The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-21
WILL PUSH BUTTONS
THE MOTORMEN on NEW CARS
WILL DO THE REST.
WON'T HAVE TO WHISTLE
WHEN A CAR Is TO BE STOPPED AT
THE STREET WANTED.

New Cars VIII BE Put on the Aber-
corn-Barnard Belt the Latter Part
of the Week-Three Are Here and
Five More Are COming-They Are
of the Convertible Type, Being
Available for Both Summer and
Winter Use-COnductOrs Will Wei
come the Push ButtOns-This limo
walton Will Mean Less Work and
Less Harrassment for Them.
The Savannah Electric Company will
soon have eight new cars on the Aber-
corn Barnard belt. Three of the cars
are already here. and will be put on
about the last of the week, General
Manager G. o. Magic said yesterday.
The remaining five have been shipped,
and will arrive within a few days.
The new cars are said to be COM
modious and comfortable. They have
bodies twenty feet long, with a five
foot platform at either end. They are
convertible. the windows being so ar
ranged as to admit of their use as open
cars during the summer and closed
cars during the winter. This result is
obtained by having very large win
dows, the upper sashes of which are
raised into the roof and the lower ones
lowered into the sides.
An innovation will be push buttons.
These are conveniences that have not
yet been seen in street cars in Savan-
nah. The buttons are located con-
Veniently to the hands of passengers,
and a touch will bring the cars to
halt at the points desired. 1t will not
be necessary for a passenger to call the
conductor, for the simple pressure OF
the button between streets will indi-
cate to the motorman that he is to
stop. 1t will only be necessary, Mr..
Nagle said, for the signal to be given
in time, after passing one street, for
the motorman to stop at the next.
No old cars will be left on the Aber-
corn Barnard belt. Eight are used on
that run. Some of the old ones Will
be retained in the service, but, as Mr..
Nagle said, others have about reached
the end of their careers and will be re-
tired. The full complement of cars for
the run is eight, so that the entire
service will be of the new cars.
The new arrangement will be hailed
with delight by the conductors. They
say that their greatest trial is encoun-
tered in this very thing of stopping
their cars for passengers. Sometimes
it is the conductors fault when the
cars do not stop at the right street, but
often the passengers are to blame.
Frequently the passengers who get
carried past their streets are in no
sweet frame of mind. and relief from
unpleasantness is anticipated by the
conductors. One of them said yester-
day that collecting fares is child's play
when compared with pleasing passen-
gers by stopping when they want to
stop. The buttons will not worry the
motormen, as they are rung down in
| any event.
Mr.. Maggie is just back from the con-
| vention of street railway men at De-
troit He was accompanied by Mr.. H.
| K. Payne, general manager of the
| Houston (Tex.) Electric Company Of
| which President George j. Baldwin Of
| the Savannah Electric Company is
| president. Mr.. Payne will leave Sa-
yannah to-day for Houston. He said
that since the formation of the new
! company there and it's assumption of
the control of the system, the service
has been greatly improved, as has been
| the case in Savannah