The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-23
NOW one CENT ALL ROUND.
The Electric Railway Company Makes
Another Reduction.

Passengers on the Big Belt and the In
dian Street Lines Gan Ride To-day
for the Reduced Fare-President Col
Inns Says His Company Is Going to
Open the Throttle Wide and Give It's
Competitors All the Low Fares They
want-He Says it Is Only Question
of Carrying All the People Who Want
to Ride-Parents Should Look Out for
Their Children When Playing Around
the Lines.
The bottom has almost, II It has not
quite, dropped out Of street car fares,
and 1 cent will carry a person now to
any part of the city.
The last reduction was decided on yes
terday at a meeting Of the directors Of
the Electric Railway Company, held at
the Office Of Charlton, Mackall & Ander-
son, and it will go into effect this morn
ing.
The directors decided to reduce the fare
on the big belt to l cent Bull and t;ay
streets and Bull and Best streets we're
named as junction points, and from either
of these points to the other, which is just
half the length of the big belt, and going
in either direction the fare will be / cent
A passenger can board the car any
where on the line of the belt and ride TO
one or these junction points for ] cent
but II he goes beyond it he must pay an
other cent. So IL costs 2 cents to ride all
the way round the big belt, but by making
it cent on each half of the line the belt
meets the competition of the lines of the
city d Suburban, which run practically
parallel to it. AS a result Of this reduc.
ton, the sale of tickets at Sanders store
at Bull and Best streets has been stopped
the tickets having been sold there at two
The fare on the Indian street line was
also reduced to one cent although there is
practically no competition in that direc-
ton. President Collins said he did not
claim that one cent fares would pay, but
whether they pay or not is not the ques-
ton.
Our competitors seem to want the one
cent fares" he said, land we are going to
throw the throttle wide open. 1t is dues-
ton of who will be first frozen out and we
will give them their fill of the low fares"
President Collins was asked how many
people his lines were carrying.
You mean" he replied. "how many are
we unable to carry that want to ride. That
we have to deal now. We carry all we can
possibly handle in the afternoons and on
Sundays it is simply impossible to &C
commodate the people who want to ride.
We could easily use 100 cars AS 1t is we
have been running double on some of the
lines, and at times when the travel re-
quired it,
President Collins was wearing a feather
in his hat, and when asked what it meant,
he replied that it was plucked from his
rival He said he had heard of the desire
OF President Johnston to sell half-cent
tickets on the City and Suburban lines in
the. city market, and that he had en-
couraged it..
Mr.. Collins urges that parents exercise
q little more supervision over their chill
dren in the matter of keeping them away
from the cars and preventing their from
| Jumping on cars while they are in motion.
| The conductors on almost all the cars in
! the city now have so much to do in keep
ing up with the travel and collecting fares
| that they have little time to watch out for
| children, who try to amuse themselves In
this dangerous way of jumping on and off
moving cars.