The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-03
PUSHING THE NEW CAR LINES.
An Obstruction in the Failure 10
Open Tenth street.


is, going aged rapidly Work is in progress
on several portions of the system. The
extension of the Whitaker and Abercorn
belt will soon be completed. The track has
been laid on Tenth. east Of Bull but the
belt cannot be completed until the street
is fully opened up TO Whitaker street. The
railway company has notified the city of
its readiness TO pay its proportion OF the
cost of opening this portion of Tenth
street as agreed upon in its contract.
The deed of conveyance of the right Of
way through the City and Suburban sta
bles property on Barnard street was also
filed some time ago The street and rail-
way company did not agree to open the
street. but simply to procure a deed of
conveyance to the right of way. The work
of opening the streets is left for the street
and lane committee. A deed of conveyance
to the property owned by the railway COM
pany in Bolton street has also been filed.
The failure of council to require the
street railway company to began a grad
ual substitution of it's wooden poles with
iron poles as the wooden poles wear out
is generally regretted. 1t was hoped that
this requirement would be made In the
business section of the city at least so
that the numerous unsightly wooden poles
/ in that section might be gotten rid of, and
neat iron poles substituted instead. As the
substitution would have been gradual, the
burden would not have been heavy one
upon the railway company.
Many people failed to understand the
right of Alderman Hamilton, chairman of
council, to cast The deciding vote on the
question of iron poles. The amendment,
which was offered by Alderman Davis TO
Of he nrnDOSQ6
derman Wylly, read as follows:
THAT section of said ordinance be
amended by inserting in the third line, as
printed in the official report, after the
word car the words or electric light
and power, or telephone, or telegraph, or
district messenger, so that the same shall
read Be it further ordained, That
hereafter, all poles erected in the
city of Savannah by any street
car, or electric light ana power,
or telephone or telegraph, or district mes
senger company, shall be of iron or steel,
and it shall not be lawful for such a COM
pany to erect any wooden poles, and as
fast as the old ones. now in use, are dis
continued or become useless, they shall be
replaced by iron or steel poles
This amendment was defeated. Conse-
quently when the question of the adoption
of the section came before council the sec
ton referred simply to street railway poles
pany of which Alderman Hamilton is pres
ident or any other company. This left
him free to cast the deciding vote, the
council being a tie. He voted against the
section and the requirement for iron poles
was lost
The section of the ordinance requiring
the street railway company to operate
cars both east and west on Broughton
and st. Julian streets was rendered null
by the contract between the city and the
street railway company
THE Broughton street loop is an impor-
tant feature of the new system" said
representative of the street railway com
pany yesterday To double track Brough-
ton street is out of the question The
merchants there would not agree to it,
though many of them petitioned council to
this effect without considering what they
were doing If the street railway compa-
ny were required to operate iS cars on
Broughton street as al present it could
only give the same eight minute schedule
which it gives now. By using the loop it
will be enabled to give a fve-minute
schedule. Passengers will be able to take
the car at any point on Habersham street
! and coming down town on the left hand
track TO Broughton will be carried west
| on Broughton to Montgomery,
thence around Montgomery, St
Julian and to Habersham and
back south lSTf{is will deliver
people from any point on HabeTsham street
to Broughton street in the shortest posi-
BILE time. Many people having business on
Bay, Bryan, st. Julian and Congress
streets, also patronize the Habersham
street line, and the new arrangement will
prove much more convenient to them than
heretofore, Going to dinner, or returning
home at night. they will be able to catch
car on st. Julian street every five min
utes. There will be no waiting on
switches, that bane of street railway
travel.
THE Broughton street merchants, as
well as the people in the southwestern sec
ton of the city will get another advantage
from this loop. Cars from Battery park
and Montgomery street will be run north
on West Broad street, turning in at
Broughton, running on Broughton to Mont
gomery, thence on st. Julian street
through the market to Habersham street
south to Broughron, on Broughton to West
Broad and back south again. This will
place both the market and the whole bus
mess section in easy reach of the people
in the southwestern section"
AS the street railway deal appears to
have been a very well made thing. so far
as the railway people are concerned, any
intention of the street railway company to
give first-class service on the new sys-
tenn is something to be thankful for.
The work of taking up the Price street
belt has begun and the track will be re-
moved in a short time.