The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-02
OFFERS TO OPEN STREETS.
STREET RAILWAY COMPANY
WANTS EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISES.

the Car Line system to Make It's
Report Tomorrow Night-A Plan
Agreed Upon satisfactory to the
Street RaiIwny-May Be Opposed in
CounciI-AIderman WyIIy Wants
the PubIic's Convenience COnsid-
ered-Win Urge the Removal of
the whitaker street Track.
The street and lane committee Will sub
NIT its report to council tomorrow night
upon the revision of the street railway
system asked for by the consolidated com
pany.
The committee and the representatives
OF the street railways have been working
on the matter all summer. The final de-
tails were settled at the meeting last
night.
According to the plan to be reported by
the committee, the city secures, it con-
siders, desirable concessions from the rail-
way company in the way of opening
streets and the improvement of the trans
portation facilities and the railway COM
pany secures the right to use such streets
and discontinue the use Of such others
as it sees fit. A good part of the system
is to be double-tracked, which is to the
mutual advantage of all concerned.
The meeting was held in the mayors
Office in the city exchange. Aldermen
Davis, Owens, Smith, Reid and Krous-
koff of the committee were present, with
Director ]. N. Hartman. Hon. Pope Bar
row, Col William Garrard and Mr.. W.
W. Mackall, representing the consolidated
railways, and Mr.. T. VI. Cunningham, Jr.,
representing the bondholders of the City
and Suburban. The stock of the latter COM
pany is owned by Mr.. George Parsons of
New York, and MIR. Hartman and Mr..
Parsons is also the holder of the majority
stock of the Savannah, Thunderbolt and
Isle Of Hope railway. which now controls
the street railway situation by reason of
its absorption of the Electric railway
properties. The $3.50, 900 of bonds on the
City and Suburban railway are chiefly
owned by citizens of Savannah, who are
not otherwise interested in the conduct
of street railways. On this account the
City and Suburban railway is still out
side Of the consolidation.
The meeting lasted until II o'clock.
There was some hitch, it is said, as to
concessions desired by the committee IN
through lands owned by the City and SUI
burban Railway Company, this concession
being insisted upon by the committee. The
attorneys of the railway company urged
that the lands through which it was de-
sired to open the street were the property
of the City and Suburban Railway Com
pany, and hence covered by it's bonds, and
that the Savannah Thunderbolt and Isle
of Hope Railway Company had no more
power to open streets through the proper
ty of the former company than through
that of any other property owner. The
members of the committee held on the
other hand that the two companies being
practically one, and the same, and under
the same control that the railway COM
pany interested would have no difficulty
in arranging this matter. This view
seems to have been agreed to, as it was
announced at the close of the conference
that the street railway company had con-
scented to open Whitaker street from Sec
ond avenue TO Tenth street.
As a matter of fact, the street has been
open for some time. but the title to the
right-of-way does not rest in the city. II
is this which the committee desires to Sc
cure.
Besides opening Whitaker street the
railway company agrees TO open Barnard
street, from Anderson street south to
Tenth street, where not already open, TO
street. between Barnard and Abercorn
streets, and TO throw open Bolton street
from the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway to the eastern limits of the city
The company will extend its tracks on
Barnard, Whitaker and Abercorn streets
10 Tenth street, thus doing away with
the present shuttle car arrangement on
Whitaker street from Second avenue to
the limits. Abercorn street will be
double tracked, and a combination belt
Will be operated, cars running both ways
on Abercorn and north on Whitaker and
south on Barnard.
The other proposed changes, In the
main, are as already stated in the Morn
ing News. The old big belt and the Price
street belt will be discontinued and belt
operated around Bay, West Broad, Ander-
son and East Broad streets. This belt
will be double-tracked. The track on Price
street and that on Montgomery from Lib
erty TO Anderson streets, will be taken up.
The track on Montgomery street. from
Anderson south to the limits, will remain.
and will be operated in connection with
the Bay and Anderson street belt. The
track of the Price street belt, through
Robertsville and around by Laurel Grove
cemetery, win also be removed The Hab-
ersham street line will make use of the
old belt track on Seventh street, which
win be its terminus. Coming north, the
Habersham street line will make loop
around st. Julian street to Montgomery
and back into Broughton, using the pres
ent track on ST. Julian street through the
market for that purpose. Various other
minor changes Will be made.
Members of the council committee, who
were seen last night after the meeting,
stated that they were satisfied that the
Encouragement of the street railway sys-
TEN as agreed upon would be most ad-
vantageous to the city, and that 1t would
result in giving the people of Savannah
the best street railway service they have
ever had A maximum fare of cents
for ride from any point on the system
TO any other point on it is guaranteed,
and win be one of the conditions Of the
concession granted by the city.
Alderman Davis, chairman of the COM
mittee, said that the committee will rec
ommend that the Savannah, Thunderbolt
and Isle of Hope railway be guaranteed
against the granting of Price street to
any other company, on condition of its
vacating that street. Alderman Krouskoff
did not understand the matter to be this
way his idea being that the guarantee to
the railway company would be a condi-
tional one only, and that any future coun-
ell would iraV 10 right 10 ora Mt ba ttca