The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-06
Monthly Quarterly



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For the benefit of the families of employees
residing in the suburbs the company has
made a special rate of one-haif cent per
mile, thus encouraging its employees to
| make their homes OF the line of road, a
plan which works 10 the mutual advantage
of both, and materially aids in building up
the local business.
This liberslity on the part of the manage
ment toward the employees will in measure
account for the remarkable good feeling
and unanimity of purpose which charac-
terize the intercourse between the officials
and their subordinates.
Elegant sleeperS Astounding in all the
modern appliances for safety and comfort
are run on through trains between Savan-
nah and Augusta, Savannah and Macon,
Savannah and Atlanta, Savannah and
Montgomery, and Savannah and Columbus
Some of these sleepers are new, and the
others are being thoroughly overhauled,
and few roads eau show as complete a Sleep
ing car service As the Central. The follow
ing Pullman palace sleeping car lines will
be operated next fall and winter: Cincin-
natl to Jacksonville via Atlantn. st. Louis
to Jacksonville via Montgomery and Eu-
faula, and Kansas City to Jacksonville via
through train between jacksonville and
Chattanooga is contemplated. From this it
will be seen that the passenger department
| is fully alive TO the Necessities of the times,
| and the management is evidently deter
mined to anticipate the wants of the public,
and will leave nothing undone to make the
! Central, in the future as i'll the past, the
most popular route to and from Florida.
| It's employees with rare exceptions are
taken exclusively from the people along
! its lines and promotions to superior posi-
| lions are made from its ranks according to
! merit. To aid in putting its employees for
| advancement it has adopted the plan of
sending out each year selected party from
various branches of the ssrvice to study the
methods pursued on other roads Of the best
types.
This is the first time in which
railroad has associated itself
heartily and without hope of any
Immediate or direct reward with the
agricultural class of the population, and it
| is to be hoped that its efforts may be recog-
nized and the utmost good feeling and fell
| lowship ensue
The company is home institution. Its
officers feel that it is vitality interested In
all that affects our state, aud with view
| to increasing the population of Georgia and
| securing the cultivation Of its waste places,
| the building up of It's agricultural interests
| aud the Inauguration of new industries,
| have, in connection with the state agricul-
tural society, organized bureau of lmmi-
! grafton, the railroad furnishing the funds
and the state agricultural society the neces-
| sary information regarding the varied re-
sources of the state.
The immigration bureau also publishes a
monthly paper, the Southern Empire of
which the commissioner, Mr.. G.essner, is
editor, devoted exclusively to the advertise
ment to the world of the resources of the
state i'll all branches All parts of the state
are written up, lists of lands for sale with
prices and conditions published, and ali in
formation that the farmer and capitalist of
| other sections need to know are given. The
| Central railroad has no lands of its own,
other than used in its business, and can
only profit from its work as given above,
through the general prosperity which it
hopes to bring to the state in which it is 50
much interested
As travelling advertisement of the south,
the Central raill Dad has built a handsome
car fifty feet long, which is elegantly
| fitted UP and provided With racks a I'd
shelves for transporting and displaying
articles for exhibition which set forth
graphically the truly wonderful resources
and products of the sunny south" This
car, in charge of the conlpany'S immigra-
| ton agent, Mr.. w. L. Glessner of Ameri-
Gus, Ga, is now on trip through the west
and northwest, and it is hoped will be the
means of inducing many people from dis
| tant states to settle in our midst.
The freight department of the system,
which is ably presided over by Maj q. A.
Whitehead, general freight agent, still
maintains its prestige as being the main
| source of the companY'S revenue, ana with
the extension of the Central railroads lines
into new fields has grown enormously.
One special feature of the Central rail-
road is its freight claim department, which
operates on an entirely ne" plan, aud pat
rons of the road are not kept out of their
money by tedious delays, which attend tho
collections OF amounts due on claims for
! overcharge or loss or damage against many
roads. This is highly appreciated by the
| public, who always prefer to deal with
road which is ever ready to rectify errors
on the spot, when attention is called to
them. Mag. w. f. Shellman. the very eff
cient traffic manager OF the company, has
cause for just pride in his freight and pas
| senger departments.
The Ocean Steamship Company, which
also forms part of the Central railroad
! system, has fleet of ten magnificent steam
ships plying between Savannah and tho
northern ports, making regular schedules
from this city to New York, Boston and
philadelphia. The following is the fleet:
| Nacoochee, City Of Macon,
! City OF Savannah, Cato City,
| City of Augusta, Juniata,
! Tallahassee, De soug,
! Chattahoochee, City OF Birmingham.
The City of Birmingham has only re-
CO thy been added to tho line. and was built
at Roachs ship yards, Chester, Pa, for this
company. She has triple expansion engines
of l5O0-norso power, and the latest improved
appliances for loading and discharging
cargo; tae speed of this steamship is be-
tween eleven aud twelve knots an hour.