Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-10

Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and Affair.

Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and Affair.
The Central Railroad Company viii be-
Gin work on their new Bull street uckeu
office i'm a few days. When completed,
under the present designs, it will be
model office.
The street in front of the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railroad depot VIII
soon be put in the most thorough order
The freight traffic of the savannah,
Florida and Western Railroad has grown
into such proportions that an extension
to their freight department will be mace
this fall.
Within a year or more the Central Rail-
road will have a solid road bed on the en-
/ tire line of road.
The Charleston and Savannah Railroad
VIII have twonew sleepers placed on their
line for the benefit of Northern travel at
the beginning of the winter season.
4 rumor is current at Dallas, Texas, in
railroad circles that Gould has purchased
| the Houston and TeXas Central ROadtrom
/ Huntington. Some say this grows out OF
| the fact that Huntington gets to Calves
| ton with his Sunset and Star Crescent
routes over the Galveston, Houston and
| Harrisburg, which belong to Gould, and
/ that Huntington has also secured freight
privileges over the Missouri Pacific Rail
road.
The smallest locomotive engine ever
/ built in the United States for regular
work was turned out by NJ. NJ. Buck n
! Co., of st. Louis, recently, aud shipped
to the Edmee plantation, st. Charles par
Ish, La.
The gross earnings of the New York
Central Railroad for the year ending
June 80, as reported to the New York
State Comptroller, were $2S, 929. IA y. On
this amount the State levies tax Of
! $l44,647 -.
The grading on the Micanopy branch of
the Florida Southern has been completed
and iron will be laid as soon as crossties
can be procured.
President Nerdery, of the Augusta and
| Elberton Railroad, has been to Richmond
in the interest of that road. The result
| was very satisfactory. He had an inter-
view with President ButOrd, of the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad. The grad
| ing of the road is progressing rapidly.
The schooner Five Brothers arrived at
jacksonville from New York Wednesday
with cargo of steel rails, spikes, fish
bars. etc., for the Jacksonville, Tampa
and Key West Railroad. Including this
cargo there are now enough rails at Jack
sOnville to lay ten miles of track. The
| track LAYERS have reached and are now
crossing McCOy's creek, and the work
! will be pushed as rapidly as possible.
All the iron and fastenings necessary
to complete the track from Ocala to Lees
/ burg are now being transported from Pa
| latka, and the engineer corps, now camped
within sight of Leesburg, will shortly
| leave for East Lake Weir, from which
| point Major Copper intends taking a Sc
ries of levels between the lake and Ocla-
waha river
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
| Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad. held
! Wednesday, the stockholders of the Ar
| lingtOn and Atlantic road also being pre-
! sent, amicable arrangements were made,
| and the two companies were consolidated
under the name of the Jacksonville and
/ Atlantic Railroad Company. The matter
| of issuing bonds was discussed, but as the
! law requires that twenty days notice
shall be given no definite ACTION was taken
/ further than to pass a resolution instruct
! ing the Secretary to at once give the ne
/ cessary notice.
THE SOUTHERN COMMITTEE.
Yesterdays Atlanta Constitution SAYS:
Yesterday afternoon there was an i'm
pOrtant meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Southern Railway and Steam
snip Association in the office of the Gene
raj Commissioner in this city. There
were present: Henry Fink, Vice Pres-
/
| gia Railroad; T. NJ. II. TalcOtt, General
| Manager Richmond and Danville Rail-
road; NJ. III. Smith, Vice President LOUIS
! Vile and Nashville Railroad; W. Raoul,
! President Georgia Central Railroad; John
! Scott, Vice President Cincinnati Southern:
| r. \. Anderson, Superintendent Western
and Atlantic Railroad, and b. ID. Hazel,
/ General Manager New York and Charles
! ton Steamship Line.
1.-The absent members of the committee
were, as usual, represented by Mr. Virgil
1 Powers, the commissioner who presided.
| Besides the members of the committee the
| following railroad officials were present:
| Joseph +. Brown, President Western and
! Atlantic Railroad: J. NJ. Brown, General
! Freight Agent, Western and Atlantic
| Railroad; j. NJ. CUP, General Freight
! Agent, Louisville and Nashville Railroad:
! Theodore WEIGH, General Freight Agent
! Louisville and Nashville Railroad: L. p.
| Wilson, General Freight Agent, Cincin-
natl Southern Railroad; II. II. Cochran,
! General Freight Agent, Alabama Great
! Southern Railroad: ;. b. Pickens, Gen
eral Freight Agent, South Carolina Rail-
road; X. ID. Carpenter, General Agent,
associated lines; J. r. Ogden, General
! Freight Agent, East Tennessee, Virginia
| and Georgia Railroad, and G. d. Bonham
| Assistant Freight Agent, Richmond and
! Danyille Railroad.
/ The first matter discussed was the clas-
| sitication of demestics, paper, and wooden
/ products of Southern mills. The present
! classification gives an advantage to the
mills on goods shipped by them direct
/ After discussion it was resolved to con-
/ tinue the present advantage allowed to
\ the mills as a just announcement to
! Southern manufacturers. Coal oil was
| discussed next, but it was determined to
j let it remain in its present classification.
| The rates fO Atlanta
cred. The committee had read the petit
! ton of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
| merce, setting forth the inequity of the
/ present rates as compared with those al
| lowed to competing points. A similar
| petition was read from the merchants
/ of Chattanooga. Senator Brown appear
/ ed in behalf of the merchants of Atlanta.
and set forth their claims in clear and
4 effective manner. He was heard with
! marked attention by the committee. 1t
was resolved to thoroughly investigate the
claim of the Atlanta merchants for better
| rates. To this end the Commissioner was
requested to collect full statistics of all
the lines leading TO Atlanta, showing the
local rates from Atlanta and all compet-
ing points to all stations. When this in
formation is received there will be another
meeting of the committee, and the ques-
ton will be fully considered in all its
bearings.
Cotton rates were taken up and briefly
discussed, but they were left unchanged.
The committee adjourned at 8 O'Clock.
There will be meeting of the rate com
mittee to-day"
RAILROAD EARNINGS.
The Augusta Chronicle SAYS: 'sThe
freight earnings of the Charlotte, Column
bda and Augusta Railroad for the second
week in July, 1888, were 1894; same time
last year, $4,364; increase, $532. The earn
ings of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, the road that bought up the
Richmond and Danville, for the first three
weeks in the past July, were $194, 1863 Oh,
against $l5l, 914 As for the same period last
year, an increase of $42, 449 "a. 1t is said
that the gross earnings of the Richmond
and Danville system for the past
six months are 100000, and
the net earnings are $50 900
more than for the same period last year.
The gross earnings from January to July,
1888, are reported at SO, ,074, and the
net earnings at $1,370,4 All. The gross
earnings of the Western North Carolina
Railroad for that period were SAG, 1854, and
the net earnings SAG, JIG. To show the
large business that is being done on that
line, we quote the gross earn
ings for the same six months
last year-only $95,j23. The increase is
$4,000. For the year it is estimated that
the gross earnings will be at least $780,
600, and the net earnings 100000"
ROME, GA, May %, 1888.