REPORT ..OF.. MYEBS, mm. TOGETHER WITH THE REPORTS OF THE CITY OFFICERS . . OF THE . . City of Savannah, Ga,, . . FOR THE . , Year Ending December 31st, 1902, TO WHICH ARE ADDED The Commercial Statistics of the Port, Reports of Public Institutions, and Ordinances Passed During the Year 1902. SAVANNAS, GA.: TIH MOBNINO NSW8 FRUIT IMS. INDEX. Bonded Debt.......... ...:......... 28 Budget for 1903 ....................... 83-34 Charitable Institutions................... 214-226 City Marshal................... .... 37-38 City Attorney........................ 39-47 City Treasurer.......... .......... 48-2 City Engineer ....................... 147-164 City Dispensary ...................... 184-185 City Officers, 1902 ..................... 5-6 City Physicians...................... 179-183 Commercial Statistics ................... 255-262 Commissions ........................ 7 Director of Public Works ................. 123-142 Georgia Historical Society ................. 227-236 Health Officer. ...................... 166-178 Harbor Master. ...................... 200-201 House Drainage ...................... 146 Kindergarten System ................... 237-241 Laurel Grove Cemetery .................. 196 Mayor's Report....................... 10-24 Market........... .......'........ 197-199 Mayor and Aldermen for 1902-1903 ........ .... 3 Opening Streets Committee ................ 143-145 Ordinances Passed 1902................... 203-334 Park and Tree Commission ................. 188-195 Plumbing Inspector. ................... 186-187 Public Schools .................... . 24a-2o3 Recorder of Police Court. .... ............ 202-211 Resolutions Passed by Council 1903 ............ 334-365 Superintendent of Water Works Department.. ...... 114-122 Sinking Fund Commissioners ............... 25-30 Statement City of Savannah Bonds. . ........... 29-30 Standing Committees of Council 1902............ . 4 Superintendent of Police ................ 63-73 Superintendent of Fire Department.. ........... 75-111 Superintendent of Fire Alarm ............... 112-113 Tax Assessors ....................... 31-32 Trial Balance.......... ............. 35.36 MAYOR AND ALDERMEN TOR 1902. MAYOR: HERMAN MYERS. CHAIRMAN Of COUNCIL: JAMES M. DIXON. VICE-CHAIRMAN OP COUNCIL: ROBERT L. HOLLAND. ALDERMEN: JAS. M. DIXON, F. F. JONES, HAL. H. BACON, J. F. CANTY, J. J. HORRIGAN, ROBT. L. HOLLAND, E. M. FRANK, W. J. WATSON, E. A. M. SCHRODER, D. R. THOMAS, ROBT. L. COLDING, A. J. GARFUNKEL. COMMISSIONS. PARK AND TREE. P. D. BAFFIN, Chairman. GEORGE J. BALDWIN. CHA8. 8. ELLIS. J. H. H. ENTELMAN. I, A. SOLOMONS. SINKING PUND. JOSEPH D. WEED, Chairman. 8. HERMAN. H. P. SMART. JOHN LYONS. CHA8. G. BELL. PILOTAGE. JAS. M. BARNARD, JR., Chairman. GEO. P. WALKER. HENRY T. WILLIAMS. J. FLORENCE MINIS. W. W. WILLIAM8ON. WALTER CONEY. O. E. NEWCOMB, Sect'y. MASSIE SCHOOL. HERMAN MYERS, MAYOR. fFLEMING G. du BIGNON. PLEASANT A. STOVALL. *R. J. DAVANT. t Heslgned July 9,1902. ' Appointed July 9, 1MB. STANDING COMMITTEES OP COUNCIL. ACCOUNTSAldermen JONES, BACON, fGARFUNKEL, 'FRANK. ASSESSMENTSAldermen COLDING, HOLLAND, FRANK, WATSON, GARFUNKEL. CITY LOTS AND OPENING STREETSAldermen THOMAS DIXON, GARFCNKEL. DBAINAGBAldermen THOMAS, COLDING, GARFONKEL. FINANCEAldermen DIXON, SCHRODER, THOMAS, JONES, FRANK. FIREAldermen SCHRODER, CANTY, HOLLAND, WATSON, GARFONKEL. HARBOR AND WHARVESAldermen CANTY, HORRIGAN, BACON. MARKETAldermen HOLLAND, FRANK. CANTY. POLICEAldermen FRANK, JONES, SCHRODER, fGARFUNKEL. PUBLIC HEALTHAldermen HORRIGAN, COLDING WATSON. STREETS AND LANESAldermen WATSON, DIXON, HORRIGAN, CANTY, JONES. WATER-Aldermen BACON, WATSON, HORRIGAN. SPECIAL COMMITTEE HOUSE DRAINAGE. Aldermen THOMAS, BACON DIXON, HOLLAND, COLDING. SANITARY BOARD. HON. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor, Chairman. Health Officer WM. F. BRUNNER, Secretary. Aldermen DIXON, JONES. Citizens J. M. SOLOMONS, Rev. W. C. SCHAEFFER, BEIRNE GORDON. t From May 14,1902. Retired from this Committee Mar 14,1902. CITY OFFICERS, I9O2. MAYORHERMAN MYER8. CLERK or COUNCILWM. P. BAILEY. CITY TREA6URER-CHAS. S. HARDEE. CITY MARSHAL-HENRY E. DREESOX. CITY ENGINEERWM. J. WINN. CITY ATTORNEY*SAML. B. ADAMS. CITY ATTORNEYfWILLIAM GARRARD. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKSGEORGE M. GAOriDEN. HEALTH OFFICER-WM. F. BRUNNER, M. D. CITY PHYSicrANS-ELTON 8. OSBORNE, G. H. JOHNSON, M. M. SALIBA, j. H. BUGG (Coi.), P. E. LOVE (Coi.). SUPT. AND ENGINEER WATER WORKSI. U. KENSEY. HARBOR MASTERJAS. McBRIDE. RECORDERSHELBY MYRfCK. ..CLERK OF MARKET AND FOOD INSPECTORALEX. MENDEL. Assr. CLERK OP MARKETSIMON A. WEIL. SUPT. OF POLICE-OWEN F. REILLY. SERGEANTSHENRY LINQG, W. H. FLEMING, JAMES M. MOCK, HENRY W. BAUGHN, R. E. DAVIS, JOS. McCOOL. SUPT. FIRE DEPARTMENTJOHN E. MAQUIRE. SENIOR FOREMAN FIRE DEFT.GEO. MOURO. PORT WARDENSLEWIS WIGGINS, JEROME G. SULLIVAN. MESSENGER OF COUNCILCHAS. A. GRADOT. KEEPER LAUREL GROVE CEMETERYHENRY GARWES. KEEPER LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY (Colored Portion)EUGENE KIMBELL (Col.). KEEPER POWDER MAGAZINEtTROUP B. HODGES, **M. J. MARTIN. KEEPER CITY CLOCKSROBT. SCHNEIDER. Resigned Sept, 17, 1902. (Appointed Oct. 1 and Elected Oct. 15,1902. tKeslgned. "Appointed August 6, 1902. KEEPER CITY DISPENSARYL. D. STRUTTON. ASST. KEEPER CITY DISPENSARYED. J. KEIFFER, JR. INSPECTORS OF NAVAL STORESLEWIS BLISS, J. F. BLISS, NAT HARRISON, JAS. T. WELLS, A. A. McEACHREN, R. P. REGISTER, JOHN F. McEACHERS, M. C. REGISTER, J. E. REGISTER, R. B. JEWETT. CHIMNEY CONTRACTOR (Eastern Div.)EDWARD THOMPSON. CHIMNEY CONTBACTOB (Western Div.)E. THOMPSON, T. McEVOY. PLUMBING INSPECTORF. W. CAMPOS. TAX ASBESSORS-J. H. H. OSBORNE, Chairman; {P. M. RUSSELL, 8AML. REYNOLDS. {Died Dec. 11,1802- Annual Report of Herman Muers, MAYOR or SAVANKAH. SAVANNAH, GTA., January 26, 1903. To the Board of Aldermen of the City of Savannah. Gentlemen: Savannah has seldom, if ever, enjoyed a more prosperous year than that of 1902. This applies not only to our business interests generally, but to the finances of the municipal government, which reflect the satisfactory conditions prevailing, the collection of taxes from all sources being made with less friction and delay than usual, and the total showing an increase that tells the story of progress in all branches of activity that go to make up a living and pushing community. The report of the Tax Assessors is a record of the development of Savannah, picturing in its total of assessed valuations the improvements that are constantly taking place throughout the city, and telling forcibly, even to the most obtuse, that Savannah is going forward with vigor and more than maintaining its position among the cities of the South. An increase of $800,000 in assessments on real estate, not including the recently added district where no realty taxes have been levied, is a sign of healthful growth in one year, especially when it is remembered that the bulk of it represents new homes, scores of which are dotting the southern section where vacant fields not long ago greeted the eye; homes that have been made necessary by the swell- 11 10 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. ing volume of population and which have been rendered possible by the continued prosperity of our citizens. Plans have been laid for many more during the coming twelve months, and in addition handsome modern office buildings will be erected which promise to inaugurate the era of larger, more costly and better equipped structures in our commercial section. Confidence animates all classes of our citizens and never before have they been so united in the belief that Savannah's past is but a faint indication of the development the future holds in store. The city is apparently just entering on a period of progressiveness that will exceed anything in its history and which, while adding to the prosperity of tne individual citizen, will also add materially to the gross income of the local government, and render it possible for it to extend the scope of its public improvements without making heavier the burdens of the taxpayers. Progress and Prosperity of Savannah. Not only from assessed valuations has the City's income been augmented, but in specific business taxes the past year reveals a gratifying expansion of trade, the revenues from that source indicating the presence of a number of new firms. Every additional business house aids in the development of the commerce and trade of Savannah and is to be welcomed as a future factor in the upbuilding of the city. Savannah is now one of the most attractive fields in the South for the homeseeker and the capitalist, and we have reason to anticipate that the signs of the times will be more than borne out by the actual investments here during the next year or two MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 11 in commercial life, in the jobbing trade, and, in what we need most of all, manufacturing industries, giving remunerative employment to many men and adding largely to the municipality's revenues. This will enable the incoming Council either to provide for public improvements on a more extensive scale than in former years or to still further reduce the rate of taxes. For the year on which we are now entering the retiring Board, and I believe wisely, decided that the former policy should be pursued, and proviyion was accordingly made in the budget for 1903 for large expenditures on street paving and opening streets. City's Income Increasing, The statement of the City Treasurer for 1902 shows total income of $880,169.29, which with the amount on hand at the opening of the year, $5,317.46, gave 1885,486.75 to expend. The outlays during the year -were $862,339.94, and the cash balance on hand December 31, 1902, $23,146.81. Of the expenditures in round figures,$79,000 went for new street paving, including property owners' proportion, $2,000 for grading new streets, and $42,000 for opening streets, a total for street improvements of $123,000. For 1903 appropriations have been made of $40,000 for street paving, which means an expenditure of over $85,000 for that class of improvements, including the property owners' assessments, and $55,000 for opening streets. Of the total expenditures in 1902 over fourteen per cent, went for street opening and paving, while the interest on the public debt and the redemption of bonds absorbed nearly $200,000, or 12 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. twenty-four per cent. The City's income is growing steadily, the departmental expenses are being held down as far as their proper maintenance on a satisfactory standard will permit, each year there is some reduction in the interest account, and it is within the discretion of the Council assuming the reins of government to-day to reduce the tax rate next year if it sees fit to do so. In my opinion, though, while such a reduction is permissible it will not be advisable. A careful review of the experience of the City in the past ten years convinces me that the wisest and most economical policy, the policy that in the end promotes the interests of the taxpayers, is to make as liberal appropriations as possible for the opening of streets and the paving of main thoroughfares. The City is now paying large sums o.f money for rights of way that some years back could have been obtained for very much smaller amounts. If it delays purchasing the land for streets in the recently extended section, as well as in the older limits, it merely means that at some future time it must pay very much in excess of what the land can now be had for. These streets must be opened some time and taxpayers, I believe, will commend a policy that looks to their purchase as soon as the City's finances permit. Well Paved Streets a Necessity. As with street opening, so with street paving Nothing has done more to assist in the upbuilding of Savannah than the improvements of its streets. The favorable impression made upon visitors by well paved streets is not to be underestimated in consider- MAYOR'S ANNUAL HEPOBT. ing the factors that .-ire to be relied on to draw people here as future residents. Nothing more repels in these days, or conveys a stronger impression of a run down town, lacking progressiveness, than sandy roadbeds. Our streets of asphalt, vitrified bricks smd granite blocks, are a magnificent advertisement in themselves, telling the stranger that he is in a city whose people are ambitious to put their town on a level with the most modern and most pushing cities elsewhere. Not only this, but well paved streets are a convenience to business, cheapening the handling of goods, and are a pleasure and a profit to our own people. Money paid out for such permanent improvements accordingly meets with general approval. For the next few years it would certainly be to the advantage of taxpayers to utilize as large a part of the revenues as possible for these two purposes, deferring the reduction of the tax rate until such time as the necessity for heavy expenditures in these two departments has ceased. In this connection, citizens should meet the City in its efforts to open streets in a proper spirit of liberality. The opening of thoroughfares so greatly increases the values of adjacent lands that their owners can well afford to encourage Council to rapidly extend streets and complete the City on the plans which have been laid out. The appropriation for this work for the coming year is one of the largest ever made for this purpose. The committee in charge of its expenditure will have at its head an Alderman of long experience in this important work, and of undoubted devotion to the City's interests, and tax- 14 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. payers may rest assured that the money will be judiciously used. New Lighting Contract. The lighting of the streets is another use of public money which commends itself to citizens generally. While Savannah is perhaps not the best lighted city in the country, it is certainly among the best. The plan of the city, and the large number of trees that shade its streets and parks make it a more difficult matter to illuminate it than is the case in most cities. A new lighting contract has been entered into for the next five years which, it is believed, will give better' illumination for the same money, the only increase of cost being that which comes from the placing of occasional new lights. The large area to be covered makes it impossible to gratify the desire of some citizens to have lights at every corner, but the committee will use intelligent judgment in the distribution of those at its command so as to give the best service possible under the circumstances. The new limits will call for a number of additional lights and the appropriation in this department must increase from yeai to year in keeping with the growth of the city. New Citv Hall Necessary. Two things that should receive the attention of the incoming Board, and one of which was quite fully discussed by the Board of two years ago, are the purchase of land for a new public cemetery and the initiation of steps toward erecting a new public building adequate for the needs of a thriving MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 15 and growing municipality, centrally located, and more in accord with the Savannah of to-day. The accommodations of the present exchange building have been outgrown by the increased number of departments and the expansion of the business entrusted to them. It has been recognized for several years that the space and facilities for the transaction of public business are inadequate. While the City cannot make an appropriation in one year sufficient to erect a modern building which will meet the requirements of the municipal government for tne next half century, and to which citizens can point with pardonable pride, it can begin a movement to that end. A site could be selected, an appropriation of say $25,000 a year could be made, to be allowed to accumulate until a sufficient amount is in hand, and within the next eight or ten years a city hall could be built that would prove satisfactory from every point and without any additional tax upon property owners. Even if bonds could be issued for a public building I would be averse to such a step. Savannah's aim should be to continue to steadily decrease its bonded debt and burden of interest. In the meantime an appropriation should be' made to place an elevator in the present building and give it some necessary renovation. The new committee in charge of public buildings should give this its attention immediately and present estimates of cost to Council. Necessity for New Public Cemetery. As with a new public building, so with a new public cemetery. We cannot conceal from ourselves 16 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. the fact that in deferring the selection of a site and the purchase of the same the City is simply putting itself in a position where it will eventually be forced to pay a much larger price than at this time. It is known that the Laurel Grove cemetery is not adequate to meet public requirements for many years longer, and, that it is not in accordance with sanitary dictates to enlarge the present area with the city rapidly building up around it. This is not theorizing but a presentation of actual conditions. Three years ago this subject was well canvassed, many sites were presented for consideration, but no conclusion was reached. It does not appear to me sound policy to defer this matter to some future Council, and require taxpayers to expend a vastly greater sum than would be required at this time to purchase enough ground for burial purposes for fifty years hereafter. The crude site cannot be used, in any event; years must be taken to lay it out, remove debris, and so ornament it as to present an appearance which will encourage citizens to buy lots therein. While there may be, and probably will be, differences of opinion, I do not believe such differences are irreconcilable. The Aldermen who assume office to-day should give this subject their earnest attention. A special committee should be appointed to make such an investigation as will enable it to present a report that will place all the facts before Council. Before the term of this Board has expired something definite, I believe, should be done to establish a new cemetery. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Caring for the Poor. Each year the necessity becomes more apparent for some intelligent handling of our mendicant classes, as well as of those who are in destitute circumstances but unwilling to become beggars. Hardly a day passes during the year that the Mayor is not called upon to assist persons who are in a deplorable state, some to leave the city, others merely wishing temporary aid in the shape of food and fuel until employment is secured. Another and rapidly increasing class is composed of those who from age or infirmities are unable to work and who are without friends willing or able to provide them with the means of subsistence. Societies connected with the various churches of the city do much for the relief of all three of these classes, but they are unquestionably unable to completely cope with the situation. The Mayor has no regular fund at his disposal and is compelled, when investigation shows the case to be one where immediate aid is required, to draw upon the incidental appropriation to a small extent. The aggregate of such expenditures during the year approached $1,500. The county also, I am advised, gives relief to persons living outside of the corporate limits. I would recommend that a committee be appointed to confer with the County Commissioners on the question of establishing a home for the poor on the county farm, the City to make an appropriation annually toward its support in conjunction with the county. There are many persons now begging on the streets, or dependent entirely on public charity, who could be gathered at such a 18 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. plnce and supported at much less expense than the City, county and general community are now subjected to. Admission could be restricted to persons who have been residents of the city or county for one year or longer, and in many cases the parties could be employed at some useful occupations. Such poor homes are in existence elsewhere and I believe one would materially assist in solving the problem as to what Savannah and Chatham county are to do with the worthy indigent. With such an institution in existence the Mayor could readily dispose of beg1 gars coming here from other points by deporting them, as provided under the laws of the State and City, or by sending them to jail, and thus relieve the community of what is fast becoming an intolerable nuisance as well as burden on its people. The charitably inclined could then concentrate their attention on those who are merely in need of a temporary tiding-over resulting from illness or lack of employment. I believe that whatever the municipal and county authorities do on this line will receive the hearty endorsement of taxpayers and citizens as a whole. Matron for Citv and County Jails. Another measure in which both City and county are interested, and which is prompted by humanitarian principles, has for its purpose the placing of a matron at the disposal of the authorities of the Police Barracks and the County Jail. I recently took this matter up with the County Commissioners, and I recommend that a committee of the incoming Board resume the conference and use its best en- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 19 deavors to secure joint action. The City is willing to pay its proportion of the expense, which need not be great. It would not only be a convenience to the officials at the two jails to have a matron to whom the searching of suspected females could be entrusted, but it would be an act of decency, as well as humanity, to have some one to properly attend to the wants of prisoners of that sex. The small outlay justifies the hope that the City arid county will see their way to a speedy engagement of a reliable woman in this capacity. Our relations with the county have been cordial in all respects during the term just closed, and should remain so. The two bodies, to my mind, should at all times work harmoniously for the benefit of the city and the adjacent districts. Recently a plan for the disposition of the city garbage was discussed by the representatives of the two bodies and as a result of the co-operation of the Commissioners it is probable that within a few weeks the waste matter of the city will be carried on cars to the county farm and there used for fertilizing purposes. The garbage will be put to some profitable use and the residents near the city, who have been complaining of the nuisance caused by the dumping of the waste near their places will find permanent relief. From both a financial and a sanitary standpoint this disposal of the garbage is to be commended. Efficient Service of Aldermen. Faithful and efficient service has been given to the City by its Aldermen during the year. Without' an exception they have considered the interests of 20 MAYOR'S ANNUAL RKPOTJT the municipality in all transactions, they have studied the needs of the departments, and have endeavored to advance their efficiency. Extravagance has been avoided in the use of the public money and every effort has been made to secure full value in the purchase of supplies. The gentlemen who are retiring from Council do so with the knowledge that in resigning their public trust into other hands they have the commendation of the people whom they have served and the personal satisfaction that arises from duties well performed. The Aldermen who are to continue in harness bring to their labors experience which is of great value, and will have associated with them gentlemen of intelligence, probity and devotion to. Savannah's interests, ensuring, I am convinced, a continuance of an administration which will seek to study the needs of the city and meet them to the fullest limits of its power. As Mayor I desire to acknowledge my personal indebtedness to the members of the old Board for their unanimous support during the past two yearsSeldom, if ever, has Savannah had the services of a Council which has been more of a unit in its determined endeavors to give the community an honest, economical, yet progressive administration. Members of Council Should be Paid. Indeed, the history of the municipal government of Savannah'is a tribute to the integrity and devotion of its councils to the best interests of their fellowcitizens. The rapid growth of the city, the development of the several municipal departments from insignificant beginnings to great organizations ex- MAYOR'S ANNUAL BKPOET. 21 pending large sums of money yearly, and the neces" sity for constant watchfulness over their workings, have vastly increased the labors of the Aldermen. The attendance at the regular meetings of Council fortnightly, occupying several hours, is but a small part of the labor thrown upon them. Special meetings of the Board, meetings of committees, and the personal supervision of departmental work, consume many hours of which the public knows nothing but from which the community derives much benefit. A city government is essentially a business affair, and in no other business organization of its magnitude are the directors expected to give so much valuable time without compensation. The day has arrived, in my judgment, when Savannah's Aldermen should be paid for their services, in some measure at least. Other cities pay such officers, and there is no reason why this should be an exception. I would favor the payment of $10 for attendance at each regular meeting of the Board, which would be but a nominal c mpensation. This would be merely a small recognition of their services and would certainly provoke no adverse criticism among thinking people. If the charter of the City does not permit of this a bill could no doubt be passed conferring the necessary power. A public corporation has no more right to expect to be served without cost than a private corporation. City Officials Attentive to Duties. The various city officers are also entitled to words of approval for their close attention to the duties falling to them and for the results they have accom- 22 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. plished. The reports of the several departments which accompany this report are satisfactory evidence of this. In our health department the results ot a constant, determined and rigid oversight of the conditions that affect public health, with prompt action to remove or lessen causes that tend to produce disease, have been productive of excellent results. The annual mortality among the whites has been reduced to 16 per thousand, the lowest in the history of the city, and placing Savannah among the most healthful cities of the world. Equally satisfactory has been the improvement in the sanitary conditions existing among the colored population and the death rate among that large element is also being rapidly reduced. In the police and fire departments the records are gratifying. The fire loss, as has been the case for several years, is very small. In this connection it may be mentioned that although the City constantly improves the efficiency of this department, and of the water department, its twin in the protection of property from fire, no recognition of this fact comes from the insurance companies. A year of heavy losses, or one fire of heavy loss, is always made the pretext for an agitation for an increase of the rates, but a number of years of small losses and consequent heavy profits to the insurance companies, resulting largely from the increased outlays of the City, apparently are overlooked. Other cities complain of this peculiar fact, also. In the public works department the year was marked by careful handling of the funds entrusted to the several departments that have been placed under its MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 23 charge. In the water works an air lift was introduced, at an expense of $25,000, which increased the supply greatly and made it fully adequate for all needs. The harbor master's report shows our commerce maintaining its own and his department bringing in more revenue than in past years. The important duties of the Clerk of Council have been given intelligent and careful attention by the incumbent, whose services have been both valuable and satisfactory to Council and the public having business with the office, Indeed, not to enumerate the various officials, it can be said that no charges of incompetence7 or neglect of duties have come from a critical public during 1902, and that all their duties appear to have been performed satisfactorily. During the year the City lost by resignation the services of its accomplished and able City Attorney, after many years of professional advice of the highest character which served to protect the City from embarrassing litigation, and which, in several of the most important cases the municipality has ever been engaged in, resulted in the endprsement from the highest courts of the State and nation of the position assumed by it at the advice of Mr. Adams. Fortunately the City has secured in the person of William Garrard, Esq., the services of another lawyer of the highest standing at the bar, and of years of varied experience in important civil cases, and we may confidently expect a continuance of the flattering record of the past in our legal department. Death has also removed another faithful and efficient public servant in Philip M. Russell, one of the tax asses- 24 MAYOR S ANNUAL, REPORT. sors, who merited the confidence in which he was held by the public. In the Legislature the City has been directly promoter of but one measure, that endeavoring to prevent the employment of convict labor within a certain radius of the incorporated limits. This failed to become a law, but efforts will he made at the next session of the General Assembly to prevent any further introduction of State convicts into industries in this immediate vicinity. Council was a unit in : i its desire to have a measure of this character passed, and the incoming Board, I have no doubt, enters fully into the spirit that actuated its predecessor in this matter. In entering upon my fourth term as Mayor of Savannah I desire to thank my fellow citizens for this further proof of their confidence and to assure them that 1 will endeavor during the next two years to justify the faith they have reposed in me. Again thanking the retiring Aldermen and the officials and employes of the City for their earnest co-operation during the year, I remain, Very Respectfully, HERMAN MYERS, Mayor. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 25 REPORT OP SINKING PUND COMMISSIONERS. SAVANNAH, GA., December 31, 1902. To His Honor, Herman Myers, Mayor, City of Savannah, Ga. Sir: The Sinking Fund Commissioners respectfully submit the twenty-fourth annual reportthe fourth of this Board. With the funds at our disposal we have purchased bonds of the issue of 1879, as follows: Jan. 8th, 1902, $ 3,300 bonds for........$ 3,547.50 Feb. llth, 15th, 17th, 30th, 8th, Mar. 27th, April 8th, July 9th, Oct. 18th, Oct. 20th, Nov. 19th, Nov. 22d, Previously \ purchased j . a a 1,000 " "...... 1,075,00 1,000 " " ...... 1,075.00 3,000 " " ........ 3,225.00 1,000 " ....... 1,080.00 1,000 " " ........ 1,077.50 1,000 " . .... 1,077.50 8,000 " " ....... 8,640^00 9,100 " " ........ 9,872.50 1,400 " " .... ... 1,516.50 1,000 ," " ........ 1,085.00 500 " " ........ 536.25 6300 " " ........ 6: 790.00 $ 37,600 " " .:....;.$ 40,597.75 . 609,200 " " ........ 582,079.40 Total..................$646,800 .$622,677.15 We have purchased bonds of the issue of 1883, as follows: 26 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. May 8th, 1902, $ 5,850 bonds for .......$ 6,493.50 " 8th, " 650 " *' ........ 721.87 $ 6,500 " " ........$ 7,215.37 .... 103,350 " " ........ 104,001.41 Total. ...... .........$109,850 " " ......$111,216.78 All of the above mentioned bonds and unmatured coupons have been canceled and handed to the City Treasurer for such final disposition as Council may direct. Issue of 1579. Signed and made available for exchange, as per last report............ $3,522,800.00 Issued in exchange, as per last report.. ...... ....$3,517,000.00 Exchange for old bonds. 500.00 $3,517,500.00 Bonds available in the hands of the City Treasurer........ .....;..... $ 5,30000 Of the bonds issued, $674,200.00 have been canceled, as follows: Received for balance of ground rent .......$ -9,200.00 Special purchase, as per last report.......... 18,200.00 Purchased out of Sinking Fund ............... 646,800.00 $674,200.00 Which leaves outstanding of the issue of 1879................................. ................$2,843,300.00 MAYOR'S ANNUAL UEPOHT. 27 Issue of 1833. Signed and made available for exchange....................$390,000.00 Issued in exchange as per last report........................ 388,700.00 Leaving available for exchange in the hands of the City Treasurer.......... $ 1,300.00 Of these bonds, $124,750.00 have been canceled, as follows: Special purchase........... ....................... .......$ 14,900.00 Purchased out of Sinking Fnnd............... 109,850.00 $124,750.00 Which leaves outstanding of the issue of 1883 ....... ....................... .........................$263,950.00 Respectfully, JOSEPH D. WEED, JOHN LYONS, CHARLES G. BELL, H. P. SMART, S. HERMAN. 28 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. BONDED DEBT JANUARY 1st I9O3. BOND COMPROMISE, 1879 Issued and outstanding January 1st, 1902... $2,880,900 Less redeemed and cancelled by Sinking Fund Commissioners 37,600 Amount outstanding...........................$2,843,300 BOND COMPROMISE, 1883 Issued and outstanding ,,j. January 1st, 1902...$ 270,450 ji Lessredeemedandcanij celled by Sinking : j Fund Commissioners 6,500 ;i i iii Amount outstanding............................. 263,950 a; . I. New bonds outstanding........................$3,107,250 , Old bonds outstanding, |i not compromised ......$ 2,000 Indorsed Savannah, Al- | ; bany & Gulf R. R. outstanding............... 1,300 . - Old bonds outstanding.........................'. 3,300 Total bonded debt.............................$3,110,550 STATEMENT OP CITY OP SAVANNAH BONDS. Issue of 15795 Per Cent. Blank Bonds Printed. i $ $i, 500 300 IOO 1 2000 3000 1000 1OOO Amount. $ 2,000,000 1,500,000 300,000 100,000 $ 3,900,000 Destroyed by Finance Committee. d fc 290 575 575 Amount. $ 145,000 175,500 57,500 $ 375,000 Signed by S. F, Commissioners. 20OO 2708 425 413 Amount. $ 2,000,000 1,354,000 127,500 41,300 $ 3,522,800 On Hand Signed. d K 8 Amount. $ 4,000 $ 4,000 On Hand not Signed. 1 12 Amount. $ 1,200 $ 1,200 Signed and Issued. 1 2OOO 2698 424 4'3 a < $ 2,000,000 1,349,000 127,200 41,300 $ 3,5*7,50 Not Available. d fc 2 I Amount. $ 1,000 300 $ 1,300 Cancelled by S. F. Commissioners. 1 347 519 183 128 Amount. $ 347,000 259,00 54,900 12,800 t 674,200 Amount Outstanding. d K 1653 2179 241 a85 Amount $ 1,653,000 1,089,500 72,300 28,500 $ 2,843,300 H{ O w O2 S STATEMENT OP CITY OP SAVANNAH BONDS. Issue of 18835 Per Cent. Blank Bonds Printed. 1 Value. 1 $1,000 500 So d X 300 200 300 Amount, $ 300,000 100,000 15,000 $ 415.000 Destroyed by Finance Committee. 6 "f. 5 h mount. $ '5, 2 6 Amount. $ 1,000 300 $ 1,300 Signed and Issued. d fc 300 147 304 Amount. $ 300,000 73.5 15, $ 388,700 Cancelled by S. F. Commissioners. d If, 97 45 105 Amount. $ 97. 22,500 5.250 $ 124.750 Amount Outstanding. d y. 203 102 99 Amount. J 203,000 51,000 9,95 $ 263,950 IOJ H 13 C MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOKT. 31 REPORT OP BOARD OP TAX ASSESSORS AND RECEIVERS SAVANNAH, G-A., January 1, 1903. To the Honorable Mayor and Aldermen, City of Savannah, Ga.: Dear SirsWe would most respectfully submit the following report of the Board of Tax Assessors for the year ending December 31, 1902. Returns of personal property were received in our office from the 1st to the 20th of January, 1902, as follows: Stock in trade........................ Furniture, etc.............................. Jewelry, Silverware, etc................. Musical Instruments.................... Libraries, etc.................. ........... Horses, Mules and Live Stock........ Vehicles .................................... Money and Solvent Accounts......... Stocks and Bonds........................ Promissory Notes........................ Mortgages on Real Estate.............. Mortgages on Personal Property..... Bonds for Titles........................... Shipping.................................... Machinery and Fixtures............... Telegraph, etc............................... Banks....................................... $ 2,148,610 00 992,905 00 103,135 00 58,855 00 64.175 00 105,115 00 83,340 00 2,887,320 00 572,455 00 133,945 00 296.425 00 1,000 00 22,050 00 248,275 00 160,655 00 800 00 2,513,700 00 32 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT. Other Personal Property............... 14,12000 Total returns for 1902............$ 11,007,880 00 Total returns for 1901............ 11,070,93500 Decrease............................. f 63,055 00 The apparent decrease in the personal returns was caused by the law recently enacted requiring the telegraph, telephone, Southern Express Company and others to make their returns to the Comptroller General. The returns received from the Comptroller General show an increase of $572,032.00 over the returns of 1901. We have inspected and assessed during the j"ear 1902 five hundred and seventy-eight (578) new buildings, repairs and improvements, the total assessed value of which amounts "to $501,250.00. The total taxable property of the City of Savannah is as follows: Real Estate........$27,151,889 at 81.45 $393,702 39.J, Ground Rent lots.. 892,151 " 12,936 18Jg Personal Property 11,007,880 " 159,614 26 Total for 1902... 39,051,920 " $566,25284 Total for 1991... 38,344,669 " 555,997 69 Increase .........$ 707,251 " 10,255 15 Yours very respectfully, J. H. H. OSBORNE, I SAMUEL REYNOLDS, '' Board of Tax Assessors. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 33 BUDGET TOR THE VEAR 1903. Board of Health ....... ....... .............. ....... ......$ 18,000 City Clocks............... ....... ............... .............. 250 City Lighting ........................................... .. 38,000 Dispensary......................... ............................. 5,600 Drainage and Dry Culture ...:...................... 10,000 Fire Uniforms.............. ...... ..... ................ 3,000 Fire Department, maintenance ..................... 76,500 Harbor and Wharves ............... ....... .. ... . ... . 1,300 Hospitals........................ .................................. 13,800 House Drainage................................ ............... 5,000 House Drainage, maintenance ....... ............. 3,500 Interest Bonded Debt..:............ .................... 156,000 Incidentals ........ .................. .......................... 5 000 Law Department, Incidentals ............. ........ 600 Laurel Grove Cemetery........ ....... ........ .......... 6,000 Market .. ............................................................ 5,200 Parks and Squares ............... .......................... 8,500 Parks and Squares and Streets, Tree Planting .................................................. .... ........ 1,000 Parks and Squares, Emmet Park Improvement ............................................................. 1,000 Parks and Squares, Artificial Stone Pavement, Bull Street Walk, Forsyth Park...... 2,500 Opening Streets, including deferred payments. ........................................................... 55,000 Paving Streets ................................... ........... 40,000 Police ............................................................ 86,000 Police Uniforms.............................. ....... ... ... 3.400 Police Reserve............... .................... ............ 3,000 Printing and Stationery...... ......... ..... .......... 5,000 34 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. lit' Public Buildings, including repairs to building corner West Broad and River Streets.. 3,500 Plumbing Inspector....................... .............. 3,400 Storm Sewers........................ ....... ....... ............. 5,000 Salaries ...................................... ....... ............ 40,300 Scavenger Department................................. 34,000 Sink Department, O. E. M........ ....... ............ 7,500 Sinking Fund ....................................... .......... 46,500 Savannah Female Orphan Asylum ............... 600 Streets and Lanes.......... ............... .................... 60,000 Streets (new grading)....................................... 2 500 Streets (resurfacing gravel streets)........... .. 2,500 Working People's Home........................ ....... 300 Water Works, new maintenance................... 35,000 Water Works, old, including Fountain on Montgomery Street......... ............................. 1,500 Water Works, 4 Duplicate Compressor and Repairs........ ..................... ...................... 7,700 Water Works, Extension............................. .. 12,000 $815,450 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 35 Trial Balance to December 31st 1902. EXPENDIT0BES. RECEIPTS. Board of Health.......................................! 17,847 26 Balance on hand December 31st, 1901......... $ 5,31746 City Clocks.................... .......................... 185 08 Colonial Park:........................................... 1,537 50 City Lots................................................. 1 65 4,88980 City House Drainage................................. 1490 12210 City Lamps..................................... ......... 36,882 00 Coupons, 1879............ ............................... 142,610 00 Coupons, 1883............................................ 14,357 34 Cash on hand December 31st, 1902............. 23,146 81 Dry Culture and Drainage.......................... 9,942 11 Dispensary................................................ 5,358 66 Electric Fees............................................. 58 95 559 75 Fees ........................................................ 6,082 05 Fire Department....................................... 78,695 31 884 07 Firemen's Uniforms............... ................. 4,902 95 Ground Rents....... .................................... 12,277 31 Ground Rent Lots.................................... 6,046 88 Harbor and Wharves......................... ...... 1,61018 Hospitals.................................................. 13,500 00 House Drainage ........................ .... ......... 2,840 64 Incidentals.............................................. 4,513 93 3,937 94 Inspection Fees........................................ 3,145 05 1,235 f-0 Laurel Grove Cemetery............................ 6,03182 1,76075 Liquor Licenses......................................... 47,916 09 Market .......................... .... ..................... 5,239 96 13,768 20 Maintenance City House Drainage ........... 2,947 26 Opening Streets......................................... 42,100 53 635 CO Parks and Squares.................................... 8,46885 675 Paving Streets.......................................... 78,87705 8871868 Paving Sidewalks................. .................... 13,189 36 13,199 26 Police....................................................... 87,446 94 198 91 Police Reserve... ............................... ...... 2,999 88 Printing and Stationery........................... 3,88449 14700 Police Uniforms........ ............................... 4,39075 Public Buildings ..................................... 1,783 09 Police Court................... ........................... 274 89 6,242 95 Rent Account............................................ 1,010 00 Salaries..................................................... 88,261 37 Scavenger Department................. ............ 32,963 40 S4 85 36 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Sink Department................................... .. 8,406 00 9,129 10 Sewei Account.......................................... 4,446 26 Streets and Lanes.................................... 66,956 64 99 60 Staking Fund, 1879........ .......................... 40,597 75 Sinking Fund, 1883................................... 7,215 37 Special Appropriation................................ 1,723 34 j Taxes, 1891............................................. 698 50 Taxes, 1892................................................ 1,000 00 Taxes, 1894................................................ 13 87 Taxes, 1895............ .................................. 1725 Taxes, 1896................................................ 17 25 Taxes, 1897.................................... ........... 45 14 Taxes, 1898............................................. .. 281 14 Taxes, 1899................................................ 124 07 Taxes, 1930............................................... 21 75 2,23259 Taxes, 1901..................... ................... ...... 1.614 08 124,365 29 Taxes, 1902................................................ 37905 483,402 57 Water Works .......................................... 59,096 79 93,768 18 Waterworks (old)................................... 2,580 51 Special Appropriations (streets and lanes) 3,047 05 Outstanding Notes.................................. 2,50000 House Drainage (special)............-............ 2,790 28 Savannah Female Orphan Asylum........... 60D 00 Grading Streets......................................... 1,903 42 Total...................................... ................f8S5,486 75 f8S5,486 75 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 37 REPORT OP CITV MARSHAL. 13.87 17.25 17.25 3152 52.74 255.69 SAVANNAH, GA., December 31, 1902. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor: Dear SirI have the honor to submit my annual report for the year 1902, ending this day. The money collected in this office amounts to $38,511.52, as follows: Real Estate, 1894......................! Real Estate, 1895..................... Real Estate, 1896...................... Real Estate, 1897...................... Real Estate, 1898.......... ........... Real Estate, 1899.................... Real Estate, 1900..................... 2,089.09 Real Estate, 1901........... ........ 14,247.82 Real Estate, 1902.................... 44 23$16,769.46 Personal Property, 1897....... .. 17.97 Personal Property, 1898 ........ 42.80 Personal Property, 1899 ......... 53.98 Personal Property, 1900.......... 143.50 Personal Property, 1901 ........ 759.37 Personal Property, 1902.. ....... 2,752.23 Specific Taxes, 1901................ 107.00 Specific Taxes, 1902.......... ....... 6,348.75 Paving Streets, 1893 ............... 362.96 Paving Streets, 1900........ ....... 90.48 Paving Streets, 1901 .............. 4,246.64 Paving Streets, 1902............... 152.38 Paving Sidewalks, 1900 ......... 45.80 Paving Sidewalks, 1901.......... 591.66 Paving Sidewalks, 1902.......... . 339.12 3,769.85 6,455.75 4,852.46 976.58 , i) 38 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Opening Streets....................... 630.00 | Market Vaults ........................ 2,369.00 Market Stalls.......................... 980.60 Fees ......................................... 972.58 Advertising.............................. 147.00 Interest...................... .... ...... 587.93 Incidentals ....... ...................... 31 5.687.42 Grand Total.................... ........ ...... ........$38,511.52 Ground Rents. All lots reported to this office by the City Treasurer have been re-entered for arrears of rent, as required by ordinance. Very respectfully, HENRY E. DREESON, City Marshal. MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT. 39 REPORT OP CITY ATTORNEY SAMUEL B. ADAMS. SAVANNAH, GA., January 8, 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor: Dear SirHaving resigned on the first of October last the office of City Attorney, I beg now to make a report touching the cases then on hand, including those mentioned in my report published on pages 41, 42 and 43 in the Mayor's Report for 1901. I have to-day written a long letter to my successor, sending all the records and papers connected with the litigation, making some statements by way of explanation, and offering to supplement this at any time that he may call upon me I have had, from first to last, quite a number of interviews with Col. Garrard concerning the City's business on hand, and it will give me pleasure at any time to talk to him further. He is giving the City's unfinished business his usual thorough attention, and I am glad to know that this business is in such good hands. 1. The Jefferson street cases and the Lovell litigation have not been disposed of. I have written Col. Garrard fully as to these cases. 2. When my last report was written there was pending in the Supreme Court of the United States a bill of exceptions, which the Savannah, Thunderbolt & Isle of Hope Railway had taken to the decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia on the motion for an interlocutory injunction, the purpose of which was to prevent the City from charging a specific tax of any character, whether in the shape of a car tax, or 40 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. i| mileage, or other similar tax, against this Street Railroad Company. Since this date this bill of. exceptions has been dismissed. The case was heard in the Superior Court for a final decree, one was obtained for the City, another bill of exceptions taken to the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the decree in favor of the City was affirmed. No further steps have been taken by the Railway Company, but I have heard that it contemplated filing another bill of exceptions to the Supreme Court of the United States on the case as determined by the final decree. 3. The suit of the Savannah, Thunderbolt & Isle of Hope Railway, involving the taxation of their power house property, has not been finally disposed of. 4. The case of the People's Savings & Loan Co. against the City, which denies the City's right to use a lot in the southwestern portion of the City, on which an engine house has been since built, for any purpose other than a street, has been practically disposed of by the decision of Judge Seabrook, presiding in Chatham Superior Court, holding that the City could use the lot for the purposes of an engine house. There were no exceptions taken to this judgment, and, while the main case is still on the docket, I take it that it has been practically disposed of and will not be pressed. 5. The suit of the Executrix of the will of Schley, brought for an injunction to restrain the City from taxing property of the estate east of the tracks of the S., F. & W. R. R., was determined in favor of the city. No exceptions were taken and the case was thus finally disposed of. MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 41 6. The suit of Rourke, Mitchell & Delaney, mentioned in my last report, has been since compromised and settled. 7. The case of the Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Co., brought in the United States Circuit Court for a balance claimed to be due this company by the city, was settled, the party plaintiff accepting what the city offered before the suit. 8. The case brought by the property owners on Gaston street, in which they obtained an injunction to prevent the removal of the shell pavement and the substitution of a vitrified brick pavement, is still pending in the United States Circuit Court. 9. The suit of Mrs. L. C. Kassell for a return of two fines against her was decided in her favor. 10. The suit of the City against Messrs. Floyd & Co. and Comer, involving a claim for rent for a part of Twickenham plantation, has been heard and determined in favor of the city. 11. The appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States of the ground rent case, mentioned in my report, was determined by the Supreme Court in favor of the city shortly after the date of the report, and this litigation thus finally terminated. 12. Since my last report, the last of the Liberty street cases has been disposed of and a judgment obtained by the city and the money paid. This was with the Lufburrows. The case was held up on account of the pendency of an injunction case in which it was involved. 13. The case of the City & Suburban Railway Co. vs. the City of Savannah, brought just before the 42 MAYOR'S AXNtJAL REPORT. date of my last report and involving a tax question, has not been disposed of. The following new cases were brought between the date of my last report and my resignation: 1. Washington Hassett sued the city, in a Justice's Court, on a claim for personal injuries, in which he obtained a judgment for $75.00. This judgment has been appealed to the Superior Court, and the case is there pending on appeal. 2. Dan Williams recovered a judgment in a small amount in another Justice's Court for personal injuries. The amount is under $50.00, and I have appealed the case to a jury in that Court. This appeal case has not been heard. 3. The Armour Packing Co. brought a suit for injunction against the city to prevent the taxation in Savannah of its moneys and credits, claiming that it was a non-resident corporation and these assets were not subject to taxation. The Superior Court held with the city, and, on appeal to the Supreme Court, this latter Court affirmed this judgment, and thus determined this important litigation, which involves a precedent of consequence in favor of the city. 4. C. E. Wright has brought a suit for $500 damages in the Superior Court, for personal injuries, which is there pending. 5. The suit of Celia Campbell against the city, brought in the City Court of Savannah, resulted in a judgment for $200, which Avas afterwards compromised for $125. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 43 6. Jesse A. Milton has brought a suit in the City Court for personal injuries, which is there pending. 7. Another suit has been brought in the same Court, for the same class of injuries, by Laura Jones. In these two suits it is claimed that the city's streets and sidewalks were in defective condition. 8. Floyd & Co. sued the S., F, & W. Railway and the City of Savannah for damages on account of overflowing the place leased to them, claiming $3,933.00. The city filed a demurrer, which demurrer was sustained, so far as the city was concerned; no exceptions have been taken, and the case has thus been finally disposed of. 9. William M. Low, et al., have recently filed, in the Superior Court, a case for injunction, growing out of the disputes and questions relative to Emmet Park, with which you are familiar. This case is now receiving Col. Garrard's attention. The foregoing covers, I think, all the cases on hand. Up to the time of my resignation I had prepared a large number of conveyances to the city, giving opinions and advice, and attended to the usual routine of the office. In making this, my final report, I cannot forbear expressing my acknowledgments for the uniform kindness and consideration shown me as City Attorney. My client has been all that I could expect. With my best wishes, I am, yours very truly, SAM'L B. ADAMS. 41 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT Of CITY ATTORNEY WILLIAM GARRARD. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor: Dear SirMy report can only cover the last three months of the past year. The report of my predecessor for 1901 was very full, and stated, in detail, the pending cases up to January 1st, J902, and his report for 1902 will, no doubt, state all the operations of the Law Department up to the time when he resigned. The following new cases have required my attention, in answering the same and preparing them for trial: I. The suit brought by Springfield Land Company, claiming $5,000 damages and seeking injunction against certain alleged nuisances on the Old Powder Magazine property, filed in the Superior Court on October 10th. This case was settled by consent of counsel and with the approval of the Court on November llthj providing for formal decree to be taken at the December term, 1902, the city paying one-half the costs$11.38. II. The case of Wm. M. Low, et al., relating to that open tract of land between Lincoln and East Broad streets and extending from Factors' Walk to Bay street, known as "Emmet Park," the petitioners being owners of wharf lots under the bluff of the City of Savannah, and claiming title up to Bay street, denying that said tract is a uPfrk," asserting that the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 45 city has no right to use it as such without paying adequate compensation for so much of same as is claimed by them, respectively, and seeking injunction, etc. The present term of the Superior Court is the appearance term of the case. III. The case of H. M. Morgan, filed October 23d, to the December term, 1902, of the Superior Court, relates to "Fig Island" in the Savannah River, asserts title in Thomas E. Shields to the whole of said island, denies the title of the city to the eastern portion of the same, and seeks injunction. IV. The suit of W. E. Swanston for $10,000 damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been, sustained by reason of excavation on Drayton street, was filed October 16th to the November term, 1902, of City Court. V. The case of Charlotte Brown for $1,000 damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been sustained on Bryan street, was filed October 20th to the November term, 1902, of the City Court. VI. The suit of Mary Hawkins for $1,000 damages to property, alleged to have been sustained by the lowering of the gf ade of Stewart street, was filed October 20th to the November term, 1902, of the City Court. VJL The suit of George Schroder for $2,000 damages to property on Stewart street, alleged to have resulted from the lowering of the grade of said street, was filed October 20th to the November term, 1902, of the City Court. r h 46 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. VIII. The suit of James W. Byrnes, Executor, for $3,000 damages to property on Stewart street, alleged to have been caused by the grade of said street being lowered, was filed October 20th to the November term, 1902, of the City Court, IX. The case of Waring, Chapman & Farquhar was filed in October to the November term, 1902, of the United States Circuit Court, claiming the sum of $8,499.52, besides interest from July 1, 1901. This is for balance claimed to be due for engineering services in installing the House Drainage System. X. The case of Alfred M. Powell for $5,000 damages, claimed to have resulted from garbage dumping near Ogeechee canal, was filed to December term, 1902, of the Superior Court. XL The case of Rawley F. Flowers for $5,000 damages, alleged to have been sustained by reason of the dumping of garbage near Ogeechee canal, was filed in the Superior Court to the December term, 1902. XII. The certiorari case of J. IT. Hester, complaining of a decision by the Recorder to the effect that a Confederate Veteran's license did not permit him to sell at the Market without paying Market fees, has been filed in the Superior Court at the December term, 1902. XIII. The certiorari case of Isaac Beckett, complaining of a decision by the Recorder to the effect that said petitioner had violated tax ordinance of 1902, in advertising money to lend without paying the tax required, has been filed at December term, 1902, of the Superior Court. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 47 As to the cases brought before my term of office begun, I have been and am engaged in preparing same for trial. I settled the case of Isaiah Ca'mpbell, which was in judgment, the city paying $16.30. This case was based on the same occurrence as was that of Celia Campbell, which had been settled. The only case brought on behalf of the city is that of the Mayor and Aldermen vs. M. A. Bandy, principal, and Wm. F. Corbett, surety, which.is a suit upon a note for $50.00, with interest from January 1,1902, at 8 per cent., and is pending in Justice Naughtin's Court. I have investigated the titles to lands sold to the .city for opening and extension of streets, and drawn such deeds as were required, as to all of which I beg to refer to the deeds and index to the same in the Clerk of Council's office. I have also attended the meetings of Council, have drawn such contracts as were required from time to time, and have attended to the routine business of the office, sucli as giving advice to the Mayor and Aldermen and the heads of the city "departments, the drawings of resolutions, ordinances, etc. Very respectfully, WILLIAM GARRARD, City Attorney. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER. Dr. Statement of Cash Received and Disbursed from January 1st, 1902, to December 31st, 1902. Cr. Cash In Treasury January Igt, 1002, $ 5,317 4fi CITY LOTS Received from the Est John L. Hardee, Eastern portion of lot 20, Thomas Ward............f Received from the Ocean Steamship Company for strip of land on Western side of Waters St. Received from H. W. Johnson, for West 1-2 of East 1-2 lot No. 30, Thomas Ward ................ Received from the Rt. Rev. 0. K. Nelson, Bishop of Georgia, for exchange of property ......... Received from ihe City Marshal proceeds of sale of buildings... 025 CO 3,000 00 025 00 114 80 5 00- 4,389 80 BOARD OF HEALTH Salaries of Health Officer, City Physicians and Keeper of Test Houso ........... .......... 14 500 00 Time of hands disinfecting..... 404 00 . Printing mortuary reports, eireulars, etc. .................... 275 05 Vaccine points, soap, Ice, linen clothing, etc. ................ 1,561 74 Coffins and wagon hire for paupers ............ ............ 230 15 Drugs, etc. .................... 190 75 Rent of telephones ............. DOS 07 17,847 20 Insurance .............. ...... CITY CLOCKS Attending City clocks.......... 185 08- 185 OS COLONIAL PARK Wardens and Vestry of Christ Church ........... .......... CITY LOTS Recording deeds ............... 165 105 1,537 50- 1537 50 CITY HOUSE DRAINAGE Received from John Rourke & Sons for Pile Caps ........... 15 60 Received from Union Station for Pipe ............. ........... 60 75 Amount of bill not paid and returned as cash ............... 1 45 Amount of wages not called for and returned as cash.......... 64 40 122 10 CITY HOUSE DRAINAGE Casting and plumbing work..... CITY LAMPS 14 90- 1490 Lighting streets from December 1st, 1901, to November 30th, 1902 ............. .......... 36,882 00 36,882 00 jj DRY CULTURE AND DRAINAGE Time of hands ................. 8,669 32 Forage, llm.-, lumber, cement, ,_. etc. ........... ............. 1,125 41 Tools, etc. ..................... 34 48 % Insurance ..................... 73 00 P Vehicles and repairs for same... 39 90 9,942 11 DISPENSARY Salaries of Keeper nnd Assistant 2,275 00 Lighting, fuel, ice, etc........... 547 20 Rent of telephone .............. 25 00 Rent of building ............... 480 00 . Printing and stationery ........ 33 25 Drugs, etc. .................... 1,976 21 Insurance ......... ........... 22 00 6,358 66 50 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1 KLECTRK; FEI 2 .. i C 1 -, 03 . FKE jdJLECTIUO n from eoelved sinidi'j 9 ^ B U e S i^- *8 e 5 >" 00 S ,-. [ Ekutrle Fees g i .... FEESFIRE DEPARTS ^ 2 l -f <-> S C >? It M It C S IS S tt X = ^- OO d r- OS r-f 5 oj:-;-"S-*;;c5 occoi? g S -,H1--..= S i 2 S 5-3 ? 2 o 3 ** i- O *rf * ** C " S* C zl o cs b A) 1 1 1 L- ^ t* : s- *S ' yj o C r^ I fe -? S ^^S^3 K * 1*5 Sg | 5 c o <* ill. 1 1^-2 K 5"S K .> t- > o *~" a a 2 W CK 1 ^ I T" ll C'^ g - Jent oftelephones . 'Ire nlnrms........ *nrrr^mi' f0os_. 3 c if 3 U *S =! i g^ * from theeeelvrt fe-3 > > t ' i ,^J, . S * S FIRE DEPART Clock forStation H > i 1 1 > RENT GROUND rJ, S c. 2 "5 o - > "o _o V a ' TH e-i Cl iieo J, a Cl 1^ S3 . , o 1 o 1 o s c i "3 tc X C I 1 Iu2 1 0 . GROUND RENT Hi o ^ cc c c~ i^ 00 ^ C WH S, K P H -S O FIRE ANDPOL] Bremen's nnlforms, ptr_ ......... .. o i 88 " t e s o s > I? IS ^ e^ 53 0 HOSPITALS - t Savnnnnh Hospital, keeping City patients for year ............ 3,000 00 ^ .St. Joseph's Flirtmiary ......... 3,00000 Georgia Infirmary ............. 4,200 00 Park View Sanitarium ........ 3,000 00 Charity Hospital .............. 300 00- 13.HOO 00 HOUSE DRAINAGE, SPECIAL Rourke, Mltchell & Delaney, full settlement of claim .......... 2,790 28 2,793 28 "taw INOIDENTALSReceived from Bank for interest on dally balances ........... 3,092 71 Received for Surveying lots and making plats ................ 310 00 Received from City Marshal for Interest on executions ....... 527 73 Received from the Keeper of the Olty Pound for Pound Fees... 7 50 INCIDENTALS Charity, telegrams, postage, etc.. 1,801 74 Premium ou bonds of City officers ........... ............. 168 50 Mrs. McStay ................... 144 00 Fuel, lights, etc. ............... 60H 33 Thomas Gamble, Jr., getting up statistics ......... .......... 200 00 Appropriation to band ......... 330 00 Expenses for 1902 for Commissioners of Pilotage ........... 75 00 City Marshal allowed for use of buggy ............ .......... 240 00 Cost of Court .................. 68 OS Telephone ........ ............. 4040 Appropriation to erecting the busts of Generals McLaws and Bartow ...... ............... 78 73 J. H. H. Osborne, extra services. 200 00 Admiral Schley's reception and entertaining delegates accompanying Liberty bell ......... 426 70 Pasting coupons from City of Savannah bonds In coupon books ........... ............ 10000 Expenses of paying coupons from City of Savannah Bonds In New 3,937 9 York City ................... 5390- 4,61393 INTEREST Coupons from City of Savannah bonds, issue of 1879.......... 142.610 00- 142,010 00 INSPECTION FEES Received from examination of Plumbing, etc. ............... 1,235 00- 1,235 00 LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY Received from Burial Fees.... 1,29700 Received from sale of lots...... 430 00 Received from the Est. of Mary E. Williams for taking cave of lot ............ ............. 3375- 1,76375 LIQUOR LICENSES Received from Liquor Licenses and interest on notes......... 47,916 03 47,916 09 MARKET Received from collections...... 10,416 35 Received from rent of Vaults... 2,369 00 Received from rent of Stalls.... 980 60 Amount of bill not paid and returned as cash............... 2 25 13,768 20 Coupons from City of Savannah bonds, Issue of 1883.......... 14,857 34- INSPECTION FEES Salarles of Inspectors ...... Printing and stationery, etc. Furniture ,,......, ....... 2,970 00 164 05 11 00 14,357 84 3,145 05 LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY Salary of Keeper and time of hands ........... ........... 5,091 88 Material, tools, etc............. 138 8i Forage, Ice, etc................. 349 03 Flowers and plants ............ 27 04 Iron fence and putting up same. 400 05 Rent of telephone .............. 25 00 6,031 82 MAINTENANCE CITY HOUSE DRAINAGE O 9 t Salary of Inspectors . Cement, dray age, etc. MARKETSalaries of Clerk, Assistants, and time of hands ............... Lighting and fuel .............. Sawdust, brooms, soap, etc..... Insurance ........... ......... Sidewalks ......... ...........' Repairs and material .......... 2,914 99 32 27- 3,402 00 579 00 582 31 25 00 125 00 525 75 2,947 26 5,239 96 8 OPENING STREETS A. Khrllch, Guardian ...... i Alfred Kirnt ............... .TaiucH Fleming ............. HolH>rt Fallout ........... I). R. Loster .............. Hebrew Cemetery ......... Jackson Kiiufnmn ......... A. Khrllch, Guardian ...... Olty & Snburliun Uv. Co. . . (',. H. Wiml ............... Mnrtlin Kllne ............. O. It. Brown ............... CitlKcna I.nnd Co. .......... George H. Miller ........... H. Axson .................. D. G. Farmer .............. Dr. Jj. A. Fnllignnt ........ City & Suburban Ry. C -. . . . Savannah Investuu'iit Co.. Delia Stephens ............ Geo. H. Remsliart ......... Rosa McAleer ............. A. A. Woodwnrd .......... Mrs. G. B. Sack ........... A. A. Alien ................ C. H. Dorsett ............. C; H. Dorsett .............. Ann Brown ........... ... Mrs. K. B. Sack ........... W. T. West ............... Thomas M. Norwood ...... S.035 2r> .... 1.8(10 00 .... 8i5 10 .... !)!)0 00 2;u 23 349 aa . ... T:H 12 .... l,20:i as 2.058 5-1 .... l,f-(iO on .... 800 00 r.oo 25 883 00 1,12440 100 00 1,274 27 .... 505 57 1J3U 72 500 91 235 35 025 00 576 00 . . . . 00 00 . ... 1,15000 . ... 1,00000 , . . . 858 26 , ... 1,50000 390 85 1,800 48 . . . . 750 00 400 00 65 70 H, O fl <23 9) OPENING STREETSEeceived from sale of houses.. 035 00- PARKS AND SQUARES Amount of bill not ]iald and returned as cash .............. PAVING STREETS 0 75 Received from office collections. 30,374 47 Received from City Marshal ... 7,414 11 Received from the Savannah Electric Co. ................ 928 10 Amount of wages not called for nnd returned as cash ........ 2 00 C35 00 675 38,718 08 Interest ........ Recording deeds Moving houses . Land purchased Time of hands .. Lumber ........ Arbitrators 5,800 40 78 05 2,050 00 5.887 84 558 25 27 50 ST COOUTSTANDING NOTES Appropriation to Savannah Fair Association ........... ...... PARKS AND SQUARES Time of hands ................ Material, tools, etc.............. Plants, trees, etc. .............. Printing and stationery ........ Koriige, fuel, shoeing, etc. ...... PARKS AND SQUARES-Trec PlantingTime of hands ................ 1,000 00 - PAVING STREETS Paving and improving str.ets. POLICE DEPARTMENT Pay Roll ........... Material and repairs Incidentals ......... 42,100 53 2,500 00- 2.5CO 00 0,102 87 3J-2 93 081 7 32 r> 1,208 31- S,-iC8 85 .1,000 00 78,877 05- 78,877 05 7C.217 48 585 85 761 80 K g OT 2 POLICE DEPARTMENT Received for keeping prisoners 149 41 Itecelved from sale of unredeemed articles ................... 40 50- 108 01 PRINTING AND STATIONERY Received from advertising, etc.. 147 CO- 147 00 POLICE COURT Received from flnes eol!eeted Police Court ................. 6,242 95- 0,242 95 Fuel and lights ............... Shoeing, repairing wagons, liarness, etc. .................... Insurance ........... ......... Printing nnrt stationery ........ Ht'iit of telephones ............. Forage ...,.,,...., ........... Food for prisoners ............. Medicine, and attending sick stock ............ .......... Horses purchased .............. Equipments, etc. ............... Funeral expenses ........ ..... Game-well System ............. Uniforms (not charged hi Uniform account) ............... 71051 825 02 8000 240 50 05 90 3,!iOO 15 8(50 G3 120 00 750 00 240 00 50 00 1,440 21 1,017 75- 87.440 04 POLICE RESERVES Appropriation iiy Council ...... 2,01)9 88 PRINTING AND STATIONERY City Printing, printing circulars, proceedings of Council, Mayor's Report, 1901, and stationery ........... .............. POLICE COURT Judgment City Court Mrs. C. L. Kassell ......... ............ 2,999 88 3,884 49 3,881 40 274 89 274 89 RENT ACCOUNT Lots on Springfield Plantation.. 100 00 Brick store foot of West Brood ' street .............. ........ 595 00 Encroachment on South side wharf lot No. 3, Decker Ward. 15 00 PUBLIC BUILDINGSInsurance ........... Repairs and material Fuel and lights ...... Incidentals .......... Rent of telephones ... Furniture, etc. ...... 29375 622 01 441 92 . 68 65 8s 00 315 73 1.783 09 SALARIES Salaries of City officers and clerks p year ending December 31st, 1902, and Auditor's salary for ao examining the books of the City >. Treasurer, Marshal and Clerk I K of Council ................... 38,261 37 38,261 37 5BG SCAVENGER DEPARTMENT V Salary of Superintendent and w time of hands ............... 22,443 55 2 Forage ........... ............ 7,749 10 p Vehicles, and repairs to same... 247 51 H Tools, etc. ..................... 8U3 10 Lumber, hardware, etc.......... 81383 Attending sick stock ........... 241 98 Rent of telephones ............ 63 00 Harness and repairs ........... 380 06 Lighting stables ............... 119 87 Incidentals ........... ........ 157 70 Insurance ............ ......... 8000 Shoes, nails, etc. ............... 273 70- 32.963 4U ?, Wharf slip foot Whltaker street Wharf slip foot Druytoa street. SINK DEPARTMENT Received from cleaning Vaults.. Amount of bill not pnld and returned as cash ............... 20000 100 00 1,010 00 0,125 50 CO- 0,129 10 SCAVENGER DEPARTMENT Received from Director of Public Works, proceeds of sale of old material, etc. ............... Amount of wages not called for and returned as cash ........ SIDEWALK DEPARTMENT83 86 1 00- 8485 Received for repairing and layIng Sidewalks .............. 12,327 26 Received from the Savannah Construction Company ........... 14 72 Received from the- City Marshal 857 8 - STREETS AND LANES Received from the Union Terminal Company ................ 3000 Received from proceeds of sale of old material ................. 42 00 13.199 26 SINK DEPARTMENTSalary of Superintendent and time of hands ............... Cleaning vaults ............... Harness, repairing buggy, etc... Forage ........ ............... SEWER AOOOUNTTime of hands ............... Lumber, cement, catch basins. Plumbing work .............. STREETS AND LANES Time of hands ............... Forage ........ .............. Vehicles and repairs .......... Oyster shells ................. Cement, brick, lumber, etc..... Attending sick stock.......... Tools and repairs............ Harness, and repairs to same., Printing and stationery....... Incidentals ........ ......... Insurance ........... ........ Horses and mules ............. Drayage ......... ............ Freight charges .............. Shoeing ........... .......... Plumbing work .............. Rent of telephones ........... 1,013 71 7,217 20 30 65 144 54 8,738 18 607 14 42 09 38,894 94 4,715 97 206 27 1,132 95 2,804 47 182 27 1,079 46 417 29 144 55 201 22 112 00 '840 00 209 44 322 86 197 65 3986 38 00 8.40600 4,443 20 2 O *. to W Received from the Director of Public Works ................ Amount of wages not called for and returned as cash ........ TAXES, 1894 Received from City Marshal.... TAXES, 1895- Received from City Marshal.... TAXES, 1896- Received from City Marshal.... TAXES, 1897 Received from City Marshal.... 20 00 1 50 1387- 17 25- 17 25- 45 14 90 50 13 87 17 25 17 25 45 14 Repairs to paved streets........ 4,624 62 Lighting stables ............... 6664 Artificial stone sidewalks....... 655 48 Settlement of damage claims.. 17130 50,95664 SINKING FUNDBonds 1819 Commissioners for bonds issue 1879, cancelled and retired.... 40,597 75 40,597 75 SINKING FUNDBonds 1883 Commissioners for bonds, issue 1883, cancelled and retired.... 7,215 37 7.2:6 37 STREET GRADING Time of hands and time of teams 1,903 42 1,903 4.' SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONStreels and LanesMiss Mary E. O'Brien, settlement of case ...................... 1,397 03 Warren Scharf A. P. Co.'s claim 1,650 00 3,047 05 SPECIAL APPROPRIATION Mrs. Fender ................... 165 00 Thomas Halligan, indexing records ....................... 533 34 E. J. Thomas, making maps..... 425 00 Woman's Christian Temperance Union ........... ........... 100 00 Patriotic Society .............. 600 00 1,723 3| o 93 H TAXES. 1898- Rccelved from City Marshal... TAXES, 1899 Recelved from Olty Marshal..., 281 14- TAXES, 1901 Received from City Marshal.... 19,878 77 Received from office collections. 10+.98U 52 TAXES, 1902- Recelved from ofBce collections for Real Estate, etc. ........ 370,007 81 Specific ......... ............. 1W.GCO 05 Received from badgesOne horse wagons ............ 4,409 70 Two horse wagons ............ 1,413 GO One horse trucks.............. 42720 Two horse trucks.............. 1,01700 Three horse trucks ............ tW) 40 One horse hacks................ 649 20 Two horse hacks............... 228 00 Two horse omnibuses........... 30 00 Street hucksters ............... 399 30 Poultry hucksters .............. 50 00 281 14 124 07 124 07 TAXES, 1900 Received from City Marshal.... 2232 59 2,232 5!> 124,305 20 SAVANNAH PEMALB ORPHAN ASYLUM Appropriation ........ ........ 000 00- 600 00 SIDEWALKS DEPARTMENT Time of hands; tools, material, etc. ........... ............. 13,18030- 13,18930 TAXES, 1900- Ainonnt refunded by Council.... 2176 2175 TAXES, 1901- Amonnt refunded by Council... 1,51408 1,514 08 Dogs ........... ...... Push carts ............ Street cars ............ Received from Marshal 1,679 10 45 00 750 00 7,939 71- 488,402 57 WATBB WORKS Recelved from water rents..... 90,098 53 Received for rent of the McLeod Mill site Received for rent of the Old Water Works tract for the year 1901-1902 ......... .......... Received for meters, repairing, etc. ........... ............. Received for use of water for laying cement pavement. ..... Received from proceeds of sale of one horse ................ Received from Allan Bond for rent of n portion of the old McLeod Mill site ............... 87 CO 8UO 00 72 15 JO 00 15 00 125 00 00,708 18 $ 885,480 75 TAXES, 1902 Amount refunded by Council.... 379 05 WATER WORKSSnlaries of officers and employees from December 1st, 1901, to November 30th, 1902......... 10,95142 Running expenses of pump and engines ......... ............ 11,567 57 Incidentals ......... .......... 110 83 Repairs .......... .'............ 1,50758 Improvement account .......... 156 50 Repairing cess pools............ 13 09 Extension account ............. 3,909 78 Meter account ................. 2 51 Air lift ........................ 24,811 51-- WATER WORKS(OLD) Time of hands ............... 232 02 2,318 49- Cash on hand December 31st, 1992, 379 05 59,096 79 2.H80 51 23,146 81 $ 885,486 75 H O *s oa > O 8 a grofffairi We, the undersigned, Committee on Finance, have examined the accounts of the City 8 Treasurer, from the 1st January, 1902, to the 31st day of December, 1902, inclusive, and find same correct, with proper vouchers, and a balance in the Treasury of $23,146.81 (twentythree thousand, one hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty-one cents). JAMES M. DIXON, Chairman. F. F. JONES, E, A. M. SCHBOEDER, D. 11. THOMAS, EDWIN M. FRANK, Finance Committee. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OP SUPERINTENDENT OP POLICE. HEADQUARTERS SAVANNAH POLICE DEPARTMENT, SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1903. To the Honorable Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah : GENTLEMENI have the honor to submit my annual report of the Police Department for the year 1902. During the year a total of 5,643 arrests were made for all grades of crime. Of this number 1,130 prisoners were white and 4,213 were colored. This shows an increase of 390 in the number of arrests made Because there was an increase in the number of arrests it does not necessarily follow that the percentage of crime was greater. The same number of criminal acts may be committed in two cities, yet the one with the most efficient police department will make the greater number of arrests. An increase in the number of arrests speaks well for the department, It is evidence of the fact that the men have been vigilant and are entitled to a word of praise from me for their work during the year. The men connected with this department, officers, privates and detectives, have been faithful, and I have only kind words for them. They have ever been ready and willing to respond to an emergency call and have never hesitated in facing danger. The year has been a successful one because these men 64 MAIOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. did their duty. Their efficient work enables me to submit to you a report without recommendations. The detectives have been faithful and willing at all times. The recovery of property amounting to $29,683.35 this year shows their active work. This amount exceeds the previous year by nearly $3jOOO. J regret to have to mention the deaths of three members of this departmentSergeant Henry Lingg, who served the city for almost 37 years ; a good, brave and faithful man ; he remained on duty almost to his last moments. Private Robert O'Keefe had been connected with this department for 31 years. Hoary with age, this faithful officer remained on duty until the day he passed aw.-iy. Ex-Quartermaster John Arnold, who was placed on the retired roll after serving 20 years. His death occurred shortly after being placed on a pension. To the Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor, and to the members of the Police Committee of Council, I desire to extend my hearty thanks for their co-operation. To the former Chairman, Alderman Frank, and to the present Chairman, Aldermen Jones, and to Aldermen Schroeder and Garfunkel, of the Committee on Police, I am indebted for assistance given me. Very respectfully, OWEN F. REILLY, Superintendent of Police. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 65 Arrests Made During the Tear 19O2. The following are the number of arrests made by the department during the year. (This does not include parties placed upon the "Information Docket"): CHIME Abduction ...................................... .................. Assault with intent to murder ............ .............. Assaulting and cutting.............................. ..... Attempt to commit arson............... ............ .... Attempt to commit rape ................................... Burglary............................................................ Beastiallty ......................................................... Carrying concealed weapons... .......................... Contempt of court ............................................. Conspiracy, with intent to commit a felony........ Car breaking .................................................... Concealing contagious disease............................. Cheating and swindling......... .......................... Cow stealing...................................................... Drunk ............................................... .............. Drunk and disorderly ............... ................. ...... Disorderly conduct.................................:........... Escaped convicts .............................................. Fighting........ .................. ................................ Forgery.................................................. ..... ..... Fast and reckless driving ................................... Gambling............. ............................................ Highway robbery......................... ...................... Insanity ........................;................................... Keeping a lewd house ................................. ...... Licentious conduct...... ...................................... Murder................................................'.. ........... Malicious mischief........ .......................... ......... Obtaining money under false pretense........... ...... Parsing counterfeit mouey ................... ............. Picking pockets......................................... ........ Bobbery by force................................................ Bape.... ........... ...................................... . .. ..... Stowaways.............................. ................. ........ Safe keeping ..................................................... Suspicious characters ............................. ........... Stealing: rides on railwav trains....................... .. WHITE 2 6 63 1 5 8 t 3 2 4 389 289 271 5 ii6 i 3 3 4 7 63 5 1 S 78 69 5 ("OI.ORKD. 64 J82 1-2 4 71 1 27 7 9 0 9 I 5 466 415 J340 25 399 1 10 15 5 11 2 10 64 567 6 11 7 2 2 8 2 127 261 5 TOTAL 2 70 245 12 I 4 76 I 35 8 8 11 3 IS 1 o 854 7U4 1611 o 25 515 o 13 15 5 14 2 14 71 630 11 12 7 2 2 S 2 8 205 330 10 66 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. t CRIME Stealing United States mail........ ........................ Swimming in the river ...................................... Sodomy................................... ........................... Violating fireworks ordinance ........................... Violating back ordinance ........... ....................... Violating sanitary ordinance............... ............... Writing policy.. ................ ................................. Total.... .................................................... WHITK i 5 1 12 1430 COLORED 1 6 24 16 8 4 4213 h5 1 l 101 36 16 8 4 5643 Total number of persons arrested (white)...............1.430 Total number of persons arrested (colored).............4,213 Total number of arrests made.......................5,643 Number of Arrests Made by the Detectives During the Tear. January ........................62 August ................ .......39 February ....................40 September ................ 47 March ............................32 October ....... ...... .........34 April........ ......... .........49 November ....... ......... ..59 May ...... ................ .......48 December........ . ...........46 June ............................58 July ..............................42 Total............. 556 Buildings Found Open During tbe Tear. January ....................... 43 August ................ ...... ..24 February .....................23 September ..... ........... 20 March............................26 October.........................17 April....... .'..................18 November......... ..... ....19 May...............................19 December . ......... .. .. 22 June ..............................22 July...............................17 Total ..... .. ........270 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 67 number of Reports Received by the Sergeants on Duty at the Police Barracks, Through the Gamewell System. January............ February.......... Marfb. .............. April........ ........ M*y................ June........ ......... July................. August ............ September.. ...... October............ November........ December......... Total...... ...... Officers' Reports 16,448 15.632 16 724 16^582 16,976 16,980 16,245 16,186 16,344 IS, 728 16,864 16,985 198,694 Patrol Calls 424 274 385 296 . 282 396 380 . 376 384 298 Qf|4 402 4,201 Ambulance Calls 58 64 51 60 SJ. 72 69 87 79 68 59 67 818 Telephone Calls 457 OAQ 402 371 4Sfi 478 JfiQ 458 472 J.91 445 452 6,274 Total Reports 17,387 16,338 17,662 17,309 17,828 17,926 17,163 17,102 17,279 17,515 17.672 17,906 208,987 Value of property recovered by the Detectives, $29,683.35. Number of Animals found running at large and sent to "City Lot," 46. Number of Persons Given Lodging During the Tear. January ..................62 July............... ........27 February...................41 August....................32 March.....................37 September.................19 April .....................58 October....................23 May ....................... 31 November.................46 June .......................29 December........... .....59 Total 464 08 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Rmter of the Savannah Police Department. \r< MlOwen P. Reiliy............. H. Lingg... ............. ...... J. M. AJoek........ ............ H. W. Baughu............... B. E. Davis......... .......... W. H. Fleming.............. J. McCcoi........... ............ J. Stark.................... ...... J. J. Murphy.................. F.T. Wall .................. J. B. Haym........... ........ Atkinaon, September 26, l'881. September 26.1881. October 26, 1898. September 1, 1881. February 4, 1893. November 3, 18PO. March 31, 1902. May 14, 1884. June 11, 1895. November 21, 1900. July 3, 1894. July 14, 1890. March 29, 1881. March 1, 1882. October 3. 1891. October 26, 1894. September 28.1899. September 16, 1899. May 26, 1893. November 13, 1899. September 16, 1899. September 19, 1901. October 18, 1894. MAYOR'S ANNUAL KEPOBT. 71 CHANGES IK THE DEPARTMENT DURIKG THE TEAR. Beiber, H. G. Bryant, B. 8. Burden, J. Limehoiise, E. J., Jr. Kelly, L. Phillips, D. P. Waters, C. S. . Merchant, E. E. Coffee, E. J. Lovett, W. J. Smith, F. J. Umbach, J. H. W. Appointed: Brazell, P. P. Cohen, M. G. Davis, R. B. Malphus, C. M. McGrath, J. Shea, C. F. Brown, J. E. Sims, W. F. Discharged: Limehouse, E. J., Jr. Stringfield, D. O. Godbold; G S. Crosby, W. F. Phillips, D. P. Woods, J. W. Resigned: Rauzin, A. Williams, B. W. Officers ot the Department Injured While In the Discharge of Their Duty : Mock, J. M. Farrel, T. J. Kearney, F. J. MeQuade, M. Murphy, T. C. McCarthy, J. C. Cronin, D. J. Lange, J. H. Bostick, R. B. Fogarty, T. J. Bryant, B. S. Died. Seageant Henry Lingg, appointed a private April 10, J866, died December 24, 1902. Robert O'Keefe, appointed a private October 23, 1871, Died July 1, 1902. John Arnold, appointed a private July 8, 1882, died November 23, 1902. Russell, H.B. Merchant, R. E. 72 MAYOR'S ANNUAL HEPOUX. Number of Days Absent from Dutj by Members of Ibe Police Department. NAME. Mock, J. M.......... ..................:..... .Fleming, W. H......... ..................... Baughn, W. H................................ DHVIS, R B.. ...... ........................ McCool, J.... ................. .................. Atkinson, C. J.. ............................. Boslifk, B. B...................... ........... Hroome, A. M ....... . ..................... Behrman. J .......... ...... ................ Best, C. D.............. ....................... Heiber, H. G .................................. Bruntiev, J. H........ ......................... Keacb, J. K.._..................... ... ...... Bradley, W. E.. .................. ... ...... Buckwald, M............ . .......... ....... Brazell. P. P.......................... ....... Bryant, B. 8......... .......................... Brown, J...... ................................. Brown, J. E........ ........................... Coliins, C. A....................... ............ Clancy, J. J......... ........................... Christie, C. T............... ................. Cowart, C. S........... ....................... Christian, J. A. ............ .................. Cronin, D. J................. ................. Coben, M. G.................... ............. Doolev, K. F... ............................... Davis, M................ ....................... Dwyer, 1i...... .................. .............. Deignan, J. J...... .......................... Davis, B. B................ .................... Durden.J.......... ............................. Elvers, P. J.............................. .... Fleming, M. B........ ..................... Farrell, J .......... ............................ Fogaity, T. J............ ..................... Farrell, T. J.......... .......................... Guilfoyle, J...... .............................. Goodman, W. C...... ........................ Halford, J. 8......................... ......... Harper, J. G... ................ ............... Harrison, W. H..................... ........ Higgina, J. S.. ................................ Hick.-.. W. E...... ............................. Jtrnigan, D. W....... ....................... Keane. J... ...................................... FIRST QUARTER. 12 11 l l l 2 9 4 1 1 7 10 1 1 5 11 2 4 1 5 2 1 1 7 4 2 10 13 3 4 8 9 SECOND QUARTER. 4 3 11 1 3 13 8 3 8 4 1 1 1 6 5 8 1 2 5 7 1 11 6 THIRD QUARTER. 9 4 l 3 2 12 tf 9 6 16 1 10 3 5 2 3 4 1 1 7 2 5 2 1 1 4 4 6 3 2 5 1** FOURTH QUARTER. 2 1 4 3 3 3 6 2 2 3 9 5 1 3 4 1 7 11 9 6 2 10 4 5 7 1 2 28 TOTAL. 14 24 5 1 3 3 12 10 15 22 29 1 18 28 7 15 5 7 5 V 12 11 7 12 1 8 22 8 9 16 2 C 18 16 13 8 21 15 16 22 27 5 6 66 15 MAYOR'S ANNUAL EEPOBT. Number of Days Absent from DutyCoutinued. NAME. Kesrney, F J.. ............................... Kelly, P. J......... .................... ......... Kearney. P...... .............................. Kelly, JU........ ................ ............... Lange, J. H...... .................... ......... Murphy, T. C-... ............................. Merchant. B. E. ............................ Miller, H'..... ................................. Meldrim, M. L.. ....................... ..... McCarthy, J. C......... .................... McQuade. M........................... ...... McAlpin, T. E.............. .................. McQrath, J.................. .................. Beisen.H...... ...... ........................... Reilly, J. J................ ............ ........ Handiford, 0. A............ ............... Smith, W. H............ ................... Semken, J. D..... ............. ............... Sheehnn.W...... .... ........................ Scully, M ... ............... ................. Shea, C. F.............. ....................... Tuilis, B. L... .................... ............ Ungar, B.. ............... ..................... Winn, W. 8.................. .................. Waters, C. S.. ........................ ... ... Woods, J. A.......... .................... ...... Bl urn berg, L... ................................ Total...... ......... .......................... FIRST QUARTER. 18 8 3 2 0 I 2 fi 2 2 4 10 3 2 7 234 SKC->ND QUARTER. 1 4 5 2 1 1 6 6 1 12 2 *) 4 4 3 4 19 14 215 THIRD QUARTER. 2 2 1 9 2 3 1 4 19 202 FOURTH QUARTKR. 1 14 1 1 6 2 3 16 1 4 4 2 5 8 7 1 3 1 2 22 TOTAL. 16 10 9 1 4 2 o 2 16 7 11ir 5 18 17 13 16 23l, ' E. A. M. SCHBODEE, Chairman, JOHX F. CANTY, W. J. WATSON, ROBT. L. HOLLAND, A. J. GARFUNKEL. ::ii" FIRE DEPABTMENT. I ' <>' JOHN E MAGUIRE, Superintendent. GEO. MOURO, Senior Foreman and Fire Marshal. GEO. A. MELL, Clerk and Storekeeper. W. D. CLAIBORNE, Superintendent Fire Alarm. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 77 REPORT OP SUPERINTENDENT OP THE PIRE DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, SAVANNAH, GA., January 1st, 1903. To the Honorable the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, Ga.: GENTLEMENI have the honor, as Superintendent of the Fire Department, to submit my annual report of the operations and condition of that department of the city for the year ending December 31sfe, 1902, this report being the thirteenth annual report of the paid Fire Department. The total manual force of the department at the close of the year was eighty-two men, as follows: 1 Superintendent, 1 Senior Foreman, 1 Clerk and Storekeeper, . 1 Superintendent of Fire Alarm, 6 Foremen of Engine Companies, 6 Assistant Foremen of Engine Companies, 2 Foremen of Chemical and Hose Companies. 2 Assistant Foremen of Chemical and Hose Companies. 5 Engineers of Steamers. 19 Drivers, 2Tillermen, 33 Firemen, 3 Supernumerary Firemen. 78 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. In August the force was reduced from eightyseven to eighty-two. The regular men were reduced two and the supernumerary firemen three. During the year one assistant foreman, three fire3' men and three supernumeraries were dismissed. jjj Two engineers, five firemen and two supernumeraries resigned. One fireman died from natural causes. Two firemen were reinstated, one engineer was appointed, and twelve supernumaries were advanced to the grade of regular. The office of Foreman of Hose Company was created and Assistant Foreman J. E. Harper was made Foreman. Firemen J. A. Dukes, C. V. Egense and L. F. Henderson were made assistant foremen. FORCE BY COMPANIES. Fire Station ffo. 1. 518-520-522 Broughton St., East. NAME CAPACITY IN SEBVICE J. E. Campos, Jr......Foreman.................12 years T. Hamilton.. ........Assistant Foreman ... 9 " J. McCarthy...........Engineer................. 3 " W. J. Cleary...........Driver Engine.........18 " T. F. deary...........Driver Wagon......... 7 " M. N. Collins.........Fireman ................. 3 " J. P. Duffy............Fireman ................ 5 " A. J. Gannon, Jr.....Fireman ................. 1 " E. T. Morrissey ......Fireman ................. 1 " J. Rottenherg.........Fireman ................. 6months MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 79 Fire Station No. 2. Headquarters, Indian and West Broad Sts. NAME CAPACITY IN BEBVICJE J. J. Connolly ........Foreman.................36 years J. J. Hearn............Assistant Foreman... 6 *' J. V. Bordnave ......Engineer................36 ' T. F. Lovett........... Driver Engine......... 4 " L. P. Morgan .........Driver Wagon......... 3 " F. H. Thompson , ...Driver Truck........... 6 " W. W. Hughes........Tillerman ............... 5 " F. Goritz...............Fireman ................. 2 " M. J. Roach.. ........Fireman ................. 2 " D. P. Murphy ........Fireman ................. 4 " M. F. Kain..".........Fireman ................. 2 ' M.J. Drury...........Fireman ................. 6 " P. J. Maguire.........Fireman ................. 3 " B. Leddy...............Fireman ................. 4 " C. 0. Neve ............Fireman ................. 1 " J. M. Hanly ...........Fireman ................. 1 " Fire Station KTo. 3. Central Station, Oglethorpe Ave. and Abercorn St. NAME CAPACITY IN SERVICE A. J. Toshach..........Foreman.................16years C. V. Egense .........Assistant Foreman... 12 " J. F. McAuliffe ......Engineer ............... 1 " F. J. Kilroy ........... Driver Engine......... 4 " J. A. McGrath ........Driver Wagon ......... 2 " T. Flynn ...............Driver Truck........... 4 " M. F.Moorhead......Tillerman............... 5 " G. E. Johnson ........Fireman ................. 2 " Thos. Dillon...........Fireman................. 2 " ' ! 80 MAYOR'S AXXUAL KEPOBT. C. Christensen........Fireman................. 5years J.S. Medlin ...........Fireman................. 2" " J.C. Dobbin...........Fireman................. 3 " P. A. Noon......... ..Fireman................. 2 " J. D. Frew ............Fireman................. 2 " J. H. Monroe.........Fireman................. 3 " ...........................Fireman ............................ Fire Station Ko. 4. 606 Barnard St. NAME CAPACITY IN SERVICE A. P. McFarland.....Foreman.................20years. ...........................Assistant Foreman................. Louis Trebony........Engineer................. 13 " Jno. Cooper...........Driver Engine......... 9 " W.W.Pringle........Driver Wagon......... 6 " G. C. Donnelly........Driver Truck...........12 " W. H. Remley.. .....Fireman ................. 1 " J. P. Lowther.........Fireman ................. 1 " A. Adams..............Fireman ................. 5 " ...........................Fireman .............................. Fire Station Mo. ft. 11 Henry St., East. NAME CAPACITY IN SERVICE C. C Steinberg........Foreman ......... ......27 years C. M. Burnham ......Assistant Foreman... 6 " C. A. Christians......Engineer ................17 " J. L. Clark ............Driver Engine......... 6 " F. N. Harris........... Driver Wagon......... 12 " J. B. Barthelmess ...Fireman ................. 6 " T. E. Caswell.........Fireman ...... ......... 3 " H. F. Corley...........Fireman .................12 " MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 81 Fire Station Mo. 6. Thirty-eighth and Barnard Sts. NAME CAPACITY IN SERVICE J. E. Harper...........Foreman................. 6 years J. A. Dukes........... Assistant Foreman... 4 " ...........................Engineer.............................. J. L. Lady ............Driver Engine......... 3 ' D. V. Whitaker...... Driver Wagon ......... 3 " W.J. Futeh...........Fireman ................ 4 " W. B. Jones...........Fireman ................. 3 " E. P. Hartley.........Fireman ............:.... 3 " Chemical Company IV. 1. Central Station, Oglethorpe Ave. and Fioyd St. NAME CAPACITY IN SERVICE T. D. Brunson ........Foreman................. 5 years L. F. Henderson .....Assistant Foreman... 4 " R. J. Glass ............Driver....................17 " C. R. Barrison........Fireman ................. 2 " J. O'Leary ............Fireman ................. 9 " Hose Company JSo. 1. 515 Waldburg St., East. NAME CAPACITY IN SERVICE A. M. Rogers .........Foreman........... ..... 6 years W. A. Hancock ......Assistant Foreman... 4 " H. Larkin.............. Driver.................... 12 " Jos. Morrell ...........Fireman ............... 6 " R. T. Russell .........Fireman ................. Smonths R. B. Hearn. Supernumeraries. M. Sullivan. E. P. Dalev. 82 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOBT. Estimated Value of Department Properly. Fire Station No. 1..............................$20,553 00 Fire Station No. 2.............................. 25,755 00 FireStation No. 3.............................. 50,756 00 Fire Station No. 4.............................. 20,47800 FireStation No. 5.............................. 14,81800 FireStation No. 6.............................. 10,529 00 Chemical Company No. 1..................... 3,36400 Hose Station No. 1.............................. 3,862 00 Fire Alarm....................................... 25,88100 Miscellaneous.................................... 3,30000 Total....................................$179,296 00 DESCRIPTION OF ROLLING STOCK. Engines. 1; No. 11st size double-pump La France. ij No. 21st size double-pump La France. i > No. 32nd size double-pump La France. |: No. 42nd size single-pump Amoskeag. *j No. 53rd size single-pump Jeflfers. ; ( Horses. On January 1st, last year, there were in service 15 horses. Since that time four were purchased and five were disposed of, the amounts received for three having been in part payment for those purchased, v and the amount received for two having been turned . over to the City Treasurer. |1 The horses disposed of were known as "Jerry," i "Spot," Cap C " "George" and "Tommie." ! We now have in service forty-four horses, four of j* which have not yet been paid for. i' On October 4th the "Dixie" horse, while drilling, j' backed into the stall door and was severely cut on I the right hip. Out of service for twenty-five days. j On November loth, "J. K." horse injured in right i, shoulder while in stall; abscess formed. Out of serI- vice forty-six days. P On November 24th, "Pete" horse, while respond- \'. ing to second alarm from Box 71, fell near the cor- ! ner of Broughton and Bull streets and sustained injuries of the head, which rendered him unfit for \ further service. At the same time the "Paddy" horse MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 85 was severely cut and bruised, and, as a result, was out of service for four days. Buildings. Considerable work of repair has been done to buildings during the past twelve months, and, while there yet remains some unimportant work to be done to buildings and outhouses, they are as a whole in good condition. All of the work of repairs has been done by the men of the department, and has been as follows : The outhouse at No. 5 has been refloored and weath er-boarded. The fences at No. 2 have been rebuilt and repainted. The stalls at Nos. 2 and 3 have been rebuilt, as also were the stalls at No. 5, where the two rear stalls were torn down, being no longer necessary because of the change of the chemical engine at that station. At Hose Company No. 1 the largest work of the year was done. The outhouses, the bath-room, sawdust house, coal house and work shop were rebuilt, and an extension was built on the south side of the station 22x20 for a dormitory and the floor of the main building was repaired, two new stalls were erected to provide for a hose wagon in place of the old reel. The interior of Stations Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 were repainted and kalsomined. New front and back doors were put up at Station No. 5. 86 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT, Apparatus. r j, During the past year the greater part of repairs to j apparatus was done by the men of the department, but, because of the want of necessary tools, a number of jobs had to be sent outside. ; The principal work of the year was the changes i made in wagons of Stations Nos. 5 and 6 and Hose i Company No. 1. The chemical engine known as No 2, which was |t; bought from the town of Waycross, Ga., by the Fire Commissioners in 1895, was remodeled; one tank was taken off' and placed under -the driver's seat and a body was erected on the old frame, making the whole a combination hose wagon and chemical engine, which was sent to Station No. 6 when jj: completed. The remaining tank was placed under I' driver'sseat of Hose Wagon No.5 and the wheels and ji axles were replaced by roller-bearing wheels and j. axles. The old hose wagon, formerly at No. 6 Staj. tion, was remodeled and sent to Hose Station No. 1. jf A new fifth wheel and steering gear was put on I Truck No. 2. Axles were reset on a number of the ,! apparatus and the condition of the apparatus was ! generally attended to. ji i department were: 'i For salaries........................................... .......$62.380 57 For additions and improvements...... .. . . 1,750 51 For pension's.. ............................ .............. 33000 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 91 For bills carried over from 1901............ . 3,267 53 For storage battery note............................ 420 00 For all other expenses, including horses and hose.............. .................................. 10,629 05 $78,777 66 These expenses were sub-divided as follows: Salaries............................................... .......$62,380 57 Printing and stationery.............................. 174 64 Feed for stock ..................................... ...... 4,835 47 Horse shoeing ............................................. 596 14 Medicine for stock..................................... 93 48 Treatment of sick stock ............... ............. 251 33 Additional stock ....... .............................. 80000 Harness and repairs to same ....... ............. 245 10 Repairs to apparatus.................................. 68790 Engine coal and wood ........................ ...... 85 99 Stove and heater coal and wood ....... ...... 583 38 Gas and illuminating oil ........................... 636 35 Lubricating oil and waste .......................... 63 50 Soda and acid................................................ 185 73 Beds and bedding for men ........................ 7 82 Miscellaneous shop tools............................. 142 51 Furniture and fixtures................................ 180 29 Implements of the service .......................... 407 37 Paints, varnish, etc ................................... 271 58 Repairs to buildings.................................... 972 44 Additional hose........................................... 2,282 85 Poles, cross-arms, brackets, instruments, wire, tools, etc., for fire alarm system.... 797 01 Telephone rent............................................ 422 63 Cleaning tools, etc ....................... ............... 407 83 82 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Repairs to heaters .................................... 43 68 Ice.............................................................. 144 62 Surgeon's fees ....... . ........... ....... . .. ......... 25 00 Extra labor on fire alarm........................... 29 00 Incidentals........... .......... .................. ....... 408 85 Remodeling No. 2 chemical ........ ......... .. 220 18 Remodeling No. 5 hose-wagon................... 322 05 Remodeling No. 6 hose wagon..... ........... 72 37 $78,777 66 For additions and improvements the expenditures |j were for j|. Clipping machine, motor, new implements \, and tools.......: ...............................$ 127 00 [ New bath tub, lurniture, etc.................... 11260 i Chemical hose and engine suctions........... 323 08 j;. Wire for new boxes on hand.................. 265 50 f.-" Cost of cableatUnion Depot.................. 141 76 j I Remodeling Chemical Engine and Hose j Wagons Nos. 5, 6, and Hose 1 and for ;. new wheels and axles........................ 61460 j; Cost of building annex to Hose Sta. No. 1. 165 97 fl,750 51 Expenses by Companies. Engine Company No. 1 ..................'.....f 8,426 34 Engine Company No. 2......................... 10,66230 Engine Company No.3........................ 10,45254 Engine Company No.4........................ 6,75509 Engine Company No.5........................ 7,37379 Engine Company No.6 ...................... 6,80291 Chemical Company No. 1..................... 4,20865 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Chemical Company No. 2..................... 1,257 56 Truck Company No. 1.......................... 2,247 55 Truck Company No. 2.......................... 2,410 24 Truck Company No. S.......................... 2,390 83 HoseCompany No. 1.................../....... 2,977 58 Fire Alarm Telegraph.......................... 1,452 41 General expenses ................................ 11,358 87 Total............ , ....................$78,777 66 Receipts from Sale of Old Material. Amounts turned over to the City Treasurer: Proceed from sale of Old hose...............................................$206 49 Empty sacks and barrels........................... 33 85 Old iron, brass, etc................................. 92 23 Condemned horses "Jerry" and "Spot" ...... 51 50 Old suction and hose .............................. 17 80 $401 87 In addition to the above there were received as proceeds from sale of condemned horses ''Cap C.," "George"and "Tommie,"the sum of $150, which was turned over to.Mess. Younglove & Sipple in part payment for new horses. Fire Inspections. During the past summer a great many inspections were made by details from the several engine companies. These inspections started at River street and were made through the business section to Oglethorpe avenue, including the streets north and south from West Broad to East Broad streets. 94 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. The details examined the doors and windows on each floor and made reports, showing the character of such, the manner by which they were secured, the location of all hoists, elevators, traps or other openings, the stairs up and down, the location of fireworks, gun powder, gasoline, kerosene or other explosives, and made a note of the doors and windows through which access could be the most readily made. A map of the ground floor of every business house in the section mentioned was made and copied into a book for study and future reference. A great number of other inspections were made of defective or dangerous stove-pipes, flues and hearths, gratings, cellars and outhouses, and to this work, to a great extent, can be attributed the reduction in the fire loss. Electric Inspections. This branch of the department work has had every necessary attention, and the installations during the past twelve months have been carefully inspected. The records show that 1,077 permits were granted and certificates of inspection were issued for the following: Incandescent lights...........................535 Fixtures for incandescent lights........... 16 Electric fans....................................256 Electric motors................................ 23 Arc lights....................................... 23 Electric signs................................... 15 Switch boards................................... 1 Other electric devices, instruments, etc.. 2 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 95 A total of 1,927 inspections were made and fees to the amount of $559.75 were collected by the City Treasurer. The electric contractors complain that this city is the only place of any importance where fees for inspections are charged, and from inquiries made by me I find that this statement is correct. The fees charged for inspections are levied under an ordinance adopted by Council, and, as a matter of course, I am required to see to their collection. Fire Escapes. This is a matter that has been the subject of frequent remarks from me, and I am again forced to say that its importance is worthy of more consideration. In January, 1894, an' ordinance requiring the erection of fire escapes was enacted, which, among other things, demanded of the Chief Fireman an annual inspection and report, giving the names of all owners of buildings who had failed to comply with the law requiring the erection of fire escapes. I made the inspection and report in January, 1898, and endeavored to have the necessary notices issued. No notices were issued, and in less than a month after my report had been filed the ordinance was amended so as to take the matter out of my hands altogether and place it beyond any direction or jurisdiction I might be thought to have, and thus it remains to the present day. Fire escapes should be under the direction and supervision of this department, as no one can judge better of their necessity, location or character than the officers of the fire department. 96 MAYOK'S ANNUAL REPORT. No special committees of Council can or should be expected to attend to this matter when there are employes of the city who have the time and experience necessary to properly perform such duties, and when the matter is directly within the lines of service required of them. Building Law*. Again I beg to lay before you the necessity of more stringent building laws, in order to meet the rapidly increasing danger from unsafe construction of new and the alteration of old buildingsthe two greatest causes of losses of life and property from fire. I respectfully ask that the ordinances prohibiting the erection of wooden buildings, within the brick district, be strictly enforced. Fire Alarm Telegraph. This auxiliary of the Department will have to have special attention during the coming year. I have economized in the management of this branch of the service for the past two years hoping to be allowed sufficient mone37 to get the wires underground, but as I can see no way of doing this for at least 12 months longer it will be necessary to spend several hundred dollars in overhauling the poles, the lines and the boxes. Additional help will be necessary as it is impossible for the Superintendent of the Fire Alarm to perform the work necessary to insure perfect service in both Fire and Police Departments. Both systems are of importance, and whenever trouble on the lines occur it should be corrected without unnecessary delay. As long as we continue MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 97 the use of overhead wires we can expect this trouble and my experience has been that during high winds the trouble frequently occurs simultaneously in both departments and it is then beyond the power or ability of any one man to give the two departments the attention they require. When the office of Superintendent of Fire and Police Telegraph was provided for, the systems consisted of but few boxes and only a few lines of wire; then one man could attend to the duties, but in late years box after box has been added and the mileage of lines almost doubled so that now with a modern, up-to-date fire alarm system the demands made upon the electrician will require his entire time, and I respectfully urge the advisability of providing a separate electrician for the Fire Department, who shall devote his entire time and services to the same. * Fire Drills In Schools. It has been stated that fires never occur in school houses during school hours. If this be true what assurance have we that false alarms may not occur during school hours ? As evidence of the fact that fires do occur in school houses during school hours the partial destruction of Lincoln School in Chicago on November 24th, is sufficient. Principal Nichols, who is a firm believer in the fire drill, is to be congratulated upon his good judgment in having required frequent fire drills. When the alarm was given, the teachers, who had been thoroughly drilled, were quick to prevent an impending panic. Soothing words quieted the little 98 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. ones and then the beating of i drum was the signal to form in line for drill, which all the pupils had rehearsed again and again, but never before when there was actual danger. The lines were barely formed when the stirring notes of one of Sousa's marches sounded through the rooms. Each tramping pupil knew his place, and as the four hundred children marched from all corners into one general column, little Ethel Barker thumped the piano as rapidly and as evenly as if she was in her own home. In three minutes from the first alarm every soul but Ethel was out of the burning building, and so well drilled was this little girl that she stayed at her post until one of the teachers had to go back and call her out. There was no undue excitement, there was no crush, no panic, no loss of life or, broken limbs. In Atlanta on December 19th, an alarm of fire was sounded at the Calhoun Street School, which proved to be a false alarm. The teachers quietly formed the children into line and marched them out hurriedly but regularly. The fire drill which had long been practiced in case of just such an emergency was called into use and with even step every child was marched out across the street and out of danger before the fire department arrived, and this occurred in the day-time, during school hours. A'gong was used on this occasion. It has been claimed that fire drills would interrupt the studies. If this be true can the studies be interrupted more in Savannah than they can be in Chicago, Baltimore, New York, Atlanta, or any MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 99 other cities where fire drills are practiced ? Can we stop to consider momentary interruption of studies when the very lives of our children are involved? Thos. Bashill, in his work on "Fire and Panic," truthfully says: "In proportion to the nu'mber of buildings, fires are exceedingly few. I might say surprisingly few, * * but after a calamity the general public with all its tongues asks why the precaution was not taken, and looks out for a victim. By the standard then, set up and not by any doctrine of chance those in authority may expect to be judged." Parents and guardians have a right to expect and to even demand that their children shall be surrounded by every possible and necessary safeguard, while they are under the control, care and direction of the agents of the State. Fire drills are a positive necessity, they cost nothing and the benefits to be derived from them have been demonstrated time and time again. I would be glad to see them adopted in Savannah, and I had hoped that they would have been introduced long before this, but as it appears impossible to have them instituted otherwise, I respectfully beg to ask that an ordinance be adopted requiring all public and private schools of two stories or more to practice fire drills at least once in every seven days. : Alarma. The total number of alarms was 261. My records show that a large percentage of these alarms was the result of improper construction, not in the buildings recently erected,- but in the old houses built long be- 100 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1 * fore the present system of inspections was inaugurated. ; The alarms were received: ? From street boxes............................. 59 f By telephone...................................138 By local calls................................... 64 \ The alarms were answered as follows: CAUa > Engine Company No. 1..................... 42 Engine Company No. 2..................... 73 Engine Company No. 3..................... 62 Engine Company No. 4.............. ...... 60 Engine Company No. 5..................... 46 Engine Company No. 6..................... 23 Truck No. 1.................................... 27 Truck No. 2.................................... 30 Truck No. 3................ ................... 60 Chemical No. 1................................ 67 , Chemical No. 2................................ 22 Hose No. 1. ................................... 19 Alarms were divided as follows : Between River and Jones..................144 Between Jones and Anderson.............. 90 Between Anderson and limits.............. 27 The largest number of alarms came from street box 19, at Barnard and State streets, a total of 5. The greatest number of alarms were received during the month of Decembera total of 52; January comes next with 36, and April shows 9 as the lowest of any month during the year. Thursday is credited with the greatest number 61, and Friday with the smallest, 28. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 101 The largest number occurred between the hours of 6 p. m. and 9 p. m., 90, and the smallest number between the hours of 3 a. m. to 6 a. m., 13. C&uiies. The causes as ascertained were as follows: Smoke issuing.................................. 188 Explosions...................................... 16 Foul chimney......................... ......... 38 False.......................................... .. 18 Beyond city limits ........................... 1 Of these 62 occurred in brick or stone buildings, 146 in wooden buildings and 53 in other than buildings ; and they were brought about in heating 127, in illuminating 25, in other ways 99. The fires were found in dwellings 154, in business houses 47, other 60. The direct causes of fires were attributed to the following causes: Defective flues and construction........... 45 Foul chimneys................................. 38 Flying sparks..................*................ 24 Carelessness ...................................... 50 Explosions of lamps, stoves, etc........... 16 False.............-.....:......................... 18 Unknown ....................................... 17 Out of city limits ............................. 1 Incendiary and supposed incendiary..... 8 Overheated stoves and funnels............ 13 Mischievous children............... ........ 9 O.ther causes........................... ........ 14 Fireworks........................... 102 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOBT. Fires. Fires were extinguished as follows : By chemicals.............. .................... 82 By streams from hydrants...... ............ 29 By streams from engines.. ................ 16 Out when department arrived ............134 Two hundred and thirty-nine were confined to point of origin, or before they had made any beadway. Sixteen were confined to the floor on which they originated, and six extended to adjoining buildings. The total loss for the year was $54,157.50, divided as follows : On buildings..... .................. ...810,533 50 On contents........................... 43,624 00 The greatest loss occurred during the month of November, and the smallest during July. The total loss was 3.6 psr cent, of the value of the property involved. The following comparative statement is respectfully submitted : MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 103 YEAR 1889..........*.. .......... 1890............... .'....... 1891......... ......... ..... 1892..,.. ............... ... 1893......... ........... ... 1894...... .. ............... 1895... ......... ........... 1896.. ............ ......... 1897.............. ........ 1898....................... 1899....................... 1900................ ...... 1901 .................. ..... 1902...................... Number of Kires 166 169 190 208 183 168 179 196 195 293 238 225 263 261 TOTAL LOSS. $1,310,579 00 138,486 84 345,265 84 166,837 46 172.986 39 452.407 36 112,645 26 390,970 2'6 96.293 75 440,630 78 153,599 83 41,837 00 61,743 75 54.157 50 Percentage of Logs to VB(- ueof Propeity JuTOlvett. 34.0 13.2 19.2 11.8 7.8 9.6 5.8 11.2 4.3 10.2 6.4 3.3 5.7 3.6 In conclusion, I beg to submit the attached tabulated statement of alarms, fires, their causes, location, etc. I beg to tender to His Honor, the Mayor, the Fire Committee and the Board of Aldermen my thanks for favors shown me during the past year. I thank the officers and members of the Police Department for assistance rendered, and I commend the officers and men of this department for the faithfulness with which they have performed their duties. Very respectfully yours, JOHN E. MAGUIRE, Superintendent. 104 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Value of Property and LOM by Fire, 19O2. MONTH March............ .. May .................... Jane....... ............. July.. ................. August ............... September........... October............... November ...... .... December ........... Total.... ...... .. VALUE PBOPEBTY 1 NVOLVED $ 389,56800 ftft on? nn 7tt.975 00 6,415 00 66,875 00 40,95000 78,10000 52,570 00 30,93000 446,39000 79,650 00 170,205 00 $1,502,53500 LO Buildings $ 1,76650 708 00 1,988 00 279 00 248 00 843 00 35 00 SOS 00 415 00 338 00 1,330 00 1,780 00 $ 10,533 50 ss' Contents $ 69400 Qftfl fiA 1,625 00 940 Aft 7OA HA 10,768 00 AK Is ^ b . o 1 1 I 3 1 j o ..... 2 1 j * J, I 14 1 1 3 Vft 2 9 _ g 1 1 3 i J 2 3 5 1 2 1 3 25 lie ILLUMINATING M 4* C 19 i I8 8 1 o i 13 3 i 8 12 12 103 SO: "5 3 K ft 2 H 1 2 1 18 5 2 A 2 ..... ..... 6 f* as I 26 20 10 5 15 3 3 5 8 13 16 127' MlSCXLXAKKOUS. c *Mt & 3 2 5 2 1 2 4 2 1 4 10 30 "SI S 1 3 2 2 2 1 1 2 7 2 4 37 27 s* 0 0 5 2 5 2 3 *> 2 3 19 4,5 r-4 3 5 9 7 12 4 6 6 t> 3 5 11 33 1119 Fire Statlllcs-19O2. MOXTH January ...................... . April...... ..................... May.................... ........ June ........................... Julv........ ............... ...... August............... .......... Septenibrr .................. October............ ......... ... Decent ber ................. ... Total......... ..:......... ... ORIGI SATED IK o s to 03 73 <&-z 10 7 10 5 2 2 2 3 7 4 10 62 & s 2 S"3 o ^ > 20 20 10 12 7 7 6 10 24 146 00ad c a r< = 2 W O 6 3 2 2 3 3 1 4 1 18 _ ^ 2*s 11 ?A !> 35 26 22 9 21 10 12 9 10 19 19 47 53; i 239 s tB O *- Sfc Is u J 2 1 1 2 1 2 2 4 16 .5 2S< a. nP -n^1 ' If ""3 W 1 3 1 . 1 6 5 as tc CJO fU| $258 764 63 Balance or Excess of Appropriation. $ 287 70 48 35 ' 52 74 m AO 46 59 4,60026 1,422 65E 498 32 990 60 1Q /i/l ^Q fillA flAT? KQft CU mvisioar OF EXPENSES, DEPARTMBKT OF PUBLIC WORKS, JANUARY ut, to DECEMBER sist, iaa. rbtt Brick............ ........................ .......... .. Bent of telephones. .................................. Repairs and imprOYements to public building*.. Incidentals ............................ ...... ....... Granite carting.... . . ...................... Gleaning aink*. ..................... ........... Repairs to tool* and implements.................... Pipe.......... .............. ......................... Oils, paint, pntty, etc. .................. ........ Lubricating Oil................................. .... Illuminating Oil.......... ..................... ..... Harness, and repairs to same .............. ........ Insurance. .................................. .......... I.lhu. cltj offices. ......................... ... Maintenance and repairs to asphalt...... ........... Stationary, postage, etc......... ... ................ Lights, city stables........ .. ........... . ..... Horse and mule shoes, and H. 8. nails.............. Plumbing work...... ................................. Band................................... .............. Hardware ............... ... ...... ,.. .............. r'relgnt car serrlce and wharfage. ............. .... Artificial stone sidewalks........................ .. Office furnitore and repairs to same. ............. . C*tcn basin, mannoleand lamphole covers. ....... Time of bands................... ................... Kice straw....... ...................... ... .... ..... Total i 13,228 0* 4452o 42 SO raw 33.18!) 24 1,14500 lag oo 24000 32906 401 18 KM 45 611 96 1,534 41 29666 2,476 70 38,88200' 7,oir 500 97 6,890 M 7,217 70 384 01 1.1(838 60478 6853 11235 Sil IS 65ft 75 231 17 4,743 15 209 05 186 41 471 35 Ml 15 75730 62308 18,747 4 840 00 1,0*4 85 3)57* 1,12040 103,850 81 103 * 268,764m Streets and Lines Special ............ S S,047 05 Streets and Lanes S 4,715 97 3500 59 61 1,478 48 1,13295 3SOO 4000 47 80 12000 205 27 !!> 15 122 SB 821 28 20844 201 22 2KOM IN 79 its is 2470 50 a; 41729 11200 4,624 62 144 65 68 M 1<7 85 was 631 28488 322S 65548 1600 38,M 91 171 M I 57,712*0 Storm Sewers i '1295 101 Si 587 8098 25 24 MI 83 1875 1 00 2 66 21000 3,148 1 6& 1 8.961 M Malnt'e Houte Drainage 805 ji OB i so 4 SI 300 2,914 HI 1 2.IM726 Scavenger 1 7,749 10 54 SO 7648 lit 00 3 75 247 61 191 10 18550 23596 12830 28645 31 8S 38008 80 00 I 45 11987 271 70 1 50 241 1H 8 111 22,44365 1 3!,flCi54 rr Culture 528 SR 5 75 3990 14 44 560 51258 4020 12 80 20*8 7300 2*5 822 8,9*932 9,9fi '4 HOU89 Drainage t 0952 11981 90 8 9972 57 60 iioo 24343 1500 11 01 11 64 19040 1,893 40 880 5000 f 2,899 74 Hoose Drainage, Special 9 2 790 2f O. K. M. 12327 J8 27 a oo 230 7,217 70 1405 1285 17 SO 1,01S 7] f 2,790 28 1 8,422 6.5 1 Harder t Wharves f 24000 4S668 2500 55000 1,301 68 Public Buildings t 19375 18 00 28905 (55 4250 177* 375 20375 251 17 4> 2515 2760 315 7> f 1,509 City Lighting t W38200 ............ 1 16,88200 Paying Street* 1 16200 4250 11,595 08 US 16 631 45 24236 11149 5,675 77 6145 2,939 35 An w 631 98 680 1200 4931 118 58 1286 22 06 73SOO 4 1C 1V&S5I5 IS 77 69000 18,13* 07 t 78,804 M Sidewalks s.iis 70 1825 8 10 110 81 867 47 OiTUD '* 60 1100 35 42 76 1324 U 48500 1500 8,99888 * It.lW 21 tiradlng Mew Streets f 111 S9 Opening Streets i ' ". 6 05 4 65 126 OS 8201 80 1,67249 * 1,90142 t 2000 75 616 25 1 4200 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT, 125 The excess in paving streets is only apparent, as with the amounts paid by the property owners and the amount of material on hand there will be a balance to its credit. Bills were turned over to the City Treasurer for collection from this office during the year 1902, as follows; Streets and Lanes, $98.00; Paving Streets, $4,849.70; Scavenger, $33.85; House Drainage, $6625; Sidewalks, $13,189.53. Streets and Lanes Department. The additions to the paved streets of the city during the past year amounted to 12,369 lineal feet, or 2.34 miles, as follows : Forty-second street from east side of Jefferson to west side of Montgomery, 363.4; West Broad street from north side of Stone to north side of Gwinnett, 2,636.6; Berrien street from Tattnall to West Broad, 623.7 ; Tattnall from Berrien to Jones, 293.9; Jones from Jefferson to Tattnall, 72.5 ; Stewart street from West Broad to Wilson, 922.3 ; St. Julian street from Randolph street to Bilbo canal, 2,502.2 ; Price street from Bay to Gaston, 3,622.4 ; Thirty-sixth street from Bull to Jefferson, 972.0; Macon street east of Price, for Hon. J. J. McDonough, 120.0, and Roberts street, for Railroad, 200.0 feet. There are in the city limits 98X100 miles of streets and 20 miles of lanes, of which 30.83 miles are paved. The increase in the superficial area of such paved thoroughfares in 1902 was 53.875.61 square yards, making a total at present of 654,933.61 square yards, divided as follows: 32> MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. STREET. MATEKIAL. Broughton.................... Asphalt............ Bryan .......................... " ............ Bull ............................ " ............ Congress........................ " ......'....... Drayton......................... " ............ Harris........ .................. " ............ Liberty ......................... " ............ Oglethorpe avenue....... " ............ President...................... ' ............ St. Julian..................... " ............ York............................ ............ Abercorn....................'....Vitrified Brick. Bay, in front of Exc... Barnard ...................... " Congress lane.............. ' Gwinnett....... ............... Habersham ................... " New Houston............... " President...................... " St. Julian..................... " Wheaton ...................... " Jefferson........................ " Thirty-eighth................ ' Montgomery................. " Forty-second, west........ " West Broad... .............. ' Jones, west.................... " Berrien......................... " Tattnall........................ " Stewart.......................... " Price .............................. SQ. .YARDS BtJBFACE. ..-.17,950 ... 619 .. 23,831 ... 6,539 .. 22,522 ... 1,675 ..30,430 .. 25,933 ... 780 ... 1,088 ... 447 ... 3,501 ... 698 .. 3,005 .. 2,086 .. 11,490 ... 3,439 ... 1,825 ... 3,961 ... 3,936 ... 7,256 ...17,228 ... 3,875 ... 405 ... 1,165.4 ... 20,970.81 .... 255.4 ... 2,351.1 ... 1,321.6 .... 4.663.9 ....13,142.5 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 12T Macon ..........................Vitrified Brick ......... 211 Thirty-sixth, west....... " .......... 3,859.3 Roberts ......................... " .......... 689.7 Bay ................................Chert......................... 4,377 Louisville road............. " .......................... 9,255 President ...................... ' ........................ 1,280 Bay ....................... .......Cobble .......................34,344 Factors'Walk .............. " ................ ..... 8,800 Lanes............................ ' .........................13,000 Pine........ .......:.............. " ........................ 1,800 New.............................. " ........................ 1,378 River.............................. " ......................21,833 Streets & slips n of Bay " ........................ 9,000 Randolph ..................... " ........................ 8,500 Reynolds..................... " ....................... 3,500 Barnard.............. ......... " ....................... 4,420 East Broad................... " ....................... 15,800 West Broad................... " ...................... 26,000 Whitaker...................... " ....................... 25,000 Orange........................... " .-..................... 660 Williamson.................. " ....................... 1,200 Barnard ................ ...... Granite Blocks.......... 1,049 Bay.............................. " .......... 1,707 Bryan ....... ................... " .......... 7,362 East Broad ....... .......... " .......... 9,190 Farm............................ " .......... 4,422 Jefferson..................... " .........21,913 Indian........................... .......... 7,572 Railroad ..................... ......... 6,097 Wadley......................... " ......... 4,409 Wheaton........................ " .......... 5,000 Water .......................... .......... 2,297 128 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Bolton..........................Shell........................11,700 Barnard........................ .......................... 6,500 Jones............................. " .......................... 15,400 Gaston........................... " ..........................10,300 Hall............................... ..........................12,300 Henry............................ " .........................21,000 Ogeecheeroad ............. .........................16,000 Gwinnett.....................Gravel....... .............. 5,666 Liberty lane................. " ....................... 532 Bull .............................. .......................25,083 New................................ ' ........................ 4,500 Harris............................ " ........................ 1,937 St. Julian, E ................ " ....................... 5,244.9 Recapitulation. MATEBIAL. SQ. YAHDS. Asphalt................................ ........................140,813 Vilrified Brick .............................................111,334.71 Chert....... ....................................................... 15,873 Cobble ...................... ... .................................177,712 Granite Blocks........ ..................................... 71,017 Shell........ ...............?..................................... 93,200 Gravel...................................... ..................... 42,983.9 Total...................................................... 652,933.61 The expenditures in the Streets and Lanes were as follows: Cleaning streets, asphalt... ...........................^ 6,170 00 Cleaning streets, other than asphalt.......... 4,762 47 Cleaning catch basins................................. 4,371 99 Cleaning crossings..................................... 1,854 00 Grading and filling.................................... 3,837 87 Laying and repairing crossings.................. 1,811 93 Maintenance shell streets........................... 2,435 00 I MAYOR'S ANNUAL KEPORT. 129 Repairing and cleaning sewers.................. 1,623 78 Repairing asphalt streets............................. 4,546 39 Repairing streets, other than asphalt........ 4,017 91 Opening streets................ ......... .... ............ 316 60 Paving streets ............................. .............. 281 62 Relaying sidewalks, cutting weeds ... ..... . 1,074 00 Laying curbing............... ...................... ...... 127 75 Repairing sidewalks. ......... ...... ... ... ........... 29 99 Foreman ...................................................... 1,320 00 Brick...................................................... ...... 181 90 Work and material other than above and balance on hand ($287.70).. .................. 19,236 90 Total..................... ...................................$58,000 00 Cleaning the Streets. The cost of cleaning improved streets was $10,- 932.47, as follows : MATERIAL. SQUARE - COST. AVERAGE COST PER YARDS. SQUARE YARD. Asphalt.......... ......140,813 $6,170 00 .0438 ^f Cobble &Granite.248,729 2,475 54 .0095 Shell..................... 93,200 576 10 .0061 Chert and gravel 58,856.9 192 07 .0032 Brick.... ............. ...111,334.71 1,518 76 .0136 Repairs to Paved Streets. The cost to paved streets was $10,999.30, as follows : MATERIAL. SQUARE COST OF AVERAGE COST YARDS. REPAIRS. PER So. YD. Asphalt not under guarantee........... 90,927.77 $4,54639 .05 Cobble. ...................177,712 2,230 04 .012 Granite blocks........ 71,017 1,29481 .018 Brick .............. ..... .111,334.71 316 68 .002 Shell........................ 93,200 2,435 00 .026 Gravel and chert... 58,856.9 176 38 .0029 130 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. There were 32,370 bushels of shell used during the year, costing $1.132.95. The repairs, as will be seen from the above table, cost one and eight-tenths cents per square yard. This does not include hauling of the shell or sprinkling shell streets. The cost of repairs t3 asphalt pavements during the year was 5 cents per square yard. Most of the repairs for vitrified brick paving was caused by excavating by plumbers and gas company. The total number of catch basins cleaned was 6,433, at a cost of $4,371.99; 6,573 loads of waste matter, measuring 4,578 cubic yards, were removed from them. Sixty-five new catch basins were put in during the year, making a total at the close of the year 1902 of 1,035. Storm Sewer*. Exclusive of the House Drainage System, there are now in Savannah 20 26/100 miles of sewers, an increase over last year of 4,787, or 90/100 of a mile. The new sewers are as follows: 12-inch sewer on Stewart street, 219 feet; 12-inch sewer on Montgomery street, 500 feet; 12-inch sewer on Jones street, west, 300 feet; 12-inch sewer on Paulsen street, south of Henry, 300 feet; 12-inch sewer on Habersham. street, north of Thirty-sixth street, 375 feet; 12-inch sewer on Jones street, west of Wilson, 340 feet; 15- inch sewer on Habersham street, from Gaston to Hall, 750 feet; 12-inch sewer on Gaston street, from Habersham to Price, 300 feet; 15-inch sewer on Price street (Liberty to Macon 275 feet and Jones to Wayne 450 feet), 825 feet; 10-inch sewer on Montgomery MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 131 street, 30 feet; 10-inch sewer on Sarah street, 550 feet; 8-inch sewer on Taylor street, east of Abercorn, 200 feet; 8-inch sewer, Thirty-third and East Broad streets, 24 feet; 6-inch sewer on Thirty-sixth street, to connect catch basin, 74 feet. In addition to the above there were opened up and relaid 1,000 feet of wooden trunk drain from open ditch east of A. C. L. R. R. track to Bilbo canal; and 300 feet of 10-inch pipe. There were 16 connections made to storm water sewers during the year and 53 sewer breaks, together with cleaning Barnard, Whitaker, West Boundary, St. Julian and Anderson streets' brick sewers. The amount expended during the year for this work was 12,236.44. Street Croaslngg. One hundred new street crossings were put down, measuring 6,300 square yards, the cost being $1,- 811 23. Thirty-six relaid with old material and 11 repaired. Opening Streets. The following is a list of streets opened by this department in 1902, with cost of same: Forty-first and Forty-second streets from Bull to Barnard; Forty-second street, east of Lincoln ; Fortieth street from Habersham to East Broad ; Burroughs street, north of Thirty-second and Thirty-sixth streets; Bull street, south of Forty-second street. The cost of s ame amounting to $642.00. 132 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Grading New Street*. Henry street, east of Price to Waters avenue; Atlantic street, from Bolton to Anderson; Harmon street south of Wheaton street; Anderson street, east of East Broad to Waters avenue; Forty-second street, west of Burroughs. The cost of same being $1,903.42. Paving Streets. There were 5,244.9 square yards Augusta gravel, 48,630.71 square yards vitrified brick laid during the year, costing $33,923.51. The appropriation for the department was $25,000.00. This would leave a deficit of $8,923.51. As Habersham street was under ordinance for paving, the material on hand for paving streets and the amount paid for by private individuals for paving in front of their property for which they pay the whole amount, will more than cover this deficit. The following table gives full information regarding location, cost, etc.: STREETS Forty-second street, W... West Broad street.. ......... Little Jones street........... "Rt^yfJAn of tv>ff Tattnall street................. Stewart street................. Bt. Julian street, E......... Price street, E................. Thirty-sixth street, W..... Roberts street ............... fMacou street, E. ........... ~x 1 1 Vitrified Brick Vitrified Brick Vitrified Brick Vitrified Brick Vitrified Brick Vitrified Brick Gravel Vitrified Brick Vitrified Brick Vitritteii Brick Vitrified Brick Square Yards 1,165.4 20,970.81 255.4 2,351.1 1 ^01 ft 4,663.9 5,244.9 13,1425 3,859.3 689.7 211 53,875.61 A ta 3 I $ 1,001 08 31,312 88 451 30 4,126 43 2,126 18 6,942 91 2,779 07 21,711 95 " 5,057 52 1,082 38 263 75 177,515 49 Railroad's Proportion $ S,235 99 577 44 235 80 1,082 38 110,131 61 5 3 4d OJ a $ 781 96 11,304 06 150 45 1,699 63 1,023 34 2,658 32 963 76 11,792 60 2,202 66 f *1 082 38 \ t 263 75 133,923 51 Cost tProperty Owners . $ 879 12 11,772 23 300 91 2,426 80 1,102 82 3,707 15 1,815 31 9,919 35 2,619 06 263 75 $31,806 50 Cost Square per Yard 1.42 1.49.316 1.77 1 7ft Ml 1.60.629 1.48.86 .52.98 1 flS 9Ad1 1.31 1.56.936 Hi o GO 6 *The entire cost of paving Roberts street was paid for by the Savannah Electric Company for privilege of laying 200 feet of track on said street. fThe entire cost of paving Macon street was paid for by Hon. J. J. McDonough as per agreement with this department. The amount of these two bills ($1,346.13) was sent to the Treasurer's office for collection. This amount with what was spent during the previous year and charged against this year's appropriation (8,959.79) will more than cover the deficit in paving streets department. 0. C. M. DEPARTMENT. As wns the ease in the previous year the numerous sewer connections that have been made during the year, this department overdrew its appropriaticn, but like paving streets, this excess is only apparent, as the city receives back from the property owners equally as much as it pays out for the cleaning and filling of vaults, wells, tubs, etc. Below will bo found a tabulated statement of the work of this department: Months December 1901.. ..... January 1903 ......... Februftiy .. .............. March .................... April....................... May .................. .... June.. ......7.... ........... July ....................... August .................... Sciltft 111 1)61* October................... Totals............ >&1 M* a,>u U'8 105 as 14 70 55 74 83 112 157 142 119 1,093 Amount $ 320 no 2(81 00 70 00 35 00 190 00 187 50 185 00 207 50 280 00 892 50 355 00 297 50 $ 2,731 00 xS-e > 0 2i i_ r.~ a.>fe 4 1 7 0 1 1 4 1 8 1 3 32 Amounts $ 8 00 2 00 14 00 12 00 2 00 2 OU 8 00 2 00 0 00 2 00 600 $04 00 Dry Wells CleauedSF 1 C 1 F 1 Cl F 1C 1 36 41 970 Amount $ 229 50 a(i4 50 540 00 715 50 454 50 403 60 378 00 414 00 316 50 117 00 167 50 184 50 $ 4,365 00 Totals $564 50 030 60 0^6 00 760 00 649 00 607 60 671 60 629 00 635 50 513 50 521 60 482 00 $7,202 50 o 50 H"8 o MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 135 City Lighting. There are at present 513 arc lamps in the city, and for a part of the year this number had to be paid for. The total expenditure for the year was $36.882. Public Buildings. Only minor repairs were made to Exchange to keep it in fair order. The expenditures in this department were for these minor repairs and for lighting the offices of the building, fuel, insurance, etc., and amounted to $1,509.40. Scavenger Department. The Scavenger Department has, in the past year, been compelled to dump all garbage and refuse outside of the city limits. The garbage dumps so near the city have been a menace to health and an eyesore to the community. The arrangement, just entered into between the city and county, will settle this disposal of garbage to the advantage of both the city and county. Below you will find a tabulated statement of the work of this department: 130 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1902. MONTHS. January .... February ... March...... . April......... May.-. ....... July........... SeptemberOctober ..... NovemberDecember... Total...... Loada Removed I. 2480 2,199 2418 2,355 2,433 2,406 2,371 2,520 2,400 2,433 2,364 2,415 28.794 DEAD STOCK RJEMOVED. If *"* P 6 18 9 9 11 5 11 5 3 7 10 5 fl 3 "3 ', 3 6 7 6 1 .... 6 3 4 3 4 47 3 $3fi-S i= ao 19 22 18 13 19 17 14 14 16 14 29 225 a.I 33 ...... .... 1 CO' i a 2 ...... 2 1 *"i" 1 1 2 FEED. S a> 3 46,128 41,664 41,664 44,640 38,626 44,640 49,166 49.166 44.550 46,050 44,500 33,260 10 1,524,054 1 1-5 ........... ........... ........... 6 I 46,218 41,664 41,664 44,640 46,128 44,640 49.166 49,166 46,800 48,050 44,112 48,260 550,418 a t$ 2 >4 1,000 1,000 ........ 2,000 Harbor and Wharves. Only such minor repairs as has been necessary to keep the wharves in good condition have been done during the year. These, with the expenses of the Harbor Master's office, necessitated the expenditure of $1,301.68. Maintenance of House Drainage. The two inspectors of house drainage connections and one inspector of flush tanks have been charged to this department. With the great number of sewer connections being made these inspectors are absolutely necessary to inspect all new work. The expenditures in this department were $2,947.26. Dry Culture. The city's health necessitates this department doing thorough work and is a very important one in the city government, as,although not brought prominently before the public, the health of the city depends MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 137 largely upon it. The cost of keeping the ditches clear of weeds, etc., and the salary of the clerk to the Director of Public Works amounted to $9,953.41. Below you will find a tabulated statement of the work of this department: 1002 MONTHS January........... February ......... / March ............ April.............. May............... June .............. July...... ......... August ........... September........ October........... "IVnvpmV^AT* December ........ Total........... "8 S * " fa <= " O as |5S 66350 99800 88865 81140 117875 61390 80590 77qan 83225 54750 29220 41900 883085 l-a? fa * a 63* fcCS 8200 11350 10900 6980 8810 5780 9100 6000 3350 2050 1850 9700 84070 + * 1 8 II Q 00 500 11^ 517 408 462 501 518 433 504 493 474 433 407 398 5548 No. CubicFt. Band from Traps 280 4480 640 2300 40 5050 1470 2610 40 2200 3880 22990 Sidewalks Department During the year 1902 there were 928 repairs made including crossings and portion of paved streets at a cost of $3,716.05. The large increase of repairs over the previous year is accounted for by the City making all repairs of excavations made by plumbers and gas and telegraph and telephone companies. Heretofore plumbers, etc., have been allowed to make 138 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. their own repairs, but owing to the work beingin many instances done improperly, it was decided to have this department do all of this work. The total area of sidewalks laid during the year was 195,872 square feet of which 81,600 feet was artificial stone laid under the direction of this department, and 114,272 square feet of brick was laid by the City. The total expenditures for sidewalks during the year was $13.194 21. The bills to be credited to this department amounts to $13,189.53. t House Drainage Department. The work in this department this year consisted of laying 8-inch line in the streets ot that portion of the City known as Jones Ward, lying between Liberty street and the Tybee Railroad and east of Randolph street. The former engineers, Mess. Waring, Chapman & Farquhar, having refused to come to Savannah to lay out and stake this work, it was necessary to adopt a complete new plan of this section of the City and have new grades established. This work wus done by the City Engineer's office. I am glad to report that the House Drainage pipe laid and supervised by us this year has given us no trouble whatever. We have had occasion to again repair lines of pipe laid on Florence street and on Tattnall street by the previous supervising engineers. These repairs, you will note from the attached statement amounts this year to $357.39. Last year (1901) they amounted to $7,513.80 and in 1900 to $1,455.67, making a total during the three years of $9,326.86 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 139 spent by this department for repairing work that had been inspected, supervised and accepted by the supervising engineers, Mess. Waring, Chapman & Farquhar. We have laid and in use 50 471-1000 miles of House Drainage pipe. Below you will find a detailed statement of the work done: Details House Dralnace Sewer*, 19O3. LOCATION MoAllster, Branch of Jackson. .......................... Oglethorpe ave., Branch of Clifford .................. East end of Cleburne street........ ...................... Stewart street, Branch of Wilson...................... Thirty-first street lane, Bull to Bmiard... ......... Reynolds street, N. of Broughtou. .................... Perry lane, E. of Randolph.............................. Perry street, E. of Randolph... .......................... Cleburne lune, E. of Randolph.......................... Cleburne street, E. of Randolph .............. ........ Jackson street, E. of Randolph........ ........ ........ Clifford street, Branch of Jackson.................... 8t. E. of MoAllsler, fm Perry lane to CJeburne le Short st. E. of MoAlister, Jaeksou to Cleburne Tottil.......... .......................... ................ 1.81731 miles Vit. 6" No. ft. 160 110 61.1 811.1 Pipe 8" No. ft. 796 813 694.1 678 MS flQO 655- 606.1 882 252 150.1 6644.3 i5> a ?2r 150 110 51.1 Q1 Q OftJ. 1 678 785 6S3 555 MM 1 382 f>e a 150.1 6955.4 i Greatest C Feet. Bl R 4} 8 ' 7j 6* ft} 1Q 6 14} 10: 8} 6J J ya5ft 3 6 01 6 ui 61 f>\ 41 fiiy5} 9) 6 2 11 6i Manholes. a i K s 9$..................... ......................:..... ..................... Elbert. 25..................... .................................................... Lovell8..... .............. \...................................................... Charlton. 19 and 20........... ..................................................... Keppard. 103, East *......... ...................................................... Teifair. land 2........ ..... Subdivision of 39, 40, 41................ Mid. Ogleth'pe 33.....................' ................... ................................. Keppard. 29................... J...................................................... Weed. 5 .....................|...... ............................................... Mid. Ogleth'pe 55 .....................I Keisling-Teynnc Farm Lot No. 5... Griffin. 3.....................I Subdivision of 39, 40,41................. Mid. Ogleth'pe 44 .....................j Gammell..................................... Lee. 10, portion.............................................................. N. Oglethorpe. i Survey**. Of lots Nos. 11 and 12, subdivision of Garden lot 19, South Law ward, to show encroachment. Of Minis property, in Bacon ward, to show streets purchased by City. Of Grimm property in Johnson ward, to show encroachment, and for opening Wolf street. Of lots 17, 18,19, Telfair ward, to show encroachment on Bolton street. Of lots 21 to 40, Dillon tract, Owens ward. Of lots Nos. 15 and 16, Walton ward, to show encroachment on Wilson street. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 149 Of the Sehley property, in Schley ward, to show encroachment, and part purchased hy city, for opening East Broad street. Of lot No. 1, east of Randolph street, to show encroachment on said street. Of lot No. 11, subdivision of Garden lot 19, south, to show part needed by city for opening Gillott street. Of Powder Magazine lot, Springfield Plantation. Of lot No. 4, subdivision of Garden lot No. 19, south, Law ward. Of Street Railway tracks within City limits, to estimate mileage for Tax Assessors. Of new City limits, and locating same. Of entrance to Forsyth Park, for proposed location of McLaws and Bartow monuments. Of entrance to Laurel Grove Cemetery. Of Tybee Railway depot property, east of Randolph street, to ascertain Railway's claim to a portion of Clifford street. 150 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Survey of Street*. STREET Berrien ......... .. Tatnall........... Jones .............. Thirty-third ... E. Boundary... Jones... ........... Bull .............. Montgomery... Price.............. Huntingdon. .. Montgomery... West Broad..... Henry lane..... Andersou.. ...... East Broad...... Thirty-eighth.. Abereorn......... Estill Avenue Liberty .. ........ East Broad...... Stewart. ......... FROM West Broad.... Jones.. ............ Tattnall.. ........ Burroughs....... W. Boundary. B rough ton, N. Brow Ditch..... FortyHsecond... Forty-second... Bay ............... W. Boundary.. Qwinnett........ Wayne............ Korty-second... Montgomery... Montgomery... Gwinnett. ...... East Broad..... Anderson........ Bull ............... Montgomery... West Broad..... To Tattnall.. ........ Berrien... ...... .. Jefferson......... Ogeechee Road Brow Ditch..... Stiles Avenue.. (new)city Imts. (new)city Imts. Gaston .......... Stiles Avenue.. Minis .......... ... Thirty-ninth... Henry ............ Waters Road... Estill Ave....... West Broad..... Gwinnett ....... Wilson ........... PURPOSE Proposed paving. Proposed paving. Proposed pavitig. To sdow encroachm'nt For opening. Establish line. Locate ditches Atraeks For opening. For opening. Proposed paving. For opening. Establish line. Establish line. For opening. To ahow encroachm'nt To show encroachm'nt Proposed paving. To show eucroaclim'nt Proposed paving. To show encroachm'nt ToshowencroHcbm'nt Proposed paving. Remodel sidewalk. Measurement* of Streets. STREET West Broad..... Forty-second... Thirty-sixth ... Stewart...........! West Broad..... Roberts..... .... Kcrri^n Tattnall.. ........ Jones........ ...... Henry ............ Stewart ' FROM Gwinnett........ Jeffirson......... West Broad..... Stone......... . .. West Broad..... West Broad .... Berrien.. ......... Tattnall ......... Waters Road... Wilann ........ St. Julian..... ...'Randolph... ..... Price ..............iBay ............... Harmon ...... ...IWheatnn -------- Du fly... ........ ...1 East Broad.....' Thirty-sixth....! I Ott... .............. Bull ...... ......... To Thirty-fourth.. Montgomery... Barnard ......... Wilson............ Gwinnett. ...... West of........... Tattnall ......... Jones.............. Jefferson......... Price................ West Broad.... Bilbo Canal..... Henry............. TpfT** i*4fin PURPOSE Curb. Paving Hiid frontages. Curb. Paving and frontages. Paving and front-iges. Paving and curb. Paving and frontages. Paving and froiiiHgeH. Paving and frontages. Curb. Sidewalks. Paving uiul frontage*. Paving Mild frontages. Curb. Curb. Curb. Paving and frontages. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 151 The Following Street Lines Have Been Given During: the Year: LOT SUBDIVISION. ABD. 11 and 12........... Garden Lot No. 19, south............... Law 10 and 11........... ................................... .................. VIercer 4, west J............ ...................................................... Marshall 10...........-...... Miller ....................... ................... Roberts 38-................. Gamnieil........................................ Lee 25..................... ...................................................... Gaston 21.............................;............................................. Trustees gard'n 24 and 25................................................................. Trustees gard'n 8....................... ...................................................... Magazine 23 ... ................ ...................................................... dimming 28..................... ....................................................... Minis E. Fand H....... ............................_...,.............,...... Dale 6.......................53, 54, Hull's............................;...... 8. Oglethorpe 1............................................................................. (humming 34..................... Sarden Lot No. 17, south............... Law 7 and portion 8.. Block 10......................................... Teynae 60..................... ...................................................... Elliott 47, fast half............................................................ WylJy 6....................... 26, 27, 28,29, Hull's........... ...... ..... N. OC T > Teynac Farm Lot. No. 3.............. ________{ Garden Lot No. 20, south. .............. Sec. 9_..................................... ...... Block 6....... ................. .................. Sec. 5............. ............................... Oaun .. ......................................... Block 17, Teynac Farm Lot 3......... Sub. of Lot 1........ ........................... WABD Foray th Gaaton Davia . Elbert Walton Thomas Waring Reppard Lovell Barry Brownsville Davls Walton Roberts Springfield Gumming Screven Johnson T Jfc'BB' Waring Berrien Griffin Camming BrownsvUle Flannery Atlantic Teynac Tkola ftnln Schley Davia Gallie Gue Haywood Walton Elliott Meld rim Washington TJM> Barry Thomas Estiil (iue Brownsville Law MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 153 LOT SUBDIVISION 187.......................................................................... Telfair ISand 20................................................................. Gaston land 2.................................................................... Railroad 19.................................. ........................................ Stephens Ito 7................. ........................................:............. Oavis 8, west half.............................................................. Falligant " Well"..........................................:...................... Barry 64 ............................................ .............................. Johnson 2, 81, 32............. Hull's ............................................ Meld rim H..................... ...................................................... Barry 23..................... ......................................;............ Wadley 99,100,101......... Scbley........................................... Schley 10 ..................... !$ec. 18, Teynac Farm Lot 4............ 63, east half............................................................. Flannery 47..................... Block 4.. ... ................................... Uasber 25.............. ..... ................... ................................. Moiiterey 16.................................... ............................. ........ Currytown 8, east 3............. Block 6 .... .................................... Griffin 25 ..................... ...............:...................................... Wadley 57..................... Seller............................................. Griffin Sand 4......_...... 35................................................... Elliott 6....................... ......... ............................................ Springfield F, G, H .................................................................. Camming E, F and 57............................................................ Lovell 44..................... ...................................................... Kelly 72............... ..... ..................................................... Brownsville , 7, 8, 9............ 24, 25, Back Lot No. 6..................... Swoll l&2and strips.. Bradj.................................... ........ Estill 180.......................................................................... Gartland Keisling Tract... Teynac Kama Lot No. 6.................. Griffin 28..................... .............................. .... ................. Wadley 46..... ............... ...................................................... Atlantic 94..................... ............... ...................................... Owt-ns 4............................................................................. dimming 207 .......... ........ ..................................................... Dacher 62............ ....... ........... ......................................... Jones 35 ..................... .................... ..... ........................... Wadley 213, 214................................................. .................. Hxrtland 15, west portion............................... ...................... Walton 18 .................... ..................................................... Cuiuming G...................... ...................................................... Dale 27 west half...... ...........................................>........... Lovell 102 ......................................................................... Telfair Sand 9.............. B........................... .................... S. Oglethorpe 14, east half....... ...... .............................................. Flannery 51,52................. ........................... .... .................... Falligaut 12..................... Brady............................................. Entiii 14 ..................... Gammell....................................... Waring' 33 A parts 32, 34 ...................................................... Padelford 2and 4, s part..................... ....... ........:..... ......... K...................... 1, 2, 3, Estiil................................... Estill 3, 4, 5, , 10, II... Minis........................................ Bncon WARD 154 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. LOT SUBDIVISION WARD 23........... ......... Sec. 8............................................. Southville 28 and part 27........................................................ Solomons 213, 214............. ...................................................... Gartland 8 and 9.................................................................... Forcyth 42........................................................................... Gilmerville 1....................... Garden Lot No. 19, south.... ......... Law 44........................................................................... Lee 35 ............................................... ............... ........... Barry 4......... ............. Garden Lot 18, south..................... Law Tract................ Nw. E. Broad and Huntingdon sts Davis J....................... ...................................................... M. Oglethorpe 30..................... ...................................................... Gallie 2and 3, portions.................. ................................... Flannery 42, 46, 79, 82...... ........................ ............................. Atlantic 19.......................... ................................................ Roberts 43 ..................... Sec. 8............................................. Soulhville 28........................................................................... Gilmerville MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 155 Grades and Lines Tor Streets. STREET Btewart........... Thirty-sixth.... Magazine ...... .. Ktewurt........... Thirty-third ... Thirty-fourth... Thirty-ninth... Thirty-third ... Thirty-third ... Burroughs.. ,,. Thirty-first lane Barnard ......... West Broad..... Jones .............. Henry............. Th irty -fifth... . Habersham .... Gaston ............ Price .............. Anderson........ Paulsen... ........ Forty-second... Fortieth ......... Sarah............. Harmon ........ Habersham..... Dufly.... .......... East Broad..... Duffy. ............ Wbitaker........ Habersham .... FI:OM West Broad..... Montgomery... Feeley Ave. .... West Broad..... Wayne ........... Barnard ......... Jefferson......... Bull .............. Jefferson. ...... .. Henry ............ Bull ............... Thiity-firstla.. Siewart. ......... Price................ Oaston. ........ ... Jefferson......... Hull.............. Jones.............. A. O. L. Ry..... Henry ............ Burroughs...... Ogeechee Rd... Henry ............ Thirty-fifth.... Ott ................. Habersham .. . Thirty-second.. Anderson ....... To Wilson ........... Burroughs ...... Ogeecbee canal Wilson ........ .. Jones.............. Montgomery... East of............ West Broad..... Whi taker. ...... Duffy lane ..... Ogeecbee road. Thirty-second.. Roberts........... Tatnall..... ...... Waters roadBarnard ......... Gaston............ Price .............. Wayne ........... Waters road... Anderson ....... Cemetery........ Wheaton ........ Thirty-sixth ... Paulsen........... West of........... Thirty-fifth..... Second ........... PURPOSE Gas main. Water main. Street line. House drain'e sewer. Sewer. Gas main. Gas main. Curb. Curb. Curb. Curb. Poles. Sewer. Telephone conduit. Sewer. Curb. Curb. Sewer. Sewer. Sewer. Street grade. Sewer. Curb. Gas main. Sewer. Curb. Sewer. Curb. Curb. Curb. Curb. tiewer. 156 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Ttae Following Sidewalk, Grade* Have Been Given for Private Parties: LOT OQ 6.............-... ... 12, east $.....,...... 155, 156, 157........ 177, 188.............. 255........... .......... 18 to 177........... 138 to 150 .......... 54........... ......... .. 103..................... 121 to 1-23........... 201,204,212........ 33........ .............. 280, 2S3, 284........ go* 2i 137 to 140 .......... 213 to 215........... OS.O 187... ................ 65, 69, 73............ 143, 144, 160, 161, 162, 191, 199, 200, 205, 206, 207........ K ..................... 291, 292, 293........ 255, 256.............. 110 to 113........... 13310 136........... 218, 219, 220........ 141, 142.............. 265, 266. 267........ Ooe f A O*4O 40 42 to 48, 77 to 83- 110, 111, 113........ 15 and east i 16.. 8 to 10............... A............. .... 8. ...................... 70.......... ............ 26. ..................... 43 to 60.............. 72, 75, 76, 77....... 7.. .................... 32, 33. 34............ 29, 30, 31- ........... 244 to 254........... SDBDIVISIOK .................................................... }_______ . ................ , .... . . ... , .... $ec.'6............ ................................. Brady............ ................................. Kstill ............... ..................... WARD Pulaski Battery Chatham Johnson Telfair Tel fair Telfair Telfair Johnson Delfair Telfair Felfair 1'elfair Teif&ir Kelly Kelly 1'elfair Padelford Padelford Telfair Telfair Telfalr Telfair Kelly Kelly Kelly Telfair Padelford Padelford Telfair Kelly Pelfair Uumming Atlantic T-lfair Padelrord Southvllle TAB Kstill Estill Curry town Padelford Padelford Padelford Padelford Padelford Tellair MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 157 LOT M.. ........ ............ 38,39,70.71........ 1, 38,39, 7t>......... 71 to 80..... ....... .. 80,81,82.83........ 8 and 9....... ....... 62, 63, 64 .... ...... 24, west J........... 40, 41, 42............ . SUBDIVISION Sec. 9............................................. Standard Oil Co............................. Estii'l ............................................ WARD Waring Johnson Johnson Johnson Stiles Lee Forsyth Estill Stiles Padelford Profiles Made and Levels Given. STUEKT Perry lane......... Perry................ Clebtirne lane... Jackson ............ McAllister ........ Reynolds.... ...... Thirty-first lane Barnard............. Clifford.............. Unnamed street Habernham........ East Broad........ Maupai ave........ Forty-first......... Forty-second ..... Bstill ave. ......... Gwinnt-tt .......... Stewart............ FROM Randolph ......... Randolph ......... Randolph ......... South Broad...... Broughton........ Bull ................. Thirty-first lainCleburne.. ......... Uaston........ ....... Jones.......... ..... Bull......... ......... Bull.................. Bull................. Bull...... ......... ... Price................. West Broad....... To East of............ East of.......... .. East of........... . East of..... ....... Eastof............ Jackson........... Bay................ Barnard. ........ Second............ Tybee Depot... Perry lane....... Henry............. Abercorn ........ Haberi-httm.... Halifixhani.... Habert-hani.... Bilbo Canal.... V/ilson............ PURPOSE Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer **ewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Paving Paving Establish grade Establish grade Establish grade Establish grade Establish grade Remodel sidewalk Levels (Mlscellaneoug). Of machine foundation for air lift at new water works. Of Bilbo canal, from Bolton to Gwinnett streets, for proposed covering. Of streets in Johnson ward and Collinsville, to establish grade. 158 MAYOR'S ANNUAL EEPORT. Of West Broad (cross section) to show street railway. Of porte cochere of Union Station at West Broad and Stewart streets. PaTlng Streets. During the year plans and profiles have been prepared and work staked out for paving the following streets: STREET West Broad.. Stewart ...... Roberts...... Jones ......... Berrien ...... Thirty-sixth Price ......... Forty-second St. Julian... Tattnall ..... FROM Stone ......... West Broad. West Broad. Tattnall...... Tattnall...... Bull........... Bay........... Jefferson ..... Randolph ... Berrien ...... To Gwinnett ... Wilson........ West of...... Jefferson..... West Broad. Jefferson..... Gaston........ Montgomery Bilbo canal.. Jones ......... MATERIAL Brick. Brick. Rrifk Brick. Brick. ' Brick. Brick. Brick. Gravel. Brick. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. l.VJ Maps of Lot*. Lor 19, 20. 16. . ............ 9 10 22, part.... ........... 22 and strip......... Strip of laud..... 63, part............... S9, 70.................. Minis property..... Grimiu property.. 21 to 40 ............... 16, 17, 18.............. B, 2, 4,6,8........... Powder Magazine 15, 16.................. 62.......... ............ .. 41........................ Band strip ......... 17, 18 .................. SECTION Gordon ........... Gordon ........... Gordon ........... Gordon ........... G, L.16,17, 8.. Dlllon ........... E.of Randolph Sec. 7.............. Lot ................. U^n T WABD Brownsville ... Swollville....... Swollville....... Swollville....... Swollvllle . ...... Brownsville ... Owens ............ Bacon ............ Johnson ......... Owens............. Reppard. ........ Southville ... . Southville ... . Springfield .. . Walton.. ...... . Brownsville . Brownsville . douthvllle ... . Reppard ......... PURPOSE Opening street. Opening street. Opening street. Opening street. Opening street. Opening street. Opening street. Opening street. Opening street. City lots. Opening street. Encroachment. Deed. Opening street. Deed. Opening street. Opening street. Opening street. Deed. Opening street. Maps and Plats of Streets. STREET. Stewart....... ...... Berrien ............ Tattnall... ......... Jones ............... Jones ............... Jones ............... Bull.................. Price ................ Montgomery..... West Broad...... Elevens.. ..... ...... Habersham....... Henry... .......... .. A bercorn .......... E-till avenue..... Whitaker.. ........ East Broad. ....... Forty-second...,. Stewart....... ..... KKOM West Broad...... West Broad...... Berrien ............ Tattnall............. West Boundary. West Boundary. Korty-second..... Bay ................ .. Liberty ......... .... Minis................ Forty-second..... Gaston.. ............ Waters road...... Henrv............... Bull.T................ Anderson. ...... .. Jones. ............... West Broad...... West Broad...... To Wilson... ......... Tattnall............. Jones................ Jefferson ........... Brow Ditch...... Ktiles avenue..... City limits(new) Gaston............... Gwinnett.......... Wayne...... ....... . Thirty-ninth..... Anderson.......... Price................. Estill avenue..... Lincoln............. Thirty-third...... Gwinnett.......... Florance............ Wilson.............. 1'UKPOSK Paving Paving Paving Paving Opening Opening Opening Paving Establish Line Establish Line Opening Paving Paving Paving Encroachment Property of By Paving Deed Remodelsidewalk leo MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. Maps and PlatsMiacellaneouM. Of City, between Abercorn, Habersham, Gwinnett and Bolton streets, to show present and proposed railway tracks. Of entrance to Forsyth Park. Of entrance to Laurel Grove Cemetery. Of Schley Property, in Schley Ward. Ot'Tybee Railway Depot property, east of Bando! p street. Of Norwood and West Twelfth Street Land Co.'s tracts, to show streets opened by city. Of Bilbo canal, between Bolton and Gwinnett streets, showing proposed covering. Of proposed improvement to Emmett Park. Plans. Of wharf and tramway for Fig Island. Tracings of Street*. FKO.M To Thirty-thir.i...... Jones ............... Davis (2)........... Bt. Julian (2).... Henrv lnne.. ...... Anderson. ........ Whitaker (4)..... East Broad ....... Forty -second (o) Burroughs.. ....... West Boundary. Randolph ......... Barnard............ Tbirty-sixtb...... West Broad...... Ogeecbee road .. Brow Ditch.. .. East Broad ... .. Bilbo Canal.. .. Fortieth............ Park avenue...... Florence.... ........ Encroachments Opening Opening Encroachment Opening Opening Opening MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 161 Tracings of Lota. 3 2 2 5 2 ( ft 2 2 2 2 2 6 3 4 2 3 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 LOT 1, 2 and strip.... 3...................... SchJey property 9 and 10............ 2>nd 3.............. 16, 19, 20.. ......... . 22 and strip ...... 63..................... 116 N. }............ U68. J.............. Farm lot 1. ....... . Minis property.. 208, 209.............. B and C lot 5, an 1 to 4. ............... 21 to 40.............. 1 to 70............... A ..................... 38, 39................. 6 & X (portions) Dand 22... ........ 70....... ............. 15, 16................ 62..................... 41 ............... ..... B ..................... 3trip W. of B... 23, portion......... 17,18................. Ito 6................. SUBDIVISION Brady......... ........................... Huck Ty thing........ ............... Gordon ................................. Garden Lot i9, south............. Gordon ................................. Wllmington Tythiug.... ........ d subdivision of C .... ............ Garden Lot 19, south............ Dillou............................ ........ McAlpiu..... .......................... See 5 Garden Lots 16-17, south....... TeynacFarm Lots..... .......... ttec. 6........................ ............ Garden Lots 16-17, south........ Sec. 7... ................................. Sec. 7...... .............................. Sec 8 Bee. 8......... ........................... WAKD Estill Percival Johnson Schley Swoll Law Brownsville Swoll Brownsville Brownsville Brownsville Derby Bacou Dasher Denaere Law Owens Johnson Demere Law Southville Owens Walton Mid. Oglethorpo Brownsville Brownsville Southville iouthville Southville Southville iteppard Demere TracingsMiscellaneous. Of sketch showing pavement relaid at intersection of Liberty and East Broad streets. Of Kingsville maps, showing property owners. Of. Swoll ward. Of Hull's subdivision of section 2, King's estate. Of section 3, King's estate. Of Collinsville, showing elevation of streets. 162 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Of entrance to Laurel Grove Cemetery. Of entrance to Forsyth Park. Of Emmett Park, showing proposed improvement. Of Lathrop ward. Of Teynac Farm Lot No. 1, showing continuation of Thirty-seventh street. Of Dillon tract, city extension. Of "Tiny Thompson" Park, showing proposed improvement. Of Southville ward. Of Gilmerville ward. Of Tybee Railway property, east 'of Randolph street. Of Gilmerville ward, hy C. Stevens, C. S. Of Fig Island. Of Farm Lot 3, Hick's Tything, Percival, and other tracts. Of Kaufman subdivision, in Estill and Solomons wards. Reports. Of encroachment of Lot 50, Lester ward, on Thirty-third street lane. Of encroachment of roof, Savannah Union Station Co., on Stewart street. Of ownership Clifford street, at Tybee Railway Co.'s properly. Of encroachment of 74 and 75, Telfair ward, on Henry street. Of encroachment of 41 and 42, Padelford ward, on Henry street. Of encroachment of 78, Telfair ward, on Henry street. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1G3 Of encroachment of 79 and 80, Telfair ward, on Henry street. Of encroachment of 81 to 85, Telfair ward, on Henry street. Of encroachment of D, Kelly ward, on Bolton street. Of encroachment of 24, Kelly ward, on Gwinnett lane. Of encroachment on Thirty-eighth street, between Waters road and East Broad street. Of enclosing of a portion of Jones street, Springfield, by S. A. L. Ry. Of encroachment of fence, southeast Bay and Randolph streets. Of encroachment of building, 36 Elbert ward, on Liberty and Montgomery streets. Estimates for Paving Streets. STBEET Stewart....... ...... Price................. St. Julian ........ East Broad........ Henry.. ............. East Broad........ Abereorn. .......... 1'hirtv-sixth...... East Broad........ FROM West Broad....... Bay ........ ......... Randolph ......... Gwinnett.......... Gaston I............. Price................. Joues ............... Hen ry...... ....... .. Bull.......... ....... Gwinnett.......... To Wilson........ ...... Gaston .............. Bilbo Canal ..... Henry .............. Henry .............. Waters road...... Gwinnett.......... E*till avenne..... Henry.. ........... MATERIAL Brick Brick Gravel Curb Brick Brick Kiick Brick Brick Shell EstimatesMiscellaneous. Of area within present and new. city limits. Of area required for the opening of streets through the McAlpin property in Johnson ward. IG4 MAYOK'S ANNUAL BEPOKT. Of area required for the open ing of streets through the Minis and other properties in Bacon, Demereand Brownsville wards. Of cost of wharf for Fig Island. Of curbing "Tiny Thompson" Park. Summary of Work Done la City Engineer's Office Daring CLtC -8 *!. s- "% (t* 1 19 64 27 ?6 95 232 X c o s S a 5. J5 2 a" a i j 10 12 a! W 1(1 2 4 16 5 c o 3 e 14 33 fi7 15 68 187 5 & 4 110 387 94 11 19B 873 I would respectfully recommend that this department be authorized to employ some additional competent assistance to make copies of the numerous maps, plans and profiles, which are the accumulation of years of surveys, and that these copies be stored in some secure building, not connected with the City Exchange, in view of the fact that, should the originals be destroyed by fire or otherwise, this loss would be almost irreparable. I am, very respectfully, W. J. WINN, City Engineer. Property Acquired During the Tear 19O-J for Opening Streets. NO. or DKID 431.. 432.. 433.. 4341 437 f 4S5.. 436.. 439.. 440... 441... 442... 3... 444... <4i... 446... 447... 448... 449... 450... 451... 432... 4oJ... 464... 456... 456... 467... 458... 468... 460... 481... 463... 463... 464... 465... 4IW... 4liT. . . 463... 4H9. .. 470... 471*.. 47J." GRANTOR Julius D. Hlrsch . ........... ............... B.B.Lenter ......... ........ ............. Glbba Hares ................... ............ WlllleS. Sawyer ....................... Bst. J.M. Schler... ....................... WverstGlbbeii..................... ........ Charles K. Stnlts..... ....................... A. H.Lawton.Kx'r...,. .................... ',. A. Kalllgant and W. MeNtehole......... C.H. Uorsett..,..,,..... .................... Rebecca G. Minis, etal. ..................... ..A.Falllgant............. ..... ........... 1. K, Nelson, Bishop. . ....................... Mary K Merer and Margaret O. Morlssey . . T.M.Norwood.. ......... ................... DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY Lot73tnb. of G. L. 16. 17, 5), La* ward. ...... ........ N. K. por. lot K and N. W. por. 41, see. 8, Southvllle wd 18 Brownnllle ward ...................................... 19,20, It (portions) Brownsville wnnl....... ............ 17 Brownsville ward ...................................... BDemere ward........................................... Schler tract, Sebley ward ................................ Lot A, seo. 5, Demere ward. .................. ... ...... 16(N.J(() Brownsville ward..... ..... .................. it Hull's >nb.,Meldrfmwaid............ ................ Bucks W thing, Derbr ward ............................. *XR OPKN1NG 1 Ogeechee ave.. 48, 44, 45. 4 -J4f, 48 Florance, Bullooh, gte- / Tens su., lane and a park...., Barrougbs street ................ fortyflrst street ,. ............. ITortT-nrst street ................ Kortj-flrst street................. I Bulloch, Stevens, Kortletb I and Fortj-ai st streets. . . . 1 Wilder, Florance, Willow, < Harden, Lavlnla, Bulloch Thlrtv-nlntn street. ............. Kast Broad street, ............ . . kerens btreet. ................... Fortj-secood street. ............ NO. OF PQUAR X rxtT 930,980.1, BM.4 1, 40 1,20.2 311.1 1.6B8.S 264.8 2,700 B.I08 9,8411 215.S 16.425. B 1.827.5 2,843 7,160 5,027 1,601 2,720.6 5,011 9.976 8.4*4.5 6,015 6,011 2,824.8 38,342,6 2.607 15,38(1 1,122,964.8 3,600 8,775.6 ' is'.sus" 2.700 2508 6,027 818.2 U.SU1 950 3 *1,1! 2,265 lo.osr PRICK 110,88476 83*6 42600 23238 f*80 42500 10192 1,80000 2,10000 984 BO 60000 60000 900 OU 1,00000 1,00000 40000 29000 1,36000 8H82 74813 1,629 01 1.31000 97500 70620 2,691 12 800 CO 4.C.OU 86 11,29646 25000 1,20000 1,50000 1,110 76 1,03300 600 UO 350 OU 16000 2,1/79 15 30000 2,40000 1.06570 3 * GO SO B * Kichanged (or strip west u( B Souttorille ward, f No deed to thl propertr, titled being acquired through condemnation proceeding*. ICO MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OP HEALTH OFFICER. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor City of Savannah: SirThe following report of the Health Officer of this city is respectfully submitted: This report covers the health conditions of the city as they existed during the year, with tables of mortality and other sanitary work, with the exception of the removal of waste matters; this latter being under the control of another department. The white death rate was the lowest ever known in the history of the city ; the negro death rate does, not present so favorable a condition. We have two distinct races of people living in this city, and in no way do they differ more than in their health conditions and their death rate. It will be necessary to first give the population of each race and then present figures, which form this statement. The United States census for 1900 give this city a population of 64,00026,000 whites and 28,000 negroes. Since that time it is estimated, and the figures are approximately correct, that by immigration, by increase of births over deaths, and by the extension of the city limits the city has now 29,000 whites and 34,000 negroesa total of 63,000 persons. The following figures show our mortality: POPULATION. DEATHS. ANNUAL RATIO PER 1,000. Whites...........' 29,000 471 16.24 Negroes......... 34,000 992 . 29.17 Total......... 63,000 1,463 23.21 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOBT. 167 The white death rate makes a magnificent showing, for, by comparison with other cities, we will rank among the best. For years the Health Officers of Southern cities have requested that in the comparison of their mortality statistics by the National Government that the death rates of the two races be separated. This request was complied with when the last census was made. The following diseases show where deaths among the negroes are far in excess of those among the whites: DEATHS PER 1,000. WHITES. NEGROES. WHITES. NEGROES. Tuberculosis......... 55 154 1.89 4.52 Pneumonia........... 35 98 1.20 2.88 Malarial Fevers..... 26 78 .90 2.29 Intestinal diseases.. 56 145 2.00 4.41 The immunity of whites from fatal forms of malarial fever over the negroes is a most remarkable fact; formerly the reverse was the annual exhibit. Take the age summary, which demonstrates the difference in the case of children under ten years of age. DEATHS UNDER TEN YEARS, PER 1,OCO PKKSONS. Whites........................133 4.59 Negroes .......................386 11.34 The increasing health of this city during the summer months is brought to your attention in the following exhibit. The records show no deaths from .any form of malarial fevers of white residents in this city from July 16th to October 27th. One death occurred July 16th, 417 Gaston st., E. 168 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. One death occurred July 19th, St. Joseph's Infirmary ; brought to city sick. One death occurred August 22nd, St; Joseph's Infirmary ; brought to city sick. One death occurred August 24th, St. Joseph's Infirmary ; brought to city sick. One death occurred October 16th, Savannah Hospital; brought to city sick. One death occurred October 25th, St. Joseph's Infirmary ; brought to city sick. One deiith occurred October 27th, Thirty-eighth street, and Waters road. Note location of this last case, due to local causes. There were over twenty deaths from malarial fever among the negroes during this period. There were twenty-nine (29) still births among the whites and one hundred and eighty-three (183) among the negroes. There were six (6) white people who died without medical attention, and one hundred and forty-four (144) negroes died without treatment, and the city of Savannah employs three white and two colored city physicians, who respond to all calls, and the City Dispensary furnishes free medicines for all persons unable to buy them. This subject is dwelt upon in order that it can be made clear that the city of Savannah (for the white race) is not second to any city of its size in healthfullness. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 169 Principal Causes of Death. WHITES. NEGROES. TOTAL. Tuberculosis................ 55 154 209 Pneumonia................. 35 98 133 Malarial Fever............ 26 78 104 Marasmus.................. 13 52 65 Paralysis.................... 12 36 48 Convulsions............... 1 40 41 Cancer......................... 24 9 33 The last named disease, it appears, is increasing in this city, as the number of deaths for this year exceeds that of any year by a large margin. Itmustbe said, however, that the X-ray treatment for its cure has been in vogue here this year, and persons from other parts of the State, suffering with the disease, have come here to receive treatment. Infectious and Contagious Diseases. Diphtheria.An astonishingly few number of cases were reported to this office during the year, and very few reported proved to be diphtheria. There were seventeen (17) cases reported, but bacteriological investigation showed but six to be diphtheria. Three of these cases, all membraneous croup, were fatal. This work of bacteriological investigation was performed by Dr. George R. White for a nominal fee, and its financial and hygienic value to the city was great. Formerly, all cases reported to my office by attending physicians were treated as cases of diphtheria, but, believing from the short duration of some cases and knowing the clinical diagnosis was often at fault with the best of medical men, the Board of 170 MAYOR'S ANNUAL RBPOBT. Sanitary Commissioners secured the services of Dr. White, with the result stated above. The cost of disinfection, material and labor to the city government and cost of damage done to household furniture and houses was saved in eleven (11) instances. It would be perfectly safe to challenge any city in the United States to equal our diphtheria record. Scarlet Fever.This disease prevailed to a considerable extent when the year started, there having bsen 42 cases on hand. The year ended with four cases under treatment. There were one hundred and sixteen (116) cases reported during the year, with a mortality of five (5); this against one hundred and ninety-two (192) cases and n mortality of ten (10) for the preceding year, 1901. The Board of Sanitary Commissioners were also in doubt as to the genuineness of certain cases of the disease reported to this office and dismissed within ten (10) to fourteen (14) days thereafter, and the Board was constrained to believe that either there was an error of diagnosis or carelessness on the part of attending physicians. Not being able to verify or disprove a diagnosis in this disease, its micro-organism not being isolated, the Board, on recommendation of the Health Officer, passed a resolution imposing a minimum quarantine limit of twenty-one (21) days on all cases of scarlet fever. The inefficiency of house quarantine,so well known to every health official, makes it impossible to eradicate the disease in this city. In a majority of cases strict adherence to regulationsareobserved, especially MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 17J where the medical attendant is intelligent and exacts strict compliance with his orders. On the other hand, parents entirely disregard the rights of their neighbors and ignore instructions. We know of instances where intelligent and educated people harass their family physician with appeals to dismiss cases of scarlet fever in order to attend some function, or to have their children return to school. Typhoid Fever.There "were nineteen (19) deaths from this cause, which was a decided increase over the year, 1901. Over fifty (50) per cent, of the deaths were in persons who contracted the disease elsewhere. Measles.There were several hundred cases of measles during the year with three (3) deaths. Whooping-cough.But a few cases of this disease existed, and only one death occurred. Small-pox.We began the year with the disease prevailing to some extent, and in spite of all preventative measures to combat'the disease, it existed among the negroes of the West Side and among the whites from the country districts. Vaccination, isolation of the sick in the Small-pox Hospital and of suspects in the Detention Barracks M cover period of incubation, with disinfection of infected material and houses, could not stop the disease. We frequently found negroes at the City Exchange, who would state that they had just arrived by train or boat, but after cross-examination, lasting several days, would admit they had never been out of the city for months. Again, on development of a case in a family, all but the patient would move away 172 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. to another part of the city, only to develop other cases and a new focus of infection. Finding the usual methods of combatting the disease would not meet the exigencies of the occasion, a system of inspecting every apartment, room, closet, cellar of every house was inaugurated, and whenever a concealed case was found the parties guilty of this concealment were prosecuted and in every instance found guilty and sentenced to a term on the chaingang from six months to a year. This work of prosecution was begun in April, and the last case known to be in the city was during the middle of June. Since that time we have had no return of the disease. While the negroes have furnished ninety (90) per cent, of the cases we have in this city, hundreds of white people, with a residence of several months or several years, who refuse to comply with the vaccination law, except in cases of their children, who attend the public schools. On finding a case in a family of this class of people I have found the adults and children under the school age not vaccinated, while children I removed from school were protected from small-pox by marks of recent successful vaccination. Before the opening of the public schools the entire medical force of the Health Department examined all applicants for admission to the schools and vaccinated ail those children needing this protection. Mr. Otis Ashmore, Superintendent, has the satisfaction of knowing that none of his scholors have developedlthe disease by compelling this rule to be rigidly enforced. MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOKT. 173 While the disease disappeared from the city over six months ago, it is more than probable that we will have some few cases on our hands before the winter is over, as Atlanta, Ga., Charleston, S. C., and Jacksonville, Fla., have the disease to some extent, and it is probable that the disease will come from these cities. Disinfection. The work of disinfection has been con ducted under the direct supervision of Mr. C. J. Melvin, Chief Sanitary Inspector, and while he lacks improved and modern apparatus for this work, he has performed this duty efficiently. The proof being no recrudescence of any disease after disinfection where the period of incubation of the disease for the other exposed persons had passed. Your Health Officer included in his estimate for the ensuing year the cost of a steam chamber for the sterilization of infected household effects. The following disinfections were made : Number of houses for scarlet fever.................. 140 Number of houses for diphtheria.................... 6 Number of houses for small-pox..................... 68 Total number of disinfections.................. 214 Sanitary Inspections. The work of house to house inspection has been carried on during the entire year, the force of Inspectors having been augmented during the summer months. This important feature of every health department has gained some recognition by an increase in the pay of the men. 174 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Every sanitary inspector in this city, who performs his work as it is laid out for him, is the poorest paid employe of the city government. There are but few men who will perform intelligent, faithful work when that work is not performed under constant supervision of a superior, and, while the work is supervised, the Inspectors are scattered over the city and their work must be conscientious. We have such men, and they deserve better pay. We lost by death, on December 15th, Sanitary Inspector William H. Wall. Mr. Wall was for years a faithful, industrious public servant, and he performed the work assigned him to the best of his ability. He was tireless in trying to aid this office in suppressing small-pox, and often, after days of arduous labor, would volunteer to perform night duty. Vital Statistics. The National Government, having established the Census Bureau as a permanent institution, it has issued a nomenclature for the classification of deaths, in order that each year each State, county, city, town and hamlet will be able to correctly report their mortality. Unfortunately many towns, and this one of them, will be unable to furnish their deaths correctly classified. How this can be accomplished is not clear. In addition to the table following this report the following record of births by months is given. There are a dozen or more physicians who ignore the law requiring them to report births occurring in their practice, and as many refuse to make their returns even when personally requested to do so. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 17 Births. MONTHS. WHITE. COLORED. TOTAL. January..................... 60 82 142 February................... 43 59 102 March....................... 43 63 106 April........................ 36 67 103 May.......................... 36 56 92 June ........................ 37 76 113 July.......................... 44 93 137 August ..................... 53 88 141 September.................. 60 98 158 October..................... 58 69 127 November.................. 47 86 149 December.................. 56 93 149 568 " 927 1,495 1901.......................... 491 842 1,333 Indigent Sick. With five (5) City Physicians, three (3) white and two (2) colored, a. well-equipped Dispensary and five (5) Hospitals for the care of the indigent sick, Savannah has made ample provision in this direction. As Executive Officer of the Board of Sanitary Commissioners weekly reports are required of the City Physicians, and the different hospitals who receive money from the city render their reports monthly. The administration of the City Dispensary is not under my personal supervision, but it is evident that this institution is well conducted. From the monthly reports of the different hospitals the following table is submitted. This table will not conform with their reports, as county and pa- 170 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPOET. tienls from other parts of the State, and even from other States, appear in these reports. In the table below these patients are not credited to the hospitals: NUMBER OF PA- | TIENTS TREATED. PER DIEM. j St. Joseph's Infirmary........ 377 5506 j Savannah Hospital............ 307 3954 | Park View Sanitarium......... 281 3829 I Georgia Infirmary............. 757 10292 j Charity Hospital................ 128 1249 : While the city of Savannah has no right to desig1 nate what patients should be received by any hospital there are so many patients credited to the city when, as a matter of fact, they have no claim on the charity of the city, beijag residents of other parts of the State, or of other States, that it has become a nuisance. There are certain cases where it is necessary : to care for sick strangers who are thrown on our hands, but that this condition of affairs is burdensome is exemplified when from the monthly report of one of the White hospitals there appears the names of eighty-seven (87) non-residents with 1322 per diems. Disposition of Waste Halter. While this office has absolutely nothing to do with the disposal of the garbage of the city, it would be held responsible for any bad effect on the health of the community by the improper administration of that service. This form of waste matter has been distributed in close proximity to the city; frequently within the city limits, and while the Health Officer has protest- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. ]77 ed against these dumping places each time his protest is without avail. This service should be controlled by the Health Officer of the city. There is no responsibility on anyone else, and to draw it mildly, it is not equitable for it to remain under its present control. The Prevention of the Introduction of Epidemic Diseases. After many years of discussion a majority of municipal and State quarantine services has passed into the hands of the National Government. The result has been an increased efficiency and a saving to cities and State of much money. An increased efficiency because a trained corps of medical men are now in control, who are far from political environment. The Quarantine Stations are equipped with modern apparatus not within the financial limits of State and municipal Boards of Health. During the past year, by an Act of Congress, the Marine-Hospital Service is now known as the "Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service," and is clothed with additional authority to control not only maritime quarantine, but that which prevents the introduction of epidemic diseases from one State to another. Its Good Work. Will Soon Be In Evidence. The State of California with Bubonic Plague existing in San Francisco for several years has successfully ignored the appeals of other States to recognize the presence of this disease and to use vigorous measures to stamp it out. The National Government will take charge of that now, with or without the consent of the State of California. 178 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. The Maritime quarantine at the mouth of the Savannah River still continues to be conducted to the satisfaction of every interest, and it remains practically the Savannah Quarantine Station so far as its administration is concerned, but the General Government is paying its bills. A Wew Cemetery. While it may be tiresome for you to have this subject brought to your attention, yet it is more necessary now than ever before that your Health Officer impress on you the sanitary necessity for immediately selecting a site for a new public cemetery. I The County Authorities have begun a great work ! in draining the lands west of the city, and in a few years these lands will 'be thoroughly drained, and \ but one menace to the health of the western section remains, in the Laurel Grove cemetery. Board of Sanitary Commissioner*. ! This Board, with the following personnel: Hon. Herman Myers, ex-Officio Chairman, Aldermen Dixon and Jones, Messrs. Solomons, Schaeffer and Gor- ' don, and W. F. Brunner, M.D., ex-Officio Secretary, j has met every Second Tuesday during the year. Your Health Officer, its Executive Officer, sincerely thanks you and the other members of the Board for the confidence often expressed in my work. It has been a pleasure to serve with such a Board. Very respectfully, W. F. BRUNNER, M. D., Health Officer. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 179 REPORTS OP CITY PHYSICIANS. Flrrt District. SAVANNAH, GA., Jan. 5th, 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor Oity of Savannah: SIRI herewith submit my annual report as City Physician of the first District for 1902 in tabulated form as follows: January.. ................. February ................. March ............ ........ April.. .. ..... ........... May ..................... ... June.... .............. ...... July .................. ...... Autiust .................... Beptember... ............. October. ........ ......... November ............... December........ ......... Total for Year....... Patients Treated. 03 ^ '-> 0 234 303 445 345 426 363 360 644 355 404 456 380 4,615 +S S3 r 252 205 311 253 268 204 216 131 178 174 198 158 2,548 2 182 147 203 158 202 132 172 181 167 175 171 168 2,058 o o "3 O 174 220 328 285 318 262 265 418 251 285 332 244 3,382 3 g 356 367 531 443 520 394 437 599 418 460 503 412 5,440 Patient* sent to Hospitals. & "i"S 3S tt O 2 3 3 3 4 4 8 1 5 4 5 44 a"0 4 1 1 2 2 4 2 6 1 4 3 5 35 !> * ^OQ fL, 2 2 3 2 1 3 2 4 3 4 1 1 28 4 ,i i a O 5 3 o 2 2 5 2 4 3 3 3 2 36 1 13 8 9 9 8 16 10 22 8 16 12 13 144 Very respectfully, G. H. JOHNSON, M. D., City Physician 1st Dist. 180 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Third District. Hon. Herman My&rs, Mayor Oily of Savannah : Dear SirI have the honor to submit the following annual report for 1902 as City Physician of the Third District: February.................. March ..................... April ....................... May ............... ..... June. ....................... July......................... August............ ........ October ................... November ........ ...... December........ ......... Total..................... Patients Treated. 1 i I ~ . o *j3 180 120 158 133 137 J2t 136 106 185 169 147 159 164 155 204 J81 173 114 211 151 150 128 207 140 1 300 291 258 212 354 306 319 385 287 362 278 347 2,052. 1.677,l3,72 *> ^ 6 O 190 205 190 188 271 231 231 272 213 251 192 235 2.5i7 CD *" S? > 9 O K 290 199 145 130 2-36 193 232 298 197 255 186 231 Putlents Sent to Hospitals I 3en i 1 ] j 2 4 0 2,582'] 7 $ | a 1 i i 0 2 s 2 2 1 2 4 1 16 I | > it a, 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 2 3 0 4 16 >, I <3 a1-1 A 4 2 3 0 3 3 3 3 0 4 1 1 27 ~a "Z f 8 5 5 3 5 5 7 6 5 12 9 6 76 Deaths. S J3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 o _o JB 2 0 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 12 | 1* 2 U 0 2 2 3 2 0 0 2 0 1 14 Respectfully yours, M. M. SALIBA., M. D. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 181 COLORED CITY PHYSICIANS. Eastern District. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor City of Savannah : Dear SirI have the honor to submit herewith my report of work done in the Eastern District for the year ending December 31, 1902: January............................................... March................................................. April......... ........................................... May.................... ....... ........ .... ........ July ...... ........................................... September........................................... October.. ....................... ...................... December............................................ Total................................................ _ec au O> V 8 o 295 249 242 36! 304 265 315 324 287 275 24fi 207 3,370 Visits House 277 250 222 213 175 !63 270 272 264 332 225 298 3,041 Patients No. 478 384 449 461 421 482 465 420 488 446 368 374 5,125 Bent to Infirmary! Ga. 6 7 5 2 5 10 4 7 4 5 2 5 52 a o. >-> | -J COO 43 1; H ...... ...... 2 3 Charily Sent to|Hospital 1 2 1 1 5 Through the very charitable disposition of the city for suffering humanity among the poor the death rate has been greatly decreased, and, as victims of disease are educated up to the calling in of a physician rather than the early and continued use of pat- 182 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 'ented medicines, there will be a greater decrease of the death rate. It makes no difference how reputable a medical college might me, a graduate of which must pass an examination hefore the State Medical Board before he is permitted to practice in the State, and, it appears to me, that some legislation should be enacted to regulate the admission and sale of patented medicines, as a large number of which contain narcotics and irritants which are harmful to the system. The sanitary condition of the city, under the direction of our very efficient Health Officer, is excellent, as is evidenced by the health of the city, there being a very marked decrease in malarial fevers during the Fall months. I am grateful for courtesies extended to me from city authorities. Very respectfully, J. H. BUGG, M. D.f City Physician, Eastern Division. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 183 'Western District. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1,1902. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor, Oity of Savannah - Dear SirI herewith respectfully submit my report as City Physician of the Western District for the year ending December 31, 1902: Respectfully submitted, P. E. LOVE, M. D. January.................................... April....... ................................ .. May.......... ......................... ...... June......................................... July.............................. ........... August.............................. ...... October............................ ........ November... ...................... ........ Total.................. .................. ! 85 it 1 291 262 320 287 349 356 333 469 340 353 374 234 3908 _>. "a i a m o %* > 0 25 255 275 301 236 234 255 237 319 224 311 247 141 3,125 \ Treated No. \\Monthly 504 481 587 490 565 559 533 755 547 621 673 360 6,572 |Deaths 8 10 9 12 11 8 9 9 7 3 6 4 94 1 Sent to |Infirmary Ga. 11 6 8 8 15 6 8 19 15 4 1! | Charity Ben lo ||Hospital 2 2 ...... 1 1 119 6 3'5. S P ""] l X AS "1 S3 5^ " a 2s a 3QS 1 1 ...... 2 184 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OP CITY DISPENSARY. SAVANNAH, GA., January 3, 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor, City: Dear SirI have the honor to submit herewith *my report for the year ending December 31, 1902. Number of prescriptions filled as follows: WHITE. COLORED. TOTAL. January ................ 1,140 2,410 3,550 February . ............ 986 2,285 3,271 March................... 993 2,323 3,316 April..................... 1,060 2,353 3,413 May ....... ...... ....... 840 2,502 3,342 June ...................... 956 2,327 3,283 July...................... 1,028 2,657 3,685 August............... 1,055 2,814 3,869 September ............ 900 2,486 3,386 October.................. 1,114 2,920 4,034 November ............ 825 2,202 3,027 December.............. 767 2,158 2,925 Total..............11,664 29,437 41,101 Drugs and surgical supplies furnished the City Phvsicians, Pest House and Police Barracks about $300. Expenditures for the year are as follows: SALARIES, RENT AND DRUGS AND STJRINCJDENTALS. GXCAJL SUPPLIES. TOTAL. January .........$ 456 64 f 355 60 $ 812 24 February.......... 4000 4893 8893 March.............. 399 70 312 30 712 00 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 185 April .............. 20554 21063 41617 May.. .............. 24351 15997 40348 June ............... 236 38 188 89 425 27 July.................. 241 85 220 41 462 26 August........... 22189 25241 47430 September.. .... 242 90 259 56 502 46 October............ 21510 19901 41411 November....... 280 19 237 85 518 04 December ....... 5237 7703 12940 Total ............$2,836 07 ' 1252259 $5,35866 All connected with the Dispensary have attended to their duties very satisfactorily. There is a balance to our credit of $241.34, which is the result of strict economy, and, with this in view, I have been able to keep the expenditure well within the amount appropriated for the maintenance of the institution. In addition to this, we have on hand a large and complete stock with which to commence the new year. Respectfully, L. D. STRTJTTON, Keeper Dispensary. 186 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OP INSPECTOR OP PLUMBING. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor: SirI have the honor to submit herewith my report for the year ending December 31, 1902. The ordinance, regulating the drainage and plumbing of buildings, has now been in operation four years, and during that time a marked improvement has been noticed in this important branch appertaining to the construction of buildings, which so materially affects the health of those who are to occupy them, not only is the case in the workmanship of the plumber, as will be noticed during the first year that the ordinance was enforced. When the law first became operative, the department met with opposition from a few pessimists, who argued that the enforcement of such laws would be burdensome to owners of property ; they contended that traps in pipes and other new fangled arrangements were not considered necessary two or three decades ago, and that people were just as free from contagious diseases then as they are now. It is very gratifying to know, however, that these disgruntled ones are only a small percentage of those with whom this office has had to 'deal, and that on the whole there has been a ready compliance with the provisions of the ordinances. The subject of household sanitation is one to which a good deal of attention has been given during the past few years. Within a comparatively short space MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1ST ____________________________________*_______________________________ _ _______^^ of time the city of Savannah has expended thousands of dollars on a system of house sewerage, which is one of the finest systems in the country. This large expenditure of money was made for the purpose of providing the citizens with a safe and quick means of disposing of their wastes and fecal matter, and thus prevent them from becoming the seat of putrefaction about the habitation and source of disease in the community, but the most perfect system of sewerage would be little more than useless if no attention is paid to the sanitary arrangements of the household. The year has been a very busy one with the plumbers, caused by the changing from the old system to the new. During the year there were one thousand, five hundred and fourteen permits issued and two thousand, one hundred and fourteen houses connected to the new house drainage system. There were two thousand, five hundred and fifteen plumbing fixtures put into buildings. The old privy vaults, which have been a menace to public health, .are gradually being done away with and flush closets substituted. Statement of Work Performed and Fees Collected. Total number of plumbing fixtures inspected. 2,515 Total number of sewers................................. 2,114 Total number of inspections for Health Department....................... ....... ............... ....... 41 Total number of inspections for property owners, of which no fee is charged ............... 219 Fees collected ............................................. $1,257.50 Very respectfully, F.W.CAMPOS, Inspector of Plumbing. i 188 MAYOR'S ANNUAL KEPORT. REPORT OP THE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor, City: SirIn accordance with Section 6 of an Act of the Legislature of the State of Georgia, approved Nov. 30, 1895, to create and organize a Park and Tree Commission for the city of Savannah, the Commissioners have the honor to submit this report of their doings for the past year: Our Public Ground*. ACRES. Forsyth Park.......................................... 100 Forsyth Extension...... ............................ 21.0 Colonial Park......................................... 66 Twenty-five squares................................. 21.8 Oglethorpe Green.............!...................... 3.44 Liberty Street Green................................ 2.18 Tiny Thompson Park.............................. .2 Thomas Place......."................................. 2.0 Wells Square............................. ............ 1.4 Emmet Park (Area not yet known.) Laurel Grove Cemetery (white, 57.1; colored. 608) ... .................... ..........................1179 Total................................................186.52 Financial Statement. There has been appropriated during the year................................................$8,500 00 There has been expended........................ 8,500 00 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 189 Tree Planting, Including Thirty-seventh Street. There has been appropriated during the year................................................$1,000 00 There has been expended........................ 1,00000 Laurel Grove Cemetery. There has been appropriated during the year................................................$6,000 00 There has been expended........................ 5,999 96 Leaving a balance of........................$ 04 Forsyth Park, Colonial Park and Bull Street Squares. Work in Forsyth Park has gone as usual. The Spring and Summer planting has been confined mostly to plants raised in our own green houses by our own force. We propagated enough plants to bed out the whole of Forsyth Park and Bull street squares. These plants comprised thousands of AcaJypha, Al tertian - thera, Coleus, Dahlias, Salvias, etc. We have transplanted quite a number of native plants from the surrounding country, such as Lagerstremia, Barberry, Golden Rod, Sumac, Bay, Myrtle, etc., and propose, in the future, to make more beds and borders of these. For Spring flowers we have planted out bulbs as follows: 2,000 Roman Hyacinths. 2,150 Dutch Hyacinths. 7,000 Tulips. Also from left-over stock of last year some 2,100 Bulbs, Tulips, Narcissi, etc. I 190 MAYOR'S AXNUAL REPORT. i, __________________________________ i We have also set out in Forsyth Park and the Bull street squares 75 Cornus Rubra or the Red Flowering Dogwood, a rare and very attractive shrub. We regret that the state of our finances prevented a larger planting of bulbs, as we should like to have had the Bull street squares planted for spring effect. As it is they will make no show until summer, when we will have our summer plants to put out. We have now in our green house upwards of 5,000 young plants from cuttings, comprising the following: Salvia Splendens, Strobilanthus, Hibiscus, Crotons, Coleus, Aehyranthus, Alternanthera, Aealypha, Phyllanthus, Anthericum, etc., and are making [ more daily. 1 We are gradually accumulating a stock of Palms, ' Ferns and other hot house plants, but are badly in ! need of larger quarters to hold them. Our present i green house accommodations are barely sufficient to f propagate plants for Forayth Park, and the consei quence is that other parks and the squares are not i beautified to correspond with that park. What a beautiful effect would it be for all parks and squares to be embellished as we have succeeded i in having Forsyth Park beautified for the past two I* years, and the cost would be small compared with the magnificent advertising it would give to people outside the city and the great pleasure it would distribute to all our citizens over all the city. Well* Square, Thomas Place and Tiny Thompson Park. In Wells Square we have planted flowers, kept the grass mowed and gave the fountain a thorough cleaning. MAYOR'S ANNUAL KEPORT. 191 In Thomas Place we have planted the large center bed with Ricinus, Acalypha and Hibiscus ; same was very much admired. As to Tiny Thompson Park we would again respectfully say that nothing has ever been done to designate this plot of ground from the streets around it, and until this is done we are powerless to improve it. Squares East and West of Bull Street and North ot Gaston Street. In regard to these squares, beg to say that we have kept them free from paper, have kept the grass mowed, removed the dead trees, trimmed the trees which needed it, kept the walks edged and planted trees as far as our funds would allow. The Strand North of Bay and Directly East of the City Exchauge. This plot of ground has been unusually pretty this year. We had planted Hibiscus, Salvia, Acalypha. Coleus and Alternanthera, all of which went towards beautifying this minature park ; same was commented upon by citizens and visitors generally. We wish the ensuing year to extend the improvement on this strand to connect with Emmet Park. Grans Plots and Trees. We have cut the grass on the grass plots this year as usual. We have planted during the year trees amounting to 663. The following will show the different varieties and number of each : Live Oak, 122 ; Magnolia, 34; Dogwood, 81; Sweetgum, 75 ; Sugarberry, 78; Palmetto, 50; Lagerstremia, 135; Elm, 84; Ironwood, 1; Red Bud, 1; Crab Apple, 2. 192 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Trimming of Tree*. We have done a great deal of trimming throughout the entire city. Replacing of Dead Tree* on Thirty-seventh Street. We beg to say that we have replaced the 29 trees torn up on Thirty-seventh street by the House Drainage and Street and Lane Departments. Removing of Dead Trees. We have removed during the year 159 dead trees, cost of removal being borne by our regular appropriation. The following will show the varieties and number of each: Elm, 35; Maple, 1 ; Hickory, 1 : Live Oak, 1; Magnolia, 3; Sycamore, 24; Water Oak, 57 ; Chinaberry, 16 ; Ash, 2 ; Mulberry, 15 ; Wild Olive, 1; Willow, 1 ; Sugarberry, 1; and Sweetgum, 1. Quite a number of these trees were blown down by high winds and had to be removed on that account. DEATHS. GRANVILLE BEVILL, Foreman. It is with regret that we have to report the death of our Foreman, Granville Beviil. He was throughout the man for the work. "For every man according to his ability, to every one according to his need." That is what he was, true and faithful, and in his death the city has sustained a loss. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 1C3 Miscellaneous. We have purchased a fine mule at a cost of $225, which we needed very much. We now have two young and two old mules with which to do our work for the coming year. We also have one horse for the use of the department. We had planted in front of the Cotton Exchange a circle of short staple cotton and in another nearby a plot of Mexican and Sea Island cotton, with which we had great success, so much so that every one citizens and visitors alikecommented upon its unique appearance, and especially was this true with Northern visitors, who had never seen cotton as it is grown. During the year we delivered a number ot wagon and truck loads of wood to the worthy poor and also to the public institutions of the city, the balance of the wood from these trees being deposited at the Park and Tree lot until such time when we can split same into cord wood size and send to the Orphans' and Widows' Homes. Laurel Grove Cemetery. There has been a great improvement made in the Jewish section. At the beginning of 1902 there was not a single lot for sale, but adjoining land has been cleared, opened and filled in under great difficulty, owing to the work having to be done by our regular hands, but we can report that there are now 64 lots ready for sale. The roadways have been graded and filled in and all dead trees have been removed. 194 MAYOR'S ANXCAL REPORT. We are glad to report that we have been able to put up at the entrance to this cemetery a very handsome and substantial iron fence and driveway at a cost of $400 ; same being badly needed for so many years. This fence was paid for out of our regular appropriation. During the year sufficient new ground in the new section of the cemetery has been cleared, graded and drained so that we now have 200 lots in that section which are read}7 for sale. We have also opened up and drained a new strangers' burial ground in the middle back section. Live oak trees have been planted along the main avenue to take the place of dead trees, which it became necessary to remove. f|';. We have also added a new hot bed to accommodate the constantly increasing lot of plants that are necessary to properly plant out the beds in the cemetery. There is still a large area of land in the back and south portion of this cemetery which can be redeemed, drained and converted into lots. There is also more ground in the Hebrew section which can be filled in and made into salable lots. We have started a nursery in the northwest section of the cemetery, and have in it thousands of Privit hedge plants and hundreds of Lagerstremia, etc. The floral department has been very successful this year, the many varied and fancy designs being much admired by every one, especially by the ladies. In tact the present keeper, Mr. Henry Garwes, has kept the cemetery in first-class condition, old lots MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 105 being cleaned up and the driveways and avenues being kept free from-leaves and rubbish. Laurel Grove CemeteryColored Portion. The Colored Cerhetery has been conducted in a very satisfactory manner. The present keeper, J. E. Kirnball, has built a green house, has graded a number of the roadways and has managed to shell the main avenue leading up to the cemetery from the main entrance. The old lots have been cleaned up and the avenues kept clean and in good condition. During the summer.flowers were planted in large beds along the main avenue and added much to the appearance of this cemetery. We wish to commend especially the active and intelligent interest which the keeper of the Colored Cemetery has displayed in the observance of his duties, and it is the desire of the Commission the coming year to aid him more in beautifying this part of the public property. I attach to this report the mortuary statistics of the Keeper of the Cemetery. Yours respectfully, PHILIP D. BAFFIN, Chairman. 190 MAYOR'S ANXUAL REPORT. Mortuary Report of Laurel Grove Cemetery for 19O2. January................ February.............. March........ ......... April.......... ........ Way... .. .... ...... June............. .. .. Julv..... ............... August................. September...... ...... October..... .......... November............ December............. Grand tofnl........ WHITE >> O a 2 i a 20 16 24 10 18 14 17 12 13 22 16 20 and Btlllbortl Premature Hlrlhs 1 2 4 3 2 2 2 2 3 1 2 1 202 1 25 3 o> 9 f +a 5 5 5 7 4 4 2 5 2 3 4 3 49 3 o H 26 23 33 20 24 20 21 19 18 26 22 24 27fi ]t-i s 2 3 4 4 5 4 5 1 1 5 2 42 COLORED s 5 _s no "3 <3 83 fit 64 68 67 68 59 46 72 68 58 58 772 Stillborn ami Birth* Premature 8 13 2 10 8 9 13 12 16 5 8 5 109 o> o< 4^ C t,M 3> A O 7 8 7 5 4 5 7 H 1 tf "i 60 rH OB 1 98 82 73 83 79 82 79 66 89 80 66 64 941 r-t _B 3 z 13 5 7 11 18 8 16 19 12 8 12 10 139 Total Interments Both Cemelerlea in 124 105 106 103 10H 102 100 85 107 1(16 88 88 1217 Burial fees (white)...............................................................$1,127 60 Sale of lots from January, 1902, to January, 1903 (white)..... 462 00 Sale of lots from January, 1902, to January, 1903 (colored)... 99 00 Grand total .................................................................$1,688 60 Respectfully, HENRY GARWES, Keeper. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 197 REPORT OP THE CLERK OP THE MARKET. SAVANNAH, GrA., January 5,1903. To the Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor : SirI herewith submit my report as Clerk of the Market for the year 1902. The collections for the year from various sources has been as follows: Butchers............................................ 4,814 00 Fish dealers........ .............................. 1,668 00 Poultry............................................. 728 00 Vegetable stands..... ........................... 720 00 Bakers....................................... ..... 338 00 Cfabs, shrimps, etc...... ....................... 158 00 Basement vaults................................. 320 00 Miscellaneous .................................... 350 00 Country carts and outside stands............ 1,320 35 vj'otal..........................................$10,416 35 This report shows a small decrease in receipts in comparison with the year previous, due mainly to having as many as five butcher stalls without-tenants for four months during the summer when the high prices of beef drove them out of business. All other rentals have kept up very well, considering the growth of the city southward, and the fish stands show quite an increase over last year. The increase in green groceries out in the residence portion of the 198 MAYOR'S ANNTTAL REPORT. city is bound to limit the trade coming to the City Market, and even with increased facilities here is bound to cause a falling off in the business of the Market. The roof of this building is in very bad shape, especially on the butchers' side, and although same has been repaired after every heavy rain this year still leaks, and I hope Council will at last consent to having a new tin roof put on, if only on the Congress street side. My last year's report recommended a modern pavement for one side of the Market, which I again would ask Council to consider, as much for sanitary reasons as for the convenience of the patrons and tenants and also for the sake of improving the appearance of the building inside. At the risk of appearing tiresome, would recommend that the Market, inside and out, be presented with a coat of paint, as I don't think such a thing has occurred within at least ten years. The relations between this department and its patrons have been very pleasant, and it has been my constant aim for them to continue so. ,| Mr. S. A. Well, the Deputy Clerk, has been prompt [ and attentive to his duties, both in the Market and : as food inspector. : The number of inspections for the year are 3,901, ;' and the articles condemned are as follows : ; 2,441 pounds meat. 226 pounds poultry. 2 kegs tripe. ; 40 rabbits. 400 watermelons. ii MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 199 150 pounds fish. 215 pounds sausages. i barrel pigs' feet. 3 bunches bananas. The Chairman of the Market Committee, R. L. Holland, has been very kind to all of the force during the year, and has spent a good deal of his time in assisting us, and I take pleasure in thanking him and his colleaguesAldermen Frank and Canty your honor and other members of the Board for their kind consideration. Respectfully. A. MENDEL, Clerk of the Market. REPORT OP THE HARBOR MASTER. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1903. Hon. Herman Mycrs, Mayor: SirThe total tonnage arriving at the Port for the year of 1902 was 574,387 tons Number of Vessels and Nationality Arriving at Savannah During the Year of ISO'1. January... .................................................................... Februuiy .................................................................... March........... .............. ................................ .............. April............................................................ .............. June.... .............................................. ......................... July.................................. ........ ............................... August................... ..................................................... September. ........................... .... ................... ............ October........................ ................ .............................. November.. .......... ...... ............... ... ........................... T*ifipnrn Hff Total..................... ............................................... American 31'?,- Ofl n ?,7 IJU itft "A 18 41 VO 17 327 British o 4 3 5 7 8 1 K Ki IK 15 n 114 Belgium 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 t 1 13 Norwegian 4 0 7 ft ft R 3 ?, 1 3 1 42 German 7 2 1 1 0 0 0 a i 2 a i 21 a ,s*c 1 1 n i i i 0 0 0 o i i 0 6 s +* A 0 0 0 ft(1 0 0 0 1 ?. 0 0 3 Austrian 1 0 0 ft 1 2 0 ?, I 0 2 ?, 11 Russian 0 1 i 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 7 Portuguese ft ft 0 ft 0 1 1 0 ftftftft 2 jDanish ft 1 ft ft ft 1 ft ft 3 1 0 1 7 Italian 2 1 O 2 ?, 1 1 0 4 3 1 21 Swedish 0 1 ?, 1 91 1 ft ft 2 ft ft 11 Hungarian, 0 ft ft ft ft ft 0 0 ft ft 1 1 2 i. r) w 3 58 H MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 201 During the year of 1902 the collections of this office amounted to $5,058.92, as follows : January ................................. ........ $ 511 20 February ...................... ...... ......... 364 36 March ............................................... 336 00 April.............................................. 33500 May.................................................. 362 00 June....... ...................................... 386 32 July ................................................. 17700 August ............................................. 380 00 September........................................ 616 00 October .......................................... 622 00 November .............. ....................... 50700 December .............................. ......... 562 04 Total..............................................$5,058 92 During the year I have received the hearty co-operation of all engaged in the shipping business, and have experienced no difficulty in the enforcement of the harbor regulations. Masters of vessels I have found always willing to assist the Harbor Master. Very respectfully, JAMES McBRIDE, Harbor Master. 202 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OP SHELBV MYRICK, RECORDER Of THE POLICE COURT OP THE CITY OP SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1. 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor of the City of Savannah : Dear SirI beg to submit this my annual report of the work of the Police Court of this city during the past twelve months. This is the first instance of a report from the Recorder since the establishment of the Court. The need for such a report will become manifest when the information herein contained is considered. During the year 1902 5,643 arrests were made by the Police Department, and of this number 4,695 were brought before the Police Court and tried on various charges. Of the arrests made 4,213 were colored, while 1,430 were white. The percentage of white and colored in the number of cases tried was about the same as in the number of arrests made. It will be noted that of the $16,675 of the fines imposed in cases on the fine docket there was collected only the sum of $5,622.95; or in other words about thirty per cent, of the fines imposed were paid. When it is considered that about seventy-five per cent, of the arrests made and cases tried are colored, a reason for the small percentage of fines paid becomes apparent. There were many cases tried, of course, during the year in which no fines were imposed, the sentence MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 203 being imprisonment in jail or on the chain-gang without the alternative of a fine. In my opinion the city should make some use of the large number of offenders who serve out their sentences in jail. They should be utilized and not be an expense to the county or to the city, as is the case when they remain in jail. Numbers of prisoners are used at the Barracks and at the City Exchange and numbers are sent to the county chain-gang, but the largest number remain in jail idle. The cases tried on the information docket are all of importance. The parties who appear on this docket are brought into court by subpoena and not by arrest. Great aid was given to the Health Department in enforcing the sanitary regulations and to the City Marshal in collecting taxes and licenses during the past year. It will be noted that 1,211 cases were tried on the information docket, and that the sum of $620 was collected from fines. A large sum of money was collected and turned over to the City Marshal or the City Treasurer as taxes and was not appropriated and charged up as fines collected. It will be observed during the year 804 cases, involving offenses against the laws of the State, were investigated and turned over to the City Court, while the number of 154 were investigated and turned over to the Superior Court of Chatham county, making a total of 958 cases.. The investigation of all murder cases now occurs in Police Court, the investigation having been formerly made by the Coroner. The totalnumber of cases tried in Police Court from December 1, 1901, to December 1, 1902, was 5,906, 204 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. and the total amount of fines collected during that period was $6,242.95. In the year 1901 only |5,294 was collected from the fines imposed, and in the 3'ear 1902 there was a net gain of $948.95. Only three cases were certioraried from the Police Court to the Superior Court during last year, the most important of these was that involving the question as to whether the space of ground on Bay street, commonly known as "Emmet Park," was in reality a park. The decision of the Police Court that this space was a park is now under consideration in the Superior Court. The Chief of Police recently detailed a special officer for the Court. The Court Sergeant has been of great assistance to the Court and his services should be continued. The efficient service of Clerk of Council Bailey has been the means of the quick dispatch of the heavy work of the Court. It has been brought to my attention that the police of the city are greatly hampered in making arrests by having large crowds of people, prompted by curiosity, congregate about the Gamewell boxes. Such crowds have been frequently the cause of serious trouble, and I respectfully recommend that an ordi nance be passed making it unlawful for any person or persons to stand around the boxes while arrests are being made. There is need of an ordinance, in my opinion, making it unlawful for persons to appear on the street for immoral purposes. A charge of disorderly conduct will not, in every case, serve the purpose. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 205 It has of late become apparent that the Police Court has no authority to punish parties for selling whisky without a license from the city, and has no authority to punish for selling whisky on Sunday. I respectfully suggest that laws be passed conferring the necessary authority to punish these offenses. The power of the Police Court to punish for contempt of its lawful authority is at present very limited and should be extended by appropriate legislation. I further respectfully suggest that the Police Court room in the Barracks be overhauled, painted and thus be given a neater appearance. Respectfully submitted, SHELBY MYRICK, Recorder of Police Court of the City of Savannah. Report from the Fine Docket of Police Court, Showing the Mumber of Cases Tried, the Aggregate Amount of Flues Imposed, and the Aggregate Amount of Fines Collected from December 1,19O1, to December 1,19O2. MONTHS. YEAB. CASES FINES FINES TBIED. IMPOSED. COLLECTED December...... 1901 434 $1,779 $ 660 00 January ........1902 317 1,247 30100 February ......1902 321 1,055 297 CO March 1........1092 343 1,240 372 50 April............1902 397 1,373 448 00 May..............1902 334 1,284 398 00 June ............1092 369 1,421 372 00 206 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. July..............1902 483 1,708 697 95 August i ..........1902 447 1,226 425 50 September...... 1902 524 1,868 784 00 October.........l902 391 1,267 50500 November......1902 ' 335 1,207 362 00 rp 4,695 $16,675 $5,622 95 Total number of cases tried on fine docket 4,695 Total amount of fines imposed on fine docket............................................$16,675 00 Total amount of fines collected on fine docket.................................... .......$ 5,62295 Total number of cases tried on the information docket................................. 1,211 Total amount of fines collected on the information docket......... ....................$ 62000 Total number of cases tried in Police Court 5,906 Total amount of fines collected in Police Court.............................................$ 6,242 95 Total amount of fines collected in Police Court in 1901 for the year ending Dec. 1,1901................. ..........................$ 5,29400 Excess of fines collected in 1902 over fines collected in 1901..............................$ 94895 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 207 Report Showing the Nature and the Number of Cases on the Information Docket of the Police Court Which Were Tried and Disposed from December 1, 19O1, to December 1, 19O2, and the Amount of Fines Collected from Such Cases. NATURE OP CASE. NO. OP CASES. Concealing contagious disease........................ 1 Unsanitary condition of premises.................... 37 Removing cases of scarlet fever without permission....................................................... 2 Selling unwholesome meat............................. 1 Refusing to be vaccinated............................. 1 Throwing garbage in vacant lot..................... 1 Throwing paper in the street.......................... 1 Throwing melon rhinds in the street............... 1 Blocking street crossing with railroad train...... 2 Obstructing sidewalk................................... 1 Breaking limbs off trees in parks and squares... 5 Playing ball in parks and squares.................. 2 Walking across grass plats............................. 1 Vicious dogs running at large........................ 14 Cows, horses and goats running at large........... 40 Defacing property....................................... 4 Firing a gun on the street............................ 3 Cruelly beating children.............................. 1 Cruelty to animals....................................... 1 Refusing to have chimneys swept.................... 1 Soliciting trade on sidewalk.......................... 1 Failing to make connections with new sewerage system................................................... 1 Throwing trash into the new sewerage system.. 10 Failure to have spark arrester on smokestack... 1 208 MAYOn S ANNUAL REPORT. Turning up soil of public domain without permission .................................................. 4 Contempt of court....................................... 1 Allowing waterto waste................................ 10 Putting up awnings in front of place of business contrary to ordinance............................... 1 Violating hack ordinance.............................. 23 Violating plumbing ordinance........................ 11 Selling liquor and doing other business without license................................................... 81 Failure to take out wagon badges................... 4 Keeping barroom open on Sunday................... 1 Keeping place of business open on Sunday........ 2 Pawnbrokers opening places of business before 7 a. m...................................................... 2 Pawnbrokers not making proper returns to Chief of Police ................................. .............. 1 Throwing rocks and shooting sling shots in the streets................................................... 39 Shooting firecrackers in the street.................. 1 Interfering with an officer in discharge of duty., 9 Leaving wagons and other obstructions in the street without proper light.......................... 15 Driving across Emmet Park with wagons........ 10 Fast, careless and reckless driving with vehicles and bicycles in the street......... ................. 5 Riding bicycles on the sidewalk and riding bicycles without a light................................... 85 Disorderly conduct...................................... 60 Keeping a disorderly house...................... .... 3 Failure to take out dog badges....................... 709 Total number of cases.............................1211 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 209 Revenue from Information Docket. MONTHS. YEAR. FINES COLLECTED. December...... 1901. ..................................$ January........1902.......................... ........ 3300 February ......1902................................... 1900 March .........1902................................... 5100 April ...........1902.. ........... .................... 14500 May ............1902. ......:.......................... 5000 June............1902................................... 16 00 July ........... 1902................................... 14900 August.........1902................................... 26 00 September.....1902..................................." 31 00 October .... ...1902................................... 3000 November..... 1902.. ................................ 7000 Total.............................................$620 00 Statement showing the various State offences turned over to higher Courts from the Police Court during the year 1902. City Court. Simple larceny.......................... .................. 169 Attempt at simple larceny............................. 6 Larceny from the person of property under the value of'$50............................................ 44 Larceny from the house of property under the value of $50............................................ 240 Cheating and swindling................ ............... 20 Carrying concealed weapons.......................... 56 Pointing a pistol at another........................... 8 Selling liquor without alicense.............. ........ 1 210 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Fornication ......... ..................................... 2 Vagrancy .................................................. 126 Assault and battery ................. .................. 8 Breaking and entering R. R. car with intent to steal...................................................... 4 Aiding seamen todesert................................ 1 Carrying on a policy lottery.... ..................... 2 Stabbing not in his own defense..................... 24 Shooting at another not in his own defense...... 1 Stealing a ride on a railroad train.................. 16 Concealing a case of small-pox in an incorporated city................................................ 7 Escape....................................................... 10 Cruelty to animals....................................... 2 Keeping a lewd house ................................. 7 Attempt to cheat and swindle........ .............. 3 Retailing whisky without a license.......... ...... 1 Gambling.................................................. 26 Receiving stolen goods................................. 3 Using horse without owner's consent............... 6 Malicious mischief .................................... . 3 Running a game of chance ........................ . 1 Carrying a pistol at election ground ............... 1 Attempting to steal cash drawer.................... 1 Selling personal property under conditional purchase................... ................................. 2 Entering dwelling house with intent to steal..... 2 Entering and stealing from a railroad car........ 1 Total.................................................. 804 CityCourt.. ............................... ............... 804 Superior Court.................................. ......... 154 Total.................................................. 958 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 211 Superior Court. Writing a forged order for goods.................... 4 Burglary. ................................................. 50 Attempt to commit a burglary....................... 1 Attempt to burn a dwelling house in a city...... 1 Assault with intent to murder..... ................. 29 Robbery by force.............. .............. ........... 14 Larceny after trust...................................... 18 Attempt to burn a dwelling house not in city limits..................................................... 1 Bigamy............................................... ..... 1 Obtaining money under false pretenses.............. 1 Attempt to commit a burglary...................... 1 Assault with intent to rob............................. 1 Breaking and entering store house and stealing therefrom ............................................... 2 Attempt to break a store house with intent to steal...................................................... 2 Entering a shop with intent to steal............... 4 Murder ................. ................................... 6 Attempt to burglarize................................... 1 Rape........................................................ 3 Forgery..................................................... 2 Assault with intent to commit rape................. 3 Uttering a receipt with intent to defraud......... 1 Attempting to obtain goods on false writing..... 1 Sodomy..................................................... 2 Beastiality ................................... ............ 1 Passing a forged check ............................... 1 Obtaining goods on false writing ................... 1 Forging a bank check................................ 2 Total................... .............................. 154 REPORTS OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, 214 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL. SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor: Dear SirI beg to submit herewith the annual report of St. Joseph's Hospital for the year 1902. Report of the city and county patients treated, nursed, fed, supplied with medicines, stimulants, operation outfits, surgical dressings, bedding, laundry, etc., from January 1 to December 31, 1902. Summary of itemized reports submitted each month to Dr. W. F. Brunner, Health Officer: 190^. January........................................ ...... February ......................... ..... . ........... March.................................................. April................. .................................. May.............................. ........... ......... June.................................................... July................................. .................. August. ............................................... Gfontjwi i in|. October................................................ November .......................... ................ December............ ........................ ......... Total................................................ Treated 10 43 37 ' 9 23 39 43 56 59 66 51 48 534 Discharged 13 17 18 14 11 17 20 29 26 38 29 26 258 8 P 4 1 4 2 0 0 3 O 5 2 2 2 27 REMAINING 23 on February 1st, 1902 25 on March 1st, 1902 15 on April 1st, 1902. 13 on May 1st, 1902. 12 on June 1st, 1902. 22 on July 1st, 1902. 20 on August 1st, 1902. 25 OH September lst,1002 28 on October 1st, 1902 26 on November 1st, 1902 20 on December 1st, 1902 20 on January 1st, 1903 a > a 630 685 576 515 376 687 697 608 841 917 728 714 20 on January Isf, 1903J8124 Average Days 16} 16 16* 17* 16| 181 16 141 Hi 13 Hi H| IS* ( 'O'ST FKB CAPITA, PER DIEM. APPROPRIATIONS. & 5 ClH. 39& 36} 4i 48| 66} 39 . 36J 30i 29| 27} 34J 35 39 > c 1 CIS. 26J 24t 28* 32} 4eents Appropriation from city and county would average, per charity patient, per diem-.^e^cents Receipts. Appropriation from city........................$4,200 00 Appropriation from county..................... 2,000 00 From pay patients....................;............ 833 84 226 MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. Dividend Reppard Iron Co..................... 80 00 Interest from investment........................ 150 00 Donation from Savannah Benevolent Assn. 150 00 Donation from Mr. L. Adler......... .......... 6087 $7,474 71 Expenditures. Salaries, including nurses and help..................................$3,100 61 Provisions ........................... 2,61415 Household supplies................. 783 90 Drugs and surgical supplies..... 521 15 Undertakers' accou nt.............. 294 00 Coal and wood....................... 286 00 Repairs, plumbing and painting 198 91 Interest.................... ........... 47 90 Telephone................... ......... ^5 00 Insurance...... ...................... 1900 Laundrv.............................. 12 33 $7,902 95 Deficit for 1901..................... 39 23$7,942 18 Jan. 1, 1903, deficit..........................* 467 47 In addition to the above appropriation, the city donated to the Infirmary the amount of the city taxes for 1901$173.55. Respectfully submitted, CHAS. M. GILBERT, President. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 22T REPORT OP GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Colonel George A. Mercer, President of the Society, read his annual report. "It has heen declared that the happiest people and communities are those who have no history. I question whether it would he safe to assert that the Georgia Historical Society, in its present condition of indebtedness and unrest, is happy, but certain it is that during its year just ended it has had no history. A comparison with its statistics for 1901 will exhibit very few changes or fluctuations for 1902, and will show that it has continued to plod along at the same even gait, with a tendency to look backward rather than forward, and evincing, in some respects, what Falstaff described as a kind of alacrity in sinking. "At the annual meeting last year we had a membership of 461, after dropping from our roll at the January meeting, 1901, 129 civilly dead and useless members. Our membership at this date is 483, which exceeds by 22 that for 1902. We had collected in dues for the preceding fiscal year $1,633.75, leaving a deficiency for the year of $595. For the present year, with 22 additional members, we have collected only $1,644.28, when we should have collected $2,415, leaving a deficit of $770.72, exceeding i hat of the preceding year by $175.72, and showing that 140, or nearly one-third of our total membership have failed to contribute to our support. "One of the chief satisfactions to me, personally contemplated in our change of status, will be the 228 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. elimination of these useless members. It would require a corps of collectors equaling them in number to extract any assistance from them. A few might succumb to importunity; none will yield to obligation. "To tabulate the amounts unpaid for preceding years might be brimful of pathos, but would certainly not prove either edifying or encouraging. "The actual expenses of the society amounted to $1,852.17, exceeding by $207.89 the actual receipts, adding to the indebtedness which burdened the society at the close of 1901, and increasing it at the present date to $1,100, with no visible assets for liquidation. "In view of these figures, I think it may now be safely asserted that the support of a library in Savannan by popular subscription is a demonstrated failure. "The very smallest annual amount that will maintain the society, even within its present circumscribed circle, is $2,150, and it becomes plainly apparentthat some radical departure must be made and some better system of support attempted. "Our library now contains 23,887 volumes, an increase of 290 since the last annual report, which, considering our very restricted resources, is a gratifying addition. We also have a large number of pamphlets, some of them rare and of great value. "There were 17,248 visitors to the library during the year, being an average of 1,437 each month, and 48 each day, and exceeding by 356 the number for the preceding year. The percentage of reading matter called for, estimated by a standard of 100, as compared with the preceding year, was as follows: MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 228 1901. 1902. Fiction .................:................. ........78.85 . 78.77 Periodicals ..................... ................ 7.30 7.77 History ....... ...................... ...... . ..... 3.72 2.87 Memoirs ........ .'.............. ............. .'... 3.03 2.69 Travels ........ ....... ............................... 1.79 1.86 Literature ....... ....... .............. ........ 1.79 1.53 Science.. .......................................... 1.36 2.05 Religion......... ................................... .94 .82 Poetry.............................................. .76 .86 Drama....... .................................... .. .31 .31 Art.............. .................................... .15 47 "Showing a remarkable unanimity of taste, fiction having the decided preference as heretofore, with a slight falling off in history and memoirs, a perceptible increase in science, and a triple interest in art, which is doubtless attributable to the growing influence of our art adjunct. "The new picture, La Parabola, and the Sphinx, the first of the series of fine panel pictures being painted by Director Brandt, and referred to in my last annual report, were exhibited on Feb. 20 last to a large and very appreciative audience. The weather outside was particularly gloomy and repellant, and the very large number of visitors who attended the opening, particularly of ladies, our main artistic support in Savannah, was very gratifying to the officers of the society, and very encouraging to all lovers of art in our city. As full accounts of this gathering were published by the daily press, and a complete description of the pictures were furnished in the interesting report of Director Brandt, now part of our records, 230 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. any repetition by the President would seem superfluous. He can only indulge the hope that our success will result in an opening for the new pictures, now nearly ready for exhibition, which will afford as much refined enjoyment to the cultured people of Savannah as that which graced the year just ended. "Important repairs, including the painting of the outer surface, are now being made to the Telfair Academy building, under the supervision of Director Brandt, who will furnish full details on completion. These will add greatly to the stability and appearance of the academy. "As the society is well aware, efforts have been made for many years past to improve our pecuniary condition and to enlarge and liberalize our library and multiply its use and facilities. But the continuing condition of the res angusta domi has paralyzed all such efforts and rendered them futile. It was hoped that some practical result might issue from the tender of Mr. Carnegie towards the establishment of a free and popular library in Savannah, but the effort failed of accomplishment. Realizing the great need of our city in this direction, at the last annual meeting a special committee was appointed to investigate and, if possible, to formulate some hopeful method of enlargement. This committee, through one of its most active and useful members, will be ready to-night to report a plan which, if accepted I and adopted by the society, will, I believe, with the liberal aid of the municipal government, so enlarge and fortify the library feature of our body as to accomplish the wise and useful purpose of its col lection, MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 231 will enable the society to prosecute liberally the broader work contemplated by its charter and will elevate it to a posture of usefulness and endeavor which will render membership a privilege and honor that will incite and attract the broad and liberalminded of our State. "I will not anticipate the reports of the several committees appointed by the suggestion of details. These have been carefully considered, and, if the larger plan to be counseled meets with the concurrence of the society, minor matters can be readily adjusted. If the members of the society freely coincide with the formulated plans of its committees and lend their best endeavors and support, we will begin to-night a new march of progress, and will cease marking time, and our city will feel in every fibre a new intellectual impulse and an added impetus and incentive to study and culture. "I repeat that the adequate support of a library in Savannah by popular subscription has become a demonstrated failure. Any ordinary enlargement or diminution of the current dues, as was in several shapes suggested at the last annual meeting, would, I believe, only retain the same relative proportion of defaulters, and result in the same failure. A library, and certainly a free library, can be maintained only by a lesser number of citizens, with a generous municipal backing, who have sufficient influence and character in the community to realize that their business standing and their reputation may be adversely affected by a failure to fulfill their contracts, who, when they promise, mean to keep their word, 232 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. and who are both able and insistent to comply with every engagement. "Any report for the Georgia Historical Society would be very incomplete which made no reference to the uses and broadening influence of the art adjunct, which, many believe, to exhibit the sunny side of our institution. "I feel very much encouraged at the evidences I see on every hand of the -growing influence of our art gallery and its treasures. The general love of pictures, the increasing portrayal of taste and adornment in our city indicate broadening artistic appreciation. A theatrical company now would hardly find patrons if its advent was not heralded by colored exhibitions of its scenes and its characters Often, perhaps generally crude, with no evidence of the work of the artistic file, but pleasing and captivating to the untutored eye. It has become customary with almost every large corporation, or prominent business establishment, to procure and issue to its patrons and friends tasteful Christmas calendars, and if only an unembellished list of statements or tabulated figures were sent, the recipient would scarcely feel called upon to acknowledge the gift with thanks, or to exhibit it with applause. All these arc evidences of a growing love for art and beauty as surely as the budding flowers are harbingers of the spring. As the seeking and discerning eye looks around in Savannah and is gratified and encouraged by many visible signs of improving taste and cultureby the more graceful construction and artistic adornment of dwellings, by the enlarging area of gardens and MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 233 greater culture of flowers, and by the many similar illustrations of growing taste and refinementmay not the hope, and even a modicum of assurance, be indulged that some of them at least have had their birthplace and found their impulse in the culturing adjunct of our societyour beautiful art academy? "Art does not flourish like the fairy bean stalk; it does not rush to its altitude at night; it is of slow and cultured growth; it rather resembles the century planf/which will not show a bud for many a lustrum, but when the century plant of art does begin to flower its bloom becomes perennial. "The question has been propounded to me : By what authority does the city make beautiful the parks and squares? Why is not this surplus given to the poor? Poor, indeed, are they who cannot realize and enjoy such uses ; but they aresuch poor as I trust we shall not have always with us. There are too many, alas, who, while affluent in this world's goods, are sick at heart, afflicted with poverty of spirits and needing cheer and illumination. These are often they to whom flowers and beautiful things offer the best, if not the sole, palliative and refreshment. A thing of beauty, which the poet declares to be a joy forever, is sometimes the only savor for a sick soul, and 'cleans the bosom of that perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.' "The query that Macbeth so futilely put to the doctor, 'Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?' will not infrequently flnd its only solution in the soft influence of beauty and in the illusions of art. For to the genuine lover of art and beauty the sun will 234 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. no longer wear a veil, but will shine with a more nourishing warmth and a more lustrous glow. The true artistic temper will be often able to paint the lily and throw a perfume on the violet. "While the mind will not diminish its -bulk or its vigor it will acquire finer qualities. It may not be able to hew the steel bar with the brute power of Richard, but it will split the gossamer veil with the keen scimitar of Saladin. The world will show itself in a new face. The rough places are smoothed and many of the thorns unspiked. We come in touch with the finer nerves of earthly symmetry and beauty. Nature greets us with a sunnier smile, finds us by a tenderer touch, and holds us in an ampler hand. Its angles will circle into beauteous forms. Its sharp points will dull their wounding edges. Many of its crowns of thorns will break into beautiful bloom. The scales will fall from many eyes which could not anticipate the coming light any more than the colorless grub in its darkened cell can forecast the radiant glow of the transfigured butterfly. "To secure some of these happy results for a community, what generous citizen would refuse to make some sacrifice? Savannah supports liberally institutions which confer personal enjoyment and gratification, but for those whose influence extends outward, and are chiefly altruistic in their tendencies, she has not been affluent in her aid. The Savannah I Golf Club, with annual dues of $10, enjoyed a membership on November 1, 1901, of 178. The dues were then doubled. This led to 28 resignations and to the addition of 38 new members, a net gain of 10, MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 235 and, with a present membership of 195, cheerfully paying annual dues of $20 each, the club enjoys an income of $3 900, which would liberally maintain the Georgia Historical Society upon its present basis. "The Savannah Yacht Club, with an initiation fee of $30 deposited with the application for admission and $10 annual dues, has a present membership of 552, who, with the same contribution, could support the Georgia Historical Society upon a most liberal and helpful basis. Even now the Yacht Club ia considering the wisdom of raising the dues to $15, and no one can doubt the retention of most of its members at this increased expense. "I mention these facts simply in illustration and not by way of condemnation. Both these societies are affording their members much innocent and healthful enjoyment; and the Golf Club is encouraging and cultivating among our young women a taste for vigorous, outdoor amusement and for strengthening physical exercise, which I often think is more needed in Savannah than even increased mental power and aptitude. And yet as a practical illustration of the selfish tendencies of even the most liberal and generous of our citizens, I venture the assertion that if an appeal were made to every member who was unable to subscribe to both, to transfer his or her contribution to the Georgia Historical Society and help it to encourage and secure in Savannah higher intellectual ardor and aims and a more universal and broader culture, to relinquish a domain of personal enjoyment, however acute, and visit a soberer scene of unselfish endeavor and effort for others, that not a single concession would be made. 236 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. "For the rehabilitation and betterment of our venerable and largely altruistic institution upon plans to be formulated to-night, no member can experience a more earnest desire than your present Chairman. "I have filled the office of President to the best of my poor ability, with a single desire to see this society raised to a plane of the highest utility, so that it may worthily accomplish the great purpose of its founders and may become the largest factor in the enlightenment and ampler culture of our city. But I am obliged to admit that I have heretofore been able to approach this consummation with very indifferent success. For I must sadly confess that I am now lamentably lacking in the one producing power which seems alone capable of securing in Savannah any great resultand by the side of which intelligence, accomplishment or character soon sink into helpless decrepitudethe pratical poteniality of pelf. "If, therefore, the members of this society can discover one who, better than myself, may be able to place and maintain it upon this elevated platform, I trust that they will not hesitate to put him in my place. I shall yield a ready and cheerful concurrence, and I will not abate my earnest interest in, nor my deep solicitude for, every effort to accomplish the highest possible aims for the society. *'I trust its future may exhibit the noble constancy of purpose, so eloquently voiced by Othello, and that, I like his fine simile of the Pontic sea, its current and compulsive course ne'er feel retiring ebb, but keep due on. "GEORGE A. MERCER. "President." MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 237 Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten System of Savannah.. SAVANNAH, GA., Jan. 1, 1903. Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor. Dear Sir: The fourth school year of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten System began Oct. 1st, 1902, with five Kindergartens, four free to the public. They are located as follows: KINDERGARTEN LOCATION Yamacraw .................Indian and Ann streets Day Nursery..............Henry st. near W. Broad Philbrick .........;........8 Jones st., east Chatham ..................Chatham Academy Trinity .....................Trinity M. E. Church Hall Primary Grade at Philbrick............8 Jones st., east The comparative record of growth for the four years is: 1899 1900 1901 1902 Kindergartens................. 1355 Kindergartners ............... 1389 Students in training school 7 17 21 21 Average of children in N daily attendance........... 56 148 263 302 Following is the staff of teachers of the Training School: 238 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Supervision of Kindergartens and TheoryMartha G. Waring. Chairman of Executive CommitteeJessie Anderson. Manual TrainingOphelia D. Pritchard; Belle Daniel, Assistant; Clara B. Vaughan, Assistant; Cassie Rembert, Assistant. Rhythm and Musical TrainingClaribel Spring. Blackboard Sketching, Design and Art Work Phoebe H. Elliott. Secretary to Supervisor and LibrarianElisabeth C. M. Watt. Physical TrainingSara Charlton. LiteratureAnnie J. Backus. Voice TrainingLily Selig. The students of the system come from Savannah, Pineora, Griffin, Tifton, Jacksonville, Fla., and Detroit, Mich. All of the graduates of the system have had positions offered to them, and most of them are at work in other cities. We were unable to fill three situations at good salaries for lack of a sufficient number of graduates, showing that the demand for good kindergartners is increasing and that the character of the training in this school is appreciated in this and neighboring states. We have applications now in hand for the services of some of our graduates of next spring. The positions filled are as follows: Anna H. Pritchard, Private Kindergarten on Whitaker and 35th streets; 23 pupils. She is also the Director of the Kindergarten Department of St. John's Sunday School. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 230 Margaret V. Converse. Kindergarten and Primary Work at New Brookland, near Columbia, S. C. Minnie A. Decker, Private Kindergarten in Hot Springs, N. C., connected with the Presbyterian Church. Marion A. Boggs and Carolyn S. Bailey, Co-Principals of the Free Kindergarten of Jacksonville, Fla., 50 children and one assistant. The changes in the Kindergartens of the system are as follows : Philbrick Kindergarten: A primary grade has been added to this Kindergarten designed for the children who have finished the Kindergarten and who wish to continue under the same general system of education. This grade is under the charge of Miss Cassie Rembert, who has made a special study of this work under Miss Laura Runyon of Chicago, Head-teacher of the Elementary School of Dr. John Dewey of that place. The roll-call of the Philbrick Kindergarten and Primary grade is 30, showing a steady increase over every previous year. Principal Phoebe H. Elliott. The Trinity Kindergarten is now entirely under the financial management of Trinity M. E. Church. This Kindergarten is educationally a part of the system but is otherwise an independent institution. It numbers 100 children, 7 assistants and 1 principal, Claribel Spring. The Mothers' Clubs of Trinity and Chatham number 60, and are most progressive and earnest in their work. 240 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. The Day Nursery Kindergarten has entirely outgrown its present quarters, and a new and ample house for it will be completed April 1st on the corner of Montgomery and 31st streets. The house and lot are owned by the Kindergarten, thanks to the help given by the city and by many voluntary outside contributors. It will be built and equipped in the most approved modern style in every particular and will be a model Kindergarten building, accommodating easily from 75 to 100 children. It is set in the center of a large lot, which will be used and kept for a playground and park, thus benefiting the entire neighborhood. Jessie Anderson, Principal. Yamacraw Kindergarten : This Kindergarten is the next to which the Board of Managers will turn its attention, hoping soon to provide it with suitable and permanent quarters. This section of the city is totally unprovided with any sort of park, square, or public play-ground, and many of the streets are dangerous because of car tracks and heavy trucks. In spite of the drawbacks of its present situation, this Kindergarten continues to do good work where it is very badly needed. Clara Bliss Vaughan, Principal. Chatham Kindergarten has a waiting list of many children and is as full as it is thought expedient to have it. This Kindergarten is centrally located, and its connection with the public school makes it in great demand. It is the only Kindergarten that reaches the population of the eastern side of the city and another Kindergarten there is much needed. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 241 The Mothers' meetings and clubs are regularly held and well attended. Basket weaving has been given in most of them, and it is an industry that appeals to all. Two basket sales have been held at Trinity Hall, netting about f90.00. These meetings are also attended by the undergraduates, who learn by experience how to conduct and manage this part of the work. Last June an exhibit of students' and children's woik was sent by request of the Exposition Committee to the Charleston Educational Department of the Exposition. It was uniform in size and kind with others from all parts of the United States, and was awarded the Gold Medal and First Prize, the second being given to the Training Institute of Chicago, 111. The Kindergarten system is no longer an experiment in Savannah, but has proved that it does thoroughly the work it undertakes, viz : educates young children below the school age, betters social conditions; ameliorates snffering and want in the homes ; trains a body of teachers for any branch of this work, and fits them thoroughly to fill positions of importance educationally and finally helps to raise the standard of education among young women everywhere. Respectfully submitted, MARTHA G. WARING, Supervisor. GEO. J. BALDWIN, President. 242 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. PUBLIC SCHOOLS OP SAVANNAH. Superintendent's Report for Tear Ending Jane 30th, 1902. To the Board of Education : GentlemenI have the honor to present herewith the Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Public Schools of the City of Savannah and the County of Chatham. The school year just closed has been one of substantial progress, and the educational outlook is encouraging. The total enrollment for the whole county, was 9,073a gain of 309 over that of the year preceding, nearly all of this increase being in the city white schools. The enlargement of Chatham Academy and the opening of the Thirty-eighth Street School relieved the great pressure under which the schools had been operated for two or three years, and the conditions for good school work were much improved. Ten new .teachers were added to the list, making in all 190 for the county. The usual statistical statement in tabular form appended to this report shows in detail all the important statistical facts concerning each school, and your attention is respectfully called to it. A careful stud\r of this table shows several facts of interest. A steady growth of the city's population southward is clearly indicated. A few years ago there was no school in the city south of Gaston street, the Massie and the Barnard street schools accommodating the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 243 few pupils beyond that limit. There are now in the white schools of the cit}r more than 1,700 children living south of Gwinnett street. The enrollment in the colored schools is about stationary, not because of a lack of growth in the colored population, but because the limit of our present accommodation in these schools has been reached. School Buildings and Accommodation. The physical conditions of our schools are excellent, and, with a few exceptions, the general equipment is all that could be desired. The new school buildings recently erected are models of comfort and convenience, and they reflect much credit upon our city. Much wisdom, in my opinion, has been shown in erecting buildings of such substantial character that they will serve the purposes of the schools for a century with but little expense or change. The care and attention given to the adaptation of these buildings to the needs of the schools, to their architectural design and finish, and to their general equipment, will be more and more appreciated as the coining years develop the wisdom and foresight of those concerned in their planning and construction. The size of a school building in a city should be limited only to the efficient supervision of a first-class principal. It is evidently poor economy to erect a number of small school buildings instead of a few larger ones. The first cost is much greater for the smaller buildings, and the expense of operation is also much more. . The greater the number of classes in a building the greater the advantages of classification to meet the individual needs of the pupils. The Board, so 244 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. far, has exercised much wisdom and good judgment in selecting the sites of our new school buildings and in securing titles to the property sufficiently in advance of the increasing population of the city. At present we have sufficient school room for the white children of the city, but in another year or two the pressure will again be seriously felt. This pressure will probably be first felt at the Henry street school where the demand for school room has always been great. This demand can be met by adding to that building the wings which were originally provided for in the plans still in possession of the Board. A serious problem now confronts the Board in providing for the large number of colored children who are unable to find school accommodations at all. The building now rented by the Board for the Anderson street colored school must sooner or later be abandoned. The building itself is poorly cpnstructed, and badly arranged for school work. It is far from the center of the present greatest need, a circumstance which requires colored children in large numbers to pass across the city twice daily, often to the annoyance of citizens. The present demands for another colored school seems to indicate that it should be located in the southwestern portion of the city. Healing and Ventilation. Our new school buildings are heated by steam, and the results are usually very satisfactory, except that in very cold, windy weather some of the rooms are at times uncomfortable. Much of this trouble could be remedied by having the pipes leading from the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 245 furnaces wrapped with some non-conducting material. A considerable saving in fuel could also be made. I recommend that this matter be considered before cold weather begins. As no means for artificial ventilation is provided in any of our school buildings much attention has to be given to secure the proper ventilation by means of the doors and windows. The teachers are instructed how to do this, and every precaution is taken to maintain the best hygienic conditions possible in the class-rooms. Fortunately our climate is such that the doors and windows can be kept open much of the time even in winter. Health and Sanitation. The records show that there has been but little sickness in the schools during the past year. The sanitary conditions of the schools are excellent, and these conditions are strictly maintained by close and constant supervision. All cases of contagious diseases are closely guarded through the co-operation of the City Health Department. The rules of the Board concerning vaccination have been strictly enforced. I have been materially aided in this matter through the courtesies of Dr. Brunner, our efficient Health Officer, and by the County Commissioners, who have co-operated with me to enforce the regulations in the country schools. Teacbers. There has been a constant effort made to increase the efficiency of the teaching force. Regular meetings of the Normal Class have been held every Friday, and such courses of study pursued as were deemed 246 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. best suited to ihe needs of the teachers. Owing to the large number of new teachers in the lower grades the primary work of the schools received much attention. It gives me much pleasure to state that our teachers are earnest and faithful in the discharge of their duties, and, with but few exceptions, they are doing satisfactory work. The very nature of good teaching demands earnestness, enthusiasm and a freshness that comes only from recent contact with the best educational thought of the age. Our teachers have exceptionally good facilities for constant improvement. An excellent professional library, containing all of the best books on education and nearly all of the educational periodicals published in this country, is sustained by the teachers themselves. The use of the library is governed by regular library rules, by which teachers are offered every facility for reading and study. The work of supervision by the principals differs considerably in the different schools. This supervisory work by the principals is of very great importance and every facility should be afforded for its proper execution. Young and inexperienced teachers need constant guidance, and the entire work of the school needs the watchful care of the principal. It is fortunate for the school if the principal has an assistant who can permit him to give a considerable portion of his time to the supervisory work of the school. A special effort will be made during the coming year to improve, if possible, this very important feature of our school work. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 247 School Libraries. During the past year a very commendable effort has been made by the principals and teachers to establish in each school a library of good books for the free use of the children. When we consider that our city has no free public library and that bat few children have good reading facilities at home the value of a school library becomes very significant. The formation of the habit of reading good books in youth is of itself a good education. The school should be the literary centre for the children of a community, and the school authorities should give'substantial encouragement to the school libraries. "It is nearly an axiom," says Dr. Potter> "that people will not be better than the books they read." -If children can have access to a good library of well selected books they will escape the evil effects of the trashy and vicious literature which too often falls into the hands of the young. I wish to commend this library movement to the favorable consideration of the Board to this extent at least, that suitable shelves be provided for the care of books which the teachers and the pupils collect for their respective schools. Country Schools. During the year there have been maintained in the country thirteen schools for whites, with an enrollment of 667, and twenty-seven schools for blacks, with an enrollment of 1,657. The increase in the enrollment in these schools has been slight, but the attendance has somewhat improved. One of the most important factors operating against the efficiency of 248 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. these schools is the irregular attendance of the pupils. It is extremely difficult to impress upon the patrons of these schools the importance of keeping their children in school regularly. Mr. Ferguson, ray assistant, makes frequent visits to these schools, and keeps me posted on their condition. As often as practicable I visit them myself and endeavor to improve them in every way possible. IN On April 26th, our schools were deeply saddened at the death of Mr. J. E. Way, the esteemed Principal of Massie School. For thirty-five years Mr. Way was engaged in the public schools of this city, and during this long period the beneficent influence of his beautiful life impressed itself upon hundreds of boys and girls who were his pupils. He was much beloved by his pupils, and he was most highly respected by his fellow-teachers. His death was a great loss to our schools, but the example of his noble life and character will ever be an inspiration to those of us whose lives are devoted to the education of the young. MAYOR'S ANNUAL, BBPOBT. 240 In conclusion I will state that the educational outlook for our city and county is encouraging. The history of your body is marked by unselfish devotion to the best interests of Savannah. The absence from your deliberations of those political influences which are so disastrous to the schools in many other cities is a matter of congratulation. The present, indeed, has its problems, but let us hope to meet them in the wisest and best way. I desire to thank the Board for the aid and support rendered me in the discharge of the difficult duties of my office, and also the principals and teachers who have heartily co-operated with me in the important work of the schools. OTIS ASHMORE, Superintendent. Statistical Report of City Schools-19O1-19O3. SCHOOLS. High School .... ........ Anderson ..... ......... Barnard ................ Cathedral.. .............. Chatham No 1 ............ Chatham No. 2 ...... ..... Henry ................. Massle ................ St.. Patrick's . ............. Thirty-eighth Street School ...... Total White. .......... Anderson (Colored).. .......... Duffy Street (Colored) ......... East Broad (Colored) ......... West Broad (Colored). ......... Total Colored .......... Grand Total City ........ No. Tetoheri. i 6 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 IS 2 0 2 1 5 18 1 3 12 8 8 10 10 12 9 12 9 93 6 2 18 14 _35 128 ? 8 18 9 9 11 11 12 10 13 10 106 8 2 15 15 40 146 No. Pupils Enrolled. I 106 286 166 197 232 240 218 203 279 219 2186 174 81 328 301 884 3020 to 186 289 186 167 265 261 292 190 256 213 2304 321 96 505 503 1425 3729 ! 292 675 341 364 497 601 510 396 535 432 4440 495 177 833 804 2309 6749 Average No. Belonging. 1 96 241 139 184 201 198 192 185 246 188 1870 143 70 286 269 758 2628 1 168 267 160 156 230 237 255 170 224 190 2044 270 85 456 456 1267 sin | 261 498 299 340 481 435 447 855 470 878 3914 413 155 742 715 2025 5939 Average Daily Attendance. 1 83 219 128 171 186 180 173 16 227 166 1699 127 64 270 239 700 2399 to 169 234 145 141 211 216 226 154 203 166 1855 240 78 427 422 lieso^ ! 242 453 273 312 397 896 899 820 430 332 3554 867 142 697 661 1867 5421 *l si *I r 94 91 91 92 92 91 89 90 92 80 91 86 9t 94 93 92 __ Ho. Deaths. 1 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 7 1 0 0 0 1 8 w to 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 o 0 2 2 4 I 0 2 1 2 1 0 3 0 0 0 9 1 0 0 2 _ 3 ~~T! STATISTICAL REPORT OF COUNTRY SCHOOLS (WHITE) 1901-1902. Bethel. . . . Bethesda... . Bloomlngdale Bona Bella . Isle of Hope. Monteith . . Montgomery Pooler .... 14 137 28 8 28 21 6 41 15 3 87 14 28 26 18 45 29 140 65 22 51 47 24 86 10 116 18 7 17 15 4 32 12 8 26 10 19 21 1235 22 119 44 17 36 38 16 67 6 112 11 6 15 11 8 28 9 2 17 9 16 16 11 SO 15 114 28 15 81 27 14 68 68 9H 64 88 86 75 88 87 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 o SS OB ta s Sooth Newington ......... Sprlnghill ............... Thunderbolt. ............. Tybee. ................. White Bluff ............. Total.. .............. STATISTICAL REPO1 Antioch ................ Beaulieu ................ Belmont ................ Cellege .................. Dlttmewville ............. Eaat Savannah ............ Flowerville .............. GroveHlll. .............. Isle of Hope .....'......... Monteith . ...... ....... Mount Zion .............. Nicholsonville ............. Pooler ................. Rloe Hope ............... Riverside ... ............ Rose Dim ............... Sackville.. . ............ . Skidaway. . ............... Tatemsville .............. Taylor's Chapel ............ Vallamb'rosa . ..... ....... West tiavaiinah ............ Wilmlngton ....;......... Wheathlll .............. White Bluff. ............. Woodstook .............. Woodville. .............. TotaL. . ............. Total of Country ........ Grand Total of Countv.. . . . . . 1 0 0 0 0 4 RTC 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 J ~j ~~27 0 1 1 1 1 13 )PC 11 0 0 1 1 1 ) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 22 85 ~m 1 1 1 1 1 17 !OU1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 27 ~44 190 34 23 27 18 13 393 ?TR 19) 16 23 36 82 39 33 35 14 38 39 20 20 27 36 33 28 18 21 26 45 87 15 80 29 25 48 781 1174 4194 20 10 30 14 14 274 YS< 17 30 19 87 43 38 30 19 26 87 47 20 30 28 84 83 22 20 25 88 46 47 21 45 34 41 49 876 US 4879 54 88 67 32 27 667 3HO 36 45 42 73 75 77 63 54 40 75 86 40 50 55 70 66 50 88 46 64 91 84 36 75 63 66 97 1657 2324 9078 22 16 17 12 10 295 OL8 17 13 22 26 29 29 SO 25 12 32 87 18 16 22 29 27 19 17 19 23 S5 25 14 27 20 21 44 648 948 8577 10 6 22 7 12 195 (CC 13 26 16 80 87 30 27 16 22 33 48 19 25 21 25 28 15 17 22 SO 85 34 17 . 43 26 87 89 726 921 4232 32 21 39 19 22 490 )LOJ 30 39 38 56 66 59 67 41 34 65 80 87 41 43 54 55 34 S4 41 63 70 59 81 '70 46 68 . 83 1374 1864 7808 12 9 14 9 5 241 RED 13 10 18 20 20 25 24 17 9 24 31 14 9 15 20 17 15 12 13 18 21 19 8 22 18 10 86 472 35 8112 4 4 17 6 7 148 ) 19C 7 21 14 24 17 26 19 10 18 26 32 16 14 13 18 18 12 11 16 22 22 2ft 11 34 16 20 82 611 "Si 8A81 16 13 31 15 12 389 )1-19 20 31 82 44 87 50 43 27 27 50 63 28 23 28 88 85 27 23 28 40 43 44 19 56 29 80 68 088 1872 6798 50 62 79 79 54 79 02. 67 79 81 79 66 85 74 66 79 77 79 76 66 65 70 64 79 68 68 76 61 76 61 80 63 52 82 72 74 87 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ~2 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ; o 0 0 , 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _ 1 ~~1 fi 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 0 0 0 ' 1 ZJ " 15 K o w OB > X X ?F 1 1 8 252 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. TREASURER'S REPORT PROM JANUARY I, I9O2, TO JANUARY \, 1903. RECEIPTS. Balance cash from 1901............................................. .....$ 1,721 20 Balance State appropriation 1901........ ............................. 17,500 66 Cash, State appropriation 1902.......................................... 23,901 90 Balance County appropriation 1902............ .. .................. 79,073 98 Cash advanced by Coanty account 1903............................ 13,000 00 High School fees............ ................................................ 3,857 50 S. W. R. R. dividends...................................................... 100 00 Call loans........................................................................ 13,600 OH EXPENDITURES. I ScrpputES Stationers-............................-....-...! 547 68 Fuel............................................. 1,141 67 House........................................... 246 04 School Furniture........................... 861 91 Printing....................................... 349 73 Miscellaneous................................ 449 97 | 3f296 90 SCHOOL HOUSES Repairs.................. .......................$ 2,349 94 Insurance...................................... 201 77 Rente........................................... 5,444 00 _f 7,996 71 Pay Rolls....................................... 111,741 89 CALX. LOANS Paid 1902, contracted 1901...............$17,500 00 Paid 1902,contracted 1902............... 3.000 00 20,600 00 Interest'.............,........................... 232 82 Cash balance carried to 1903........... 8,887 82 $152.655 14 $162,655 14 Respectfully submitted, JOHN R. F. TATTNALL, Treasurer. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. _>53 STATISTICS. I. POPULATION. (U. S. Census, 1900.) City of Savannah. ....................... ......... Country............................ .......... ....... White 26,109 t> QQ1 29,930 Colored 28,135 13,174 41,309 Total 54,244 16,995 71,239 If. SCHOOL POPULATION. (Census 18986 to 18 year*.) City of Savannah.. ................................ Country......................................... . .... White 6,532 959 6,491 . Colored 6,684 4,033 10.717 Total 12,216 4,992 17,20ft Foreign Exports From Savannah, Ga., During the Tear Ended December 31, 19O3. Cfouutry Austria-Hungary..... Argentine RepublicAzores. . ................... Belgium ........ ...... .... Brazil. China (French).. Cuba ... Cbili... Denmark........ ----- East Indies (Dutch). England .......... ...... - France Germany.. ............. Guiana (Dutch). Ireland...... ........... Italy .. - Japan...... ....... ........ Netherlands ....... Nova Scotia....... ..... Peru ...... ............ Portugal......-.. Porto Bico ........ Quebec. Russia .................. San Domingo ....... Scotland ...... ....... - Spain Sweden and Norway Uraguay ..... West Indies (Br.)..~ West Indies (Dutch Totals. 1902.. ' ............. .1901.. " ............. 1900.. " ....... ......1899.. 1 ............. .1898.. ' .............. 1897.. ........ 1896.. ' .............. 1895.. ' ..1894.. ' .............. 1893.. ' ...... 1392.. ' ....... ...... .1891.. ' ........ .....1890.. January $... 11,995 14,314 1,471,071 525,829 2,592,767 115,669 57,324 13,299 69,927 4,500 16,148 187,397 19,090 $ 5,099,332 3,757,192 4,319,773 3,141,804 3,020,500 2,709,709 1,360,085 2,484,074 3,662,165 2,373,899 1,618,106 3,492,777 3,249,444 February $ 3,944 90,514 24,892 734 538.259 176,280 1,847,191 246,251 7,777 198,594 171,365 77,987 5,026 $ 3,388,814 4,650,926 4,762.120 2,139,211 2,506,424 1,399,982 1,352,946 1,554,103 999,283 1,069,959 2,587,415 3,030868 2,206,202 March $ 12,854 8,440 16.704 402,626 571,188 6,947 86,119 5,024 187,218 9,486 3,820 42,000 f 1,352,405 2,720.851 6,203,264 957,138 2,247,860 1.608,049 1,942,083 1,292,602 1,262,792 1,117,796 1,167,248 2,004,608 1,621,869 April $ 8,954 29,123 7,577 453,034 1,086,116 50,581 2,340 70,852 276.298 67,037 6,218 $ 2,042,930 3,137,333 3,310,838 653,111 1,524,133 1,166,364 1,031,209 1,477,426 L307.212 803,992 752,365 1,226,996 811.181 May ?..____. 25,983 480,375 7,289 265,507 1,106,064 350,732 15,499 6,750 7,283 25,100 $ 2,290,672 2,629,638 1,366,804 877.702 890,857 1,090,874 1,449,343 835,746 1,189,1)87 847,273 834,225 958,872 501,335 June * 15 410 492.416 595,502 101,799 113,961 5,525 189,740 25,674 1 1,540 027 1,459,007 1,190,082 1,212,859 1,105,833 788,496 865,892 638,863 712,131 929,103 762,429 705,899 465,024 July $ 13,085 332,500 122,176 331,459- 105,388 2,862 3,875 28,418 99,110 $ 1,038,873 1,462,505 1.306,641 1,076,125 839,272 688,824 668,239 1,024,405 401,197 633,671 641,731 474,091 455,582 August $. ....... 8,390 517,848 192.312 45,072 66,342 11,131 17,946 6,450 $ 855,61 1 653,264 1,120,161 845,555 722,415 657,171 646,931 649,729 283,267 466,004 613,339 840,052 322,433 September f 65,886 321,610 600,028 404863 8,905,157 89,938 298,883 11,302 6,575 304,274 455,635 157,033 $ 6,620,984 2,676,5(!4 6,424,584 3,077,701 1,601,923 1,928,908 1,680,198 1,348,390 789,908 1,566,238 970,991 816,965 3,529,782 October t 60,752 30,844 54,315 10,431 4,300 78,625 1,447,158 569,606 3,364,997 392,999 161,607 2,399 55,593 386232 888,078 253,029 f 7,260,964 6,818,107 9,442,112 4,743,610 3,088,123 6164,491 2,721,958 4,496,246 8,894,571 4,889,436 3,820,117 4,410,403 6,165,418 November $ 66,600 112,189 5,209 155,000 2,345,2.53 356,972 2,986,442 209,76-5 263,177 76,254 403,491 28.477 270,442 130,582 f 7,409,853 7,442,998 6,631,579 4 397,041 6,101,507 6,142,515 6,101,477 8 337,539 3,596,128 4,941,933 4,994,804 7,253,087 4,766,822 December I 130,322 -7,121 69,003 21,016 9,345 2,789,839 426,705 8,269,249 248,919 48,594 43,213 576,595 189,732 773,756 152,190 15,331 756 $ 8,771,686 6,767,674 4,449,297 2,956,110 8,794,044 4,260,139 3,860,460 2,652,154 3,275,885 8,896,139 1,856,281 4,761,903 6,854,899 Totals, 1902 $ 372,807 66,737 7,121 1,489,529 105239 4,300 10,079 233,626 31,018 11,445,214 2,460,314 21,848,454 45,072 1,462,868 1,542,127 67,041 198,502 3,875 2,232,684 4,500 261,769 2,821,991 939,722 15,331 12,000 $47,671,951 44,166,069 49,530,2.5 26,077,862 26,342,891 26,405,522 22,680,811 21,690,283 21,374,516 23,535,503 20,419,051 29,476,491 30,949,991 rotate, 1901 ( 329,848 91,541 1,650,436 72,321 2,632 3,996 67,540 25,547 12,330,928 1,472,171 21,953,409 10,625 1,062,387 1,043,091 21,963 12,665 447,960 4,436 288,049 3,215,821 9,015 33,958 25,102 Totals Fotala, 1900 I 637,235 122,113 2,382,283 63,740 16,748 78,838 13,976,623 1,636,133 22,633,813 54,200 2,700,948 190,849 1,089,568 44,590 661,134 105,213 3,177,953 60,941 11,631 15,702 Country Austria-Hungary . -rgeiitine. .zores. lelgium. Brazil. Dhlna (French). Cuba. ?hi]i. )enmark. East Indies (Dutch). England. Trance. Germany. Juiana (Dutch), reland. taly. apan. Netherlands. ?ova Scotia, era. ortugal. ortoRico. Juebec. iussia. ten Domingo. Scotland. Spain. Sweden and Norway Jraguay. West Indies (Br.). West Indies (Dutch) Statement Of BXPOR TS and IMPORTS At the Port of SAVANNAH, GA., For the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1902, and for Previous Years. Also: BANK CLEARANCES At SAVANNAH, GA. For Eight Years. Compiled by THOMAS GAMBLE, JR., Secretary to the Mayor. 2S6 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOET. e I E; ** i * < I \ I t W 95 woo weoos* oecjiNs O t 09 fo ob 3 id < 9 Oio ;; ** A . < !-S :i s -a * O t CO - CO 1^ S Sbeoc ! S eg e e a 9 S > *- ; QO io ;' ^^ :.cS *'_ _. :eooo :co-^ o .a < "a ; c . 00 C5 cj? *O f* *O Si eoi e 5 e O I- S 1- O1 - C I Q 2 B * in OB | ' o : a ' SM .B illl s 9 -8S2, 1 to 3s 5 , 135; 5 c0aBCj5s, OO if. MAYOB'S ANNUAL KEPORT. 257 0 I I ee I Sf CDt I 0} >O I l- CO 00 C -^t so us ^-* 3 l a u? " rn t-eoc cotoc CCCJC fN e s i Ed t-J 3 nt-aooo f-* O *" 10 CO lejasoos e 8 I e a oni-i-osc, , _ ""SSSSSS is! S 5010 ^fCO I r~ i- ^< ri oo < oo a oo >o n- < II C>) rH 1O 00 C s CO CD *- 1C 1 I a. 09 258 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. t S3 o H "s00 Jtf C. S as s e at "3 >t- c rt 10 1- 1- -v m gj "~ -a 1-*-^ co~ 1*^ i o w cs i 4 ^H O ^^ B fc * UD o 65^2? w ^ ^^^dvM" O R ^^ntvooc^i^cci^ciS w 3 s" -~ *"rf 0 (M : : : 5 in*g : CJ3 : :So : I 1 !?lal X 15 ^SQB : ! 0 H . . __ _ * ~ r --'_ 9 SggsS-Se-e^fc* ^ a2 s, *v e t OB ' a 2 8 . fl 2 a ee I S Q W M a 0 8 !-* a H OR fc a o s 8 o li * ais S o CD 3 " b SO o fc XI Hj ss a a> 1 fa r eo ^ s s eo~ cp" CO S CO 00 CD O i' *M C5 of gT co" ^j< cS oo * 05 O CO 1 T 10" >o" CO C5 U3 CO "^ e5~ _ g a_ iO ^^ CO * J O CO gj S S2_ CO O] *f S O 10 s s a ia ! ^ Sg3 | 2 w^S t. 9 s.=oa r| N $ a ^ 52 -S u #^ I.S--3 -S? o o * o O co * S U3 S" o 260 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. REPORT OP THE UNITED STATES CUSTOM HOUSE Entries and clearances by months at the Port of Savannah, Ga., for the year ending December 31, 1902. (This statement does not include coastwise sailing vessels, which do not enter or clear at Custom House.) MONTHS. January ... February.. March ...... April........ May......... June......... July ........ August..... September October.. .. November December. Totals 1902 1901 1900 1899 1898 1897 1896 1895 1894 1893 1892 ENTRIES No. Vessels. 76 49 63 57 62 58 47 56 64 84 68 77 761 774 7J3 746 738 747 697 707 709 775 818 Tonnage 127,531 85,611 93,438 88,630 101,409 91,875 71.748 93,790 119,868 139,738 115,469 131,52 1,260,699 1,139,976 1,138,976 1,061,279 1,021,912 1.054,072 966,215 940,564 917,863 923480 966,208 Crew. 2,477 1,789 2.016 1,942 2,193 1355 1,621 1,875 2318 2,630 2,200 2,616 25,532 23,136 23,854 24,107 23,037 24.060 21,919 21,689 21,564 21,948 28,624 CLEARANCES. No. Vessels 73 56 59 65 64 64 49 60 66 70 74 S3 763 752 751 734 720 730 683 711 718 749 818 Tonnage. 119.834 92,309 88,589 90,146 108,438 86,768 79,732 77,593 119,616 126,050 125,118 137,949 1,247,142 1.127,517 1,124,249 1,054,102 1,005,248 1,046,194 942,844 947,666 927,689 906,061 060,262 Crew. 2464 1,913 1,956 1,939 2.125 1,793 1,710 1,603 2,294 2,396 2,855 2,619 25,227 23,866 24,069 23,959 22,603 23372 21,660 21^83 21.612 21,714 23,484 Omtwt Drift Feet. 24.10 24.4 24,08 24.10 25.00 24.00 2360 28.02 22.50 21.75 21.60 This doea not include coastwise sailing vessels which do not euter or clear At Custom House, nor river iteamen, nor small craft plying to nearby pointa, Statement of Commerce on the Savannah and Other Rivers for Calendar Year 1902. [Reported by United States Engineer in charge.] ARTICLES. Waate........................................ ............................. do ... Hay ................................................................... ......bales... Brick........ ................................................................. do ... Savannah River. 6,858 5,880 40 190 11,626 8.884 3468 8,680 8,479 8,600 1,050 8,600 61 45 8,403 1,120 187 75,tflO 6,000 100000 23,624,901 221,865 Savannab River above Augusta, G. 8,980 168 6 6 1 75 4W 53 100 31 598 89 17 8,800 6,500 21 1 Altamaha Klver. 1,615 696 8 4 9525 8,071 1.784 840 892 27 9 1,971 2,870 429 IS 6,500 46,995 89,717,000 Oemnlgee Klver. 1472 5t 125 w 9,34? S.1W 1,214 089 461 is 28 51 1,485 273 27 . 26,600 26U 80,158 34,188,981 825 23 Ooonee River. 729 894 228 81 4,219 878 1,265 688 1,290 26 69 22 2,184 178 64 5I.COO 20,000 28,701,00.) Inside route. 4,899 8 15 8,652 2,680 240 1,362 4,225 14 1,646 210 44 8,462 1.U6U U60 185000 1.808 4G.6S6.000 186,9 '2 826,915 18 Total, all rouiei. 19,068 H 1O7 409 SM 48,870 18,468 8.368 12,187 15,487 8,500 1,064 5,212 Wl 2,183 1ft AfiA Q JJtti 256 865,600 25,250 178461 170,727,882 853,787 328,915 18 825 21 1 28 The above table is incomplete, but is given in the form of a yearly statement, for the purpose of showing the general character of the river commerce in the localities traversed by these streams. BANK CEARANCES AT SAVANNAH POR EIGHT YEARS. Compiled from the Annual Statements of John M. Hogan, Secretary Savannah Clearing Association. January...... February.... March........ April.......... i-iOJ. May........... ........... June........... July..........' August...... September. October...... NovemberDecember.. 1002 $ 16,388,841 19 11,004,478 86 11.462,899 12 13,004,404 75 14,433,208 12 11,453.595 66 11,42,579 06 11,690,495 61 18,093,746 38 19,588,972 60 21,466,663 83 20,400,292 71 Total..... .1(181,060,677 89 1901 $ 21,294.903 90 17,872,890 25 14,067,862 47 13,629.275 78 12,869,446 15 10,892,722 67 10,458,907 29 9,486,585 27 12,983,638 01 21,884.303 23 19,925.528 33 18,020,090 95 $182,261,154 39 1600 $ 19,208,700 54 22,4i)2,042 04 22,792,462 29 16,344,541 80 13,511,250 54 18,088,557 45 16,742,276 05 13,172,194 58 30,580,047 03 30,413,424 76 24,388,524 75 22,865,490 02 $245.694,512 45 1899 $ 12,664,548 92 8,852,776 86 8,133,136 78 8,546,058 4fi 9,961,071 36 9,184,356 16 9,033,495 62 9,265,668 96 12,232,879 16 15,878,009 76 17,799,296 21 17,018,418 61 $138,614,714 24 1898 $ 18,104,180 88 10,042,845 12 9,654,926 67 8,270,880 94 7,871.082 50 7,425,404 17 6,875,786 72 7,054,579 42 11,028,865 37 17,594,876 82 15,780,946 35 14,544,531 08 $129 243,854 4 1897 $ 12,063,089 02 8,456,510 94 8,480,045 10 8,828,353 11 7,581,823 81 6,888,168 11 7,778,990 40 6,685,568 51 13,866,012 18 17,661,581 48 15,809,895 14 14,192,369 19 $127.777.401 99 1896 $ 12,368,716 17 10,862,586 17 8,403,868 42 7,867,729 82 7,991,895 38 6,839,421 67 6,231.868 02 8,810,973 90 14 006,850 13 16,388.468 21 14,603,548 45 18,441,926 74 $124,756,837 08 1895 $ 11,819,771 09 8,681,076 44 7,622,188 29 8,062,904 78 7,047,590 89 6,924,888 47 8,050,889 76 7,026,886 47 10,673,112 88 17,983,268 73 16,246,304 76 14,924,766 79 $124,302,142 27 ORDINANCES OF TUB City of Savannah, TOGETHER WJTff IMPORTANT Reports and Resolutions Adopted During the Year IQO2. Compiled by WILLIAM P. BAILEY, Cktk of Council. 2M MAYOR'S ANNUAL. REPORT. AMENDMENTS TO TAX ORDINANCE. An ordinance to amend the general tax ordinance for 1902, adopted December 20th, 1901. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That the paragraph of section 5 of the general tax ordinance for 1902, adopted December 20th, 1901, which requires a tax of seventy-five dollars from agents, attorneys at law, or brokers, negotiating loans on real estate, be and the same is hereby so amended that the said paragraph shall hereafter read as follows: Agents, attorneys at law, or brokers negotiating loans on real estate, (except real estate brokers negotiating loans in immediate connection with sales, or purchases made by them), and money lenders, their agents, or attorneys, making loans, with or without security, except banks and bankers, pawnbrokers and persons other than a pawnbroker engaged in the business of lending money on personal property hereinbefore provided for, seventy-five dollars. Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be and they are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed January 14th, 1902. An ordinance to amend the general tax ordinance for 1902, passed December 20th, 1901, so as to make specific tax for collectors twenty-five dollars, and to change the tax as to foundries. MA*OR S ANNUAL REPORT. 265 Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That the above-mentioned ordinance be and the same is hereby so amended that the words " real estate collectors and agents, fifty dollars," appearing on page 11 of the printed pamphlet, be and they are hereby stricken and in lieu thereof, the words "collectors twenty-five dollars " be substituted. That the words "Foundries fifty dollars" on page 14 of said pamphlet be and they are hereby stricken, and the words "Foundries exclusively brass, thirty dollars, other foundries fifty dollars" be substituted therefor. Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict'with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed January 22d, 1902. An ordinance to amend as herein expressed the general tax ordinance for the year 1902, adopted December 20th, 1901. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That the above-mentioned tax ordinance is hereby amended by adding after the fifth paragraph on page 8 of the printed pamphlet containing the said tax ordinance, the following paragraph: "Every company, corporation or person not doing the business of a regular life insurance company or of a regular accident insurance company, but, nevertheless, engaged in the business of paying sick or accident benefits to policy holders, shall pay a specific tax of fifty dollars. In the event of a failure to pay this tax, the said company, corporation or person, or any 266 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. soliciting therefor, shall be subject, upon conviction before the Police Court of the city of Savannah, to a fine not to exceed one hundred (100) dollars and imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, either or both in the discretion of the Court. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That in lieu of the words " public steam laundries fifty dollars. Public laundries run without steam twenty-five dollars," appearing on page 12 of the said printed pamphlet of the said tax ordinance, the following be substituted: "Public laundries run by steam or electricity fifty dollars. Public laundries run without steam or electricity twenty-five dollars." Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 6th, 1902. BUILDINGS. An ordinance to permit James Sullivan, trustee, to repair, remodel and improve frame houses on lot No. 6 Gaston Ward, and also to erect stoops. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That permission is hereby given to James Sullivan, trustee, to repair, remodel and impi-ove and erect stoops to frame houses on lot No. 6 Gaston Ward, No. 506 to 514 Montgomery street. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordi- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 267 nance be repealed ia so far as they apply to this special case. Ordinance passed January 22nd, 1902. An ordinance to permit William Marcus to repair, remodel and improve the property herein mentioned. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That William Marcus of the city of Savannah be and he is hereby authorized to repair, remodel and improve his lot of land in the city of Savannah known as the eastern two-thirds of lot thirty-four Liberty ward, by changing the two-story dwelling thereon into two (2) two-story tin roof stores, and upon condition that the said William Marcus yields to the city of Savannah his possession and title to the encroachment on Liberty street, occupied by the stoop of the present old building. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed April 2nd, 1902. An ordinance to permit J. H. Lankenau to erect two two-story frame metal roof apartment houses and extend stoops to line conforming on the same street, northwest corner Wayne and Tattnall streets, lot No. 32 Berrien ward. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That permission is hereby given to J. H. Lankenau to erect two (2) two-story frame metal roof apartment houses and to extend stoops to a line 268 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. conforming on the same street, northwest corner Wayne and Tattnall streets known as lot No. 32 Berrien ward. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed so far as they apply to this special case. Ordinance passed April 2nd, 1902. An ordinance to permit J. C. Postell to erect two (2) double apartment houses on lot twenty-four (24) Troup ward. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That permission is hereby given to J. C. Postell of the city of Savannah to erect two (2) double apartment houses on lot twenty-four (24) Troup ward, in the city of Savannah, in accordance with the terms of his amended petition, dated April 7, J902, providing that the buildings be built of expanded fireproof metal laths, with Portland cement stucco on the outside, instead of wood, and that the plans otherwise to be unchanged except that what is now known as the brick dividing walls upon said plans be of the same construction as the other walls, as above expressed. Sec 2. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed April loth, 1902. An ordinance to permit the estate of Ellen C. Davis to erect two (2) two-story frame metal roof MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOBT. 269 houses on west half of lot twelve (12) Currietown ward. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled. That permission is hereby given to the estate of Ellen C. Davis of the city of Savannah to erect two (2) two-story frame metal roof houses on lot twelve (12) Currietown ward, in the city of Savannah, in accordance with the terms of petition dated April 4,1902, and referred to the Committee on Fire by the Council of Savannah at its meeting of April 15, 1902. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 28th, 1902. An ordinance to permit Francis Kohler to erect two (2) two (2) story frame metal roof houses on south half of lot No. 19 Stephens ward. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That permission is hereby given to Francis Kohler of the city of Savannah to erect two (2) two (2) story frame metal roof houses on the south half of lot No. 19 Stephens ward (Abercorn and Huntingdon lane) in the city of Savannah, provided that the building be set back so as not to encroach on the sidewalk and the present encroachments of the premises 606 Abercorn street be also removed. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed July 9th, 1902. 270 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. An ordinance to permit Mrs. Catherine Rutherford to erect the improvements herein mentioned. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled. That authority is hereby given to Mrs. Catherine Rutherford to erect on lot sixteen (16) Currytown ward, in the city of Savannah, a one-story frame metal room house (with flat roof), 16x25, as a storehouse, in accordance with her petition .to Council of June 14, 1902. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed September 3rd, 1902. An ordinance to permit J. W. Mclntire to improve, as herein provided for, the eastern half of lot 6 Green ward in the city of Savannah. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Maj'or and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled. That J. W. Mclntire of the city of Savannah is hereby authorized, in accordance with his petition to Council dated March 1, 1902, to remove the old shingle roof building on the eastern one-half of lot 6 Green ward in the city of Savannah and build thereon two two-story frame metal-roof houses thirty feet front. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed September 3rd, 1902. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. . 271 An ordinance to permit the estate of George P. Byrnes of the city of Savannah to tear down old house on west half of lot No. 30, Washington ward, and replace the same with a two-story metal roof wooden house as herein stated. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That permission is hereby given to the estate of George F. Byrnes to tear down the old one-and-a-half story shingle roof house on the west half of lot No. 30, Washington ward, in the city of Savannah, and to replace the same with a two-story metal roof wooden house. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be repealed in so far as they apply to this special case. Ordinance passed November 26th, 1902. An ordinance to permit William F. Herman of the city of Savannah to erect a double wooden tenement house on a part of lot No. 21, Greene ward, in the city of Savannah, in place of the old brick house that is now upon said land. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That permission is hereby given to William F. Herman to erect a double wooden tenement residence on a part of lot No. 21, Greene ward, in the city of Savannah, in the place of the old brick house that is now upon said land. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance 272 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. are hereby repealed in so far as they apply to this special case. Ordinance passed December 10th, 1902. An ordinance to permit Nicholas Lang of the city of Savannah to improve house on lot No. 73, Crawford ward, by extending and enclosing back piazza two stories and adding bath room; all in wood a per plat attached to petition of said Lang. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That permission is hereby given to Nicholas Lang toimprove his house on lot No. 73, Crawford ward, in the city of Savannah, by extending and enclosing back piazza two stories and by adding bath room; all in wood as per plat attached to the petition of said Lang. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinance* and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed in so far as they apply to this special case. Ordinance passed December 10th, 1902. An ordinance providing for the sale of lots No. 23 and No. 24, Thomas ward, in the city of Savannah,, to Mrs. Nellie H. Alexander. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That the offer made by Mrs. Nellie H. Alexander of $5,500 for lots No. 23 and No. 24, Thomas ward, in this city, the said lots containing sixty (60) feet front each on Thirty-fifth street, and a rectangular depth of one hundred and twelve (112) feet to a lane, being; MAYOR'S ANNtfAL BBPOBT. 273 on the southeast corner of Thirty-fifth and Drayton streets, be and the same is hereby accepted, and upon the payment of said purchase money, it is directed that a deed be made by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, conveying said lots to said purchaser. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed December 10th, 1902. BACKS. An ordinance to change the hacks' stand from Liberty street to the north side of McDonough street, between Bull and Drayton streets. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That hereafter it shall not be l.-nvful for the drivers of hacks and other vehicles employed for the use of passengers for hire, to have their hack or other vehicle to stand on Liberty street, in the city of Savannah, except for the purpose allowed under existing ordinances, and the north side of McDonough street, between Bull and Drayton streets, is hereby substituted as a stand in lieu of Liberty street. A failure to observe this amendment shall be punishable as provided for in existing ordinances touching hack stands. Sec. 2. A hack stand is hereby established on the east side of West Broad street, between Taylor and Wayne streets, for use by as many as three vehicles at one time. 274 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed August 8, 1902. KATE BALDWIN FREE KINDERGARTEN. PermlMlon to Sell Lot SO and Part or 79, Solomon* Ward. An ordinance to permit the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten to sell and dispose of all of lot 80 and part of lot 79, Solomons ward, in the city of Savannah, under the terms and conditions herein mentioned. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten, a corporation of the county of Chatham, be and it is hereby authorized to sell and dispose of all of lot eighty (80) and part of lot seventy-nine (79), Solomons ward, in the city of Savannah, consisting of sixty (60) feet on Whitaker street and one hundred and ten (110) feet on Thirty-eighth street, free from all claims of the city of Savannah and from the condition mentioned in the ordinance passed June 12, 1901, and in the deed from the said city to the said corporation dated June 26, 1901; provided, however, that the purchase price to be obtained for said lot 80 and part of lot 79 over and above seventeen hundred (1700) dollars shall be used in the improvement of the lot in Lester ward and the said city of Savannah, on the northeast corner of Montgomery and Thirtyfirst stf eets, now standing in the name of George J- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 275 Baldwin, but which is to be conveyed to the said Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten, and the said last mentioned property is to be held under the condition mentioned in the said ordinance and the said deed which requires the use of the property exclusively for the free education of the children of Savannah or for the charitable care of the same, and with this additional proviso, that, in the event the said property in Lester ward is used for any purpose other than that specified, all of the same, together with the improvements thereon, shall revert to the city of Savannah. A purchaser, however, of lot 80 and part of 79, Solomons ward, from the said Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten shall not be bound to look to the use of the purchase money. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 14, 1902. PUBLIC PROPERTY. Authorizing Sale of Land In Southvllle, Solomons and Law Ward*. An ordinance to provide for the sale of the strips of land herein mentioned. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Committee on Opening Streets and City Lots be and it is hereby authorized to bargain and sell at private sale, for such sum as may seem to the said committee reasonable and proper, the following strips of land in the city of Savannah, to-wit: One thousand, six hundred and fifty-four and three- 276 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. tenths (1654.3) square feet of land, a part of lot forty-two (42) Southville ward ; three hundred and twenty-four (324) square feet of land, a part of lots T and J, Solomons ward; one thousand, two hundred and forty-four and nine-tenths (1244.9) square feet of land, a part of lots one (1) and two (2) Law ward and Garden lot seventeen (17); one thousand, two hundred and seventy-three and two-tenths (1273.2) square feet of land, part of lot one (1) Law ward and Garden lot nineteen (19), and one thousand, two hundred and seventy-three and two-tenths (1273.2) square feet of land, a part of lot four (4) Law ward and Garden lot nineteen (19). And the Mayor of the city of Savannah is authorized and empowered to complete the said sales by deeds in the name of the said municipal corporation and attested by its Clerk of Council to the purchaser or purchasers of the strips of land herein mentioned. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed January 22, 1902. Authorizing Sale or Land to Ocean Steamship Co. An ordinance to provide for the sale of property herein described. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in council assembled, That the Mayor of the city of Savannah be and he is hereby authorized to convey in the name of the municipal corporation, to the Ocean Steamship Company, at and for the sum of three thousand dollars cash, that strip of land east of and contiguous to the MAYOR'S ANNUAL .REPORT. 277 towpath of the Savannah and Ogeechee canal, and extending from River street to Bay street, from north to south, and from said towpath to a line five feet west of the western curb line of Water street, from west to east, and that other (triangular) strip east of said street, all as appears by map attached to said steamship company's proposition, the first above described tract being shaded in green and the other in red thereon, and in accordance with said proposition to council. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 28th, 1902. Authorizing Sale of Lots In Thomas Ward to Mrs. Helen ML Hardec and II. W. Johnson. An ordinance to provide for the sale of property herein described. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Alder men of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That the Mayor of the city of Savannah be and he is hereby authorized to convey, in the name of the municipal corporation, to Mrs. Helen M. Hardee, at and lor the sum of six hundred and twenty-five (625) dollars, the eastern fifteen (15) feet of lot number twenty-nine (29), in Thomas ward, and to H. W. Johnson, for six hundred and twenty-five (625) dollars, the western fifteen (15) feet of the eastern half of lot number thirty (30j, Thomas ward, in the city of Savannah, in accordance with their respective propositions to council. 278 MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be and they are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 28th, 1902. Authorizing gale of Land, Law Ward, to I>. Grimm. An ordinance to sell at private sale to D. Grimm parts of four lots designated on plan of lots Nos. 1 to 4, section 19, Law ward, consisting of 3,335.56 square feet of land, for $800. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled. That the Mayor of the city of Savannah be and he is hereby authorized to convey to D. Grimm for $800 at private sale, parts of the four lots designated in plan made by city engineer as plan of parts of lots Nos. 1 to 4, section 19, Law ward, in the city of Savannah, consisting of 3,335.56 square feet, reserving, the narrow slip shown on the said plan as needed for Gillott street. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed September 3d, 1902. Authorizing Sale of Powder Magazine Property In Springfield Plantation. An ordinance to authorize the Mayor of the city of Savannah to convey to W. D. Chapman, in the name of the city of Savannah, that part of the old powder magazine property in Springfield plantation, covered by his lease, under the terms and conditions herein mentioned. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 279 Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That the Mayor of the city of Savannah is authorized to sell and convey at private sale, in the name of the city of Savannah, to W. D. Champion, at and for the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars, that part of the old powder magazine property, Springfield plantation, under lease to the said Champion, by lease dated January 24th. 1900; provided, always, that the said Champion, before the execution and delivery of the said deed, shall pay in full the purchase price and all rentals due, and shall enter into a written agreement, to be filed with the clerk of council, that he will not operate on the said premises or permit the operation of any nuisance prejudicial to the public health, and will at once abate a nuisance whenever the council of the city of Savannah shall declare the same a nuisance and direct its abatement. Said purchaser, or those holding under him, to agree not to maintain on said property any industry or enterpiise that will be a nuisance, and said purchaser to agree to cede to the city without cost any portion of said property that may be necessary for the opening of Gwinnett street through the same. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed October 1st, 1902. An ordinance to repeal an ordinance, passed in council October 1st, 1902, entitled: ''An ordinance to authorize the Major of the city of Savannah to convey to W. D. Champion, in the name of the city 280 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. of Savannah, that part of the old powder magazine property in Springfield plantation, covered by his lease, under the terms and conditions herein mentioned." Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That the above recited ordinance, passed on October 1st. 1902, authorizing the Mayor of this city to convey to W. D. Champion, in the name of the city of Savannah, that part of the old powder magazine property in Springfield plantation covered by his lease, upon certain terms and conditions therein mentioned, be and the same is hereby repealed. See. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion of Henry street. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That each railroad company having tracks running through the said portion of Henry street to be improved under this ordinance, is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of tracks of said railroad company with vitrified brick as the said work progresses, and in the event this is not done by each of said railroad companies, the said Director of Public Works and the said committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said railroad companies, respectively. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 297 railroad company, shall have been ascertained, onethird ($) of such total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury and the other two-thirds (i) by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said portion of Henry street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting upon said portion of Henry street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah shall be, for all intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the City Treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of said work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third () of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the Director of Public Works for the city of Savannah and said Committee on Streets and Lanes shall prepare and submit to the council of the city of Savannah a statement showing cost of the improvement hereinbefore provided for, and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds () of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel, with the name of the owner. 298 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll,by the council of the city of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to send to the abutting property ownera their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the city council; and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or the sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to issue executions for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which executions shall be made and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by each raiLoad company; and should such company fail and refuse to pay a bill for the same within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to issue an execution against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed December 22d, 1902. An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of a portion of Forty-second street, in the city of Savannah, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed December 25th, 1901. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 299 Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll submitted to council by the Director of Public Works for the city of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, made under an ordinance passed December 25th, 1901, and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of a portion of Forty-second street, in the city of Savannah, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1st, 1887," be, and they are hereby, declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of said improvement under said ordinance. The said statement and assessment roll being that entitled "Statement and assessment roll for improving Fortysecond street. A statement showing the cost of -the improvement of Forty-second street, in the city of Savannah, from the east side of Jefferson street to the west side of Montgomery street, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, December 25th, 1901; and an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of council of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said" statement and assessment roll, filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of council for due authentication and preservation. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send the property owners a bill for the 800 MAYOR'S ANNUAL RBPOBT. respective amounts due by them, as provided by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid within (30) thirty days from the date of the bill, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed March 5th, 1902. An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Tattnall street, from the north side of Jones street (sometimes called Little Jones street) to the south side of Berrien street, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed December 25th, 1901: Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll submitted to council by the Director of Public Works for the city of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, made under an ordinance passed December 25th, 1901, and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of Tattnall street, from the north side of Jones street (sometimes called Little Jones street) to the south side of Berrien street, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1st, 1887," be, and they are hereby, declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of said improvement under said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being ; MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 301 that entitled "Statement and assessment roll for improving Tattnall street. A statement showing the cost of the improvement of Tattuall street, in the city of Savannah, from the north side of Jones street (sometimes called Little Jones street) to the south side of Berrien street, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed December 25th, 1901; and an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel, with the names Of the owners;" and the Clerk of council of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of council for due authentication and preservation. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the bill, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 25th, 1902. An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of 302 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT; Berrien street from the west side of Tattnall street to the east side of Jefferson street, and from the west side of Jefferson street to the east side of West Broad street, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah passed December 25, 1901. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the city of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, made under an ordinance passed December 25, 1901, and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of Berrien street, from the west side of Tattnall street to the east side of Jefferson street, and from the west side of Jefferson street to the east side of West Broad street, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1st, 1887," be, and they are hereby, declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of said improvement under said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement and assessment roll for improving Berrien street. A statement showing the cost of the improvement of Berrien street in the city of Savannah, from the west side of Tattnall street to the east side of Jefferson street, and from the west side of Jefferson street to the east side of West Broad street. As made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah passed December 25, 1901; and an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 303 the names of the owners." And the clerk of Council of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the bill then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 25th, 1902. An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of that part of Jones street (sometimes called Little Jones street), from the west side of Tattnail street to the east side of Jefferson street, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed December 25th, 1901. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the city of Savannah, and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, made under an ordinance 304 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. passed December 25th, 1901, and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of a portion of that part of Jones street (sometimes called Little Jones street), from the west side of Tattnall street to the east side of Jefferson street, in the city of Savannah, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia approved October 1, 1887," be, and they are hereby, declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of said improvement under said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled "Statement and assessment roll for improving a portion of that part of Jones street (sometimes called Little Jones street) from the west side of Tattnall street to the east side of Jefferson street. As made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed December 25th, 1901, and an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the bill then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions, as provided for by the said ordinance, MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 306 which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 25th, 1902. An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Stewart street from the east curb line of Wilson street to the west property line of West Broad street, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah passed January 22, 1902. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the director of public works for the city of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, made under an ordinance passed January 22, 1902, and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of Stewart street from the east curb line of Wilson street to the west property line of West Broad street, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia approved October 1, 1887," be, and they are hereby, declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of said improvement under said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled, ''Statement and assessment roll for improving Stewart street. A statement showing the cost of the improvement of Stewart street in the city of Savannah, from the east curb line of Wilson street to the west property line of West Broad street As made under 906 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. an ordinance of the city of Savannah passed January 22, 1902, and an assessment roll showing as to twothirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the clerk of Council of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the treasurer of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the bill then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 25th, 1902. An ordinance to establish the official statement tind assessment roll touching the improvement of a portion of West Broad street, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah passed October 2, 1901. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll submitted to MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 307 Council by the director of public works for the city of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, made under an ordinance passed October 2, 1901, and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of a portion of West Broad street, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be, and they are hereby, declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of said improvement under said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled "Statement and assessment roll for improving West Broad street. A statement showing the cost of the improvement of West Broad street in the city of Savannah, from the north side of Stone street to the north side of Gwinnett street. As made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah passed October 2, 1901, and an assessment roll showing as to'two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the clerk of Council of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date* and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including the street railroad company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the bill, then it 308 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which executions shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 25th, 1902. An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of a portion of St. Julian street, in the city of Savannah, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed May 28, 1902. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the director of public works for the city of Savannah arid the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, made under an ordinance passed Mav > 28, ' 1902. ' and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of a portion of St. Julian street, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be, and they are hereby, declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of said improvement under said ordinance. The said statement and assessment roll being that entitled "Statement and assessment roll for improving St. Julian street. A statement showing the cost of the improvement of St. Julian street in the city of Savannah, from the dast property line of Randolph street to the west bank of the Bilbo canal. As made under an ordinance of the city of Savan- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 309 nab, passed May 28, 1902; aud an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the clerk of Council of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the bill, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed October 1st, 1902. An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Price street between Bay and Gaston streets in the city of Savannah, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed April 2,1902. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council sssembled, That the statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the director of public works for the city 310 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, made under an ordinance passed April 2,1902, and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of Price street, between Bay and Gaston streets, in the city of Savannah, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be, and they are hereby, declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of said improvement under said ordinance. The said statement and assessment roll being that entitled "Statement and assessment roll for improving Price street A statement showing the cost of the improvement of Price street in the city of Savannah, from the south side of Bay street to the north side of Gaston street, except the intersections of Broughton, Oglethorpe avenue and Liberty streets (the said excepted streets being already paved with asphalt). As made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed April 2,1902; and an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street intersections, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the clerk of Council of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided by the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 311 said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the bill, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed October 7th, 1902. An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of a portion of Thirty-sixth street, from the east side of Jefferson street to the west side of Bull street in the city of Savannah, as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed November 12, 1902. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermed of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the director of public works for the city of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, made under an ordinance passed November 12,1902, and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of a portion of Thirty-sixth street from the east side of Jefferson street to the west side of Bull street in the city of Savannah, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be, and they are hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of said improvement under said ordinance; the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled "Statement and assessment roll for im- 312 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. proving Thirty-sixth street. A statement showing the cost of the improvement of Thirty-sixth street in the city of Savannah, from the east side of Jefferson street to the west side of Bull street; as made under an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed November 12, 1902; and an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street intersections, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the clerk of Council of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. Bee. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the city of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including the railroad company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by said ordinance. Should the said bill be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the bill, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed December 24th, 1902. Providing for Speed of Automobile*, Etc. An ordinance to provide for the speed of automobiles, locomobiles and similar vehicles on the streets of the city of Savannah. MAYOR'S ANNUAL BBPOtfT. 818 Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons using upon any street of the city of Savannah an automobile, locomobile or any similar vehicle to proceed at a speed exceeding eight miles an hour, under penalty, upon conviction in the Police Court of the city of Savannah, of a fine not to exceed one hundred (100) dollars and imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, either or both in the discretion of the Court. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed March 19th, 1902. An ordinance to extend the street herein mentioned and name the same. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That that certain unnamed street, which appears upon the present city map as running between West Boundary street and the Brow ditch, and as dividing Swoll Ward from Roberts Ward, be and the same is extended west to Stiles avenue with the southern line, as it now is according to the said map, and with the division line between lots fifty-six and fiftyseven Springfield plantation, as the northern line of the said street so extended, and the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets is authorized to have the necessary work done for the laying out and extending of the said street. The name of the said street shall be Dixon. 314 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed April 2nd, 1902. An ordinance to change the name of Ogeechee avenue, south of Thirty-ninth street, to Hopkins street, and of Cemetery street, north of Anderson street, to Magnolia street. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That that certain street in the city of Savannah south of Thirty-ninth street, known on the map of the city as Ogeechee avenue, be, and the same is hereby changed to Hopkins street, and that certain street, north of Anderson street, called Cemetery street, be, and the same is hereby changed to Magnolia street. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 25th, 1902. 8IIEWALK8. An ordinance to secure uniformity in the sidewalks in the city of Savannah, mentioned in this ordinance, to provide for the width of sidewalks and roadways, the materials to be used for the sidewalks and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the following shall be the width of the roadways, sidewalks and grass plats of the streets MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 315 herein mentioned, in the corporate limits of the city of Savannah, to-wit: Habersham street, from Thirtyrseventh street to Estill avenue, shall have a roadway of forty (40) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof three (3) feet in width; Price street, from Thirty sixth street to Estill avenue, shall have a roadway thirty-two (32) feet in width and sidewalks on either side thereof nine (9) feet in width; East Broad street, from Gwinnett street to Estill avenue, shall have a roadway thirty-two (32) feet in width and sidewalks on either side thereof nine (9) feet in width; Atlantic street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty (30) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof three (3) feet in width ; Paulsen street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty (30) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof three (3) feet in width; Harmon street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty (30) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof three (3) feet in width; Ott street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty (30) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof three (3) feet in width ; Waters road, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty (30) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof three (3) feet in width ; Anderson 316 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty-two (32) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof nine (9) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof five (5) feet in width; Henry street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty (30) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof ten (10) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof twelve and one-half (12J) feet in width ; Duffy street, from East Broad street east to city limits, shall have a roadway thirty-two (32) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof ten (10) feet in width, Park avenue, from East Broad street east to city limits, shall have a roadway thirty-two (32) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof ten (10) feet in width; Waldburg street, from East Broad street east to city limits, shall have a roadway thirty-two (32) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof nine (9) feet iu width and grass plats on either side thereof five (5) feet in width; Bolton street, from East Broad street east to city limits, shall have a roadway thirtytwo (32) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof nine (9) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof five (5) feet in width ; Gwinnett street, from East Broad street east to city limits, shall have a roadway forty (40) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof ten (10) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof ten (10) feet in width ; Wheaton street, from Randolph street east to city limits, shall have a roadway twenty-seven (27) feet in width and MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 317 sidewalks on either side thereof nine f9) feet in width ; Wolfe street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty (30) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof three (3) feet in width; Joe street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty (30) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof three (3) feet in width; Rockfeller street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty (30) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof three (3) feet in width; Flagler street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway thirty (30) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof three (3) feet in width; and Frank street, for its entire length, shall have a roadway sixteen (16) feet in width and sidewalks on either side thereof four and one-half (4i) feet in width. The sidewalks mentioned in this section shall be paved by the property owners and with material satisfactory to the Committee of the Council of the city of Savannah known as the Committee on Streets and Lanes within sixty (60) days from the passage of a resolution of Council specifying the particular streets or portion of streets hereinbefore set out to be paved. Should the pavements not be laid within the time mentioned, then the city of Savannah shall proceed to lay the said pavements with hard brick and at the expense of the property owners. 318 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Whenever pavements are laid grauite curbing shall be used to enclose the same, and the said curbing shall be four (4) by eighteen (18) inches. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 19th, 1902. An ordinance to provide for the roadways, sidewalks and grass plats of Anderson street, from East Broad street to Waters avenue, in the city of Savannah, under the provisions and terms of an ordinance of the city of Savannah, passed April 5, 1899, and entitled, "An ordinance to secure uniformity in the sidewalks in the city of Savannah mentioned in this ordinance, to provide for the width of sidewalks and roadways, the material to be used for the sidewalks and for other purposes." Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council assembled, That the roadways between the curbs of Anderson street, in the city of Savannah, shall be 32 feet in width, the sidewalks on either side thereof 9 feet in width, and, in addition, there shall be a grass plat on either side thereof of 5 feel in width. See. 2. Be it further ordained, That all the provisions of the above entitled ordinance, passed April 5, 1899, shall apply to the roadways, sidewalks and grass plats on the said portion of Anderson street between East Broad street and Waters avenue. Ordinance passed November 26th, 1902. MATCH'S ANNUAL REPORT. 819 By the Committee on Streets and Lanes . . An ordinance to amend an ordinance, passed in Council on February 19, 1902, entitled "An ordinance to secure uniformity in the sidewalks in the city of Savannah mentioned in this ordinance, to provide for the width of sidewalks and roadways, the material to be used for the sidewalks and for other purposes," by increasing the width of roadway on East Broad street from Gwinnett street to Estill avenue, and by decreasing the width -of the sidewalks on either side of said street between said points, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the following words in section one (1) of said ordinance be, and the same are, stricken out, namely: "East Broad street from Gwinnett street to Estill avenue shall have a roadway thirty-two (32) feet in width and sidewalks on either side thereof nine (9^ feet in width," and in lieu thereof the following words are hereby inserted therein, to-wit; "East Broad street from. Gwinnett street to Estill avenue shall have a roadway thirty-five (35) feet in width and sidewalks on either side thereof seven and one-half (7i) feet in width;" the effect of which amendment shall be, and is, that the said width of the roadway on said East Broad street between said named points is changed from thirty-two (32) feet to thirty-five (35) feet, and the width of said sidewalks on either side thereof is changed from nine (9) feet to seven and one-half (7i) feet. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That except as herein amended, said ordinance shall be and remain 320 MAIOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. as it, was when passed, and that said ordinance, amended as above, is, in all respects, adopted and confirmed. Sec. 3. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed December 10th, 1902. SPITTING. An ordinance to amend the second section of the ordinance passed March 20,1901, entitled, "An ordinance to prevent spitting in any public building, in street cars or on the sidewalks of the city of Savannah." Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen oi the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the second section of the above entitled ordinance be, and the same is, amended by striking therefrom the provision requiring a caution to the person violating the same for the first offense, so that said section second shall hereafter read as follows : "Be it further ordained in the event of a violation of this ordinance, it shall be the duty of a policeman cognizant of the offense to docket the violator, who shall, in the event of his conviction before the Police Court of the city of Savannah, be subject to a fine not to exceed five dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed one day, either or both in the discretion of the court." Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be, and they are, hereby repealed. Ordinance passed March 19th, 1902. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 321 SQUIRRELS. An ordinance to protect squirrels running at large in the city of Savannah. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That any person killing, injuring or attempting to kill or injure any squirrel running at large in any cemetery, park, square, street, or other place in the corporate limits of the city of Savannah, shall be subject, upon conviction before the Police Court of the city of Savannah, to a fine not to exceed ten dollars and to imprisonment not to exceed five days, either or both in the discretion of the court. Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 25th, 1902. WHARVES (SMOKING). An ordinance to amend an ordinance entitled "An ordinance to lessen the danger from fire in the port and city of Savannah," passed in Council November 16, 1898. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, That section five (5) of "an ordinance to lessen the danger from fire in the port and city of Savannah," passed in Council November 16, 1898, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the words "the dock" in said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words "any wharf, dock or pier within the port of Savannah or on the decks," so 322 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: "Section 5. Be it farther ordained, That it shall be unlawful for any person to smoke any pipe, cigar or cigarette on any wharf, dock or pier within the port of Savannah or on the decks or in the holds of any vessel while loading or unloading, or while at the docks in this port." See. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. REPORTS. The Committee on Streets and Lanes beg to report that they have approved, under the term of the ordinance adopted October 16,1901, of the purchase from the Twelfth Street Land Company for the consideration of $10,884.76, payable by notes under the term of the ordinance, of 725,658 square feet of land, a part of Lot 3 Hicks Tything, Percival Ward, needed for streets to be opened south of the present corporate limits, and to be paid for at the rate of 1J cents per square foot, the granter, however, conveying to the city, without additional charge, 94,920 square feet for a public road, and 110,409.6 square feet for lanes, more fully set forth in a plan made by the city engineer and attached to the deed of the Twelfth Street Land Company, dated December 30, 1901. Respectfully, W. J. Watson, F. F. Jones, Jas. M. Dixon, J. F. Canty, J. J. Horrigan. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 323 Received as information January 8,1902. The Committee of the Whole, to which has been referred the annexed petition of the Savannah Electric Company, dated January 22, 1902, recommend as follows: (a) That petitioner be allowed to lay a single track on Roberts street, that is to say so much of Roberts street, beginning at West Broad street, as it may signify within ten days from the date of the adoption of this resolution it proposes to occupy, provided petitioner will pay the entire expense of paving with vitrified brick so much of the said Roberts street as it may occupy with its track the entire width of such portion and all expenses incident to such paving, the material to be selected by the Street and Lane Committee and the work to be done to its satisfaction. (b) That petitioner be allowed to lay an additional track on Bay street from Barnard street to the west side of Jefferson street. (c) That the request to lay a track on Gwinriett street from Habersham to Abercorn streets be refused. (d) That the request to lay an additional track on West Broad street, commencing at Stone street and running northward about 500 feet, be granted. (e) The committee recommend that action on subdivision E of the petition relative to an additional track on East Broad street, from Gwinnett street to Duffy, be postponed. (f) The committee recommend that subdivision F of the petition relative to the erection of poles, etc., in connection with the privileges granted hereby be granted. 324 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Provided, however, the rights hereby granted must be accepted and used with the condition that petitioner thereby recognizes the right of the city to exact from it reasonable car and mileage taxes, accruing from the time petitioner went into possession of the street car lines now using the streets of the city; provided, also, all tracks must be laid and constructed under the direction and supervision of the Committee on Streets and Lanes and to its satisfaction. Adopted. HERMAN MYERS, Chairman Committee of the Whole. February 5, 1902. Acceptance of certain rights and privileges granted by City of Savannah under action of Council Feb. 5, 1902: To the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah : The Savannah Electric Company, being the petitioner in a certain petition dated January 22, 1902, addressed to the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, applying for certain rights and franchises in the streets of the city of Savannah, to be used in connection with and in addition to the rights and franchises already owned and acquired by the said Savannah Electric Company, now within ten days from the dale of said action of council, and referring to the report of the Committee of the Whole, to whom said petition was referred, and to the action of council upon the report of said committee, hereby expressly accepts the rights and franchises upon the terms and conditions therein conferred, as follows: MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 325 First It accepts the right to lay a single track on so much of Roberts street as it proposes to occupy, to-wit: two hundred feet, which number of feet the said Savannah Electric Company now signifies it will occupy, the said Savannah Electric Company hereby expressly agrees that it will pay the entire expense of paving with vitrified brick for the entire width of such portion of Roberts street so to be occupied by it as aforesaid, and further, that it will pay all expenses incident to said paving, the material to be selected by the Street and Lane Committee and the work to be done to its satisfaction. Second. It accepts the right to lay an additional track on Bay street from Barnard street to the west side of Jefferson street. Third. It accepts the right to lay an additional track on West Broad street, commencing at Stone street and running northward about five hundred feet (500 feet). Fourth. It accepts the right to erect such poles and construct such overhead electrical equipment as may be necessary in the use and occupation of the franchises aforesaid in connection with the privileges hereinbefore referred to. Fifth. The Savannah Electric Company, in accepting the aforesaid privileges, does so with the understanding and upon the condition that the said company recognizes the right of the city to exact from it reasonable car and mileage taxes accruing from the time the Savannah Electric Company went into possession of the street car lines now using the streets of the city, and upon the further condition that all 326 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. tracks must be laid and constructed under the direction and supervision of the Committee on Streets and Lanes and to its satisfaction. February 11,1902. SAVANNAH ELECTRIC Co., By George J. Baldwin, President. February 19,1902. The Committee on Water and City Lots, to whom was referred the annexed petition of Allan "Bond, president, beg leave to recommend that the city lease to the said Allan Bond for the term of ten (10) years, with privilege of renewal for five (5) additional years, and for a rental at the rate of two hundred and fifty (250) dollars per annum, payable semi-annually in advance, five (5) acres of the tract of fifty-six (56) acres of land belonging to the city, known as the Old Water Works Tract west of the corporate limits of the city of Savannah and south of the road running through said tract and parallel to the Savannah river, the said strip to be leased to have a frontage of two hundred and ninety-four (294) feet and a depth of seven hundred and fifty (750) feet This lease to be subject to the terms of the lease made to D. W. Zipperer bearing date September 12,1901, and any right which the said Zipperer may have thereunder, and to contain a reservation in the city of Savannah of the right to cancel the lease of the said Bond and to take possession of the leased premises should the same be hereafter required by the city of Savannah for water works purposes, and also the right in the city to run mains and conduits and sink wells on the leased premises. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 327 And that the Mayor of the city of Savannah be authorized to execute a lease in the name of the city, embodying these terms. HAL H. BACON, Chairman Joint Committee. Adopted March 19, 1902. The Committee of the Whole, to which was referred the annexed petition of D. B. Lester, -dated April 30, 1902, beg to report that the petition be granted, provided the petitioner shall pay to the city of Savannah for the streets to be occupied at the rate of $2 per running foot; and provided, also, that the same condition and terms be annexed to this grant as are contained in the report of the Committee of the Whole, based on the petition of the said D. B. Lester, dated Jan. 22, 1902, adopted at the meeting of Council held Feb. 19, 1902, with these modifications : The bond mentioned in paragraph 2 of the former report shall be $30,000, instead of $15,000. The electric railway line shall be completed within the corporate limits of the city of Savannah by May 1,1903. Otherwise than as herein excepted, all the provisions and conditions of the former report are adopted in this report. HERMAN MYERS, Chairman Committee of the Whole. . Adopted July 9, 1902. Savannah, Ga., July 18, 1902.The Committee on Streets and Lanes, to whom has been referred the annexed petition of the Savannah Electric Company, dated July 8, 1902, and referred to the Committee of the Whole at the meeting of July 9,1902, recom- 328 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. mend that the petition he granted and that petitioner he allowed to lay the additional tracks, turnouts and curves asked for in its petition, subject, however, to the following conditions: First. The city will lay, at the expense of the petitioner, a shell pavement on East Broad street from the north side of Gwinnett street to the north side of Henry street, the entire width of East Broad street, from curh to curb, petitioner to furnish the shell, and all expense incident to the laying and completion of the pavement, including curbing, labor and material, to be borne by the petitioner and bills therefor to be promptly paid by petitioner. Material to be selected and work done under the direction and supervision of the Committee on Streets and Lanes and Director of Public Works. Second. The city retains the right, in the event of the improvement of this part of East Broad street, or any of it, to substitute such other pavement as the city may select under an improvement ordinance for such shell pavement, and to assess the petitioner under the terms and provisions of the laws of the State providing for street improvements and ordinances passed in pursuance thereof. Third. The grant of this petition shall not impair the right of the city to enforce claims for taxes, based on mileage, or use of the street, as now provided for by tax ordinance, or may be provided for, from time to time in future. Fourth. Petitioner shall maintain the entire pavement and keep the same in proper repair and condition. W. J. WATSON, Chairman Streets and Lanes. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. The Committee of the Whole concurs in the above report and so recommends to Council, this July 18, 1902. HERMAN MYERS, Chairman of the Committee of the Whole. Adopted. Alderman Frank calling for the yeas and nays in the above report, the vote resulted as follows: AyesAldermen Jones, Dixon, Canty, Horrigan, Colding, Garfunkel and Watson7 votes. NaysAldermen Schroder, Frank and Bacon3 votes. July 18th, 1902. Communication from the Savannah Electric Company hy George J. Baldwin, accepting the grant of franchise and privileges with the conditions attached, as made in the report of the Street and Lane Committee of July 18, 1902, concurred in by theCommittee of the Whole, and adopted by Council, was read and received as information Aug 6, 1902. The Committee on Water, to whom was referred the petition of the Southern Cotton Oil Company for permission to build a railroad track across the old waterworks property, beg to report as follows: That they do not deem it advisable to allow railroad tracks to cross this property at point asked for by petitioners. Your committee would recommend that petitioners be allowed to construct a track across this property at not more than fifty feet from the road which bounds this property on the south, and which is known as the old waterworks road, it being specifically understood that the permission is only given for a temporary track, which is to be removed 330 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. at any time in thirty days' notice from the city, and if the petitioners avail themselves of the ahove petition they are to enter into a written agreement with the city setting forth the terms of this agreement in iull. HAL EL BACON, Chairman Water Committee. Adopted October 7th, 1902. Upon motion of Alderman Bacon, which was adopted, the report made and adopted at the special meeting of Council held on October 7, 1902, upon the petition of the Southern Cotton Oil Company, asking for the privilege of running a railroad track or other conveyor over the old waterworks tract, was reconsidered and the petition referred back to the Committee on Water and the Mayor with power to act, the privilege asked for to be under such conditions and agreements as the Committee on Water and the Mayor in their discretion may see proper to make. October 15th, 1902. The Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets to which was referred the petition of I. D. LaRoche, agent for Mrs. Ellen E. Lynch, offering land on Thirty-third street and Abercorn street for opening Thirty-third street, recommend that the petitioner be paid thirty-five cents per square foot for so much as may be required and one. hundred and fifty dollars for removal before January 1,1903, of old building from land conveyed. Payment for ground to be by note running two years, interest at 5 per cent., MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 331 payable annually, and for removing building in cash. Titles to be satisfactory to city attorney. . D. R. THOMAS, Chairman. Adopted Nov. 8th, 1902. The Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets, to which was referred the petition of C. Kinloch Nelson, Episcopal Bishop of Georgia, reciting that lot B of section 7, Southville ward, conveyed to the city October 20, 1870, by Dr. L. A. Falligant, "for the purposes of public highways forever and to and fqr no other use, intent or purpose whatsoever," and after the city failed to use said land for the purpose of opening Bull street deeded by Dr. L. A. Falligant to the petitioner and his successors in office, also reciting the purchase by the city of a strip of land having a front of fourteen feet on Forty-first street by a depth of ninety feet in excess of its requirement for street purposes and containing 1,305 feet and asking First. That the city quit claims to him the land conveyed by Dr. Falligant to the city and afterwards to him. Second. That the city sell to him the strip adjoining and containing 1,305 square feet. Your committee recommends the granting of both requests on conditions that as consideration for the strip of 1,305 square feet of ground on Forty-first street, the petitioner will convey to the city 3,785 square feet of lot No. 41, Brownsville ward, for opening and widening Fortieth street, and pay into the 332 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. city treasury the sum of one hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty cents. D. R. THOMAS, Chairman. Adopted November 8th, 1902. The Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets, to which was referred the petition of Thomas M. Norwood, asking that the matter of fixing line of his property on Forty-second street be referred to the city attorney, that he may investigate the question of title and report his conclusions, respectfully submit herewith the report of the city attorney, showing that the only equitable way of solving difficulty because of conflicting surveys and claims of equal dignity, is by division of the debatable ground between the parties, the city at the same time purchasing from Judge Norwood a sufficiency of the land given to him under a division to clear the openings of West Broad, Burroughs and Florance streets into Forty-second street and to fix the southern line of Forty-second street, yielding to Judge Norwood all property hitherto claimed by the city to the southward of said southern line, except the openings of said streets into Forty-second street, according to an accompanying plat by the city engineer marked Exhibit B, showing 34,324 square feet within said conflicting lines, one-half being 17,162 square feet to each party, and inasmuch as the city desires 10,051 square feet of the land awarded Judge Norwood, your committee recommends this purchase at 10 cents per square foot, the price fixed by ordinance of July 24, 1901, payment to be $65.70 in cash and $1,000 by MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 333 note, running three years, without grace, bearing interest at 5 per cent, payable annually. D. R. THOMAS, Chairman. Adopted December 10th, 1902. The Committee on Streets and Lanes, to which was referred the petition of the Savannah Electric Company, by George J. Baldwin, president, stating that the Commissioners of Chatham county, the Cen,- tral of Georgia Railway Company and your petitioners are contemplating the opening up of a 60-foot paved road from the Louisville road along the line of the old Water Works road to Bay street extension, thence via Schwarz avenue to Factory road, thence along a new 60-foot roadway situated just south of Factory road to Stiles avenue. In the carrying out of the proposed improvement the consent of the municipal authorities is desired for the erection of viaducts at the crossing of the old Water Works road and the Central of Georgia Railway, with the privilege to be granted to the railway company in the future to cross the old Water Works road with as many tracks as they may desire, the said viaducts and crossings to be at the expense of the Central of Georgia Railway. It is further asked that the city donate to the county for road and street purposes a strip of land 60 feet wide from a certain tract of land owned by the city, bounded by Stiles avenue on the west and the old Factory road on the north, extending from Stiles avenue along the south side of Factory row as far as the land of Mr. Fletcher A Exley. Your petitioners still further ask for a street railway franchise for a double track street railway on the 334 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOBT. proposed new road or street; this franchise will extend for only a few hundred feet. Prompt action is asked for oh the part of the city government to cooperate in the proposed improvement, beg to report favorably thereto, it being understood that the GuffeyBoud Petroleum Company agrees to the widening of the Factory road (this property being under lease from the city to them), by the removal of their fence line in any distance not exceeding 60 feet, all cost and expense of rebuilding fence or any changes and alterations in railroad tracks, pipe lines, etc., or other equipment shall be paid by the parties deriving the benefit therefrom, with the understanding that should they require at any future time asimilar strip of land in the rear end of the leased property by them from the city, that the same will be turned over to them without a further consideration in the annual rental. W. J. WATSON, Chairman. Adopted December 24th, 1902. RESOLUTIONS. By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets Resolved by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That the Committee on Opening Streets and City Lots be and it is hereby authorized to bargain for and purchase from the Savannah Investment Company, the grantee under the deed from the executors of Jacob Waldburg, dated August 8, 1890, at and for the sum of five hundred (500) dollars, to be covered by notes of the city at one (1) and two (2) years with interest at five (5) MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 835 per cent, per annum, the claim of the said Savannah Investment Company, as to the said grantee, to any lot in Owens ward which may have been covered by the deed of the city of Savannah to the said executors, and, particularly, to a part of lot seventy-three (73) in the said ward. Adopted January 14th, 1902. Resolved, That the offer of Mrs. Willie S. Sawyer to sell to the city so much of lots 9, 10 and 11, Swoll ward, as may be needed for opening Jones street, at ten cents per square foot, be accepted. Titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney and payment by notes running two and three years, with interest at 5 per cent, per annum. Adopted January 22nd, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Robert Culver to sell to the city so much of Lot No. 34, Meldriin ward, as may be needed for the opening of Thirty-fifth street, for three hundred dollars, be accepted ; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted February 5th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Youmans & Detnmond to selltothecity so much of lots 16,19 and 20, Brownsville, as may be needed for opening Forty-first street at seven and a half cents a square foot be accepted ; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney and payment to be by notes running two and three years, with interest at 5 per cent, per annum. Adopted February 5th, 1902. 336 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. By Alderman Dixon Resolved, That a special committee of five be appointed on city extension, who shall have authority to have a survey and maps made of the sections recently brought within the city limits showing the location of all buildings and fences, which committee, after the completion of the map, shall recommend plans for streets and wards. Adopted February 5th, 1902. In accordance with the above resolution His Honor the Mayor appointed the following committee: Aldermen Dixon, Watson, Bacon, Thomas and Schroder. By Alderman Dixon Whereas, by a recent act of the General Assembly of Georgia the corporate limits of the city of Savannah have been changed so as to omit a public highway known as Stiles avenue; and, Whereas, a petition has been presented to the Commissioners of Chatham county by a number of citizens and large tax paj'ers of this city asking said commissioners to make said Stiles avenue a public road and to extend the same; and, Whereas, such action by the County Commissioners would be greatly to the interest, not only of the tax payers of the county, but of this city ; therefore, be it Resolved, That the right to declare said Stiles avenue a public road, and to construct and use it as such, and jurisdiction over such position of said Stiles avenue, as may be outside of the corporate limits, be and the same is hereby given to the Com- MAYOB'S ANNUAL BEFORT. 337 missioners of Chatham county and ex-offieio judges until such time as the corporate limits of this city are extended so as to incorporate said Stiles avenue, the jurisdiction and rights of the city to revest in any portion of said road when said corporate limits shall include such portion. Adopted February 5th, 1902. By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets : Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That so much of the land of Mrs. Margaret D. Morrisey of Savannah, Georgia, as is needed for the extension of Thirtyfourth street, in the city of Savannah, be and the same is hereby condemned, the said land consisting of an undivided two-thirds interest in twenty-two hundred and sixty-five (2265) square feet of land, being the northern portions of lots of land in the city of Savannah known as lots one (1) and two (2) of the Brady subdivision in Estill ward, the length of which on the proposed extension of Thirty-fourth street is sixty (60) feet with a depth south of thirtyone and sixteen hundredths (31.16) feet; also, an undivided two-thirds interest in a strip of land east of said area, the said strip extending along the proposed line of Thirty-fourth street twelve and thirty-two hundredths (12.32) of a foot and along Bull street thirty-one and forty-eight hundredths [31.48] of a foot. It appearing that the Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Company, a corporation of the city of Savannah, holds security deeds made by the said Mrs. Margaret JD. Morrissey covering the said two- 338 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. thirds interest in the said property, it is further resolved that the interest of the said Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Company is .also condemned To this end John C. Rowland, of the city of Savannah, is hereby appointed the assessor on the part of the city of Savannah under the provisions of the law touching condemnation. It is further resolved that due notice of this resolution be served upon the said Mrs. Margaret D. Morrissey and the said Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Company to the end that they may select their assessor and further proceedings be had in conformity with the statute. It appearing that the proceedings heretofore had with reference to this property were taken upon the assumption that the said Mrs. Margaret D. Morrissey was the exclusive owner of all of the land needed for Thirty-fourth street, and that this was an error, it is further resolved that these proceedings be had in lieu of the former proceedings. Adopted February 5th, 1902. By the Committee on City Lots and Open ing Streets : Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That so much of land of Mrs. Mary E. Meyer, of Savannah, Georgia, as is needed for the extension of Thirty-fourth street, in the city of Savannah, be and the same is hereby condemned; the said land consisting of an undivided one-third interest in twenty-two hundred and sixtyfive (2265) square feet of land, being the northern portions of lots of land in the city of Savannah MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 339 known as lots one (1) and two (2) of the Brady subdivision in Estill ward, the length of which on the proposed extension of Thirty-fourth street is sixty (60) feet, with a depth south of thirty-one and sixteen hundredths (31.16) feet; also, an undivided one-third interest in a strip of land east of said area, the said strip extending along the proposed line of Thirtyfourth street twelve and thirty-two hundredths [12.32] of a foot and along Bull street thirty-one and forty-eight hundredths [31.48] of a foot. It appearing that Mary Simon, of Chatham county, Georgia, holds a security deed made by the said Mrs. Mary E. Meyer covering the said one-third interest in the said property, it is further resolved that the interest of the said Mary Simon is also condemned. To this end John C. Rowland, of the city of Savannah, is hereby appointed the assessor on the part of the city of Savannah under the provisions of the law touching condemnation. It is further'resolved that due notice of this resolution be served upon the said Mrs. Mary E. Meyer and the said Mary Simon to the end that they may select their assessor and further proceedings be had in conformity with the statute. Adopted February 5th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of John G. Brittle and Jordan F. Brooks as guardian and as agent to sell to the city lots 2 and 3, Law ward, and improvements thereon, for the opening of Burroughs street, for twenty-one hundred dollars, be accepted, payment to be by notes running two and three years, with in- 340 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. terest at 5 per cent, payable annually, and titles to be satisfactory to the city attorney. Adopted February 19th, 1902. By Alderman Watson Resolved, That the sums of $1,397.05 and $1,650.00 (total $3.047.05) be, and they are hereby, specially appropriated to cover the settlements of the cases of Miss Mary E. O'Brien and the Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Company. Adopted February 19th, 1902. By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, as to the petition of D. B. Lester, dated January 22, 1902, referred to the Committee of the Whole on the same date, that the petition for the use of Montgomery street to Bay street or to the Market, for the construction and operation of an electric railway line, be granted, subject to the following conditions: First. Petitioner will pay to the city of Savannah at the rate of two (2) dollars per running foot for such part of Montgomery street as he or his company may use, five thousand (5,000) dollars of this sum to be paid cash within ten (10) days from the acceptance of the franchise hereby granted, and the balance of said sum to be paid when the work begins. Second. A bond, with acceptable surety, is to be given in the sum of fifteen thousand (15,000) dollars to guarantee the completion of the said electric railway line from the city limits to White Bluff within eighteen (18) months from the date of the acceptance of the franchise. The said sum of fifteen thou- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 41 sand (15,000) dollars to be paid to the city as liquidated and stipulated damages in the event of a failure to build this outside line within the said eighteen [18] months. Third. The toll gate of the Vernon Shell Road Company is to he removed outside of the corporate limits of the city of Savannah and all claim on the White Bluff road within the said corporate limits by the said Vernon Shell Road Company is to be abandoned so as to make the said White Bluff road within the city limits a free public thoroughfare. Fourth. The electric railway line within the corporate limits of the city of Savannah shall be completed December 1, 1902, and in the event it is not completed by said date the right to build in the city limits and the money paid on account thereof are to be forfeited. Fifth. The road must enter the city limits at the intersection of Montgomery street and the city limits. Sixth. The franchise must be accepted within thirty (30) days from the passage of this resolution by a written acceptance filed with the clerk of Council. Seventh. The rights granted hereunder must be upon condition that they do not impair or affect in any way the city's right to charge the taxes, property or specific, contemplated by the city ordinances, or similar taxes and, particularly, specific taxes based upon mileage for the use of Montgomery street. Adopted February 19th, 1902. 342 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Mrs. Belle S. llardee to sell to the city lot No. 12, Schley ward, with improvements, for opening Atlantic street, at nine hundred dollars, be accepted. Payments to be by notes of the city, running two and three years, with interest at five per cent., payable annually. Title to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted March 5th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of the estate of James M. Schley to sell to the city all of its land north of Bolton street necessary to open Atlantic street fifty feet wide,for one thousand dollars,payable by note running one year at five per cent, be accepted. Titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted March 5th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of A. H. Entelman to sell to the city lot No. 11, Schley ward, with improvements thereon, for the opening of Atlantic street, at one thousand dollars, be accepted. Payment to be by notes running two and three years with interest at 5 per cent., payable annually. Titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted March 5th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of C. H. Ward, chairman of trustees of Brownsville Protective and Relief Club, to sell to the city lot 18 Brownsville ward, for the opening of Forty-first street, at 7i cents per square MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 343 foot be accepted, payment to be by notes running one and two years, with interest at five per cent., payable annually, and titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted March 5th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of A. P. Solomon to sell to the city lot H Southville ward, with improvements, for opening Abercorn street, for eighteen hundred dollars, be accepted. Titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted March 5th, 1902. By Alderman Watson Resolved, That the Committee on Streets and Lanes be directed to lay sidewalks on the following streets in accordance with the amended ordinance adopted by Council on February 19: Harmon street, from Wheaton street to Anderson street; Henry street, from Waters avenue to Habersham street; Duffy street, from Atlantic street to Waters avenue; Park avenue, from Waters avenue to East Broad street. Laid on the table until the next regular meeting. Adopted March 5th, 1902. Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That so much of that lot of land, the property of the Board of Public Education for the city of Savannah, in the city of Savannah, known on the map of said city as lot twelve (12) Davis ward, as is needed for the extension of Gaston street, formerly Davis street, between East Broad and Bowen streets, and on the south side 344 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. of Gaston street, be and the same is hereby condemned for the widening of said portion of Gaston street, formerly Da vis street, and to this end that John C. Rowland, of the city of Savannah, be and he is hereby appointed the assessor on the part of the city of Savannah under the provisions of law touching condemnation. It is further resolved, that due notice of this resolution be served upon the said Board of Public Education for the city of Savannah and further proceedings be had in conformity with the statute. Adopted March 19th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That the petition of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten, this day filed with the Clerk of Council, be granted, and that the said Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten be authorized to sell and dispose of all of lot eighty (80) and part of lot seventy-nine (79) Solomons ward, in the city of Savannah, consisting of sixty (60) feet on Whitaker street and one hundred and ten (110) feet on Thirty-eighth street, free from all claims of the city of Savannah and from the condition mentioned in the deed of June 26, 1901, from the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah to the said Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten. The purchase price, over and above seventeen hundred (1700) dollars, is to be used in the improvement of the lot in Lester ward, on the northeast corner of Montgomery and Thirty-first streets, mentioned in the said petition, which lot is to be conveyed by George J. Baldwin to MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 345 the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten in lieu of the property first mentioned, and is to be held under the condition mentioned in the deed of June 26, 1901. A purchaser, however, from the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten shall not be bound to look to the use of the money. Referred to the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets March 19th, 1902. By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, Two telegrams from Mr. D. B. Lester to the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah concerning street franchises having been read. In view of the fact that Council is opposed to the placing of a fourth [4th] street car track on Bay street and the further fact that Mr. Lester has regarded the price fixed by Council for the use of Montgomery street as unreasonable, that Council regards it as useless to submit, for Mr, Lester's consideration, any further propositions. Adopted March 19th, 1902. By Alderman Watson Resolved, That the Committee on Streets and Lanes be directed to lay sidewalks on the following streets,. in accordance with the amended ordinance adopted by Council on Feb. 19 : Harnaon street from Wheaton street to Anderson street. Henry street from Waters avenue to Habersham street. Duffy street from Atlantic street to Waters avenue. Park avenue from Waters avenue to East Broad street. Taken from the table and adopted April 2d, 1902. 346 JiAYOR'S ANNUAL By Alderman Watson Whereas, There ia now pending in the Senate of the United States a bill to authorize the construction of a traffic bridge across the Savannah river from the city of Savannah to Hutchinson's Island, said bill having already passed the House of Representatives; and, Whereas, It is provided in the said bill that in addition to the plans for such bridge being subject to the approval of the War Department, it shall be built upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, thus protecting the interests of all concerned ; and, Whereas, the building of such a bridge is necessary for the complete development of Hutchinson's Island for commercial and manufacturing purposes, and eventually will lead to a direct and easy means of access with South Carolina, aiding materially in the upbuilding of Savannah and redounding to the benefit of the people of this city and State, as well as those of a large section of South Carolina; therefore, be it Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council assembled, That this body endorses the bill providing for such a bridge, and respectfully urges Senators Bacon and Clay to use their united efforts to secure its passage. Be it further resolved, That the Clerk of Council immediately telegraph the above preamble and resolution to each of Georgia's Senators and to the Committee on Commerce of the Senate. Adopted April 2d, 1902. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 347 By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of H. Rivers to sell to the city lot number 22, Swoll ward, with improvements thereon for the opening and widening of Jones and West Boundary streets at five hundred dollars be acceptedpayments to be by notes of the city, running two and three years, with interest at 5 per cent, payable annually, and titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted April 2d, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Horace Rivers to sell to the city so much of lot 63, Brownsville, as may be needed for opening Thirty-ninth street to its full width for two hundred and fifty dollars, to include cost of moving building therefrom, be accepted payment to be by note running two years, with interest at five per cent.; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted April 2d, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Samuel Alexander to sell to the city all of his land in Swoll ward, with improvements thereon, for opening Jones street, for thirteen hundred and fifty dollars, be acceptedpayment to be by note running one year, with interest at 5 per cent., and titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted April 2d, 1902. 348 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the resolution passed in Council Nov. 27, 1901, accepting an offer of Horace Rivers to sell land for Davis street at 18 cents per foot be rescinded, and that instead thereof his offer of all of his land that may be needed to open and widen said Davis, now Gaston street, to a width of forty feet, from Price street to Bo wen street, for si* hundred dollars, be acceptedpayment to be by notes running two and three years, with interest at five per cent., payable annually ; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted April 2d, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Mrs. Harriet B. Wheeler to sell to the city Lot No. 44, Brownsville ward, for the opening of Fortieth street, at 8 cents per square foot, be acceptedpayment to be by note of the city running two years, with interest at 5 per .cent., payable annually; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted April 2d, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Hugh Logan to sell to the city Lot No. 21, Southville ward, Maupus avenue, for opening Drayton street, for six hundred and fifty dollars, be acceptedpayment to be by note running two years, with interest at 5 per cent., payable annually; titles to be satisfactory to the Cily Attorney. Adopted April 2d, 1902. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 319 By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Dr. L. A. Falligant to sell to the city Lot No. 26, Demere ward, for opening Thirty-ninth street, for two hundred and fifty dollars, be acceptedpayment to be by note running two years, and titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted April 2d, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Whereas, the General Assembly, by an act approved Dec. 19, 1901, has authorized the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah to close Center street from Bulloch street to the Ogeechee road, and to convey to Anna Brown the portion so closed; therefore, be it Resolved by the Mayor and Aldermen in Council assembled, That the said Center street from. Bulloch street to the Ogeeehee road be declared closed, and that the 16,200 square feet of ground be conveyed to Miss Brown, when she shall, without farther consideration, convey to the Mayor and Aldermen her land needed for opening and widening streets as follows: 3,298 square feet, making Willow street 30 feet wide from Bulloch street to the Ogeechee road, 480 square feet for Fortieth street west of Florence street, and 10,050 square feet for making Bulloch street forty feet wide from Willow street to Church alley. Adopted April 2d, 1902. By Alderman Watson Resolved, by the mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in council assembled, That the Committee on Streets and Lanea be and it ia hereby au- 350 MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. thorized and directed to have laid, under the terms and provisions of the ordinance touching uniformity in sidewalks, etc., a sidewalk on Gwinnett street from the western side of West Broad street to Cemetery street, on both sides of said Gwinnett street, and to be of a width often (10) feet each, making provision for a grass plat of twelve (12) feet on each side of said street, and a roadway of thirty-five (35) feet, and to lay on Henry street from the western side of West Broad street to Cemetery street and on each side of said Henry street a sidewalk of ten (10) feet in width, making provision for a grass plat on each side of the street of twelve (12) feet in width and a roadway of thirty (30) feet in width ; the material to be selected by the said committee, and the work to be done and sidewalks laid at the expense of the property owners should they fail or refuse to do so, and under the terms and provisions of the existing ordinance. Taken from the table and adopted April 30th 1902. By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets: Resolved, That the offer of James Elliott to sell to the city the northern one-half of Lot No. 16 Brownsville ward, with the improvements thereon, for the opening of Thirty-seventh street, at five hundred dollars, be accepted ; payment to be ninety-three 75-100 dollars cash, and note of the city running two years for four hundred and six and 20-100 dollars, with interest at 5 per cent., payable annually; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted April 30th, 1902. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 851 By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets : Resolved, That the offer of Mary Simpson to sell to the city the southern half of Lot No. 116 Brownsville ward, for the opening of Thirty-seventh street, for three hundred dollars, be accepted; payment to be fifty-six 25-100 dollars cash and note of the city running two years for two hundred, forty-three and 75-100 dollars, with interest at five per cent, payable annually ; titles to be satisfactory'to the City Attorney. Adopted April 30th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Wm. McNichols to sell to the city Lot No. 17 Brownsville ward, for opening Forty-first street, for nine hundred and seventy-five dollars, be accepted; payment to be by notes of the city running one, two and three years, with interest at 5 per cent., payable annually; he is to remove the building now on the lot at his expense and risk within sixty days; titles to be"satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted May 14th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Abram Minis, agent for owners, under the will of Mrs. D. Minis and their assigns, of land in Bacon ward, to sell to the city so much thereof as may be needed for opening and widening Lavinia street to a width of fifty feet, Wilder street to a width of fifty feet, Willow street to a width of fifty feet, Florence street to a width of forty feet, Harden street from Willow to Lavinia to a width of forty feet, and Bulloch streetfrom Willow 352 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. to Wilder street to a width of forty feet, at 10 cents per square foot, be accepted; payments to be by notes running one, two and three years, with interest at 5 per cent, payable annually, the city to pay cost of removing buildings in Lavinia street; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted May 14th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Catherine C. Baker to sell to the city Lot No. 112 Brownsville ward, for the sum of thirteen hundred and ten dollars, for the opening of Thirty-seventh street, be accepted ; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney and payments on execution of titles as follows: Three hundred and ten dollars in cash and notes of the city, one for three hundred and thirty-three and 33-100 dollars, to run one year; another for three hundred and thirty-three 34-100 dollars, to run two years; and a third for three hundred and thirty-three 33-100 dollars, to run three years, the notes to bear interest at 5 per cent., payable annually from the 15th day of December next, by which date the said Catherine C. Baker is to give full possession of the entire lot by having previously removed the building, fences, plants and vines therefrom at her expense and risk. Adopted May 14th, 1902. By Alderman Dixon Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in council assembled, That the sum of one thousand (1,000) dollars be and the same is here- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 353 by appropriated to the Union Society for its charitable uses and purposes for the year 1902. Adopted May 14th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offerof Rivers, Gibbes & Garmany to sell to the city so much of the Lawton tract as may be needed for opening Bull street at eighteen cents per square foot, also so much of the land of H. Rivers et al. as may.be needed for the opening of Bull street at 15 cents per square foot, be accepted ; payments to be by notes running one, two and three years, with interest at 5 per cent., payable annually ; the buildings to be removed at cost to the city of not exceeding seven hundred dollars; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted May 14th, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of C. H. Dorsett to sell to the city so much of his land as may be needed for widening Bulloeh street to a width of forty feet and for opening Stevens street from Forty-second street northward to a width of forty feet at seven cents per square foot, and for opening Fortieth street so much of Lots Nos. 8, 12, 14 and 21 of Demere ward as may be needed, at seven and a-half cents per square foot, be accepted; payments to be by notes running one, two and three years, with interest at 5 percent., payable annually; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted May 28th, 1902. 354 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPOBT. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Mrs. B. Brady to sell to the citv so much of Lots Nos. 208 and 209 Dasher V ward as may be needed for opening and widening Thirty-sixth street, at 25 cents per square foot, be accepted ; the fence and hydrant to be removed at the city's expense; payments to be eighty-two 62-100 dollars cash and balance in notes running one, two and three years, with interest at 5 per cent., payable annually; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted June llth, 1902. By Alderman Dixon Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah in council assembled, That the sum of $173.55 be and the same is hereby appropriated to the Georgia Infirmary for its charitable uses and purposes for the year 1902. Adopted June llth, 1902. By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets be authorized to purchase from Dr. L. A. Falligant so much of his land as is needed for opening Whitaker street, between Anderson street and Rober's line, at forty-five cents per square foot; payments to be by notes running one, two and three years, with interest at 5 per cent., payable annually, and to pay one hundred and fifty dollars in cash for removal of building so that no portion of the building or stoop shall remain within the line of any street; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted June 25th, 1902. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 866 By Alderman Thomas Resolved, That the offer of Dr. L. A. Falligant to sell to the city so much of his land as may ba needed for opening and widening Stevens street at seven cents per square foot be accepted; payments to be by notes running one, two and three years, with interest at 5 per cent., payable annually; titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney. Adopted June 25th, 1902. By Alderman Dixon Resolved, That because of the public and unsectarian character of the charity the sum of $356.25 is hereby donated to the Savannah Port Society to be used by it in the settlement of the tax execution for municipal taxes. Adopted July 9th, 1902. By Alderman Dixon Resolved, That the sum of $2.790.28 used by direction of Council in caucus for the purpose of settling the claim and suit of Rourke, Mitchell