. Electric railway journal . war, the com-pany has raised wages three times. It is also saving New Five-Mile Savannah Line Extension to Government Shipyards Is Well UnderConstruction—Ten Open-Bench CarsAre Being Inclosed THE county of Chatham (Savannah) has planned aconcrete road about 5 miles long, with an electricrailway extension, to open up an immediate approachto the yards of the Foundation Company, now incourse of erection on grounds almost contiguous toSavannah, and also to the yards of the Terry Ship-building Corporation at Port Wentworth, 8 miles accompanying map shows the rou
. Electric railway journal . war, the com-pany has raised wages three times. It is also saving New Five-Mile Savannah Line Extension to Government Shipyards Is Well UnderConstruction—Ten Open-Bench CarsAre Being Inclosed THE county of Chatham (Savannah) has planned aconcrete road about 5 miles long, with an electricrailway extension, to open up an immediate approachto the yards of the Foundation Company, now incourse of erection on grounds almost contiguous toSavannah, and also to the yards of the Terry Ship-building Corporation at Port Wentworth, 8 miles accompanying map shows the route. The newfacilities would also serve intermediate interests, suchas the Savannah Warehouse & Compress Company,Savannah Sugar Refinery, Globe Machinery & BarrelFactory and the Atlantic Paper & Pulp Company. For a time the work was held up through delay onthe part of the owners of the Whitehall plantation ingranting a right-of-way, but recently the EmergencyFleet Corporation secured the necessary land. Now the. NEW FIVE-MILE CONCRETE ROAD AND EXTENSION OP SAVANNAH ELECTRIC RAILWAY TO SHIPYARDS large sums of money for its men by selling groceriesto them at cost. The business amounts to $3,000 amonth for 350 men. This policy is carried to the pointof competing with the credit grocer, for if the railwayman lacks the cash he can get a $5 coupon book, pro-vided he has an equivalent amount of cash coming tohim. The salesroom adjoins the carhouse. It has no run-ning charges of importance except $50 a month for theboy in charge. The service originally included delivery,but this was found too costly. All business is now doneover the counter, either with the men themselves orwith their families. Because of the shortage of men, however, the com-pany recently published an advertisement for fourweeks in seven county papers. This has brought incountry boys, some of whom are only seventeen yearsof age. In fact, war conditions have also forced thecompany to engage men over fifty years of age
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