The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-11
OUTSIDE CAR BELT RESUMED.
STREET RAILWAY PROMISES BET
TER CONNECTIONS.

Day, East Broad, Duffy and West
Broad Streets VIII BE Operated as
Belt With Cars Each Way Every
Ten Minutes-Cars Will Pass Tybee
DepOt-West Broad street Given "a
Five Minute Schedule and Battery
Park, Montgomery street and Lau-
rel Grove Mnde More Accessible.
A change in the operation of the Savan-
nah, Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope Rail-
way will be inaugurated to-day. The Bay,
East Broad, Duffy and West Broad street
belt viii be resumed, and cars will be
operated in both directions on a ten-min-
ute schedule. The belt will include the
loop around by the Tybee station, and
will thus be a great advantage to the Ty-
bee travel, as the lines of the belt inter-
sect all other lines in the city. The Lib
erty street cars will continue to run to
the Tybee station, so that hereafter pas
sengers from Tybee will have a reason
able certainty Of catching cars in a short
time if none are in waiting on the arrival
of trains.
As the West Broad street cars will con-
tinue to be operated, this will give that
street the best car service in the city. West
Broad street now has ten-minute sche-
dule, but with the inaugura ton of the belt
system it will have five-minutes schedule
from Duffy street north. Another change
is that instead of running the West Broad
street cars around the ST. Julian. Aber-
corn and Broughton street .oop, they will
be stopped in the market which point
will be the terminus of their route This
will save the tour around the loop, as
the management has found that few peo-
pie get on and off after leaving the mar
ket going east.
The people in the southwestern section
fare especially well in the new service.
Hereafter Battery Park and Mon gomery
street viii have ten-minute schedules. in
stead Of wenty-minute schedules as here
totore. The West Broad street cars have
been alternating, one going out
70 Batter, Park and the 9th
after all the West Broad street cars
VIII so out Montgomery street and a shut
tie car win be put on the Montgomery
street line, making connections every ten
minutes with the belt.
Laurel Grove cemetery also gets i'm
proved service under this arrangement as
hereafter ali the West Broad street cars
VIII pass by the cemetery, giving a car at
that point every ten minutes.
The Indian street cars will make connec-
tons with the belt at Bay and West
Broad streets, giving car every ten min
utes instead of every twelve minutes as
heretofore.
For a .ong time, in fact almost ever since
the consolidation of he street railways the
contract Of the street railway company TO
operate a belt around Bay, East Broad.
West Broad and Anderson or Duffy streets
has been ignored, ard the residents OF
those streets have suffered by reason Of
this slate of affairs. With the operation of
the Bay, Last Broad and Duffy line they
nave had a 12-minute schedule. The belt
VIII give them ten-minute schedule. The
residents of Duffy street, and chat vicinity
viii now be able to reach the down town
section by cars going butn east and west,
and without the annoyance of transfers.
The re-eSlabll shment of the outside belt
appears 10 work a general Improvement in
the street car situation, and one that will
doubtless be appreciated. General Manager
Lotion has devoted considerable tine to
working out the details of the new sched-
ule with view TO giving the best service
possible while having an eye to the econ
omical operation of the system. The new
belt cars will pass all depots, including
the TyDee depot. will make connection at
Indian street for the Ocean steamship
WharYes and at Bolton and East Broad
street with Thunderbolt cars. The peo-
pie on the western side of the city, and in
the SouthWest ern section viii gel improved
schedule upon what they have had for
some time, and the better connections af-
iOrded VIII make street car travelling more
satisfactory than heretofore to persons in
all parts of the city
The new belt comes in good time. as
it viii prove to be quite an attraction for
afternoon and night riding while the hot
weather lasts 1t is not The Intention of
the street railway management TO give a
ride over the entire system for one fare
Only one transfer will be given. excepf
20 those who board the cars on the shut
tie lines, who will be entitled to two
transfers, when this is necessary to place
them at their destination.