The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-20
TRAVEL TO THE SOUTH.
RAILROAD PEOPLE GETTING IN
BETTER HUMOR.

Florida Travel Picking up and Freights
Increasing Every Day - The New
Road into Middle Florida and What
1t is Doing-The Savannah, Florida
and Western Depot to be Opened
Jan. 1.-The vestibule Trains to be
Put on Jan. 7.
General Manager Haines of the Plant sys-
TEN was caught on the wing by a MORNING
NEWS reporter yesterday, and could not
well avoid talking back. Mr.. Haines was
with General Manager Lane of the Georgia
Southern and Florida road, making tour
Of inspection through the new depot of the
Savannah, Florida and Western and
Charleston and Savannah railways, now
nearly completed. Mr.. Haines said that the
new depot will be open by Jan. l.
1t is. said Mr.. Haines, the intention to
build temporary waiting rooms, dining
room and baggage rooms for the new
passenger shell, so that there will be little
delay in getting the new depot in a condi-
ton to accommodate the travelling public,
but this will only be temporary, as the
plans are beng perfected for permanent
building of brick in which will be located
the general offices Of the company. Work
on the brick building at the corner of East
Broad and Liberty streets will be prosecuted
this winter.
TRAVEL TO FLORIDA.
Mr.. Haines was asked when the travel
southwark would begin, and he replied that
It has already begun. The people, he said,
are already going to Florida. By that, he
explained, that he meant those persons who
reside in Florida, who, after summering in
the north, have turned southwark, one
train last week carrying 200 Floridians,
homeward bound.
While Mr.. Haines was talking, he was
handed a dispatch stating that there has
not been case of sickness at Live Oak for the
past eighteen days, and that United States
Surgeon Hutton declares that Live Oak is
healthy and that there is not a case of sick
ness of any kind in the place.
Mr.. Haines says that the people are going
rapidly into Florida, and that the vestibule
trains, making tri-weekly trips, will be put
on Jan. T. While the passenger travel, for
obvious reasons. has not been quite as good
as desired, it is improving, and the cotton
receipts to date are better than for the
same period last year. In fact, ONE has
only to glance over the railroad yards,
densely packed as they are with cotton,
to see that the receipts are large, and as a
great deal of cotton goes direct to the
wharves, the yards full of cotton as they
are, and as they have been for the past ten
days, does not give an adequate idea of the
encouraging receipts. Mr.. Haines reports
other freights satisfactory, and constantly
improving
THE NEW LINE TO FLORIDA.
The completion of the railroad from
Townsville to Monticello Mr.. Haines saws,
has opened up closer communication with
Middle Florida, and as that section is one of
the finest cotton sections of the state, it will
make the territory very rich tributary to
this point. 1t opens up a most desirable
route for the tourist travel to Florida and
/ t enables the travelling public to leave
Savannah in the morning and reach Month
cello by the middle of the afternoon of the
same day, when heretofore it could only be
reached by a long drive overland from
Townsville or by roundabout way to
Jacksonville and westward by the Florida
Central and Western.
The people of Monticello are very much
elated over their new road, which enables
them to communicate with the outside
world several hours earlier than before, and
situated as they are, in a rich agricultural
section, the growth and progress of the
prosperous little city is assured.