The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
WILL WALK HEREAFTER.
The Indian Street Car Line Will Be
Short on PASSENGERS.

The Employees on the Central Railroad
Wharf Have Decided That They win
Not Pay Five Cents for the Privilege
Of Riding From the Wharf to West
Broad street-President Collins Says
the Line Was Losing Money Anyhow,
and VIII Not Make ANY Concessions
TO the Boycotters.
Nothing but a case Of death or an Au-
gust cyclone would make one Of us ride on
the Indian street car" said one OF the en-
ployes at the Central railroad wharf yes
terday. and from the action taken by the
force there he evidently meant what he
said.
The employees at the wharves have de-
cided among themselves that they will
boycott the line. and yesterday afternoon
an agreement among them was drawn up
and signed. to the effect that they would
all walk rather than ride on the line in
the future. and pay cents. whereas they
can ride three or four miles on almost any
Of the other lines for a penny.
The action was one wholly among the
employees OF the Central and of the Sa-
vannak, Florida and Western railroad Of
flee at the Ocean Steamship wharfs. who
have heretofore been patrons of the Indian
street line. The cause for the boycott is
the increase of the fare to cents. As
one of them said shoes are cheap now, and
it looks hard to have to pay cents to
ride four blocks, when they can ride five
miles on some of the other lines for l cent.
In going to the wharf from their homes,
some of these employees have to pax s
and sometimes Z cents car fare, and they
think il unjust when fares elsewhere in
the city are so cheap to have to pay more
than was charged before there vas any
reduction of fares.
There are between 700 and 500 employees
on the wharves, but Of course
all of these are not regular
patrons of the line. Those who
patronized the line regularly numbered
about 200, and yesterday at dinner time,
instead Of taking the car, most of them
got together and walked up from the
wharf in a body, the car passing them
without a passenger on the way up.
President Collins was seen about the
matter. but did not appear in the least
worried about the action taken by the en-
ployes at the wharf.
1T has never paid to run the car any
how" he said. The belt line people
didn't make any money out OF II ana
neither have we. The people at the wharf
should have no cause for complaint. as
the line is a great convenience to them.
The rate was reduced to l cent in the
hope that we would do more business on
that line, but the reduction brought no
more passengers though it did bring a
1 great decrease in the receipts. At five
/ cents we used to take in from 81 to SO on
/ the line, but at the l cent rate the re-
| ceipts averaged about $3.50 and were never
/ er more than 81 day.
THE rate has been made cents from
the wharf and transfer is given the
/ passengers at West Broad street. Going
/ to the wharf from different parts of the
city il was found almost impossible to
arrange the rate at 8 cents, because no
transfer is given from the cars on which
the fare is l cent. Those who desire can
secure tickets at 81 a hundred, and can
| get a much cheaper rate that way. I
| don't think there would be any complaint
about the fare If the patrons of the line
understood the details. AS it is, we have
never made any money out of the line, and
we cannot afford to make any concessions
/ to them, nor will we do So"
So il seems to be a case of freeze out
on both sides, and there is no inclination
on the part of either that there win be
any concessions or giving in.