Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-10
ALBANY PREPARING FOR
STREET RAILWAY OPENING
Speakers For Occasion We're
Selected

Albany, ia, May 9.-The list OF
speakers for the big celebration that
VIII mark the opening of Albany's new
street car system next Thursday. Nav
10, was announced today, as follows
. A. Davis, president of the Alban1
Transit company, master of ceremon-
les; c. w, Rawson; H. A. Tarver, may
OF of Albany H. H Tiff, of Triton; F.
F. Putney and J. S. Davis, of Albany
E. M. Davis, Camilla; S. B. Brown and
j, C. Fulford, of Albany; w. C. Vereen
OF Moultrie; H. T. Mcintosh of Albany:
Judge Julian Williamson, of Sylves-
ter.
The exercises will begin at 10 a. M,
at a stand to be erected at the corner
of Broad and Washington streets. Fol
lowing the speaking, a street car
procession will form; proceeding out
Washington to Seventh street. 20
Tiff park, and return. The handsome
new 'pay-as-you-enter" cars of the
new system will be preceded by an old
fashioned car drawn by white
mule. This was one of the first cars
ever used on a street car line in Al.
bany, many years ago, on line that
long since became nonresident.
The car has been used as a hen
house in the outskirts of the city for
many years, but on the 18th will have
the place of honor in the opening day
procession.
In the street car procession, Presi,
dent c. w, Rawson, of the company,
and to whom is due most of the credit
for the organization of the Albany
Transit company, entirely of local
capital, will drive the first car as
motorman. Mrs. Rawson will pull the
bell to start the first car. Roland
Wetherbee, one of the large stock
holders of the company, will pay the
first nickel fare on the new system.
This nickel will be preserved as a
souvenir of the occasion.
Invited to ride in the procession are
all stockholders of the company, mem
bers of city council, county commits
sioners, directors of the chamber Of
commerce, the visiting speakers and
representatives of the press. Each Of
these will be permitted to take one
member of his family on the ride.
Personal invitations will be issued for
this ride
After the procession returns to the
starting point, the cars will be put In
operation on all parts of the system
and there will be free rides for every
body, on all parts of the system, until
2 o'clock p. m, when regular sched-
ules will go into effect and regular
fares charged
The cars of the system, as above
stated, are of the pay -you-enter
type All passengers will be required
to get on and off at the far end of the
car and deposit fares in a patent.
self-registering fare-box there The
motorman will have entire charge Of
the car, the service of a conductor not
being required. Transfers from one
line to another of the system will be
given passengers who ask for them
upon entering the car
Other features of the celebration
will be music by the Artesian City
band and the taking of moving pic
lures of street scenes during the day.
Several thousand people from all over
this section of the state are expected
here for the celebration, which will
be observed practically as a holiday.
In the afternoon at 4 o'clock, the AL
bany and Columbus baseball teams
will play ball at the South Atlantic
league baseball park, Columbus
game being transferred from that city
in honor of the special occasion.
The poor have a thousand joys which
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