The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-17
STREET CAR SYSTEM A MODEL.
Something About the Advantages
Ofered by the Hamburg Lines.
From the Denver Fosl)

(Erom the Denver Tosl9
The electric street ear system of Ham
burg, We are told by our consul there. is
claimed TO be in every respect the best
and most complete on the European con-
tinent, exhibiting peculiar features both
in It's construction and its management.
The Hamburg Street Railway Company
was organized with a capital stock of 21,-
OOO,u00 marks C@S04000 lis rolling stock
consists of 500 trolley and 400 smoking cars.
On account of The narrow streets the
strinSins of wires met with many ditficu!,
ties. The company had, therefore, TO re-
sort 10 property owners and obtaiued per
mission from them TO anchor he wires to
thelr houses. 70 TINS there was no oblec-
ton as the company paid for the pliVi-
le9c. Where poles are sci they are very
neat in appearance and are used also al
electric light poles. The electric current is
furnished by the electricity works. with
which the street car company has a con-
tract The so IoileY cars are large and
tOomy, while the 100 smoking cars or trail
ers are simply the old horse car now do
ing duly in this form. The electricity
works pay 20 per cent OF their gross in
come 10 the city ana the street car com
panY pays to The city ] pfenng on each
passenger carried on the lines. The aver
age fare being 1l.5 pfennigs, the city re-
ceives 81 per cent. of the gross income
of the company. In addition TO this the
company must keep The pavement inside
and one foot outside of The tracks in prop
er order.
The fares are exceedingly low, the city
government, after experime ntiug for some
time, having approved of The distance
tariff" The amount of fare 10 be chafged
is not fixed by the company, but by the
city government. All lines are divided into
zones of 1000 meters Q.4 miles,, on which
the following fares are maintained: For
the first two zones G. As miles,, 10 pfennigs
(2.28 cents; for each additional two zones
or part thereof, ) pfennigs. In this way a
passenger pays for distance of five mdes
about 312 cents and for ten miles about
cen S
+ The Communication ticket system is an
other peculiar feature. Regular custom
crs, who use the lines dozen times a day
perhaps, receive Communication tickets.
There are two forms of these tickets, one
for one fine only the other sor the whole
system. The holder OF the first may travel
on his designated line as often as he de-
siIes so long as the ticket is good; the
other may travel the same way on the
whole system until the ticket expires. The
prices, of course vary as TO time, SO, for
instance, a single tine three months tick
ct is sold for $685.; six months, Sl095, and
one year RlJ.V4, WIll4t1 a tithEl EpON On al
lines can be had at S11.0. for three, $20.47
FOR six and $35 70 for twelve months.
With such a ticket one may ride all day
if he wishes, or as often as he pleases. In
this way $50 70 ticEN takes the place
of an annual pass. In addition to these
combination tickets are o Id good on one
line and part of anothee. School children
are supplied with tickets which make the
trip cost less than l cent. Cars offer ac-
commodation for thirty-seVen persons.
When that number IS aboard no more are
taken on. This rule is very strictly en-
forced and a conductor carrying more per-
sons than permitted is fined marks,
which sum gees 10 a fund for the support
of employees of the company in need of it,.
All cars are supplied with hand and cleo
tro-magnetic brakes the latter are APP
piled in case of danger. Accidents are few,
although the cars are not supplied with
tenders yet experiments are daily made
with all sorts of safety appliances, but so
far the company has made no decision on
any one of them.