The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-21
TO START NEXT WEEK.
THE SAVANNAH AND ISLE OF
HOPE READY FOR OPERATION.

Car lines, electric and otherwise, are the
motive power Of development aud progress.
At leas. it is 50 in Savannah. The suburbs
are more fortunate, however, than the cen
ter of the city, for electric cars appear to
be rushing about in every direction.
Anywhere at night st Get cars form part
of the picture, with their red and yellow
lights.
A few years ago the improvement boom
was southwest. A little later it changed to
the southwark, and now, with new electric
street lines and the building OF the Savan-
nah and Isle of Hope railway, the greatest
development yet known in the city appears
to be il the southeastern section.
The pioneers in the development OF cities,
as they are in new countries are the middle
classes, those OF the happy mean between
the nearly poor and the nearly rich.
THE MARCH OF DEVELOPMENT.
The land southeast of the CITY from
Lovers Lane TO Estill avenue, south and
east from the line of the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway tracks, Is
a beautiful, level plateau. For a
long time it did not attract the
attention Of the people who invest
in property for city purposes, but few
years ago there was q rush for it, and it is
now held by a number of syndicates aud
associations which are gradually disposing
OF it in small blocks 10 those who profit by
selling again by lots TO prospective builders.
or course, it is hardly possible that these
lots viii jump from 500 and s4O0 each to
$4,000 and $4,000, like those q mile or less
north Of them did few years ago, but
that they will % up into "high prices" is
beyond question. People who seldom get
off Bay street or Broughton street, except
to go to their homes and back, are aston
ished when they take ride or walk through
the city.
TO START NEXT WEEK.
The Savannah and Isle of Hope railroad
will be in operation next week between Sa-
vannah and Thunderbolt Advices have been
received of the shipment of the cars for the
road several days ago, and when they ar
rive everything viii be In readiness to
operate the road. A regular schedule will
be run from Savannah to Thunderbolt, and
passengers from Thunderbolt will be put
down at the city market, q transfer being
made to the Belt Line at the junction,
at Estill avenue aud Habersham street
The depot will be located there
The cars are OF the very best make. having
been constructed to run on the Brooklyn
bridge, N. Y, and used there u shor5 time,
but 1t being found necessary to use larger
cars, these cars were dispensed with. The
motive power will be dummy engine OF the
latest improved pattern. The dummy will
be used for the present, but it is con-
templated to use electricity as soon as the
necessary arrangements are completed.
TO GO ON TO ISLE OF HOPE.
The line is TO be extended to the Isle OF
Hope. Ii is the best built street and
suburban railroad around Savannah OF
anywhere in this section. The track is
Splendidly built and graded, and looks like
that OF any railroad operated for general
traffic. The roadbed is a revelation TO thost
who are accustomed to seeing a buried ly
built street railroad track laid withou,
any regard for levels ana grading
The Savannah and Isle of Hope has
gone ahead so quietly with its work,
and there has been 60 little said, that the
general public is in entire ignorance of
wnat has been done and the objects the
company have IN view. In company witt
President ID. q. Purse of the railroad com
pany, a MORNING NEWS reporter went Out
yesterday afternoon for survey Of the new
road and the section through which il runs.
President Purse is somewhat of an enthu-
siast upon the prospects of that section, bat
no one who understands the situation as be
does could be otherwise.
COMPLETED TO THUNDERBoLT.
The Savannah and Isle Of Hope is built
from junction with the Bell line at
Habersham street and Estill avenue to
Thuuderbolt, a distance of thres and n
quarter miles. II will be extended TO Isle of
Hope at once, and will be the shortest and
most convenient route TO that point. The
new road opens up a splendid section of
the county to settlement as city
lots, suburban residence and garden farms.
AT the beginning Of the road is the large
tract of land, owned by a well-known citi-
zer, embracing lots on Estill, South, Lamar
and Maupas avenues, which is thus made
directly accessible by railroads along its
entire length. A spur will be run from the
intersection of Estill avenue and Waters
road, down the Waters road TO Lovers lane
or Anderson street extended. and west on
Anderson street 10 thu Savannah, Florida
and Western railroad crossing, where il
VIII be me; by the projected extension Of
the Bell Line down Anderson street.
TO OPEN UP THE LANDS.
This will open up the lands held by the
Merchants aud Mechanics Loan aud Build
ing Company on Waters road. This COM
pany owns q half mile front on the Waters
road, beginning at the corner of Lovers
lane. opposite the lot recently sold by the
Savannah Real Estate, Loan and Building
Company for 81, 900. aud having depsh OF
1850 feet, containing about sixty acres in q
parailelogram shape. Further on the Mer-
chants aud MechanicS' own 100 acres, com-
menclng on the south side of Es,iII avenue
extended, with a front OF 1,400 feet on
Waters road, and running 5000 feet to the
Bee road, having q front of 1000 feet on
the Bee road. This land is finely situated
being high and rolling and overlooking the
city. They also have tract OF sixty acres
northeast of the last naned tract, with a
frontage of 400 feet on the Bee road and a
depth of 2, 100 feet east from the Bee road.
THROUGH CUYLER SWAMP
Near there the railroad crosses Cuyler
swamp. The avenue cut by the track
through thsswanp shows view clear to
the salt marshes at Thunderbolt almost.
Nothing shows more plainly than this that
1t is only the heavy growth Of the swamp
that intervenes and shuts off thu salt
breeZes which come from Thun.
derbolt. If the swamp were
cleared the breeze would have "a
clear sweep to the city and Savannah would
be on par with Thunderbolt for comfort
In summer. The great advantage in clear
ing the swamp, however. would be that by
80 dong it would no longer be a swamp,
but would become tillable land, and il
would be an easy matter to keep the Casey
canal, which runs through it, in good con-
dition.
The MORNING NEWS has several times
urged the advisability of having this work
done by the county commissioners. About
100 acres are all that it would be necessary
TO clear.
LAND AT GOOD PRICES.
On the other side of the Cuyler swamp
the Merchants and Mechanics owns from
the Boneventure branch of the Skidaway
shell road to the Thunderboit branch TIE
clmDanV owns everything betWeen these