer, uterine .... I 2 Catarrh, intestinal ... I I Childbed .......... I Cholera infantum ... 8 ! II Convulsions, infantile." . ft- ig Convulsions, puerperal . 2 ' . . . Croup, undefined ..." 3 I Debilitv ....... ' I 2 Dementia ....... I ... 1 July to December, inclusive. o" i -ell 1 5 3 I : . . . I : . . . 4 2 3 2 ! i . . . ... i ii. . . 4 i ' * 3 . . i 1 2 I ... 10 5 2 2 ... 2 I I : I ... 2 2 II 7 4 7 2 . . . 2 . . . I ... 5 8 i : . . . Race total for year. i jz-al i ra 62 i 2 1 I 2 ' . . . 8 4 3 5 i i ' 3 . . . . : 1 I ... 20 |6 3 3 i i ' 3 ' 4 i i . . ' i ; 2 2 ! : 2 6 i ... i > i ... i ; i > . . . | 2 . . . I ... ! 3 4 1 I I ... 19 18 ... I I 10 I 36 4 |. - - 2 |. . . 3 1 ' 6 i 10 I ! I for Aggregate year. i i i 8 9 2 2 12 8 2 4 I 3i 2 7 : 2 i 8 i 2 I I 2 I 7 2 I I 37 i i 46 4 2 I 4 2 16 2 MAYOB'B ANNUAL REPORT. 107 MORTUAliY REPORT OF SAVANNAH, OA.Continued. CAUSE OF DEATH. Defective assimilation . Diabetes, melitus ... Diarrhcea, acute . . . . Diarrhoea, chronic . . . i Diarrhoea, undefined . . January to ijul tune, inclusive ber .1 111 , % 5 <3| \ 1 4 10 z 9 .. 3.\ 2, . Dropsy, general .... 5 1 8 Dysentery, undefined . . Enteritis, chronic . . . Enteritis, undefined . . Fnilcrrcv I 4 l i i 6 4 , Fever, catarrhal .... Fever, malarial, conges . Fever, malarial, intermit ... 3 i ' i . . . : 2 Fever, malarial, undefined: 2 4 Fever, typhoid malarial . Gastritis, chronic. . . . Gastritis, undefined . . . Gaslro enteritis .... Gfstro, hepatitis .... Heart, endocarditis . . . Herat, fatty degeneration Heart, hypertrophy . . . Heart, paralysis .... Heart, undefined .... Heart, valvular .... 5 7 ,. . . i 1 2 2 1 a ; 4 t . . . ' i - 1 . . . 1 2 ' . 1)13 | . . . ; i ! i i. . . ' ; ' i ... I i ... - 4i 6 ! 3 > ' ! " ! rtoDeceminclusive. 1 8 jil = 0 -- *1 C s 5 u i i i , . . 4 ' 4 i i 2 4 2O ' 2 4 , 2 r2 ' 1 . 1 7 4 I 2 2 1 ' z 3 2 ... . . ... t "4 3 2 5 12 16 3 5 I 2 3 4 ' , i ... I 2 Race total year. for U-cl Si b* e c JO 1 I . I 8 ' i 4 23 " Y i : ; 8 I I 6 i z I' i 1 '5 ' 2 12 i 5 I 1 i XO 1 i 1- - - , ' - 3 | 3 : : i : : : i : : : i ... ?! i ... i ... . . i i ' i 2 2 3 i - - 1 3 1 2 I . ' 2 I 6 6 1 ; 4 11 3 4 5 3?l . i 8 i 2 7 ; 4 : ' i ' 3 i 4 ! ,1 9 ' 4 ' 11 , T 2 6 2 2 1 I I 8 i CS V >* 1u i < . 2 I s 19 f 17 27 5 37 2 ,0 2 3 10 i ; i ; 3 ; i I 9 ; 7 i 30 ! '* i 5 2 '9 | i 1 4 4 * X t 1 f 4 7 108 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEBOBT. MORTUARY REPORT OP SAVANNAH. GA.Continued. CAUSE OF DEATH. Hernia, slrang., undefined Hemorrhage, undefined . Kidneys, Brigbt's disease Kidneys, undefined. . . Laryngeal consumption . Liyer, cirrhosis .... Liver, congestion. . . . Liver, undefined .... Lungs, congestion . . . Lungs, consumption . . Lungs, hemorrhage . . . Meningitis, C. S. . . . Meningitis, undefined. . Myelitis ....... Old age. ....... Paralysis, general . . . Pneumonia, broncho. . . Stomach, congestion . . Syphilis, congenital . . Svphilis, tertiary .... Teething ....... January to June, inclusive i i l 9 ! 1 '[ Race total for year. wol " jf c o 2 g *;o SS -j t . . .1 I . : ... * ! s 17 : 3 * : S - 4 4 i ' 2 > 2 ; 3 : ii ' 1 , 2 . 6 ' 3 53 9* 2 S. ' '3 , 3 3 4 i ... . 4 " 2 , 2 ; . . . 12 40 Id 14 5 ' 4 4 5 3* . 2 ... !..'. . I ! . . . . 1 t 9 ; . . J i i 2 16 I * . ! ... i , i ... 1 i " ... i ... I 11 2 2 13 ' 3 20 for Aggregate year. 1 I . i 2 25 5 9 5 3 3 3 2 3 9 151 7 i 43 7 I 'S 2 2 2 S 2 24 6 it 47 2. I I I 2: 18, i 2 I 1 I I. 2 I 3 23 I MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 109 MORTUARY REPORT OF SAVANNAH, GA.Continued. CAUSE OF DEATH. Trismus nascentium . . Tumor, abdominal . . . Undefined ...... Whites, January to June. Blacks and colored, JanBlacks and colored, July Total blacks and colored Aggregate whites and Macks and col, for year January to June,inclusive O " 5 i. i 215 STO? P-i 3 " i ii i 14 2 3<>I July to December, inclusive aSv 3 6 4 25 I/>TJ S 1=1 5 " 2 >7 23 2 342 Race total for year. 4= 5= II 1 5 466 js-gl rs .28 i 37 4 j i 73 for Aggregate year. 3 39 2 42 4 I 1169 MORTUARY RKl'ORT OF SAVANNAH, (\\.-Continue.d. AGE H1IMMARY. Between 90 and 100 year*..,....,,.......................................,.........,.... Total, 1st quarter- Whlt*n, 96; blacks, 17U-275......................... . Total, 2d quarter-Whites, 119; blocks, lsa-301.. ........................ Total, Sd quarter Whites, 107; blacks, 108-275........ .... .............. Total, 4th quarter Whites, 144; blacks, 174 #18.. ......................... Total Whites Males, 247; females, 219......................................... Aggregate ................................ ................................................ t> a ? ? S if 9 t CJ y * 14 III X 1 II 1 4 ft 4 t a." \t S II 7 4 1 4 fi K 1 1 .- S s, s a'? 0 1 I 2 4 4 3 6 I SI 0 4 03 s 4 4 4 8 10 Ift fi 4 2 H W B S 2 a i* 6 3 1 4 4 4 S 1 s Of) d 4 9 3 II 1 K H fl 1 8 1 f>8 r jjd * 2 il 1 2 4 5 7 2 2 1 1 (1 4 B) '? 3 5 16 5 8 ft fl 2 50 :* S a 2 pe n 'i. 4 H 1 1 7 3 37 d 4 n 28 2 3 r> 4 1 6 6 1 4 tt Kl S a * 14 2 8 3 I 8 8 3 1 1 41 d 4 19 u 1 S H 3 8 1 8 fi| 1 64 !, fe a " a 6 4 4 6 8 8 4 1 2 1 m d 4 to 18 2 6 H 7 6 4 4 3 1 2 64 <; S a * 7 R 1 6 2 an c5 4 B e inA A i 4 6 1 4 1 4H J3 E * J 3 i i 4 4 2 8 7 5 2 6 5 41 d 4 n 18 4 6 R 2H- (i 8 1 S S R6 t 1 S e t n A H (1 4 4 9 4 8 4 1 90 1= 1 1 O 4 M 14 2 4 4 ft 7 4 2 5 4 1 1 58 -f 9 i a it 4 A 1 8 A 5 8 3D d 4 1 6 4 1 ft A 6 4 4 1 1 63 ._ | | ft ^ a ^ 6 2 2 A 7 h 3 8 45 d 4 14 4 A 1 1 ft! 7| 4 1 1 1 "i -1 5 I 2 a 2 ^ M 84 n 81 44 4A 87 4jj 1 1 [466 ..Ul.... ii. _ Hi d 4 (d 171 40 87 77 Al 87 82 88 18 12 $ 91 on 71 Ml 18A Ml 74 75 S 18 ' ! .....J1169 Population, census 1882 Whites, 28,839; blacks and colored, 16,652; total, 40,491. Annual ratio par 1,000 population Whiles. 19.64; blacks and colored, 42.21. Thlrten (13) burial certificates were given for whites, and one hundred and nineteen (lit) for blacks and colored, who died without having a physician In attendance. MORTUARY REPORT OF SAVANNAH, GA. ACCIDENTS, VIOLENCE AND STILL-BIRTHS. Uanuar ;ruary, fAUSK OK DKATH. ; I 1 ^ Blow upon hed............................................... Hum.................................................................. Crushing........................................................... Drowning........................................................ Kail.................................................................... Kracture of skull ........................... ................. Gunshot wound............................................... Infanticide................................. ..................... Knife wound................... ................................. Poisoning, chloral............................................ Poisoning, C. potash ...................................... Poisoning, opium .......... .................. . ............ Railroad accident............................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ 1 ............ 1 Total second quarter...............,....................' .... Total third quarter........................ ..............I......,,..., y, FebMarch. ll rs 8 1 1 ~~~\ ............1 ............I Total fourth quarter..................................... ;........... .|............ Whites, total for year.. ................................;............ Blacks and colored, total for year............... ............ Aggregate....,............................,....................;............ -I1 April, May, June. Whites. ............ 1 ............ Blacks and Colored. ........... 2 1 I i ; < ............!............), July. August September. Whites. Blacks and Colored. i 1 i i 1 * '! . "/ ...........:............( ,.........jj.....:...... , ::::::...::: ............ ............ i __ i ............! ............I'............!..........' October, November, Dec'r. | 4 Blacks and Colored. 1 1 1 1 1 1 ! i |............ ............ .......... I i Race totals for year. Whites. o 1 1 1 1 1) Blacks and Colored. 1 s 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 j i 16 Aggregate for year. 1 5 2 1 U .3 1 | i i K I Btlll Births for YearWhites, 27; blacks and colored, 78. Premature Births for YearWhites, U; blacks and colored, 14. 112 MAYOB'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF ODORLESS EXCAVATING MACHINE. SAVANNAH, January 1,1886. Hon. Sufvs E. Leater, Mayor: SIBI have the honor to transmit herewith my report as Superintendent of the Odorless Excavating Machine Department, from January 1st to December 31st, 1884. The number of sinks cleaned from January 1st to December 31st, 1884, is 1,045. The amount of matter removed from the above sinks for the year ending December 31st, 1884, is 99,967 cubic feet. The expenses of the Department for the year have been as follows: Salary of Superintendent... .........$ 991 63 Time of Hands...... ............... 4,508 65 Forage for stock..................... 1,279 36 Medical Treatment to Stock .......... 13 00 Repairs to Wagons and Shoeing Stock. 382 22 New Wagons........................ 170 00 Repairs to Barrels................... 20 55 Pitting Barrels purchased .... ...... 352 56 Cement and Lime ................... 82 60 Bricks and Sand........ ........... 166 95 NewTrucks........ .... ............ 'JO 00 Hire of Extra Wagons.............. 2,309 00 Hire of Horse for Superintendent .... 141 15 Tools, Tar, Charcoal, Nails, etc........ 120 49 Mules purchased .................... 800 00 ... $11358 16 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BIPOBT. 113 Against which was collected : For Gleaning and Repairing Sinks, by City Treasurer ....................16,568 34 For Cleaning and Repairing Sinks, by City Marshal...................... 1,180.19 To be Collected by City Treasurer..... 269 06 To be Collected by City Marshal...... 731 40 Poudrette Sold and Collected......... 667 50 Pondrette to be Collected............. 375 00 - $9,791 49 Net Cost of Department for the Tear 1884.... $1,566 67 Very respectfully, J Your obedient servant, W. J. CLEART, Superintendent Odorless Excavating Machine Department. U j VATOB 8 ANNUAL REPORT. SSPGST OF CIT7 PHYSICIAN. EASTERN DISTRICT. SAVANNAH, January 1, 1884. Son. Bufua E. Lester, Mayor: SIBI have the honor to present the following report of work done by me as City Physician, Eastern District: . MONTHS. January ............... February ........... March. . ........... April ................ ifiy. ................ June. .............. July. ................ August ............... September. ............. October ............... November. ............. December ....... ...... Total ............... No. Patlenta. ,4 on 415 511 556 610 625 701 744, 796 649 602 510 7,218 -2 a *>O 260 248 OQA OOJ, QfiA QTJ. OOQ 301 275 210 3,438 Colored. 205 252 251 OAO 320 331 OJ.1 370 427 348 327 300 3,780 s ' "5 > o fc 758 622 766 834 915 938 1,051 1,116, 1 1CV1 Q7*> 903 765 10,835 2 I 6 fc 4 4 5 4 7 i 4 ?. 56 Yours respectfully, FRANK T. LINCOLN, M. D., City Physician, Eastern District.. |3?B|. g OS SSiftftSSSi I No. Patients. 9 CD -4 -I * I | No. Whites. No. Colored. Xo. Visits. ~| Whites. ft Uto en cc ce cc> ce a *.e 051*. I Colored. i I ? 3 en 116 MAYOB'8 ANNUAL BKPOBT. REPORT OF KEEPER OF LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY. OFFICE KEEPEB LAUBEL GROVE CEMETEM, SAVAHNAH, January 1, 1885. Hon. Rufus E. Lester, Mayor: SIRI have tbe honor to report Laurel Grove Cemetery in good order and condition. The fences* have alt-been repaired and whitewashed. During the past year there has been received : For Sale of Burial Lots .....,.................$ 960 00 For Burial Fees ............... .............. 810 50 Total....................................... $1,770 50 Amount paid for Keeper's salary, tune of hands, material; tools, repairs to fences, etc., $6,856.71. Number of interments at the expense of the city: Whites from the City..,. ..........................20 Whites from Hospitals ......... .................. 35 : 55 Colored from the City........ .................... 54 Colored from the Colored Infirmary................. 63 117 Total.......................................... 172 The Dumber of interments during the year are as follows: MAYOR'S ANNUAL KEPOET. 117 NUMBER OF INTERMENTS IN LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY AND CEMETERY FOB COLORED PERSONS, FROM JANUARY IST TO DECEMBER Hlsr., 1884. ' MONTHS. January ....... February ...:.. March ........ April ........ -May ......... June ......... July ......... August ....... September ...... October ........ November ...... December ...... Total. ...... Whites. "3 1. e e V 5 22 22 21 18 21 17 23 35 31 28 279 !: e .1" o 6 4 9 6 7 6 7 7 7 8 11 11 89 1 ' 28 26 28 27 29 24 24 30 43 39 368 Colored. 13 '-'1 ' a o 3 67 51 55 57 61 60 58 45 56 59 63 55 687 5"S o> _a S J3 6 17 16 19 12 25 16 20 22 21 20 19 15 222 1 84 67 74 69 86 76 78 67 77 79. 82 70 909 in Total interments both cemeteries. 112 93 102 96 116 100 106 91 107 122 124 109 1,277 -1 have the honor to be Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, A. P. TOBLAT, Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetery. J L APPlloationsWhite. Colored. Prescriptions. County. 8 ANNUAL BEPOBT. RSP08T Of HAMBOR MASTER. BAVANTSAH, January 1,1886. Son. Rvfw S. Letter, Mayor : DIAB 8nI have the honor to report that I have deposited with City Treasurer the sum of eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty cents ($11,885.50), harbor faes collected for the past year, being eighty-five dollars and forty-three oents ($85.43) in excess of last year. Tonnage, six hundred and sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-two (669,792). There has been ample room for all "vessels. Annexed find a tabulated monthly statement of tonnage and fees. I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, JNO. D. TENBBOEOK, Harbor Master. FOBEIGN AND DOMESTIC TONNAGE, 1884. -. 1884. January . February March . Aurll May. . June. . July. . August September November December Total . . 9 8 I S < 63,165 55,426 64,395 54 061 57*066 68,954 50,684 <1S ftft*? 51,168 58,343 62,306 67,132 628,550 i c 11,443 7,930 809 810 749 870 8,102 33,382 28,303 19,480 87,475 fla) P o fc 6,794 4 7ftg 2,981 6,510 1,547 4,003 1,182 822 722 6,25fi 0,111 3,148 34,956 a002' a< 00 1,004 2 inn 460 928 217 762 654 6,197 S 0 1,885 94,5 1,523 368 762 7,416 1 V CO 486 971' 817 1,639 720 747 598 592 5,572 8,096 aa '3 a . 597 597 1,104 c i a S 452 560 1,224 ,. jj& 3 1 410 410 820 . a .2s s 500 506 1,560 2,572 u fl &i 301 . 952 1,253 e .2 $ 529 021 510 1,140 1,01(4 687 587 3,587 1,369 10,229 """ ; 60 e c ^ H 85,078 72,669 62,404 OfJ OQO 50,079 A4 AdA 56.523 59,313 52,117 11,208 92,350 87,265 669,792 f " f* $1,190 60 1,079 45 774 15 OQ7 of\ 628 70 Tin OA 554 20 OOf /tA ftqi i A 1 7QJ. ftfi 1 ftTU. 9J\ 1,211 55 $Tl,88550 JOHN D. TENBBOECK, Harbor Master. MATCH'S ABUTTAL BEPOBT. 121 &EP0BT QF QUARANTINE OFFICER. QUARANTINE STATION, February 25, 1885. tifn. B. E. Lesfer, Mayor and Chairman Board of Health : DEAR SIRIt gives me great pleasure to be able to announce to your Honorable Board that nothing has transpired at this Station during the past year that requires special record. . Your Quarantine Officer .has, in all instances, delayed vessels as short a time as his instructions would permit, fully recognizing how hurtful to the commerce of the port would be any unnecessary delay. . I would like to respectfully call your attention to the fact that the fear of an invasion of cholera has largely increased the labors of this office, as all the Mediterranean ports, and also those of France, had to be brought under observation. The only casualties of sufficient importance to be recorded were the death of an English sailor by drowning, the birth of a Swedish damselMiss Matilda Tyberia, and the breaking of a leg of the carpenter of a Norwegian bark. I desire specially to call the attention of your Honor and the Board of Health to the fact that among so large a number of subjects of all nationalties, who have been exposed for so many years working and sleeping doling the sweltering days of our southern summers in immediate contact with ballast, much of it drawn from the very womb of yellow fever, that not a single case of yellow fever, or any contagious-TtiBease, has ever occurred. Of coffee, many cargoes have been introduced, at all seasons of the year, without detriment .to the public health. From the above facts I draw the conclusion that vessels with cargoes or ballast from infected ports may, with a delay 122 XAYoa'a AHBTAL KBTOBT. of a few days, with proper [irnrantinnn. be allowed access to our ports. Either the experts in such natters are d*ladd in relation to the danger of such vehicles being common ewtrian of contagion, or that they, being subjected to MM IttMf of sulphar, bin-oxide, or other such disinfectant, fcr twMty-fonr hour*, in the strength, of ten pounds to the" 100 faflM regjblkeMd, a* is oar system, has sterilized the mMtf/ nd rendered it CMC! upon subjects the most susceptible I hope this view may be established, M it would lessen th* restrictions now imposed upon oar OQBmeree. I am glad to learn that the health authorities of New Orleans are adopting a similar view. I deem it a generally accepted ojinion that neither time, aeration or exposore to the eitremest cold of our Northern latitudes has been effective as a disinfectant. On the other hand, the most noted phjfaioitt* have proven by experiment that all porous bodies are UOxonghly permeable, to all gasses, and hence we have a right to conclude that ths cargoes and ballast, while in the vessels, as well as toe very structure of the vessel itself, can be thoroughly saturated by these elements. All of which is respectfully submitted. J. A. HUOEB, M. D., Quarantine Officer. ANNUAL IUSPOBT. 128 SAVANNAH RIVER IMPROVEMENTS. UNITED STATES ENGINEEB OFFICE, CHAKtBSTON, S. C., January 7,1885. Hon. Rufus E. Lestcr, Mayor, Savannah, Go,: SIBIn compliance with yonr request of December 29, 1884,1 have the honor to submit the following report of work done in 1884 for "improving harbor at Savannah, Ga." The object of the present project is to secure twenty-two feet, at mean high water, from the city of Savannah to Tybee Roads. Estimated Cost........................$730,000 Appropriated to Date................... 400,000 Required for Completion................ 330,000 The general charter of the work was described in your last annual report. Owing to a lack of funds nothing was done, except a survey, until October, 1884, when jetty work was resumed under the ., last appropriation of $200,000. A third set of dams for the Upper Flats crossing has been built, and the two upper dams at the Cabbage Tree crossing have been almost completed; 25,599 square yards of mats and 5,734 cubic yards of stond have been used. The prices under the former contract were 57 cents per square yard for mats and $3.10 per cubic yard for stone. The present prices are 47 cents and $3.05. The enforced delay, through lack of appropriation, not only retarded the work, but increased its ultimate cost, shoaling "A having taken place which could have been readily controlled by a less expenditure than will be required for its removal. That the result from delay has not been more disadvantageous, is fortunate rather than deserved. The principal shoaling occurred below the incomplete works at the Upper 124 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BXPOBT. Flats crossing. The two new dams recently built are rapidly catting away this shoal, Dredging will soon be resumed, and no fear of farther shoaling need be entertained, provided funds are appropriated for continuous working until the project is completed. With the balance of the present appropriation it is intended to raise the Cross Tides dam, thus forcing more water along the city wharves and through the Wreck's channel; to place two dams at the upper end of Long Island for improving the Lower Flats crossing, and to start the works near the Oyster Bed shoaL The work already done is a guarantee that the balance required under the present project will surely produce the effects originally planned, adding the increase in cost due to delay. Savannah will then- have deeper water to the bar than can be taken over it Her business interests will at an early date demand the permanent improvement of the bar. Very respectfully your obedient servant, THOS. N. BAILEY, Cupt. Corps of Eng'ra U. S. A. DETAILED STATEMENT OF COTTON MOVEMENTS AT SAVANNAH FOE THE YEARS 1881-82, 1882-83, AND 1883-84. SEASON; September . . . October . . . ; i November. . . December . . . January. . . . February , . . March. .... April ..... May. ..... Juue ..... July. ..... August .... Totnl. . . GROSS RECEIPTS. 1881-82. D fl . .- . "3,. .P 100.425 190,043 159,070 138,992 66,108 34,311 82,951 14,710 10,207 7,898 3.019 8,414 726,148 >o a a! 3 g OQ 201 1,430 2,931 3,471 3,305 2,189 495 143 2,895 6 87 76 17.229 1882-83. o - O ' a sN* 82,705 188,429 156,194 146,661 67,018 64,496 50,928 28,761 13,067 6,336 2,384 7,068 814,047 c 3 252 1,463 2,483 2.458 2,050 2.598 : 329 180 188 1 2 12,004 1883-84. ' TS a JL 84,527 104.9S4 138,066 122,447 46,987 33750 20',276 6,938 3,100 3,444 830 1,485 655,784 Sea Island. 295 2,096 2,750 2,08S 1.36S 636 117 9C C 9,331 NET REUEIPTS. 1881-82. Upland. 100,210 149,483 157,176 137,708 64,821 34,083 -.32,626 14,512 10,143 7,720 3,019 8,326 719,827 ., Sea Island. 201 1,430 2,931 3,471 3,305 2,189 41)5 '143 2,895 6 87 76 17,229 1882-83. ' Upland. 82,401 180,130 155,240 . 144.055 64,907 64,003 50.081 28,640 12.995 6,319 2,377 7,003 805.711 Sea Island. ' 252 1,463 2,473 2,452 2,046 2,583 322 177 188 1 2 11,959 1883-84. 73 a at "Q> P 83,756 192,076 130,925 121,662 46,156 33,152 18,035 5,835 3,090 3,444 830 1,484 646.445 Sea Island. ' 292 2,090 2,748 2,083 1,351 529 110 87 t 2 ' 9,801 S' 3-g5Bg?S *>*f:l 31 113 Upland. S i s Upland. 58! ! Sea Island. Upland. Sea Island. Upland. Sea Island. O 42 11 5? W 25 18 Upland. Sea Island. Upland. S' Sea Island. c5' I_________ aX S 1a : a 2! 25 S coi->eoa. Upland. Upland. Upland. ff "0 TVOSKT s. r*vP S *1 I Upland. Upland. Upland. _ _C* *-5> """ Upland. Sea Island. Upland. w a -I Sea Island. >-i io*- > twCffi^aoco[.-T . , ^'j^'j K'j3j^j*J*y > ^ 5_iip> u pinna. & \ C? O^ C^ ^ CO Cn O1 -J k-. CDO O to Oi * I O ^l^jQi-* U) ^1 'tey 1 ^^ ^-1 t'iO iI oO-i*.eooota"Oio<-' Sea Island. g I1X M Upland and Sea Island. Upland and Sea Island. Upland and Sea Island. TVONNV S.aOIVH 3 S! H3 O ^ O O2I 128 KAYOB 8 ANNUAL DEPORT. COASTWISE EXPORTS, PORT OF SAVANNAH, 1884. COMPILED BY FBANK E. REBABEB, CLERK OF COUNCIL. ARTICLES. Quantity. Ash Rails. ............ perfoot 333 Barrels and Kegs (empty). . . . ... 50,978 Bones. ............... sacks 210 Cavier.................. kegs . 500 C;ir Wheels (old) ............ 4,897 Cotton, Upland, 265,394. ...... bales 123,640,710 Cotton, Sea Island, 10,981. ..... bales 4,082,970 Corn. ...... .... . . ; . ; gac-ks 268 CIcy..... .... .... ... casks 915 Drugs (S^S.S.).. . .... .... boxes 720 Fish ....... .... hhds and bbls. 109 Fruit, Dried. .... . ., . . . . . sacks 217 Fruit, Oranges and Peaches - bbls& crates 264.676 Glassware ..... .... .... bbls. ' 85 Grease ........... .... bbls. 100 Hides, Dry and Flint.. .bales & bundles 11,291 Hides, Green, salted. . . .... bundles 5,173 Hemp. ............... bales 2,125 Iron, Old B. B. ............ bars 3,355 Iron, Pig. .............. tons 11,800 Iron, Old Scrap. ... .... ... tons 1,800,400 Jute Butts. ............. bales 128 Junk. ...... ....:.... casks 246 Jelly (fruit). ...... ...... cases 85 Kerosene .............. bbls. 49 Lemons. ... . . .... .... boxes 103 Leather. ............ . rolls 196 Lumber.. .......... -thousand 42,286,342 Lumber, Walnut and Poplar. . . . .feet 300,000 Lumber, Cypress Boards. . . ..... feet 176,640 Merchandise.. . . . ...... packages 84,250 Metal (old) . . .... ...... hhds. 3 Oil, Cotton Seed . . ........ bbls. 9,981 Oysters ............... bbls. 365 j Paint .....:........ bbls. 1,144 Paper Stock.. . ..... bbls and casks 5,833 Paper. . . ............ bales 14 Bags an?) Waste. .......... bales 477 Refrigerator Empty Crates .. --. .- . . 172 Bice Flour. .... ..... . . .: sacks 6,200 Skins, Sheep. ... .... .... bales 42 Shingles.. ..... .."-\. : ; ithousand 3,031.400 Staves, Oak.. ...::. I-.:, thousand 1,540,200 Sturgeon. .... .... ..... casks 187 Strawberries. ........ refrigerators 405 Byrup, Cane ..... ....... bbls. 71 Sponge ............... bbls. 4 Spirits Turpentine ... ...... bbls. 35,867 | Turtle ................. 1,264 ! Value. i 250 63,722 1,575 7,500 7,464 12,443,859 1,259,520 482 18,300 10,080 1,695 3,196 591,056 4,250. 525 467,310 148,982 24,205 50,325 236,000 270,026 6,144 4,190 637 331 258 53,900 717,360 6,000 5,299 4,412,125 450 224,573 912 51,480 26,831 294 14,310 215. 1,550 1,260: 27,645 10,156 9,000 22,740 1,278 333 538,005 7.584 XAYOB8 ANNUAL BEPOBT. COASTWISE EXPORTSContinued. 129 ARTICLES. Terrapin ........ ... Timber. ........ . . . . Tar. . . . ... ... ... Vegetables (Irish potatoes) . . Wool. ....... ... . . Yarns and Domestics. .... Total ...... ... . . . . .bbls. . . .feet . . .bbls. . . . bbls. . . pieces . . . bales Ha loo Quantity. 25 183,029 21 1,146,591 QIT QC9 52 3,081 25,050 .... Value. $ 1,812 1,647 75 1,719,881 93,215 3,100 J, 737,684 1,152,300 * 26,464,396 FOREIGN EXPOBTS, PORT OF SAVANNAH, 1884. ARTICLES. Cotton. Upland, 456,867 bales . Cotton, Sea Island, 1,753 bales . Spirit* Turpentine 1 ... ... Rosin (280 Ibs. to bbl.) ..... Lumber .......... supe Timber ............. . . . Ibs. . . . Ibs. . .galls. . . . bbls. rflclal feet cubic feet Total ...... ............ Quantity. 214,335,183 668,777 3,038,466 381,690 16,884,000 481,215 Value. $ 22,278,180 206,769 1,098,905 596,890 231,800 40,136 17,108 $ 24,489,788 4 ! i 130 MAYORS' ANNUAL BEPOBT. IMPORTS, PORT OP SAVANNAH, 1884. ARTICLES. Coffee ............ Fertilizing Substances .... Cotton Ties .......... Salt. ............. Coal. ............. Molasses ........... Cigars ............ Cod Fish Rice .............. Machinery ........... Works of Art ......... All other articles ....... Total ........... . . . . Ihs. .... tons. bdls . . . . .Ibs. .... tons. . . galls. . . number. ... .Ibs. .... Ibs. Quantity. 5,321,175 31,228 44 751 13,869,885 2,393 99,592 261,075 227,936 448,698 Value. OMAO OCA 133.585 34,^16 16,620 K AKA 13,756 8,851 12,824 7,961 4,561 3,980 2,450 9,096 $696,434 TONNAGE, PORT OF SAVANNAH, 1884. VESSELS EXTERED AT AXD CLEARED FROM CUSTOM HOUSE. VESSELS. American vessels entered. ..-... American vessels cleared ........ I**O!*&ifir& \*GS3t?ls entered Foreign vessels cleared ......... Total entered and cleared, foreign . Coastwise clearances .......... Total foreign ........... Grand total ............ i , No. . ; 14 15 . : 287 . : 288 . ; 604 . ! 388 . ! 360 . i 748 . i 604 . i 1,352 Tonnage. Men. 5,632 116 5,634 131 174,676 3,984 194,075! 4,315 380,017 8,546 482,917? 13,735 452,803 13,363 935,720 27,098 380,017 8,546 1,315,737 35,644 MAYOR AND ALDSRMM FOR 1888-84. MAYOE, EUFUS E. LESTEE. CHAIBMAX OF COUNCIL, JOSEPH J. WILDER. VICE-CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL, DAVID WELLS. JOSEPH J. WILDEB. SAMUEL P. HAMILTON. J. FLOKENCE MINIS. WILLIAM B. MELL. EDWABD M. GREEN. ANDREW HANLEY. ALDERMEN, DAVID WELLS. DANIEL B. THOMAS. JOHN E; HAMLET. GEORGE N. NICHOLS. JOHN DEEST. PATRICK J. O'CoNNOR. MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, FOR 1881-85. MAYOR, BUFUS E. LESTER. CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL,, WILLIAM DONCAN, M. D. VICE-CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL, HERMANN MTERS. ALDERMEN, WILLIAM DONCAN, M. D. DAVID WELLS. SAMUEL P. HAMILTON. GEORGE 3. MILLS. WILLIAM B. MELL. ROBERT D. BOOABT. HERMANN MTERS. DANIEL R. THOMAS. JOHN R. HAMLET. GEOBGE N. NICHOLS. JOHN DEBST. PATBICK J. O'CONNOR. STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL, 1885. AccountsAldermen Thomas, O'Connor, Mills. Assessment*Aldermen Myers, Wells, Thomas, Hamilton, Bogart. City LotsAldermen Nichols, O'Connor, Derst. DrainageAldermen Mell, Thomas, Duncan. financeAldermen Hamilton, Thomas, Myers, Mills, Bogart. FireAldermen Mills, Nichols, Hamlet. Harbor and WharvesAldermen Bogart, Mills, Wells. Health and CemeteryAldermen Duncan, Thomas, Mell. MarketAldermen Derst, Mell, Myers. PoliceAldermen O'Connor, Hamilton, Mell. Streets and LanesAldermen Hamlet, Wells, Nichols, Mills, Duncan. WaterAldermen Wells, Hamilton, Derst. BOARD OF SANITARY COMMISSIONERS. Aldermen Duncau and Thomas; Citizens J. R. Saussy, J. F. Wheaton and G. L. Cope. COMMISSIONERS OF EDUCATION. J. H. Estill, from Citizens at Large; B. D. Walker, from Commissioners of Chatham County. CITY OFFICERS. Clerk of CouncilFrank E. Bebarer. 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. Beilly. Messenger of CouncilLuke Logan. Corporation AttorneyHenry C. Cnnningham. Judge of the City Court"William D. Harden. Clerk of the City CourtPhilip M. Bussell. City Sheriff 1 DaTid Bailey. Clerk of the Market~W. H. Bordley. Harbor MasterRobert C. Kennedy. Health Officer3. T. McFarland, M. D. Keeper- of City DispensaryLewis Cass. Keeper of Laural Grove CemeteryA. F. Torlay. Keeper of Forsyth PlaceTheodore Meves. Keeper of Pest HouseThomas Carr. City PhysiciansH. S. Sanders, M. D., B. P. Oliveros, M. D. Chief FiremanAdolph Fernandez. Assistant Chief FiremanGeorge Mouro. Superintendent and Engineer Water WorksAlvin N. Miller. Scavenger ContractorWilliam Swoll. City Printer"Savannah Daily Times." Port WardensT!. H. Laird, Charles Van Horn, William B. Pritchard, S. J. M. Baker, John Power. Chimney ContractorsEastern Division, John Cassidey. Western Division, C. Deubler.