The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-06
ON RAIL AND CROssTIE.
Local and General Gossip in Railway
Circles.

D@SSs
Sol Haas, Traffic Manager of the Rich
mond and Danvile system, will succeed
Z. B. Thomas as General Manager Mr..
Thomas has been elected Second Vice Presi-
dent of the New York, Lake Erie and
Western.
The travel southwark is at its zenith just
now. The registers of the Pulaski, Screven
and Marshall Houses exhibit full pages
daily. Jacksonville, Fla, with its Sub
Tropical Exposition, appears to be the OBJ
jectlve point of the majority Of the
tourists.
The Sheffield and Birmingham has a
corps Of engineers in the field making sur
veys for an extension from Jasper, on the
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham, to
some point on the Georgia Pacific The
connection will probably be made some
where near Baltimore ford.
Mr.. w c. Brown, of Atlanta, has filed
suit for $4,000 against the Georgia Railroad
Company in Decatur Mr.. Brown was in
jured in February, 1886, and has been an
invalid ever since. He was an engineer,
and his injury was due to a bad switch.
At the annual meeting of the lessees of
the Western and Atlantic railroad in At
ianta Thursday, rates to go into effect
March | We're adopted as follows: For dis
tanceS of fifty miles or less, 215c: for dis
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distances over 100 miles, 214c. This action
on the part of the Western and Atlantic
will probably work a reduction of all pas
Sc ger rates in Georgia.
The management of the Atlantic Coast
Line, recognizing the importance and ne
cessity Of uniform and correct time as
preCaution against possible accident, and as
the means of increasing the security of life
and property on the rail, will require every
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dispatcher, conductor, baggage master, en-
gineer, station master and yard master in
their employ to have their watches ex-
amined every three months, commencing
Feb. |, for a certificate as to quality and
condition. The action of the Atlantic Coast
Line is in accordance with the rules and
regulations adopted by the General Time
Convention for all railroads in the United
States and Canada. The necessity for hav-
ing magnetic shields on watches has been
shown on trains in other parts of the coun-
try, where watches have been known to
lose five minutes on a trip owing to electri-
cal influences
Commencing yesterday the Columbus
and Western railway will make close con-
nection over the shortest route between Co
lumbus and Birmingham The train leav-
ing Columbus at $40 a. m. will arrive at
Sylacauga at ! 80 p m, and reaching Biz
nlngham at $40 p. M, via SYlacauga and
Pell City, over the Admission and Atlantic,
the Talladega and Coosa Valley and Geor-
gia Pacific roads. Return schedule will
leave Birmingham at 10 a. m, arrive at
Sylacauga, at 80 p. M, and arrive at Co
lumbus $40 p. m This is now the short
est and best route to Birmingham, the dis
lance being only 1872 miles from Columbus,
and the ride being nearly all in daylight,
and leaving and arriving at Columbus and
Birmingham at seaSonable hours. The Co
lumbus and Western has also in Genuine
ton with the Western of Alabama and At
lanta and West Point, reinstated the can
non ball train between Columbus and At
lanta, via Opelika.