The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-06
TIE BELT IN NEW HANDS.
President Collins Takes Control Of
The Combined Systems.

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/ To be Operated by Committee Until
/ the New Stock is Issued-The Gen
eral ohoes to be at Gwinnett and
Price Streets-No Changes TO be
Made in the Lines at Present.
President Collins of the Electric Rail-
way Company, took charge of the Belt
Line property last night. The Electric
railway will begin the operation of the
Belt Line in connection with its own lines
this morning.
The work Of connecting the tracks of
the two systems and the overhead wiring,
will also begin this morning A switch
will be put in connecting the two lines on
Gwinnett street at the Electric
railways office, where the
! tracks run parallel for the
distance of two blocks. The headquar-
| ters Of the system will be at the Electric
railway Office. This is a most convenient
! location, as the tracks of the outside belt
Of the former Belt Line, the inside belt of
the Electric railway line and the line to
IhunderbOlt, all pass there.
The Belt Line road will be operated
from the power house on Habers ham
street to-day, but after tomorrow all the
power will be furnished by the Electric
railway power house on Gwinnett street.
THE ORDER OF TRANSFER
The authority by which President Col
Inns took possession of the Belt Line last
night was the following order addressed
to Supt. Saussy of that line by President
Cooper:
Savannah. Ca, Sept, 5, 1898. Mr.. Clement
Saussy, General Manager Savannah Street
Railroad Savannah. Ga. Dear Sir - On
this day the Savannah Street rail
road consolidated its properties with
the Electric Railway Company of Savan-
nah. and by the direction of its stock
| holders and board Of directors you will on to-
morrow, turn over all the properties Of every
klnu, except DOCKS, papers, money, etc, to
MI j. \. Collins, chairman Of the joint com
mlttee OF both companies. That is to say, Mr..
| Collins viii. after this day, assume charge Of
all the rolling stock, trucks. cars, machinery,
supplies and buildings of the company and
| Will have control Of its employees.
You will please make a schedule Of all the
property OF the company that you turn over
TO MT Collins and give him a copy Of and
retain a copy thereof. All funds on hand you
will please hold as the property OF the com
plny. Very respectfully
WIN. G. COOPER, President.
ct. w. WRENNg Director.
THE PAPERS SIGNED.
The papers finally concluding the trans
fer were signed by both parties yester-
day morning at the ofice of Lawton &
Cunningham. AS it will take some time
to get out the new issue of stocks and
| bonds the combined property will be
operated by a committee, chosen from the
directors of both roads, of which Mr.
Collins is chairman. The new board of
directors Will be chosen as soon as the
new securities are ready to be issued,
which will be in about a month,
I'VE Will begin at once to make cOnnec-
tions of the lines wherever necessary, d"
ont aovv
whole property will be put in frst-class
| condition and operated in the same man
ner We intend to give the people the
very best service possible. The cars and
machinery of the Belt Line will be re-
moved to the Electric railway power
house on Gwinnett street. The cars will
be repaired and repair ted, and new cars
viii be bought to take the place of those
which are worn out. Some of the Electric
Railway Company's open cars will be
placed on the outside belt In a few days to
take the place of the closed cars now in
use there.
TO INCREASE THE CARS.
by next summer we will have enough
open oars for the entire system. Closed
cars will be run in winter and open cars
in summer. We shall not decrease the
| number of cars now in operation on the
| combined lines. l expect that the num-
utI Will DC 4lCTbdSeu as Un6 SCneQul6
needs TO be improved in some places.
| More cars will be put on the Barnard
street line. The Indian street cars will
probably be run to the market. We shall
not abandon any of the lines now in oper-
alton, except small fragments of track in
one or two places where an
improvement can be made by
/ connecting the lines. There are so many
small matters to be looked into and regu-
lated TO suit the new order of things that
it will be some time before we will have
any changes to announce The existing
| schedules will be continued for the pres
! entn
TO KEEP THE CAR MEN.
| President Collins said thai most of the
| men employed as motormen and conduc-
tors on the Belt Line will be retained by
! the Electric railway, except those who
| had been previously discharged from the
! employment of the company for good
cause. There are not many of these,
! however. The engineers, machinists,
| track men and Office force win not be
needed, however, and will have to
! look for positions elsewhere.
President Collins estimates the saving
in operating expenses by com bining the
two roads at $4,000 annually-enOugh in
itself to almost pay the interest on the
bonds
President Collins has invited Mr. T. w
! Wrenne. Mr.. j. II. Fail and Mr. A. NJ.
Fogg, the Nashville directors of the Belt
Line, who represented the Nashville syn
dictate in the transfer of the property, to
take trip down the river this afternoon
in company with the directors of the
Electric railway. The invitation has
been accepted, and the party will leave
the exchange dock about noon to-day.
THE GLANCE SAFE AT HOME.
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