Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-25
4 Retter Nail Service Wanted.

savannah is afflicted with bad mail
facilities. she has. il is true, the adyan-
tagss Of a fast mail from the North. The
merchants have the pleasure Of receiving
their bin. aud invoices at the short
est possible notice, and tourists
in the winter time get their
letters from home with pleasurable
promptness. Savannah, however, receives
but little otner benefit from this fast mail.
II is. nevertheless, a good thing have.
savaunah-s mercantile interests, low
ever. are more concerned In tier
mail facf ties nearer home. er
merchants want quicker comm mi
cation with their correspondents
in Georgia and Florida. In fact
the mail service, apart from the fast
mail on the Savannah, Florida and Wes-
tern Railway, is about as bad as it well
can be.
The MORNING NEWS has already re-
ferred % the schedule on the Central
Railroad by which the morning mail from
Atlanta. 800 miles distant, meets the Sa-
vaunah mail about IS miles from this city.
There is an Improvement in the mails
on the line Of the East Tennessee, Nir-
-inia and Georgia Railroad. The rail-
road company changed its schedule 70
make a closer connection with Sayan-
nab. and several days recently the mails
for places along that road reach their
destinations on the same day.
In Florida the mail arrangements be-
tween Jacksonville and ChattahOoehs
are also badly out Of joint. The mail from
savannah reaches Jacksonville at u m
and leaves that city at $50 p. m, reach
ing Tallahassee. If there is no accident,
at $40 the next morning. Some
times il is 80 hours in
getting 10 that point. There is said to be
a remedy for this by sending the mail for
places in Florida between the Suwannee
and Chattahoochee rivers by the fast mail
train % ChattahOOchee, an6 thence east
by an accommodation or freight train
which leaves there about the hour the fast
mail arrives from the North.
This service could also be improved by
having Savannah. Florida and Western
trains leave Dupont Tor Gainesville on the
arrival Of the fast mail at IL a. m, in
stead OF leaving at a. m connecting
with the trains going from Jacksonville
to ChattahoOcheea at Live Oak. This would
remedy the slow mails in West Florida,
and also give the people Of Middle Florida
a quicker mail connection with places
north Of them.
ON the Townsville and Albany branch
Of the Savannah, Florida and Western
and on the Brunswick and Western Rail-
road the mails lie over at connecting
points, and the result is slow mails.
The country covered by the railroad
lines mentioned do the most Of their bust
ness with Savannah, and would probably
do more could it be done quickly. Slow
mails in these days retard business. Mer-
chants will not trade with cities with
which it takes so long time to cOmmu-
nicate. They think the business men are
not prompt when really it is the fault
d bad mail service. Railroads are
dependent upon the merchants for sup
port. and if merchants lose their trade they
will have no freights to receive or to ship.
II is, therefore. to the interest Of railroad
companies to see to it that they furnish
every facility for quick mails and quick
passenger trains. This matter of i'm
proved mail connections is worth the at
tantion Of merchants and railroad mana
gers.