ANNUAL REPORT OF JOHN J, McDoNOUGH, M-AYOR OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31st, 1892, TO WHICH IS ADDFD THE TREASURER'S REPORT AND REPORTS OF THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, * , * ~ * ** % ** * * t r.***' *vi- THB MeBNmfe'.N.iWs 5F NOT AVAILABLE, No. 2 Amount. 11,000 800 $1,300. CANCELED BY 8, F. COMMISSIONERS. No. 134 259 142 90 Amount $184,000 129,500 42.600 9,000 315,1001 AMOUNT OUTSTANDING), No. 1866 2438 278 320 Amount. l,8fi6.000 1,219,000 83,400 32,000 *3,200,400 STATEMENT OF CITY OF SAVANNAH BONDS. ISSUE 1883(5 PER CENT. INTEREST.) BLANK BONDS PRINTED. Value 11,000 500 60 No. 800 200 300 Amount. $300,000 100.000 16,000 (M16,000 SIGNED BY 8, F. COMMI8- SIONEH8. NO. 800 ISO 800 Amount, 1300,000 75,000 15,000 1390,0001 SIGNED AND ISSUED. No. 800 145 298 Amount. $300,000 72,600" 14,900 $387,400 OK BAND SIGNED. No. 6 2 Amount. *2,&0| ufl 12 COO: DESTROYED BY FINANCE COMXrtTEE. No. 50 Amount. 125,000 125,000 CANCELED BY a. r. COKMIBSIONEBS. NO. 55 23 49 Amount. 155,000 11500 . 2,460 $68,930 AMOUNT OUT8TANDINQ. No. 245 122 34V Amount. (345,000 61,000 12,450 $318,450 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER. DR. Statement of Cash Received and Disbursed from January 1st to December 31st, 1892. CR. Cash In Treasury January 1,1892... $98,884 26 BOABD OP HEALTH Salary of Health Officer for twelve months..... ..........................;.;....$ 1,800 00 Salary of Olty Physicians............... 2,819 81 Premiums for insurance on Pest House for three years ending January 27th, 1895............................. 40 00 Dr. 0. N. Brandt, services rendered as acting Health Officer from August 27th to September 4th........... 45 00 Drugs, medicines, etc., for City Dispensary....................................... 1,106 56 Oil, fuel, lights, ice, repairs, etc., for City Dispensary ......................... 806 96 Coffins and wagon hire for paupers.. 265 00 Time of hands sanitary disinfecting corps and hire of wagons.............. 2,510 71 Services of Sanitary Inspector......... 2,539 24 Time of hands cutting weeds.. ........ 941 29 Pails, dippers, buckets, wheelbarrows, bottles, etc.......................... 109 38 BOABD OP HEALTH 0. C. Beebe, for night soilPrinting mortuary reports, circulars, permits, stationery, etc., for health officer ..............................$ 199 95 Copperas, chloride lime and carbolic acid for disinfecting purposes........ 1,794 46 Amount paid for clothing, etc., destroyed by order of Health Officer. 1,642 15 Amount paid Jacob Bell for being detained in house on account of smallpox.................................... 1500 Salary Pest House Keeper .............. 476 17 Repairs to wagon and harness, forage, etc., for Pest House...... ......... 19189 Pillows, sheets, mattresses, spreads, etc............................................... 52 00 Amount paid to W. D. Dixon, burial expenses of Peat House Keeper Larkln ....................................... 16 00 Expenses of Dr. W. F. Bruner attending medical convention at City of Mexico........... ................. 18960 Salaries of officers of City Dispensary ............................................ 2,318 29 Services of stenographer in taking 100 00 testimony in Dr. Hennessy's case 10 00$ 19,38s 96 JOO BOABD OF HEALTH, O. E. MACHINE Office collections for odorless excavating machine.......................... $ 4,350 63 City Marshal for collection for account of odorless excavating machine, as follows: Executions for year 1888 .............. 7 05 Executions for year 1889................. 14 10 Executions for year 1890................. 11 05 Executions for year 1891................. 187 67 W. J. Cleary, proceeds of sale of empty barrels.............................. 18 75 Clerk of Council, proceeds of sale of one lot of old sacks....................... 300 4,60127 BOARD OF HEALTH, O. E. MACHINE Salary Superintendent Odorless Excavating Machine........................? 1,200 00 Salary Assistant Superintendent Odorless Excavating Machine..... 68 34 Time of hands of Odorless Excavating Machine for one year........ 6,673 06 Repairs to wagons, harness, shoeIng, blaoksmitbing, eto................ 683 06 Forage, oats, corn, etc..................... 1,840 14 Charcoal, nails, paint, lumber, rubber, packing, etc.......................... 104 30 Lime, cement, bricks, oil, sand...... 79 80 Hire of teams hauling night soil..... 1,415 00 Amount paid for one mule.............. 180 00 Amount paid for barrels................. 73 00 Amount paid for Htatlonery and printing...................................... 4 80 Treatment of sick mule and medicine .................... ........................ CITY CLOCKS Repairing and regulating city clocks! 63 23 12,284 78 241 67 CITY LOTS Savannah & Dublin Railroad Co., amount paid on account of lots Nos. 57, 68 and 59, Springfield plantation, aa per action of Council ...............................................I 2,500 00 Savannah Investment Company, amount paid for lots block O, H, L, M, N, in Dillon tract, as per action of Council......... .................$ 4,550 00 7,05000 CITY LAMPS Brush Electric Light & Power Company for lighting streets from December, 1891, to November 30th, 1892.................................... .... ..$ 26,200 04 CITY COXIBT Sheriff and deputies for attendance at City Court and fees................ ..$ 3,439 75 Sheriff for cost in insolvent criminal cases, serving subpoenas.....!......... 60000 Clerk of City Court for attendance at City Court and fees.................. 726 00 Clerk of City Court for cost in insolvent criminal cases and issuing subpoenas.................................... 673 95 Stationery, books, etc..................... 225 40 Repairs clocks and incidentals........ 2 70 Solicitor General fees..................... 800 00 For preparing Hats of grand and traverse jurois, etc....................... 5000 6,51780 CITY LOTS J. R. Tebeau for surveying Springfield plantation...........................! 600 CITY MAPS Sale of new olty maps. CREMATORIES ' 16 50 Time of hands at Crematory ,..........$ 3,803 00 Wood for Crematory....................... 2,213 71 Premium of insurance on Crematory 30 00 Lumber, brick and cement.............. 170 64 Nails, shovels, sash, blindf, etc...... 149 87 Printing arid stationery.................. 10 80 g Blacksmith w Lanterns, oil, etc......................... 2660 g Repairs to roof..................... .......... 500 W Running water pipe to Crematory.. 5 25 6,892 85 > 2! DRY CULTURE <3 Salary of Superintendent .............$ 1,15000 J5 Salary of trunk keeper.................... 86000 Time of hands and for labor............. 11,54130 g Forage, oats, corn, etc.................... 246 17 3 Brick, lumber, drain pip?, lime, y tools, cement, paint, oil, nails, P blacksmithing, etc....................... 2,876 31 Hewn timbar used at Bilbo canal... 184 14 Harness and repairs to same, shoeing, etc....................................... 35 95 One ton coal for steam engine......... 5 50 Hire of steam engine....................... 6600 DBY CULTUBE Bent of Twickenham plantation for one year ......................................I 1,200 00 J. S. Collins and others, for laying drain on property on Gwinnett street.......................................... 332 54 FEES Harbor Master, for collections from January 1st, 1892, to December 81st, 1892, inclusive, for harbor fees.................................... .........$ 4,515 72 City Surveyor, for fees collected by him ............................................ 442 00 City Marshal, for collections for executions ...................................... 94400 1,82 54 5,90172 Hire of steam pumps ...............,..... 63 00 Drayage on steam pump and steam engine......................................... 84 50 Hire of winch, etc.......................... 15 10 Martin Cooley for driving piles .....; 142 00 8. 8. Fleming services rendered as engineer...................................... 88 03 Isaac Beckett for examination and report on titles............................. 25 00 Bent of Twickenham plantation from December 1st, 191, to November 30th, 1892........................ 1,600 00 18,332 97 FEES Salary of Harbor Master from December 1st, 1892, to January 1st, 1893...........................................$ 1,950 00 Hire of Horse of Harbor Master...... 180 00 Office expenses, sundries, printing and stationery for Harbor Master 38 14 Moving schooner W. E. Neely....... 12 00 I CD $ 2,180 14 ft FIBK DEPARTMENT Pay roll of flreiven from December 1st, 1891, to November 30th, 1892..$ 89,669 07 Rental of fire telephone and lines for different engine houses........... 220 00 Bent of engine house No. 2............ 333 32 g Kepairs to engines and trucks, shoe- J5 ing horses, machinist and black- o smithing.............. ....................... 1,678 64 Waste, oil, paint, rope, soda, acid, ^ bluestone, tools, Incidentals, eto... 1,960 11 j^ Lumber and sawdust..................... 58159 3 Gas bills......................................... 246 24 ej Harness and repairs to same........... 43586 j^ Forage, oats, corn, etc............ ........ 2,528 83 Six howes....................................... 1,85000 gj Medicines and treatment sick horses 6620 *o Printing, stationery, stamps, etc....! 187 28 Coal and wood................................ 69500 >3 Rebuilding engine.......................... 400 00 Savannah Lighterage Co. for services of tug at fire Tide Water Oil Co............................................... 60 00 Hose and pipes .............................. 3,366 85 Plumbing work, eto....................... 114 83 FIRE DEPARTMENT Proceeds of sale of two horses......... Chief of Fire Department, for proceeds of sale of old hose, old brass, barrels, sacks, etc........................ GROUND RENTS Office collections for ground rents on city lots................................... GROUND BENT LOTS Various parties, balance due on ground rent lots........................... HARBOR AND WHARVES One-half of bill, $116.16, the cost of repairing western side of slip foot of West Broad street.................... 14000 71 95- 211 96 19,240 89 1,631 00 68 08 Eight fire alarm signal boxes and 22 magnets ......................................$ 1,022 00 Material for engines and trucks and repairs to flre alarm.......,.............' Iron beds, pillows, etc..................... FIREMEN'S UNIFORMS Uniforms, shirts, .caps,.etc.....,........? GROUND RENTS Amount refunded for ground rents overpaid, arising from making their lots fee simple.....................? HARBOR AND WHARVES Commissioners of Pilotage, amount to assist in defraying expenses for 1892.......................................I Repairing wharves, cleaning out catch basins, and sundry incidentals....................................... 604 90 8190 66,44062 2,22060 4 64 7600 878 91 52 03 f 448 91 HOSPITALS Savannah Hospital for keeping city patients thirteen months..... .....$ 3,900 00 St. Joseph's Infirmary for keeping olty patients one year.................. 3,600 00 Georgia Inilrmary tor appropriation 4,80000 12,80000 INCIDENTALS . Wood and coal at City Exchange... 107 SO Gas at City Exchange..................... 43 58 Printing and stationery.................. 59 59J Premiums fur Insurance on City Exchange .................................. 125 00 Premiums for insurance on Barnard street school................................ 97 50 Premiums for insurance on Police Barracks.................................... 225 00 Premiums for bonds for city officers 262 50 Premiums for bonds of Thomas E. Byan........................................ 10 00 City Assessors for assessing improvements for 1892 and 1S93 ...... 1,85000 Carriage hire for City Assessors...... 148 00 Stenographers and cost of court...... 50 26 I9) 00 I 3 3 INCIDENTALS City Marshal, on account for old material .....................................f 21 00 City Marshal, proceeds sales at City Pound............... ......................... 43 20 Keeper of City Pound, for collections for pound fees..................... 227 60 Overcharge on express charges ou one transit to Philadelphia ......... 3 15 Banks, at 4 per cent, interest on daily balances.............................. 3,435 80 Coupons cut from city bonds, held as cash by the City Treasurer ...... 1,057 50 4,787 65 INTEREST City Marshal, for amount collected for interest on executions............$ 4263 On notes for purchase of lot No. 58 Forsyth ward and lot No. 6 Pulaski ward................................... 46 00 Postage, telegrams, exchange, fares of paupers, charity, ice and sundry expenses................................$ 2,851 03 The following expenses in behalf of harbor improvement.................... 3,661 41 Brush Electric Light & Power Co. for lighting city offices................. 191 52 Savannah Lighterage & Transfer Co. for services of tug Regis in taking Senators down the harbor 25 0) Surveyor's instruments, repairs to same, stakes, etc.......................... 169 30 Amount paid to Mrs. M, A. Crawford, judgment in City Court........ 1,519 15 Sundry expenses of men and labor working at burnt building, etc..... 15 55 Rental of telephone from December 1st, 1802, to December 1st, 1893..... 60 00- 10,872 27 INTEREST Coupons from city bonds, issue of 1879.............................................$162,091 75 Coupons from city bonds, Issue of 1883............................................. 15,921 74 Coupons from old city bonds........... 1,258 00 On notes given by the Savannah Investment Company In payment of Dlllon tract..............................$ 1,88220 1,46973 LAUREL, GROVE CEMETERY Keeper, for sale for burial fees. ........$ 1,909 00 Keeper, for sale of lots .................... 1,149 60 Keeper, for sealing vault................. 2 60 3,061 00 Paid Eugene Kelly & Co. commission for paying coupons from city bomlH......................... . ...... $ 72 77 179,344 26 LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY Salary of keeper from December 1st, 1891, to November 30th, 1892........$ 999 96 Salary of detective for services at cemetery .................................... 423 84 For pumps and repairs to same ...... 33 25 Material, tools, lumber, whitewashing, fencing, etc......... .............. 229 88 Time of hands................................ 5,41002 Planting trees and hedge................. 206 00 Rentof telephone........................... 12 82 One hundred barrels gaohouse lime. 36 00 Printing and stationery.................. 42 70 Cutting ventilators in house ........... 19 60 MARKET Salary of Clerk of Market from December 1st, 1891, to November 30th, 1892 ................................... 900 00 7,414 97 02 d > f I LICENSES Office collections, for liquor licenses for 1892.....................,,..........,.,...$ 59,670 00 Office collections, for liquor licenses for 1891...................................... 60 00- 59,620 00 MARKET City Marshal, for rent of stalls ........$ 6,162 50 City Marshal, for rent of vaults or stores.......................................... 2,729 SO Clerk of Market ............................. 14,701 75 Clerk of Market, proceeds from sale of old iron.................................... 9 76 22,603 51 Salary of assistant of Clerk of Market from December 1st, 1891, to November 30th, 1892.................. Time of hands cleaning ftnd keeping Market in order..................... Brush Electric Light & Power Co. for lighting Market..................... Gas fitting and plumbing............... Brooms, fuel, soda, painting, liine, repairs, etc................................... Printing and stationery.................. Repairing ventilators..................... Repairing roof and gutters.............. Brick work and brick..................;.. Whitewashing Market.................... Repairing chimneys....................... Amount paid assistant keeper of Market for superintending contracts.......................................... Sawdust for Market........................ Carpenter work.............................. Iron work...................................... Ga, lighting Market..................... 603 00 1,223 45 1,272 00 140 til 323 11 1450 243 00 208 10 71 88 93 03 348 00 36 00 1560 378 97 89 04 46 88 6,001 34 s I OD 8 5 Oi PAVING SIDEWALKS Various parties, for paving sidewalks................... .,...........,...,.$ 1,00660 City Marshal, for collections for paving sidewalks........................ 5,00259 6,00010 OPENINO STREETS Mr* Mary Schwarz for Installment clue on purchase of lands necessary for opening streets, as per contract ............................................$ 1,500 01 \V. Q. Woadftn, purchase of piece of western portion of lot No 4, consisting of 30 feet frontage on 3d street by 90 feet deep, for the extension of Abercorn street............ COO 00 Thf> Oglethorpe Real Estate Company for open Ing streets through the Teynao tract south of Anderson street.......................................... 1,500 00 Amount paid for vulue of fence removed on account of opening Burnard street............... ................... 50 00 PARKS AND SQUABES Salary of Keeper of Forsyth Place from December 1st, 1891, to December 81st, 1892.................... .....$ 975 00 Material, lumber, tools, lime, brick, painting.repairlngand incidentals 577 14 Roses, plants, etc.......................... 71 65 Oi to Ui 5 3,650 00 PAVING STREETS City Marshal, for collections for paving the following streets: Qaston street ..............................$ 80 24 Henry street.............................. 710 97 Hall street................................... 210 83 Liberty street.............................. 160 00 Bull street..................... ............ 1,170 45 Time of hands and teamsters...........! 6,352 02 Signs, and painting same................ 90 00 Cleaning monuments..................... 100 00 Painting and repairing fountain...... 85 00 PAVING STBEETS Material, labor and sundry expenses incurred for paving streets, to be distributed as follows: Paving with asphalt Bull street from the south side of Bay street to the north tide of Congress street, and on Bryan and St. Julian streets from the east side of Whituker to the west side of Druyton, and from the north side of State street to the north side of Liberty street.? 37,294 10 Paving with oyster shells that portion of Jefferson street from the south side of Chailtou stieet to the north side of Henry strict....,, 8,165 71 Paving with oyster shells that portion of Jones street from the east side of Tattnnll street to the west side of East Broad street.............. 10,97104 8,250 81 O U2 Oi CO Bull street, south of Harris...........! 389 06 East Broad street........................ 5000 Jones street................................. 550 71 Jefferson street............................. 101 87 Various parties, for paving the following streets: Bull street................................... 13,040 23 Bull street, south of Harris........... 6,737 23 East Broad street........................ 1,832 88 Gaston street................................ 1,181 31 Hall street................................... 8,715 31 Henry street................................ 3,366 35 Jones street................................. 5,050 57 Jefferson street............................. 3,543 88 Bolton street................................ 316 29 Liberty street.............................. 15 79 41,721 87 Amount paid for paving with asphalt Bull street south of Harris to the north side of Gaston street.! 3,100 83 Paving with oyster shells that portion of Bolton street from the east side of West Broad street to the west side of East Broad street...... 9,191 63 Warren-Seharf Asphalt Paving Co. for bringing gutters to grade at the corner of Stateand Bull streets 18 18 For leveling and grading Liberty street preparatory to laying new track by the City & Suburban Ry. Co.............. ................................ 4R5 92 Amounts paid sundry persons for stone curbing.............................. 180 83 69,448 44 POUCE DEPARTMENT Pay roll of policemen from Dec. 1st, 1891, to Nov. 30th, 1802.................$ 56,703 80 Material and repairs to buildings, plumbing, etc.............................. 48 45 Wood, coal, sawdust and sundry incidentals................................... 128 50 Printing and stationery.................. 131 70 Oil, lime, soap, lumber, rock salt, rocka, scales and sundry incidentals.....................,.......................! 327 72 Funeral expenses of policemen, as per ordinance.,,... ....................... 100 00 Rent of telephone for one year to May 1,1893................................. 720 00 Five horses...... .... ........................ 025 00 Treatment and medicine for sick horses ......................................... 24 00 Mutual Gas Light Co. for gas consumed....^................................... 104 58 Brush Electric Light & Power Co. for lighting Barracks .................. 245 08 Fornge, oats, corn, etc..................... 1,952 30 Saddles, harness, halters and repairs to same...;... .. ............................ 355 50 Spreadsfor beds.............................. 140 00 Office furniture, matting and cleaning gas fixtures........................... 26 61 Shoeing horses and blacksmlthing.. 347 95 Two patrol wagons.......................... 345 00 Food for prisoners .......................... 406 05 Policeman McQuade's physician bill, paid by action of Council..... 25 00 a 50 1 "a os POLICE Proceeds of sale of one horse ...........$ 85 00 Proceeds of sale of one lot of bricks. 81 50 116 50 Gamewell system, time of hands, lumber, brlek, cement, lime, one horse, sundry incidentals, ete...,,.f 1,89708 Qamewell Klre Alarm Tel. Company, being the first payment for same............................................ 3,233 33 Repairs to arras and pistols............ 0 60 POLICE UNIFORMS Police uniforms and helmets. 67,899 15 4,319;00 POLICE COURT Geo. Schroder amount of fine imposed in Police Court and remitted by action of Council November 25tb, 1891 ..............................$ 5 00 Sam Godfrey amount of flue imposed in Police Court and remitted by action of Council January Oth, 1802...................................... 5 00 Geo. T. Cann services rendered in the Brown case........................... 35 00 Fried & Hicks for meals furnished policeman P. Kavanaugh............ 160 50 POLICE COUBT Clerk of Council, collections fines ..................................... for 5,972 00 PRINTING AND STATIONERY City Marshal, for advertising real estate sales, etc........................... 16400 W. H. Turner and C. H. West for special duty............. ..................$ 186 66 H. M. Morgan expenses incurred in bringing prisoners from Brunswick.............................,............;. 22 50 41466 PRINTING AND STATIONERY Salary of City Printer from January 1st to December 31st, 1S92............? 1,276 18 Printing and stationery for city officers, printing circulars, reports, Proceedings of Council and Mayor's Ueport for 18!)2, notices, etc... 2,858 36 4,134 54 PUBLIC BUILDINGS Premium for insurance on building corner West Broad and River streets, and Exchange building...$ 132 50 Material, repairs, etc., to Exchange birldiug...................................... 588 61 Underpinning Exchange building... 1,103 13 Amount on account of contract for building vault............................... 4,579 80 Clock for Council chamber.............. 35 00 6,439 04 5o ODB T5o 01 -J QUARANTINE Various vessels, for boarding fees and fumigating charges.......,..,....! 10,824 00 Various vessels, for discharging ballast at quarantine station ............ 5,698 OB Amount returned, being amount overpaid R. H. Moore, fireman ... 12 00 Oi 00 QUABANTINE-- Salary of Quarantine officer............$ 1,22681 Salary of doctor acting as Quarantine officer................................... 635 OD Time of hands........................ ....... 4,763 P2 Rental of telephone........................ 200 00 Brimstone and fumigating chemicals .................................. .......... 1,187 60 Coal and wood................................ 1,82750 Oil, tools, paints, machinist and blacksmith work and sundry incidentals......................................... 2,116 64 Delegates to New Orleans inspecting quarantine station................. 400 60 Delegates to Charleston inspecting quarantine station....................... 64 25 Rations for boat hands.................... 26500 Printing and stationery.................. 7680 Work and supplies at Fort Pulaski.. 816 59 Expenses of moving bark Soudre and steamship Aranmore from Quarantine station to the city and 16,534 63 back to Quarantine station .... .... 519 38 14,104 89 RENTS C. C. Beebe, rent of land known as the McLeod tract from Jan. 1, 1892, to Jan. 1,1393 .....................$ 200 00 Brick store foot of West Broad street 510 00 Eastern rooms Exchange building.. 675 00 Wharf property foot of Whitaker street one year.................. .......... 100 00 City tombs Nos. Sand 3.................. 125 00 Lots on Springfield plantation........ 226 25 Portion of Hutchiuson island near piling closing Fig island channel 50 00 Wharf slip, at foot of Dray ton street 150 00 Encroachment on south side wharf lot No. 3 Decker ward ................. 15 00 House at crematory........................ 19 00 QUARANTINE Tco Salary of captain and crew..............? 3,442 63 Groceries and butcher's bills............ 1,026 38 Coal and wood.................... ........... 57 94 Material, blacksmith and carpenter work ........................................ 108 19 Premiums for insurance on tug...... 100 00 Rope, oil, paint, waste, packing, buckets, brooms, sundry incidentals, etc....................................... 503 10 5,238 24 SALARIES-- Salaries of city officers from December 1st, 1891, to November 30th, 2,070 25 Ife92j inciU8ive ............................. SCAVENGER DEPARTMENT Salary of Superintendent for one year ............................................$ 1,200 00 Time of hands ................................ 12,443 73 Harneas and repairs tosame............ 817 65 Shoeing and blacksmithing, repairs, tools, wagons, etc... .................... 2,235 98 25,576 84 o CB $ H 1) O 0) CD SCAVENGER DEPARTMENT C, C. Beebe, for manure said him... STREKTS AND LANES Various parties, for repairing sidewalks..........................................! 170 62 Various parties, for grading sidewalks.......................... ............... 5 76 Various parties, for material, paving, labor, etc., on streets ............ 3,028 46 Clerk of Council, for collections for sewer permits.............................. 402 00 Wilcox-Glbbs Guano Company, for paving on north side of Bay street 196 66 W. I. O'Brlen, for 900 granite blocks and 106} feet stone curbing........... 00 88 10000 Oil, nails, forks, shovels, tools and Incidentals, new wagons, ete,...,.,,$ 91 64 Forage, oats, corn, etc..................... 4,595 83 Hire of mules.... ............................ 47 60 Rent of lot for one year .................. 600 00 Treatment and medlolne for sick mules.......................................... 118 35 Six mules purchased for Scavenger Department................................. 1,175 00 Printing and stationery.................. 2 50 22,828 18 Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Co., payment for granite blocks .........$ 131 13 C. C. Beebe, for manure sold him... 200 00 Proceeds from sale of four mules and one horse.................................... 85 50 Richmond 0.00 euoh given by him In part payment of liquor license for the year 1880......,,,....,,$ City Marshal, collections from real estate.......................................... 2000 IS 81 8881 TAXES, 1800 City Marshal, collections from real eslate ...........................,..............$ 1,101 60 Stock In trade....,.......................'. 507 00 Shipping......................;......,.,.... 04oO 1,79310 TAXES, 1891 Real estate .....................................$ 64,511 54 Stock in trade................................ 6,760 72 Personal......................................... 21,718 00 Shipping....................................... 8,860 92 City Marshal, collections from real estate.......................................... 23,081 77 Stock In trade................................ 2,450 13 Shipping ....................................... 193 50 Specific.......................................... 479 75- 122,571 33 SINKINO FOND BONDS, 1879 Commissioners for bonds, issue of 1879, cancelled and retired............$ SINKING FOND BONDS, 1883 Commissioners for bonds, Issue of 1883, cancelled and retired............! TAXES, 1890 Amount refunded Heller, Hlrsch & Co. for taxes paid by mistake ..,,..$ O K> 24,994 00 5,994 62 > O 9 CO 85 99 *.* s TAXES, 1891 Amount refunded various parties for taxes paid by mistake...... ... $ 18880 TAXES, 1892 Eeal estate......................................$209,098 32 Stock in trade ................................ 25,608 28 Personal......................................... 78,341 93 Bhipping......................................... 9,549 54 Specific.......................................... 69,442 27 City Marshal, collections from specific............................................. 8,009 37 Stock in trade................................. 1,454 29 Shipping ................................. ..... 174 00 Received from badges as follows: 668 one-horse wagons......$3,617 40 . 121 two-horsewagous...... 1,308 00 95 one-horse drays ........ 682 40 120 two-horse drays........ 1 308 00 10 one-horse hacks........ 52 20 . 15 two-horse hacks........ 116 00 8 two-horse omnibuses. 58 40 1 four-horse truck........ 22 50 49 street cars................. 1,299 00 70 hucksters and peddlers........................ 560 00 1536 dogs........................ 1,518 90 10,642 80 412,220 80 TAXES, 1892 For making badges........................? 80 00 Amount refunded various parties for taxes paid by mistake........... 139 79 218 79 WATER WORKS Water Rents...........,.......................? 69,694 70 Superintendent, for collections for material, old iron, labor, etc........ 141 55 James Welsh, amount overpaid on his bill and collected back ........... 10 00 Howard Harrison Iron Company, amount over remitted them In payment of their invoices for cast iron water pipe ........................... 13 13 Savannah Investment Company, for extending mains on Montgomery street to their property and placing hydrants.................. 3,500 00 78,359 38 WATER WORKS Salaries of officers and employes from Dec. 1, 1801, to Nov. 80,1892.$ 16,854 90 For running expenses of pumps, engines, etc................................. 2,182 90 Wood... ............. ...... .... .... .......... 8,748 69 Extension ...................................... 4,127 25 Connections................................... 244 83 Hydrant account........................... 133 47 Flushing and repairing cesspools ... 167 13 Incidentals, printing and stationery 46 74 Forage, oats, corn, etc.................... 840 65 Rental of telephone and line from from Oct. 1, 1892, to Oct. 1, 1893... 80 00 Overcharges collected for water rents and refunded ..................... 124 87 Repairs to engines, mains, etc ........ 2,774 82 Work on artesian wells at old works 300 00 Meter account .............................. 8488 WATER WORKS, NewArtesian wells.......... ...........,.........$ 10,333 11 Pumps............................................ 18,454 80 Boiler settings ................................ 5,173 32 Sub-work pumping station.............. 36,237 87 Conduit.......................................... 37,937 53 g * O 9 GO 5 36,211 13 O WATER WORKS, NEW Savannah, Florida & Western Railway Co., for damages to cast iron water pipe...................................? Howard Harrison Iron Company, for damages to cast iron water pipe......... .................................... Robertson & Weaver, amount received from them to pay back time due laborers........................ Robertson & Weaver, amount collected from P. Buttimer on account of checks cashed for laborers. Well connections........................... 1,833 10 Railroad......................................... 7 87 Laying water pipe, drayage, pipe, lead, yarn, packing, etc............... 28,604 51 Inspecting pipe.............................. 75f> 21 Salary of engineers and time of hands............. ... ........................ 16,400 59 Thomas J. Johustou on account for services as consulting engineer and for expenses... .................... 3,92083 Printing and stationery.................. 327 05 49 79 Telegrams, postage, etc.................. 158 48 Temporary building....................... 487 40 Engineering................................... 520 00 332 44 Office furniture, etc........................ 51 80 Grading account............................. 600 00 Foundation.................................... 218 52 52 go Material for wells........................... 82 Insurance on pumps and engines... 100 00 Sewer account................................ 798 00 Boilers............................................ 5,230 00 162,172 46 3380 46863 Balance on hand December 31,1892 39,90174 $948,257 77. K SO CD M 3 $948,257 77 0. S. HARDEE, (My Treasurer. g> We, the undersigned Committee on Finance, have examined the accounts and books of * the City Treasurer, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, 1892, inclusive, and find the same correct, with proper vouchers produced, and a balance in the treasury of $39,901.74. HERMAN MYERS, GEO. J. MILLS, } W. G. CANN, | J. A. G. CARSON, ^ MERITT W. DIXON, V Finance Committee. ci &TV I MAYOR'S ANISTOAL REPORT. REPORT OF CITY ATTORNEY. SAVANNAH, GA., May 3, 1893. Hon. John J. McDonough, Mayor of the Oity of Savannah: Dear SirReferring to my last annual report, to be found on pages 55 et seq. of the bound volume of Municipal Reports for 1891, I beg to say, concerning the cases then mentioned: Contrary to my expectation, the Supreme Court has set aside the judgment in the Bacon Illegality case. I inferred from its former decision that the verdict of the jury would be sustained, it having been submitted to them upon a question of fact, and the evidence showing clearly that the City had not charged the property owners a dollar in excess of what was due, but, upon the contrary, less than the City might have charged. The Supreme Court set aside the judgment because the act of the Legislature and the ordinance did not seem to the Court to be in entire accord. I was under the impression that there was no substantial difference. The Act of the Legislature provides that the city should be considered as a property owner with reference to intersecting streets, and the ordinance directed that the cost of the work for intersecting streets should be deducted before any amount was prorated among the property owners. This ex- 68 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. elusion resulted in the City paying for these intersecting streets. In the trial before the jury, the City showed that an assessment under the act and under the ordinance would result in the same amount exactly for each property owner as to any street in the city of Savannah, except Liberty street, and that an assessment under the ordinance made the bills of the property owners smaller, as to this street, by reason of the grass plats. This testimony was undisputed. I was under the impression that, when the case was before the Supreme Court on the demurrer to the affidavit, all of the legal questions had been decided in favor of the City, and that this finding of the jury, under sufficient evidence, would, practically, terminate the litigation. But, as to this, it seems that I was in error. There is no reason, however, why an assessment cannot be made strictly under the last decision, and I believe that the result will cause the City no loss and will be of no pecuniary advantage to the property owners. I believe that every dollar of the City's claim will eventually be collected in full. The constitutionality of the legislation having been fully sustained, an assessment can be made in compliance with every suggestion of the Supreme Court in either case, and I believe that this assessment will stand. As yet, we have seen only the headnotes, the decision in full not having been written out. As soon as I can procure this decision in full, I will advise you further in the matter. As you are aware, the appraisers appointed in the Vernon Shell Road Company matter have made their award, and Council has accepted the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 60 same. The company, not being satisfied with this award, has filed an appeal, and this appeal will be in order for hearing at the coming June term of the Superior Court. All the certiorari cases involving convictions before the Police Court or Council, which have been heard, have been determined in favor of the city. Most of these involved infractions of the Sunday law. The cases of Thomas Corr, Mrs. Mary Cissell and of Mrs. Mary A. Crawford, mentioned on page 57 of your last report, have all been disposed of. In the case of the heirs of the late Joseph Finnegan, brought against the Union Society and the City of Savannah, I ascertained that the City had no claim upon the lots of the Springfield plantation involved in the suit, as the City had previously given these lots to the Union Society. There was a settlement as between the plaintiffs and the Union Society, and this case has been thus disposed of. The four ejectment suits brought by the heirs of M. Lowenthal against the City will be dismissed by plaintiffs. Outside of a few certiorari cases involving convictions before the Police Court and Council and the Old Cemetery case, there are no cases now in court to which the City is a party, except the following: The suit of Messrs. Cleary and Ely, executors of Byrnes, for $500; the suit of Charlotte Johnson, for damages, for $5,000; the suit of John N. Bischoff, for damages, for $2,500, and the illegality case of Mr. Weed, growing out of the Bull street improvement. The damage suits are f<5r 7O MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of defective streets. Since my last report I have drawn a number of ordinances and contracts, have given, in frequent instances, verbal and written advice, and have attended generally to the usual routine business of my office. None of these matters occur to me as being worthy of special mention. Yours very truly, SAMUEL B. ADAMS, Oity Attorney. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE. OFFICE CHIEF OF POLICE, SAVANNAH, January 1, 1893. Hon. John J. McDonough, Mayor: SirI have the honor to submit herewith my annual report of the Police Department for the year ending December 31, 1892: The aggregate strength of the Department is 67, as follows: Chief........................................... ....... 1 Assistant Chief...................................... 1 Sergeants............................ ................. 4 Detective......... .................................... 1 Privates............. .................................60 Total................. .............................67 The above does not include the Ocean Steamship Company's force, consisting of Sergeants................... ... ..................... 3 Privates...............................................21 Total...............................................24 RECAPITULATION. For City..............................................67 For Ocean Steamship Company................24 Total...............................................91 72 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. During the year 2,949 arrests were made, being 197 less than the previous year. Of this number 1,137 were whites and 1,812 were colored. The following are the crimes and misdemeanors for which the arrests were made: OFFENSE. Arson............................... Assault and battery............ Assault with intent to mur- (\f*T Assault with intent to rape.. Burglary... ....................... Carrying concealed weapons. Cursing and abusing officers. Disorderly conduct...... ...... Disorderly driving. ............ Drunkenness... . ................. FMfhtinor Gambling. ........................ T .& Insanity.... ........................ Interfering with officers...... Larceny............................ Licentious conduct. ............ Murder................... ........ Resisting officers............... O Robbery- . ........................ Safe keeping............. ......... Vagrants and suspicious characters...... .................... Violating city ordinances.... Violating laws of Georgia.... Total......................... Whites. 26 9 I 17 19 141 7 461 59 2 7 15 11 1 3 12 .2 36 34 229 45 1,137 Colored. 3 92 45 1 8 27 26 378 28 303 170 26 11 26 194 19 19 30 12 113 106 173 2 1.812 ^ ti 3 118 54 1 9 44 45 519 35 764 229 28 18 41 205 20 22 42 14 149 14ft 402 47 2.947 LodgersWhites, 251; Colored, 67; total, 318. Lost ChildrenWhites, 8; Colored 6; total, 14 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 73 Animals impounded, 242. Animals and vehicles found at large, 31. Dwellings and stores found open, 78. CASUALTIES AND CHANGES. RESIGNED. Private Davis, S. M., August 15, 1892. DIED. Private Fahrenbach, H. L., March 27, 1892. DISMISSED. Private Crimmins, J., September 27, 1892. APPOINTED. Private O'Neill, S. J., April 1, 1892. Private Davis, E. F., August 24, 1892. Private Crimmins, J., November 29,1892. POLICE SIGNAL SYSTEM. The police signal system, which has been in use by the department only seven months, has proved very satisfactory in its workings. Besides the relief it affords to officers, the rapidity with which work can be performed, the security it affords to citizens by leaving the arresting officer to patrol his beat and its value as a means of communication, my attention has been called to its merits in a humane sense. Formerly, when a prisoner was taken a long distance for commitment, encouraged and abetted by his friends, he was often incited to resist, and the officer was obliged to fight his way to the station. The principal criticism made against the methods of this service, is the fact that the person arrested is carried to the station in an open wagon and thereby exposed to the gaze of the public. There is, certainly, as much privacy as could be secured 74 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. by forcing a struggling prisoner through the crowded streets. If a covering is placed over the wagon it would prove a hindrance by affording means of resistance and frequently become injured or destroyed in conveying furiously drunken and insane persons. Since the system has been in effect there have been 1,289 calls for the patrol wagon. The number of calls for the ambulance have been 216; number of telephone calls, 1,222, and the number of officers' reports received, 66,017, all of which have been carefully and promptly attended to without accident. INVENTORY OF CITY PROPERTY AT POLICE BARRACKS. 42 Springfield Rifles, cal. 45. 50 Winchester Rifles. 19 Smith & Wesson Pistols, cal. 45. 96 Smith & Wesson Pistols, cal. 38. 84 Colt's Pistols (condemned). 67 Pistol Holsters. 42 Bayonets and Scabbards. 67 W.iist Belts. 115 Clubs. 67 Whistles. 100 Police Shields. 67 Fire Keys. 373 Gamewell Box Keys. 2000 Rounds Ammunition for Springfield Rifles. 5000 Rounds Ammunition for Winchester Rifles. 6000 Rounds Pistol Ammunition. 21 Saddle Horses. 2 Patrol Wagon Horses. 1 Ambulance Horse. 25 Halters. MAYOB'S ANNUAL REPORT. 75 22 Bridles and Bits. 22 Saddles. 22 Saddle Cloths. 22 Pairs of Spurs. 1 Supply Wagon. 1 Ambulance. 1 Patrol Wagon. 3 Sets of Harness. 4 Curry Combs and Brushes. 2 Rakes. 2 Shovels. 64 Bedsteads. 64 Mattrasses. 62 Bedspreads. 64 Pillows. 12 Buckets. 12 Brooms. 30 Spittoons. 3 Water Cooleis. 12 Scrubbing Brushes. 12 Chairs. 1 Hatrack. 2 Wardrobes. 7 Tables. 7 Desks. 2 Clocks. H Stoves. 24 Blankets. 12 Tin Plates, 12 Cups. 35 Sabres. 24 Sabre Belts. And the machinery and apparatus incident to the Gamewell system. 76 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. During the year six horses were purchased; two horses died and one horse was condemned and sold. Before closing this report, I would respectfully call attention to the fact that the present force is inadequate to properly cover the city and protect life and property. The city is extending rapidly and the population is steadily increasing. I therefore recommend that the force be increased with this end in view. Respectfully submitted, JOHN GREEN, Chief of Police. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 77 REPORT OF CITY MARSHAL. CITY MARSHAL'S OFFICE, SAVANNAH, GA., December 31, 1892. i. John J. McDonough, Mayor: I)EAB SIRI herewith respectfully submit my report for the year 1892: 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 out instructions received. GROUND RENTS. All lots reported to this office by the City Treasurer have been re-entered as required by ordinance. I have collected during the year $54,591.71, as follows: Real estate taxes 1889.......................$ 13 81 Real estate taxes 1890....................... 1,100 10 Real estate taxes 1891....................... 27,749 53 Specific taxes 1890........................... 1 50 Specific taxes 1891........................... 130 00 Specific taxes 1892........................... 2,866 50 Stock in trade 1890.......................... 597 00 Stock in trade 1891.......................... 2,775 88 Stock in trade 1892.......................... 1,711 92 78 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Privy vaults 1888............................. 7 05 Privy vaults 1889............................. 14 10 Privy vaults 1890.......... .................. 11 05 Privy vaults 1891..................... ....... 183 67 Shipping 1890................................. 94 50 Shipping 1891................................. 193 50 Shipping 1892................................. 174 00 Paving Henry street......................... 690 90 Paving Jones street.......................... 550 71 Paving Jefferson street ..................... 101 87 Paving Gaston street........................ 80 24 Paving Hall street........................... 175 17 Paving Liberty street........................ 165 97 Paving East Broad street ........ ......... 50 00 Paving Bull street..................... ...... 1,560 41 Paving sidewalks............................. 4,501 70 Market stall rents............................ 5,162 50 Market vault rents .......................... 2,713 40 City Pound sales ...... ...................... 43 20 Fees on executions........................... 940 00 Advertising fees .............................. 168 00 Interest......................................... 42 53 Incidentals ........ .......................... 21 00 Total......................................$54,591 71 Your obedient servant, ROBT. J. WADE, City Marshal. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 79 REPORT OF CITY ENGINEER. OFFICE CITY ENGINEER, SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1893. Hon. John J. McDonough, Mayor : SIRI have the honor to submit the following report of work done in the departments mentioned below .during the fiscal year ending December 31, 1892: Streets and Lanes and Paries and SquaresAldermen Harmon, Chairman. DrainageAlderman Carson, Chairman. Public BuildingsAlderman O'Brien, Chairman. Harbor and WharvesAlderman McGuire, Chairman. PARKS AND SQUARES. The Keeper and five men have been employed in the park and five men in the squares. During the summer months it was found necessary to increase this force and a portion of the street and lane men were temporarily transferred to it. There have been planted in the parks and squares one hundred and eighty-nine trees, sixty-four of them being palmettos. Two brick walks (running east and west) have been laid in Chatham square. The various walks in the different squares and in the park have been repaired, and the appearance of the park greatly improved by the construction of additional flower beds. 8O MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. STREETS AND LANES. In this department the following force have been employed: Superintendent .............................. 1 Foreman....................................... 1 Stablemen .................................... 2 On watering carts ........................... 2 On sweeping machine.............. ........ 1 Cleaning catch basins.......................10 Cleaning crossings........................... 3 Inspectors and tallyman.................... 4 Pavers.......................................... 9 Laborers............................. ........A7 Teamsters......................................22 Total....................................102 LIVE STOCK AND VEHICLES. Mules ........................................ .22 Horses.......................................... 9 Total............... ......................31 Dump carts (single horse).................26 Wagons......................................... 3 Watering carts................................ 3 Sweeping machine .......................... 1 Mowing machines........................... 2 Grass machines.............................. 10 Rollers ........................ ................ 2 SEWERS. Eighty-four feet of pipe sewer, ten inches in diameter, have been laid in Barnard street, west of Chatham square. Two hundred and eighty feot MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 81 of 12-inch pipe laid in Congress lane, between Houston and East Broad streets. Two hundred and ninety-eight feet of 15-inch pipe on Bull street, between Jones and Taylor streets. Five hundred and nineteen feet of 12-inch pipe on Gordon from Drayton to the west side of Bull street. One thousand six hundred and twenty-four feet of 24- inch pipe on Jones street, from the center of East Broad street to the west side of Abercoin street, with three hundred and eighty feet of 15-inch pipe at the intersections of Price, Habersham, Lincoln and Abercorn streets. Three hundred and sixty feet of 10-inch pipe to connect with 16 catch basins on Jones street. One hundred aud twenty feet of 10-inch pipe laid from catch basin northeast corner of Bull and Liberty streets to Perry lane sewer. One hundred and fifty feet of 12-inch pipe on Duffy, between Lincoln and Abercorn streets. One hundred feet of 24-inch pipe in unnamed street near Stiles avenue; also forty feet of 10-inch pipe in same unnamed street. Seventy-five feet of 15-inch pipe at the intersection of East Broad and Henry streets, thus replacing the wooden bridge. Twenty-feet of 10-inch pipe at the intersection of Price street and Duffy lane. Four hundred and ninety-two feet of 10-inch pipe to connect with 41 new catch basins, with one hundred and fourteen bends to trap the various catch basins. The following named sewers have been cleaned: The Barnard street sewer from Macon to Hall street; the Jefferson street sewer from Wayne to Hall street. 82 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. CATCH BASINS. Fifty-seven new catch basins have been built at the following places : Wheaton street east of Liberty street............... 3 Corners Bull and Gordon streets .................... 3 Corners Bull and Taylor streets..................... 2 Corners Bull and Jones streets....................... 4 Corners Bull and Charlton streets.................. 4 East, south and west side Madison square ........ 3 Corner Macon and Bull streets....................... 1 Corner Bull and Harris streets....................... 1 Corners Duffy and Jefferson streets................. 2 Corners Jones and Price streets ..................... 4 Corners Jones and Habersham streets........... .. 4 Corners Lincoln and Jones streets.................. 4 Corners Jones and Abercorn streets ............... 4 Corners Mill and Farm streets....................... 2 South side Charlton street, west of Bull street.... 1 Corners Bolton and Lincoln streets................. 2 Corner Bolton and Abercorn streets ............... 1 Corner Bolton and Habersham streets ............ 1 Corners Bolton and Price streets .................... 4 Corners Bolton and East Broad streets............ 4 Corner Bolton and Barnard streets ................. 1 Corner East Broad and Gwinnett streets ......... 1 North side of Duffy, between Abercorn and Lincoln streets. ........................................... 1 Total ...............................................57 Two catch basins at the corners of Bull and Taylor streets have been removed from the old sidewalk line to line of new curbing. Cast iron covers have been placed in the following places: t MAYOR'S A1SNUAL REPORT. 83 Perry and Whitaker streets........................... 2 Whitaker and McDonough streets.................. 1 Barnard and Taylor streets........................... 1 Total............... .................................. 4 Breaks have occurred in the sewers at the following places: Corner of Barnard and Broughton streets. Charlton lane, between Whitaker and Barnard streets. Barnard street, south of Duffy street (in two places). In Whitaker street. Broughton lane, west of Whitaker street (in two places). Congress lane, east of Bull street (in two places). Barnard street, at the intersection of Bolton street. East Broad, at intersection of South Broad street. Macon and Whitaker streets. Gwinnett lane, west of Barnard street. South Broad lane, west of Whitaker street. Barnard street and Duffy lane. Barnard street and Gordon lane. Jones lane, between Bull and Drayton streets. Bay and Houston streets (in two places). Abercorn street and Jones lane. Barnard street and Gwinnett lane. Barnard street, south of Henry street. Abercorn and River streets. Perry lane and Randolph streets. Broughton lane, between Whitaker and Barnard streets. Total, 25. D 84 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. PAVING. Bull street from Bay to Congress and from State to Liberty and from Harris to Gaston streets, Bryan and St. Julian streets, between Whitaker and Drayton streets, have been paved with sheet asphalt. Number square yards, 29,994, of which 8,983 weie laid last December. Broughton lane, between Barnard and Jefferson streets, has been paved with cobble stone. Number square yards, 752. Paved with granite blocks between the rails of the Electric Railway on St. Julian street, passing through Bull street, north of Johnson square. Number of square yards, 525. Paved with cobble stones in Harris, Macon, Charlton, Charlton lane, Jones street and lane, Taylor, Wayne, Gordon street and lane, as a support for the retaining curb for the asphalt streets. Laid 666 square yards of cobble stone pavement on the north side of Bay street, between Bull and Whitaker streets and immediately in front of the new building of Wilcox &Gibbs Guano Co. and of the estate of Waldburg. The property owners paying for the labor and the city furnishing the stone. Eighteen yards of cobble stone pavement was laid between the car tracks at the corner of Bolton and Abercorn streets. KEPAIES. Repaired pavement on Barnard street on the north, east and west sides of the Market building. Number of square yards ...........................1,050 Number square yards of repairs on Bay street ...................................................2,490 Number square yards of repairs on East Broad street ..........................................2,445 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 85 Number square yards of repairs on West Broad street ..........................................2,531 The labor of this work being done in that portion of the street occupied by the Electric Railway and the watermains was paid for by said railway company and Martin Cooley, Esq., the contractor for laying the watermains. Repaired 325 square yards in Broughton street for the Coast Line Railway Co., said Company paying for the labor. Bay lane, number square yards.................. 500 Broughton lane ...................................... 175 Bryan street, between Barnard and Whitaker 135 Bull and South Broad street, between R. R. tracks................................................ 10 Liberty street, between tracks of Railroad Co. 320 (The company paying for the labor). Congress lane, number square jards......... 45 Randolph street, " " * " ......... 250 River street, " " " ......... 175 Relaid several blocks on Dray ton street...... 5.165 Repairs on Wheaton street, No. square yards.. 1,135 Repairs on Whitaker street, " " " 100 Repairs on Wadley street, " " " 250 Paved the gutters at the following named streets: State street, between Bull and Whitaker streets, number square yards.................. 60 St. Julian street, between Barnard and Whitaker streets, number square yards............ 91 Jefferson street, between Congress and Broughton streets, number square yards.............. 134 Lincoln street, between Bay street and Bay lane, number square yards..................... 120 80 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Farm street, between Bay and Mill streets, number square yards............................. 505 Total............................................ 8,305 New work, number square yards............... 2,868 Repaying and repairs, number square yards 16,744 Total number square yards............... 19,612 CROSSINGS. One hundred and twenty-one new crossings have been laid, 74 being with flag footways, 32 with granite footways and 15 with brick; number of square yards being 5,884. Relaid 74 crossings with brick footways, 25 with flag footways, 8 with granite footways and 125 cobble stone pavements repaired; number of square yards of relaid and repaired footways being 5,634. Total, 11,518 square yards. CURBING. Granite curbing has been laid on Jefferson street from Charlton to Henry street, number linear feet 7,002; Jones street from Tattnall to East Broad street, number of linear feet 6,209; Bolton street from West Broad to East Broad street, number of linear feet 6,286. A retaining curb at the intersecting streets and lanes from Harris to Gaston streets on Bull street, number linear feet 581. Total number of linear feet of curbing 20,078. RECAPITULATION. The following amounts of pavement has been laid: MAYOB'S ANNUAL REPORT. 87 Sheet asphalt........................ 21,011 square yds. Granite blocks. ..................... 525 " "" Cobblestone......................... 2,343 " New crossings....................... 5.884 " " Old crossings (repaired and relaid)............................... 5,634 " Belaying and repairing streets already laid ..................... 16,744 " Total.............................52,141 " Total number feet granite curbing laid........20,078 Total number feet sewer pipe laid.............. 4,656 Total number feet catch basins built........... 57 The following streets have been paved with oyster shells: Jefferson street from Charlton to Henry street. Jefferson street from Broughton to Congress street. Jones street from Jefferson to East Broad street. Gaston street from east side of Tattnall to Jefferson street. Huntingdon street from Barnard to Jefferson street. Boiton from East Broad to West Broad street. Drayton from north side of President to the south side of York street. Lincoln street from Liberty street to Perry lane. Bryan street from Barnard to Montgomery street. The following streets have been graded: Abercorn from Congress to State street. Anderson from Barnard to Cemetery street. New Houston from Whitaker to West Broad street. Gwinnett from West Broad to Cemetery street. 88 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Cuyler from Gwirmett to Anderson street. Burroughs from Gwinnett to Anderson street. . President from Reynolds to East Broad street. Perry lane from Bull to Whitaker street. Habersham from Gaston to Hall street. Montgomery from Harris to Hall street. Jones lane from Abercorn to Whitaker street. The east side of Barnard street, from Huntingdon to Hall street, has been surfaced with brickbats and cinders. Bryan, from Montgomery to Lumber street, has been surfaced with brickbats and cinders. Jefferson street, from Congress to Bay street, has been surfaced and gravelled. The rains of July and August badly washed portions of the following streets : Jones, Purse, West Boundary, Walker and Cohen streets. The accumulation of ashes and other debris make it requisite that they should be graded twice a year. The growth of grass and weeds and the accumulation of sand in the waterways of the streets require a portion of the street force to be continually employed in keeping them open and unobstructed. Nine men with three teams are continually employed cleaning the asphalt pavements. PLANK ROADS AND BRIDGES The plank road on St. Julian street, between the Bilbo canal and Randolph street, has been repaired at various times during the year. This portion of the street is much used and should be paved. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 89 During the year bridges over the street gutters have been put down as follows : In January....................... ............ 7 In Februarv ................................... 8 V In March ...... ............................... 5 In April ....................................... 7 In May ......................................... 1 In June......................................... 8 In July......................................... 4 In August.............................. ......... 5 In September................................. 9 In October .................................... 6 In November.................................. 4 In December ................................. 3 Total......................................67 The bridges across Musgrove creek and Bilbo canal, on Gwinnett street, have been repaired. The bridges across the Ogeechee canal on Railroad street, on Bay street, and near the brickyard, have been repaired, and two small bridges built in Stiles avenue. CITY LOTS. Some repairs have been made to the building on West Broad and River streets. The north side of the City Exchange building has been underpinned and eight tie rods placed through the building. A fireproof vault for the storing of records of the city is now being constructed. HARBOR AND WHARVES. Some repairs were made on the slip at the foot of West Broad street, as also on the slips at the Market dock (foot of Barnard street), and at the Exchange dock (foot of Bull street). DO MAYOR'S AKNUAL REPORT. DRY CULTURE. The forces of this department (consisting of a superintendent, two foremen and 18 hands,) have been continually employed on the ditches and low lands around the city. All the open ditches in the eastern, western and southern portion of the city have been kept clean by repeated workings; so also have Bilbo canal, Perry lane canal, Musgrove creek and the outlets of the Screven and West Boundary street sewer. Seventeen hundred linear feet of box drain, one foot by two feet (inside measurement), have been laid in the Kerliii ditch, thus leading the water from the north side of Lovers lane (which formerly flowed north into Bilbo canal) to the south and into the Sixth street ditch. Three hundred linear feet of one foot by one foot box drain was laid in the ditches south of Lovers lane. Ninety feet of 18-inch sewer pipe was laid in the ditches south of East Broad street. A gate has been built in Bilbo canal for the purpose of flushing it, and also the large floodgate at the mouth of this canal has been rebuilt. A bulkhead forty feet long has been placed on the outside of Musgrove canal bank. A shutter has been placed on the inner end of the trunk of the Perry lane canal. Wing dams have been constructed at various places in Bilbo canal from Wheaton street to the bridge at Perry lane. Two hundred linear feet of 2-inch sheet piling has been driven in Bilbo canal north of Gwinnett street. Relaid 250 linear feet of box drain in Lamar's fields. Constructed 350 linear feet of 8-inch by 8-inch (inside measurement) box drains in St. Paul MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Ol and St. James streets. One hundred linear feet of 6-inch by 6-inch (inside measurement) box drain has been laid east of Ott street. The outside banks at the Lawton plantation have been repaired in various places. Five hundred and fifty linear feet of new ditches have been cut. I am, very respectfully, W. J. WINN, City Engineer. 62 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER SAVANNAH FIRE DEPARTMENT. OFFICE CHIEF ENGINEER, SAVANNAH, GA., Januarj' 1, 1893. Hon. John J. McDonough, Mayor City of Savannah : DEAR SIRI have the honor to submit the following Report of the Savannah Fire Department for the year ending December 31st, 1892, and in presenting this report I beg to call your attention to the change in the method of compiling the insurance and loss on property, the causes for which are fully explained on another page. FORCE. On December 31st, 1891, the force of this department consisted of fifty-one men, as follows: 1 Chief Engineer. 1 Assistant Chief Engineer. 1 Superintendent of Fire Alarm. 6 Foremen. 5 Engineers. 14 Drivers. 2 Tillermen. 1 Operator of Chemical. 16 Hosemen. 4 Laddermen. 51 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 63 No increase in force was authorized during the year. The auxiliary force connected with Hose Co. No. 1 and Engine Co. No. 5 continue to serve, without compensation, at fires in their respective sections. Five resignations were received and accepted (2 engineers, 1 operator of chemical, 1 hoseman and 1 driver). It was found necessary in the interest of discipline to cause two dismissals. The following list of the officers of the department is respectfully submitted : Wm. B. Puder, Chief Engineer. George Mouro, Assistant Chief Engineer. W. D. Claiborne, Superintendent of Fire Alarm. P. J. Connors, Foreman Engine Co. 1. J. J. Connolly, Foreman Engine Co. 2. J. F. Cullum, Foreman Engine Co. No. 3. C. C. Steinberg, Foreman Engine Co. No. 4. A. J. Toshach, Foreman Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1. J. Murphy, Foreman Chemical Co. No. 1. A. P. McFarland, Acting Foreman Engine Co. No. 5. ENGINE CO. NO. 1. 20 Brougbton St. The engine of this company is a third size, double piston LaFrance engine, 7J inches in diameter of cylinder, 8-inch stroke, and 41 inches in diameter of pumps. Capacity, 650 gallons per minute. In service since August, 1887. Weight, 8,600 pounds. The quarters of this company consist of a two-story brick building on the north side of MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Broughton street, second west of Houston street, owned by the department, and is in first-class condition. FORCE. BADGE 1 2 3 4 6 TTAJIE. Terance BennettJohn Carrlck....... Geo. Fontan.. ....... Hugh Larkin...... Chas. Egense....... CAPACITY. Driver Englne- " Reel ...... BoSeXDfttl ..... ** -..... 41 AGE. 44 42 61 50 88 85 26 EXFKBIXHCJE. 27 Yearn. 8 " 21 " 12 " 17 " 18 " 0 " SALARY. 184000 100000 72000 72000 72000 72000 72000 TOKHXR OCCUPATION. Machinist. Hostler. Stevedore. Moulder. tt ti The hose reel of this company is a two-wheeled, one-horse apparatus, which has been in service since 1875, and carries 600 feet of new 25-inch fabric hose. The value of the building and equipment of this station is approximated at $16,000. ENGINE CO. NO. 2. Corner West Broad and Olive streets. The engine of this company is a second size, single piston Amoskeag, 8i inches in diameter of cylinder, 12-inch stroke, 45 inches in diameter of pump. Capacity, 350 gallons per minute. Built in 18(52 for the United States Government. Purchased from the Germania Fire Co. in 1875. Rebuilt by the LaFrance Engine Co. in 1885. Over 30 years old, but in good condition. Weight, 6,700 pounds. The quarters of this company is a two-story frame building, on the corner of West Broad and Olive streets, held under lease from E. A. Smith, expiring January, 1894. The building is in no MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 93 manner adapted for its present use, is old and in need of repairs; remodelled solely for the purpose of renting. FORCE. BAT>OE .,..,.,. 6 9 7 8 10 NAHE. J. J. Connolly ...... W. J. Cleary ......... Chris Russell....... W. P. Lacy ........... Thos. McKay...... Frank McStay..... CAPACITY. Foreman ........... Driver Engine... " Reel ...... Hoseman ........... ti AGE. 44 48 34 GO 21 27 39 EXPERIENCE. 27 Years. 26 9 " 8 " 6 Mos.... 6 " .... 4 .... SAI,- ARY. 184000 100000 72000 72000 60000 800 00 60000 FOKXE2 OCCUPATION. Painter. Hostler. Car Inspec'r BollerMak'r Stevedore. Engineer. The hose reel of this company is a two-wheeled, one-horse apparatus, in service since 1875, carries 600 feet of new 2i-inch fabric hose. The value of the equipment of this station is approximated at about $6,500. ENGINE CO. NO. 3. Corner Abercorn and South Broad streets. The engine of this company is a fifth size, single piston LaFrance engine, 8f inches in diameter of cylinder, 8-inch stroke, 5 inches in diameter of pump. Built in 1889. Capacity, 350 gallons per minute. Weight, 6,700 pounds. The quarters of this company is in the east wing of the headquarters building, and is one story in height; the sleeping quarters of the force is in the second floor of the main building, all of which is owned by the department. MAYOR'S ANNtTAL REPORT. FORCE. BADGE 11 12 13 14 18 15 IS 17 SAMB. H. G.Greene........ E. A. Glass........... W. J. Cotter......... J. E. Campo*, Jr_ Con Gaffney ......... CAPACITY. Engineer ........... Driver Engine.. " Reel ...... " _ ....... 1C " ... __ . AGE. 28 36 31 83 39 32 26 25 29 27 JEXPKRIKNCE. 12 Years. 6 MOB.... 8 Years. 12 7 " 5 " 8 " 3 " 2 " 1 " SA3,- ART. JSMOO 100000 72000 72000 72000 72000 72000 66000 66000 60000 FOKMKR OO C0FATIOK. Clerk. Engineer. Moulder. Hostler. Moulder. Switchman. Sailor. This company has charge of the following property: One two-horse hose wagon, with 1300 feet of 2J-inch new fabric hose; one four-wheeled, twohorse hose reel, with 700 feet of 2i-inch rubber hose; one large four-wheeled, two-horse supply wagon; one dump cart, one chiefs buggy, one chiefs service wagon, one assistant chiefs gig, one horse for chief, one horse for assistant chief, and two extra horses. The value of the property at this station is approximated at about $31,600. ENGINE CO. NO. 4. 144 Barnard St. The engine of this company is a second size Jeffers engine. Capacity, 350 gallons per minute. Built in 1867. Rebuilt by Jno. W. Tynan at Savannah during the past year. The rotary LaFrance engine which was reported at this station in my last annual report was badly damaged by an accident and was condemned. The boiler and other parts not seriously damaged were transferred to MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. the old Jeffers in reserve and the result has proven very satisfactory. The weight of this engine is 6,600 pounds. The quarters of this company is a two-story brick building, fronting on Barnard street, just south of Hall street, and is owned by the department, having been built for the purpose for which it is used. FORCE. BADGE 19 20 21 22 NAME. C. C. Stelnberg..... J. M. Doyle........... W.W.Prlngle...... H. Corley............. Lee Platshek........ J. E. Lenzer......... CAPACITY. Driver Engine... " Reel....... ti AGE. 44 44 82 35 27 25 EXPERIENCE. 17 Years. 2 " 7 " 10 " 7 " 8 " SALARY. t 840 00 100000 72000 72000 72000 72008 rORKZR OCCUPATION. Machinist. Pnlnter. Carpenter. Clerk. Cigar maker This company is equipped with one two-wheeled one-horse hose reel, with 650 feet of 2i-inch rubber hose, and with two extra horses. The value of equipment at this station is approximated at about $14,300. ENGINE CO. NO. 5. Ill Henry St. The engine of this company is a third size, single piston Jeffers engine, 9 inches in diameter of cylinder, 7i-inch stroke, 53 inches in diameter of pump. In service since 1866. Rebuilt by the LaFrance Engine Co. in 1884. Capacity, 300 gallons per minute. Weight, 6,300 pounds. The quarters of this company is a two-story brick MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. building on Henry street, between Drayton and Bull streets, and is owned by the department, having been built for the purpose for which it is used. FORCE. BADGE 25 28 K\ HAHX. A. F. McFarland. J. C. Murphy........ Frank Harris...... F. E. O'tynn........ CAPACITY. Act'g Foreman. Engineer.. ........ Driver Engine.. " Reel ...... Hosernan_.. ....... AOB. 82 24 87 82 2XP*BIXHCB. 12 Yean. SMoB. 4 Yean. 4 Yean. SAI^ AST. 172000 100000 72000 72000 rOBXEE OCCUPATION. Carpenter. Machinist. Cigar maker Laborer. In addition to the above force, 15 citizens residing in the vicinity of this station have formed an auxiliary company for the purpose of assisting the department when necessary. The station is equipped with one two-wheeled one-horse hose reel, with 650 feet of 2i-inch rubber hose. The value of building and equipment of this station is approximated at about $12,600. CHEMICAL CO. NO. 1. Corner South Broad and Abercorn streets. The engine of this company is a double-tank Holloway chemical engine, each tank having a capacity of 85 gallons. This engine was built in 1890, and when charged weighs 6,300 pounds. The quarters of this company is in the west side of the headquarters building proper, the lower floor of which is divided with Engine Co. No. 3's wagon. The building is owned by the department. MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. FORCE. BADGE 81 82 87 KAMI. Qog Wlllman....... L. Trebony.......... J. J. Bnckley ........ CAPACITY. Operator............ AOK. 12 29 25 25 EXPERIENCE. 8 Years. 8 " 4 " 2 8AX-- ARY. 184000 72000 72000 66000 FORMER OCCUPATION. Fireman. Sailor. Butcher. Carpenter. The value of the equipment of this company is approximated at about $2,600. HOOK AND LADDER CO. NO. 1. Corner South Broad and Abercorn streets. The truck of this company is a Hayes aerial extension, which has been in service since February, 1890. The quarters of the company is in the west wing of the headquarters building and is owned by the department. FORCE. BADOK 80 81 33 84 82 NAME. A. J. Klernan...... JOB. O'Donovan ... D. Murpby_...... Thos. Walsh......... CAPACITY. Tlllerman ......... Ladderman ...... " u AGE. 31 47 81 25 41 26 EXPERIENCE. 7Yea:s. 7 " 13 " 3 " 8 " 3 " SAT.- AHY. f 810 00 72000 72000 72000 720 CO FORMER OCCUPATION. Bailor. Hostler. Printer. Clerk. Stevedore. 720 00 Sailor. The value of the equipment of this company is approximated at about $9,800. HOOK AND LADDER CO. NO. 2. 144 Barnard St. The truck of this company is a Leverett pattern, built in 1874. Quartered with Engine Co. No. 4, loo MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. the foreman of which has charge of this company also. FORCE. BADGE 23 24 35 NAME. Geo.Donnelly...... J. F. Strobhert-... J. Hardee...... ...... . CAPACITY. Driver ...... __ . Ladderman ...... AGE. 39 32 48 EXPERIENCE. 3 Years. 11 a SALARY. * 720 00 72300 72000 FORMER OCCUPATION. Hostler. Engineer. The value of the equipment of this company is approximated at about $1,700. HOSE CO. NO. 1. Waldburg St. near Price St. The apparatus of this company consists of one one-horse hose reel, which carries 500 feet of 2Jinch rubber hose. The quarters consist of a one-story frame building, which is owned by the department, having been built for the purpose. At this station there is but one man, who drives the apparatus to fires, securing whatever help he can get upon his arrival. FORCE. BADGE 36 NAME. John H. Gay ........ CAPACITY. AGE. 81 EXPERIENCE. 11 Years 8ALAKY. * 720 00 FORMER OCCUPATION. Electrician. As explained under Engine Co. No. 5, this station has an auxiliary force of 10 men. Stored at this house there are two two-wheeled one-horse hose reels, too heavy for service, and one old four-wheeled one-horse hose carriage. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1O1 The value of equipment and other apparatus at this station is approximated at about f 2,700. ESTIMATED VALUE OF DEPARTMENT, Including Buildings, Apparatus, Stock, Supplies, etc., etc. Engine Co. No. 1.................................$ 16,000 " " 2................................. 6,500 " " 3................................. 31,600 " " 4................................. 14,300 " " 5................................. 12,600 Chemical Co.No. 1............................... 2,600 H. & L. Co. No. 1............................. 9,800 " 2............................. 1,700 Hose Co. No. 1.................................... 2,700 97,800 Estimated value of Fire Alarm Telegraph 16,500 Total Estimate........... ..................$114,300 EXPENSES. Compared with the previous year the expenses have been: OPERATING EXPENSES. PAID FOB. Pay roll.................................... Kent quarters Station No. 2....... Harness and repairs to same...... Repairs to apparatus, horge- *hoelng, etc....._....................... Waste, oil, tools and Incidentals Lumber and sawdust.................. Blankets and bedding for employes.................................... Gas consumed...............__..... Medicine and treatment of horses...............................__. Coal and wood............................ Printing and stationery............. Forage, corn and oats............_. Extra labor at fires............__.. Repairs to buildings.................. Kepalrs to fire alarm and telephone rent............................... Services of electrician................. Total....................................... $ 47,19187* 40,09931 1891. 36,247188 33333 211326 1,114 60 8,45277 417 41 8948 197 10 23574 6BU75 86 28 2,89066 910 81 28280 1&92. 39,65907 33332 435 8tf 1,67864 1,98648 58159 81 90 24tf 24 5620 695 00 1X728 2,526 S 5000 11483 466 10 I 3,41189?. Increase. 14260 56404 164 18 49 14 34 25 101 00 5000 1H S3 S 1,907 47 Decrease. 01 758 17954 44471 26250 1O2 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. IMPROVEMENTS. PAID FOB. Horses .......................................... 8 new alarm boxes, wire, poles, etc. Total .................... ............... I8J1. 888 1892. 1 1,850 O-i 8,38085 40000 1,224 43 S 4.762 So't 6,341 28 Increase. f .... . 661 35 400 OU 1,13443 It 1,578 78 Decrease. j eooco Total Operating Expenses................. .$49,099 34 " * Cost of Improvements............... 6,341 28 $55,440 62 The increase in pay rolls is on account of increase in salaries as authorized by Council. Taken as a whole all of the other operating expenses have decreased over $1,500. In repairs to apparatus, horse shoeing, &c., the increase is on account of material for building Chief Engineer's service wagon (this wagon was built in the headquarters building by Hoseman Jos. Cash, of Engine Co. No. 3, who has since resigned to accept a more lucrative position elsewhere), for material for repairing supply wagon and apparatus and for painting same, in addition also for shoeing additional horses. The increase in cost of lumber and sawdust was principally for lumber used for repairing quarters. The amount charged to repairing buildings was for cost of plumbing, gas-fitting, &c. The increase in cost of repairs to harness, ,927.15, stores. Cause, unknown. Estimated value of property involved $15,000. At 1.03 p. m. Telephone. North of Central R. R. track in yard, wood yard, J. P. Jordan owner and occupant, no insurance, loss $150. Estimated value of property involved $800. Cause, sparks from locomotive. Monday, April 18th, 12.15 a. m. Local. No. 201 West Broad street, 2-story wood, F. Palmer owner and occupant, store and dwelling, no insurance, loss $2. Estimated value of property involved $3.600. Cause, heat from grate. At 3.55 p. m. Local. No. 291 Bay street, 2-story wood, H. Renken owner, insurance $2,000, loss $70. Chas. Johnson occupant, dwelling, insurance $500, loss $165. Cause, unknown. Estimated value of property involved $3,500. I MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 126 At 4.03 p. m. Box 9. No. 179 River street, 5-story brick, Mrs. J. Raines owner, no insurance, loss $50. D. O'Connell occupant, junk shop, no insurance, loss $200. Estimated value of property involved $10,000. At 12 m. Box 57. False alarm. Sunday, April 24th, 1.10 a. m. Box 5. Out of city. At 5.50 a. m. Local. No. 103 Henry street, 1-story wood, Henry Blun owner, no insurance, loss $20. T. Freeman (c) occupant, dwelling and store, insurance $300, loss $150. Cause, incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $700. Monday, April 25th, 8.55 p, m. Box 51. Steamship "Pawnee" lying in Central Railroad slip west of canal, loaded with cotton, insurance, ship $150,000, cargo $178,000, loss to ship $100, cargo $15,000. Cause unknown. Estimated value of all property involved $400,000. Wednesday, April 27th, 11.10 a. m. Box 27. No. 56 Harris street, 2-story brick, D. Cockshut owner and occupant, dwelling, insurance $1,800, loss $200. Estimated value of property involved $1,800. Cause, sparks from stove pipe. At 3.50 p. m. Boxes 16 and 71. No. 8 Arnold street, 1-story wood, Nancy Norman (c) owner, no insurance, loss $25. N. Haywood (c) occupant, dwelling, insurance $400, loss $25. Cause, defective stove pipe. Estimated value of property involved $350. At 4 p. m. Telephone. No. 231 Bryan street, 2-story wood, Alfred Kent 126 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. owner, no insurance, no loss. Thos. Flood occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved 1800. At 8.37 p. m. Box 32. No. 11 Berrien street, 1-story wood, R. D. Guerrard owner, no insurance, no loss. Charlotte Fields (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $400. Thursday, April 28th, 12 m. Local. Out of city. At 9.40 p. m. Box 12. No. 212 Broughton street, 2-story brick, R. McIntyre owner, insurance $1,000, loss $25. J. Klotz occupant, store, insurance $1,000, loss $936.75. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved $3,000. Saturday, April 30th, 11.45 a. m. Local. No. 154 South Broad street, 3-story brick, Miss L. Miller owner, no insurance, no loss. Mrs. A. Wilson occupant, dwelling, insurance $1,000, no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $4,000. MAY. Sunday, May 1st, 4.20 a. m. Box 12. West Boundary and Ogeechee canal, 1-story wood. C. P. Miller owner, insurance $1,200, loss $1.200. Susan Cooper (c) and others occupants, dwellings, no insurance, loss $100. Cause, incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $1,850. At 8.20 a. in. Box 12. False alarm. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 127 Tuesday, May 3d, 1.20 a. m. Boxes 62 and 63. Nos. 271 and 272 Gwinnett street, H-story wood, Mrs. L. J. Lanier owner, insurance $600, loss $20.85. A. T. Lanier occupant, store and dwelling, no insurance, loss $75. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved $800. Monday, May 9th, 10.28 p. m. Box 81. Bull and Congress streets, brick, 4 stories, B. Dub owner and occupant, no insurance, loss $50, hotel. Cause, spontaneous combustion. Estimated value of property involved $75,000. Tuesday, May 10th, 4.55 p. m. Local. No. 13 Indian street lane, 2-story wood, Walthour & Rivers agents, no insurance, loss $10. D. W. Ford (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, mischievous boy. Estimated value of property involved $750. Thursday, May 12th, 4.20 p. m. Box 12. No. 193 Congress street, 4-story brick, Geo. Schwarz owner and occupant, dwelling and barroom, insurance $8,000, loss $9.37. Cause, sparks from mill. Estimated value of property involved $12,000. At 5.33 p. m. Box 41. Habersham and Huntingdon, 1,1 J, 2 and 3-story wood and brick, T. H. McMillan, W. H. Dooner, F, Weasels and others owners, insurance $48,100, loss $26,003.18. W. H. Dooner, J. P. Lawton, F. Wessels and others occupants, insurance $6,850. loss $5,545, dwellings, one store. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved $125,000. Estimated loss $65,000. Thursday, May 19th, 7.55 p. m. Local. No. 204 Bryan street, 3-story brick, J. G. Butler 128 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. owner, insurance none, no loss. J. W. Pate occupant, dwelling, insurance none, loss $5, Estimated value of property involved $4,500. Cause, explosion of lamp. Friday, May 20, .10.25 p. m. Telephone. No. 83 Broughton street, 1-story brick, S. Guckenheimer owner, insurance $",500, loss $00.07. R. P. Wimberly occupant, store, insurance $1,500, loss $618. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved $9.500. Tuesdav, Mav 24th, 3.33 a. m. Box 20. / ' rt ' Liberty near Price, 1-story wood, D. C. Bacon owner, insurance $1,500, loss $1,500. W. Wooledge occupant, swimming pool, no insurance, loss $100. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved $4,000. At 1.58 p. m. Box 82. No. 193 Congress street, 4-story brick, George Schwarz owner and occupant, insurance $8,000, no loss. Cause, sparks from mill. Dwelling and barroom. Estimated value of property involved $12,000. Monday, May 30th, 7.50 p. m. Box 34. No. 2 Sims street, 2J-story wood, Mrs.M. Clancy owner, insurance $1,000, loss $30. Rose Anderson (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, supposed incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $1,700. JUNE. Wednesday, June 1st, 12.29 a. m. Box 57. No. 49 Williams street, 1-story wood. R. L. Turner owner, no insurance, loss $20. R. Denny (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 129 unknown. Estimated value of property involved $250. Tuesday, June 7th, 2.40*a. m. Box 82. No. 24 Barnard street, 3-story brick, est. M. Marshall owner, insurance $7,500, loss $1,2-50. J. Maril occupant, jewelry store, insurance $1,500, loss not adjusted (estimated at $1,000). Cause, supposed incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $11,500. Monday, June 13th, 3.04 a. m. Box 26. No. 75 East Broad street, 1-story wood, D. C. Bacon owner, insurance $1,000, loss $100. Peter Nichols and others occupants, stores, insurance $500, loss $52.83. Cause, incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $6,000. Thursday, June 16th, 12.32 a. m. Box 65. No. 256 Jefferson street, 1-story wood, W. H. Benken owner, insurance $1,000, loss $625.25. Mrs. H. Hart occupant, store, insurance f 900, loss $550. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved $1,900. Friday, June 17th, 1.50 a. m. Box 57. Nos. 21 and 23 Harrison street, li-story, J. Bernstein owner, no insurance, loss $400. Dora Watkins (c) occupant, dwellings, no insurance, no loss. Cause, lamp explosion. Estimated value of property involved $700. Thursday, June 23d, 9.02 p. m. Box 26. S., F. & W. Ry yard. Union Tank Line Car, no insurance, no loss. Cause, car inspector's torch. Estimated value of property involved $1,600. At 9.22 p. m. Box 8.. River foot of Whitaker street, tow boat, Savannah Lighterage and Tow Boat Co. owners, no in9 13O MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. surance, loss $100. Cause, sparks from furnace. Estimated value of property involved $3,000. Wednesday, June 24th, 9.02 p. m. Box 19. No. 46i Barnard street, 1-story brick, est. C. Wakefield owner, insurance $500, loss $30. H. J. Meyer occupant, plumbing shop, no insurance, loss $100. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property $1,000. Thursday, June 25th, 2.48 p. m. Box 63. No. 271 Gwinnett street, 2h story wood, R. Herb (c) owner and occupant, no insurance, loss $400. Cause, sparks from chimney. Estimated value of property involved $900. JULY. Friday, July 1st, 7.20 p. m. Local. No. 26 Gordon street lane, 1-story wood, R. D. Guerrard owner, no insurance, no loss. Daisy Collins (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $10. Cause, defective flue. Estimated value of property involved $350. Monday, July 4th, 7.58 p. m. Box 31. No. 98 West Broad street, U-story wood, H. J. Beckett owner, insurance $1,000, loss $850. Jacob Tuch occupant, dwelling, insurance $500, loss $350. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved $1,600. Wednesday, July 6th, 3.05 a. m. Box 13. No. 30J Bull street, 2-story brick, A. R. Altmayer owner, insurance $6,000, loss $808.40. M. .Levy occupant, store, insurance $6,000, loss$l,737.- 41. Cause, unknown. Estimated value of property involved $28,000. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 131 Thursday, July 7th, 8.30 p. m. Local. No. 2 Orange street, 2-story wood, Thos. Burke (c) owner and occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $550. Friday, July 8th, 6. p. m. Local. No. 22i Mill street, 2-story wood, Mrs. M. White owner, no insurance, no loss. Ed. Mongin (c) occupant, dwelling. Cause, foul chimney, no insurance, no loss. Estimated value of property involved $650. Friday, July 22d, 4.50 a. m. Box 14. No. 79 Broughton street, Si-story wood, Robt. Styles owner, insurance $3,000, loss $150. I. Wohlters occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $25. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved 14,500. Sunday, July 24th, 1.26 a, m. Box 7. No. 99 Bay street, Board of Trade owners, 5- story brick, insurance $15,000, loss $50. Postal Tel. and Cable Co. occupants, no insurance, loss $200. Estimated- value of property involved $140,- 000. Cause, defective electric wires. AUGUST. Monday, August 1st, 2.47 a. m. Box 47. No. 238-240 East Broad street, 2* and li story wood, K. Stiles (c) and others owners, insurance $750, loss $670. C. H. Murry (c) and others occupants, dwellings,no insurance, no loss. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved 81 700 At 4.50 a. m. Box 29. No. 161 Gordon street, li-story wood, Dennis Shea owner, no insurance, loss $50. J. F. Geary 132 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. (c) occupant, no insurance, no loss, dwelling. Cause, sparks from chimney. Estimated value of property involved $1,000. Saturday, August 6th, 3.50 a. m. Box 17. False alarm. Tuesday, August 9th, 1.35 p. m. Box 52. Out of city. Thursday, August llth, 8.40 a. m. Boxes 12 and 82. No. 192 Broughton street, 3-story brick, Miss E. A. Gnahl owner, insurance $3,000, loss $50. The A. J. Miller Co. occupants, store, insurance none, loss $200. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved $21,000. Thursday, August 18th, 12.35 a. m. Box 67. No. 235 Duffy street, U-story wood, Mrs. F. E. Rice ownei', insurance $1,400. loss $185. C. Russell (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, supposed incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $1,700. At 4 p. m. Local. No. 41 Olive street, 1-story wood, Thos. Clark owner, insurance $1,400, loss $200. J. Roberts (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, sparks from chimney. Estimated value of property involved $1,500. Friday, August 19th, 10.14 a. m. Box 65. No. 176 Anderson street, 2i-story wood, Mrs. J. Hedgman owner, no insurance, loss $20. T. Mitchell occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, sparks from chimney. Estimated value of property involved $4,000. At 6.10 p. m. Local. No. 18 Broughton street, 3-story wood, P. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 133 O'Connor owner, no insurance, no loss. Mrs. R. Wright occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $600. Cause, explosion of gasoline stove. Estimated value of property involved $1,700. Sunday, August 21st, 4.08 a. m. Box 41. No. 9i Mercer street, li-story wood, F. Chaplin owner, insurance $1,500, loss $10. Bessie Lee (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $1,600. Sunday, August 28th, 9.44 p. m. Local. No. 183 Hall street, Si-story wood, Jno. Juchter owner, no insurance, no loss. J. T. O'Sullivan occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, foul chimne\. Estimated value of property involved $1,700. SEPTEMBER. Sunday, September 4th, 3.52 p. m. Telephone. No. 79 Bolton street, 2i-story wood, G. W. Curtis owner and occupant, no insurance, loss $75, dwelling. Cause, defective stove pipe. Estimated value of property involved $3,500. Friday, September 9th, 11.12 p. m. Box 29. Nos. 2 and 4 Gordon street, li-story wood, Mrs. A. Walsh owner, insurance $800, loss $557. R. Crosby occupant, dwelling, insurance $500, loss $500. Cause, supposed incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $1,000. Thursday, September 15th, 5.36 a. m. Telephone. No. 167* Duffy street, 2*-story wood, M. M. Mingledorf owner and occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $10. Cause, explosion of naptha stove. Estimated value of propertv involved 63,000. 134 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. At 12.36 p. m. Box 51. Ocean steamship wharf, freight shed, cotton stored for shipment. Cause, sparks from locomotive, insurance not ascertained, loss $798. Estimated value of property involved $28,465. Friday, September 16th, 10.15 a. m. Local. No. 17 Indian street lane, 2-story wood, F. S. Lathrop owner, no insurance, no loss. S. Roberts (c) occupant, no insurance, no loss. Cause, defective chimney, dwelling. Estimated value of property involved $2,100. Tuesday, September 27th, 10 a. m. Local. No. 271 Barnard street, 2i-story wood, Mrs. E. H. Kent owner, no insurance, no loss. J. H. Williams occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $3,300. Friday, September 30th, 4.02 a. m. Box 29. No. 3 Taylor street, 1-story wood, H. F. Ludemann owner, insurance $1,000, loss $18, unoccupied dwellings. Cause, incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $1,200. OCTOBER. Thursday, October 6th, 4.30 p. m. Box 23. No. 61 Jefferson street, 3-story wood, J. A. Staley owner and occupant, dwelling and store, no insurance, loss $70. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved $6,500. At 5 p. m. Box 41. No. 11 Mercer street, 2-story wood, Susan McQueen (c) owner, insurance $600, loss $300. Rufus Corson (c) occupant, dwelling, insurance! MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 136 loss $243.92. Cause, unknown. Estimated value of property involved $2,000. Sunday, October 9th, 9.40 a. m. Local. No. 155 South Broad street. 3-story brick, Mrs. P. J. Waldhouer owner and occupant, dwelling, insurance $5,100, loss $25. Cause, defective kerosene stove. Estimated value of property involved $13,000. At 10 p. m. Local. No. 34i Roberts street, 2-story wood, Walthour & Rivers, agents, no insurance, loss $ 10. E. Shine (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, defective chimney. Estimated value of property involved $900. At 8.50 p. m. Box 64. No. 200 Barnard street, 2J-story wood, J. M. Farr owner, no insurance, loss $250. Rev. T. H. Blenus occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $100. Cause, careless use of matches. Estimated value of property involved $4,000. Thursday, October 20th, 9.30 a. m. Telephone. No. 3i Lumber street, li-story wood, Ophelia Merriraan (c) owner and occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, defective chimney. Estimated value of property involved, $300. Wednesday, October 26th, 8.25 p. m. Local. No. 107J Price street, 2-story wood, M. W. Suiter owner, insurance $800, no loss. Jos. Wright occupant, dwelling, insurance none, no less. Cause, explosion of lamp, Estimated value of property involved $5,000. Thursday, October 27th, 5.23 a, m. Box 21. No. 31 Jones street, 3-story brick, Mrs. F. A. Fulton owner, no insurance, 110 loss. C. E. Nevy 136 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. occupant,dwelling,insurance none,no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $9,500. At 11.30 a. m. Local. No. 45 Anderson street. 1-story wood, P. Killorin owner and occupant, kitchen, insurance $1,200, loss $95. Cause, defective flue. Estimated value of property involved $1,900. At 3.40 p. m. Box 35. No. 193 Taylor street, li-story wood, 0. W. Charlton owner, no insurance, loss $2. Mary Campbell (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, sparks from chimney. Estimated value of property involved $450. Friday, October 28th, C.30 p. m. Local. No. 23 Broughton street lane, li-story wood, Walthour & Rivers, agents, no insurance, no loss. John Mann (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $450. NOVEMBER. Mondaj', November 7th, 12.50 p.m. Box 52. Central R. R. warehouse over canal, 1-story brick, Central R. R. & Banking Company owner, insurance not ascertained, no loss. Cotton stored for forwarding, insurance not ascertained, loss $1,700. Estimated value of property involved 865,000. Cause unknown. Thursday, November 10th, 4.20 a. m. Telephone. Out of city. At 5.40 p. m. Telephone. Broughton and Drayton streets, 4-story wood, est. J. J. Waring owner, no insurance, no Joss. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 137 Mrs. Araanda Falligant occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $15,000. At 9.05 p. m. Local. No. 149 Barnard street, 2-2-story wood. C. F. Keilbach owner, no insurance, no loss. J, R. F. Tattnall occupant, dwelling, insurance $1,000, no loss. Cause, unknown. Estimated value of property involved $3,500. Friday, November llth, 11.10 a. m. Local. No. 21 Houston street, 2-story brick, P. O'Connor owner, no insurance, no loss. T. Pounder occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $10. Cause, sparks from a pipe. Estimated value of property involved $1,100. At 4.20 p. m. Telephone. No. 123 Perry street. 4-story wood, Mrs. E. C. Germain owner and occupant, no insurance, no loss, dwelling. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $4,500. At 9.33 p. m. Box 29. Charlton street lane near Price street. 2-story wood, Mrs. M. Cummings owner, no occupant, no insurance, loss $2. Cause, sparks from a chimney. Estimated value of property involved $1,500. Saturday, November 12th, 9.50 p. m. Box 23. No. 144 Hull street, 4-story brick, est. J. Pelot owner, insurance $3,500, loss $68.59. Mrs. J. P. Walker occupant, dwelling, insurance $500, loss $20630. Cause, explosion of lamp. Estimated value of property involved $6,800. Tuesday, November loth, 7.25 p. m. Local. No. 207J West Broad street, 2i-story wood, Mrs. J. Kehoe owner, no insurance, no loss. Susan As- 138 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. bury (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $4,000. At 8.12 p. m. Telephone. No. 94 Hull street, Si-story brick, S. Cohen owner, no insurance, no loss. G. W. Anderson occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $20. Cause, careless use of matches. Estimated value of property involved $4,000. Wednesday, November 16th, 9.48 a. m. Local. No. 2 Lorch street lane, 2-2-story wood, Wm. Price owner, no insurance, no loss. Clara Williams (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $550. Thursday, November 17th. 7.15 p. m. Local. No. 260 Bay street, 2-story brick, Jno. Metzger owner, no insurance, no loss. Mrs. A. Flatley occupant, store and dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $2.500. Friday, November 18th, 9.45 p. m. Local. No. 161 Broughton street, 4-story brick, Dan'1 Hogan owner, insurance $2,500, no loss. Falk Clothing Co. occupants, store, insurance $35,000, loss none. Cause, fireworks. Estimated value of property involved $45,000. Sunday, November 20th, 1 a. m. Local. Out of city. Monday. November 21st, 2.30 a.m. Local. Out of city. Thursday, November 24th, 6 p. m. Local. No. 228 Dray ton street, 2-story wood, J. N. Johnson owner and occupant, drug store, no insurance, MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 139 no Ios3. Cause, sparks from fireplace. Estimated value of property involved $4,000. Friday, November 25th, 1 a. m. Local. Out of city. At 3.35 p. m. Box 67. No. 212 Henry street, 1-story wood, J. C. Chisholm owner and occupant, dwelling, insurance $1,000, loss $20. Cause, defective flue. Estimated value of property involved 1,500. At 12.20 p. m. Local. No. 274 Bull street, 1-story wood, W. W. Chisholm owner, no insurance, loss $200. J. W. Austin occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, sparks from chimney. Estimated value of property involved 350. Saturday, November 26th, 11.31 a. m. Box 35. No. 31 Berrien street, 2i-story wood, M. J. Sheckles owner, insurance $500, loss $70. J. W. Cotchett occupant, dwelling, no insurance, no loss. Cause, defective flue. Estimated value of property involved $1,000. At 1.43 p. m. Box 67. Out of city. At 5.25 p. m. Local. No. 257 Bay street, 2-story brick. J. H. Bunger owner, no insurance, no loss. J. J. Gogh ran occupant, bar room, no insurance, loss .$4. Cause, explosion of lamp. Estimated value of property involved $1,800. Monday, November 28th, 4.41 p. m. Telephone. No. 14 Charlton street, 2i-story wood, Louisa Porter Home owners, insurance 8500, no loss. J. McKenua occupant, dwelling, no insurance, 140 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. loss $7.50. Cause, careless use of matches. Estimated value of property involved $600. Tuesday, November 29th. 6.30 a. m. Local. No. C. Charlton street, 2i-story wood, Walthour & Rivers, agents, no insurance, no loss. J. Einanuel occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $10. Cause, sparks from fireplace. Estimated value of property involved $450. At 11.22 p.m. Box 26. Arnold and Wheaton streets, 1-story wood, dwelling, E. McCabe owner, no insurance, loss $30. Jonas Garvey (c) occupant, no insurance, no loss. Cause, sparks from fireplace. Estimated value of property involved $50. Wednesday, November 30th, 9.20 p. m. Box 41. No. 21 Nicholl street, H-story wood, W. J. Rogers (c) owner and occupant, dwelling, insurance $1,300, loss $124. Cause, explosion of lamp. Estimated value of property involved $1,700. DECEMBER. Friday, December 2d, 6.45 a.m. Local. Out of city. Sunday, December 4th, 1.35 p. m. Telephone. Bull and Charlton streets, 3-story brick, Savannah Volunteer Guards' aimory in course of construction, insurance $30,000, no loss. Cause, incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $30,000. Monday, December 5th, 11.35 a, m. Box 26. False alarm. At 11.20 p. m. Box 26. Out of city. Tuesday, December 13th, 1.05 a. m. Box 43. Out of city. MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPOBT. 141 Friday, December 16th, 7.30 p. m. Telephone. No. 7 Hall street, 3-story wood, J. Kuck owner, no insurance, no loss. A. E, Green (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $10. Cause, sparks from fireplace. Estimated value of property involved $840. Saturday, December 17th, 5.50 a. m. Telephone. East Broad and Huntingdon street lane, 2-story wood, Savannah Gas Light Co. owners, no insurance, no loss. J. Sails (c) occupant, dwelling, insurance none, loss $5. Cause, careless use of matches: Estimated value of property involved $520. Monday, December 19th, 1.40 a. m. Local. Out of city. At 1.29 p. m. Local. No. 6 Alice street, 2-story brick, F. Asendorf owner, no insurance, no loss. Hattie Powell (c) occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $20. Occupant burned to death. Cause, careless use of kerosene. Estimated value of property involved $1,200. Thursday, December 22d, 3.16 p. m. Box 73. Tyler Cotton Press wharf, steamship Grao loading with cotton, iron vessel, insurance on ship $150,000, on cargo $113,200, loss on ship none, on cargo $5,874. Estimated value of property involved $313,200. Cause of fire, burning bale from lighter, not discovered until in ship's hold. Saturday, December 24, 3.40 p. m. Local. No. 58 Broughton street, 4-story wood, Mrs. J. K. Reilly owner and occupant, dwelling, no insurance, loss $0. Cause, defective flue. Estimated value of property involved $8,000. 142 MA YOB'S ANNUAL REPORT. At 11.12 p.m. Box 29. Macon street between Lincoln and Habersham, 1-story brick, G. C. Freeman owner, no insurance, loss $100. R. Williams (c) occupant, work-shop, insurance $300, loss $40.80. Cause unknown. Estimated value of property involved $1,300. Sunday, December 25th, 12.54 a. m. Box 29. Nos. 11 and 13 Gordon street, 2-story wood, Louis Anderson (c) owner, insurance $350, loss $350. Green Steele (c) occupant, dwelling, insurance none, loss $50. Cause, incendiary. Estimated value of property involved $2,400. Tuesday, December 27th, 12.15 a. m. Telephone. Out of city. At 5.45 p. m. Telephone. No. 44 McDonough street, 3-story brick, J. Haves owner and occupant, no insurance, no loss, dwelling. Cause, foul chimney. Estimated value of property involved $3,400. Saturday, December 31st, 11.57 p. m. Box 17. Nos. 51, 52 and 55 Randolph street, 1^-story wood, store, barroom and dwelling, W. R. Leakins owner, insurance $300, loss $221.50. J. Shuman and others occupants, insurance $300, loss $300. Cause, lamp overturned. Estimated value of property involved $1,100. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 143 ALARMS. MANNER OP RECEIPT. Indications of fire............... Unnecessary ....................... Total........................... s I1 m 95 16 111 Telephone ^1 8 29 i 4^ 2fi 68 "3 g 158 50 208 CAUSES. Necessary.... .......... Unnecessary........... */ Total................. 5"3 o 20 5 25 Explosions. 10 10 Bmoke lisulng building. from 128 128 Foul chimney. 39 39 i 6 g "5 "o 158 r,o 208 144 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. c fa. OS y K H s te ! < e g K O MANUFAC b c S? mox - S3uj "unojj sSni sasnoH sasnoH sasnofj """"sW) """"tW sasnoff sasnoH WOX sasnoH -1(3*0 aaqw JZ s 8 i S S 2 - ja -^ r- r- *r * ea a s s - - - g, . - E - 0 , , - , - 1 S -"'* t- co ^ oo a> *-< ei ^^ : : : : : - - \ M - - : : : - - ! 1 -, - - - e o d o eo eo *--< ; MOOt- -* 05 lIl^JlJ t e ) U . I C = f- , , : * D -i 5 & 4 ^ 3 4 C4 C "" * - s as 2 | = a " 2 2 - =0 . : r-4 ^ 1 i - - : *~ S "* i i i g . 1 15 s c& s ce e- = *! hC g 1 1 s g ? 5 | 3 5 \ i ORIGIN AND CAUSE OF FIRES. MONTH. March.................................. April.................................... MfLV July..................... ............... October................. ............... Total.............................. CAUSE. Chimney. Foul 9 : 7 6 S 2 2 1 2 6 39 Accidental. s 1 2 S 1 1 2 5 1 20 i 3 4 2 1 1 '"i" 3 2 17 and Sop- Incendiary Incendiary. posed S 1 5 2 1 2 2 """a" 1 20 Defective Construction. 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 11 Other Causs. 17 7 S 10 6 S 4 7 4 78 Oat City. of 8 3 9 """i" """2" e 25 39 17 25 28 12 9 7 11 11 20 19 m PREMISES WHEREIN FIRES ORIGINATED. Dwellings. 17 11 7 3 6 7 S 11 19 3 108 Mercantile Establishments. 11 8 4 7 2 4 1 4 Sg factories. Workshops. Etc. 2 1 i' * 1 2 2 1 S CO 2 I S Stables. 1 I 2 Coal Cotton, or Other Yards 1 1 Wharves. 1 1 2* Vessels. 1 1 1 T Other Hous*. 1 3 3 3 1 8 4 17 Out City. of 8 1 3 9 1 2 6 26 3- 39 17 25 28 12 9 7 11 7 11 26ie 206 146 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. FIRES OCCURRING EACH DAY AND HOUR. MONTH. Januarv... . ..................... February March............ ............... April ........................... Mav.. ............................ June............................. Julv....... ...................... Au^u^t September..................... f|rtf /-|l VOT "\"o v6in 1)6 r !T)ppp tn HAI* Total........................ Sunday. 6 3 8 2 1 Monday, 6 2 2 5 2 1 1 2' 2 j 3 , 1 3 2 4 Tuesday. 4 3 3 1 4 1 1 1 4 3 292825 MONTH. January......... .................. Februarv.......................... March.................... ......... April...... ........................ May........ ......................... June................................ Julv.... ............. .. . ......... August.......... .................. September........................ October........................ ... November ........................ December. ........................ Total........................... fem 1 5 2 10 r2 1 1 2 { H 2 1 t 3 4 1 3 2 6 5 1 X a 2 10 7 3 1 1 1 3 2 3 1 7 2 3034.41 Midnight 108A.M. ~8 A.M. M. 6Ato ~8A. M. Noon. to 8 1 1 6 1 4 1 4 2 2 4 34 4 3 2 2 1 2' ? 1 2 1 21 8 7 6 3 1 s cC OS Is Z 5 3 3 5 1 1 1 1 1 3... 4 3 2 2 3624 s a," t o 4 g 1 1 1 1 3 6 3 32 Saturday. 6 2 1 3 i 4 4 21 P. M.8to Midnlght.| 11 2 9 Q 4 j n o 1 4 9 j 61 1 39 17 25 28 12 9 7 11 7 11 26 16 208 1 39 17 25 28 12 9 7 11 7 11 26 16 208 I MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 147 RECAPITULATION OF LOSSES. MONTH. January....... February...... March.......... April............ May....... ...... July............. September.... October......... November.... December..... INSURED PROPERTY. Total Insurance. $ 187,750 00 85,00000 50.80000 366,100 00 82,750 01) 12,900 (X> 31,500 00 8,050 00 2,30000 8,500 00 45,800 00 294,45000 Total......... $ 1,175,900 00 Total Loss. $ 29,187 07 29,686 08 756 73 28,228 25 33,493 07 3,608 08 3,945 81 1,115 00 1,045 00 663 92 488 89 6,786 30 $ 139,002 2ff ALL PROPERTY INVOLVED. Value. ! 1 $ 348,118 00 1 126,220 oo: 86,09000! 476,975 0(>l 243,100 00' 26,850 00 ir5,650 a>' 35,900 OO1 42,565 00! 37,500 OOl 164,900 OOl 361,860 OOl k 2,125,728 00!$ Loss. 29,187 07 16,337 89 8,516 23 23,201 25 67,17-5 52 4,628 08 4,180 81 1,391 00 1,928 00 1,025 92 2,274 39 6,991 30 166,837 46 COMPARISONS. Total amount of incurance... _. Percentage of total loan to total value... Percentage or Insured properly lO8t_. . 1880. i8 S 1,061,475 SO 138,48661 81945 13.1 1391. 196 $ i,7W,iei oo ^tattsoe 1,761 56 19.2 1892. 208 f 1,173^00 UO 186,837 46 S02_U 1L8 148 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1st, 1893. Wm. J3. Puder, Esq., Chief Engineer Savannah Fire Department: DEAR SIRI have the honor to submit the following report of the Fire Alarm Telegraph Service for the year ending December 31st, 1892: During the past year 116 alarms were transmitted over the lines of the alarm system, 10 of which were turned in by key-holders for the same fire. The telephones are credited with 29 alarms^ making a total of 145 calls over the wires of this system. Eight new signal boxes have been received and located as follows: No. 38 Bull and Gaston streets. No. 29 Taylor, east of Price street. No. 39 Gaston and Lincoln streets. No. 47 Lincoln and Henry streets. No. 91 Upper Hydraulic Press. No. 67 Burroughs and Duffy streets. No. 81 Bull and Congress streets. No. 82 Barnard and Congress streets. The following changes in the location of boxes have been made during the year: Station No. 3, at Police Barracks, has been changed to No. 4. Box 17 moved from N. W. to S. W. corner South Broad and East Broad streets. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 149 Box 18 moved from Bull and South Broad to Bull and York streets. Box 21 moved from Perry and Barnard to South Broad and Montgomery streets. Box 23 moved from Central R. R. depot to Barnard and Perry streets. Box 24 moved from Drayton and Liberty to Liberty and West Broad streets. Box 25 moved from Liberty and Price to Liberty and Drayton streets. Box 27 moved from Charlton and Whitaker to Harris and Price streets. Box 31 moved -from Taylor and Drayton to Charlton and Whitaker streets. Box 35 moved from Barnard and Gordon to Wayne and West Broad streets. Box 36 moved from Bull and Gaston to Taylor and Drayton streets. Box 37 moved from Lincoln and Gaston to Barnard and Gordon streets. Box 45 moved from Drayton and Waldburg lane to Abercorn and Waldburg lane. Box 56 moved from Bryan and Farm to Farm and Pine streets. Box 62 moved from Hall and West Broad to West Broad and Oak streets. Box 63 moved from Burroughs and Waldburg to Bolton and Waldburg streets. Box 64 moved from Barnard and Waldburg to Jefferson and Bolton streets. Box 65 moved from Montgomery and Dufl'y to Duffy and Jefferson streets. Box 19 moved from South Broad and Montgomery to Barnard and York streets. 160 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Box 32 moved from Wayne and West Broad to Jones and Jefferson streets. Box 54 mored from Upper Cotton Press to Bay and Ann streets. A test is made daily at 3.30 p. m. (Sundays excepted) by the sounding of a box, and I am glad to say that in most cases it has proved very satisfactory. I would recommend that an alarm box be stationed at or about Police Barracks, as the method of sounding alarms at that point are very unreliable. I would earnestly ask that you recommend that something be done towards effecting some regulation in the lining of electric wires of the various companies in this city. The annoyance and danger to this branch as well as to the men of the department convinces me that something must be done to remedy this evil. I believe that suitable ordinance could be enacted that would be the means of reducing this danger and trouble. This system of the department has given considable trouble during the past year on account of the numerous additions of boxes and wire. When the new repeater, which has been ordered, is received, this trouble will entirely disappear. EXPENSES. The running expenses of this branch of the service has been as follows: For Blue Stone and Zinc.....................$ 143 75 ' Tools, &c................................... 735 " Telephone Rent........................... 31500 Total...... ................................^ 466 10 MAYOR'S A1NNUAL REPORT. 151 Amounts expended for improvements have been: For 8 New Boxes...............................$1,000 00 " 22 Electric Shunts........................ 2200 " 2 Miles Wire............................... 12943 " Poles......................................... 2800 " Magnet Wire, Keys, &c.................. 4500 $1,224 43 Total Expenditures Account Fire Alarm...............................$1,690 53 THE PKESENT LOCATION OF ALARM BOXES IS: 4. Police Barracks. 5. Bay and East Broad streets. 6. Bay and Habersham streets. 7. Bay and Drayton streets. 8. Bay and Whitaker streets. 9. Bay and Jefferson streets. 12. Broughton and West Broad streets. 13. Broughton and Whitaker streets. 14. Broughton and Abercorn streets. 15. Broughton and Price streets. 16. Broughton and Reynolds streets. 17. South Broad and East Broad streets. 18. York and Bull streets. 19. York and Barnard streets. 21. South Broad and Montgomery streets. 23. Barnard and Perry streets. 24. Liberty and West Broad streets. 25. Liberty and Drayton streets. 26. S., F. & W. Ry. Freight Office. 27. Harris and Price streets. 28. Jones and Lincoln streets. 162 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 29. Taylor, east of Price street. 31. Charlton and Whitaker streets. 32. Jones and Jefferson streets. 34. Wilson and Walker streets. 35. Wayne and West Broad streets. 36. Drayton and Taylor streets. 37. Barnard and Gordon streets. 38. Bull and Gaston streets. 39. Gaston and Lincoln streets. 41. Huntingdon and Price streets. 42. Lincoln and Gwinnett streets. 43. Waldburg, east of Price street. 45. Abercorn and Waldburg lane. 46. Henry and Bull streets. 47. Henry and Lincoln streets. 51. C. R. R. Wharf over Canal. 52. C. R. R. Warehouse over Canal. 53. Central Cotton Press. 54. Bay, near Ann street. 56. Farm and Pine streets. 57. Margaret, near Farm street. 61. Hall and Barnard streets. 62. West Broad and Oak streets. 63. Burroughs and Bolton streets. 64. Bolton and Jefferson streets. 65. Duffy and Jefferson streets. 67, Duffy and Burroughs street. 71. Wheaton, near Randolph street. 72. South Broad and Randolph streets. 73. Lower Hydraulic Press. 74. Gordon Wharf. 75. S., F. ) w ^ I O) WM O fl a K z t5_ of O 191 S.HOAVW iea MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. RECOMMEN DATIONS. There are a number of the mains which do not connect at the extremities and are known as "dead ends," which should be extended and make the system more complete. Some of them are fourinch pipes and do not furnish a good service, even at their best condition. Most particularly are those on the following streets : O;i Wayne street from Montgomery to West Broad street. On Perry street from Arnold to Randolph street. On Harris street from Tattnall to West Broad street. On Harrison street from West Broad to Farm street. On Berrien street from Tattnall to West Broad street. On Waldburg street from West Broad to Burroughs street. On New Houston street from West Broad to Burroughs street. On Huntingdon street from West Broad to Wilson street. On Charlton street from Price to East Broad street. On East Boundary street from Broughton to Liberty street. On Lumber street from New to Bay street. On West Boundary street from New to Bay street. On New street from Lumber to West Boundary street. The new Gaskill engine at the new works having been completed sufficiently to enable its being I MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 163 placed in service, and the work of completing the new works being in progress and advancing, it is very probable that the engines at the old works may be shut down entirely in the near future; therefore there is no matters to suggest in connection with the improvement at the old works. In closing I respectfully tender my warmest thanks to your honor and the members of the board for the uniform kindness and courtesy received at all times; and also take pleasure in testifying to the good conduct of the employes of the department, in showing a willingness to respond to all calls made upon them, whether day or night or Sundays, and performing their work promptly. Very respectfully submitted by Your obedient servant, JAMES MANNING, Superintendent. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. COST OF NEW WATER WORKS TO DEC. 31, 1892. Artesian wells and connections............... Pumps and expenses......... .................... Boilers and settings.... ......... ............... Sub-work pumping station. ................. Conduit........... ....................................... Railroad track......... ........................... ... Water pipes........................................... Water pipe, hauling, laying and inspecting........................ ............................ Engineer's salary, time of hands............ Consulting engineer, traveling expenses. Jerome packing......... ............................. Temporary Buildings..... ........................ Office furniture and fixtures............. ..... Printing, stationery and telegrams......... Engineering instruments, etc.. . . ......... Foundations................................... ...... Sewers, etc.. ....................................... ... Insurance... "........................................... Toial......... ....................................... 1891. f 19,779 80 132 5<) K.4ti6 0! 14,867 79 4,179 02 2,579 31 3,15000 757 92 741 38 161 00 45000 $ 53,264 73 1892. $ 12,322 03 18,454 80 10,403 32 35,698 99 37,937 53 787 12,082 12 17,260 66 10,250 59 2,600 00 1,320 83 16 94 -1ST Art 51 80 485 53 520 (Ml 600 00 218 52 798 00 100 00 $ 161,616 93 63,264 73 $ 214,881 66 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 165 REPORT OF CLERK OF THE MARKET. OFFICE OF CLERK OF THE MARKET, SAVANNAH, GA., January, 10th, 1893. Hon. John J. McDonough, Mayor City of Savannah: SIRI have the honor to submit herewith, my report of the affairs of the Market Department for the year ending December 31st, 1892. In the beginning of the year, the roof of the Market building became very leaky and after much perseverance had the leaks all stopped; the cornices on the ventilators had rotted away, and I had them replaced by new ones. I also had new gutters put along the eaves of the upper roofs because the old ones had become useless from corrosion. The tin work on the roof, and the gutters and leaders having been all repaired, two good coats of paint are necessary to place them in good condition. The chimneys I found too low, (which evidently was an oversight on the part of the architect on the construction of the Market) which caused a continuous complaint from the tenants in the basement, on account of smoky chimneys. I had them built up so as to project slightly above the ridges of the roof, and thereby remedied the defects. 166 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. THE MARKET BASEMENT. Since the two special policemen appointed for duty in the Market basement were removed, the place is again being infested by thieves and bad characters of both sexes, who congregate in two of the restaurants kept by colored people to mature their plans for future depredations. To put a stop to this, it would be well to vacate those two rooms, and use them for other purposes. The interior of the Market I have had whitewashed and the wood work painted, and had all the drain pipes and sewers repaired, and placed in a good sanitary condition. The Committee on Market having approved of the erection of four water closets, as recommended to them and an appropriation having been '' made therefor, I will proceed with their construction as soon as practicable. : I have also the honor to submit herewith a statement of all moneys collected through this office for the year ending December 31st, 1892, and turned into the City Treasury, viz.: Total cash collected...........................$14,962.51 i,'i. Average monthly collections............... 1,246.87 ,t| Average weekly collections................... 287.73 V t I have the honor to remain, .;, Your obedient servant, to disseminate the infection broadcast along the route taken. I THE INDIGENT SICK. j The city of Savannah has always taken care of its poor in a manner that has always reflected credit on her citizens, and for years the poor sick have had gratuitous medical services furnished them by the city. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 177 In some instances the service rendered by the city has not been what it should be, but it has been more often the case that competent and conscientious physicians have been engaged by the city to do this work of chanty. During the past year the number of city physicians was increased from two to three. Some little improvement has been shown in this branch of the city's service, but it was not what it should have been. A city physician should render his services as faithfully to the poor sick as he would to his patrons who are able to remunerate him. Several hundred persons die in this city annually without receiving medical attendance, and while in many instances the fault lies with the relatives of these persons, there have been cases where they have applied for medical assistance and have died for the lack of it. An unpleasant duty was forced upon the Board of Sanitary Commissioners last year when they were called upon to investigate the conduct of Dr. T. J. Hennessy for refusing to give his services to several persons who were justly entitled to receive the same and for conduct unbecoming a physician and a gentleman. After a fair and impartial investigation the charges against Dr. Hennessy were sustained and upon the recommendation of the Board to City Council he was dismissed from the service of the city. When the city employs physicians of undoubted competency and character, many persons worthy of receiving of free medical service will apply for the same who have hitherto been afraid to do so. Many complaints have been made against the service rendered by the City Dispensary, these 12 t tI ! 178 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. complaints coming from physicians and from those persons who have applied for medicines there. The experiment of having several contract drug stores has been suggested and will probably be tried in a few months. Under certain conditions this plan would be an improvement over the City Dispensary. The city should be careful in accepting the cheap bids that will be offered and it would be an unwise thing to accept bids that would be based upon the idea that anything would do for a charity prescription. There is no class of people who should have their drugs more carefully prepared than the dependent class. There will be bids sent in, when bids are asked for, on precisely this basis. i There is a subject that I would bring to your i attention that should receive your attention, and that of all persons interested in the welfare of the negro race, and that is the necessity of securing the means to enlarge and better equip the Georgia Infirmary, an institution that has sheltered many sick negroes, but one that has never been able, on account of the lack of funds, to keep the building in good repair, and to properly equip it for the purpose for which it is used. Some provision should also be made for the care of insane persons before the proper course in law has been passed to send them to the State Lunatic Asylum. Often insane persons are kept for weeks at the Police Barracks or County Jail, and in neither place are there suitable quarters for them. SANITARY INSPECTION. We still have but two sanitary inspectors employed during the entire year, and I would again MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 179 call your attention to the fact that a city needs sanitary care as much during the winter as it does during the summer. The three additional inspectors are employed on May 1st, and after several weeks of drilling, they become useful men, and in a few months the city begins to show evidence of their work, when they are discharged, and all that we gain in the summer time is lost during the winter. We have, in proportion to our population, the worse class of negroes to look after than any city I have ever visited. LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY. This is not the first time that I have mentioned the fact that this cemetery should be abandoned in the near future, and as that time is still nearer since my last report, I would more persistently bring the matter to your attention. There are not a dozen lots, suitable for the reception of bodies, left in this burial place. The city is advancing around and beyond it all the time, and its presence cannot but be of danger to the health of our people. There are forty-eight vaults built above the ground, and there are nearly half as many below the surface of the earth, and in these vaults are several hundred bodies in the different stages of decomposition. Nearly all of these bodies are supposed to be buried in airtight caskets, and for a reasonable length of time they are, but I have seen more than one that was defective, and the stench emanating from them was unbearable. In connection with this matter, I would for the first time publicly call your attention to the ne- ISO MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. I cessity of disposing of our dead by a process more t effectual than interment, and a process that will II be practiced sooner or later. f! I refer to destruction of bodies by cremation. I \ It is a duty we owe to the living and is the proper I ' disposition of all waste matter, and that a body becomes after death. I do not expect this recommendation to receive the approbation of but few persons, as all reforms | are not accepted by the general public, where '. sentiment and a long established custom is to be broken down. At first it will be the bodies of those who have no relatives or friends to claim them and this is I the way to inaugurate this necessary measure. It < will be urged that the horror of the process will ) make it impossible to be accepted, .f Between the rapid oxidization of fire and the slow oxidization of decomposition the thinking I men must prefer the former. j If it is necessary to have a special law for the I introduction of this process I would urge the r enactment of such a law at an early date. At least two hundred bodies would be available everv" year in this city and it would be but a matter of a few years when other cities would imitate our example and one of the grandest sanitary reforms of this century would be assured of success. WATER WAYS AND DRAINAGE. The Bilbo Canal is still with us and is still a source of annoyance and requires regular deodorization during the summer months. Mr. Carmichael, Superintendant of Drainage, has placed an ingenious contrivance in this water way which MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 181 effectually flushes the filth at stated intervals, and foecal matter formerly gaining lodgment on the sides and bars, that formed in the bed of the canal, is swept out of the canal into the river. The Ogeechee Canal has been a constant menace to the health of the city, and from neglect and by an accident at its feeder, Gould's Pond, the summit and middle level had no supply of water until the city, through the courtesy of Alderman W. GCann, Chairman of the Water Committee, turned into the middle level the supply of one of their twelve-inch wells. This well kept the middle level fairly well supplied with water, but'as the well has been connected with the conduit to the new water works, some steps should be taken to obtain a supply for this middle level of the canal. The Central Railroad authorities have been asked to look after this piece of property belonging to them, but have shown no desire to comply with that request. The canal is not used, nor has it been, except that part of the river level below the railroad bridges for some time, and the middle level is in many places choked up with vegetation that has accummulated for years. The lower, or river level, above the wharves on the western side of the canal, is in a bad sanitary condition and also contains vegetation that has grown up and died each year until the bed of the canal is choked up in some places with the vegetable matter. In other words that part of the canal, about five hundred yards in length, that is of service to the Central Railroad has been kept in good condition 182 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. and the rest of the water way is left to care for i itself. | If something is not done to remedy the evils j enumerated above this canal will be a source of ( danger to this community, from which will spring [ many cases of malarial fever. The Vale Royal tract of land, which is owned also by the Central Railroad, has not been thor- ' oughly drained, and the same indifference on the part of the Central Railroad Company about the canal is displayed in reference to the drainage of t this tract of land. The County Commissioners ! have v ad their hands full in looking after the drainage of the lands outside of the city limits. Certainly their work for years has been productive of much benefit to the city and the surrounding country, although that board has not escaped the censure of those who think they could have done better. Your Health Officer was sent by the city to the City of Mexico to attend the meeting of the American Public Health Association. This association is composed principally of health officials of the United States, Canada, and of our sister republic, I Mexico. j| Many interesting papers touching matters inter- esting to those who have followed the study of hygiene and sanitation are read at these meetings. The discussions following these papers are instructive and are indulged in by the most eminent men of this continent. I would here mention the most '. important subject, at least to us, that was brought up for discussion. I refer to the control of all maritime quarantine stations by the National Gov- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 183 ernment. This topic being one that interested only those from the .United States was treated by the representatives from our country. Believing that our board favored the control of these stations by the National Government, and having seen, in my eleven years' of experience in quarantine matters, the inability of local boards of health to properly equip their stations, I gave my support to this movement. The bill of Senator Harris, of Tennessee, calls for this measure, and if put into active force will become the most useful law that Congress has ever passed for the protection of our sea coast. Certai nly the South Atlantic coast will be benefited by such a law, for it is obvious that while Charleston and Savannah are able to equip their quarantine stations with the proper appliances for the care of vessels the smaller ports are unable to do so. Last November the city of Brunswick prepared through its officials a bill for a State Board of Health, the purpose of which was to obtain the desired equipment for its quarantine station that it was unable to provide. That the Legislature of this State would furnish such an equipment is not to be believed for a moment; this I know, having been in Atlanta about the time this bill was brought up, and its passage, on account of its requiring money, was impossible. TOTAL MORTALITY. The total mortality from natural causes during the year 1892 was 1,302. Of this number 468 were whites and 834 were negroes. Basing our population at 45,000, composed of 25,000 whites and 20,000 negroes, the annual ratio 184 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. per thousand was whites 18.72, negroes 41.70; both whites and negroes 28.93. The estimate of our population is based on an increase of 2,000 since the year 1890, wheu, according to the United States census, Savannah had 43,000 people. Go back ten and twenty years and you will note the decreased mortality, particularly i among the whites: ; Population. No. of Deaths. Ratio per 1,000. I Year. Whites. Negroes. Whites. Negroes. Whites. NCR'S. 1 187315,406 13,649 519 636 33.4 46.5 ' 188218,000 15,000 375 740 20.8 49.3 j 189225,000 20,000 468 834 18.72 41.7 The statistics for the years 1873 and 1882 are ; not correct, as there were many deaths that were ' never recorded. At that time no record was ever : kept of bodies that were shipped away from the city for interment at some other point. Only such burials as took place in one of the local ; cemeteries were recorded. QUARANTINE. The work at the station has been steadily increasing and from the report of the Quarantine officer it will be seen that the past year has not been an exception to the rule. i The three upper wharves are not in good repair and while vessels have no trouble in discharging ballast the wharves will soon be unsafe. I On account of the distance of these wharves from the main station I would not advise the repairs necessary to put them in a good condition. When they were built it was only with the idea of using them until a permanent site could be ] obtained. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 186 The lower wharves are in a better condition, the pilings being creosoted, have stood the attacks of the teredo well, but the timbers used to brace the structure are badly eaten by these worms and should be renewed inside of twelve months. All the other property at the station is in good order, the engines used for hoisting ballast having been run continuously with but trifling repairs. The steam tug has been in constant use and just what we would do without her is a question that hardly could be answered. Dr. J. G. Keller resigned his position as Quarantine officer and was succeeded by Dr. J. H. Huger, who was also retired from the position. Finding that it was necessary to increase the salary of the Quarantine officer from f 1,200 to $2,000 in order that we could get an able man to fill the position, I recommended to the increase of salary, the appointment subject to a competitive examination. Drs. J. H. White and C. N Brandt were appointed by you to serve with me as an examining board to prepare and conduct the examination. Feeling that it was necessary to do every thing in our power to obtain candidates from all sections of the country to enter into this competition I secured the services of Dr. James Newcomb of New York, and Surgeon Tassaway of the Marine Hospital Service at New Orleans, to handle the examination in those two cities. These gentlemen posted the notice of the examination in the different hospitals of their respective cities and kindly conducted the examination for us. Dr. Joseph B. Graham, who was examined at New York, having passed the most success- t 186 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. fill examination out of twelve candidates received the appointment, and his work since taking charge of the station shows that he won the place by merit. I would here mention that this departure from the usual method of filling this office, has attracted universally favorable comment by the medical press; in many instances the examination | papers were published and editorials were published advocating our method of securing a Quarantine officer. . Dr. Graham needs no commendation from me, his work is well known to you and to every one else with whom he has come in contact. During the month of August when cholera infected vessels began to arrive in New York harbor it became necessary for us to take such steps to guard against the approach of the disease as we thought advisable. An inspection was placed on all vessels coming from New York, and Dr. M. T. Davis was appointed as an Acting Quarantine officer to board and inspect all vessels arriving from that port while the Quarantine officer, at that time, Dr. Huger, looked after the disinfection and discharging of ballast. The passenger steamships of the Ocean Steamship Company were stopped on two occasions by Dr. Davis for consultation with the Health officer as to the nature of several cases of sickness found on board. I would say here that this was in accordance with instructions from the Board of Sanitary Commissioners. Dr. Davis being compelled to return to the city was relieved by Dr. C. N. Brnndt, who served as the Boarding officer for thirty days. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 187 In order that we might be able to meet any emergency, we secured through Captain O. M. Carter of the U. S. Army, the use of Fort Pulaski as a camp of detention for suspects arriving on cholera infected vessels that might arrive, and the Fort was put in a fairly good sanitary condition for the purpose. The enclosed casemates were cleaned out and rubbish and undergrowth were removed from the parade ground of the Fort at the expense of nearly one thousand dollars. Surgeon-General Walter Wyrnan of the Marine Hospital Service, was asked to equip and take charge of this camp of detention and he detailed Past Assistant Surgeon J. H. White for this duty, and that officer soon had every thing in shape to receive and accommodate several hundred persons within the Fort. This equipment is still stored there and the camp stands ready to be opened at a moment's notice should anything like cholera develop on any vessel bound to this port. The old Quarantine station situated on the Oyster Bed Shoal, was put in a good condition to be used as a Lazaretto and can accommodate twenty persons. This building is also ready to be used at any time. Feeling that the time had arrived when our Quarantine station should be equipped with all the modern apparatus for fumigation and disinfection known to the sanitary world, our authorities paid visits to the Quarantine stations at Charleston, New Orleans and Pensacola. The different officials gave us every opportunity to see the workings of the different plants and we f. 188 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. were treated with every courtesy every where. It is rny opinion that the New Orleans furnace for the combustion of sulphur is the best one yet constructed, and while this one does not clearly give 3rou the exact percentage of gas desired it comes nearer to it than any other. The super-heating chambers at Pensacola and Charleston certainly are models for us to follow, their construction being similar It is high time for us to commence this work in I order that by the beginning of the summer our plant can be placed in operation. We have been told by Captain Carter, who is in charge of the harbor improvements, that part of our property will come within the harbor lines * and will be removed within several years. It would be well for us to take this matter under consideration before locating the sight for our disinfection plant. The Board of Sanitary Commissioners has met regularly during the year and has often been called together for special meetings. This board was made up of the following persons: Mayor McDonough. Aldermen Myers and Harris, Messrs. Wheaton, Saussy and Sheldon, and the Health Officer. For your official acts of kindness I am deeply grateful. Very respectfully, W. F. BRUNNER, Health Officer. Deaths from Ylolence, Still and Prematnre Births, and Deaths Wlthont Physician In Attendance. CAUSES OF DEATH. Accident" Burns and Scalds........................................... Drowning..................... ................. ............... Fracture of Limbs......... .................. ............... Gun Shot Wounds...... .................................... Internal Injuries............................................ Suffocation... .......................................... ........ Poisoning...................................................... Homicide Gun Shot Wounds......................................... Incised Wounds............................... ............. Legal Hanging............................................... Suicide Poisoning...................................................... Gun Shot Wounds......................................... Total....... .............................................. ... Still Births.......... .................................... ...... Premature Births ......................... ............... Deaths without Physician.............................. b a A. W 0 2 2 2 1 1 1 3 14 4 13 i w 1 1 1 3 4 2 1 C 1 1 1 5 9 2 IB J W 0 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 6 17 w 1 1 2 "i i C 1 1 16 1 19 W 1 1 2 2 3 1 ) C 1 1 6 25 c 3 AV O 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 13 10 "3 w c 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 4 16 4 10 a 1 W C i, 2 I 2 1 1 12 1 15 1 _1September. 1 1 4 6 1 5 ... 11 19 1 -1 October. 1 |0 1 3 3 5 ? 1 1 4 9 3 Ifi -5. November. 0 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 9 3 2fi ft-4 S w c 2 1 1 4 g V, 1 3 6 13 1 20 1 w c 6 4 1 6 3 1 7 3 31 21 32 9 4 5 3 2 3 1 1 11 S 33 Total. Grand 4 11 7 3 9 1 4 12 3 3 64 133- 154 20: 52 2081 217 K S o cc <=S > F ANNUAL REPORT OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES IN THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GA., FOR THE YEAR 1892 S CAUSES OF DEATH. Abscess, Pelvic ..................................................... Alcoholism........................................................... Anwm\*. .............................................................. Anethrax............................... ............................... Apoplexy,.,,....,.. ,...........,....,............,....,.....,. Appendeoltls......................................................... Asthenia .............................................................. Asthma...... ............................... .......................... Abortion... .......................... ...... ........................... Angina Pectorls .................................................. Aorta, Aneurism of............................................... Ascites.. ........ ........................................................ Bowels, Hemorrhage of......................................... Bowels, Intussusception of.......... ........................ Bowels, Tuberculosis of......................................... Briifht's Disease..................................... . .......... Brain, Congestion of............................................. Brain, Inflammation of......................................... Brain, Tumor of ........... ...................................... Bronchitis............................................................ Bronchitis, Capillary ............................................ i! w 1 1 1 1 * i c 9, I i 1 i i w 11 1 *> i * ^ > n 0 1 8 ? 1 J 1 h W 1 fj 1 3 ) \ 0 1 1 ? 9 " w 1 i c 0 1 2 1 8 5 1 W 1 1 f c 1 1 s ( ! h W 9 1 1 C 1 s 9 ? 1 f W ? 8 1 1 i> 3 C 1 1 8 ? 1 ^ I < w 1 1 1 s 0 ? 0 1 1 ? . c w 1 ... 1 8 8 1 1 8 2 r 0 1 s 1 1 4 w 1 1 H J ) 0 1 9, 1 8 ' * W 1 1 1 4 S i 5 5 c 1 1 1 1 ?, ?, 8 ' C w 9, i I c 1 l 1 9, 1 1 tf w 1 11 1 ,H 1 1 ?, 9, 1 1?! 17 9, 3 4 3 3 > c 5 1 9, 1 1 1 7 ?, 1 IS 11 1 yo 9 o *9 CQ > 1?! *o O SI Broncho-Pneumonia........... .................................. Caucer........ ........................................................ Cancer of Rectum.. .......... .................................... Cancer of Throat...... ............................................. Cancer of Uterus............... ............................. ....... Child Birth............ .............................................. Cholera Infantum ................................................ Cholera Morbus.............. .............................. ......... Climacteria........ ............................................. ... Convulsions.. ........................................................ Convulsions, Puerperal ............................. ........... Croup................................................... ................ Croup, Membranous... .......................................... Dementia.............................................................. Diarrhoea, Chronic................................................ Diphtheria....... ............................................... ...... Dropny.... .......................... ................... ................. Endo-Cardltis ...................................................... Enteritis............. ......................................... ......... Entero-Colitis.. ..................................................... Epilepsey.................................. ............................ Erysipelas.............................. ................. ........... Fever, Malaiial Congestive.................................... Fever, Gastric ...................................................... Fever, Hemorrhaglc.......... ................................... Fever, Remittent ............. . .................................. Fever, Typho-Malarial......... .................. ............... Fever, Puerperal................................................... Fever, Scailet.. ..................................................... Fever, Typhoid..................................................... Fistula in AUG.... ........ .......................................... 11198 111111 111111 -11111 9, 11 11 11 9,191911 1115111 1 01 9, 11111 3111?111189 9, 9, c[11191189 9, 1118131 9, 9, 9, 1 11 9. 4a2111 111 ,8K?2 1 ?, 171151111 ...11 ...1199111 14 ...q1911 11111114 i) 115511 9! 111 9, 91 11 9, 1211 9, 13 ?,183 ft 9, 11111 9, 9, 3111 9, 9, 3 9, f>\135 9, 1143 31111?4 fi 12111141 11 9, 9, 9, 1 9: fi 9, 17H 181319 113 fi11 n5 9, 18 21 4 ft3 1411 31 ?, 3 9. 801 flo1 18 155H 19i>4 9. 3 112 to d > 9 H*e Os ANNUAL REPOET OF DEATHSContinued. > ! 1 C ?, fi j '< j W 1 11 4 9. ft 3 i n O 9, 1 1 b ft W 1 1 1 1 3 j I C 1 1 1 1 4 w 1 1 1 1 I C 1 1 1 t jj w y 1 ? c 51 i h W 1 1 1 i 3 > C 9, 9: 1 h W 1 ?! 1 1 1 >> t 0 9, 9: 1 1 * 4 W (> 1 1 1 1 ^ Q A 3 0 1 ' c w 1 1 1 j i r c 1 1 91 " w 4 1 1 20I i [ 0 1 1 8 i W 1 1 1 2 S - 5 c 9, 1 1 1 ' w 1 1 1 I [ c 1 1 1 8 1 p " W 3 3 1 10 7 7 8 1 1 11 1 1 3 13 1 1 H O 2 R a 17 1 a ?, \ r 5? IS 4 6o ffi Lungs, Oedema of ....... .,...,.......,...........................'... Lupus................................ ..................................... sMalaria. ........................... ... .............................. ... Malnutrition. ........................................................ Marasmus ............................................................ Meningitis........... ....... ................... ....................... Meningitis, Oerebo-Spinal ................................... Miscarriage.. ......................................................... Myo-Uarditis ........................................................ Navel, Hemorrhage of ...................... ................. Nervous Prostration ................................. ........... Nephritis .................................................... ......... Old Age....... ......................................................... "Pftrnlvftis Paralysis, Hemiplegia .................... ..................... Pemphigus............................................................ Peritonitis......... ................................................... Peritonitis, Puerperal................................... ......... Phthisis Pulmonaris................................... .......... Pneumonia.....................................................'...... "pi(iiiiHT T^vfotyiin. Pylorus, Ulcer of................................ ,t.. ............... Pachitis .. ............................................................ Rheumatism......................................................... Scrofula................................................................ SeptictBmla........................................................... Stomatitis............................. .............................. Syphilis ........... .................................. ................ Tubes Dorsalli............... ....................................... 1 1 1 8 4 3 1 ... 1 I 1 6 8 1 20 0 1 1 1 1 6 3 1 .......I .1. ..'... ... 1 2 1 ?, 2 12 12 1 1 1 1 3 1 6 4 1 1 1 2 10 7 2 i 1 i i x \ 1 ... 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 8 3 ... 2 1 3 ... 2 2'... 6 1 1 2 1 1 7 2 1 2 3 V, 1 3 2 3 V 1 1 4 1 1 5 4 1 1 i 2 2 2 ... 1 5 1 1 2 2 11 ll 3 ?, 12 1 1 ...'.. .'...i......i 1 i "i 4 i i i j i 2 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 10 1 1 I 2 2 1 2 I 11 ... 2 1} 9, 3 1 1 6 7 4 2 3 I 8 ! 1 1 11 1 410 2' 7 1 1 1 2 "i i i 6 6 ... 1 1 2 2 3 13 6 111 1 1 1 1 1 12 16 1 1 2 6 18 15 2 2 27 6 1 1 1 1 7 31 1 11 2'..... 7 45 20 2 6 1 114 62 11 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 4 1 9 2 5 OQ ANNUAL REPORT OF DEATHSContinued. O CAUSES OF DEATH. * Teething.......................... .................................... Thrush...................................................... .......... Tetanus................................................................. Toxicmia............................ ............ .................... TrismusNascentlum................ .............. . .......... Ulcers .................................................................. Undefined ............................................................ Urremia. .............................................................. Uterus, Ruptured.................... .............................. Uterus, Hemorrbagie............. .............................. Whooping Cough..,.........,,,.,.., ............................. Total .............. ............................. .............. 1 January. - " 39 1 6 01 February. 31 ?, 11 1 a w c 1 1 'C w c i , 10 ... | . 1 1 8 10 1 ' i I 673061 I 2500 | W O 1 1 39 3 1 1 E ajfl >-! W O 20 1 79 2 1) 4il fl 1 11 73 >. i ^ W ... ? 3 5 C 4 7 4074 OQ a tc W (1 1 1 81 8 8 10 51 September, I0 2 38 October. io 1 1 ll 13 2 . i i or.4S ! November. 1 IQ 2 VI 1 15 ^ 74 2 58 1 1 8 19 b J5 S w o 8 1 2 2 11 1 99'43'69 _l_ W 1 C 1 2 1 2 14 1 2 46S 17 a 3 22 2 143 2 1 1 3 834 fe o SO OJ 12! I 2 s METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 3"l, 1892, OF SAVANNAH, GA., LATITUDE 82 G', LONGITUDE 81 5', MONTH. Jnnuary....... February...... March.......... April............ May............. June............ July............. August......... beptember.... October........ November..... December..... MEAN PRESSURE. (Corrected fur Temperature and Instrumental Error only.) Elevation of Surface of Mercury in Ilnrometer Cistern above Mean Sea-Level on December 31. 1892, 98 feet. +3 H 30.05 80.04 29.99 30.06 2.98 29.97 30.05 29.96 30.00 30.00 30.07 30.03 .Mean 30.02 a o> 01 J3 *6 a 30.35 30.44 30.28 30.29 3(1.28 30.15 30.24 30. (19 30.16 30.2 30,30 30.36 Highest 30.44 a P 16 17 21 27 1 I 7 8 24 81 21 II Date Feb. 17 o I 29.46 29.60 29.38 29.64 29.64 29.74 29.90 29.83 29.73 29.74. 29.78 29.63 Lowest 29.38 I 6 11 8 7 22 10 23 13 13 8 4 20 Date Mar. 8 8> i 0.89 0.84 0.90 0.64 0.64 0.41 0.34 0.26 0.43 0.53 0.52 0.74 Menu O.GO c g o S 47.6 54.4 56.2 65.5 72.8 77.6 80.3 81.2 75.0 06.1 57.0 53.3 Mean 65.6 FROM SEIjF-J?F.GISTERING INSTRUMENTS. (Set daily at 8 a. m. and 8 p. in., 75 Meridian Time.) Thermometer Bulbs above Qronnd on December 31, 1892, 63 feet. 72 75 83 85 91 96 97 96 90 85 82 77 Max. 97 I Q 19 15 81 18 27 24 2 31 26 8 4 14 Date July 29 28 32 27. 42 51 65 65 70 59 40 80 25 Min. 25 4 13 11) 10 24 12 8 4 28 26 25 2S Date Dec. 5:8 01 o I < 44 43 56 43 40 31 82 26 31 45 52 62 Mean 41 a i 71 76 72 76 72 83 84 82 85 82 75 84 M'n 78 MONTH. X-i "i January...... February.... March. ....... April.......... May............ June........... July..........., August...... September. October....... November.. December.., 5.4 6.9 4.4 5.2 4.5 6.0 5.8 6.0 6.7 3.9 3.2 5.3 Sums...... Means..... 5.2 PKECI PITATION. (In inches and hundredths.) Elevation of Top of Gauge Above Ground on December 31, 1892, 65 feet. Any consecutive 24 hours. 2.49 131 4.12 0.16 2.17 6.00 0.37 336 10.95 1.12 1.80 3.17 42.52 0.69 1 10 3.06 0.11 1.51 1.39 2.08 0.89 3.18 0.61 0.69 1.01 a Q 14-15 8-9 25-26 11-12 10-11 7-8 17-18 15-16 11-12 2H-24 14-15 16-17 WIND. a w a I J_ 6409- 6964 6228 6448 6594 5395 5155 4643 5765 5443 5128 5169 68341 Maximum Hourly Velocity During Month. 32 80 27 26 27 25 24 28 28 20 28 29 W. N. W. N. W. s. w. E. 8. W. E. E. N. E. N. W. S. a P 2 12 18 7 9 30 4 15 30 13 10 20 fcr s N. W. N. E. N. W. S. S. S. S. S. W. N. E. N. E. N.W. N. W. Preying direct'n S. NUMBER OF DAYS. lu 7 32 8 10 1 4 0 1 13 14 8 88 f o 3 8 12 II 13 17 21 21 25 22 14 15 14 193 13 10 8 9 4 8 6 6 7 4 1 y 85 1 11 9 7 6 6 15 17 19 15 4 7 9 125 a I'5 5 4 0 I o 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 11 0 0 0 0 1 C 12 16 0 0 0 0 35 09 C fc. o OQ fc. II o a 3 JH 0 1 1 1 3. 1 9 14 6 0 (I 0 36 n 2 2 Observations are taken at 8 a. m. and 8 p. m. (75th Meridian Time.) Location of office on December 81,1892The Savannah Board of Trade Building, 103 Bay street, Fourth Floor, room 29. P. H. SMYTH, Observer, U. S. Weather Bureau, in charge. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 165 REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ODORLESS EXCAVATING MACHINE. SAVANNAH, GA., January 2d, 1893. Hon. J. J. McDonough, Mayor: SIRI have the honor to transmit herewith my report as Superintendent of the Odorless Excavating Machine Department from January 1st, 1892, to December 31st, 1892. The number of vaults cleaned from January 1st, 1892 to December 31st, 1892, were twelve hundred and seventy-two (1,272). The following amount of matter has been removed from the above mentioned vaults for the year ending December 31st, 1892, 95,535 cubic feet. The following number of vaults have been abandoned and sewer connection made142. The vaults had to be cleaned, disinfected and filled free of cost to owners, at a cost to the cit}' of nine dollars and seventy-five cents ($9.75) per vault. The department had to haul 17,424 cubic feet of sand to fill the above vaults. The expenses of the department for the year have been as follows: Salary of Superintendent....................! 1,200.00 Salary of Assistant................... ........ 68.34 Time of hands........................ ........ 6,673.06 Bepairs, harness, shoeing, wagons, etc... 583.06 1O6 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Forage for sto<;k............................... 1,840.14 Lime, cement, sand and brick.............. 79.80 Hire of extra teams...... ................. 1,415.00 Charcoal, nails, tools, etc.................... 104.30 Purchase of one mule........................ 180.00 " barrels............................. 73.00 Medical treatment to stock ................. 63.28 Order books..................................... 4.80 $12,284.78 Against which was collected for cleaning and repairing vaults: City Treasurer ..................$4,382.40 City Marshal .................... 219.87 To be collected by the City Treasurer.....................".. 300.00 To be collected by City Marshal ............................. 597.73 $5,500.00 Net cost of department for the year......$6,784.78 There has been one team and hands detailed regularly to look after the sanitary condition of Bilbo canal and the Perry lane sewer outlet and disinfect the suiroundings from April 1st to November 1st. To disinfect the above I have used twenty-four hundred (2,400) pounds of copperas every week, in connection with other disinfectants. All of the privy vaults in the city have been disinfected regularly, from April 1st to November 1st, by two single wagons and four men, which enabled them to disinfect every vault once every two weeks. The early part of the season they used corrosive sublimate, and the latter part copperas and acid. There has been one team and two men employed in the service of Dr, Brunner MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 197 in removing infected goods from different parts of the city, and also fumigating houses. They have been employed in that manner for over ninety days. During the summer both men and teams of the department were detailed to assist the street and lane department in cleaning Barnard street sewer. In accordance with orders from your honor, I employed a force of men and had all the weeds cut and removed from private and public lots in the city. Your obedient servant, W. J. CLEARY, Superintendent. 108 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF CREMATORIES. SAVANNAH, January 2d, '93.- Honorable J. J. McDonongh, Mayor: SIRI have the honor to transmit my report as Superintendent of Crematories from January 1st, 1892, to December 31st, 1892. There was hauled during the year: 17,204 loads garbage, 45,844 cub. yds. 611 loads night soil, 3,675 cub. yds. 56 cows. 62 horses. 43 goats. 700 dogs. 1,217 cats. 97 barrels fish. 19,607 pounds meat. 8,123 head poultry. 83 barrels onions. 8 loads oranges. 37 loads bananas. 43 barrels apples. 367 pieces infected goods. 18 loads potatoes. 2 loads peaches. 1 load pineapples. 2 barrels tongues. 21 loads cocoanuts. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 199 18 loads peanuts. 2,090 dozen eggs. 7 head snakes. 2 head monkeys. 1 head rabbits. 1 head sheep. 1 head deer. The average amount burnt daily for three hundred and sixty-one days, 140.49 cub. yards. The average loads hauled daily for three hundred and sixty-one days, 49.34. The expense for running the furnaces from January 1st to December 31st, 1892, have been as follows: Time of hands..................... .............$3,803 00 Fuel.............. ................................ 2,213 71 Tools, oil,etc.................................... 26 60 Insurance......................................... 30 00 Lumber, cement and brick.................. 179 64 Nails, shovels, etc.............................. 149 87 Printing and stationery....................... 10 80 Blacksmith work.............................. 468 98 Repairing roof..................... ............. 5 00 Repairing water pipe.......................... 5 25 Total......................................16,892 85 The average cost per cubic yard for burning garbage and night soil to date is thirteen ninetenths (13.90) cents. This calculation is based on garbage and night soil, the animals and other matter are not included. It includes everything in connection with the furnaces, such as repairs and permanent improvemenis for the twelve months. The furnaces 200 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. have been working very satisfactorily this year. I have a competent man employed, who understands the working of the furnaces, which you will notice by the difference in cost of last year and this year; the showing is a great deal better. I beg to again call your attention to the garbage; it comes to the furnace in very bad condition; there is no separation of sand, ashes and manure from the garbage proper; it is in the same condition that it was two years ago. Your obedient servant, W. J. CLEARY, Superintendent. MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. 2O1 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT SCAVENGER DEPARTMENT. SAVANNAH, GA., Feb'y 1st, 1893. Honorable J. J. McDonough, Mayor : DEAR SIRBelow find statement of expenses of Scavenger department for year 1892. Time of hands...... ..........................$12,443.73 Feeding stock ................................... 4,002.41 Stock bought, 6 head......................... 1,175.00 Repair bills to wagons, tools, etc........... 1,248.49 Superintendent's salary for year........... 1,200.00 Rentof lot for year..."........................ 600.00 Shoeing stock............................. ..... 639.79 New wagons bought (3)..................... 300.00 Harnessand repairs........................... 317.65 Tools, etc .................................. . ..... 85.97 Medicines and veterinary's bills............ 114.35 Hire of extra teams ........................... 47.50 Oil, grease, lime, etc........................... 35.54 Sundry articles................................. 17.75 $22,828.18 Stock on hand January 1st, 1892............41 head. Bought during year 1892.... ................ 6 " Total .......................................47 " Died from lock-jaw ............................. 2 " On hand January 1st, 1893...................45 " 2O2 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. Wagons on hand January 1st, 1892..................22 Ne%v ones bought......................................... 3 25 Condemned as unfit for use........................... 4 On hand January 1st, 1893 ...........................21 REMARKS. You will notice the expenses of the department are considerably inside the appropriation and less than they were in 1891, although the amount of work done considerably more, aggregating twentyseven thousand loads. This amount of work could not have been accomplished with the force at hand, had it not been for the near haul to the crematory, although there were times when we could not send all there, on account of burning so much night soil. Still it was a very great assistance, and saving to the department. The expense of repairs to wagons alone is about f600 less than they were in 1891, to say nothing of the improved condition of the stock. I hope at an early day to see another crematory on the eastern side of the city sufficient!}' large for the two to consume the entire accumulation of garbage and night soil. At no time during the year did I run over twenty-one wagons and very often only nineteen. This number will not be sufficient to meet the demands this year. The city is growing, quite an area has been built up south of Anderson street already, and the indications are that still greater improvements will be seen later on. I have only been able to send wagons to that portion twice a week, MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 2O3 which is not sufficient. Then see the improvements that have been made and are still going on east of the S., F. & W. Railroad. Six months ago I didn't send there at all; now wagons have to go twice a week. In the city proper note the number of houses that have been erected and are still going up, all of which call for attention. Then too, the appearance of cholera in Europe the past year has aroused an anxious and uneasy feeling for the health of this country and there will be a general desire to keep things clean and garbage promptly removed. Therefore the force of the department will have to be increased, and I don't think twenty-five teams will be any too many to do the work as it should be done. This calls for the purchase of four more wagons and ten head of mules. Not that the full twentyfive teams will be required at once, but that they may be on hand and added as needed. Respectfully submitted, E. E. CHEATHAM. Supt, 2O4 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OF CITY PHYSICIAN. MIDDLE DIVISION. SAVANXAH, GA., January 1st. 1893. Hon. J. J. McDonough, Mayor City of Savannah: DEAR SIRI have the honor to submit to you, herewith, my report for the year ending December 31st, 1892. During this period 1 have recorded 4,126 names, representing about 2,000 individual patients, of whom about sixty per cent, were attended at their homes. The rate of mortality among my patients shows an increase over that of the previous year, being about 2 per cent, of individual patients seen. Of the forty-two deaths recorded, twenty-seven, or nearly two-thirds, occurred during the latter half of the year. The deaths were due to the following causes: Dysentery................. ................................. 2 Entero-colitis ............................................. 4 Fever, congestive......................................... 1 Fever, malarial .......................................... 5 Fever, typo-malarial..................................... 2 Fever, typhoid............................................ 1 Heart disease.............................................. 2 Heart failure ............................................ 1 Laryngeal stenosis....................................... 1 Meningitis, cerebral.......................... ........... 1 Marasmus.................................................. 3 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 2O6 Nephritis................................................... 2 Old age.............. ............................... ...... 2 Peri ton itis.................................................. 1 Phthisis...................................................... 5 Pneumonia................................................ 3 Undefined............................................ ...... 6 Total................................................42 I have issued during the year, 285 permits to the various hospitals, viz: 90 to the Savannah Hospital, 98 to St. Joseph's Infirmary and 97 to the Georgia Infirmary. Extreme difficulty is often experienced in prevailing upon the negroes to avail themselves of the advantages offered by hospital treatment. I would suggest that the city physician be invested with more power to act in cases where hospital service is imperatively required, and obstinate opposition is encountered. The timely removal of patients from squalid and filthy surroundings to comfortable hospital quarters, would exert a marked influence on the course of disease, and result in an appreciable reduction of mortality. 206 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. SCHEDULE OP PATIENTS ATTENDED DURING 1892. MONTH Jan'y..... Feb'y. March.... April ..... May..... June...... Julv...... August.... Sept'r..... Oct'r ...... Nov'r..... Dec'r..... Total... 0 c 1 459 345 198 314 291 277 321 247 305 180 501 678 o o c " EH 103 84 102 82 98 94 97 97 119 53 102 98 1,129 CDr0) "5 ft 3.32 2.71 3.29 2.64 3.16 3.03 3.12 3.12 3.83 1.71 3.29 3.16 2.95 OQ 1 ft 3 1 2 C 7 2 5 3 6 4 7 2 42 CO 'a, 1 8 W o e CD 02 36 20 22 17 16 25 19 15 29 22 36 28 285 Most respectfully, WM. E. GOMM, City Physician, Middle Division. [On account of changes made in city physicians, reports were not made by incumbents of 1st and 3rd divisions for 1892.] MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 2O7 REPORT OF KEEPER LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY. SAVANNAH. GA., December 31st, 1891. Hon. J. J. McDonough, Mayor : DEAR SIRIn accordance with the regulation of the ordinances I herewith submit the following annual report for the year ending December 31st, 1892. The cemetery is in good condition except the fences which are in need of repairs, but owing to the planting of the osage orange hedge fence, I think it useless to make any repairs. During the year I have sold forty-four lots in white cemetery, twenty-five lots in colored cemetery. Collections are as follows : For sale of lots, white.........................$ 899.50 For sale of lots, colored ....................... 250.00 For burial fee.................................... L909.00 For sealing vaults............................... 2.50 $3,061.00 EXPENSES. Paid salary of Keeper.................... ....$ 999.96 Paid salary of Detective ...................... 425.84 Paid for pumps and repairs .................. 42.25 Paid for materials, tools, whitewashing and fencing..................................... 536.90 Paid time of hands............................. 5,410.02 Total......................................... .$7,414.97 208 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Number of interments at the city's expense: Whites from city ............................... 22 Whites from hospital.. ..................... 2244 Colored from city ..............................129 Colored from infirmary....... ................104233 Total.................................................277 Number of interments in Laurel Grove Cemetery and Colored Cemetery from January 1st, 1892, to January 1st, 1893 : MONTHS. January.... Februarv ... * March ...... Aoril . . May ......... / June......... July/ August ..... September.. October..... NovemberDecember... Total WHITE. m ^^ . 1 ( 0 0 ( 1 TO Is Q 21 22 17 12 25 21 18 13 27 24 34 31 265 _P " o ~ Sts o c ^ 5 "*^ 02 2 4 2 3 4 3 4 3 2 4 1 32 1 S sHO> .^ S HH S iT* /""S W 3 2 3 4 5 6 3 5 2 9 4 9 55 a '"S H 26 28 22 19 34 30 25 21 31 37 39 40 352 COLORED. >~> O , ]j 03 ~ci O p 57 64 62 54 72 70 77 48 58 73 81 67 783 5 C5 g fl ^ ^^3 ^g "~| " CO 16 8 7 16 6 12 19 12 13 11 12 14 146 o5 4-^ I-H S s 5-, O> -<-> t-, 03 ^3 4-> O 5 2 3 11 12 5 6 8 4 6 9 2 73 "3 -*-> o EH 78 74 72 * < 81 90 87 102 68 75 90 102 83 1002 CO .2"H S6 -+-- fcjr^ _, w.S 3 c EH 104 102 Q4 7Tfc 100 124 117 127 89 106 127 141 123 1354 Number of interments from October, 1852, to January 1st, 1893: MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 209 White ......................................15,083 Colored....................................25,90540,988 Interred during year: White......... ....................... ...... 353 Colored.................................... 1,002 Removed from other cemeteries : White ...................................... 5 1,360 Number of interments to date: White ........ ... ..... ... ................15,441 Colored....................................26,90742,348 Removed from Laurel Grove cemetery to another cemetery : White...................................... 7 Total number interred in the Laurel Grove cemetery and Colored cemetery at the present: White.......................................15,434 Colored....................................16,90742,341 Number of bodies put in reception vault ...........4 Upon taking charge of this cemetery I found in the reception vault the remains of seven (7) persons, which have been removed to the "strangers' ground" upon instructions of the Health officer and Chairman of Health and Cemetery committee. I will ask special attention to the collections made by me compared to the past ten (10) years: DfEAR. AMOUNT. YEAR. AMOUNT, j YEAR. AMOUNT. 1883 $1,691.00 1884 $1,770.50' 1885 11,471.50 1886 1,462.75 1887 1,739.50 1888 1,558.50 1889 2,052.50 1890 2,750.50 1891 2,126.25 _________ 1892 3,061.00________ Respectfully submitted, H. SANFORD HAUPT, H Keeper. 21O MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OF HARBOR MASTER. SAVANNAH, GA., January 6th, 1893. Hon. J..J. McDonough, Mayor: DEAR SIRI have the honor to report that I have deposited with the City Treasurer the sum of four thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy-two cents (4,515.72), amount of harbor fees collected for the past year. The total number of vessels arriving at this port during the past year are as follows: American Steamships............................... 416 American Sailing Vessels.......................... 298 Foreign Steamships.................................. 94 Foreign Sailing Vessels............................. 251 Total..............................................1,059 Tonnage, one million sixty thousand two hundred and eight (1,060,208). This number doesnot include the arrivals at Quarantine or Tybee, but only those vessels which have arrived at the wharves. It does not include river or inland coasting vessels, or vessels under one hundred tons, except those trading foreign. Annexed find a tabulated monthly statement of tonnage and fees. Respectfully, R. C. KENNEDY, Harbor Master. HARBOR MASTER'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1892. 1892 January..... Februaiy ... March........ April... ....... May........... June.......... July........... August....... SeptemberOctober...... November . December... Total... American 74,729 67,576 60,259 69,319 69,160 64,577 65,907 58,091 67,159 72,395 70,023 66,951 796,146 British 11,837 9,669 1,455 4,367 829 2,204 4,475 2,643 6,249 35,352 6,982 17,623 03,o85 Norwegian 7,775 13,905 10,400 6,416 8,195 8,738 8,164 6,776 6,659 10.549 7,704 5,277 100,558 I a &00 1,201 1,877 980 3,ofiO 2,864 10,482 German 659 2,199 939 501 1,34s 3,149 2,859 504 704 12,922 Swedish 879 2,315 495 "sis 1,006 970 2,141 8,121 Russian 510 1,829 279 750 1,137 4,505 Austrian 1,182 1,626 668 752 908 771 5,867 Italian 406 1,871 1,051 917 2,075 998 503 1,650 541 10,012 Portuguese 563 424 450 563 40J 2,403 Argentine 886 886 Dutch WA 924 Danish 1,752 1,752 French 1,645 1,645 Uruguayan 4(0 400 Tonnage 09,035 96,819 78,437 82,870 83,648 79,861 72,356 71,411 84,487 120,283 93,191 97,820 1,060,208 'ft 340 42 480 18 294 90 254 90 299 00 372 08 298 00 247 64 322 82 577 08 435 58 593 12 $4,516 72 s i CO $r> GB 3 S Respectfully, R. C. KENNEDY, Harbor Master. to 212 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. OFFICERS. George A. Mercer..............................President. J. B. Read,M. D.........................Vice-President. Wi lliara Harden................................ Treasurer. W. H. Baker ..................... ..............Secretary. ROLL OF MEMBERS. George A. Mercer, Lee Roy Myers, J. B. Read, M. D., M. A. O'Byrne, J. R. Saussy, B. A. Denmark, Henry Blun, John J. McDonough, ) yig^^ J. H.'Estill, R. D.Walker, V School J. R. F. Tattnall, Randolph Axson. J Com'rs STANDING COMMITTEES. (The President is ex-officio a member of each Committee.) FINANCE. J. H. Estill, R. D. Walker, B. A. Denmark, Henry Blun, J. J. McDonough. EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS. George As Mercer, J. B. Read, M. D., Henry Blun, J. R. Saussy, Superintendent. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 213 SCHOOL HOUSES. Lee Roy Myers, B. A. Denmark, M. A. O'Byrne, J. R. F. Tattnall, R. D. Walker. TEXT BOOKS. Geo. A. Mercer, Lee Roy Myers, J. R. Saussy, M. A. O'Byrne, J. B. Head, M. I). Superintendent. ACCOUNTS. Henry Blun, J. H. Estill, Randolph Axson. SUPPLIES. J. R. F. Tattnall, J. R, Saussy, Lee Roy Myers. VISITING COMMITTEES. OctoberJ. J. McDonough, Geo. A. Mercer. NovemberB. A. Denmark, J. H. Estill. DecemberR. Axson, Henry Blun. JanuaryJ. B. Read, J. R. F. Tattnall. FebruaryM. A. O'Byrne, R. D. Walker. MarchLee Roy Myers, J. R. Saussy. AprilJ. R. F. Tattnall, J. J. McDonough. MayHenry Blun, J. H. Estill. JuneGeo. A. Mercer, R. Axson. TEACHERS AND OFFICERS FOR 1892-93. OFFICERS. W. H. Baker...............Superintendent. F. H. Ferguson ............Assistant Superintendent. HIGH SCHOOL. H. F. Train (Principal)..Teacher of Classics. W. R. Thigpen............Teacher of Mathematics. 214 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Otis Ashmore..............Teacher of Natural Science. J. M. Gannon..............Teacher of English. Julian Hartridge..........Assistant. c? Miss F. A. Dorsett. ...... Assistant. Mrs. M. E. Harden .......Assistant. BARNAKD STREET SCHOOL. (Barnard and Taylor Streets.) C. H. Carson (Principal).......... Seventh Grade. Mrs. F. E. Cotchett............ ....Sixth Grade. Miss H. A. Quarterman ...........Fifth Grade. Miss R. L. Collins...................FourthGrade (A). Miss L. D. Hill......................Fourth Grade (B). Miss H. M.Carson..................Third Grade. Miss W. S. DuBose .................Second Grade. Miss C. A. Landershine............First Grade. Miss Eva Haitiwanger............. Assistant. CATHEDRAL SCHOOL. (Abercorn and Perry Streets.) M. A. O'Brien (Principal)... ..... Seventh Grade. Miss A. M. Robinson............... Sixth Grade. Miss M. E. Maddock............... Fifth Grade. Mrs. A. M. O'Donoghue ...........Fourth Grade (A). Miss M. S. Killorin.................Fourth Grade (B). Mrs. M. J. Clark.....................Third Grade (A). Miss A. G. Fitzgerald..............Third Grade (B). Miss L. F. Killorin .................Second Grade. Miss K. C. Grady....................First Grade. Miss S. M. Black.....................Assistant. CHATHAM SCHOOL. (Chatham Academy.) S. B. Spencer (Principal) .........Seventh Grade. Miss L. M. Harris...................Sixth Grade (A). MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 215 Miss A. 0. Johnson.................Sixth Grade (B). Miss M. J. Walker..................Fifth Grade (A). Mrs. E. M. Spring...................Fifth Grade (B). Mrs. J. A. Freelancl................. Fifth Grade (C). Mrs. J. S. Bracewel 1.................Fourth Grade ( A). Miss A. S. Claghorn.................Fourth Grade (B). Mrs. H. N. Leitze.,..................Fourth Grade (C). Mrs. E.L.Sollee............... .......Third Grade (A). Miss A. E. Johnson.................Third Grade (B). Miss L. E. Miller..... ...............Third Grade (C). Miss M. S. McGlashan..............Second Grade (A). Miss L. A. Oliver....................Second Grade (B). Miss Florence Whitehead......... First Grade (A). Miss A. G. Alexander..............First Gr.ade (B). Miss E. B. Hopkins.................Assistant. HENRY STREET SCHOOL. (Henry Street.) Miss J. A. Mustin' (Principal)...Seventh Grade. Miss A. V. Bourquin...............Sixth Grade. Miss Eugenia Estill.................Fifth Grade. Miss H. M. May : ....................Fourth Grade (A). Mrs. C. M. Gray.....................Fourth Grade (B). Miss I. F. Wolfe.....................Third Grade (A). Miss E. L. Oemler...................Third Grade (B). Miss A. I. Black.....................Second Grade (A). Miss N. E. Martin...................Second Grade (B). Miss C. B. Ham.....................First Grade (A). Miss E. M. Cabaniss................First Grade (B). Miss E. V. Lane.....................Assistant. MASSIE SCHOOL. (Abercorn and Gordon Streets.) J. E. Way (Principal)..............Seventh Grade. Miss M. A. Mustin.................. Sixth Grade. 216 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Mrs. M. E. Morrison................Fifth Grade. Miss M. W. Maccaw............... .Fourth Grade (A). Miss A. W. White..................Fourth Grade (B). MissE. R. Fennell..................Third Grade. Miss A. E. Quarterman ...........Second Grade. Miss A. M. Barnard................. First Grade. Miss M. E. Carmichael........... Assistant. ST. PATRICK'S SCHOOL. (Montgomery and York streets). Arthur J. O'Hara, (Principal) ..Seventh Grade. Miss K. H. Devereux ..............Sixth Grade. Miss A. M. McCrohan ............Fifth Grade (A). Miss M. A. Ennis ..................Fifth Grade (B). Miss M. R. Bowling ...............Fourth Grade. Miss M. G. McCrohan ..............Third Grade. Miss S. G. Fitzgerald .............. Second Grade (A). Miss R. M. Gather wood ...........Second Grade (B). Miss N. M. O'Brien ...... ..........First Grade. Miss T. E. Smith...... .............Assistant. EVENING SCHOOL. (Whitefield Building). J. J. Gillespie............ ...........Principal. M. A. O'Brien.................. .....Assistant. D. B. Falk.............................Assistant. SPECIAL TEACHEKS. Miss E. Jett Howard........Teacher of Drawing. W. N. Smith....................Teacher of Vocal Music. EAST BROAD STREET SCHOOL(COLORED). (East Broad and Gaston streets). James Ross, (Principal)............Seventh Grade. Mrs. A. C. MiddIeton...............Sixth Grade. Miss L. E. Hardee..................Fifth Grade. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 217 Miss R. G. Houston.................Fourth Grade (A). John Mclntosh......................Fourth Grade (B). Miss J. H. Brown...................Third Grade (A). Mrs. M. E. Tolbert.... ..............Third Grade (B). Miss S. C. Houstoun................Second Grade. Miss E. L. Jackson..................First Grade. Miss A. C. Arnold..................Assistant. WEST BROAD STREET SCHOOL(COLORED). (West Broad and Pine streets). J. H. C. Butler, (Principal)......Seventh Grade. Mrs. S. J.Butler............ ........Sixth Grade. Miss A. B. Miller....................Fifth Grade (A). Miss R. A. Walton..................Fifth Grade (B). Mrs. E. P. Deveux .. ...............Fourth Grade (A). Mrs. F. A. Murchison ..............Fourth Grade (B). Miss G. A. Knox....................Fourth Grade (C). Miss F. M. Jackson.................Fourth Grade (D). MissL. L. Carey .....................Thii-d Grade (A). Miss A. E. Scott.....................Third Grade (B). Miss A. M. Ellis.....................Second Grade (A). Miss C. E. Lewis............ ........Second Grade (B). Miss M. B. Ellis.....................First Grade (A). Miss L. L. Maxwell..................First Grade (B). Miss F. H. Houston................Assistant. COUNTY SCHOOLSWHITE. Mrs. R. L-Gould ....................Bethel. J. M. Gillespie, (Principal) ......Bethesda. J. H. Hunter, (Assistant).... ....Bethesda. Miss C. L. Ferguson, (Assistant).Bethesda. Frederick Oborn, (Assistant) ....Bethesda. Mrs. G. H. Miller ...................Bloomingdale. Miss Lucile Blois ...................Isle of Hope. E. W. Ober........................... Monteith. 218 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. C. H. Ferguson ......................Pine Forest L. S. Fairchild, (Principal).......Pooler. Miss Lelia Rembert, (Assistant..Pooler. Miss A. N. Metzger, (Assistant)..Pooler. Miss Emma Hunter ................South Newington. Miss E. K. Kelly...... ..............Springhill. Miss A. J. Gray......................Thunderbolt. Miss L. E. Holmes..................White Bluff. Miss A. E. Pinder...................Wilmington. COUNTY SCHOOLS(COLOBED). Miss R. L. Erwin ...................Beaulieu. Silas Daniels .......... ..............Belmont. Mrs. E. E. Spencer..................Dittsmersville. Miss R. L. Brown ...................East Savannah. Mrs. E. A. Jackson ..................Grove Hill. S. J. Reid .............................Monteith. Mrs. F. C. Ford .....................Mount Zion. Mrs. G. A. Noble.. ..................Nicollsonville. Miss G. 0. Artson...................Pooler. Miss Catharine J. Steele...........Rice Hope. Mrs. L. A. Woodard................Rose Dhu. Miss M. L. Mack ....................Isle of Hope. Miss R. E. Harris....................Skidaway. Miss M. E. Burns....................Taylor's Ghapol. Miss A. B. DeLyon..................Thunderbolt. J. H Parker..........................Vallambrosa. Miss Anna A.Blair .................Wheathill. Mrs. M.L. Reynolds................. White Blufi. S. M. Charlton...... ................. Woodstock. Miss Elizabeth Glen................Woodville. Joseph Butler........................West Savannah. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 219 SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. To the Board of Education: The report of the condition and work of the Pubjic Schools of the citv / of Savannah and countvv of Chatham, for the year ending June 30, 1892, is herewith submitted : STATISTICS. I.POPULATION. (U. S. Census, 1890.) City ........................ ................. ..... ................ 43,189 County........................... ............ ...................14,551 Total........................ ............................57,740 II.SCHOOL POPULATION. (School Census, 1888.) Children between 6.and 18. City ............... ....... ......... ................................ 8,155 County........ ....... ....................... .............. ....... 5,031 13,186 III.-SCHOOLS. HIGH SCHOOLS. Number of teachersmale 4, female 2. ........... 6 Number of pupils enrolledboys 80, girls 130..210 Average number belongingboys 70, girls 114..184 Average daily attendanceboys 67, girls 106 .173 Per cent.of daily attendance................. .............. 94 Number of deaths......................... ..... ....... ..... . . 0 CHATHAM SCHOOL. Number of teachersmale 2, female 16 .......... 18 Number of pupils enrolledboys 412, girls 439. .841 Average number belongi ngboys322, girls 379. .701 Average daily attendanceboys 292, girls 337..629 23O MAYOR'3 ANNUAL REPORT. Per cent, of daily attendance . ..... .................... 90 Number of deaths ... ....... .................. ................ . 0 BARNARD STREET SCHOOL. Number of teachersfemale 13.. ...................... 13 Number of pupils enrolledboys 237, girls 330 567 Average number belongingboys 185, girls 253 438 Average daily attendanceboys 170, girls 226 .396 Per cent, of daily attendance............... .............. 90 Number of deathsboys 1, girls 1 ..................... 2 MASSIE SCHOOL. Number of teachersmale 2, female 8.............. 10 Number of pupils enrolledboys 219, girls 253..472 Average number belongingboys 168, girls203..371 Average daily attendanceboys 153, girls 185..338 Per cent, of daily attendance........ ..................... 92 Number of deathsgirls 1 .. ....... ...... ............... 1 CATHEDRAL SCHOOL. Number of teachersmale 1, female 9.............. 10 Number of pupils enrolledboys 194, girls 218 .412 Average number belongingboys 170, girls 205. .375 Average daily attendanceboys 156, girls 185..341 Per cent, of daily attendance.............................. 91 Number of deathsgirls 3...... ..... ..................... 3 ST. PATRICK'S SCHOOL. Number of teachersmale 1, female9............... 10 Number of pupils enrolledboys 196, girls 192. .388 Average number belongingboys 176, girls 168. .344 Average daily attendanceboys 159, girls 151..310 .Per cent, of daily attendance ............................ 90 Deaths........ . .......................... .. ...................... 0 SOUTH-SIDE SCHOOL. Number of teachersfemale 4 ............... ........... 4 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 221 Number of pupils enrolledboys 90, girls 109.199 Average number belongingboys 63, girls 76 139 Average daily attendanceboys 56, girls 69.. .125 Per cent, of daily attendance ....... ...................... 90 Deaths ............................................... .................. 0 EVENING SCHOOL. Number of teachersmale 5 ....................... ...... 5 Number of pupils enrolledmale ........ .............261 Average number belonging ...... ........ ................130 Average attendance .......... ................................. 60 Per cent, of attendance....... ................................ 46 EAST BROAD STREET SCHOOL(COLORED). Number of teachersmale 2, female 8................ 10 Number of pupils enrolledboys 260, girls356..616 Average number belongingboys 233, girls 314..547 Average daily attendanceboys 217, girls 289..506 Per cent, of daily attendance................ .............. 93 Number of deaths ................... ............................. 0 WEST BROAD STREET SCHOOL(COLORED). Number of teachersmale 1, female 14 ............ 15 Number of pupils enrolledboys 359, girls 512..871 Average number belongingboys 315, girls457.. 772 Average daily attendanceboys 283, girls 402..685 Per cent, of daily attendance............................... 89 Number of deathsgirls 6 ................................. 6 COUNTRY SCHOOLS( WHITE). Number of teachersmale 6, female 12 ........... 18 Number of pupils enrolledboys 360, girls 248..608 Average number belongingboys 265, girls 183. .448 Average daily attendanceboys 197, girls 123..320 Per cent, of daily attendance............................... 72 222 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. COUNTRY SCHOOLS(COLORED). Number of teachersmale 8, female 13 .......... 21 Number of pupils en rolled-boys 761, girls 764 .1525 Average number belonging-boys 547, girls 571.. 1118 Average daily attendance-boys 371, girls 366,. 737 Per cent, of daily attendance.............................. 66 SUMMARY. No. of schools in citywhite 8, colored 2 ...... 10 No. of schools in countywhite 13, colored 21 34 Total........................ ................................... 44 SCHOOL OFFICERS. Superintendent........ ........................................... 1 Assistant superintendent................................... 1 Inspector of country schools.............................. 1 Total............................................................ 3 Number of teachers in city(white)male 14, female 62 ....... ............. .................:.... ...... 76 Number of teachers in city(colored)male 3, female 22........ .............. ...... ....... ............ 25 Total......................................................... 101 Number of teachers in country(white) male 6, female 12 ........ ........... ............ ......... 18 Number of teachers in country(colored) male 8, female 13 ........................ ................. 21 Total................................................ ............ 39 Grand total of teachers and officersmale 34, female 109 ....................................................... 143 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 223 Number of pupils enrolled in city schools (white)boys 1679, girls 1671 ... .. ...... ......3350 Number of pupils enrolled in city schools (colored)boys 619, girls 868 ...... .............1487 Total enrolled in cityboys 2298, girls 2537....4837 Number of pupils enrolled in country schools (white)boys 360, girls 248 ..................... 608 Number of pupils enrolled in country schools (colored)boys 761, girls 764.................1525 Total enrolled in county (white)...... ........... ..3958 Total enrolled in county (colored) ... ... ...........3012 Grand total enrolled ....... ...... ........ ...............6970 Average number belonging ..................... ......5111 Cost per capita for tuition on number enrolled ............................................................$10.54 Cost per capita for tuition on average number belonging ............ .... ..... . ...... .............. $14.34 CONDENSED FINANCIAL EXHIBITRECEIPTS. Oct. 1, 1891Balance on hand........ $ 952 94 RECEIPTS. Amount of State appropriation........ 22,018 44 Amount of county appropriation..... 79,861 92 Amount of poll tax ........................... 5,639 27 Amount of tuition fees from high school................................................ 4,777 50 Amount of dividends ....................... 313 44 224 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. DISBURSEMENTS. Salaries of officers, teachers and janitors ...... ................f 79,756 69 Supplies......... ........ ...... 4,134 31 Building........ ................. 26,748 45 Repairs.......................... 1,054 92 Insurance........................ 256 00 Rent........ ....................... 1,263 00 Incidentals..................... 282 94 Oct. 1, 1892Balance on hand..................... 67 20 Total. ............. ......$113,563 511113,563 51 REMARKS ON STATISTICS. An examination of the statistics submitted in the above tables shows that there has been an increase of 199 pupils enrolled in the city schools over that of last year. There has been a decrease of 34 in the country schools. There has therefore been a net increase of 165 in the schools, as a whole. The entire enrollment was 6,970. SCHOOL ENUMERATION. It has been evident, for some years, that there has never been a correct enumeration of the school population of Chatham county. The last census was taken in 1888, and showed a total of 13,186 porsons between the ages of 6 and 18 years. There is reason to believe that, owing to the carelessness of some of the enumerators and the difficulties of reaching some of the islands embraced within the limits of the county, the census was imperfectly taken. When it is considered that the amount of money MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. 225 received from the State, by any county, is based upon this census, it becomes a matter of no small importance that efficient enumerators should be appointed to do this work. Under the school law, if there be reason to believe that, in any county, a new enumeration is necessary, it becomes the duty of the State Board of Education to order the. same to be made. I recommend that official notice be served upon our honorable State School Commissioner to the effect that a new census of children, between 6 and 18 years, should be taken in Chatham county. SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS. In order to meet the constantly increasing demands for admission into the schools, the board has been compelled to rent two entire private residences and three additional rooms in illy ventilated basements. These temporary expedients partially answered the wants of the public. The smallness of the rooms and other inconveniences, however, placed both pupils and teachers at a very great disadvantage. The construction of a new building, therefore, became an absolute necessity. The new school edifice on Henry street, now nearing completion, has been built on the most approved plan, and will be equipped with new furnittfre, and supplied with modern appliances and conveniences. Situated, as it is, in the southern section of the city, it will be a great convenience to a very large population, while at the same time it is an ornament to the city. The accommodations for the colored children are still very restricted. The rooms in the two school 15 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. buildings now used are very much crowded, and there were perhaps eight hundred applicants turned away from the schools last year. The buildings used in the rural districts are, as a general thing, unfit for school purposes. In many neighborhoods, the schools are taught in churches, and as these buildings, once or twice during the week, are used for religious objects, the owners very naturally object to their being furnished with desks. Under these disadvantages teachers can with difficulty give instruction in penmanship. Where the people refuse to furnish proper school houses, I think it might be well to curtail the school terra and devote the money thus saved to the erection of suitable buildings. Neat school houses and good furniture not only contribute to the health and comfort of the pupils, but have a civilizing and refining influence upon them. I verily believe that the erection of such buildings in j. the rural districts of Chatham county would arouse [ a wide-spread interest in the education of the i children, and add greatly to the prosperity and I happiness of the people. i; f. |i SCHOOL PROGRESS. To every conscientious school officer and teacher as he closes the work of the year, the all-important question recurs "What have I accomplished?" Much of the enjoyment of the vacation in prospect depends upon the answer to this inquiry. Examinations, oral and written, indispensable though they be, cannot convey a proper or adequate idea of what has been accomplished by a years's faithful teaching. Time alone can prove MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. how much has been done towards the upbuilding of character, the inculcation of right principles, the formation of proper habits of study, and the implantation in the mind and heart of a true and laudable ambition for high attainments in all that is noble and good. While it is, perhaps, to much to assert that those to whom the training of our children is entrusted, are animated solely by these high motives, I feel sure that their efforts have been directed largely towards these ends. It is a mistaken view to suppose that the sole mission of a teacher of youth is to impart knowledge and to discipline the mind. A love for truth, respect for law, subordination to authority, a proper regard for the rights of others, and practice of the courtesies and civilities of life, are perhaps of even greater importance, and the instructor who neglects to teach these virtues, may well feel that he has failed in the discharge of his highest duties. The lawlessness which is witnessed among our boys in the streets and public assemblies, presents to our teachers a problem well worthy of their profound study. While the cause may be chiefly due to want of proper home training, it is not reasonable to believe that teachers are altogether blameless. Our teachers are faithful, and I think their work during the year has been good. The pupils have passed over the ground laid down in the curriculum, and, while it cannot be expected that all they have been taught has been retained, it is hoped that much has been stored away which will be useful in after life. 228 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. DISCIPLINE. It would not be true to state that the year has passed without any roughness in discipline. It can be expected no less in school than in society, that the time will come when there will be no violations of law and no inflictions of punishmente. It is true, however, that year by year it is becoming easier to control our pupils. When teachers know that they are prohibited from resorting to the old system of flaggellation, they address themselves to the task of discovering other methods of controlling their pupils. It does not take long to find out a milder and perhaps more effectual way of securing a healthy discipline in their classes. These methods are various, being adapted to the peculiar circumstances governing each case. A very common way is to report the unruly pupil to parents, who are the proper parties to inflict corporal punishment. It is only just to say that in the large majority of instances where this has been done, a very hearty and vigorous co-operation has been given to the teacher. But after all punishments have been tried and all mean exhausted, there will always be a few who are not reached. What to do with these incorrigibles is a question which has never been satisfactorily answered. But similar cases are constantly occurring under the most stringent regulations of our municipal and state goverments, and no infliction of the severest punishments has thus far proved an eflectual deterrent. EVENING SCHOOL. While the total enrollment in the evening MAYOR'S ANNUAL EEPORT. 328 school was encouraging, the average attendance was very disappointing. This was, perhaps, owing to two causes. The enterprise was a novel one in our city, and no doubt some entered the school from curiosity. In a few weeks that curiosity was satisfied, and these pupils withdrew. But there was another cause. The instructors appointed for this work, although possessed of requisite scholarship, and faithful in the discharge of their duties, were young and utterly inexperienced. In my last annual report I emphasized the fact that teachers of evening schools should be men of large experience and peculiar tact in management. The character of the pupils who attend the school, and the nature of the work to be done, call for instructors of this kind. Indeed, many who would succeed in day schools, might prove utter failures, if placed in charge of evening schools. There can be no question as to the necessity for a night school in this city. It is the only opportunity offered to many young men and boys for receiving an elementary education. It is believed that under the reorganization authorized by the Board, the school will prove a great benefit to many who are compelled to work during the day. EXAMINATIONS AND PROMOTIONS. Under the graded system prevailing in our schools, it is a matter of necessity that at the close of each year the classes should move forward, in order to make room for those children who enter school for the first time in the lowest grade. These promotions are determined by oral and written examinations. This plan does not, of course, prevent special promotions of pupils at any time, when, 23O- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. in the judgment of their teachers, their age and abilities warrant their advancement into higher grades. The number of pupils who, on the completion of the course of study in the Grammar schools, received certificates of graduation, was 134, or 114 whites and 20 colored. A large majority of the white graduates will probably continue their studies in the High School. The commencement exercises of the High School were held in Hunter's Hall, on the 29th day of June. The address to the- graduates was delivered by the Rev. L. C. Vass., D. D., of this cit}7 , and in the absence of the President, the diplomas were distributed by Hon. J.R. Saussy, member of the Board ol Education. As on all previous occasions of these public exercises, the hall was crowded with friends of the graduates and others, and many had to stand during the entire exercises. I recommend that hereafter these exercises be held in some public hall where all who desire to attend may be accommodated. LIST OP GRADUATES. GIRLS. Annie A. Alien, Lodviska M. LaRoche, Carrie A. Carter, Cornelia E. Lee, Sallie H. Coburn, Jennie W. May, Annie D. Davis, Mamie J. Pritchard, Bella B. Einstein, Susan L. Reppard, Lilla E. Exley, Floience L. Richardson, Frances B. Haupt, Valleska Riley, Pamela Lamar, Evelyn C. Smith, Leila A. Hall, Theodora J. Spann, Ellen T. Reynolds. I MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 231 BOYS. Henry L. Backus, Edwin S. Epstein, Robert A. Crawford, George H. Groth, Robert D. Dripps, Paul Pritchard, Henry L. Purse. RECOMMENDATIONS. It is a requirement of the Board of Education that the Superintendent "shall make such suggestions as may in his judgment tend to promote the greatest efficiency of the schools." Our system of public education in this city, it is no presumption to affirm, will compare favorably, in its most important features, with that in any other place. I go further and assert that, in some respects, it surpasses in efficiency the systems in operation in many other cities. There are, however, some branches of popular education successfully taught in other systems which ara not found in our curriculum. No instruction in vocal music is given in our schools. True, this cannot be considered an indispensable part of an elementary education, but no feature in a school is so attractive and refining, and tends so much to popularize it as vocal music. In the want of this department the schools of Savannah stand almost alone. Any movement on the part of the Board to provide for instruction in vocal music will, I am sure, receive the hearty approval of the people, and for that reason I recommend that some action to be taken in that direction. There seems to be a general desire in the community to have book-keeping and stenography taught to our older pupils. The possession of a 232 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. knowledge of these branches is a passport to eligible positions in commercial houses, and the boy who is so fortunate as to have learned them stands on vantage ground. The propriety of adding these branches to our curriculum is well worthy the consideration of the Board of Education. Provision was made during the last year for teaching drawing in the schools. During the short time Miss Hale was in charge of this department, she did much to inspire in the pupils a desire to excel in this useful accomplishment. It is to be hoped this important department may be continued. CONCLUSION. In bringing this report to a close, I beg to reiterate my grateful appreciation of your continued confidence and support. Respectfully submitted, W. H. BAKER, Aiigust 1, 1892. Superintendent. COURSE OF STUDYHIGH SCHOOL. FIRST GRADE. Latin Grammar and Reader; Outlines of History; Physical Geography; Arithmeticreviewed; Algebrabegun; Composition and Declamation ; Spelling; Heading; Writing; Music. SECOND GRADE. Latin; Greek; Outlines of History; Rhetoricbegun; Physics; Arithmetic; Algebracompleted; MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 283 Book-keeping; Composition and Declamation; Spelling; Reading; Writing; Music. THIRD GRADE. Latin; Greek; Rhetoric; English Literature; Philology; Mental Philosophy; Chemistry; Astronomy; Geometry; Composition and Declamation; General Review; Music. GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. FIRST GRADE. First Reader; Spelling from the Reader; Counting, Writing and Reading simple numbers; Writing and Mental Exercises, with small numbers; Printing and Written Words from the Reader and Blackboard; Drawing; Music. SECOND GRADE. Second Reader; Spelling; Notation, Numeration, Addition and Subtraction in Arithmetic; Oral Geography; Writing; Simple Exercises in Composition; Drawing; Muaie. THIRD GRADE. Third Reader; Spelling; Arithmeticthrough Division; Primary Geography; simple exercises in Composition ; Writing ; Drawing ; Music. FOURTH GRADE. Fourth Reader; Spelling; Primary History of the United States ; Arithmeticthrough decimal currency; Language Lessons; Composition; Writing ; Drawing; Music. 234 MAYOR'S ANNUAL EEPORT. FIFTH GRADE. Fifth Reader; Spelling; Geography ; English Grammarbegun ; Arithmeticto percentage ; Composition; Writing; Drawing; Music. SIXTH GRADE. Fifth Reader; Spelling; Geography; English Grammarcontinued; Arithmeticto discount; Composition ; Writing; Drawing; Music. SEVENTH GRADE. History of United States; English Grammar completed and reviewed; Geography reviewed; Arithmeticcompleted and reviewed ; Reading; Spelling; Composition ; Writing ; Drawing; Music. LIST OF TEXT-BOOKS USED IN THE SCHOOLS. READERS. Barnes' New National, \os. 1, 2. 3, 4, 5. Kelley's Universal, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. SPELLERS. Swinton's Word Primer; Swinton's Word Book ; Sheldon's Word Studies; Henderson's Test Speller ; Webster's and Worcester's Dictionaries. GEOGRAPHIES. Monteith's First Lessons; Maury's Elementary ; Maury's Manual; Maury's Physical. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 235 HISTORIES. Swinton's Primary U. S.; Swinton's Condensed U. S.; Swinton's Outlines; Sadlier's Elementary U. S.; Sadlier's Studies in History U. S. ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. Maxwell's Language Lessons, No. 1; Harvey's Revised Elementary Grammar; Harvey's Revised English Grammar; Swineford's English Literature; Hart's Rhetoric; Trench on Study of Words. NATURAL SCIENCE. Steele's Popular Physics ; Steele's Popular Chemistry ; Steele's Astromomy ; Lincoln's Physiology. MATHEMATICS. Thomson's Mental Arithmetic; Thomson's Intellectual Arithmetic; Nicholson's Intermediate Arithmetic; Robinson's Practical Arithmetic; Robinson's Complete Arithmetic; Robin son's Elementary Algebra; Welsh's Essentials of Geometry. LATIN AND GREEK. Bullion's Latin Grammar; Leigh ton's Latin Lessons; Caesar; Searing's Virgil; Cicero; Goodwin's Greek Grammar; Leighton's Greek Lessons; Xenophen's Anabasis. PENMANSHIP. Graphic Series; Ward's Business Forms. DRAWING. Eclectic Series. 236 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. LIST OF GRADUATES. CLASS OF 1870. GIRLS. Laura'A. Barksdale, Mary A. Pacetty, Florence LaRoche, Eliza H. Elliott, Josie A. Law, Cora B. Elkios, Allie S. Law, Ella W. Sraillie, Ella Josie Turner, Alice R. Cohen, Julia E. Harn, . Mary Agnes Henderson, Julia E. Lebey, Fannie E. Falligant, Nelzie Hume. BOYS. W. B. Bailey, John. Cooper, J. S. F. Barbour, E. T. Harden, W. H. Bolshaw, G. W. Haupt, J. R. Hopkins. CLASS OF 1872. GIRLS. Bessie Austin, Mollie C. Johnson, Louisa Black, Amelia Millette, Lizzie Campfield, Ida Mingledorf, A. S. Falligant, Mattie Ruan, Mary C. Ferrill, Israella Solomons, Me'ta B. Hardee, Rebecca Solomons, Georgia Heuderson, Hattie Smillie, Mary Houston, Ellen Strobhart, Emma Julia Hume, Laura Thomas, Laura West. BOYS. L. J. Armstrong, A. II. Lawton, Robert T. Barbour, Julius M. Maccaw, Robert MacDonnell, E. C. Perry. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 237 CLASS OF 1873. GIRLS. Esther Simpson Abrams, Cornelia Isadore King, Eugenia Estill, Annie Elizabeth Lambeth, Electa Callaway Falligant, Anna Theresa Mehrtens, Leora Sarah Henderson, Mary Catharine O'Meara, Georgia Louisa Kelly, Martha Louisa Rowland, Viola Camilla Kennedy, Josephine Gardiner Sheftall Annie Johnstone Waring. BOYS. C. W. Freeland, A. H. MacDonnell, J. T. Glatigny, Hug. Platen, Benjamin Hunter, J. A. Solomons, W. D. Johnston, T. B. West, W. H. Mills. CLASS OF 1874. GIRLS. Laleah Pratt Adams, Mary Baker Harden, Gertrude Berg, Anna Eliza Henderson, Rosa James Campbell, Kate Anna Landershine, Annie Blanche Castellaw, Margaret Ellena McCaffrey Mary Louisa Ellis, Delia Flora Myers, Jennie Baker Gribble, Henrietta Nugent, Harriet Frances Haas, Lily Purse Pierpont, Helen Clark Porter, Bessie Roberts, Mary Elizabeth White. BOYS. F. G. Ash, M. Lilienthal, Aaron Ferst, A. J. Ives, W. D. Houston, M. P. Rogers, P. A. Waring. 338 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. \ CLASS OF 1875. GIRLS. j Annie Wilhelmina Bogart, Mary Elizabeth Heywood, Lelia Moselle Boulineau, Eliza Knighton Ingram, Carrie Gordon Cubbedge, Lulie McDonald, Florence Colding, Carrie Palin, ! Mary Adelaide DeWitt, Ella Valentine Pollard, ;i. Phoebe Sarah Estes, Celia Jane Reneau, Georgia Mildred Goodman, Mariam Joseph Solomons, Mary Ellis Howard, Emma Caroline Symons, Minnie Way. BOYS. H. M. Baker, W. P. Silva, r Isadore Berg, W. S. Tyson, Henry Hohenstein, Morris Wessolowski, Thomas Hunter, J. W. Wilson, CLASS OF 1876. \ GIRLS. \ : Carrie May Askew, Annie Madel'e McLaughlin, \ Sarah Augusta Carson, Lillian Eliza Miller, \ Ada Roberta Carter, Anna Belle Norwood, JT Delia Belmire Constantine, Hattie Leonora Pead, [ Elizabeth Anna Gribble, Annie Irwin Scott, ( ' Mary Isabel Heidt, Katie Solomons, I Annie Hunter, Annie Munro West, I Mary Louise King, Fannie White, * Ida Frances Wolfe. ' BOYS. Joseph Burroughs, G. W. Drummond, : W. C. Butler, H. J. Graybill, W. G. Cann, J. D. LaRoche, J. S. Cooper, Charles Schultz, ' S. V. Stiles, J. S. Williams, W. deB. Kops. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 230 CLASS OF 1877. GIRLS. Ellen Elsie Bennett, Mary Stanislaus Killorin, Catharine Anna Borchert, Anita Julia Koox, Mary Ophelia Henderson, Laura Ann Schwarz, Bessie Postell Hopkins, Hannah Volaski, Ellen Maria Hutcheson, Meta Telfair Wetter. BOYS. J. Randolph Anderson, Robert H. Anderaon, J. Harry Bolshaw, Carvill H. Carson, William Lee S. Gignilliat, Richard D. F. Lattimore, Richard H. McLeod, R. BeauregardS.Nicholson, Joachim R. Saussy. CLASS OF 1878. GIRLS. E. Marion Armstrong, Georgia Amanda Ash, Lillie C. Caldwell, Willa Kate Cockshutt, Walton L. Haltiwanger, Lizzie Frances Killorin, Flora MaeDonald, Sallie M. Olmstead, L. Ella Pichon, BOYS. Joseph L. Atkins, Wallace Gumming, Charles M. Gibbs, Francis J. Fitzgerald, Tobias H. Haym, Charles Kohler, Julian DeBruyn Kops, S. Clark Porter, Alexander J. D. Roach, E. Augustus Smith, Charles H. Tyson, Harry Willink. 24O MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. CLASS OF 1879. GIRLS. Florence Isabel Adams, Bessie Hey ward, Anna Lee Beazley, Mary C. McCaffrey, Mamie CourvoisieCharlton, Janie J. Porter, Georgia M. Dale, Carrie Dell Rogers, Clara May Gardner, Lulu B. Rogers, Mamie L. Graybiil, May Lucia Silva, Elizabeth Morris Woolhcpter. BOYS. Herman Benjamin, Joachim Saussy Jordan, Charles Hentz Branch, Thomas Herman Jordan, Robert Emmet Donelan, Samuel K. Platshek, William Hunter, Harry S. Oppenheimer. CLASS OF 1880. GIRLS. Julia Gilbert Borehert, Frances Loweiithal, Sallie Cliampicn, Elmira McRory, Lily Ida Craig, Teresa LaDora Miller, Anna Josephine Haywood, Mamie Wagner Maccaw, Mary Grace Leitch, Emma Ten Broeck, ! Emily May Webb. BOYS. David C. Carson, James E. Gaudry, Joseph F. Doyle, Eugene L. Gilbert, Edward S. Elliotr, John F. Hartz, Henry Freeman, Samuel Selig. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 241 CLASS OF 1881. GIRLS. Carrie Matilda Buckner. Lillian Lee Haltiwanger, Mary Bourquin Canon, Sophie Lu Haupt, Hattie Gere Carson, Adele Meyer, Maggie Rose Dowling, Mary Matilda Nicholson, Minnie Ellen Doyle, Theodora Florabel Proctor, Emily Clara Fernandez, Lizzie Hunter Henderson, Sabina Guckenheimer, Florie Erwin Weeks, Annie M. Willink. BOYS. Franklin Taylor Branch, Leonard Lippman, Orson Walter Branch, Jefferson Davis Miller, Joseph Gumming, John Nicolson, William Lattimore, Edgar William Way. CLASS OF 1882. GIRLS. Lavina Lawrence Adams, Annie Cecil Ryan, Mary Ida Baker, Mary Louisa Sagurs, Margariete Dacie Flynn, Lila Mclntosh Screven, Hattie Habersham May, Florence TenBroeck, Madge Murchison Rogers, Isabel Haddock Wells, Mary Aronetta Wilbur. BOYS. George Turner Cann, Walter Paul LaRoche, William Davis Champion, Edward Burke Moylan, James Carroll Cope, William Wilson Osborne, Charles Ellis, Charles Valens Robinson, Joseph Henry Smith. 16 S42 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. ! CLASS OF 1883. GIRLS. ! Helen Neal Carson, Julia W. Middleton, Jessie Dale, Maggie Petsch Oliver, Mary Genevieve Doyle, Emily Marie Ryan, , Sabina Gertrude FitzgeraldjMattie R. Sassnett, Lillie Hunter, Rachel Louise Shivers, Mattie W. McCullough, Wille Mena Swoll, Grace McGlashen, H. Roberta Coleman Tebeau BOYS. William Frederick Baker, Augustus John Merkle, Isadore Cohen, Edwin Ansley Richmond, George William Faries, Henry Manning Ward. CLASS OF 1884. GIRLS. i Clara Marie Boulineau, Josephine Frances King, ; Lottie Hamilton Branch, M. Lulu Landershine, ti Tallulah Eugenia Cole, Annie Lee McLaws, !', Georgia Ellie Douglass, Camilla Neligan Usina, ij Clelia Peronneau Elliott, Alice Owen Wade, i Minnie Ida Grady, Carrie Belle Watts. BOYS. ; Remur Crum, George Anderson Mercer, : Walter Woodbury Gross, William Joseph Miscally, ' John Joseph Halligan, Samuel Oppenheimer, I William Trenholm Hopkins,Charles Walker Saussy, ' Alfred Simon Kohn, Charles Henry Sipple. I MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. CLASS OP 1885. 243 GIRLS. Lelia Stark Axson, Meta Dickerson Branch, Henrietta Byck, Ellen Esther DeCastro, Emma Louise Clark, Carrie Love Goodwin, Fina Holcomb Hopkins, Nellie Hunter, lola Lee Keller, Mary Eva Marlow, Annie Lelia Viola Messick, Eva Josephine Middleton, Eva Kaufman Platshek, Mildred Clay'n Richardson Gussie Rieves, Ida Rieser, Nina Anderson Pape, Floride Shivers, Teresa Eleanor Smith, Virginia Lee Sweat, S. Way. BOYS. Thomas Savage Clay, Thomas Halligan, Charles Francis Cler, James Read Miscally, Robert Vincent Connerat, Rob't Alphonsus Morrissey Edward Lee Goodman, Charles Kingman Reilly. CLASS OF 1886. GIRLS. Alice Stuart Baker, Annie Louise Bessellieu, Carrie Louise Bessellieu, Gertrude Willie Brown, Lillie Einstein, Susie Foster Elkins, Vida Randolph Fleming, Francis T. Henderson, Cornelia Thurston Hull, Agnes E. Johnson, Carrrie A. Landershme, Mary Bui ney Porter, Ada Louise.Proctor, Annie Louise Shellman, Celia Stern, Sadie Josie Strate, Julia Huguenin Thomas, Alice May White, Josie Elizabeth White, Emma Arthur Williams. 244 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOBT. BOYS. Joseph Louis Audesey, Edward Francis O'Connor, John Berners Barnwell, Robert Lee Ryan, Guillemain Bourquin, EdwardWorthington Smith, Henry Martyn Drane, Francis Lee Threadcraft, James Ralston Lattimore, Domingo Anthony Usina. CLASS OF 1887. GIRLS. Minnie Rosalie Bannon, Mary Grice Bogart, Fannie Hynson Carson, Mary S. Cox, Mary Louise Davis, Pauline Marie Decker, Annie Elizabeth Gordon, Louise Gertrude Middleton, Emmie Morgan, Mary Dixon Proctor, Lillie Selig, Lillie Lee Spann. BOYS. Preston Stanley Arkwright, Benjamin Palmer Axson, Hugh Cunningham Banks, Richard Dryland Fox, Charles Fraser Fulton, Henry Scudder Jaudon, Lewis Herndon Mercer, Charles Stuart Park, Heyward Ravenel, Robert Stephen Reid, Hugh Miller Train, Michael Neligan Usina, William Waller, Alonzo Minor West, Davant Williams. CLASS OF 1888. GIRLS. Mary Louise Adams, Emma Barksdale Hopkins, Maxie Nina Best, Alice Mary McCall, Isabel Black, Isabel Marie Murphy, Phoebe Herbert Elliott, Mary Lulu Richmond, Edna R. Fennell, Fannie Wenona Saussy, Agnes Lane Gray, Carrie C. Scheiging, MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 245 Jessie Gross, Ella Marie Shivers, Elizabeth Hardee, Adelaide G. Stone, Meta Hartley Heyward, Jeannette Whitcomb Ward, Alice Maud Williams. BOYS. Noble Calhouu Banks, Barron Carter, Albert Ehrlich, Charles Garfunkel, Lester Thomas Hubbell, Henry Lee Richmond, William Joseph Quantock, William Hazelhurst Winu. CLASS OF 1889. OIRLS. Ida Boley, Elise M. Bryan, Frances K. Bulcken, Lillian Fleetwood, Anna C. Harmon, Georgia C. Howard, Ellen Jett Howard, Emma* Hunter; Emily S. Jaudon, Birdie Kayton, Ella V. Lane, Bessie G. Landershine, Ira Garnett Launey, May Murphy, Nellie M. O'Brien, Gertha Oppenheimer, Rosa K. Platshek, Mattie M. Shelluia0, Annie Solte, Annie M. Winn. BOYS. Randolph Keith Axson, Henry Blun, E. Gerry Cabaniss, Josiah T. Clarke, Jr., Louis H. Haym, Charles Inglesby, Harry H. Lattimore, Robert L. Mercer, William Morel, G. Barnard Pritchard, George N. Spring, George H. Welbrock, Charles W. West. 246 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. i 1 CLASS OF 1890. GIBLS. ; Augusta G. Alexander, Annie C. Griffin, Sallie L. Baker, Clifford Gross, Alice W. Bates, Katharine Ledlie, Fannie 0. Bradley, May B. Middleton, Emily L. Crawford, Dora Muhlberg, Lucile Desbouillons, Maggie Z. Quantock, Mary Flatley, Helen S. Smith, Marena Fulford, Mattie K. Whiteside. BOYS. George W. Beckett, Edward C. A. Mercer, A. Sidney Cooper, Rodolph M. Richards, Ed. Drayton Lynah, Rufus G. Richards, Charles W. McCall, Charles H. Richardson, W. Louis Vogel. CLASS OF 1891. i ' GIRLS. Jane McBailey, AUce M. Metzger, Eliza M. Cabauiss, Leila E. Morgan, Margaret M. Coburn, Agnes C. O'Brien, Josie E. Collins, Florence M. Olmstead, Catherine B. Ham, Estelle Peas^, Ruth Kayton, Romanna H. Riley, Gazelle M. Launey, Annie M. Welbrook, Gertrude R. White. \ BOYS. * Harry M. Aveilhe, Frederick T. Saussy, | William B. Crawford, Jacob G. Smith, | Robert G. Gadsden, Edward L. Stoddard, Julian S. Hexter, William A. Strachan, David Porter, Herbert S. West. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 247 CLASS OF 1892. GIRLS. Annie A. Alien, Carrie A. Carter, Sallie H. Colburn, Annie D. Davis, Bella B. Einstein, Lilla E. Exley, Francis B. Haupt, Pamela Lamar, Leila A. Hall, Ellen T. Loidviska M. LaRoche, Conelia E. Lee, Jennie W. May, Mamie Pritchard, Susan L. Reppard, Florence L. Richardson, Valleska Riley, Evelyn C. Smith, Theodora J. Spann, Reynolds. BOYS. Henry L. Backus, Edwin S. Epstein, Robert A. Crawford, George.H. Groth, Robert D. Dripps, Paul Pritchard, Henry L. Purse. 248 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SAVANNAH, GA. RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 1. Stated monthly meetings of the Board shall be held on the second Monday of each month. 2. Five members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 3. The officers of the Board shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. The Secretary and Treasurer may be persons not members of the Board. 4. At the first meeting of the Board in each year the President shall appoint the following standing committees, viz: On School Houses, on Finance, on Text Books, on Examination of Teachers, on Supplies, on Accounts, and also a Visiting Committee for each month of the school year. It shall be the duty of the Visiting Committees to visit each of the schools, and also the normal class, and report at the next regular meeting of the Board. GENERAL RULES. 1. The school year shall begin on the first Monday in October, and continue until the last day of June. 2. There shall be one session daily (Saturdays and Sundays excepted), commencing at 9 o'clock A. M. and closing at 2 o'clock p. M. 3. The schools shall be opened with the reading of the Scriptures and the Lord's Prayer. 4. There shall be one recess of a half hour each day. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 248 5. The regular promotion of scholars shall be made in July of each year, but occasional promotions may be made at the discretion of the Superintendent. 6. The following holidays shall be allowed: One week including Christmas Day, one week including the first day of May, and such other days as are commonly obsen ed in this city as general holidays. In the Catholic schools such additional holidays shall be given as are usual in those schools. 7. No one shall be admitted a pupil into the public schools under six years of age. 8. There shall be one annual public examination during the last week in April, but there shall be as many private examinations as the Board and Superintendent may deem proper. 9. All applications for admission into any of the schools must be made on Monday of each week to the Superintendent, who may admit pupils in the order of their application. 10. In order to prevent the interruption of teachers during school hours, parents and others desiring to transact an\T school business must call on the Superintendent at the time specially appropriated to general school business. 11. In the relation existing among the teachers of the public schools, the directions of the Superintendent must be followed by the other teachers, and the directions of the Principals by the assistant teachers, in the business of the schools. 12. The text books used must be such as are approved by the Board. In the Catholic schools they shall be the same as are used in the other 26O MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. public schools, except books on history, geography and reading books. 13. Corporal punishment shall not be inflicted on any scholar in the public schools. . 14. At the regular meeting of the Board in June of each year an election shall be held for all the teachers of the public schools under the control of the Board. 15. All elections of teachers shall be subject to revocation whenever, in the judgment of the Board, they shall upon trial prove deficient in any necessary qualification. 16. The Treasurer of the Board shall be elected at the monthly meeting in January in each year. SUPERINTENDENT. 1. He shall devote himself to the study of the public school system, and to an examination into the condition of the schools, and shall keep himself acquainted with the progress of instruction and discipline in other places in order to suggest appropriate means for the advancement of public schools in this city and county. . 2. He shall be Principal of the Normal Class and shall exercise a constant personal supervision over all the schools, and visit and examine them as often as practicable. 3. He shall transfer scholars from one school or class to another, and require each teacher to have a programme of exercises and a record containing the class-standing of each scholar in scholarship, deportment and attendance. 4. He shall have power to dismiss any scholar for the habitual violation of any school regula- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 251 tion, for violent opposition or other gross misconduct, or whenever, by continued absence, tardiness, or otherwise, the example of such scholar is injurious to the school. In such cases he shall notify the parents or guardian, and also the Board, to whom an appeal may be made. 5. He shall make a monthly report to the President of the Board of the absence or tardiness of any of the teachers, either from their school duties or from attendance on the Normal Class. 6. He shall provide suitable persons to keep the school houses and grounds in proper order, the expense of which services shall be paid from the school fund. 7. He shall make an annual report on the condition of the schools at the meeting of the Board in August of each year, and shall make such suggestions as may, in his judgement, tend to promote their greatest efficiency. 8. He shall, at the regular meeting of the Board in June of each year, present a report, giving the names of such teachers as may have shown incompetency or inefficie icy. .9. In addition to the foregoing he shall perform such duties appropriate to his position as Superintendent as the Board shall prescribe, TEACHERS. 1. All teachers shall be in attendance at their respective schools at least thirty minutes before the time prescribed for commencing the exercises of the school, and shall require their scholars to be in their seats punctually at the appointed hour. 2. The teachers of each school shall, in turn, be present on the grounds with the scholars at recess. 5353 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 3. The principal teacher of each school shall keep a register, in which shall be recorded each scholar's name and residence, and each teacher i i* shall also keep a class-book, in which shall be recorded the standing of every scholar in recitation, deportment and punctuality. S 4. The principal teacher of each school shall i prescribe such rules and regulations for the use of the grounds as shall ensure their being kept in a 1 proper condition, and shall report any disorder promptly to the Superintendent. 5. All the teachers shall exercise a vigilant care over the general conduct of their scholars in the school room, on the play ground, and, as far as : possible, on their going to and returning from i- school. I 6. Teachers who are absent from the school or the Normal class, or tardy in attendance, shall be required to present a written excuse to the Superintendent on the following Monday. 7. Teachers shall be careful that no part of the school building, furniture or apparatus be defaced or injured. They shall also keep their rooms well ventilated and at a uniform temperature. 8. They shall maintain strict order and discipline in their classes, and aim at the greatest thoroughness and accuracy in giving instruction; and, in case of failure in lessons, disobedience or disT * order, may exercise the milder means of discipline; but in case of continued disobedience or insubor- ! dination, shall report the facts to the principal. i 9. Teachers shall have the right to recall, in the > afternoon, scholars who constantly neglect the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 253 preparation of their lessons, or who may be guilty of misconduct during the school session. 10. Assistant teachers shall teach the classes of regular teachers who, from any cause, may be absent. They shall take charge of the class of the Principal in his absence from the room. When not engaged in these duties, they shall visit, as far as practical, all the classes, in order to become familiar with the methods of discipline and instruction employed in the schools. 11. Principals have the right to suspend any scholar guilty of willful and repeated disobedience. Such suspensions shall be promptly reported to the Superintendent for his approval or his disapproval. 12. No presents shall be received by any of the teachers of the public schools from their pupils, as such. 13. No person sh all be elected a teacher in the public schools who shall not have first passed a satisfactory examination, in the presence of a committee of the Board, on all the studies usually pursued in grammar schools. Candidates for the position of teacher in the high schools shall also be examined in all the studies of that department. NORMAL CLASS. 1. There shall be a Normal Class for instruction of the teachers of the public schools, and of such other persons in this city and county as may desire to prepare themselves to be teachers. 2. All the teachers of the public schools in the city shall be required to attend upon this class regularly and punctually, and to prepare such exercises as shall be prescribed for the class by the Board or Superintendent. f , 264 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1 | 3. This class shall be under the charge of the j Superintendent, and shall be subject to such rules ! and regulations of the public schools as the Board | shall prescribe. i 4. This class shall meet every Friday afternoon during the school year, and continue in session two hours. I 5. The "course of study" as prescribed by the s Board for this class shall be taught with special ' reference to the practical work of teaching, and the members of the class will be expected to prepare themselves thoroughly and with a view to their daily duties. 6. Members of this class shall always have the preference in case of appointment, to fill any vacancy that may occur among the teachers of the ; public schools. i 7. Members of this class who complete the pre1 scribed course shall receive a certificate from the 1 President of the Board and the Superintendent, ] stating that they are well qualified to instruct in j all the branches usually taught in grammar schools i and female seminaries. SCHOLARS. 1. Scholars are prohibited from assembling about the school houses or grounds before the ringing of the first bell. 2. They are required to be neat and cleanly at all times, in their dress and appearance. 3. They are required to be faithful and punctual in the performance of their school duties, to attend to the lessons assigned to be prepared at home, and in school to give exclusive, constant, and quiet attention to their own proper business. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. S6S 4. Scholars who shall be absent or tardy must bring to the Principal of the school a written excuse, signed by the parent or guardian; and should such excuse not be satisfactory, must make up all lessons lost by such absence or tardiness. 5. Scholars absent from school four days in four successive weeks, except for Providential cause, shall forfeit their seats. Two cases of tardiness shall be considered equivalent to one case of absence. 6. Scholars absent from school for more than three weeks, from any cause, shall be liable to forfeit their seats, unless such absence be satisfactorily explained, but they may be placed first on the list of applicants. 7. Scholars shall not leave school for the purpose of attending to any other duties, nor leave the grounds of the school at recess without permission of the Principal. 8. Scholars may write their names upon the title pages of their books, but not otherwise mark or deface them. 9. Scholars who shall be absent from any of the reviews or examinations shall forfeit their seats, unless satisfactory reasons be given to the Superintendent. 10. Those scholars who leave school before the close of the scholastic year shall not be permitted to rejoin their respective classes until they have passed a satisfactory examination on the required studies. 11. Scholars who shall leave any of the public schools without first notifying the Superintendent, 256 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. will have their names stricken from the registry, unless a satisfactory reason be given. 12. Scholars will render themselves liable to expulsion by repeated and obstinate disobedience, quarreling, disorderly conduct, using profane or unchaste language, smoking or chewing tobacco, defacing property, truancy or persistent violations of any of the rules and regulations. 13. Scholars who fail to return in the afternoon, when required by their teachers, shall forfeit their seats, unless a satisfactory written excuse be sent to the Principal by their parents. 14. Scholars are subject to the rules and regulations of the public schools while going to and returning from the same. 15. No pupil shall be admitted into the public school without giving satisfactory evidence of having been vaccinated. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 25? REPORTS OF CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. SAVANNAH HOSPITAL. FOB OFFICIAL YEAR, FEBRUARY 1st, 1892, TO JANUARY 31si, 1893. Number of patients remaining Feb. 1st. 1892.. 64 Number of patients admitted from Feb. 1st, 1891, to Jan. 31st, 1892.......................... 570 Number of patients discharged from Feb. 1st, 1891, to Jan. 31st, 1892.......................... 540 Number of patients died from Feb. 1st, 1891, to Jan. 31st, 1892 ................................. 45 Number of patients remaining Feb. 1st, 1893. 49 Total number treated................................ 634 Largest number in hospital at any time........ 69 Smallest number in hospital at any time........ 37 Average number of attendants.................... 21 Total expense for year.....................$13,954 27 Still-born ............................................... 2 Brought in moribund................................ 3 Mortality per cent.................................... 7.09 Mortality exclusive of moribund cases and still born................................................... 6.62 City appropriation for 1892.................$3,600 00 17 268 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. ST. JOSEPH'S INFIRMARYJULY, 1893. Number of patients remaining January, 1892. 36 Number admitted from January 1st, 1892, to January 1st, 1893.................................. 345 Number discharged from January 1st, 1892, to January 1st, 1893............................... 347 Number of deaths from January 1st, 1892, to January 1st, 1893................. ............. 13 Number remaining January 1st, 1893........... 21 Total number treated....................... ........ 381 Largest number at any time ....................... 44 Smallest number at anytime..................... 21 GEORGIA INFIRMARY. TKEASURER'S REPORT. SAVANNAH, GA., Jan. 1st, 1893. To balance on hand last annual report ...$ 2,719 08 To cash during year 1892......................... 9,425 56 Total..............................................$12,144 64 To amount as expended by vouchers 1892 11,866 92 ! To balance on hand Jan. 1st, 1893 .........$ 277 72 THE SOURCES OP REVENUE HAVE BEEN: ; ; To cash city of Savannah monthly appropriation at $300 per month ....... 3,600 00 To cash annual appropriation Chatham County............................................... J,500 00 : To cash special appropriation city of 1 Sav. for repairs to buildings paid April loth, deposited in Chatham Bank and drawing interest 4 per ' cent.................................................. 1,530 25 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Q&Q To cash special appropriation Chatham County for repairs to buildings ....... 1,500 00 To cash appropriation Louisa Porter Aid Society for repairs to buildings 508 54 To cash pay patients........ ............... ....... 16 50 To cash dividends Reppard Iron Co..... 62 50 To cash Louisa Porter Aid Society to assist in paying salaries of trained nurses .............................................. 12000 To cash loan Chatham Bank .. .......... 587 77 Total.......... .............................. ...$ 9,425 56 ASSETS. Ten (10) shares Reppard Iron Co., donated by R. B. Reppard, Esq., par value $100 per share........................S 1,000 00 Number of patients remaining in Infirmary Jan. 1st, '92.......... ............. 41 Number of patients admitted to Infirmary during 1892.............................. 427 Total................................................ 468 Number of patients discharged from Infirmary during 1892 .................. 323 Number of patients died in Infirmary during 1892 ....................................... Ill Number of patients remaining in Infirmary Jan. 1st, '93........................ . 34 Average number of attendants................ 10 Largest number of patients at any one time .................................................... 50 Smallest number of patients at any one time ........ ......................................... 17 26O MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Average number of patients during 1892 33.5 Mortality during 1892.................... ......... 23.71 Expenses per annum............................. $6,277 47 Expenses per diem ................................. $17 20 Expenses per capita per diem........ ....... 51 REPAIRS. To amount expended for repairs to Infirmary buildings including architect's fee........................................... $4,671 45 To amount expended for temporary wards.................................................. 918 00 $5,589 45 The high rate of mortality is due to the fact that a very large per cent, of the patients are brought to the hospital in a dying condition. The high cost per capita per diem is due to the extra expenses incident upon the removal of the patients from the main building and the occupancy of the temporary wards during the time of repairs to the main buildings. Respectfully submitted. THOMAS J. CHARLTON, Treasurer. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 2361 BETHESDA ORPHAN HOME. 143D ANNIVERSARY. THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. BETHESDA, April 25th, 1893. To the Members of the Union Society: It is my pleasant duty to report that the affairs of the Society are in a healthy and prosperous condition. That is, the Society is doing more than ever in caring for orphan and friendless boys. The expenses of the Society, however, have exceeded its income by nearly $2,000. This deficit is mainly due to the failure of the Central Railroad to meet its obligations. A little retrenchment here and there, and closing the technological School for the present, will bring the expenses of the orphan home within the Society's income. The Society may be therefore considered in fairly good financial condition, and there is no necessity for any curtailment of its work except in the matter referred to and to which I shall again refer. The expense of maintaining Bethesda for the past year, including repairs and additions, amounted to $12,537.12. The increase over last year is owing to the additional number of boys, and also to the advance in the cost of supplies. The various investments and other resources should bring into the treasury $11,840, but nothing was received during last year from $11,400 of Central Railroad debentures, or from a $1,000 Central railroad bond, and in all probability the 52 shares of stock of the Augusta and Savannah Railroad will also soon cease, temporarily, I hope, 262 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. to be a source of income. These defaults will reduce the net income of the Society to $10,722.08. Under a resolution of the Board of Managers, adopted February 21st, the stock of the Augusta and Savannah Kailroad, amounting to $5,200, $11,400 Central Railroad debentures and $10,000 Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad bonds have been placed in the hands of the reorganization committee of the Central Railroad. The attorneys of the Society having advised the acceptance of the offer made by the representatives of the estate of Finigan, in regard to lots 105, 111 and 112 Springfield plantation, with the consent of the Board of Managers, I accepted $5,749.25 net, in full settlement of all claims of the Society against that property. The principal of the Bethesda School tendered his resignation January 31st and it was accepted. Since that time the school has been in the charge of the assistant teachers. The vacancy will be filled as soon as a suitable person can be found. During the past year we have lost three members by removal, eleven by resignation and four by death. We have added eleven new members to the roll, making a loss of seven members. There are now 191 members on the roll. The Society has lost four members by death since my last report, viz: Messrs. Samuel S. Guckenheimer, Dominic Brown, Osceola Butler and G. W. Haslam. Mr. Butler was Chairman of the Stewards for many years, and a more faithful and efficient officer the Society never had. Mr. Brown was a devoted member. He bequeathed $1,000 to MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 263 the Society, which amount was promptly paid over by his executors. There have been 150 boys at Bethesda since the last anniversary ; 35 boys have left, and 44 have been admitted, and there are 106 boys now in the Orphan House. There was one death, Charles Palletier, who died at his mother's residence in Savannah. Thirty-four boys are under instruction in the Technological School in wood turning, bench work and blacksmithing. They have made fair progress, but boys at Bethesda, as a rule, are too young when they enter to avail themselves of the advantages offered by the manual training school, and when they get old enough they leave the institution to earn a living for themselves and others. Of course all boys can be compelled to remain until they are eighteen years of age, but when there are so many calls upon the Society for the admission of little boys who cannot help themselves, let alone help others, it is not good policy or good charity to compel large boys to remain in order to give them a technological education. The Board of Managers at my suggestion has directed that the Technological School be closed, at least for a while, and it will be discontinued as soon as the term of Mr. Hunter's engagement expires. In this connection I would say that Mr. Hunter, the instructor in the technological department, is a competent teacher and a faithful and courteous officer, and we shall part with him with regret. Mrs. Turner, the matron, resigned her position and Miss H. E. Gillespie was appointed on the 15th 264 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. of May last to the vacancy. Miss N. F. Wallis resigned her position as teacher July 1st last, and F. W. Oborn, the Bethesda boy whom the Society sent to Emory College, and who had returned, was appointed to fill the place. The committee appointed to revise the by-laws of the Society performed that duty and the revised ] laws were published in the last annual report. I The Bethesda School was examined by the com- | mittee from the public schools a few weeks since. ? I have not yet received the committee's report, but understand they were well pleased with the school. The farming operations are about as usual. Enough is raised to furnish an ample supply of vegetables for those living on the place. Superintendent Chaplin is as efficient as ever. The other officers and employees have also done well. Mrs. Ferguson and her family have continued in the good work in the Sabbath school. Messrs. Lawton & Cunningham and Lester & Ravenel, attorneys, and Doctors Duncan, Colding and Dupont have placed us under obligations for free professional services. Inviting your attention to accompanying reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent, and thanking you for your continued support and confidence, I am, Respectfully, J. H. ESTILL, President. The reports of the Treasurer and the Superintendent were read and received. I MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 265 The annual election of officers was held, and the following gentlemen unanimously elected : PresidentJ. H. Estill. Vice-PresidentD. R. Thomas. TreasurerE. W. Cubbedge. SecretaryW. K. Wilkinson. The President announced that he reappointed the Board of Managers, as follows : T. Ballantyne, E. F. Lovell, R. E. Lester, R. G. Fleming, R. B. Reppard, S. P. Hamilton, Samuel Herman, J. A. G. Carson, Samuel B. Adams. And the following Stewards : J. B. Fernandez, C. W. Strobhar, R. P. Lovell, A. S. Nichols, H. J. Sutcliffe, Walter Coney, H. W. Cowan, J. S. Collins, R. D. Lattimore. The following were elected members of the Society: N. T. Harrison, W. C. Powell, J. T. Cohen, Salomon Cohen, T. D. Rockwell, D. P. Myerson, Dr. M. Schwab, W. E. Wimpy, Edw. W. Brown, B. H. Levy, George Schwarz, Joseph A. Galina, A. S. Alexander, C. S. Rockwell, A. P. Solomon. Mrs. Mary K. Elliott and Mrs. M. E. White were, on the recommendation of the Board of Managers, elected honorary members of the Society. The President announced that just before he entered the room he had received from Wymberly Wormsloe DeRenne, Esq., a check for $100. The 266 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Secretary was directed to return the thanks of the Society to Mr, DeRenne for his liberal donation. The Committee on By-Laws made a report that they had revised the by-laws, and that they had been adopted by the Managers and printed in the proceedings of 1892. On motion the report of the committee was received and the action of the Board of Managers confirmed. The question of building the eastern wing of the Orphan House was brought up and elicited considerable discussion, and the matter was disposed of by the adoption of the following resolution : Resolved, That the Board of Managers be requested to build the wing as soon as the finances of the Society will permit. THE EXERCISES. The members then repaired to the stand under the oaks, where, after a prayer by Rev. Dr. W. C. Schaeffer of the Lutheran church, T. D. Rockwell, Esq., made a very interesting extempore address to the boys, and which was equally as interesting to the members of the Society and others who had the pleasure of listening to it: t ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. Gentlemen of the Union Society, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Boys: A committee of gentlemen came to my office a few days ago and invited me to come to Bethesda to-day and talk to the boys, and that invitation was accepted. To my astonishment and dismay I read in the Morning News the next day that I MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 267 would deliver the anniversary address of the Union Society. Address is a formidable word to me, and I apprehend it is in no less a measure to you, so I am going to discard and put aside the address part of this programme entirely and carry out my first contract with a talk to the boys. I am fond of talking to boys, because I am one of them myself, and always will be, notwithstanding the fact that Father Time is using his best endeavors to convince me to the contrary by giving me quite a number of gray hairs. I was born a boy, I have lived a boy, and I expect to die a boy, though my term of life be an hundred years. The grown folks in this large audience must not complain at anything that is said here to-day, because this is not their frolic, and they are only here cum gratia puerae. We boys are going to have this a good, old-fashioned informal talk among ourselves, and while we are glad to have the old folks here they must not complain. My privileges in this talk reminds me of the difference between an exhorter and a preacher, as explained by old Uncle Pompey to his Marse Billie. Pompey had been going very regularly to a protracted meeting held at the village church and had been taking a little more than the usual interest in the devotional exercises, in the way of calling up the brethren to the mourners' bench and abusing them for their past misdeeds. On seeing him one morning after a specially interesting meeting the night before his master said to him : " Pompey, I hear you have gone to preaching?" 268 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. "No, massa, I ain't no preach." "Well, what were you doing last night at the church?" "Marse Billie, I jist been 'zortin'." "What is the difference?" asked his master. "Well, Marse Billie, when a man preach he tek he tex' and spect ter stick to um, but wen he zorts he kin branch." I reserve to myself the right to branch ad libitum. Now, boys, do you ever think when you look around you at the grown men that all of them have been boys just as you are? that they have probably ' w done just the same things in their daily life that . i you do? that they have sat hour after hour in the J i hot sun patiently holding a fishing-rod and never j ' , I getting a bite save from the energetic sand-fly or I . \ the persevering mosquito? that they have had their i| ,j # toe stumped as many times as you have and nursed \'. '! as many stone-bruises as the most unlucky of you? i . ; Ah, yes, we have all been through it, for all men have been boys, and would like to be again and risk the chances of the sore toes and stone-bruises. I said all men had been boys, but the assertion was a mistake, for there is one exception. One man has never been a boy and his name was Adam. You all have heard of him, no doubt, and pitied him. Poor old Adam I Never played marbles or baseball, never flew a kite, never stuck pins in the other boysin fact never had any fun at all and missed the best part of his life. Now, I never thought Eve missed much by being born a woman, because girls have no fun anywaj'. Playing with dolls and such stuff is no fun and MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 26D you boys all know it. Girls are all right when they grow up, but when they are little you boys will all agree with me that they are a failure. They are too easily frightened to be much pleasure to a reckless, don't-care boy, for haven't you noticed how sister Jane will tell mamma about John's going swimming, and always say he is certain to be drowned because she read in the paper that very day about a boy being drowned? But when that sister grows up and begins to have beaux come around to see her, don't that little brother make it warm for them. He is always on hand to get a full share of the candy the beau brings, and for a consideration to impart certain information about sister Jane's false hair, etc., which is not expected to be known outside the bosom of the family. I knew a boy once (I am not mentioning any names) who played an awful trick on his sister and her favorite young man. Mamma and papa had selected this particular beau as the pick of the flock and had made up their minds that he was a proper person for sister Jane's husband. Sister Jane liked him also and was using her best endeavors to bring him into the matrimonial net. They went lo ride one day and little brother wanted to go with them and sit in the middle, but both the beau and sister Jane objected, and their only reason was that they did not want him. He could not understand then why it was that his company was not desirable, but having since grown to manhood it is quite plain to him. On being refused and insulted in such a very pointed manner his soul thirsted for revenge and he determined to get even. He counted his 27O MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. cash first and found that his entire resources, in- | eluding capital, surplus and undivided profits, 5] amounted to just five cents. The amount being :| sufficient for his needs, he betook himself to his i* friend, the groceryman, and invested his entire i cash in Limburger cheese. Are you boys acquainted : with this variety of cheese? It is that kind that a blind man recognizes twenty steps away from him. Armed with his instrument of torture he went home. It was no trouble to find out when the ; favorite swain would call and, late in the evening, ': he slipped into the parlor and put that piece of ' cheese in the lining of the sofa. He then got out on the veranda and peeped through the blinds to see the effect of his scheme. The beau came, arrayed in the best production of the tailor's art, and on being admitted by the servant took a seat in the chair in the parlor and awaited the coming 4 of his loved one. After a few little fixings she ': came in with her best dress and sweetest smile on. ft Sister Jane sat on the dangerous sofa and the beau > |! came over and sat by her. Then the trouble began ' in earnest. They both detected something wrong i about the same time, but each thought the other f the guilty one. The beau was sure he had used J! no such perfume, and sister Jane as well knew her I' dressing-case contained no such odor. They talked awhile but it was evident that both were more interested in something else than the conversation. Of course this state of affairs could not last long. The beau bade the one he had loved so well a frigid adieu, and she gave him an injured and haughty good-bye. "And he never came back." Of course that boy could not keep the joke to MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 271 himself, so he told his chum.and his chum told some one else, till finally it reached the ears of pater familias. That night another tragedy was enacted with the scene changed from the parlor to the wood-shed. The father played the leading part of executioner and the boy in the character of victim. Now, boys, I am going to "branch" and take a. few minutes of your time to talk seriously to you and to say a few words of warning and advice, which, coming from a boy who knows what he is talking about, may be worth something to you if you will only remember it. If I can only impress upon you four points of demeanor for your future lives I will consider my time out here not only a pleasure to me but a profit to you. These four things are: First, Honesty; second, Truthfulness; third, Consideration for others; and fourth, Sobriety, and I propose to take them one at a time. You will, as you travel through the rocky paths of life, often hear it questioned that honesty is the best policy, and many men sunk too low for the consideration of good people, will tell you of this man and that man who has thrived and prospered by dishonest methods, but if you will take the trouble to investigate their career from beginning to end you will find their downfall written upon the history of their doings, and you will find their lives blighted and made unhappy by the very self-knowledge of their dishonesty. In some parts of the land honesty is a rare quality, but always admired even by those who practice it least. I remember hearing a story of the early days of the great West, when all classes of people had gathered at 272 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. the gold fields in search of wealth. A bank had been opened, and instead of the miners depositing dollars and cents, they deposited their gold dust, and got credit in the bank's books for so many ounces, pennyweights, etc. A young man came to the teller's window one day and handed in a littlo bag of gold dust and asked to have it weighed and placed to his credit. The teller told him he had enough to amount to two hundred and sixty-four dollars. "That is correct," said the young depositor, "but there was a mistake in the amount I sent last month, and I want to have it corrected." "We correct no mistakes," responded "the teller. I !|_ "I am very sorry, but it is not business." "But," I I said the young man, "You must correct one, because you paid me ninety dollars too much." "That is a different thing," said the teller, "and I will deduct it from your deposit to-day." As the | young man turned to go an old miner who had 1 ' been a witness to the transaction touched him on the arm and inquired, "Stranger, ain't you mighty lonesome out here ?" Now, boys, be honest, and don't have it said that an honest boy is lonesome out here. On all occasions, and under all circumstances, tell the truth. Let no one beguile you into believing that sometimes a lie will do better than the truth. Some of these grown up people here might think of this with great profit to themselves, for young people are not the only ones who lie. Grown folks sometimes tell lies that are quickly noticed by small boys, too. I am remindfed of the story my friend Cope Wmslow told the Georgia Legislature after he had been a candidate before MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 273 that body and not half who had promised to vote for him had fulfilled their contract. It was about a little boy who lived near the great city of Chicago. Although this boy had been born and lived all his life within a short distance of the city he had never been allowed to see its wonders and its beauties. His father and mother had promised him many times to take him the next time they went, but they always put him off with some excuse. One day after he had gotten all ready to go, dressed in his Sunday clothes and everything in shipshape order, he was told by his father and mother that they would be too busy in town and he would have to wait till next time to go. He patiently waited, and the time came, but it was the same story, and with a full heart he saw them drive off and leave him. Then he burst out crying, and cried as if his heart would break. A kind-hearted man passing that way stopped and asked his trouble. "I want to go to town," sobbed the boy, and ma and pa promised to take me and didn't do it." "Oh, I would not cry about that," said the man. "You must'nt cry togoto Chicago." "I wasn't crying about that, but if you had for a father and mother the two durndest liars in this country I guess you would cry too," blubbered out the boy. Have consideration for the feelings of your fellow creatures, boys, and avoid doing or saying things that add much to the unhappiness of others and add no happiness to yourselves. There are so many occasions in the daily life of every one, when by a kind word or good deed pleasure may be given to others, that it does seem strange that its 274 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. any of these opportunities would be allowed to pass unnoticed. Never fail to relieve suffering if you can, and not only bodily suffering, but that which is worse, mental suffering. One word will sometime relieve a mind of a load of trouble, and you will find it not only make others happy to be kind and gentle and generous, but it will make you so too. Don't drink, boys. It is foolish and unnecessary, and no man who drinks to excess but is willing to acknowledge himself a fool. It is the most useless and most harmful of all the so-called pleasures. If there is any pleasure in it it is more than overbalanced by the remorse and degraded feeling after it is over. I will tell you a story I once heard, *; which will illustrate to you just how big a fool 1! intoxicating liquor can make of a sensible man. Two men went out together one night and before morning both had become beastly drunk and laid down on the ground and gone to sleep. They woke up about ten o'clock in the morning, still stupid from the night's debauch. "Good morning, John," said one. "Good evening, Jim," said the other. "Thish ish not evening, it ish morning," said the first. "No," said the other, "it ish evening." After disputing for some time about whether it was evening or morning, and whether the suu was the sun or whether it was the moon, they decided to leave it to the first man they met So staggering down the street they came to a man just a little worse off from whisky than themselves. "Mister/' said Jim, "my friend and I want you to shettle a dispute: He says it ish evening and that that ish the moon, and I shay it ish morning and MAYOB'S ANNUAL REPORT. 275 thatish the sun; now, what you shay? After taking a little firmer hold on the lamp post he was hugging, the new man slowly looked up at the sun and then answered, "my frens, you mush 'xcuse me, I am a stranger in theshe parts." Now, I wonder if some of you boys have not been saying, "It is all very well for that fellow to advise us, but I wonder if he follows his own ad vice?" In middle Georgia, where I used to live, in going from Griffin to Zebulon the road forks and in the angle stands a post that has been there many years. On one side are the words, "Zebulon, 7 miles," and on the other, "Barnesville, 8 miles." If one of you boys were traveling that road and wanted to go to Zebulon, would you question the correctness of that old post? or would you ask if the post takes its own advice? Consider me, boys, an old guide-post standing here showing you two roads. One is the road which leads to happiness, and the other to ruin. Take your choice and be convinced, and then when you have reached the end of either, let your minds turn back to the beautiful spring day at Bethesda, when a grown-up boy stood before you, like the old guide-post, and pointed you to the right road. God grant that you may take the right one, and if I have been the means of any of you doing so, my time has been well spent in "talking to the boys." At the close of Mr. Rockwell's remarks the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the thanks of the Society are hereby tendered to Mr. T. D. Rockwell for his cheerful response on so short a notice to the invitation, and for his instructive and interesting ad- 276 MAYOR'S ANNUAL KEPOBT. dress, and that he be requested to furnish a copy of it for publication in the annual report. The young ladies of the Female Orphan House, who were invited guests of the Union Society, sang a few sweet hymns, and with them closed the 143d anniversary. The following were among the members present: Messrs. D. R. Thomas, S. Herman, R. D. Walker, E. W. Cubbedge, John B. Fernandez, W. K. Wilkinson, A. Kessel, S. P. Hamilton, W. B. Metzger, A. S. Nichols, William Rogers, J. Cooper Harris, W. W. Pringle; A. P. Solomon, T. D. Rockwell, J. A. Strauss, H. W. Cowan, R. B. Reppard, R. P. Lovell, W. E. Coney, R. M. Butler, Waring Russell, M. J. Solomons, H. J. Sutcliffe and others. SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. BETHESDA, April 25th, 1893 Col. J. H. Estill, President Union Society. DEAR SIRIn accordance with the usual custorn I herewith submit my annual report on the condition of Bethesda and work done -during the year. The two 14-acre fields were planted last year in oats, which were a total failure on account of drought and poverty of the soil. Both of these fields are again planted with oats, and will not produce enough to pay for the cultivation. The 3i-acre field has been well fertilized with manure from cow lot, and will be planted with sweet potatoes. We gathered 525 bushels of sweet potatoes from the 3-acre field last year. This field and the li-acre field is planted this year with MAYOR'S ANNUAL KEPORT. 277 Irish potatoes, green corn, tomatoes, snap beans, butter beans, okia, cabbage, green peas, onions and beets, all of which are in good condition and will furnish us with all the vegetables we need. We cut and cured enough hay to feed the cows and mules during the year. The barn and cow sheds are in a dilapidated condition and should be replaced with new ones as soon as possible. The rest of the outbuildings are in fair condition. A considerable portion of the fencing is in poor condition and will have to be rebuilt during the year. Under your instructions I have had the first and second halls of the main building and the wash, sewing and sick rooms ceiled and the walls whitewashed, at a cost of $263.52 for material. The work was done by the boys of the technological department, under the supervision of Mr. Hunter, and will compare favorably with similar work done by regular mechanics. We have killed 23 hogs and 8 pigs the past year, making about 2,500 Ibs. of pork. Four milch cows, 5 calves and several hogs have died during the year. LIVE STOCK. Two mules, 1 horse, 11 cows, 14 calves, 8 hogs, 25 pigs. DONATIONS AXD FAVORS. City & Suburban R. R.Free pass for market boy. Col. J. H. EstillDaily News. Doctors Duncan, Colding and DupontMedical attention when needed. 278 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Dr. BackmanDental work. J. E. Grady& SonsCandy and apples. Wm. G. CooperBox raisins. W. K. WilkinsonBox oranges. Mrs. O. ButlerBox oranges. B. P. LovellLot Scribner's and Harper's magazines. The examination of the school took place on the 25th March and was conducted by Supt. W. H. Baker and Messrs. Train, Frank Ferguson and James Gillespie, and I respectfully refer you to their report for further information. Thirty-four boys are receiving instruction in the technological school in wood-turning, bench work and blacksmithing, and have made good progress under their competent teacher, Mr. Hunter, but, unfortunately, very few remain in the Home long enough to become mechanics, and when they leave they invariably follow trades that were not taught them, so that the school has practically been of little value to them. Mrs. Turner resigned her position as matron the 1st of last April and Miss H. E. Gillespie was appointed to fill the vacancy May 15th, 1892, and has given entire satisfaction. Miss. N. F. Wallis resigned her position as teacher July 1st, 1892, and F. W. Oborn was appointed to fill the position. Mr. J. M. Gillespie also resigned as teacher February 1st, 1893, and the position is still vacant. I send you a roll of boys at Bethesda,and names of those who have left the Home since April 1st, 1892; also names of those admitted since April 1st, 1892. The boys have enjoyed good health the past year, with the exception of the winter MAYOR'S ANNUAL JBBPOKT. 27S months, when they suffer from itch, caused, no doubt, from over-crowding. We lost one little fellow during the yearCharlie Palatier. He had been feeling badly off and on for a couple of weeks, and I allowed him to go to his mother in Savannah, where he died March 17th, just three weeks aftei. * The general behavior of the boys has been very good. They are required to rise at 6 a. m.; breakfast 7 a. m.; school from 8 to 1; taps 9 p. m. Work from two to three hours every afternoon. Preaching by Mr. Wilson every fourth Sunday, and Sabbath school every Sunday, conducted by Mr. Hunter, and others of the Home, assisted by neighbors. Respectfully submitted, A. V. CHAPLIN, Superintendent. SCHOOL EXAMINERS' REPORT. SAVANNAH, GA., April 17, 1893. Col. J. H. Estill, President Union Society: DEAR SIRI have the honor to report, that accompanied by Messrs. Train, O'Hara and Gillespie, I visited the school at Bethesda on the 25th day of March. We found the enrollment to be eightyfour (84) pupils. The school is divided into three classes, each under the control and instruction of a separate teacher. Owing to the resignation of Mr. J. M. Gillespie, the third or highest grade was temporarily without a teacher, and therefore appeared at a disadvantage. The other two grades were thoroughly examined, and it is only honest to state they did not show the proficiency noticed in former years. The first or lowest class was'.in 280 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. the best condition. Mr. Oborn, the teacher of the second class, being a teacher of very limited experience, should perhaps be excused for not bringing his boys up to the proper standard. It is hoped that his class will do better in future. We visited the technological department under the direction of Mr. Hunter, and were pleased with specimens of the boys' work. The boys seemed to be healthy and contented, and are certainly well i cared for by the efficient Superintendent, Mr. ! Chaplin. Very Respectfully, J W. H. BAKEK, for the Committee. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 281 TREASURER'S REPORT. E. It', (.tibbedy,. Treasurer, in. account with The, Union Society, j'or the Yiar ending March Slat, IS33. 1S92. RECEIPTS. May 2Balance cash ree'd from Jno. Sullivan, Treas...$18,738 62 " 2 From A. Hanley, bill April 17 1802, paid twice, 500 " 20-From Stewards, bill Champion & .Son, Nov. 25 1891, paid by Society.................................. 3 40 Oct. 15From executor estate D. Brown, bequest to Society................... ............................ ...... 1,000 00 Nov. 4From Corbin Lock Co., refunded for P. O. locks repaired............................................. 8 50 Dec. 28From J. J. Sullivan, donation............. ........... 40 84 TBLFAIB LEGACY H. Solomon & Sons, rent 1 year to April 1, 1893 ..... 1,200 00 SHRI.VGPIEI.D PLANTATION Jas. Jones, on ace unt rent..........................242 00 Jas. Walsh, on account rent........ ................ 85 00 Wm. Hone, 1 note and interest.................... 87 ti6 Received through Lawton & Cunningham from estate .los. Finnegan in full settlement of Society's interest in lots Nos. llland 112...........5,881 75 Less amount refunded by Lawton OF BOYS AT BETHESDA APRIL IST, 1893. NAME Adkins, Waller............. ............ Adkins, Clarence................ ....... Alflerman, Leroy....................... Alderman, Lester.... ................... Aldermau, Loring... .................. Bradshaw, James....................... Bradshaw, Henry...................... Brinson, William... .................... Blassingail, Henry..................... Browder Edward WHEN ADMITTED November 30, '87... November 30, '87... November 30, '8~... September 14, '91... September 14, '91.. September 14, '91... October 1, '83... ..... July 3, '84... ............ MayL2, '90.... ....... January 20, 'S7 ...... Mflv 27. ;87 .. Broader, Kaymond. .................. January 5, '93........ Buchanan, Nicholas........ ........... April 25, '89 ........... Buchanan, Henry..................... April 2-5, 'S9 ........... Braarg, Lemuel.... .................... ...'July 1, '90.............. Bragg, Walter........................... July 1, '90...... ........ Blitch, Benjamin....................... July 7, '90...... ........ Bell, Claude.............. .......... . October 17. 'PO . ... Bennett \T^sc> Crosby, Melvin...... .................... Davis, John. ...... ........................ Davis, Harry............................. Dee Leslie ... February 21, '91... . January 31, '93.... . October 12, '91 .... . September 8. '85... . January 27, 'HO.... . January 27, '90.... . MAV 15. '8S....... . . Defield, Arthur (readmitted)...... June 5. ''91. ............ Drau^hn, Robert...................... June 13. '92....... ... Davenport, Clarence (demented) Elkins, Roy............................... Fackler, Leroy. ......................... Fackler, Samuel (readmitted)..... Frain Sanders May 17, '92. ......... April 9, '90..... ...... December 18, '89..... December 18, '89..... April 18, '0........... Marr;h 17. '92... Foote, Arthur L... .................. ...IMav 10. >f>2....... ... Franklin, Thomas..................... Garner, James........................... Hardv, James ................... . .... Hendle Harry February 27, '93..... November 24, '91 ... August 4, '92......... February 16, '91..... Ontoher IS. 'fin..... Hall, John................................ May 17, '92............ Hall, William ....... ......... ..... .tMflv 17. '92............ Hoemlien, Kurt.... .................... Hotehkiss, Edwin..................... Jones, Harnron........... .............. Jones, Thomas. .......................... Kane Robert E December 30, '92..... Decembers, '92...... January 20, '87...... January 20, '87...... Ofttnher 15. '86 .... Kenan, Edward..................... ..August. 14. '87. Karkpatrick," James... ................. Kirkpatrick,"John..................... Kicklighter, Joe........................ Kicklighter, George................... Lane, Ernest.............................. Licrhtbourne. Henrv... ............... Februaiy 3, '92..... February 3, '92 ..... February 18, '93..... February 18, '63..... August 10, '86......... February 15. '91..... AGE AT DATE OF ADMISSION 10 yes 8 C 8 C 5 8 6 8 8 ^ 6 8 6 11 7 7 9 9 11 19 6 7 11 7 11 9 9 8 9 8 6 9 11 10 8 11 9 7 9 6 10 14 8 6 8 7 12 7 10 6 9 10 irs. MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. 285 ROLL OP BOYS AT BETHESDA A PHIL IST, 1893. NAME Jjightbouroe, Julian .................. Mever, Henry ........................... Murphy, Phillip. ....................... Merrill, Robert .......................... Mock, Madison.............. ........... Mock, Randal. ........................... Mock, Ulyian ........................... Oglesby. Thomas........................ /"%nr|cQ|"^vp Ohn I'lftSl Papot, Julian................... ... .... Pallitier, Samuel........................ Rushing, Cbarles....................... Roberts, Ernest. ......................... Roberts, Walter.... ..................... Roberts, Edgar........................... Roberts, Harry........................... Roteureau, Ernest.. ........ ....... Register, Frank......................... Ross, Charles............................. Ross, WilJiam ........................... Shepard, Eugene... .................... Shepard, Julian................... .... Smith, Louis ............................. Smith, Cleveland ...................... Smith, Jease (readmitted)........... Seckinger, Malcombe... .............. Seyles, John. ............................. Seyles, Guss......... ..................... Smalls, John.............................. Smalls, Frank........................... Smalls, James. .......................... Stokes, JLouis....... ..................... . Stokes, Otis...... ......................... . rttokes, John. ....................... ...... Thompson, Charlie......... .......... Turner, Guss................. ...... ..... Turner, William........................ Thomas, Frank (readmitted)...... Thomas, James (readmitted)...... Upchurch, George..................... Watson, Edward........................ Wit lid pa l?t*/arl Walls, Harry............................. Williams, Vassie........................ Williams, Varnie.. ......... ............ Wilson, Turner. ......................... Wilson, Daniel .......................... WHEX ADMITTED February 15, '91...... December 26, '91.... March IS, '91... ...... Juue26, '90............ September 27, '92... January 1C, '9.3...... Uanuary 16, '93...... iJanuary 16, '93...... October 20, 'S6........ October l) '86 January 1, '87 ....... April 24, '89........... December 6, '90..... November 10, '92.... October^, '92........ November 10, '92... October 2-5, !92........ November 29, '90... August 26, '87........ April 0, '91............ June 22, '92............ June 22, '92............ February 13, '91..... February 13, '91..... May 6, '"89.. ............ September 26, '92... September 2t>, '92... July 9, '92........ ...... November 11, '86... February 6, '87 ...... September 20, '88... September 20, '88... March 1'!, '90. ........ March 10, '90......... January 31, '93...... June 20, '90............ February 4, '93...... February 4, '93...... February 4, '93...... February 20, '85..... October 24, '37........ uctobyr 24, '87........ March 2-5, '93......... March 25, '9?... ...... July 9, '92.............. March 13, '90......... June 26, "JO............ July 27, '92............ September 1, '85..... October 28, '92........ October 28, '92........ March 13, '9 : ........ March 13, '93... ...... AGE AT DATE OP ADMISSION 6 " 9 " 7 " 10 " 12 " 8 " 6 1 10 ' 7 ' 8 11 10 ' 11 ' 7 ' 10 10 12 ' 8 6 ' 12 ' a 9 ' C " 10 " 10 " 8 " J> U 7 ' 7 ' 9 0 ' 11 ' C 8 ' 17 ' 7 ' 6 ' 9 ' 1 ' 9 ' 7 ' 11 ' 9 ' ' 7 5 7 " 12 ' 12 " 8 " 5 106 Boys. 286 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. BOYS ADMITTED FROM APL. 1, '92, TO APL. 1, '93. NAMES Browder. Raymond.................. Brown, Joseph.................. ......... Collier, Arthur ... ... WHEX ADMITTED Januarys. '93........ January 31, '93...... Mav 23. '92............ Collier, Charles............ ...... ........'Mav 23.' '92............ Coekroft, Charles....................... January 17, '93...... .Tiinnarv Ifi >fl3 Davenport, Clarence...... ...........JMay J7, '92............ Draughn, Kobert ....... .... June 13, 'fl-?........ _ Franklin, Thomas ..................... Foote Arthur L February 27, '93..... MU.V 10. '9-> .......... Gannon, Alien. ..........................JAugust'4, '92 ........ Hall, John. .............................. ..hl.v 17. >92 Hall, William............... ............ Hotchkiss, Edwin..................... Kicklighter, George .................. Kempton, George....................... May 17, '92............ Decembers, '92...... December 30, '92..... February 18, '93..... February 18, '93.... J March 31, '92... ...... -Tiiiin.rv Ifi 'OS , Mock, Randal. . ...................... JJanuarv 16. '93...... Mock, Ulyian. ........................... Merrill, Robert........................... Roberts, Edgar........................... Roberts, Harry........................... Roberts Walter January 16, '93...... September 27, '92 November 10, '92... 1 November 10, '92.. .1 October 2-5, '92........ OMoher25. '9 A... ..., Ross Charles.. ................. .........IJune 22. '92.... ........i Stokes, Otis... ............................. Smalls, James....... ............ ......... Smith, Louis.............................. Smith, Cleveland.... .................. Smith, Jesse, (readmitted)......... Sweat, Arthur ........................... Thomas, Frank (readmitted)...... Thomas, James Upchurch. George....... . .............. Williams, Vassie... ..................... Wilson, Turner.......................... Wilson, Daniel........................... Withers, Fred........................... June 22, '92.... ........ February 4, '93 ...... February 4, '93 ...... February 4, '93 ...... January 31, '93...... September 25, '92... September 26, '92... July 9, '92......... .....j May 30, '92........... i March 25, '93......... March 2-j, '93......... Tulir the President. Walthour, Robert... Given up to his mother May 10, '92, upon application to the President. WeUlinger, Frank... Given up to his mother Jan. 8, '93, upon application to the President. Watson, John......... Left without permission June 27, '92. Pallitier, Charles..... Died at his mother's, in Savannah, Mar. 17, ___________ '93, from congestive chill._____________ 35 Boys. 288 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. LOUISA PORTER HOME. ORGANIZED PLAX OP WORK. The work of the Louisa Porter Home for the Friendless is as follows: First. The care of its children. These are orphan.?, half orphans, or those abandoned by their parents. They are either bound to the Home or received as boarders. They are provided for and instructed until they are of age, or until permanent homes can be* obtained for them by adoption, apprenticeship, or in orphan institutions. Second. To provide a home for young women who wish to live upright, honorable lives under the protection and with the assistance of the Board of Managers ; who offer to such a comfortable home and boai'd at a rate commensurate with their means. Third. To provide free a temporary home and employment for any worthy white woman in the city in temporary destitution until a more permanent home and employment can be secured for her. Fourth. To provide board and lodging at a reasonable rate for working women who are strangers passing through the city and in need of temporary assistance. Fifth. To distribute in the shape of money, provisions, clothing, wood, etc., the annual amount set aside by the -county of Chatham for the poor, also to visit and assist all deserving poor persons residing in the city. Sixth. To furnish to the extent of its means free meals at the doors of the Home to the starving .and hungry. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 388 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE "LOUISA PORTER HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS." APRIL 1, 1893. The managers of "The Louisa Porter Home for the Friendless" present this, their Eighteenth Annual Report, with feelings of gratitude, that notwithstanding the pressure of circumstances, they have been able to accomplish the amount of work shown in the year's record. The year has been one full of anxiety and care, and has required the strictest watchfulness and economy in every department to tide us through the embarrassment of a reduced income. On account of the loss of income from debentures, the Board were forced, with great reluctance, to close the nursery on June 1, in spite of the great amount of good it was doing, and the need of such an institution in our city. During a period of unusual sickness in our midst we are glad to report the health of our children and inmates good. Miss Mary E. Benson, who has been an inmate of our home for six years, and in feeble health, died at the Telfair Hospital on February 17. As we close the record of another year we take this opportunity of expressing our thanks to all Mends who by their interest or timely aid have helped us to accomplish our work. We have continued, as in the past, to disburse the amount of money given by the County Commissioners to the city poor, giving out supplies of grist, meal, wood, clothing, shoes and money to the extent of the amount provided. Material aid has been extended by this society 19 290 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. to the Russian Jew refugees. To our ever faithful friend and physician, Dr. Charlton, we desire to express our thanks for another year's valuable professional services. Dr. Owens, too, has kindly responded whenever called upon. Drs. Paige and Aiken have also rendered us their services in special cases, which we gratefully remember. To Hon. J. J. McDonough for a ready response whenever called upon to aid us, we are greatly indebted. To Messrs. Charlton & Mackall and Messrs. Lawton & Cunningham we would return our thanks for valuable professional services. For reduced rates of fare and freight on Central railroad and Savannah, Florida & Western railway. To all merchants for reduction on goods purchased. To Messrs. Solomons & Co. for yearly supply of medicines. To Mr. Luke Carson, Mr. A. Harmon and Messrs. Feeley for kindly providing carriages when needed. To Capt. W. D. Dixon for services kindly rendered free of charge and for liberal donations. To Mr. Hirsch for many kind favors and remembrances. To Mr. McCormick for hauling wood for the needy poor the entire season free of charge. To Messrs Fretwell & Nichols and Messrs. Braid & Hutton for printing. To St. John's Rectory Society forcontinued remembrances. To all who have in any way aided our work, we gratefully return thanks. MRS. JULIA MACLEOD, President. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 291 TREASURER'S REPORT. Receipts. Balance cash, received from former treasurer..............$ 81 36 Subscriptions...................... 597 79 Board and lodging............ 875 45 Donations........................... 157 06 Rents .................................... 114 40 Cash from county.................. 2,025 00 County's allowance for wood freights........................ 300 00 Net profit from Charity ball 455 00 Sundries............................ 310 1814,916 24 Disbursements. Expenses of home............. .$2,303 49 Insurance........................... 32 96 County Poor Cash distributed $358 75 Wood, wood freight and cost of distribution ......... 703 28 Dry goods and shoes............... 441 95 Meal and grist.. 132 75 Pensions.......... 61 00 Sundries............ 163 40 1,861 13 4,197 58 Leaving cash balance on hand April 1.....$ 718 66 Of the $463.87 balance between receipts and disbursements of county cash, a part has been used for the poor in Louisa Porter Home and a part is 293 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. still reserved for the summer's contingencies. The claims are great and the allowance very small. Respectfully submitted, LOUISA P. MINIS, Treas. L. P. Home. April 1, 1893. MATRON'S REPORT. Present number of inmates........................... 18 Boarders ........................................................ . 8 Beneficiaries ............................................... 10 Have found employment............................ 32 Meals given out at the door..................... ..... 967 Grist and meal given out (quarts)................2,923 Cloth given out (yards)................................4,286 Shoes (pairs).......................................... 100 Miss.M. E. LEWIS, Matron. SAVANNAH, July 25, 1893. Mr. F. E. Sebarer, Clerk of Council: I am just in receipt of yours of the 24th, asking for a statement of the workings of the "Louisa Porter Home for the Friendless." It gives me pleasure to inclose for your inspection the annual report of our work, which was published in the Morning News of April 16th, 1893. Our fiscal year ends on the 1st of April, and an annual report is always published. It also gives me pleasure to inclose our plan of work, rules and regulations for the Home; also the list of working committees, with their regular assignment of work. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 203 No needy woman is turned from our doors without assistance, temporaiy shelter, and such aid as it is in our power to give. Men are furnished with meals, when needed, but are not sheltered. Young women engaged in making their own living, either in stores, sewing out, laundry work, etc., who have not homes of their own, are provided with a comfortable room, and three meals a day for the small sum of $1.50 to $2 per week, or $6 to $8 per month. They have the protection of a Christian home and the comfort of a clean, airy bed room, and a plain, but well prepared, neatly served table, and are thus enabled to live comfortably, and not exhaust all their earnings. The meals given at the door vary from 50 to 100 per month. The month of April last 102 meals were given at the door. You will see by the annual report the expenditure of the County Commissioners' fund, in wood, grist, meal, clothing, shoes and money, distributed monthly to the poor of the city. The present Board of County Commissioners having turned over the entire fund distributed by them to the "Louisa Porter Home" for distribution we have opened a room at the Home with a paid matron presiding, whose duty ' it is to cut out work from material furnished from this fund, and on every Tuesday morning the poor go to the Home and are given garments to make for which they are paid fair prices when the garments are brought in. Every week this work is given out and received and paid for. These garments are given to the very needy or sold to those who can purchase for simply the cost of material. We have now a large number of garments 2O4 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. in stock from this material which will be distributed during the winter season. The city is divided in districts, and our visiting committees faithfully investigate all cases that are reported or apply for help. On the first Thursday in each month money is given out to a large list of needy poor. I think I have almost covered the mission work which is done by our Institution. We are always glad to have inquiries made of our work, and are always glad to have friends, who are interested, visit the Home and see its inner working. We have about fifteen children under our care, some of whom are bound to us, others who are half orphans, whose fathers pay a small board, others are entire beneficiaries. These children are given the benefit of the public schools, and are taught home industries. May I ask the favor of you to return the printed annual report, as it is the only copy I have and we sometimes need to refer to it. Very respectfully, JULIA MACLEOD, President "Louisa Porter Home." HOME FOR THE AGED OP THE LITTLE SISTEKS OP THE POOR. This work of charity, the object of which is to provide a comfortable home for the aged poor of both sexes without regard to creed or country, was commenced in Savannah January 4th, 1890, with the approbation and by the zealous efforts of the Right Rev. Bishop Becker. The conditions for admission are: to be destitute, MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 265 to be of sane mind, good moral character, and at least sixty years of age. The sisters have to provide their old people with food and clothing, to nurse and watch them when sick. For that object they have no fund, receive no pension, but depend entirely on charitable contributions. Hence they are obliged to go around collecting. To them any kind of donation is welcomemoney, clothing, meat, bread, vegetables, etc., and will be called for when requested. Nearly three hundred houses have been established on the same plan and with general sympathy in all quarters of the world. Visitors admitted daily from 10 A.M. until5 P.M. "Remember the old and infirm poor." SAVANNAH, GA., July 25, '93. Frank E. Rebarer, Esq., Clerk of Council, City of Savannah. ESTEEMED SIB: In reply to your favor of the 24th inst. we beg to say that, as the object of our Institution is to provide a permanent home for the aged poor, the statistics are much the same as last year. The number of poor cared for in the home actually is thirty, of which sixteen are males and fourteen females, this being about as many as we can accommodate comfortably kin our present premises, but we contemplate building a large and spacious home, in which we expect to take care of about one hundred aged persons. This work will be begun in a few months hence. Very respectfully in Christ THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR, Per Sr. St. Worbert, Sect. 206 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. SAVANNAH FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM. Capacity of institution.......................... 60 Number of inmates............................. 57 Cost of maintaining said institution....... $4,476 56 Per capita............................ ................ 79 94 Attendants........................................... 4 There have been no deaths during the past eight years. To clothe and feed orphan girls. Incorporated 1807. THE SAVANNAH WIDOWS' SOCIETY. i! The Savannah Widows' Society was instituted ij in 1822. The Abrahams Home, corner Broughton | . and East Broad streets, a gift to the Savannah ; Widows' Society from Mrs. Dorothea Abrahams, | was opened for the reception of its aged inmates M (without regard to religious creeds or nationality) in 1859. Each of the thirty-six inmates has a room, with fuel and lights. An efficient matron presides over the Home, and has three servants to assist her. A companion charity, under the management of the Widows' Society, is the Mary Telfair Home, corner of President and West Broad streets (a bequest from Miss Mary Telfair to the Society and named in her memory). It is occupied by twelve widows with small children, each family having a flat with partial support in health and additional aid in sickness. Visitors are welcome who wish to inspect either Home. OMMERCIAL MATISTICS 298 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. 1 I THE SAVANNAH COTTON EXCHANGE. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, SAVANNAH, GA. ? March 1, 1893. Hon. John J. McDonough, Mayor of the City of Savannah. DEAK SIR: I have the honor to comply with your request for a statement of the cotton business 1 of this port for the year ending August 31,1892. With the exception of the preceding year, the receipts of cotton at Savannah were the largest ever known, reaching 1,027,816 bales, with an ap- "* proximate value of $42,815,047 in comparison with 1,139,608 bales and a value of $56,168,413 in 1890-91, and 956,517 bales and a value of $49,162,- 900 in 1889-90. The total cotton crop of the United States for the year ending August 31, 1892, amounted to 9,038,707 bales, exceeding the great crop of 1890-91 by 383,189 bales. Ol this Savannah received (net) .1135 per cent, as compared with .1316 per cent, in 1890-91 and .1308 per cent, in 1889-90. The decrease in Savannah's receipts was due to a short crop in this section, and the diversion of cotton to other ports which should have come here. The course of values was downward throughout MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT. 269 the year, in line with the controlling markets for this staple. The year beginning with middling at 11 cents, went to 8 5-16 cents by September 5th, the highest price during the year, and closed at 64 cents. The lowest price for middling during the year, 6i cents, touched on March 16. The season of 1891-92 opened with middling at 11, went to 8 5-16 on September 5th, steadily declined and closed at 7 13-16. October opened at 7 13-16 and closed at 71. November opened at 7 9-16, steadily declined and closed at 7 3-16. December opened at 7i, steadily declined and closed at 6 15-16. January opened at 6 15-16 and closed at 63. February opened at 64 and closed at 6i. March opened at 6i and closed at 6i. April opened at 6i and closed at 7 cents. May opened at 7 and closed at 7. June opened at 7 and closed at 7. July opened at 7 and closed at 7 3-16. August opened at 7 3-16, steadily declined and closed at 64. SEA ISLAND CROP. The total Sea Island crop during the past season was 59,120 bags against 68,133 bags in 1890-91, a decrease of 9,013 bags, or .1322 per cent. Of the total crop Savannah marketed 42,084 bags, or .7118 per cent, against 45,630 bags or .6697 per cent, in 1890-91, and, with the exception of the previous season's crop, it was the largest ever known. 3OO MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. The following table indicates the Sea Island receipts at Savannah for the past year, and proportion of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina: tleoelved per Central Railroad............... Received per Charleston & Savan'h By Total Georgia. Bags. 8807 15,168 ftfll 20 8 21 200 27.1CO Florida Bags. 470 11313 317 98 12,698 South Or'lina. Bags. ............. 65 2,077 108 on 2 2,286 Total Bags. 10,077 Ofl AC I 65 2.081 23 8 817 2,077 108 51 800 42,084 The foregoing shows that of the 42,084 bags Savannah's receipts, Georgia furnished .6440 per cent., Florida .3017 per cent, and South Carolina .0543 per cent. The whole movement for the years 1891-92, 1890-91 and 1889-90 is given in "the following pages: ftI^g CQ H H SB IH S5gIIsX ft [dn pnxttdn . of^H atfco oa" 8 !-!!!&& B * ff r* M M ! ^* O. I 3 -" rl.SlsfE rn l i i sees; : = 5 iassS i S E- S^ ta 1 Sea Island. I 31 5i o i_________i Upland. ,*-~:. Sea Island. Upland. i if i 5S*a?5 | Sea Island. 8 g: ofco:!_________J___ Upland. Upland. Upland. Upland. Upland. Upland. 'j I Sea Island. Upland. Sea Island. - I Upland. C-K5'SS'S I Sea Island. OB *^ CO OO > Upland. Upland. Upland. 1 zo "2 i 'QQ IS ;W O O || H EB a M M O XHOJ3H s.aoAvw COB MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. EXPORTS IN DETAIL. 303 SEASON. New York...... __ ... __ ... _ Philadelphia............................. Local consumption and burnt Cork for orders, Total Channel Liverpool, Total Great Britain Havre........ ................................ Reval ........................................ Genoa ..... ................................. Oothenberg ............................. Oporto.. . ., _ ..................... _ Veolce...... ................................. Palma, D. M. ... __ ............ _ . Pooteloff Harbor _ .. _ .... _ . Trieste...........?........................... UddevaUa ___ ... __ .............. Lisbon .... Pasagefc. ..... _ .. _ . ___ ......... Total Continent ......... .._........ Grand Total .. ........... _ ....... ... 1889-90. Upland. 22,749 50,047 253 28< 65,270 10,048 401,378 4,602 137,912 27,309 2,375 29,684 1,4.50 42^89 152,9X5 6700 a 3 639 12,179 4,124 16,942 17 15,150 512 512 230 39,*761 ............ 62,227 ............ 2,725 ............ 3.270 1,600 18^448 8,550 1,200 8,400 1,150 1,418 1,200 1,218 347,891 921,467 nz~ 230 32,881 1890-91. a s a 8 47,883 84,649 27808'i 96,437 10,056 328 450 617,373 600 1,961 106,395 30,623 2,300 2,600 35,423 g jOO 189J595 22,257 57,511 73,725 14.401 8,290 12 1.448 2,625 5,300 1^50 1,200 1,200 1,200 2,525 1.750 3,875 433,514 1,095,296 c a a S I 40 18,508 2,380 81,348 120,062 2,172 2,172 100 100 200 43,782 1891-92. e a a c, (3 47,270 235,196 81,917 8.C86 48 495^4 192 2,317 159.770 29,316 29,316 8,440 22^00 118,073 6,062 28.179 86,600 6.90U 2,750 1,800 l^GO 7,100 1,650 ............ o a e S 851 22.3U4 25,432 10 ~~~~" " 15,837 m 881 ......'....'". ............ l.TOUL............ 1 200 ...... ... 2,100 6,075 301,239 988.0E8 42,160 3O4 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. FOREIGN EXPORTS, VIA DIRECT AND COASTWISE STEAMSHIPS, FROM SAVANNAH, GA., FOU THE YEARS 1891-92, 1890-91, AND 1889-90. Liverpool ........................... Havre......... ............... ......... Dunkirk ........................... .. Bremen ......................... ..... Antwerp .................... ......... Ghent......... ................... ..... Trieste................................ Barcelona ............. .............. Lisbon ............................. ... Oporto................................ Genoa................................. Keval ................................. St. Petersburg............ ......... Hiogo............... ................. Riga .................................. Stockholm .......................... Christiana .......................... Bergen .......................... ..... Hango............ ..................... Gothenberg ........................ Malmo.. ............................. Pooteloff Harbor................. Santanda........... ............... .. Libau ................................. Geffle ................................. "Venice Uddevalla......... .................. Pasages. ............................. Salerno................................ Coruna...... ........ .................. Palma D. M............... ......... Yokohama ................. ........ Total........ .................... Upland. Sea Island. Quantity. Bales. 1888-90 204,855 87,497 2,375 i(54 269 7,333 12,396 34,900 310 64,977 2,227 8,270 42,611 100,569 11,500 4,500 500 1,600 8,550 10,525 800 1,450 1,200 1,300 1,150 400 1,700 1,418 1,218 720,400 Upland. Sea Island. Quantity. Bales. 1890-91 215,568 48,104 2,300 2,500 213,571 3,201 85,604 19.710 3,875 1,445 80,278 3,125 6,290 64,191 82,460 8.000 775 1,500 1,400 16,751 1,100 8,100 2,625 1,448 1.250 1,550 1,100 1,750 1,200 1,200 1,200 12 831,083 Upland. Sea Island. Quantity. Bales. 1891-92 249 746 4A one 159981 5,638 19,046 23.075 5,275 3,080 89,301 2,810 1,800 37,278 48,775 14,718 500 2,200 1,700 600 1,000 1,800 10,150 2,850 9,050 200 1,000 2,100 200 1,MW 741,168 Receipts of Upland and Sea Island Cotton at the Port of Savannah, Ga., and Weight and Value, for the Years 1889-9O, 189O-91 and 1891-99. Upland................. Sea Island. ........... Total .................... QUANTITY BALES. 1889-90 924,282 32,235 956,517 1890-91 1,093,078 45,680 1,139,608 1891-92 985,732 42,084 1,027,816 WEIGHT, POUNDS. 1889-90 449,284,237 12,465,919 461,750,156 1890-91 640,066,938 18,298,542 568,365,480 1891-92 479,854,337 16,994,360 496,849,697 VALUE, DOLLARS. 1889-90 45,964,544 3,198,356 49,164,900 1890-91 62,445,005 3,723,408 53,168,413 1891-92 39,071,432 !$ 2,843,615 gj of 42,815,047 * Exports of Upland and Sea Island Cotton from the Port of Savannah, Ga., and Weight and ? Value, for the Years 1889-9O, 189O-91 and 1891-98. Upl-md .........:..... Sea Island. ........... Total ................... QUANTITY BALES. 1889-90 921,467 32,881 954,348 1890-91 1,095,296 43,782 1,139,078 1891-92 988,088 42,160 1,030,248! WEIGHT, POUNDS. 1889 90 447,916,894 12,715,740 460,631,634 1890-91 540,747,635 17,567,457 658,305,092 1891-92 481,001,238 17,023, SPIRITS 1UO 11,885 250 8,800 101) 16,323 200 tt.271 8,510 8,520 23,12$ 0,061 8,818 61, 173 213 5 17,542 450 13,189 15,474 6,81 .16,737 81,239 273idfl6 7,443 BO8IN 3,090 13,866 18,487 ltt,W5 6,500 2,8'M 13,300 20.SOU 5,770 '""]$$& 9,124 40,912 35,983 6,578 1.9oO 8,019 7,677 82,211 60.S5-.2 7.7JU 1:<,-JOO 2,447 2,03ti 4,703 9,ft aw 850 1.806 22,912 860 8.500 27,57 18,437 73.93 84110 2,875 8,726 15.242 8.918 21,082 6,242 102,917 14,693 issai 17,828 86,163 l,(XK,.i 6-(,573 Same time last season SPIRITS 3,9112 231.9M) BO8IH 27.C47 873,678 Same time last season SPIRITS 15,118 10,75 100 17,808 " " '"" 1,^0 8,576 2,060 4,428 15,719 5,570 7,577 45,635 100 10,810 18^271 200 ,6?5 13,98.1 6,218 2,425 23,798 6,096 235496 3,392 HO8IN 3,:tUO 9,1W 22,283 28,299 0 41 8,510 876 8,856 900 45,793 2I.SH 12.U61 6,412 19,932 61,590 68.7B7 B.S18 400 6,2oO 24,590 1$Q 2,750 2,128 400 13,514 150 801 5,400 27,555 87,670 "" 6,400 3350 26.373 96,323 16.953 13,504 181,941 27,105 StK.292 89,034 12^38 of this was added to agree wltk count. 21 SOURCES OF SUPPLY OP NAVAL STORES AT SAVANNAH. YEAR ENDING MARCH 81, 1893. 1802-93, April..................... My ...... ......... ...... July .....,....,.... September,...,,,,,,., Totals............... H.F,4W.n.H. Spirits. 18,402 23,12.1 22,827 19,387 15,721 12,857 18,817 14,242 11,099 8,937 2,896 3,184 154,462 Rosin. 83381 49,078 52,8117 65,7 54,801 42,7.52 46,847 47,785 48,850 52,2X5 80,700 20,819 541,170 ORNTBAI. B.B, Spirits. 10,174 16,202 16,428 18, W5 12,464 9,982 10.05H 10738 7H2o 3,350 1,874 1,041 113,409 a 5 22,104 SS,fl46 39,228 83,072 41,429 45,744 30.701 30,018 45,260 47,903 38.5U9 21,107 430,217 So. BOUND. Spirits. 472 03> 413 204 2S2 142 43 45 a %m 2,881 1588 974 1,090 2,271 674 564 403 2,238' 12,938 STR. ETHEL. S 0, 00 254 539 4>7 416 290 149 159 173 40 7 8 21 2,433 a 5 280 757 820 674 1,109 6*6 97 419 361 698 695 467 6,783 STB, KATIE. Spirits. 70 154 146 98 68 111 121 K j 2 871 Rosin. 17tl 99 335 50) 178 331 49 > 1,387 604 502 352 4,965 OTIIKK R. 0. Spirits. 224 771 5HO 510 415 419 355 4S5 182 146 11) 5 P i 9*1 1,70 1,921 2,119 2,025 1,835 1,644 1,973 1,4-54 1S92 1,B MOVEMENT OF NAVAL STORES AT SAVANNAH, 1892-93. SHIPMENTS. Api 11..... ............................................................ Mnv July................ ..................... ........ ......... ......... Stock on hand March 81, 1892......................... FOREIGN. Spirits. 9,020 18308 24,231 18,418 Z2.0S2 18,828 21,788 10,376 14,882 9.U38 8,7114 1,750 170,108 Hosin. 30,910 39,374 45.993 46,342 56,848 41,235 40,718 49.640 57,846 64386 72,479 100,666 635,837 Nmv YORK. Spirits. 8,357 6,600 4,225 4,816 2,211 3.t'5S 3,106 1,857 2,932 2,147 2,027 SW4 38,785 Rosin. 8,761 20,313 17,966 24,699 21,618 24,483 2S.98* 11,812 6,4i>0 11.052 10,2i7 16,660 197,837 SUNbKIK-l. Spirits. 8,76 8,601 7,902 7,557 &2 5,004 6,074 3,015 2,743 2,2*4 3,663 8,611) 66,721 Rosin. 5,541 2^9)0 19,409 16,492 16,439 10.H81 8J89 8,216 14,317 10,771 13,818 168,m Spirits. 3,:!2 277.B1T 2 1,00 273,568 7,443 Rosin, 39,034 1,032,198 1,071,232 1,002,659 88^73 03 8 324 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. LUMBER SHIPMENTS FROM APRIL 1, 1892, TO MARCH 31, 1893. April............ May. ............ June............. July.............. *j August ......... September...... October......... November...... December ...... January. ........ i/ February........ March............ Total......... Coastwise. 10,495,105 8,095,853 6,636,794 12,125,576 7 048 477 10,052,979 10,289,606 9,926,515 7,602,270 6,023,391 4,452.031 5,386,639 98.135.236 Foreign. 1,448,457 566,824 1,165,797 1,135,897 1,624,803 2.947,143 1,034,196 5,813,206 682,797 424,068 1,159,017 18.002.205 Total Feet. 11,943,562 8,662,677 7,802,591 13,261,473 8,673,280 10,052,979 13,236,749 10,960,711 13,415,476 6,706,188 4,876,099 6,545,656 116.137.441 TONNAGE. Vessels visiting and doing business at our port for the year ending March 31st, 1893, were of the following flags and tonnage: 1892-93. April ............................................. May.......... .................................... June.. ............................................ . July......... ................................ ...... August........................................... September.................................. ... October.......................................... November...................................... December... .......... .......................... January... .................................... February............... ........................ March.. .......................................... Totals.................................... Amer.ean. : 61,319 (54J690 55,887 5S091 671162 72.395 7H.025 67,531 59,615 58,627 1)9,611 767,725 1 British. 4,367 829 2,204 4,475 2,643 6,249 6,'982 17,523 2,258 2,172 3,993 88,987 1 Norwegian. 6,416 8,09-5 8,738 8,164 6,121 6,659 11,556 7,705 5,277 7,034 10,274 2,935 88,974 German. 939 501 1,348 3,149 2,a^9 764 1,251 1,163 1,259 13,233 Italian. 917 2,075 998 1,650 541 1,053 5,399 1,223 13,858 Russian. 1,829 279 750 1,137 772 4,767 Swedish. 315 1,060 970 2,141 1,787 851 483 7,007 Spanish. 1,877 980 3,560 2,884 '849 1,794 14,168 Austrian. 1,626 568 752 968 771 780 5,465 Portugese. 450 563 403 773 2,189 d 3 ft 1,752 385 3,061 Very respectfully submitted. C. WALLACE HOWARD, Superintendent. I i 00 3 to toOi 326 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. COASTWISE EXPORTS CITY OF SAVANNAH, 1892. COMPILED BY FRANK E. REBABEB, CL.EKK OF COUNCIL. ARTICLES. QUANTITY VALUE Bananas.......................... .........bunches Barrels and Keg*...................................J Beer........._.................................barrels! Bottles.........................................barrels' Cane Reeds.................................bundles Canned Goods................................cusesi Carboys..................................................; Carriages................................................ Car Wheels...........................................i Cases <;edar............................................' Cedar Logs............................................. ; Clay.................... ..........................casks! Cocoanuts................................. .....sacks' Copper .......................................bundles'j Cotton Baggiirg..............................bales; Cotton (Sea Island) ........................bales! Cotton (Upland)..............................talesj Cotton Seed Asli*-s..........................sackS' Cotton Seed Cak<>...........................sacks! Cotton Seed AIol...........................s:tcks; Cotton Seed O:l............................barrels; Cross-Ties.........................su|icrficiai feeti Dogs.....................................................I Domestics and Yari s......................balesi Esrgs....................... ......................cases1 Fertilizer..........................................tons Fish............................. ................barrels JKlour...........................................barrels Fruit..............barrels 32,(>44, boxes 32,773 Glass... ...........................................cases Grapes.........................................baskets Grape Fruit .................................barrels Guano..... ................barrels 24, sacks I89i Hides.................. . . ......................bales 1 Honey.........................................barrels; Horses...................................................-! Iron, Pig..........................................tons; Iron, Pipe................................. ....pieces' 1,099$ 26,740 20 644 100 21,909 330 2 3,112 5,401 13,919 5,49 158 145 66 27,763 425,196 460 1,744 60,600 2-2,711 4,lt>7,634 40 66,2-^3 301 596 3,088 470 30 320 5 10,916 22 60 37,132 3,187 750 Laths........................ .................. bundles] 1,674 Leather................. ........ ..................bale-i 639 Lemons ...................................... ...boxes 1,215 Linters ......... .................................bales 1,528 Lubricating Oil.. . ... ................ ......b-irrels| 111 Lumber.. ..................... .....superficial feeti 123,651,42o Manganese........... ....................... barrels! 910 Marble ..........................................pieces 15,246 Melons............... .... .. ........................... 1,073,712 -' ' ' 76,993 331 8.K29 Merchandise.............................packages Molasses.......................................barrels Mess.............................. ................bales Oars....'...........13,527 oars and 647 bundles. 1,099 00 6,685 00 70 00 1,288 00 5000 65,703 00 66000 1,00000 9 336 00 108,020 00 208,785 00 109,940 00 790 00 2,900 00 1,328 00 2,498,670 00 19,133 820 00 230 00 1,744 00 60,600 00 794,885 00 50,011 00 t-00 00 3,973,380 00 1,505 00 17,880 00 37,032 00 1,88(1 00 171,542 25 90 00 128 00 285 00 474 00 241,252 00 440 00 27,750 00 742,640 (JO 1,593 50 26,250 00 334 80 17,253 00 4,252 50 22,920 00 883 00 1,663,294 00 12,740 0(1 22.8B9 00 266,53 76 4,619,880 00 3,310 0(1 44,145 00 26,613 75 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 327 COASTWISE EXPORTSCONTINUED. ARTICLES. QUANTITY VALUE. Ochre................................... .....barrels! 2,503$ 22,527 00 Onions........................................... bags' 740 1 25 00 Oranges.......................................barrels 12.8SH 83,759 00 Oranges.........................................boxes 1,095,815 2,465,583 50 Ore..............................................barrels 1,783 5,349 00 Oysters........................................barrels 2,640 7,920 00 Oysters......................................... .cans 442 1,547 00 Paper Stock...................................bales 5,660 113,200 00 Phosphate Rock.............................sacks 868 2,170 00 Pitch..........................................barrels 13,738 24,041 50 Potatoes......................................barrels 2,910 8,730 00 Rags................... ..........................bales 332 2,98800 Rice............................................barrels P,263 97,261 50 Rice, Chaff..................... .. . .........sacks 5,626 1,406 50 Rice, Flour....... ............................sacks 896 672 00 Rice, Straw....................................bales 2,359 5,718 00 Rosin ..........................................barrels 320,325 1,042,681 25 Rosin, Oil......... .........................barrels 4,865 34,05500 Roots.......................one barrel, 26 sacks ...... ....... 100 00 Sawdust.........................................sacks 650 162 50 Seed.............................................. sacks 74 370 00 Shingles..lO,929,885, 4,584bundles, 7 cars ............... 93,418 08 Bhrioip..........................................cans 895 2,68500 Soap.............................................boxes 444 888 00 Soap Stock ..................................barrels 134 1,68000 Spirits Turpentine.......................barrels 71,104 1,066.560 00 Staves......805,492, 15 bundles and 14 ears ............... 13,804 06 Steam Launch...................................... 1 1,20000 Strawberries.......................refrigerators 871 13,06500 Sugar .........................................barrels 1,244 17,416 00 Sweepings................................ ... bales 466 6,990 00 Tallow................................... ......tierces 27 1,512 00 Tar..............................................barrels 382 1,910 00 Terrapins.....................................barrels 94 8,460 00 Tobacco.......................232 bales, 37 cases ............... 10,521 00 Turtles....,.......................................-.-...! 1,398 4,893 00 Twine............................................bales 40 640 00 Vegetables..................................barrels 128,389 577,750 50 Vegetables.....................................boxes 257,240 514,480 00 Waste............................................bales 215 1,290 00 Wax............................................barrels 2 72 00 Wedges..........................-...........boxes 10 20 00 Wine...........................................barrels! 41 1,640 00 Wool.............................................bales 7,305 584,400 00 Value of Coastwise Exports, 1892........... ............... $41,860,820 95 Value of Coastwise Exports, 1891...........;............... 38,742,295 57 Increase.......................................... ...... .... ...S 3,118,525 38 Lumber Exports 1892, Superficial Feet.. 123,651,420 Lumber Exports 1891. Superficial Feet.. 113,822,436 Increase..............!.....................-..... 9,828,984 328 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. FOREIGN- EXPORTS FBOM SAVANNAH, GA., FOR THE YEAH 1892. ARTICLES. Cotton, Sea Island, bales 9,852 . Cotton, Upland, bales 379,tS . . Rosin, (280 Ibs. to barrel) .... Spirits Turpentine ....... CottonSeed .......... Oil Cake and Oil Cake Meal . . Phosphate Rock ........ Lumber .... ....... . All other articles - - .... . Total value ........ . . Ibs. . . Ibs. . bbls. . gals. . . Ibs. . .Ibs. . . tons .Mft. QUANTITY. 3,980,044 184,977.410 1.065,598 9,058,072 499,086 7,715,896 7,338 13,075 DOLLARS. $ 719,928 14,901,574 1,636,079 2,683,340 2.868 81,310 73,390 168.042 88,007 $ 20,254,538 IMPORTS, PORT OF SAVANNAH, 1893. ARTICLES. Fruits and nuts ............ Fertilizers ..... ....... tons Molasses ....... ...... gals. Salt ...... .... ...... Ibs. Muriate of Potash ......... Ibs. Cement ...... ... ..... Ibs. Aniline Colors ... ......... Bags and Bagging ........... Marble Slabs and Tiles . . ...... China Clay ... ......... tons Cigars ................. Household Effects ........... Muscat Instruments ... ...... Dolls and Tovs ... ... ...... Cutlery .. T ............. All other articles ...... ..... QUANTITY. 5,416 97,236 9,307,233 783,994 2,613,432 4,060 480 VALUE. $ 84,100 62115 15,015 11,990 11,739 10,422 6,212 5.922 4,448 4,049 3,978 3,U07 2,671 2,225 1,274 1,002 727 434 6,686 $ 238,216 MAYOR'S ANNUAt BEPORT. 329 "VESSELS ENTERED AT AND CLEABED FJROM CUSTOM HOUSE DURING THE YEAB ENDED DECEMBER 31sT, 1892. United States Vessels entered .... United States Vessels cleared .... Foreign Vessels entered ....... Foreign Vessels cleared . . ..... Total Entered and Cleared, Foreign Total Coastwise ........... Total Foreign ............ Grand Total ..... ...... No. Teasels 6 7 358 353 724 AAQ 4fi*-t O1 9 724 1,636 TONS. 3,100 1,766 259,482 263,166 527,514 ftno iron 685,580 1.378,300 527,514 1,905,814 CREW. 51 48 5,228 5,151 10,478 18,345 1 ft9ftS 36,630 10,478 47,108 330 MAYOR'S ANNUAL HEPORT. RECAPITULATION OF TAX DIGEST FOR YEAR 1892. Real Estate..........$20,318,137 at \k% $304,772.06 Ground Rent........ 1,382,570 " \k% 20,738.55 Stock in Trade...... 2,415,540 " li% 36,233.10 Personal.............. 4,872,439 " \\% 73,086.58 Banking Capital... 2,855,310 " \k% 42,829.65 Shipping.............. 954,400" 1J% 14,316.00 Total........... .$32,798,396 $491,975.94 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 331 STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL, 1892. AccountsMills, Haines, Charlton. AssessmentsCharlton, Mills, Harris, Reid, O'Brien. City LotsO'Brien, Carson, McGuire. DrainageCarson, Charlton, Mills. FinanceMyers, Mills, Cann, Carson, Bailey. FireBailey, Haines, Reid. Harbor and WharvesMcGuire, Harmon, O'Brien. Health and CemeteryHarris, Harmon, Reid. MarketReid, Harmon, McGuire. PoliceHaines, Carson. Myers. Streets and LanesHarmon, Cann, Bailey, Harris, O'Brien. WaterCann, Myers, Carson. BOARD OF SANITARY COMMISSIONERS. Aldermen Harris, Myers. Citizens J. R. Saussy, John F. Wheaton, J. R. Sheldon. COMMISSIONERS OF EDUCATION. R. D. Walker, Randolph Axson. 332 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. CITY OFFICERS. MayorJohn J. McDonough. Cleric of CouncilFrank E. Rebarer. City TreasurerCharles S. Hardee. City MarshalRobert J. Wade. City EngineerWilliam J. Winn. Chief of PoliceJohn Green. Ass't Chief of PoliceJohn B. Killourhy. SergeantsHenry Ling, O. F. Reilly, Jas. M. Mock, H. W. Baughn. Messenger of CouncilJohn Harrison. Cify AttorneySamuel B. Adams. Judge of the City CourtA. H. MacDonell. Clerk of the City CourtPhilip M. Russell. Citi/ SheriffLionel L. Goodwin. Clerk of the MarketJ. P. O'Brien. Harbor MasterRobert 0. Kennedy. Health OfficerWilliam F. Brunner, M. D. Keeper of City DispensaryLewis Cass. Keeper of Laurel Grove CemeteryW. L. Haupt. Keeper of Forsyth PlaceG. Kiesling. Keeper of Pest HouseC. Larkin. Cify Physicians Benj. F. Sheftall, G. G. Larcombe. Chief FiremanW. B. Puder. Ass't Chief FiremanGeorge Mouro. Sup't and Engineer Water WorksJas. Manning. City PrinterSavannah Press. Port WardensWm. B. Adams, John Power, Lewis Wiggins. Chimney Contractor Eastern and Western Divisions Daniel Sullivan.