The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-31
MORE STREET cARs NEEDED.
How the Hallway Company Is Ac-
commodating the Heavy Travel.

How the Hallway Company Is Ac-
commOdating the Heavy Travel.
There was considerable complaint yes
terday over the street car facilities fur
nished by the Savannah, Thunderbolt and
Isle of Hope Railway Company between
the city and outlying resorts, but more
particularly 10 the military camps on
Dale avenue and the Thunderbolt road.
The same condition of affairs, it is stated,
existed also on Saturday night
During the greater part of the after
noon il was out of the question for about
one-half Of the passengers 10 expect to get
seats on the cars. This was particularly
true of the line to the First Division camp
on Dale avenue. There seemed to be
shortage of cars on the Habersham street
line all the afternoon. Many people stood
on the corners along Habersham street
and saw cars go by in which there was
absolutely no room for the proverbial "one
more"
The motorman of one car, and it was
probably so with others, had to keep run
ming right by people waiting on the side
walks and tel them TO take the next car.
but there was no next ear, except that
which made the regular schedule. few
people who wanted to make sure of seats
got on the cars as they were coming into
the city, rode all the way down town ana
back again and out to Bolton street juno
ton. Before any of these cars reached The
junction people were hanging onto all
parts of them as best they could.
At the junction passengers for the Dale
avenue camp had 10 transfer, and thei@
was no improvement of accommodations.
They were huddied just as closely to-
gether in the cars there, and frequently
passengers had 10 wait sometime before
thpV could One OF the COn1uC-
tors, No. 16, a least, did not seem to
know where his car was going. He tola
all of his passengers TO keep their seats,
and after all the Dale avenue cars had
gone, he informed them upon a fourth re-
quest that lie was going to Thunderbolt.
Two or three people lost their cars on
| this account and had to wait.
Two cars and a trailer were run on the
Dale avenue line during the afternoon
but there We're times when they could not
accommodate the travel Particularly IS
this true in returning from the camps in
the evening, when a lot of soldiers are in
q hurry to get into the city. At 7:15
o'clock there was only one car at the
end of the line, and there were about
two carloads of passengers to be brought
| in.
! 1t is hardly possible to estimate the
| number of people who failed to get out
to the camps yesterday on account of a
/
| apparent that there were many OF them,
! from the number who stood at this or that
corner and watched the loaded cars pass
without attempting to jam their way into
! them, or hang on the outside.
Some complaint has also been made by
! the regular patrons of the line to Thur
! derbolt, who say that the company per
| nits the soldiers to pile into these cars
| and almost upon the passengers them
selves.
With regard to the travel to the Dale
avenue camp Superintendent H. c. Be
nagh says the company has not the
switches to accommodate more cars than
are being run on that line. 1t appears
there is some objection on the part of
| the County Commissioners to putting
switches on the paved county roads. As
the line cannot accommodate more cars,
there is no use, he says, in putting more
| cars on the city line 20 take out more
people than could be carried on the outside
line. The company has the cars, and
the difficulty appears to be in the lack OF
| switches.
Wherever the fault lies, it is one that
the travelling public would like 10 have
remedied. The chances are that those in
authority have not furnished the super
| intendent with the proper facilities, fol
il they had there is no doubt the public
would be given a better service, or, al
| least as good as could be given with a
mixture of half fairly good and a supply
of antiquated cars.
Saturday night a car carrying about six
teen passengers ran off the track on Dale
avenue, while coming toward the city. The
| motorman, ii is said, was letting his car
| run over the rough track a little too rap
| idly, until it finally bounced off and into
the road. The passengers were pretty
badly scared, and some of them jumped
off. The result was several bruises and
scratches, but, 1t is said, no one was Sc
| rously hurt.