The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-29
SAYS LIMITED rIcKETs HOLD.
Gen. Manager Lotion on the Thun-
derbOIt Car Fares.

Gen. Manager Lotion on the Thun-
derbOIt Car Fares.
The car lines management says that
its Thunderboit tickets are good only I'M
der the conditions printed on them. Cen
erai Manager Lotion said yesterday that
the rcund-trip tickets sold to Thunderbolt
are special rate tickets, and that passen- /
gers riding without them are charged the
full fare of 70 cents, or 5 cents each way
on the city lines and cents each way
from Bolton street junction to Tnunder-
bolt and return.
THE statement that conductors have
been instructed to collect cash fare, if pos
sible, on Thunderbolt tickets when they
are overdue, is Incorrect" Mr.. Lotion
said Orders of this kind have been is
sued, but they refer TO transfers and not
to Thunderbot tickets The intention was
to avoid disputes as 10 the time of issu-
ing the transfers or tickets when the pas
sensers Claimed the conductor who gave
them transfers had made an error in not
ing the time. In cases of this kind con-
ductors are 10 take up ticket. get the
name. of the passenger and report the mat
ter to the general manager for inyestiga-
tom
MIR. Lotion said the intention of the
limited Thunderbolt ticket is that il shall
be good only for one continuous pc ssage
each way. 1t is not intended in giving
this rate, he said, that purchasers shall
hold the city coupons for future rides and
use only the Thunderbolt tickets on the
date Of sale, as he says has been the case
in several instances. Passengers who do
this, he says, set two CRY rides for one
fare, which is the company's reason for
making continuous passage a condition 10
these tickets Mr. Lotion said he knew
of Instances in which passengers bought
Thunderboll tickets and used the city cou-
pOus for city rides, and reserved the
Thunderbolt coupons for future rides.
This was done when the old tickets were
in use, and when the conditions requiring
continuous passage did not appear on
them as they do at present. The inten-
ton is TO give a special rate 10 Thunder
bolt, and if the coupons are not presented
as the companys contract requires, they
will not be honored.
"Under the old ticket this privilege"
said Mr.. Lotion, was abused to such an
extent that the company found it neces-
sary either to get a new ticket, with prop
er conditions attached, or discontinue the
sale of special rate tickets altogether.
The company has been advised that the
tickets now in use are limited and may
be legally used as such. The reason for
regulating the sale and use of these tick
cts is not to burden the public with adj
ditonal charges but simply to protect
the company and have the privilege used
as intended"
There is a difference of opinion as to the
legality Of the Thundertolt tickets One
attorney made test the other day of what
the railway calls an overdue ticket-that
is, ticket which was purchased one day
and used the next. When he presented
it the conductor at first declined to accept
it. The passenger insisted that the ticket
was valid and declined to pay a cash
fare. The conductor, after some talk, said
that he had been instructed in cases OF
| overdue tickets to collect a cash fare if
possible, and if not able to do so, then
to accept the ticket, but not to put the
passenger off the car
The management of the railway company
has been considering increasing the
fare to Thunderbolt for some time. One
element in the board of di-
rectors is said to be anxious
for an increase. II is claimed that
people will go to Thunderbolt anyway
and that they viii pay 20 cents or 25
cents to go there as soon as they will
10 cents. AS matter Of fact however,
the Thunderbolt line is very little longer,
if any, than the Abercorn and Whitaker
street belt and is only about half the
mileage of the old outside city belt, which
the present management, when it adopted
its policy of short lines, abandoned.
Vice President Fall, when asked re-
Gently why his company does not like
progressive companies in other cities,
give patrons the advantage Of book tick
cts at reduced rate in view of the
very short length of its lines. replied that
it was too much trouble; that 1t would
require an extra clerk to look after the
tickets and that cash fares are more sat
isfaotorv IA tha cononauv