Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-09
THE RAILWAY WORLD.
Gossip Gathered Everywhere in Rail
road Circles

road Circles.
1t ie SAID that the Savannah, Florida
and Western will have its branch road
completed to Lake City in sixty days.
The track-layers on the Jacksonville
and Atlantic railroad have reached the
Smile point and are progressing at the
rate Of half mile per day. They have
only eight miles more To lay.
The Louisville and Nashville has made
reduced rate on provisions and bulk
meats from Ohio river to Augusta Of 30
cents per hundred pounds. This makes
the through rate from Chicago A cents
instead of % cents as heretofore.
A prominent railroad authority esti-
mates shipments of watermelOns west
from Georgia for this season up to date as
follows: BY Central railroad, 600 car
loads; by East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, 400 ear loads, and to the Western
markets by the way of Montgomery, /, 900
Tho East Tennessee is said to be making
the fastest time on watermelOns that has
ever been made from Jesup 10 Cincinnati,
Chicago, Louisville, indianapolis and
other points. The melons 80 through 10
Cincinnati in A. hours from Jesup, and
cOrrespOndinglyf fast time is made 10 other
points.
Alex. S. Thweatt, Esq, travelling
passenger agent of the Georgia Pacific
Railway Company, hassent the MORNING
News IA photographic picture-a birds
aye view of the city OF birmingham, Ala
The upper and lower sides Of the sheet
contain illustrations of the principal
business houses and manufacturing es-
Establishments of the "lrOu City"
A prominent member of the board of
directors of the Atlanta aud West Point
.-s,tI au,1 -, a.
when asked it there was any truth in the
report that MT. Cecil Gabbett, General
Manager of the road was TO leave the
West Point, ''the report is without fOun
datiOn. Mr.. Gabbett is satisfied with the
West Point aud the West Point is salts
fled with him. He 10 not going to leave
the road. Mr.. G0bbett never thought of
leaving the road" The annual meeting
of the stockholders Of the road will be
held in Atlanta July 70.
Mr.. John G. Gault, General Manager of
the Queen and Crescent, has been looking
over its affairs and become satisfied thai
heavy retrenchment IN operating ex-
penses is the true policy for the present,
as summer business will be light, and the
Generalization Of rates is beyond his CON
troll. lie is going b. concentrate the
offices of the roads constituting the line
in Cincinnati, aud this will result IN the
dismissal OF all the clerks of the Nicks-
burg and Meridian, and the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacific, In this way he
expects 70 make a saving Of $4,000 10
$4,000 year.
A mass meeting OF citizens was held at
Rome Tuesday 10 consider the 0asibility
and best means Of building "A railway to
Decatur, Ala. Resolutions were unani-
mOusly adopted requesting the stock hold
ers and Otlicers of the Rome railroad 20
open subscription books at once, and IN
case the road failed to act, the hearty CO.
operation Of the citizens was promised
any company that will construct road
from Rome TO Decatur. A committee was
appointed TO confer with the stockholders
Of the Rome railroad at their annual
meeting on July IL to ascertain whether
they will take this project In hand, and
net promptly. The meeting then ad-
jOurned.
A special from GalatIn says, among
other things: just three years arc nepO-
tiati0ns were FIRST made with Mr.. Eugeue
zimmerman for the construction of the
Nashville and Chesapeake railroad,
and he has been "a Jealous worker ever
since. The Metropolitan Trust Company
has negotiated the bonds at par, S30.GO
90 the mile, $4,000 Per mile 20 be placed IN
the TREASURY OF the company, and $4,000
at once expended In building. The
road already completely surveyed. runs
from stanford, on the Kentucky Cen
ual, 20 Nashville, 40 milus, crossing the
Cincinnati Southern az point three
miles south OF Danville. With the
Southern u will form line TO Nashville
40 miles shorter than the existing short
line, the Louisville and Nashville; and
with the Chesapeake and Ohio IL makes a
line over 80 miles ehorter. II will give
Nashville line 20 New York via Char
lottosvllo, on tho Chesapeake aud Ohio.
100 miles shorter than any she haA az
present, and u line 90 deep water at New
port News 200 miles shorter than any eX.
istlng. The entire line has been com
tracted for by The Mississippi Valley Com
struetion Company, and the few days in-
tervening until July II will be taken for
sub-cOntraCts,
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