The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-09
TYBEE'S BIGGESTDAY YET
5000 PEOPLE ALL DAY AND PART
OF A NIGET AT TEE BEACH.

5000 PEOPLE ALL DAY AND PART
OF A MIGHT AT TEE BEACH.
The Crowd Too Great for the Railroad
to Handle-The Schedule Abandoned
at Night, and Trains Run from Each
Ind OF the Road-A Run of at
Furber's Point-scenes on the Trains
and at the Island-The Hotels, Cot
tages and Pavilions Crowded with
Belated Excursionists.
Over 5000 people spent yesterday and
most of last night at Tybee. The first train
10 the island left the city ASSOC o'clock and
was well filled. The second train, which
was 10 have left an hour later, ran in two
section Of five coaches each and every
coach was crowded The 11:20 train
went down packed. TIE first afternoon
trains were scheduled to leave at 20 and
o'clock but the schedule was consolidated,
and the train left nearly an hour late. The
4l5 and $50 trains were also consolidated.
THE NIGHT SCHEDULE ABANDONED.
After o'clock the schedule to the island
was not adhered t.. Two trains left the
city last night and both we're well filed, but
the greater part Of the crowd
went down In the afternoon
that caused the trouble At 1890 o'clocs
this morning Supt. Cobb said that about
1900 people had been brought up. The
schedule from Tybee was abandoned after
z o'clock, when the last regular tt ain left
the island aud reached the city at II O'Clock.
The train scheduled to leave at 9:55 did not
leave until after midnight, and arrived
in the city little Otter
l o'clock this morning. The train was
composed of nine coaches and was packed,
and people hung on the platforms and
wherever they could get place.
RUN-oFF AT TYBEE.
The delay in starting was caused by the
derailment of truck on the Y at FuFbes's
point. At 100 o'clock there were still
1900 people on the island The second
section of the train which left at midnight
was composed Of eight cars, and was packed
a1d jammed with tired out and Impatient
sightseers They stood on the platforms,
and hung on 10 the window frames. The
hotels were crowded early in the day, ard
last night people slept in the Railways, on
the balconies aud in the payilions. Men,
women AID children, tired out with the
days doings had TO stay where they could
until the trains left, and those who could
not find hanging room on the platforms,
camped wherever they could.
TYBEE's BIGGEST DAY.
Never before in TYbees hiatJry had there
been such q crowd. The railroad was
totally unable to handle it. Sapt. Cobb
was seen at / O'Clock this morning,
and he said that tho road handled the
crowd the best it could. The company had
twenty-seven coaches. 1t was not the in
tention, be said, to run the schedule after g
o'clock He could not say what were the
causes of the delays at Tybee, as he was
then at this end of the road.
The crowds which were waiting at the
island when the midnight train left about
gave up hope of getting to the city before
daylight. The train which left at O'Clock
stopped at the Savannah, Florida and
Western crossing, east of the Bllbo canal
10 allow the outgoing tram from
the city to pass, and many
people walked into the depot. A passenger
who came up at 30 o'clock said that it was
apparent that there was something wrong
with the railroad. 1t failed to adhere to
the advertised schedule, and as result more
than a thousand people were disappointed
in getting to the island, and z, 900 people
had tn make the best they could of half
nights stay there At 2 O'clock it was es-
timated that not more than three-fourths
of the crowd had been brought mp.
THE FIREWORKS DISPLAY.
The display Of fireworks was very fine,
and lasted for fully an hour and a half.
Some very pretty pieces were touched off
liarly beautiful, and were a blending of
many colors, every unique piece set off
being applauded by the thousands who wit
messed the exhibition. There were many
amusing figures in the day fireworlls. On
tie whole, while they were not so
elaborate as those at the jasper cen
tsnniai, they were above the average
and appeared to much better advantage
last night than on the rainy night OF the
Jasper festival as moonlight ard STARLIGHT
FeieBed supreme in G cioudless sky, and the
many colored pieces that foated over the
picturesque palnettos on shore and the
rockets which shot out over the beach were
reflected on the sea, lending an air Of roman
BIC beauty to the surroundings. Then there
was the merry music, the dance, the gay
conversation, the restless beat of the surf
on the beach, all coming to make the night
on the island one # the biggest in its his
tory, and never before wero SO many Wis
itors as last night.
THE LITTLE SOLDIERS DRILL.
The prize drill by the Busch Zouaves and
the Barlow Light Infantry took place on
the beach, nearly in front of the Ocean
View hotel, at $50 O'clock and was one Of
the events Of the day. Crowds of people
gathered on the beach 10 witness the drill
Of the little soldiers 1t was a novel and
pretty sight, and the young lads, in
military sense, covered them
selves with glory. The drill was
in the school Of the soldier, the manual,
and was highly creditabls to both compa-
MES. The Zouayes won the pgiz9-a silver
medal-and It was gracefully awarded by
Lieut.. J. +. Brooks Of the Cadets, who was
one Of the judges.
DROWNED AT TYBEE BEACH.
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