The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24
TO RUN THREE BELTS.
The Electric Railway 70 Put a New
Service in Operation.

The Electric railway is preparing to
make a decided improvement in the
! service Of its combined system of rail
ways, especially the Barnard street line.
The Barnard and Anderson street line
is TO be extended along East Broad from
Anderson street to a junction with tn e
present belt at East Broad and Gwinnett
streets, and will constitute a separate
belt. To do this it will be necessary to
lay track for about six blocks on East
Broad street, from Anderson street to
Gwinnett, a distance of 1000 feet. Notice
of application to the city council for per-
mi ssion to do this was published in yes
terday's MORNING News
The Barnard street line will then be
made belt by using the track OF the
outer belt on East Broad street, from
Gwinnett street to Bay street and up Bay
street to the city exchange, where the
line now begins Six cars will be placed
on the belt instead of three as at present.
AS the cars will run. around the belt,
and not simply to one end Of the line and
back again, as { present, it will be pos
sible to operate a much more convenient
schedule A twele minute schedule
will be operated, that is, an in
terval of twelve minutes between each
car going in the same direction. In
GLIDING the cars passing both ways this
will give a car every six minutes passing
Bay street on the Barnard street line.
Including the cars on the outer belt
there will be au Electric railway car pass
ing the city exchange on Bay street every
three minutes. The advantage of this
schedule is at once apparent to those
living along the line. If a man who wishes
to take the car on Bay street for his house
on either Of the belts and happens TO miss
the car which reaches his house in the
shortest period of time he can take the
car going the other way and reach his
house by longer ride. If he lives on the
east side of town any of the Bay street
cars of the Electric railway will take him
to his home.
BY constructing the Barnard street
line into belt the Electric railway will
be in operation of three belts, the old
belt line or the outer belt, the Barnard
street belt, and the Price street line or
inner belt
On the inner belt ten minute schedule
viii be operated, on the Barnard street
belt a twelve minute schedule and on tine
outer belt a fifteen minute schedule. The
full schedule will be run up to 9o'clock at
night, after which cars will be run at
longer intervals until after midnight.
There has been some com plant made be-
cause the Eledtric Railway Company has
refused TO give transfers from its Price
street belt to the lines of the Belt Line
which it now controls. President Col
Inns attention was called TO this yester-
day and he was asked the reason Of the
refusal to transfer.
1--WE have not yet arranged our transfer
points, " said Mr.. Collins. LAS you know,
while the Electric railway practically
owns the Belt Line roads, it does not tee
uically own them and we cannot be re
quircd to give transfers The agreement
of the street railways with the city is
that continuous passage should be given
from any point on their lines to any other
point Tho two systems, the
Price street belt and the
old belt, are so distinct and
separate that I do not think the require
nient applies TO them. We are not dis
posed, however, 10 begrudge the public
any convenience that can reasonably be
afforded Wewill arrange transfer points
when it appears that the travel is suf-
tcicnt to demand it. The main transfer
point will be at the company's Office at
Gwinnett and Price streets, where the
lines pass each other on the same street.
Other transfer points will also be ar
ranged We are not going to give trans
fers, however, where there is no junction
and the lines are a block or more apart"