The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-01
TO CUT OFF EXCURSIONS.
REPRESENTATIVE RIVALS BILL
STIRS Up THE RAILROADS.


The Purpose of the Bill 70 Stop Disor-
derry Sunday Excursions The Etfoc-
it VIII Rave on Tybee-G General
Manager Gabbett Says the Bill Is %
Blow at the Working People q
Well as the Railroads and Will Hur
| Savannah.
! Representative Ryals spent yesterdays :
home. He was seen by representative oil
the MORNING NEWS In regard TO the bi.
before the legislature to compel railroads t.
| discontinue Sunday excursions.
The whole purport Of my bill" said Maj
Ryals, sis to put stop to the indiscriminata
Sunday excursion business carried on
throughout the state. People come into
the cities from along the lines of railroad
and become intoxicated. The same night
they are dropped at home ia a quarrelsone
state in communities which have no protec-
ton
The bill is intended more to put an end to
tae negro excursions on Sunday than any
ting else.
Ia reply to question if be did not think tn
bill, if 1t should become a law, would seri
ously injure Tybee, Maj. Ryals replied that
he did Iot. The measure, he said, is not
intended to interfere with the regular
schedule trains, and the railroads can issue
reduced rate tickets Oh regular trains as
much as they please.
The bill has been read twice in the House,
and will probably come up today for the
third reading, and Maj. Ryals feels salts
fled that it will pass, and will go to the
Senate
THE RAILROADS OPPOSED TolT.
Railroad men generally, and the Central
railroad in particular, are very much ex-
erciSed over the Introduction Of Maj. Ryals'
bill.
General Manager Gabbett, in speaking to
a MORNING News reporter about the bill,
said that If it is passed it will
break up the Central's Tybes business for
next summer. Everybody remembers the
immense crowds brought down every Sun
day last summer to Tybee by the Central's
excursions from Augusta and other points
1t is the intention of the Central manage
ment to make these cheap excursions the
feature Of the Tybee season next summer,
as it was last summer, and to bring down
even greater crowds TO the seashore. The
Rynls bill would prevent this. Mr.. Gabbett
declared that the bill is blow ct the work
ingmen.
The classes Of people who avail
themselves of the cheap Sunday
excursions to the seashore are working
people," he said, ''chiehy the employees ia
the large cotton factories at Augusta, who
are confined 10 their work six days in the
week and are unable to leave their homes
any day but Sunday. II it we're not for these
cheap excursions they would have no oppor-
tunity Of visiting the seashore
and obtaining the rest and re-
creation afforded by the change.
There would be no pleasure to them in
spending the Sabbath in the hot, dusty city,
within the walls of houses not any too COM
Portable at best, most probably. Every one
knows how hot it grows in the interior cities
an midsummer, how dry and dusty every
thing is, and how tiresome everything is
to the eye. A change of only one
day is refreshing and iuvigorating, and
brightens them up for the wholeaweek's
work.
RELIGION IN ENJOYMENT.
There is more religion, l take It,"
said Mr.. Gabbett, ''if Mr.. Ryals bases
his bill on religious grounds in spending
the Sabbath in the refreshing breszas of the
seashore than within four hot walls
whole family cooped up together, the hus.
baud maybe drunk and the wife and
children peovsh and fretful"
THE bill," said MIR. Gabbett, 'does
not affect the rich at all, as
they can afford to 80 to the
fashionable watering places without wait
ing for an excursion, and usually pay the
full fare to Tybee, sleeping car included,
when they visit here. 1t is only the poor,
who have only dollar or two to spend for
pleasure Of this kind, and one day to spend
it in, that is affected by this bill. Anybody
that has seen how those people enjoyed a
day at Tybee last summer can appreciate
the truth of what say. 1t seemed TO put
new life and strength in them, and they
we're evidently as happy as people can be.
To deprive these people OF that pleasure is
wrong. The bill is an outrage, not on the
railroads, but on the people"