Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-25
AMONG THE RAILROADS.
Gossip Gathered Everywhere in Rail-
road Circles.

Gossip Gathered Esverywhere in Rail
road Circles.
Work on the Orange Belt railway (Fia.
is progressing. Track is laid for more
than a mile and 30 hands are at work.
Next Monday Is the day set for the
meeting of the directors Of the Wild Wood.
Lady Lake, Withlacoochee and Gulf Rail
road.
A committee Of Tallahasseans has been
appointed to solicit contributions oflands
and moneys for the brownsville and Tai
lahassee road.
It is reported that the railroad authOri-
ties on the Savannah Valley road have
determined to locate a depot at Mount
Carmel, Abbevilie county.
1t is rumored that Eastman will soon he
the dinner point for the day passenger
trains on the Brunswick division of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad.
From 800 to 1000 crates and barrels of
vegetables are shipped daily North from
Tavares over the Florida Railway and
Navigation Railroad. They come in
from over the Tampa, Orlando and At
lantc Road.
The WasOn works Of Chattanooga.
Tenn, have shipped to Marietta six new
nat cars having all the latest improve
meuts, with a capacity of 10000 pounds
each. The cars VIII be used on the Mari
eta and North Georgia Railroad.
Work on the Tavares, ApOpka and Gulf
Railroad, between Tavares and MinneOla,
will be begun June l. This road runs
from Tavares to Astatuia, touching the
western shore of Lake Apopka, and
thence on to Minneola. on Lake San Juan.
Maj. Henry r. Shorter, President, and
Gen. Levi W. Lawler and Mr.. w. 0.
Tunstall, associates, constituting the
Railroad Commission of Alabama, left
Montgomery on Wednesday morning on
their annual tour of the railroads. begin
ning with the South and North Road, a
division of the Louisville and Nashville
system.
Judge W. B. Thomas, of Athens, says
that he has been to see Mai. Green, Of the
Georgia Road, and he is in hearty SYM
pathy with the project TO connect the
two roads at Athens. 1t will cost about
$4,000 and pay 10 per cent. on the CAPT
tai stock. Zach car that passes over this
link will be charged 81 il drawn by it's
own locomotive, or 81 if the transfer is
made at the company's cost.
A few days since an artist took several
| picture of the Narrows on the Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad, where the ter
! rible accident occurred eighteen months
/ ago in which Engineer Dick Sawrise was
/ killed. The wife of the deceased has en-
/ tered suit against the road for $4,000
! damages. The pictures will be used Dv
the defense 20 show the location OF the
road and that the accident was unavoid-
able.
EX-General Manager II. S. Morse, of the
! Brunswick and Western Railroad, left on
! Wednesday for the North. Before his de-
parture a number OF ladies and gentlemen
I OF at ha
| for Mr. Morse, and. upon entering, Col. c.
| Z. Goodyear, very gracefully, upon be-
half Of the employees Of the road, pre-
scented him with very handsome gold
headed walking cane and a solid silver
punch bowl. 1t il thought that Mr.. Morse
and family will return TO Brunswick in
about six months.
The New York, Philadelphia and Nor
folk Railroad is very anxious 10 secure
! an independent line Of its own 90 the
south. The new route IL is striving to Sc
cure will extend from a connection with
! the Norfolk and Western Railroad ut Suf-
folk, Va, 20 Wilson, n. O., distance OF
100 miles. From the latter point a line
70 miles in length, Under the control Of
the Richmond and Dauvlle Railroad sys-
TEN, is now under contract, and extern
sions are to be made under this latter sys-
TEN 20 Columbia, 5. c.
The passenger business Of the Atlantic
Coast Line OF Railways during the past
year has been equal to the most eanguine
expectations OF the managers Ofthe roads.
During the past season three through ex-
press trains have been run each way
| daily. They have made the time with a
/ regularity not surpassed by the oldest
lines IN the country. The passengers
have always been able 10 get through
without having TO "wait on the next
I fraa In ,l.I.
CURED, AS connecting trains have waited
on DELAYED trains. Time has always been
given for meals nt regular stations, and
by the use of the buffet cars light meals
could be had at any hour. Through Pull
man cars are run between Paatka,
Fla, and Washington and Savan-
nah and New York. aud ordinary coaches
between Jacksonville and Charleston,
| Charleston and Wilmington aud Will
mington and Washington. Money has
not been spared to make the physical con-
dition OF the road equal 60 the demand for
fast time and sure connections. This has
| rendered necessary an Increase In the
weight OF the locomotives and c0nse-
qucutly q substitution OF steel rails for
iron and u iron bridges and stone cul-
yerts for wooden bridges and trestles.
which changes have been largely made
and are now being carried forward
1 rapidly. The day is perhaps not FAR dist0ut
when the tiye-tOot gauge Of the South will
give place 10 the tour foot eiWht and %
I hall inch gauge Of the North. When that
time comes the Coast Line will not De the
last 20 adopt the improvement. Cars,
freight and passengers could then run be-
tween any two points without the delay
Of changing trucks, as IL necessary az
present.