The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-22
PROMISES BETTER SERVICE.
Car Lines General Manager Says
There's to He "a Change.

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There's to he "A Change.
There Is a prospect that more satisfac-
tory conditions will be afforded in the
way of reaching the suburban resorts by
the street railway lines, If the statement
of General Manager Lotion means any
thing. There has been much well found
ed complaint as TO the inability of pass
engers to obtain tickets to the suburban
resorts on all the cars and the confusion
which existed as to whether or not tick
cts were on sale to Isle Of Hope, or any
where in fact, has been a common ex-
perience of passengers to board the cars
with the expectation of being able to buy
round trip tickets and then to find that
tickets were not to be had of either the
conductor on the inside lines or the en-
ployes of the company at the junction,
necessitating the payment of full fare
There has always been complaint be-
cause passengers going out on one line
had to pay additional fare for the priv
ileges of returning by the other
General Manager Lotion, when spoken
to about the matter yesterday, said that
he intended giving the Isle of Hope ticket
question his attention this week. II have
been so busy with other matters that I
have not had time to look into this fea-
ture,' said Mr.. Lotion, "our revenue from
that line being very small. Az present
Communication tickets are sold to residents
OF Isle of Hope at a reduced rate. Tick
cts are not on sale for Isle of Hope by
the conductors of the inside lines except
on Sundays, and on special occasions when
cheap rate is made. These CHEAP rate
tickets, 10 cents for the round trip, do not
entttle the holder to return by the Thun-
a arla1 1fr4n
cts on sale on the inside lines for Isle
of Hope regularly will be taken up on the
return of Vice President FAN from New
York this week"
MIR. Lotion was informed that the Morn
ing News had received numerous com
plants of the unsatisfactory manner in
which the crowds were handled to Isle
of Hope on the night of the cake walk
last week.
THE trouble" said Mr. Lotion was
that fully five times as many people I'M
dertook TO attend the cake walk as we had
expected 10 handle. Arrangements had
been made TO handle 300 to 400 people. and
fully five times that many undertook to
go. We expected to handle not over 500
but did handle nearly 1,400. AS soon. as l
learned of the crush l put an the day cars
coming off duty on the Isle Of Hope line
AS there had been no expectation of such
d crowd the supply of tickets ran out As
soon as this was reported TO me / instruct
ed conductors to collect only one fare each
way, thus making the round trip cost only
ten cents. Instead of charging more be-
cause of the lack of tickets the company
was out at least $35 on this account"
Whl4e the company may have been ont
some, good many passengers were also
out on extra fare. If Savannah had a
suburban car service on which the peo-
pie could depend and on which they could
ride at reasonable fares and with reason
able accommodations, the patronage would
be many times larger than 1t is. The
complaint that the Isle of Hope line mar
ronage is small would seem fully iusti-
fed by the service and the ticket arrange
ment that has existed for years.
General Manager Lotion has ilst got
ten out a new Thunderbolt ticket and
these tickets will be supplied to conduc-
tors on all the inside lines to-day. Each
conductor will be furnished with a book
of 100 tickets consecutively numbered
with stub attached. The punch marks
and stubs will prove an effective check
on both passengers and conductors. Tickets
TO Thunderbolt will be sold for Is cents
from any point on the inside lines. and
double transfers given if necessary to en-
able the purchaser to reach the Thunder
bolt line without paying an extra fare.