The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-29
NOT GOING TO NEW YORK
THE PLANT SYSTEMS HEADQUAR-
TIERS TO REMAIN HERE.

General Manager Haines Talks About
the Jacksonville Purchase-The Near
Completion of the Townsville and
Monticello Road - Improving the
Brunswick and Western and Other
Roads in the System.
Col. H. S. Haines general manager Of
the Plant system, is at home after quite an
extended stay in New York. His attention
was called yesterday to two rumors, one of
which is that the headquarters Of the gem
eral manager Of the system are to be re-
moved to New York, and the other, that
the system will remove its headquarters to
Jacksonville.
In answer to the first rumor Col. Haines
replied that it can hardly be said that the
general manager has headquarters.
His headquarters may very properly be
said to be wherever he goes, and he is on
the go nearly all the time. Col. Haines has
private office in the cOmpany's building
in New York, as he has here in the compa-
ny's main Office, and he works as hard there
as he does here There is no foundation, he
said, for the rumor that he will locate in
New York. or that there will be change
in the present system. He expressed HIM
yannah to take up his residence in New
York, where, he says, the heat is very OPP
pressive. The heat was so oppressive while
he was there on one occasion, be said, he
found it actually impossible to continue his
trip to his Office, and he turned back to his
more comfortable out-of-town rooms, where
he directed the work in hand.
HEADQUARTERS AT SAVANNAH.
Referring to the rumor of removing the
headquarters of the Savannah, Florida and
Western to jacksonville, that is matter
which has not been even remotely consid
cred. The Plant investment company owns
very good terminal facilities on the west
side of jacksonville, aud also owns other
property, including street and steam rail
ways, to the eastern part of the city. At its
terminus it hes water frontage and slips,
but not so good as is desired for the hand
ling of lumber. The recent purchase on the
ST. Johns of 280 acres, abutting on property
already owned by the Plant investment
company, give il deep water and more
room. While Col. Haines did not say what
the plans of the company are with respect
to the new purchase, he left the impression
that it will be connected with the present
terminus at Jacksonville, and the lumber
booms there viii afford better facilities than
at the present terminus. He said, however,
that the company owns more land in and
about Jacksonville than people know about.
Col. Haines is very much pleased with the
2S0-acre purchase which, he says, is on
high bluff, and is very desirable property.
Col. Haines was asked if the Savannah,
Florida and Western is building any new
lines and he replied that il is not, with the
exception of the Monticello road. The road
from Townsville to Monticello, he saws, will
be completed within two months. This road
is twenty-five miles in length and the work
is progressing favorably. Aside from this
Col. Haines says the company is not build
ing but taking care of and improving it's
present lines. The Charleston and Savan-
nah railway is having the tifty-pound steel
rails replaced with sixty pound rails, and
about one-half of the track has already been
changed to the heavy rail.
THE BRUNSWICK AND WESTERN.
1t will cost about S750,0OO to put the
Brunswick and Western road in good con-
dition. There are 10 miles of road way of
the Brunswick and Western, and the old
iron rail is being replaced with 60 pound
steel rails. Twelve heavy locomotive
engines have been ordered, to be delivered
next month, some of which are to be used
on the Brunswick and w estern.
The company will build about twenty
new coaches, and its car shops in this city
are turning out about thirty freight cars
per month. Work on the new depot, at
Liberty and East Broad streets, has begun,
the contractors framing the timber for the
building, and Col Hines thinks the new
building on the east, fronting on Liberty
street, may go up this year.
The vestibule train system of last year,
which proved so popular with tourists, Col.
Haines says, will be continued next fall and
winter.
Col. Haines was asked what reports his
company has received from the cotton belt,
and he replied that it is too early for any
basis. Inquiries will be sent out early in
August, and upon the answers received the
cotton crop tributary to their roads will be
estimated. The Plant roads handle the
South Georgia and part of the Florida crop,
but the Central road handles most of the
Georgia crop.