The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-04
A BIG DAY FOR SIGHTSEERS.
Two Thousand Visitors Take In the
City and Its Resorts.

Fifteen Hundred Augustans Come to
Savannah and Return for Fifty
Cents Apiece-An Excursion Rate
War On-Tybee and Thunderbolt
Get Their Share Of the Visitors.
Yesterday was field day with Tybee,
Thunderbolt and the street railroads. In
addition to the unusual heat and closeness
of the day. which would have sent large
numbers of people out of town anyway,
and given the street railroads all they
could attend to, there was an excursion
rate war on between the Central, the
Florida Central and Peninsula, and the
Port Royal and Augusta railroads from
Augusta. -....
The unheard of rate of so cents for the
round trip between Augusta and Savan-
nah was announced, and the result was
that fully 500 Augustans were landed in
the city by the two railroads, about one
half being colored. The people of Augusta
never had such a chance offered them TO
ride cheap before. This was at the rate
of less than One-ifth of cent mile.
THE COACHES WE'RE FILLED.
1 liG L0O bIdluS. IGdCuCO bIlG Guy WlIulu
half an hour of each other yesterday
morning, with about 700 passen gers each
aboard. The Central train had eigh
coaches and the Florida Central and
Peninsular train nine coaches. all filed.
Only very small percentage of the ex-
cursionists had tickets through to Tybee,
but perhaps one-third OF the whole
number visited the island during the day.
A great many went to Thunderbolt, while
the remainder tOOk in the pifV on tho
street cars.
The commencement exercises of the
colored industrial college at Thunderbolt
were largely attended by the colored
people, and this gave the street railroads
several hundred more people to handle.
1t was certainly great day for the rail
roads. They probably carried as many
whole six days Of the Week pre-.
vious. Every car in the afternoon
was crowded and it was a common thing
to see cars pass knots of intending passen-
gers without stopping. The travel con-
tinued until late at night. The outside
belt seemed to be the favorite, hundreds
of people taking the trip around to get
the fresh air.
THE DAY AT TYBEE.
The Tybee season took a renewed start
yesterday, and while the island has been
a favorite resort since the opening of tn
season, May |, the practical opening. so
far as the rush is concerned, took place
yesterday.
Every train Of the new and frequent
schedule was well filed with passengers,
and each train carried from five to eight
coaches. The 80 o'clock p. m. train was
the favorite, however, and it carried down
eight well filled coaches.
Among those that went down during
IN nh
cursionists. Only a few of them bought
through tickets to Tybee as the excurs-
ion fare was only so cents and they prob
ably thought it would be cheaper to buy
regular ticket to Tybee after arriving
instead of paying a dollar for through
ticket. There was no difference in the
fare, however, and the Tybee crowd from
Augusta went down on the morning train
Most of them went to Hotel Tybee, where
surf bathing was most popular feature
during the entire afternoon. The hotel
was crowded and the beach was lined
with visitors during the entire afternoon.
sAvANNAHIANs AT THE BEACH.
Quite number of Savannahlans are
preparing to go TO the island for a part of
the summer, and no doubt large number
of them will make Tybee headquarters
during June and July. The Cottage Club
has not yet succeeded in effecting a reor-
ganizhtion, and has not been opened,
though there are several parties contem-
plating making offers for taking charge
of il during the season. The Atlantic and
Zorayda clubs are as popular this summer
as ever and large number of guests and
members went down to them yesterday
None of the effects of the storm are vsi-
BILE on the island now, with the exception
of one or two small wrecked pavilions or
sheds here and there which have not yet
been repaired