The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-24
ON RAIL AND CRoSSTIa.
Local and General Gossip in Railway
Ctrcl0s

The Memphis and Charleston and the
Louisville and Nashville railroads are pre-
pairing to locate extensive yards and build
shops at Sheffield at an early date.
H. r. Preston, clerk in the office of the
auditor of receipts of the Central railroad
resigned yeste day to accept position as
bookkeeper for the W. o. Wadley Railroad
Company. He left yesterday for Rogers,
| where he will be stationed.
The Order of Railway Conductors has ad-
dressed q circular to general managers,
stating that it has perfected arrangements
for keeping full and correct record of its
unemployed members, and requesting that
the officers of the order may be notified of
vacancies, so that they may have an oppor-
tunity of recommending their members, for
either brakemen, conductors, or yard
masters.
An endless railway train, consisting of
400 platform cars, is to be one of the attrac-
lions at the Paris exhibition. The line will
be sunk so that the platforms will be on a
level with the surface, and the train will
run slowly enough to permit most people to
step on and off while it is in motion, but
for the accommodation of elderly people
stop of fifteen seconds in every minute will
be made. The motive power is electricity.
The earnings of 101 roads for the nine
months ending with September show an ag-
create of 1922, $50, 90l against $2l7, lS3,5lS
III the same period of 1887, an increase of
s., 352, 1888. This shows a gain of only 213
per cent, although the mileage reported
upon Is considerably increased. Fifty-seven
of the lines made an aggregate increase of
$ll 1914, 1853, but forty-four showed falling
off amounting to 1924 ,0S0 The heaviest
gain was that of the Northern Pacific,
amounting to almost $4,000 900, or nearly
30 per cent.
The american Manufacturer, speaking
of the rail question, says: "a ton Of old
iron rails and 81 will buy ton of new
steel rails This is inducing the railroad
companies to take up their old iron tracks
and replace them with steel. For this reason
old iron rails are becoming more plentiful
in the market than they were a few weeks
ago when they were scarce The new iron
rail does not cut much of a figure any
more, but the old iron rail is very impor-
tant factor in iron making, and after it has
become extinct, as In the course of a COM
paratively brief period it will, it will be
sadly missed unless something as good or
better should in the meantime take its place.
Tires hundred miles an hour is the pro-
posed speed for the electric postal railroad
Of the future. An experimental line has
been erected at LAUREL twenty miles from
Baltimore. A compromise between the
pneumatic tube and the ordinary RAILROAD
carries miniature train of two cars, solely
for mail and light parcels, without any at
tendance. The road has three rails, one
above the car for carrying the current and
two below which carry the cars. The cars
are built of sheet iron and are > feet square
and 81 feet long. Speed will be regulated
and power of brakes applied by electricity
solely. If the experiment at Laurel sue
ceeds, it is stated that similar roads will be
laid between Baltimore and Washington
and elsewhere.
Supt. r. G. Fleming, Of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway, has u paper
in the last number of the RditiCdy Age on
the importance of systematic inspection Of
railroads. 1t was prepared for the Associa-
tion of North American Railway Superin-
tendents. On the subject Capt. Fleming
says: "A rigid inspection, by competent in
spectOrs, implies better service i'll all
branches of a railroad; it requires men in
their various positions to render more faith
full and better service; it stimulates and in
vites spirit of rivalry among men that
might not otherwise exist. When a man
knows that his work is to tried by the
plumb and square he will take more pains
to see that it comes up TO the plans and re-
quirements. The oft heard expression, oh,
that Will answer the purpose would
gradually cease and better class of work
would be done. Inspection will carry with
it moro economy and greater degree of
safety; more economy from the fact that
when you get good work done it will last
longer and require less renewals; greater
safety because all imperfecLiOns would be
checked, and such material as is rot suita-
BILE would not be allowed to be usedn