The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-04
TO CHANGE TRACKS
TROLLEY CARS WILL RUN FUR
THEIR WEST on GwINNETT
STREET.
BUILDING OF SUBWAY
WILL MEAN SEVERAL CHANGES IN
STREET RAILWAY SYSTEM.

Savannah Electric Company Is Plan
ming to spend n Great Deal OF
Money in Making improvements
During the Present YeRr-When
Tracks on bolton street Come Up
Others Must He Put Down on
Gwinnett. and Line VIII Be Ex-
tended from Habersham to Aber-
cOrn-Permanent Attractions for
Casino.
With the construction of the Gwin-
mott street subway, whereby one of the
most dangerous grade crossings In
the city will be abolished, several
changes will be made in the tracks of
the Savannah Electric Company.
The schedule that has been arrang-
ed contemplates the extension of the
tracks on Gwinnett street from Haber-
sham to Abercorn. Unless this IS
done the tracks on Bolton street can
not be removed. and this is desirable.
Once before, however, it was intend
ed to lay tracks OIL Gwinnett. from
Habersham to Abercorn, but such
vigorous protest was made. that the
plan was abandoned.
The year that has just begun will
be a very busy one with the street
railway officials and more outside I'M
provements will be made than during
1908. The greatest expense will be oc-
casioned, of course. by the building
of the subway. This will mean the
LAYING of double tracks on the street
and the removal of those on Bolton
from Abercorn to East Broad. and
from the railroad crossing to either
Harmon or Oft.
Route Not Yet Determined
It has not been determined by Man
ager Kidder just what route Will De
taken after the construction of the
subway, the plans of which are now
being considered by the Atlantic Coast
Line AS has been indicated, double
tracks will be placed on this street,
but it may be decided to put tracks
on Harmon street, from Gwinnett to
Bolton, and have cars going to Thun-
derbolt and Collinsville take this route,
rather than run to OFT street. TINS is
a matter that is now being considered
by Manager Kidder
Besides being called upon to pay its
share of the cost of the subway the
electric company will have to put
down extra and heavier rail, and, too,
will have to pay its part of the cost
of paving the street probably to ABB
ercorn.
There is serious talk of the city con-
tinuing the Abercorn street pavement
from Henry to CASTOR this year, in
which event the street railway COM
pany will have to put down heavier
rail, as we'll as pay for its pro rata
of the cost of paving
West Broad from Gwinnett to An
derson and Whitaker street, from Bay
TO Oglethorpe avenue, will also be
paved, which will mean additional
expenditures for the street railway
company.
whitaker street switch.
Quite an improvement promises to
be made in the service on the Whitaker
street line, by the placing of a switch
al Gordon street. The switch at Duff
fy street will be taken up and the
one at Gordon will take it's place. This
win give a turnout midway on the line
and there will not be such an indif~
Il nedule.
1t is not probable that anything will
be us.ie w4.h the line TO the Fair
Grounds for some time to come. The
company's officers realize that eVentl-
ally tra ks will have to be run from
some point east of Bull street, on
Estill avenue, in order to create a
belt line, and give more efficient serv-
ice. This will not be done, however,
until there are a great many more
residents in the territory through which
such a line would pass.
Another line that will have to be
changed somewhat within the next
year or two is the Montgomery street.
These cars now run south on West
Broad street, with the City Market as
the starting point, to Anderson street,
east to Montgomery and south to
Forty second, where the line ends.
Tracks on Forty second street to Bull
and Estill avenue, with the Isle of
Hope line as the objective point, are
in mind.
Attractions for Casino.
Extensive Improvements are being
considered for the Casino, at Thunder
bolt and it is intended that this pop
ular resort win be second to none in
the South when the summer season
opens.
Permanent attractions will be put
in, and the resort will be made most
attractive. Manager Kidder states that
the company's policy of making i'm
provements, wherever they are needed
Will be continued during 1904, and that
a great deal of money win be expend-
ed during the year in this way.
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