The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-21
THE RUSH TO TIE SEASIDE
The Savannah and Atlantic Taxed to
Carry the Crowds.

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Yesterday was red letter day upon the
excursion list. The great volume of sum
mer travel over the Central lines reached
its climax, and Tybee's popularity with
the people Of the state attained it's hight so
far. All day long the Central passenger
depot was crowded, and the street
car lines were kept busy trans
ferIing the crowds to and from the
Iybee depot. Every train that left the
Iybee depot during the day went out
crowded, and on some of them standing
room was at premium.
The grand rush began early in the morn
ing, when the night train on the Central
came in at $50 o'clock with
80 passengers. Among the crowd
were large number Of excursiOnists from
Atlanta and still larger number from
Macon. Several parties Of ladies and gen
tlemen from Macon aud Atlanta were on
board. Tybee as the destination OF the
larger portion of the crowd.
The Augusta special brought down
about 600 passengers at 10 o'clock, $50 OF
whom betOOk themselves TO TYbee.
The "Shoohy" came in loaded to its full
capacity and the Savannah, Americas and
Montgomery ex ,ursion brought in a large
crowd from along the new road,
over $50 Of the passengers being
DOuuu lot yOee. All Uue Trains CoLllhS
were loaded and the outgoing trains were
jammed. A large number also came in
over the Savannah, Florida and Western,
which is now selling excursion tickets to
Tybee from all points along its line.
President Purse, General Agent Wood
ruff and their corps of assistants at the
Tybee depotwere kept busy all day. Nearly
1000 tickets were sold at the depot, and, in
Guiding excursionists, 1,500 would be fair
aS,ft ,Gka,- iaI ba
As on account of the pleasant day most
of the Savannah people spent the day In
the city, the majority Of these were
strangers. The result at Tybee was grand
rush all the way around. The crowd
seemed to prefer the Ocean house as a land
ing place. but they filed the whole beach,
the surf included. Though large numbers
brought their lunch with them, the hotels
could hardly accommodate the demand.
Graham's Ocean House was taxed to its
utmost capacity at dinner and the tables
were filed five times. The crowd almost
drank Dub's bar dry and six barkeepers
worked like wheel-horses to supply the
thirsty. Nearly 500 people dined at the
Hotel Tybee.
Everybody had big time and was happy
and casualties were few. only one accident
of a serious nature being reported.
The rush from the island began early in
SiiC oAuNA LOcus M - " ClOCh O1O lClIdlDOcL
of the Central railroad employees excursion
from Macon and Columbus left on their
special train. There were over 500 in the
crowd
The depot and the street adjacent was q
mass of humanity the whole afternoon.
All the regular trains went out loaded, and
when the excursionists got under the shed
space was scarce. Even after the Augusta
excursion and the Miilen train pulled out
n crowd rqmajppd in the dpDOt
The travel on the regular trains was re-
markable. The train leaving at $40 p. NJ
carried out ten coaches. six passenger and
four sleepers, all loaded. An extra coach
has been ordered added to the passenger
leaving at $40 this morning to accommo-
date people leaving the city. Many of the
eXcursionists remained over for this train.