Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-08
THE RAILROAD WORLD.
DARIEN'S SCHEME FOR INTE-
RIOR CONNECTIONS.

/ pms anu Ouafieston Oiultutt1 oSA-
eraI Gossip in Railroad Circles.
The Florida Southern Railroad will
soon complete its grade to BrooksYille.
The Savannah, Florida and Western
| will soon have new and comfortable wait
! ing rooms in Gainesville.
| The Plant Investment Company is
/ steadily pushing forward its road, and in
few days more will reach Dade City.
Mr.. Joseph KinsIey, Of Cincinnati, has
been chosen President and Mr.. j.. d.
Glover General Manager Of the Marietta
and North Georgia.
A. q. Aderhold, of Kissimmee, has sue
ceeded in raising some $4,000 moro to-
ward securing the Lake Shore Railroad,
making total Of $4,000, or $4,000 more
than was asked for.
The contract for building tfty-nine
miles of the Wilson and Fayetteville
branch Of the Wilmington and Weldon
{ N. O. Road has been let to Montgomery,
Wright Il Co., of Birmingham.
The Blue Spring Orange City and Allan
tic railroad, Florida, will be commenced at
once, and is TO be completed by jan. 1,
1886. j, E. Thwing, a capitalist of ST.
Paul, will have the management of the
road.
The line Of Mann boudOir cars now run
ming between Cincinnati and Jackson
Vile, via the East Tennessee and Cincin-
natl Southern Railroads, will be discOn-
tinued soon and a line of Pullman cars
will be put on.
Contracts have been closed with the
Baldwin Locomotive Works and other
| Northern concerns for the track material
and equipment OF the EutawVille Road,
and rails for the first y miles will be de-
livered, it is said, in June. 1t is hoped
that track viii be laid to Eloree by Sept.
l and to Sumter by Jan. next.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala,
says: sit is authOritatively held here
that now that the recent Tennessee bond
decision and other causes have given the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad sur
plus moneys, the management has finally
decided to change the whole system from
tive-feet to the standard gauge, and that
the change will be made next May. Pre-
paratiOns will begin at once.
The contract for completing the Ash
Vile and Spartanburg Road has been
let to the Greenville Construction Com
pany Of Connecticut The terms of the
contract include cross-ties, steel rails
aud equipments, all to be completed
before next January. The road now runs
from Spartanburg, 5. G.. north to Hender-
sOnville, N. G.. The unfinished portion is
from EendersOnvIlle to AshYille, twenty
miles.
The following conventions will be neld
| this week: June 8, Tuesday Muster Car
Builders Association; annual meeting
at Old Point Comfort, Va. June 10, w ed
nesday-Yard Masters Mutual Benefit
Association; eleventh annual convention
in Philadelphia, Pa. June 10, Wednesday
National Railroad Agents Association;
adjourned meeting at Louisville, Ky.
June II, hursday-Middle and Western
States Freight Association at Columbus,
Ohio.
Sanford CFla.) argus: The Orange Belt
Railway is completed from LOngwOOd to
Myrtle Lake, and a car will he put ON
next Monday. 1t is not intended to use
steam on this road, as 1t is too short to be
profitable. The motive power will be
horses or mules. The road is being ex-
tended to PaOla, and will probably reach
there soon. One cOmmendable feature of
the enterprise is tbs fact that every thing
is paid for as they go, and the company is
out of debt.
The management of the Queen and
! Crescent system are contemplating
changing the gauge of the VIcksburg and
Meridian division to the standard gauge
to conform to that OF the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacific division. A hoist
will be put up at Meridian, where the
trucks will be changed. There is some
talk of locating the general machine
shops of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and
Pacific and Nicksburg and Meridian rail-
roads at Nieksburg, where there are
suitable buildings.
The announcement was made day or
two ago to the directory of the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
Company that John &. Gault would
assume the duties of general manager
| July l, in place of John Scott, resigned.
| Mr.. Gault is at present one of the arbitra-
1 tors of the Western Freight Association,
| with headquarters at Chicago. Mr.. Gault
/ is one OF the most experienced railway
! managers IN the country, one of the Oldest
and the ablest. He was formerly with
the St. Paul and later with the Wabash
roads.
The silly old superstition that Friday is
an ''unlucky day. still prevails in Cali
tOrnia to such an extent that the trains
leaving on that day contain very much
smaller number of passengers than on
other days. Even the first class cars and
sleepers on the overland trains start out
comparatively empty of through passen-
gers. On the contrary, Sunday seems to
be considered "lucky day." judging
from the crowds that patronize all means
of transportation. 1t would be good
deal more sensible to reverse the opinion
about these two days.
The following railroads have offered re-
duced rates TO the State Temperance Con-
vention to convene In Atlanta on w ednes-
day next, june TO-: Central Railroad, in
Guiding Atlanta division, Southwestern
and Savannah, Griffin and North Ala
| bama, the Georgia Railroad, add the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia between
Dalton and Brunswick, Will charge full
fare going, and return for one cent per
mile on presenting certificates of attend
auco from the Secretary OF the convention.
The Western aud Atlantic and the Co
lumbus and Rome, also the Piedmont and
Air Line, Railroads will charge two cents
per mile each way. The Marietta aud
North Georgia and the Brunswick and
Western will charge one fare for round
trip.
The bill filed in the ChancerY Court at
Memphis on Friday seeking 20 break the
lease of the Memphis and Charleston Rail-
road held by the East Tennessee Virginia
and Georgia is on the following grounds
First, that there is no law authorizing the
leasing Of one railroad by another COM
pany. Second, the contract was not pro-
perly approved by the directors. Third,
that only few OF the stockholders were
present when the lease was made and the
proxies were improperly used. Fourth,
the lease was buta traffic contract, that