The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-21
THEY DON'T MIND ORDINANCES.
City Requirements for Comfortable
street Cars Disregarded.

City Requirements for Comfortable
street Cars Disregarded.
The pneumonia street cars were run
ming, though In less number. last night
and passengers on the HabersAam,
Broughton and ST. Julian street lines had
better accommodations than they have
been having. People who are able to trav-
ell by other lines had abandoned the Haber-
sham street line, but there are many who
had TO put up with its lack of accommo-
dations or walk.
The ordinances under which the present
City Council gave away the streets to the
Savannah, Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope
Railway provided that comfortable cars
should be run. City ordinances are mat
ters of little regard however, by the
street railway people, and have been prac-
tlcaly a dead letter with the city since
they were passed. The committee charg-
ed with the proper conduct of the car lines
has so far as known given little if any at
tention to the rights of the people" said a
citizen last night Probably the alder
men think open cars in mdwmter with
mercury below freezing, or with the rain
pouring in torrents, are comfortable
cars"
1t is understood that the railway man
agement may take an open hand in poll
ties for the city election with the idea of
a complete control of the Council during
the next administration, running things
its own way then and preventing any pos
sible grants of streets to competing lines.
1t would not be surprising TO see a liberal
number of politicians riding on free tick
| cts during the next three or four weeks.
People in the southern section of the
| city have become tired of making COM
| plants of the disregard of the promises
made for their accommodation. The COM
| pany, whenever it has been asked to full
| fiji its promises for an improved service
has replied that 1t hasn't time to attend to
il, and the City Council committee has
! looked al it in the same way. over a
| year ago the company was directed to re-
| move the unused tracks from the streets
! The Anderson street track is idle hall
| buried in the sand with rotten street cross
| ings, a dangerous obstruction to travel. The
plan as given out by the company
was to use the Duffy street track with
the Anderson street track as part of tn,
belt running on Bay. East Broad anC
West Broad. There is considerable in
| side history as to how this privilege wa.
secured from the city. which may come
| out later on. As it is now, the street rail
way controls both streets and get!
out of running belt line
| The complaints of people in the southwest
Grn section oil the CITY are Wen known
Schedules of half an hour are run there
and the people have had TO put up will
whatever service the company has seer
| fit to give them.
Vice President Fall intimated whei
he was in Savannah recent
ly that things were not running exact
as he liked, and that something woul
be done in the way of an Improvement
The only Improvement that has manifest
ed itself so far is putting down heavie
rails on Bay street, which the patrons o
the Bay street cars will appreciate. an.
putting on three or four closed cars o.
| the Habersham street line. Their
are rumors of a shaking up in the opera
ton of the lines with the beginning OF IN
new year but what there is In them
very Indefinite.