Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-22
THE RAILROAD RECORD.
REDUCING THE FORCES FOR
THE SUMMER.


Privileges-The strength of the Louis
Vile and NashvilIe-GeneralG Gossip in
Railroad Circles.
The Western and Atlantic, Queen and
Crescent and Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroads VIII put on regular fruit trains
next month. The schedule time Of the
trains, it is claimed. VIII be the fastest
ever made in the South.
movement was started recently, it is
stated by the management Of the Adams
1 Express Company, for a conference OF the
several express companies, with view
OF adopting plan for "A general reduc-
ton of pay Of messengers and employees.
The earnings OF the Queen and Crescent
line for the month of April, 1885, We're
Sl94 COS, $22Sll less than during April,
1884. The earnings for the first four
months of this year, January, February,
March and April, ombined, are, however,
Sll.32G in excess Of the spending
months in 1894.
The management Of the Mississippi
Valley Railroad have concluded that no
man addicted to the use of intoxicating
/ liquors can properly attend TO his duties
in the transportation department of the
service, and they have so given their en-
plOYes to understand. While the rule
Will, in a measure, be applied to other de-
partments. and men who totally abstain
Will have preference in the appointments
made, yet the rule will not be so strin-
gently enforced.
There is always a falling off in business
among the railroads at this season of the
year and forces are reduced every sum-
mer The Central has notified its heads
/ Of departments that wherever man can
! be dropped without embarrassing the
/ WORK it is to be done. Several win be laid
/ of about the first OF June. Later, in Au-
/ gust or early in September, they will be
/ taken back. In the freight department
/ all men that can be spared viii he gwen
I one months vacation without pay.
All the roads are SAID to be doing the
same thing, this season being no excep-
ton to its predecessors.
The strength of the Louisville and Nash
Vile securities of late receives an official
explanation. 1t is announced that the
decision Of the United States Supreme
Court in the Tennessee bond case released
to the Louisville and Nashville company
100000 of Henderson division bonds,
which had been locked up under an option
since 1879. The delivery of these $500, 600
OF bonds reduced the loans of the company,
it is said, to s3j0600. In view of the i'm
proved condition Of the property the di-
rectOrs thought it advisable to recover a
portion Of last years issue of 1910 bonds,
and they have concluded negotiations for
the return to the company Of $1,000 900 of
these bonds. The bonds were included in
an option expiring next October, but the
parties having the option consented to a
release of 81, 900, 900, practically reducing
the cOmpany's funded debt to that extent.
R. c. Barley, President of the Eutaw-
vile ). CO. Railroad Company, has just
returned from trip to the North on
business connected with the building
and equipment of his road. He has sue
ceeded in making arrangements with the
Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadel-
phia for furnishing the locomotives and
also for the steel rails, spikes, fastenings
and other material for building the road.
The rails for the first II miles of the road
VIII be shipped in the early part of next
month and other shipments will be made
from time to time in sufficient quantity to
enable the company to complete its track
to EllOree by Sept. | next. Mr.. Barley
is sanguine of having the road built to
/ Sumter by Jan. l next. The grading of
the roadbed was started some time ago
/ and has been steadily push ed ahead.
The heaviest and slOwest portion of the
work on the first u miles is in building
the crossing over the Four Hole Swamp.
/ The swamp is one and quarter miles
wide, but only > 700 feet Of piling will be
needed for tle trestle. This part Of the
work Is in charge of an experienced
builder, who expects to complete the con-
tract in eight weeks.
After considerable effort Atlanta has
obtained reshipplng privileges to all
points south of her, including Augusta
and the territory between Augusta and
the coast, and Augusta is struggling to
obtain the same privileges. 1t is a
general rule with railroads TO carry goods
one long haul tor less rate than il
shipped part Of the distance at a time.
For example, their rate for 1000 miles
will be 80 cents per 100 pounds, and for
/ 800 miles 80 cents, so that if the goods
| are shipped first One-halt the distance
/ and then the other the total rate will be
| 60 cents per 100, or 10 cents per 100 more
than if shipped the full LOCO miles at
/ first. The object of reshipping is to al
/ low the place 500 miles OF the way to sell
to the place at the end of the 1000 miles
without having to pay the 10 cents per
100 pounds extra. The through rate of
freight from Cincinnati on grain is p
cents to Atlanta and 80 cents to Augusta.
The rate from Atlanta to Augusta, says
the Chronicle, Is 10 cents. This would
| ordinarily make IL cost Atlanta-27 and
| 1910 cents per 100 to deliver grain there,
but by tue reshipping arrangements it
will cost her but 20 cents same as we
pay), or Il net cost of , cents per 100 from
Atlanta there.
0uHdud - Tue country Vi llEub IAllfOhu
earnings. The average earnings per mile
OF the 1915 miles in operation for the year
TO June 80, 1894, as reported by the chief
engineer and general manager Of the gov
eminent railways, were $3,401 per mile,
against 81, 46l for the railroads of the
United States in the last year reported.
The Canada Southern led with $40, 900 per
mile. Parts Of the Grand Trunk may
have exceeded this, but the whole system
Is given together, earning an average Of
$4,000 per mile. The two companies
together having 81 per cent Of the whole
Canadian railroad mileage, had 60 per
cent. Of the total earnings, and the other
thirty-siX companies, with 6,625 miles Of
road, earned but Sl3,3l3 lS4, or an average
Of 5000 per mile. on which railroads
would starve to death almost anywhere
else in the world. II might be thought,
perhaps, that the average is brought down
by the large MILEAGE of the new and unde-
yeloped Canadian Pacific, but its earnings
are above the average Of the thirty-siN
roads, not below. Among them all only
two earned more than $500 per mile, and
these together have but tiuy-seven and "A
half miles OF road. All the other extremes
are earnings per mile for the year OF $50.
$3.50, 1894, $3.50, $l36. S4S6 and $50.
HORsFORD's ACID PHOSPHATE.