The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-11
BADGES FOR STREET CARS.
They Must be Tagged Like DTayS or
Pay the Penalty.

Thirty-Six Gases in Police Court
Against all the Street Railways in
the City for Violation of the Tax
ordinanoe-The Cars Put on the
Brass Tags and the Mayor Postpones
the Cases.
Mayor McDonough gave the street rail
WAYS another round yesterday. There
was a formidable array of thirty-six
cases against the street railway com
NAMES on the information docket. A
scparate case was entered for every car
operated in the city without having a
badge placed in prominent place as re-
ouired by the city ordinance. Mayor
McDonough discovered some time ago
that the street railroads had only
taken out badges for the number of cars
regularly in use, while no badges, were
taken out for cars used only on extra oc-
casions The badges instead of being dis
played in the cars as required by the or
dinance, were merely kept at the Offices of
the railroads.
DIDN'T HEED THE MAYOR.
The mayor notified the street railroads
that they were not complying with the
ordinance, but no attention was paid to
the notice. An inspector was sent out
who made a list of all the cars operated
which were without badges. The result
was the list of cases that appeared on
the docket yesterday morning
The Savannah, Thunderbolt and Isle of
Hope Railway headed the list with four
cases for operating cars Nos. 3, 4, 6 and 10
without badges.
The City and Suburban Railway came
next with fourteen charges against it for
failing to have badges on cars Nos. l, 2, 4,
3. I. S, 9, TO- IL, II, Ii, IA, Is and Is.
The Savannah Street Railway, now
part of the Electric Railway, was charged
with operating cars Nos. 4, 5, 10, IA, 10, Is,
10. 20, 81, ~ So and 80 without badges
The Electric Railway Company had six
charges against it for cars Nos. "a, %, 26,
q, % and 20.
BEGAN PUTTING ON BADGES.
AS soon as the street railways were
summoned to appear in court, they began
to put out their badges, and to take out
more badges for the cars that did not
have any.
The result was that most of the street
cars had badges displayed yesterday.
Mayor McDOnough was informed of
these facts in the police court and ordered
the cases continued to allow the street
railways time to get badges for all their
cars.
More badges were taken out yesterday
by the railroads.
The street railway companies complain
that it is unjust to make them take out
license for those cars which are operated
only occasionally They found on inves-
tigatiOn, however, that the mayor was
acting strictly in accord with the ordi-
nance.
THE ORDINANCE EXPLICIT.
The tax ordinance provides in explicit
terms that every street railroad company
should pay a license of $50 for each and
every car at any time used by them in the
city. They are also required to take out
badges for all cars employed by them,
which badges shall be numbered and
which shall indicate whether the car upon
which the badge is to be placed is an
open or closed car. The badges are re
quired to be securely fastened in a con
spicuOus place upon the outside of the
car.
The street railway companies will com
ply with the ordinance this year, but
they will petition council to change the
ordinance next year so that they will only
be required to pay for the cars in regular
use.
1t looks very queer that the street rail
way cars should be required to be badged
the same as ordinary dray. 1t would ap-
pear TO be very much better if the cOmpa-
MES were simply required to return the
number of cars operated by them. and
specific tax imposed upon each car.