The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-14
ON RAIL AND CROSSTIK.
Local and General Gossip in Railway
Circlea

The allotment of steel rails among the va
rious mills for production in 1888 was l ,200,-
900 tons and Of this rs per cent has been
contracted for.
An English journal estimates that the
railways of the world in 1886 consumed
100000 tons of pig iron, and in 1887 about
1860, 900, and that one-third of the total
amount of pig iron produced is consumed in
railway construction.
G. A. Whitehead, general freight agent
of the Central railroad, and w. P. Hardee,
general freight agent of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway, left
for Atlanta last night, via the Central
railroad, to rate meeting.
1t is understood that Supt. Hege, of the
main stem division of the Central railroad,
will become superintendent of the South
western railroad in place of Supt Kline,
who resigned and went to Mexico. B. ].
Cubbedge, Savannah freight agent, will
probably be made superintendent of the
main stem in place of Mr.. Hege. 1t is not
yet determined who will succeed Mr.. Cub
hedge as Savannah agent.
The longest railway run in the world
without stop, according to the London
Rdil,Cuy Press is that made by two trains
on the North Eastern railway from New
castle to Edinburgh. The distance is 1875
miles, and the average speed 49, miles per
hour. A still longer run than this was made
few years ago, according to the same
authority from Dublin to Cork, distance
of 1861 miles; time hours and AZ minutes;
average speed 43s miles per hour. The Mid
land railway shows nearly as long a run
as that first named, It's Edinburgh express
| making no stop between st. Pancras and
Nottingham. distance of 1873 76 miles As
TO speed, it is asserted that the fastest train
in the kingdom is the Manchester express
on the Great Nothern railway, which runs
from Grantham to Kings Cross, London,
at an average rats Of 81 miles an hour.
The courts will be called on to decide
| novel suit brought by the Georgia railroad
against the Richmond and Danvills for
1888. The Richmond aud Danville has
| lease on a certain portion of the Georgia
roads track and it is used Jointly by the
two companies. The contract attached to
| the lease stipulates that in case of injury to
| any person upon the leased track the road
! through whose negligence the injury was
caused shall be held responsible and pay all
damages arising from such accident. This
contract will be the feature of the present
suit. 1t appears that Ransom Friddell was
| injured some months ago by the engine of
| the Richmond and Danville company while
using this joint track, and he brought suit
against the Georgia railroad company as
| owners of the track. In defending this suit
| the Georgia company claim to have ex-
pended 1888, and they now sue the Rich
mond aud Danville company to recover
| this amount.
Russian railways are considered the best
on the continent, but facts relating to speed
recently brought out at an examination
held by the ministry proves them to be
little better than stage coaches in this coun-
try. The object of the ministry was to in
crease the speed Of mail trains to an aver
age rate of twenty-three miles per hour.
At present the average rate Is twenty
miles, but on some lines that for mail trains
is only sixteen miles per hour, and for the
| ordinary passenger train twelve miles.
Even on the best line in the entire country,
running from st. Petersburg to Moscow,
the average for the fast passenger train,
dubbed the courier train, is but twenty
eight miles per hour including stops, and
for ordinary passenger trains only fifteen
miles per hour. The courier train consists
only of few first class carriages and are
only patronized by the wealthy classes and
American tourists Some few branch lines
were shown to average not more than ten
miles per hour, and then regularly arriving
late. The regular mail trains consist Of
twenty carriages, drawn by two locomotives.
making one trip day.