The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-03
AFTER DRAYTON STREET.
THE BELT LINE AND ENTERPRISE
RAILWAY BOTH WANT IT.


The Enterprise Company's PROPOSE
ton to Asphalt the Street for the
Right to Put Down TRACKS to be
Before the City Council at It's Next
Meeting-The City and suburban's
Extension to Warsaw from Isle of
Hope Being Talked OF Again.
There will be more or less street railway
matters to occupy the attention OF the city
council at its next meeting. the ordinance
70 grant the Savannah and Rural Resort or
Belt Line, the City and Suburban and the
Coast Lines the right to put up overhead
electric wires TO operate their cars by cleo
trio motive power will come up for action.
1t Is understood that the projectors of the
Enterprise street railway will have a
proposition before the council to asphalt
Drayton street, from the Bay to Anderson
street. in return for the right of double
tracking the street with their railway.
1t is said the Belt Line wants the use Of
Drayton street for another north and south
line, and if it should come to a question Of
competition between the two companies,
the city may be able to make even better
bargain than the one proposed by the Enter
prise company
LOOKED UPON FAVoRABLY.
A group of gentlemen was discussing the
proposition yesterday and it was suggested
that whichever company is given the right
to put down tracks in Drayton street should
agree to open the street from Anderson to
Twelfth street, the southern boundary line
OF the corporation. A councilman who was
present was inclined to the opinion that the
suggestion was well put. He remarked that
the city is building rapidly southwark and
IN few years when the southern extension
comes within the taxable limits it will have
been comparatively well built up, and paved
streets will have TO be extended southwark.
1t is good time, he thinks, for the extern
sion OF street railways in that direction, and
the Belt line people had shown their wisdom
when making their belt to have included
the southern extension.
The Belt Line is said to be in position TO
get along without Drayton street if it can
get the City and Suburban. 1t will then
have north and south lines on Randolph,
East Broad, Habersham, Abercorn, Whit
aker, a portion Of Barnard, Montgomery
and West Broad.
THE SOUTH LAKE ROAD.
The South Lake and Germantown Com
pany has not yet divulged what streets it
wants, but as it makes Twelfth and Mont
gornery streets its starting point for the
road to the salts, it is believed that it wants
TO come down Montgomery street.
1t is said that the road projected TO the
Little Ogeechee by the South Lake and
Germantown company, and the action of
the Nashville syndicate in putting in an
electric plant to operate the Belt line, and
probably TO extend it to the salts, and its
probable effort 10 track Drayton street to
cut into the Abercorn line, as it is predicted
the West Broad street line will be cut by
the Belt Line on Montgomery street. has
tended to revise the project Of extending
the Coast line to Warsaw Island, by the
shortest line from Isle Of Hope, and it is
believed by many that it will be built be-
fore the end of another season.
MR.. PARSONS WARSAW SCHEME.
Those well informed say that Mr.. Parsons
is not unwilling TO dispose of the City and
Suburban road from Savannah to Mont
gomery, and they argue that as the greater
part of that line has already been emascu-
lated, his willingness to dispose of it goes to
prove that Warsaw Island is to be the OBJ
jective point of the Coast Line road. In
fact it is said that had not the Tybee
road been built the Coast Line would now
be in operation to Warsaw. The question
whether two seaside resorts would pay has
been problem not clear enough thus far
to warrant the extension to Warsaw, but
with the increasing population of the city
and the popularity of Tybee with the
people of the interior, it is believed Mr.
Parsons will make the venture next year to
build a magnificent hotel at Warsaw, and
lay off lots fronting the beach, and make
the island a summer resort.
The indications point to two new street
railway lines and at least one more sub
urban line, with the probable extension to
Warsaw Island by next season,