Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
GEORGIA CENTRAL.
The Recent Changes and the Probable
Effect of Senator Browns Triumph on
the Commerce of Louisville.


Some of the statements made by your
| special correspondent in regard to the
| Georgia Central Railroad and its future
management should awaken very deep
interest and consideration among the peO-
pie of Louisville. The closing part of that
| letter referred to the purchase of Mr.. f.
! II. Green's stock, or the right TO vote it in
the recent election of the Georgia Central.
After speaking of General Alexander
and Captain RaOul, the letter CLOSES with
the following significant statement:
just what effect this change will have
in railroad circles is uncertain. The
alliance between Raoul and Brown may
prove to be only temporary, and, on the
other hand, it may prove of much i'm
portance. Formerly Mr.. Brown and Mr..
Wadley were no great friends. 1t is also
certain that in many ways Senator Brown
has greatly INSTRUCTED many of the plans
of the Louisville and Nashville manage
ment, showing an increasing fOndness for
the Erlanger and all other plans, as OPP
posed to the Louisville and Nashville. Mr..
RaOuPs policy will be watched with
something more than ordinary curiosity
by all interested in any way in Southern
railroads.
In view of certain events which are
likely to occur in connection with Louis
vile railroad history, this change of gov
eminent in the Georgia Central will play
no unimpOrtant part in the connection
which Louisville may have in the future
of Georgia and other lines approached
from Chattanooga and Atlanta.
1t is well known by those who are con-
versant with the railway history of the
South that your correspondent is correct
when he shows and says that Senator
Brown is in no wise friendly to the Louis
vile and Nashville system, nor tOits man.
agement.
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itself to the Cincinnati Southern, Louis
ville's interest would be greatly imper-
lied. 1t would almost compel an aban-
d0nment of a large part of Georgia and
the Carolinas by Louisville trade. No one
who has taken the pains to keep posted
concerning the failure of the southern
railway system can fail to discern Il grow
ing tendency on the parts of the roads
south of Chattanooga 10 cooperate with
the Cincinnati Southern. Many reasons
might be gwen for this. but there can be
no dispute of the fact that it is so.
The Alabama and Great Southern, Men,
phis and Charleston and the Selma, Rome
and Dalton are all cooperating on the
most friendly terms with the Cincinnati
Southern, and it is their interest to en-
courage and to foster such cooperation.
| They desire to get the longest haul posi-
| bic for freight originating along these
several lines, and it is therefore but
natural that they should seek the long
haul to Chattanooga rather than the short
haul to Atlanta and intermediate points.
The result of it will be that the trade
along these lines will naturally be carried
to Cincinnati, as giving a better and closer
connection, and as running in that line
which will be most favored by the rail
roads themselves.
Day by day the differences between the
Georgia Central system and the Louisville
and Nashville must grow greater and
greater. At one time the animOsity be-
tween the two corporations was very
marked, but under good management,
however, it was eradicated temporarily.
Still it is likely to break out at any
moment with increased bitterness. the
more so in view of the fact that the GeOr-
gia Central, in connection with the Gin
cinnati Southern, can now be entirely in
dependent of the Louisville and Nashville.
1t requires no great penetration or wis
dom to see the distressing effect that such
a combination must have upon Louis
Ville's trade and commercial prosperity in
the sections reached by these lines. And,
in view of these facts, it is difficult to see
how any reasonable person can underrate
the immense value of the Louisville
Southern, the connecting line between
the Cincinnati Southern and Louisville,
thus placing Louisville relatively in a bet
ter position to Chattanooga than Cincin-
natl, and enabling her to be entirely indie
pendent of any combinations which may
be formed or any contest which may be
inaugurated against the Louisville and
Nashville.
This phase of the subject will undOubt-
eddy add impetus to the desire of the peo-
pie of Louisville for the completion of the
Louisville Southern. CITIZEN.