Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-11
THE RAILROAD RECORD.
THE PROGRESS OF CONsTRUC-
TION IN TWO ST ATES.


Excursion Rates on the Charleston
and Savannah-Genera1 Gossip In
Railroad Circles. q
The laying of the crOss-ties on the
Fernandina Beach Railroad will COM
mence to-day.
The Montgomery and Selma Railroad
has been inspected by the officials, and
! will be relad with new rails and ties.
A preliminary survey Of the proposed
route of the Suwanee and Gulf Railroad
has been ordered made, and -. B. Dunn
| has been engaged to perform the task.
Mr.. Dunn will probably start from Cedar
/ Key early this week, and complete the
work in from twelve TO sixteen days.
f. Y. Dainty, Chief Engineer and
/ Superintendent of the VicksDurg, ShreVe-
port and Pacific, mas retired from those
positions, that road and the VIcksburg
and Meridian having been consolidated
under one superintendencv. Dandy was
urged to retain his position as Chief
Engineer, but declined on account of poor
health.
Capt. Mcclure, after finishing the grad
ing of the Wrightsyile and Tennille
Railroad, put the convicts to work on the
Dublin and WrigntsYile road Wednesday
morning. The work is being pushed very
rapidly, and if the subscriptions are
promptly paid in the grading will be COM
| pleted within two ard half months. 1t
/ is therefore, necessary that the people
should keep in sight of each and every
/ call.
The Charleston and Savannah Railroad
will putO sale round trip tickets to Char
| lesion and return for the Mutual Aid AS
ISOLATION picnic on Wednesday, and also
the spring meeting of the Charleston
Driving Association on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, good to return until May
Is, for So 40. Any information in regard
to the trip Will be given at Bren's ticket
Office, where the tickets will be on sale, or
at the depot.
Last month was the first that the Florida
Railroad and Navigation Company regu-
larry opened its business at Tavares The
freigbts at that agency aggregated $4,000
during the month. These figures surprised
everybody. The prospect for this month is
far ahead Of April. The Tampa, Orlando
and Atlantic Railroad connection is likely
to run up the business of the agency to
$4,000 for MAY. This is exclusion OF the
passenger traffic, and applies solely to
freights.
A new street railway foundation, in
vented by Thomas II. G hbOn, of Albany,
is to be fully tested in that city in a short
time. Tue invention is also designed for
steam railways. 1t does away entirely
with wooden ties, substituting longitude
/ nal metallic sleepers of a peculiar design.
/ These are hooked together and braced by
iron cross pieces, and the joints are made
without bolts, a p peculiarly con structed
chair being used to secure strength and
| eVenness.
The Dublin Post says that the last
/ meeting at Allentown, of the citizens
along the line, in the interest of the Ma
con and Dublin Railroad, is said to have
been of considerable interest and impOr-
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elected President OF the road, and every
arrangement was made for the further
ance of the survey, now under Roadway.
| The people seem to mean business, and
nothing is surer of success than pluck
and energy.
Maj. Henry S. Morse has resigned as
! General Manager of the Brunswick and
! Western Road. From 1871 to 1875 he was
! division Superintendent of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company's Road; sub
sequently he was Assistant Master of
| Transportation Baltimore and Ohio (Chi-
cego divisiOn); then General Superin-
tendent Indianapolis. Decatur and
Springfield Road; 1880 to 1882 Super
intendent Construction and OPERATION
New Orleans division New Orleans Pa
citic Road, and has been General Manage
l, 1888. A. A. Gaddis, General Manager
/ OF the Ogdenburg and Lake Champlain
Railroad. has been appointed in his place.
The rails of the Tayares, Orlando and
Atlantic Railroad have been laid through
Apopka City, and the construction train
is pushing on toward Orlando steadily
and rapidly. During the past week there
/ was some delay because of want of rails
and ties, but these are now in abundance,
and it is tOlerably certain that the rails
will be in Orlando by May II, unless
something net now foreseen intervenes.
Meantime business has regularly opened
on the road from Tavares to ApOpka City.
A through tariff rate has been agreed
upon 10 and from that point and also
passenger rates. The cars for the
L. .. IL A. Road have not yet arrived, but
a passenger car has been procured from
the +. e. & n. Company and will be run
regularly to and from Apopka City, maxi
ing close connections with the F. X. g. n.
Passenger trains will begin to run regu-
larry from Wednesday next. Meantime
the freight business is steadily increasing,
the volume of vegetables growing larger
every day. Lake ApOpka is sending in
some six hundred crates per dsy, and the
indications are that the recent rains will
increase the number to 1000 daily.
A meeting OF the subscribers to the
capital stock of the Tavares, BroOksville
and Gulf Railroad was held in Tavares
on Monday last, and after some prelimi-
| nary business had been transacted IL was
ordered that an election for four directors
be held. The following directors were
elected: Alex. St. Clair-Abrams, l.. p.
Wescott, Nat Poyntz. The majority of
the newly-elected board, after the sub
scrlbers' meeting bad adjourned, then
met and organized by electing Alex. st.
! Clair-Abrams, President; l.. p. Wes-
cot, Vice President; Nat Poyntz,
Treasurer, and George Butler,
Secretary. A resolution was passed
/ directing the immediate survey and loca-
ton of this line from Tayares n Clair
mont. The President submitted PROPOSE
tions for steel rails made by two different
par les. These propositions give an abso-
lutte guaranty for furnishing the rails as
fast as they are called for. Twenty-Five
hundred tons of rails and iastenings can
be delivered within ninety days. IL WAS
resolved 10 issue first mortgage bonds on
the road at the rate Of 5000 per mile, and
the President was instructed TO call a
meeting OF all the Subscribers 70 the capt.
tai stock on the first Wednesday in June
/ next.
A called meeting Of the stockholders of
the Augusta, Elberton and Chicago Rail-
road was held In Augusta on Saturday.
I President Nerdery submitted his report,