The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-02
WILL USE NO MORE TICKETS.
STREET RAILWAY WILL COLLECT
CASH FARES HEREAFTER.

Hope Enre Made 20 Cents for the
Round Trip-The Abolition of the
Ticket System Due Directly to the
sylvan Incident, Director Collins
snys-GcnernI Manager Lotion
Claims Tint MIR. Sylvan Announced
His Intention of Making a Test
Case.
The street railway company has, decided
to do away with the use of tickets alto
gether and hereafter only cash fares win
be collected. This decision was reached
yesterday at a meeting of the board of dl-
rectors. and is the direct result of the an
nouncement that Mr.. e. w. Sylvan, who
was put off a Thunderbolt car Tuesday be-
cause he had an excursion ticket day cd
would enter suit against the company for
damages.
This means that hereafter it win cost 20
cents to visit Thunderbolt 10 cents on the
inside lines and 10 cents on the outside line
Some compensation is given the people Of
Savannah for this increase by a reduction
in fares to Isle of Hope and Montgomery,
on which lines tickets are also done away
with. Hereafter the charge for the round
trip to Isle Of Hope will be 20 cents the
same as to Thunderbolt, a reduction of 10
cents while the round trip to Beaulieu and
Montgomery viii cost so cents, instead of
50 cents as at present.
Mr.. j. S. Collins, a director of the Sa-
vannah, Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope
Hallway, has been opposed to the ticket
system for some time and advocated doing
away with il some time ago.
I'VE have abandoned the use of tickets
entirely" said Mr.. Collins. For my part
| always did consider them clumsy. I'M
bus ness-lke arrangement for a railroad
such as ours. My views, however, did
not prevail until the announcement was
made that Mr.. SyNan's attorney intended
TO bring suit against us ON account of our
refusal to recognize one of these tickets
which was out of date. This brought the
directors around 10 my way of thinking
OF course, we have a perfect right to
make a contract with a man that We
VIII carry him to-day, tomorrow, or any
other limited time, and not after, but If
making such contracts involves us in It'll
cation and expense, we had better drop
the whole ticket business. 1t is true that
1t will now cost a passenger 10 cents to go
to Thunderbolt from the market and 10
cents to return, which is cents more
than the ticket system called for but il is
better for both the public and the rail-
road to let the fares be paid on the cars
and al the 10 cents rate than to use these
tickets which involve passengers and the
railroad company in trouble and litiga-
ton.
The people of Montgomery and Beau
lieu win be greatly benefited by the
change. Heretofore the round trip ticket
was 50 cents to Montgomery. Under the
new arrangement the fares viii be only
Is cents each way. The people living be-
Nv md hum ~ ole
have an improved service. The directors
would probably have continued the ticket
system, but for Mr.. Sylvan's law suit,
His attorney notified the general manager
that he was going TO bring suit, and this
brought the balance of the directors to
my way of thinking.
The Isle of Hope people also derive a
large benefit from the change. Hereafter
il win cost 10 cents only to go to Isle of
Hope from the market or elsewhere down
town, and 10 cents to return, as against
30 cents round trip as heretofore. To the
people therefore. MIR. SyIvans law suit
proves to be a blessing in disguise"
The patrons of the Thunderbolt line mays
disagree with Mr.. Collins as 10 the bless
ing in disguise" AT the same time 1t must
be admitted that the railway company
has made some concessions on the other
lines.
THE Isle of Hope service" said General
Manager IOl lOil, VIII he Improves. III
stead of being handed around by Thun-
dorbolt, Isle of Hope cars will run direct
to Tenth street, which will be the con-
Meeting point with the city lines The
Second avenue connection is to be done
away with, all our property and para
phernalia there will be removed to the
other side of town in a few days.
think the new service will prove much
more satisfactory to the people of Isle of
Hope than any that has heretofore been
given them"
AS to the Sylvan incident and the use
of two sets of Thunderbolt tickets by the
street railway company, General Manager
Lotion said: The green tickets were kept
on sale AZ the office simply for the ac-
commodation Of the residents of Thunder
bolt ana that vicinity to whose needs the
limited excursion tickets were unsuited
The orders were not TO sell any of these
tickets to residents of Savannah and well
known citizens who applied TO purchase
them have had the experience of being
turned down. Mr.. Sylvan was aware of
the fact that these ticke,s were on sale
for the people of Thunderbolt. On the
day before the incident one of the conduc-
tors reported TO me that Mr. Sylvan had
bought one of the excursion tickets aud
announced his intention of making a test
case. The conductor said that he called
Mr.. Sylvan's attention 10 the fact that
purpose and that he had replied that it
was what he vented, that he wanted to
see If he would be put off. l remarked
that If that was what he was up TO he
could doubtless be accommodated.
thought no more of the matter until it
was reported to me the next day that he
had attempted to ride on the ticket and
had been put off"
"Have not these tickets been accepted
by the conductors when presented a day
after purchaser" Mr.. Lotion was asked.
81 have 10 doubt" he replied, that in
taking up tickets from a car full of peo-
pile the conductors have occasionally ,ac-
ccpted old tickets through oversight The
punch mark on the ticket is very small
and a mistake of this kind is liable to oc-
cur. However. the abolition of the ticket
system will put stop to any repetitons
Of these errors"
The announcement in to-day's Morning
News viii be the first information to the
people of Savannah that Thunderbolt fares
have been put up to 20 cents. Whether it