The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-01

ing to lose by delay-much 20 risk by has.
ty action. Everything that comes before
council from the trio which control this
system should be long deliberated upon
and examined into with the utmost cir
cumspection. And our aldermen, every one
OF them, should be alert and wary, lest a
trojan horse, concealed In some resolution
or ordinance, get through the council
surely there are some members of the
present municipal board who havn noe
forgotten the city's experience when the
city authorities paved Broughton street
How. when they, In order TO handsomely
improve this main business thoroughfare
OF the city, proposed that the same ma
terial should be used by the street railway
company who enjoyed a gratuitous fran.
chise to 1t, for paving between the tracks
Of it's lines as that used by the city on
other parts of the street, in
order that the street might
present a uniform and slightly aspect; ana
how the company raised a legal issue
with the city authorities, dragged them
into the United States circuit court--a tri-
bunal for which its president (now the
head and front of the present systern)
seems TO have penchant-how the decis-
Ion of the court was against the city,
and how, despite the confident advice of
the city'e counsel that the decision could
be reversed on appeal to the United States
supreme court, the city authorities were
compelled in view of the appalling ex-
pense which an appeal would have Inn
posed upon the city, and the long retard-
ment in the improvement Of the street
which would have resulted therefrom. to
submit to the Judgment and pocket their
chagrin, and how. then, the street between
the railway lines was paved just as this
arbitrary adversary of the city dictated
A few more concessions to this monopoiy.
O. few guarantees to enable Ii 10 keep an
exclusive grip upon the streets which a.
ri md al nrxA c.
be subjected to a thraldom as grinding
as that which is now 80 grievously vex-
ing the authorities and people of New
York ethyl And then our fair Forest CITY
will become another "Gulliver Bound. )
Our aldermen should also keep In mind
the fact that II is essential to the inter-
ests of the citizens Of Savannah, to whom
this system Is so immensely indebted for
gratituitous franchises, that the outer
lines of the system should have schedules
and accommodative service. This system
has succeeded to monopoly of all sub
urban lines, eastward and southwark from
the city. The service on the Thunderbolt
branch was an outrageous travesty upon
accommodation until the advent of a COM
petitfve line when rivalry forced It's man
ayers to reformation. The competitive line
has been paralyzed; and II Is rumored that
the existing line (now that 1t has recovered
It's monopoly will Increase fare and fall
back TO unaccommodative schedules; and
unless council Restraints the system, when
1t comedies privilege, as 1t can and ought
TO do, our citizens may have TO again
submit to an agonizing ride to and from
| Savannah and Thunderbolt at 40 cents for
the round trip. The abominable service
with which the people Of Montgomery are
| now afflicted Is suggestive of what any
! suburbanite may have to undergo at the
| hands of an unrestralned monopoly The
| present weekday appointments for tram
| sit on the branch from Sand Fly to Mont
| gomery consist of an old-fashioned horse
| car and an old-fashloned mule, compelled
to an occasional trot by the unremitting
whaeks Of a mueteer's ''persuader.H
| Montgomery was once Savannah's most
| attractive suburban resort. The controlling
interest in its railway wentsin TO the hands
| of a receiver and the winning cards turn
| ed up in the hands Of New Workers.. Who
are they? Don't you know? Since then
1 the Sandfiy branch has been afflicted with
| paresis, and the magnificent site UPON
| which an elegant hotel stood In the palmyz
| days Of Its existence presents now d pic
| ture OF desolation which reminds the WIS.,
.itor of Prof Holmes pathetic picture OF
the ancient city OF Uxmal Clvis