The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-06
BY TROLLEY TO WHITE BLUFF.
Continued from Eighth Page.

tricity or any other motor power steam
friction, or common road engines of foreign
or American manufacture. as they may
desire. with vehicles connected Herewith
Tor the purpose of transportation of freight
and passengers
'.Sec. 3. Be IL further enacted. That said
company shall have fun power TO run
steam friction engines over the streets Of
the city of Savannah for the purposes
above enumerated; provided. authority to
do so be granted to said company by the
Mayor and aldermen of the city of Savan-
nah
Sec. 4. And be It further enacted, That
all laws and parts of laws initiating
against this act are hereby repealed.
Approved Oct. a, 1870.
NO, 40, Dec. 4, 1899
Read in House first time Dec 4, 1899
ordered engrossed."
The quotation marks used were supplied
by Mr. Lester, who arrived from Atlanta
in the morning. MIR. Lester also fur
nished a copy of bill No. PA, which can
be found in the acts of 1870 showing that
the bill is the same as the one enacted at
that time with the exception of the words
quoted.
Mr. Lester expressed great surprise
when notified of the antagonism which
the bill had excited here, and said that he
was Mt a loss TO account for 1t unless the
copy received by Mayor Myers had failed
to show which was the original bill and
which the amendment.
The Vernon Shell Road Company. Z"
said MIR. Lester already has the right to
construct steam railroad and right
down the center of its roadbed II It wishes
All that is asked now is the right to use
electricity or any other motive power. We
might want to use automobiles or We
hlcles propelled by gasoline or something
of that sort | do not know that any rail-
road will be built. | am not the one who
ia trying to do that, but ie one be built
1t will not be down the center of The road.
but to one side, so as not to interfere
with the use of the road to the public
Not only this, but should the road be built
il would result in throwing the road open
TO the public by doing away with the toll
gates. The property owners on the route
would thus receive double advantage as
they would not have railroad, but free
public road as well"
MIR. Lester appeared before the Commit
lee of the Whole of Council last night and
made a statement with regard to the bill
His statement was unsatisfactory to Coun-
ell, however, as is shown by the resolu-
ton adopted by that body. Mr.. Testers
attention was called TO the fact that the
charter as 1t now stands does not give
the company any right to construct a rail-
road track and consequently the extern
sive privileges enjoyed by II are of no
value for such purposes. The proposed
amendment includes the right to construct
a railroad track and extend the unusual
privileges enjoyed by the company for this
purpose also. Mr.. Lester failed to explain
to Council that IL is intended to construct
the track to one side of the road and not
to obstruct the road, which is one of the
chief reasons for the opposition Of Council
The following resolution was adopted by
Council 10 public session:
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen o.
the city of Savannah, in Council ASSEMBLE
ed, that this Council respeci fully protests
against the passage OF the llw propo ing
to amend the charter of the Vern Shell
Road Company, recently introduced in tn .
Legislature of the state the pu 20 of
which seems TO be authorizes this compa v
To lay railroad tracks on the Whit Bluff
road and other public rosds, and 10 cper-
ate thereon cars to be propelled by steam,
electricity or other motive power.
while this Council has no disposition to
oppose the construction of a railroad from
the city of Savannah to White Bluff, t
Is very much opposed to the lay ng of
tracks on the roadbeds of the suburban
roads leading into the city and p rticu-
larly the White Bluff Road, which is ac-