The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-16
TO PUT UP ITS FARES.
The Electric Railway TO Go Back to Two
and Five Cents.

President Collins Increases the Fare 20
Two Cents on the Price Street Line
and to Five Cents on the Indian Street
Line-He Says the Patrons Of the Price
Street Line Made Urgent Requests for
an Increase of Fare-The Lines Not
Making Anything at the one-oent
Rate.
President J. S. Collins OF the Electric
Railway Company makes the announce
ment this morning that there will be a
rise in fares on two Of the lines Of his COM
pany commencing to-day. The fare on the
Price street belt will be made two cents
and that on the Indian street line to the
Central railroad wharf will go back to the
old figure, cents per ride.
Heretofore, as is wen known, the fare
on both these lines as well as all others in
the city. with the exception of the Su-
burban and West End, has been ] cent.
and the change will no doubt create some
surprise. The Price street line, too. was
considered to be doing a better business
than any Of the other lines operated by this
company, and probably this had something
to do with the increase in the fare.
Mr. Collins was seen by a representative
of the Morning News yesterday. He said
his action in raising the fare was due to
the urgent requests of large number of
the patrons of the Price street line. Many
of them, he said, had urged him to make
the fare cents on account of the diff
Guilty they had in being able to procure a
comfortable service on the cars, so
crowded have they been at the l cent rate.
Il did not think it advisable, however"
he said, TO make a sudden advance TO 5
cents on this line, and so increased it to
cents. great many people found it i'm
possible to ride on the cars with any COM
fort or convenience, and they objected to
their crowded condition. These were our
regular patrons who ride on this line every
day irrespective of whether the fare is
cent or 8.
Then too the 1 cent fares did not pay us
anything. We carried about 1900 people
day to the car on the Price street line,
which made about 5000 a day on all the
cars. This was only $50 a day, which hard
ly paid expenses. / consider with the 2
cent fare on this line. there will be little
falling off in the travel, and there will nee
essarily be an increase in the receipts.
The cars will be less crowded and the reg
ular patrons of the line will not expert
ence so msch inconvenience which they de-
sire to avoid.
The reduction of the fare to / cent on the
Indian street line was made in the hope
that more passengers would be secured.
But IT was found that there was only one
class of travel on that line no matter what
the fare was, and that is the people who go,
to and from the Central railroad wharves
regularly. This line has had no more pas
sengers at 1 cent than it would have had at
and there is no reason why the reduction
should be maintained. The fare of l cent
on all the other lines will be kept up as
heretofore
President Collins said there were no
other reasons than those given by him
for the increase in the fares on the two
lines mentioned. What effect this change
will have on the street railroad situation
remains to be seen. Director Hartman of
the City and Suburban is in New York. and
ii is not known whether these changes will
leaC Il any on his lines or not.