Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-01
RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.
GIeanings from Along the Track and
CrOssties.


The arbitrary rates on south-bound
freight to Opelka, Ala, which were es-
tablished by the Alabama Railroad Com
mission last summer, have been with
drawn.
The employees of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad are anX-
iously awaiting the inauguration Of Man.
ager HudsOn's policy, toward them. Many
of them predict radical changes. There
are rumOrs that the train forces OF the
road Will be cut down.
The Marion, S. c., Star says: On Jan.
:, j. a. Bethea bought a ticket of the
Northeastern Railroad Agent at Florence
to New Orleans and return. for which he
paid $2S. At New Orleans, when he
started to return, the agent refused to in
dOrse the ticket, and Mr.. Bethea had to
nav his way home. He saws the con-
ductOr on the Northeastern Road refused
even to receive the coupon issued By that
road, and made him pay his fare from
Charleston to Florence. He has brought
suit against the road for $4,000 damages.
The statement gong the rounds to the
effect that a syndicate has been formed to
build an airline railroad from Augusta
to Jacksonville, Fla, and thereby take a
large share of the Northern travel through
Augusta instead of through Savannah, is
not generally credited in railroad circles
here. The railroad men Of Savannah gen.
orally regard it as paper road, and say
they never expect to see it materialize
into steel rails and locomotives. ''When
men build railroads they DO not trumpet
the fact that they are going to build in the
newspapers: they build the road and do
the newspaper talk afterwards" prom
inent railroad official remarked to a NEWS
reporter yesterday. The same official said
that if the road was built at all it would
not, as some have stated, draw to Bruins
wick freight which now cones to SaVan-
nah, and that the only effect it can have
on this city will be to divide to some eX-
tent the Northern travel that now comes
here and goes on to Florida over the Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western system.
Rumors have been current for some
DAYS in railroad circles in regard to the
failure of the contamination of the sup
posed sale of the Brunswick and Western
road last fall to the Plant system. The
impression has prevailed among some
that the trade made in August last be-
tween the Seligmans upon one part and
Mr.. Plant and associates upon the other
the former selling the road 10 the latter
/ had failed of cOnsummatiOn in cOnse-
quence Of defect that had been
found in the titles, and that the trade had
been declared "Off." 1t is true that the
objection referred to has been raised by
the attorneys of the purchasing parties,
and that the trade has failed of consum-
nation, resulting i'll the election of a new
board of directors by the stockholders of
the Brunswick and Western, but it is un-
! derstOOd that negotiations are still
| pending and that there is yet a
probability of a contamination of
/ the trade. 1t is understood that the
reason Capt. joan A. Davis and l.. E.
/ Welch, of Albany. members of the old
! board OF directors, were left of the new
/ board is because of the embarrassment
under which they might be placed in the
/ event of a suit between the parties to this
/ trade, and for the further reason that it
was deemed eXpedient to have majority
/ of the directors in New York, where the
/ road is owned, so they could be called
/ together without delay or expense pend
/ ing further negotiations. Capt. Davis,
| finding the trade had not been consum-
/ mated within the time agreed upOn-last
/ August-tendered his resignation as
I President of the new company in October
/ last, but the resignation was not ac-
| cepted until rendered again before the
election which took place in Brunswick
/ last week.