The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-11
CAR AND FERRY
PROPOSED ROUTE TO WHITE
BLUFF BY TROLLEY.
TO EXTEND MoNTGoMERYLINE
A MILE OF TRACK WOULD END oP-
PoSITE WHITE BLUFF.

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Residents of That Suburb Across
Vernon River to the Waiting Cars.
In Addition to DweIlers There the
Line Would Offer Rapid Transit
Facilities to Hundreds of Persons
Living in the SectiOn-President
Baldwin Has Agreed to Consider
the Scheme-BOOm in Building anu
Real Estate ON at BeauIieu and
Montgomery.
The increase in traffic over the new
ly constructed electric line to Beau
lieu and Montgomery is one instance
of how rapidly such Improvements
bring their own reward. The construc-
ton of the line has inspired a sugges-
ton, which may prove the solution of
the problem of rapid transit between
the city and White Bluff, and other
resorts.
Beaulieu and Montgomery are on
peninsula, formed by curve of Yer
non river. Across the peninsula from
Montgomery and on the other side of
the river lies White Bluff. 1t has
been suggested that the Savannah
Electric Company extend its line
across the peninsula to a terminal
wharf erected on the banks of Yer
non river, opposite White Bluff. The
extension would not be over a mile
in length and a short row across the
river would place the inhabitants of
that beautiful saltwater suburb with
IN easy trolley ride of the city.
Bridge or Ferry.
Every inhabitant of White Bluff is
the owner of boat of some kind, in
which the trip across the river could
be made, but there is no doubt that the
line would not have been in operation
a week before some enterprising person
would have established a ferry. If it
were necessary the trolley company
could establish the ferry itself.
The line would solve the vexed prob
lem of communication with White Bluff
at less expense, by a very large amount
than any solution that has yet been
suggested. In addition to the consid-
cradle summer population, there are
many permanent residents of White
Bluff, while just hebind it is a negro
settlement of six or seven hundred per-
sons. All of these are accustomed to
make frequent trips to the city, in the
winter with fish and oysters and in the
spring and summer with fruit and veg
etables. They have been accustomed
to walking or driving the patient
mule and they would every one well
come an opportunity to adopt a more
advanced means of conveyance for
themselves and their products. The
residents of that section say there is
no doubt that such a line would pay.
MIR. Baldwin to Consider 1t.
1t has been outlined to Mr.. George J.
Baldwin, president of the Savannah
Electric Company, who has agreed to
give the matter his consideration. He
has not yet had an opportunity to go
over the ground and consider the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of
the proposed extension of the
the Montgomery line, but it may we'll
be that he will decide it is feasible
and determine upon it's construction.
The construction of the Montgomery
line has already induced the erection
of several attractive residences at that
point and Beauleu, which are now in
course of building. Among these are
the beautiful home Mr.. Julian Schley
is putting up on the old Schley home
stead at Beaulieu and the cottages of
Messrs. Ed. F. Whitcomb and F. A.
D. Hancock at Montgomery. These
will be ready for occupancy in the
course of a few weeks.
Fortunate for Montgomery.
Many other cottages and more elab-
crate homes would have been erected
on the Beaulieu and Montgomery pc
ninsula, had the street railway COM
pany been in a position to announce
earlier in the spring that it would
equip the line with electricity. 1t was
only because of the miscarriage of
plans at Thunderbolt that the company
was able to build the line to Mont
gomery before fall, and the work of
construction followed Immediately on
the heels of the announcement that it
would be begun.
number of those who had intended
building upon their property at Mont
Somery and Beaulieu had made other
plans for the summer by that time,
and were therefore impelled to defer
the erection of their summer homes
until another season. DIR. T. P. Charl-
ton is among this number
A boom in real estate has also fol-
lowed the equipment of the trolley line.
Lots that two months ago We're freely
offered at $1,000, with no takers, are
now held for $1,000. and some of them
are being sold at that figure 1t is GER
tain that the patronage of the line
will be largely and steadily increased
as the months pass. and that it will
entirely justify the wisdom that in
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