The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11
HOMESEEKERS RATE
FOR SAVANNAH
CONCEDED FOR FIRST TIME
OUTLAwING OF TICKET sCALPERs
RESPONSIBLE FOR PRIVILEGE.

Southeastern Passenger Association
Committee Takes Action at Meet
ing Just CIOsed-OnIy Two Excur-
siOns of the Kind Into City This
SeasOn-RailrOadsA Are Advertising
Advantages of State in west and
Northwest With Good ResuIts-
Cooperating With Business Or
CARNATIONS. Roads Calculate to
Make Occasion an Important One.
AS a direct result of the banishing
of ticket scalpers Savannah will this
fall for the first time, be given home
seekers and settlers rates. Hereto
fore when such rates were made no
point nearer than twenty-five miles
was included on account of the fear
of ticket manipulation.
At meeting of the Conference Com
mittee of the Southeastern Passenger
Association, held in Atlanta on Thurs
day and Friday, the concessions named
were obtained. These rates will be
used for basing purposes by lines north
of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi.
For the homeseekers, a basing rate
of so per cent. of the one way rate
has been made. with a maximum rate
of $40 These tickets will have a final
limit of twenty-one days from the date
of sale.
For the colonists one-way rate, the
rate made is one-half of a first-class
fare, plus 81.
Advantage to other Points.
Heretofore while other sections of
the state, and of Florida, have enjoy
ed the great advantage of homeseek-
ers and colonists rates, Savannah has
been shut out. and has no doubt lost
many opportunities to interest prospec-
tive settlers in the advantages offered
for investment.
For number of seasons the railroads
Centering in Savannah have been ad-
vertising the advantages of the terri
tory through which they pass, and
have brought in many settlers and in
vestOrs. The booklets issued have sung
the praises of Georgia and it's climate,
and the possibilities in the way of fruit
culture, strawberry raising, and melon
and potato growing. Each point is
well made, and is calculated to impress
most favorably a reader who has any
4iICAilAOl4 VI SSShllIS dlIOtIlST SECTION Oh
country.
Sources of Immigration.
From the West and Northwest the
greater part of the immigrant popula-
ton is derived, as we'll as from across
waters. More and more the South is
being brought to the attention of the
farmers and fruit growers and this
section is competing with the West
and Northwest as a recipient of pop
ulation, so the railroad officials de-
clare. Already the Coast Line has
brought a number of families from the
Northwest to Florida.
The two excursions which reach Sa-
vannah will be run on Oct. IL and on
Nov. Is. The railroads entering the
city will make special efforts to bring
in very large crowds, especially of the
homeseeker class. It is not expected
that many settlers for this territory
will be secured on the first trip of the
kind.
To all points in the Southeast, outside
of the centers of population, the roads
of the association will run on the first
and third Tuesdays in each winter
month, the homeseekers and settlers
excursions at the rates already given
for Savannah.
With the cooperation of the COM
mercial organizations the railroads
hope to thoroughly advertise the COM
ing excursions to this city and to make
the two first events of the kind notable
oneS