The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-15
NEW FEATURE IN THE FIGHT.
The Electric Railway Announces a One
Cent Fare.

CuceQ TO one CGnE, ana hOun0 LTD
Tickets to Be Sold On thu Belt Line
for Five Csnts-Tho Price Street Line
Nay Be Made One Correspond
ing Reductions Expected On the Part
Of the City and Suburban Railroad.
It Looks Like an All Winter Fight
Now.
The street railway war stil goes mer-
rily on, and the prospect is that the peo-
pie of Savannah will be able TO ride all
winter for the lowest fares they ever en-
joyed in their lives
The Electric Railway Company an
nounces in to-day's Morning News that
commencing with to-day it will carry
passengers on its Barnard street lire for
! cent a trip. On the main belt tickets Will
be sold at a certain point in the southern
suburbs at 212 cents each, good for trip
down town in either direction and the
same price returning. These tickets will
be on sale at the store of p. Sanders, at
Bull and Best streets. Two tickets VIII
be sold for cents. one is good for
ride from Bull and Best streets or any
intermediate point TO Bay and Bull
streets, and the other is good for a re-
turn trip between the same points. This
makes the ticket good for a ride half way
around the belt, or less than a cent mile.
Parties without tickets VIII be required
TO pay the regular fare of cents. The
tickets are only good on the day of sale,
the date of the issue being stamped on
the back. The only place at which they
will be on sale to-day is at Sanders store,
. e. will hr
placed on sale at various points along the
line shortly.
The fare on the Barnard street line has
been three cents for some time. Now 1t is
only one cent. The Barnard street belt
will be discontinued however, for the
present and the cars will run from Bay
and DraytOn streets to East Broad and
Bolton streets. The route viii be from Bay
TO Barnard, Barnard TO Anderson. An
derson to East Broad and East Broad to
Bolton, where the motorman will reverse
his trolley and the car will return down
town over the same route. The object Of
running the cars to East Broad and Boil
ton streets is of course to cut into the
traffic of the rival line, the Savannah.
Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope.
The reductions which are announced
to-day are the result of determination
on the part of the directors of the Electric
Railway to push the fighting in the street
railway war from their side of the line.
Heretofore all the aggressive fighting has
been done by the City and Suburban sys-
tenn, which sometime ago reduced fares
on two Of its lines to one cent. President
Collins in speaking Of the reduction said
that the majority of his directors had
been in favor for some time of put
ting on one cent fares to meet the
reductions of the rival lines, but that he
had opposed making any further reduc-
tions for the time being.
Travel has been very good on our lines
this summer and fall" said Mr.. Collins.
''in spite of the opposition we have had
to encounter. There has not been
single day that we have not made some
money, as our books will show. The
travel always falls off as the cold weather
approaches, however, and the time has
come for us to push the fight. 1 say can
didly that we do not expect to make any
money at these reduced rates, but we will
keep the other people from making it.
When there is only one line carrying
people at a cent a ride 1t is very easy for
that line to have crowded cars, but with
two lines in the same territory carrying
people at this figure it will make quite
difference. The one cent rate on the Bar
nard street line is, of course, to counter
act the one cent rate on the West Broad
street line of the City and Suburban
The cut on the belt line is to offset the
arrangement by which the City and Sub
urban sells tickets from Bull and Best
streets at cents for The round trip, trans
ferring passengers to the Whitaker and
Abercorn line at Second street This was
done purely for the purpose of cutting
into the travel on the belt line, which it
has done to a small extent. These tickets
are now only on sale at Sanders store at
Bull and Best streets, but they will prob
ably be placed on sale at other points
along the line this week 4"
DO you contemplate any further re-
ductions?' Mr. Collins was asked.
Yes. Some of our directors are urging
a ! cent fare on the Price street line by
cutting the belt in two at Whitaker and
Duffy streets and selling tickets good
for a trip to the market in either direc-
ton at l cent each This may be done,
especially if the City and Suburban re-
duces the fare on its Whitaker and Aber-
corn line to l cent, as we expect them to
do in consequence of our reduced fares
on the Barnard street line and the belt
line"
President Collins has instructed Super.
intendent Mcfarland to have out the cars
on the Barnard street line at $50 O'Clock
this morning, manned with the best men
he has. Placards will be attached to the
cars announcing the l cent rate.
The rate on the Whitaker and Abercorr
belt of the City and Suburban railroad
dition to this tickets have been placed or
sale in the territory OF the Electric rail.
way at cents for two tickets, or ~ cents
ride. Very strict requirements as tc
the time limit we're imposed when these
tickets were placed on sale, but of late
these restrictions have been relaxed and
the two tickets purchased for cents in
the morning are good for two rides any
time during the day of purchase.
Director Hartman Of the City and Sub.
urban railroad was seen last night and
asked what steps the Parsons lines would
take to meet the reductions made by the
Electric Railway Company. 1t was the
first Mr.. Hartman had heard of the re.
auctions, and he said he could not say
what his company would do
I'VE are going to retain our patronage
at all hazards" he said, land 1t is not un.
likely that there will be further reductions
on our part. We are in this fight to stay
and we are not going to be run out by the
other people. ] suppose ii will be a cent
all around before long. We were here
first and, what is more, we are just as
much of home institution as the Electric
railway. All our bonds are held by Sa.
Yannah people and charitable institutions
here, and the keeping up of this property
means a big thing TO them The other
people have posed as having the only bona