The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-31
HOTEL HELP WILL MOVE.
FIRST TRAIN WILL LEAVE FOR THE
NORTH APRIL ;.

f. c. and p. WAn Have the First
Train-The Second VIII BE Run
by the IDhnt Systematically -Four
in Season, Two by Each Route.
How the Hotel Help business is
Notwithstanding Movement OF
Tourists VIII Grow Less From Now
on.
The first hotel help train of the season.
from Jacksonville TO the North, win be
run over the Florida Central and PENN
sular. The train will leave Jacksonville
April 3. All employees in the winter hotels
in Florida and South Georgia win prob
ably take the trains run for their especial
benefit. The help employed in these ho-
tells is migratory, coming South in the
winter and returning North at the opening
of the summer season. The reason of this
is apparent; they go to get service in the
big hotels. During the winter they are
needed South to serve the guests that stop
at the tourist hotels, and in the summer
they are employed at the hotels at the
Northern resorts. One set of hostelries is
open while the other is closed, and the
help thus gets employment nearly the year
round
The second train will be run over the
| Plant System. The date has not yet been
determined, but the agreement between
the two lines calls for alienation in the
running of the trains. Four of these are
run during the closing days of the sea-
son in the South, all of them usually dur
ing April. One year the Plant System has
the first and the third trains. The next
year arrangement is reversed and it will
take the second and fourth, the Florida
Central and Peninsular having the first
and third. Last year the Plant System
ran the first and third trains.
| The two roads have been running the
| hotel help trains for some eight years.
| They make low rates for those who travel
on them, and rivalry is shown in bidding
| for the business. Formerly this was car
ried not to a warmer, but to a much more
disastrous extent than now, as the roads
| then ran trains from Jacksonville under
a plan that allowed neither to derive the
best results. The competition was strong,
| and rate-cutting was practiced without
any attempt at concealment Sometimes
the trains were ordered out of Jackson
Vile at the same time and race was had
TO see which would get to New York first.
The agreement under which the business
is now worked is much more satisfactory.
The business is found very profitable,
and it figures in the calculations of the
passenger departments every year Ehe
movement is sufficiently strong to admit
of low rates being put on From Savan-
nah the rate to New York and Philadel-
phia is only 49, that TO the other Eastern
cities being scaled down. The tickets are
not good in sleeping and parlor cars. Ten
or more must travel on one ticket. The
tickets are limited to continuous passage.
The Florida hotels will begin closing for
the season in few days. and the help will
be ready to get back North. AT the same
| time the tourist travel northWard will be
on the wane, as the visitors begin TO go
back in greatest numbers shortly before
the time announced for the hotels to close.
1t is said the return movement of the
tourists is now showing a slight decrease
that will grow from day to day. In three
weeks the season will be practically over.
The rate clerks of the passenger depart
ments of the Savannah lines in attendance
upon the meeting at Atlanta of the rate
clerks OF the lines comprising the South
eastern Passenger Association have re-
turned to the city. The clerks were busy in
the meeting in preparing the sheets that
will be used in the summer tourist travel.
out about May Is. Fifteen days later the
final sheet will be sent out 10 the passen,
ger departments The seaside rates will
go into effect May l, this being the agree
ment reached at a recent meeting of the
conference committee of the association.
The rates 10 the mountain resorts will not
become effective until June /.
The same basis as that which governed
the rates in effect last year to both the
seaside and mountain resorts, with a few
corrections, will be employed this season
The limit of travel on the mountain rates
will be Sept. 80, that on the seaside resort
tickets closing some time earlier The
roads all over the country, through their
association, have agreed to low resort
. rates for the summer and any point of in
terest frequented during the summer
months. wherever situate in the United
States, may be reached on a reduced rate.
Col. Beverly w. Wrenn, passenger traffic
manager of the Plant System, and Mr. II.
c. McFadden, assistant general passen-
ger agent, have gone down to Tampa on a
business trip.
A gentleman prominent in freight traf-
fic matters says the freight receipts of all
railroads are decreasing daily on account
of the war scare. He says the roads had
been making more money this year than
last up TO The time the war scare came on,
and then the business done was not up to
the expectations of the officials, based up
on what the receipts had been up to that
time.
The railroad man went on to say why
, the business has fallen off. 1t is due to
a lack of the power TO foresee peace he
/ thinks. Merchants will not lay in stocks
while matters are so uncertain, and no big
bills or goods are bought. The feeling of
uneasiness reaches to all quarters and it
cannot be told what the result of the pres
ent war agitation will be- People show
an inclination TO husband all their ready
money, and, as asresult. the transporta-
ton companies suffer.
A directory of the vegetable melon
strawberry and pineapple growers of Flor
ida has been issued by Messrs Owen and
/, Leahy of the passenger department of the
Plant System. The directory is in its
fourth edition. 1t shows the acreage plant
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