Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-18
AMONG THE RAILROADS.
Gleanings from Along the Track and
Croasfiea.

AFOhetiHA
A stockholders meeting ofthe Elberton
Air Line Railroad Company will he held
at TOccoa on April %.
superintendent l.. NJ. Terrell, of the
Railway Mail Service, with headquarters
at Atlanta, was in the city yesterday.
The A.. G. and :. r. r. is receiving 700
tons of steel rail and engines and cars.
On April 20 another schooner will sail
from New York with 200 tons more.
c. J. Birdsong, Master of TranspOrta-
ton on the Louisville, New Orleans and
Texas Railroad, mas resigned. Mr. Bird
song was formerly conductor on the Ala
bama Great Southern Railroad
The Jacksonville, st. Augustine and
Halifax River Railroad is to be extended
into st. Augustine during the next few
days. Work upon it Will commence to-
morrow, and the mile and quarter INK,
SO long and so much desired viii soon be
made, and hereafter, instead of trains
stopping at the present terminus, they
VIII run within three minutes walk OF
the old fort. Besides this inn
provement, substantial and
well arranged depot 200 feet in
length is to be erected in st. Augustine,
and fitted up with all the necessary con-
veniences for offices, baggage. waiting
rooms, etc. In addition 10 this, large
freight house 80 by 50 feet is to be built to
accommodate the rapidly increasing
freight business of the road.
The proposed route Of the Chattanooga,
Columbus and Florida Railroad is as fol-
lows: Beginning at ChattahOochee. Fla,
on the east bank Of the Chattahoochee
river, and on the line OF the Jacksonville,
Pensacola and Mobile Railway, it Will
run about 90 miles on a line a little east
Of north to Bainbridge, Ga; thence
nearly due north via Cass2la. DRYDEN,
BashYille, AnglOpaka, COlquitt juno
ton, Arlington, Branchville, Martins
burg, Cuthbert and Lumpkin to Column
bus, distance of about 140 miles: and
thence on a little east Of north to At
lanta, about 100 miles. 1t is proposed,
also, to build a line from Baiubridge, Ga,
about 40 miles long. to Tallahassee,
whence an equipped road, p miles long
and IN operation, runs TO 1t. Marks, Fla.
The organization of the Atlantic Coast,
st. Johns and Indian River Railroad has
just been completed in New York. by the
election of James y. Smith, President:
Thornton n. Motley. Vice President;
Robert lngraham, Secretary and Treas
urer. The road is to be constructed of
40-pOund steel rails, all of which, and the
locomotives, have been purchased, and
negotiations are now going on tor the cars
the Jacksonville Heuld, to have the road
finished and ready Tor business by Sept.
!. Large quantities of the steel have al
ready been forwarded to Enterprise. Mr..
K. N. Beman, superintendent, and agent
for the contractors, is at Enterprise now,
personally pushing work on the road.
President Smith is OF the great firm of
Smith Il Ripley, railroad contractors, Of
New York, and represents great capital.
Vow H. -
the DeBary Line, is to be the traffic man.
ager and agent of the road at Jacksonville
until 1t is completed, after which he has
been rendered the position Of General
Manager Of the line.
The new private coach of President
Henning, of the Florida Railway and
Navigation Company has Just been COM
pleted. 1t is claimed to be one of the fin
est private cars in the South. Its interior
arrangement comprises pleasant draw
ing-rOOm situated in the rear end of the
carr, filled with large rear windows,
hinged like doors, opened to the floor upon
the enclosed platform, and furnished with
| large rocking chairs. Adjoining the
/ drawing-room is the dOrmitOry, filled with
/ three tiers Of berths. Next to this on one
/ side is the gentlemen's toilet room, OppO-
site which is large ladies' drawing-rOOm
with toilet room attached. In the rear of
/ the ladies' drawing-rOOm, extending en-
/ tireiy across the car, is the dining-rOom,
! adjoining which, at the front end of the
/ car, is the cooks galley" All these va
/ riOus compartments are tastefully fitted
up, and furnished with every possible
/ convenience and comfort for the occu-
4 pants.
/ Receiver Fink, of the East Tennessee,
/ Virginia and Georgia, arrived in Atlanta
on Thursday ana took possession of the
road under Judge Pardee's order. In re-
/ ply to an inquiry if he expected to keep
/ possession OF it, he said: 81 do. | have
never yet lost possession Of it." "Does
this litigation Interfere with you much -
1T is reasonable to suppose that
it is very damaging to the prop
erty. 1t gets up great confusion,
though we have done remarkably
well under the circumstances. "COuld
a receiver for the Cincinnati and Ge0r-
gIa division make both ends meet"
mo, sir; without the connections that
the road now has and the profits and aid
of the best portion of the property which
lies OUT Georgia, the best railroad man in
this country could not make running eX-
penses on the Georgia end OF the road. 1t
barely pays expenses now" ''Then a
Georgia receiver could never benefit it?'
How could he? His collapse would
Z
The road needs improvements and
it has got to have them. That is
what | am trying to arrange for / have
bought 10000 tons Of steel rails. and am
putting them down as rapidly as possible.
A large portion of them Will 20 on the old
road between Macon and Brunswick. |
want to put that part of the property in
tirst-class order, and | will 90 il if | am
permitted to keep the road. If the Geor-
gia division OF the system is taken from
me, the man who takes it viii have a
tough time paying expenses aud keeping
up the road. The local business of the
road is not built up yet, and to cut the
road in two would result in ruin.'
IL is confidently asserted in Atlanta
I that Mai. FINK viii never be removed.
. Judge larlee seems pretty well settled
on that. 10 is claimed that no was i'm
/ possession first, and as the courts are of
/ cO-equal jurisdiction the receiver who
gets TO the trough first has the bulge on
I those who come after. The matter Will
come up again before Judge Hammond
to-day.
Ticket no. 5000 i'm the Lou siana state
Lottery, drawing ofApril "a. drew ST., eco.
| One-titth of the ticket was drawn In this
/ city, the holder of which gets EI5O00.