The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-03
PENNY RIDES DONE AWAY WITH
THE CITY AND SUBURBAN LINES
Put ON A THREE-CENT FARE.

They Rode All the same-The First
Days Travel Under the Increased
Schedule Larger Than Was Ex-
Pected-The city and Suburban
AbandOns Its AbercOrn and Whit
aker Street BeIt and RIMS sepa-
rate Cars on the Two Lines.
From having the cheapest car fares Of
any city IN the country. Savannah has
Jumped in one day to one Of the highest.
The increased fares went into effect yes
terday morning.
The fare on all OF the Electric rail-
ways lines IS now cents. The City and
Suburban and Coast Line fares are 3
cents. In spite Of the increase. the travel
was nearly as heavy as # was a week
ago at the ! cent fare. The rain may have
had something 10 do with the heavy travel
yesterday. however. Many people who
were inclined to walk paid the extra fare
in preference.
The City and Suburban has done away
with its Abercorn and Whitaker street
belt Cars run from the foot Of
Drayton street out Whitaker to
Second street and out Abercorn street to
Whitaker and Second. The fare on each
line is cents. The division of the Whit
aker and Abercorn street belt caused a
good deal of dissatisfaction. Although
the changes were announced in the Morn
ing News the patrons of the two lines
did not seem to grasp the idea that the
cars would not continue to go all the way
round the belt They thought that close
connections would be made at least and
that they would be able to transfer from
one car to another on Bay street with
but little Inconvenience and loss of time.
In this they were disappointed.
Crowds of people boarded the Whitaker
street cars going toward Bay street about
dinner time with the expectation that the
cars would so on around or that they
would make close connections with the
Abercorn street cars. Instead the cars
stopped at Bay and Drayton streets. A
lot Of Bay street men were badly fooled
The cars are usually so crowded at
o'clock that many business men living
out Abercorn street are in the habit Of
walking to the corner Of Bay and Whit
aker streets, where they could catch the
cars coming down Whitaker strot in
time to get seats. There was the usual
crowd at the corner of Whitaker street
when the O'Clock ear came along yester-
day. The conductor collected cents
apiece. When the car reached Drayton
street II stopped, the conductor reversed
the trolley and announced that the car
would return the way it came and the
crowd got off In the rain.
Many people who have been paying only
! cent to ride to and from their homes
paid cents yesterday for each trip
The line being divided at Bay street and
al Second street people boarding the cars
on Abercorn street and going TO a point
on Whitaker street, or vice versa, pay
two fares, and change cars at Drayton
2
board the car on Abercorn street and 3
cents again when they board the second
car on Bay street one taking car in
front of the Morning News building to
go entirely around the belt, would have
70 pay cents, cents when he boarded
the car, cents again at Bay and Dray-
ton, and cents again when he changed
cars at Second street. making cents for
trip which only cost / cent the day be-
fore.
President Collins said last night that
the scent fares worked all right on the
Electric railway.
eve carried more people at s cents than
we did the previous Saturday at cents"
he said. THE rain may have had some
thing to do with it. though"
Director Hartman of the City and SUI
burban railroad was asked what his COM
pany would do about Judge Speer's order
for the company to show cause why it
ShOuAA AOl put It's IaleS DdCk TO cents.
He did not care to discuss the question,
he said. Concerning the increase of fares
he said:
we think a rate OF cents on our
straight lines a sufficient charge for the
service rendered and fair rate in pro-
portion to scent rate on the belt lines
of the Electric railway. We do not offer
TO give as much for cents as the other
road does for FIVE. We only give a straight
ride. where for cents a man can ride
three or four times the distance on one
of the belt of the Electric railway. We
have always stood ready to make rate
on mileage basis and that is simply what
we are doing now"
The City and Suburban is likely to have
some trouble with its new fares if they
are not readjusted. formal complaint
was made to Mayor Myers yesterday af-
ternoon that the company Is violating the
ordinance of July g. 1890, by which street
railways in Savannah were allowed to
operate their lines by electricity. An inn
portant section of this ordinance pro-
vides that any railroad company in the
city using electricity as a motive power
shall be required to give a ride from any
point on its line TO any other point on its
line for cents, without extra charge for
transfers. The gentleman who made the
complaint based il on the ground that he
was required to pay cents to ride from
his residence to his place of business on
the line of the City and Suburban Railroad
Company. Mayor Myers said that the Off
GERS of the company will be notified that
they are violating the law and they will be
given chance to adjust their rates.
President Collins of the Electric railway
was asked If his company is complying
with the law. He pointed to the
notices in the Morning News, which state
that the conductors will give transfers at
Gwinnett and Price streets, where the
lines of the company intersect, and at
Bay and Indian streets, to and from the
Indian street line. No transfers are given,
however, to or from the Barnard street
line, which is part of the Electric rail-
ways system.
In THE CITY OF THE DEAD.