The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-12
ON RAIL ND cRossTIE.
GOAL and General Gossip in Railway
Circles.

Mai j. J. Griffin is in the city among his
railroad friends
". voolfolk, of Montgomery. Ala.
o;Iant If the Alabama Midland railroad,
is in the Guy r..
coneral Manager Balknap returned from
I'm over the southwestern division Of the
Central railroad yesterday morning.
Can't T. o. Jeter. the wel-known con
5,,ot6r and perhaps the longest connected
r'itb tine Southwestern railroad of any man
W. II resigned Wednesday, and made his
last trip from macon 10 ColuihouS Oh 'oaO
day. 400
,,,a+iyas during the past year. There were
OF Tnogul lSS American and 269 consollda-
~ The Pennsylvania took so and the
PHILADELPHIA and Reading 90, and 30
locomotives were sent to the Argentine Re
public.
oficeof the Savannah, Florida and Western
ra;lwav in this city, has accepted a position
18th the Richmond and Danville at Rich
mond He has recently been connected
rtth the Norfolk and Western railway at
Radford, Va.
The Tallahassee Fgorididn learns from a
raIiable source that the Tallahassee and
Carrabelle Railroad Company and the At
Ianta and Florida Railroad Company have
consolidated. The latter road is already
completed to Fort Valley, and work will be
begun in few days at both ends of the
consolidated lines, pushing it to completion
as fast as means and men can do it.
The official circular announcing the APP
nointment of Mr.. L. j. Ellis as general east
ern passenger agent of the Shenandoah
Valley route and Kennesaw route, with
headquarters in New York, vice Mr.. S. H.
Hardwick, transferred to Atlanta, has been
issued by B. w. Wrenn, general passenger
and ticket agent Mr.. Hardwick is one OF the
cleverest railroad men in the country.
A telegraph Office has been established in
the new Savannah. Florida and Western
railway passenger shed connecting with he
office of master of transportation and dis
hatcher, and also with an Office which was
put up yesterday in the yard. The wire
will have only three offices, tho shed, yard
and master of transportation and dispatcher
office. The arrangement is a convenient
one The master of transportation and
trains will be familiar with everything
transpiring either at the shed or in the yard,
Every incoming or outgoing train will be
promptly reported to the dispatcher and
trainmaster.
The report of the railroad commissioners
of Alabama, recently issued, shows that the
total mileage of new roads built in the state
during the fiscal year ending June 3d. 1888,
was 52991 miles, distributed as foil WIS:
Birmingham Mineral, a. 80; Cincinnati,
Selma and Mobile, IS; Columbus and West
err, &C 81 East Alabama, 10 IS; East and
West railroad of Alabama, 60; Georgia
Pacific, 1915; louisville and Flora, "A. II;
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham,
1927; Mobile and Birmingham, 90 So
Nashville, Chattanooga aud st louis, 29J:
Rome and Decatur, 1926; Sheffield and Bir-
bingham, $3.50; Talladega and Cooaa Val
ley, 10; Western railway of Alabama, Is.
Jefferson was the banner county.
The WGU Street Netcs learns that the
Richmond Terminal Company is negotiating
q new deal. This time 1t is to be with the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
The story is that the Baltimore and Ohio is
to extend its Valley branch from Lexington
to Bristol, about lbs miles, where it will
make close connection with the Eas5 Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia and Richmond
Terminal systems The extension to DO
built will parallel the Norfolk and Western
road for the entire distance. 1t seems that
President Mayer of the Baltimore and Ohio
has no particular love for the Norfolk and
Western, as it is an active competitor with
the Consolidated Coal Company, of which
he is also the president, and the extension of
the Valley branch will enable him. it is
said, to square accounts. The surveys have
already been made, and as soon as an agree
ulent can be reached building will com
mence. Tie Richmond Terminal people
claim that if this deal goes through. they
can entirely ignore the Norfolk and West
ern, and divert the tom sge Of the East
Tennes; ee. Virginia and Georgia road to the
Baltimore and Ohio without in any wav il
terfering with the order of the Tennessee
courts.
New York dispatch gives the plan of
new southern railroad proposed consolida-
ton. The proprietor of the new scheme is
said to be President j. d. Williamson, Of
the Chattanooga, Rome and Colum bus
railroad. The Williamson party has finished
road from Chattanooga through Rome to
Carrollton. This is the basis of operations
surveying party is in the field locating q
route from CarTollton to Columbus, which
Will be built immediately This will give
the new system continuous lins from Chat
tanooga to Columbus Back of Chattanooga
Is alliance with the Cincinnati Southern
Whlch practically gives it one line from
Cincinnati to Columbus. South of Column
pus, Low a. Co. are building a road to
Albany. Here he will get Florida connec-
ton over the Savannah, Florida and West
ern, and ocean connection over the Bruins
WICK and Albany road into Brunswick.
me Florida Navigation owns $50 miles of
ROAD In Florida, and is anxious to get an
outlet into the west independent of Mr.
rant II promises to build line from
quincy, Fla, to Albany, to meet the Will
hanson system When this is built the new
system will have an unbroken line from
CINCINNATI to every point in Florida. Over
tne Brunswick and Albany it will have a
9lTect route from Cincinnati to the sea.
,"lhamson's next point is to get into At
iahta This he will do by building from
Narrollton. The Griffin and North Alabama
nne is practically put into the hands of Mr..
Alred Sully. He controlled the minor
Sonas OF that road, and Judge Speer has
uecided that the minority bondholders, by
paying up defaulting interest, can nullify
vac sale OF the road and recover the prop
elCy. Williamson viii then own the line
Iunnlng eastward. He would then connect
E wiVn the Macon and Covington and get into
macon and Athens, The surveying party
VII connect with the Augusta and Sanders.
, me and the owners Of the property are
i S.ue, engagement to give them an entrance
i in'o augusta. II is then proposed to run q
it ne from Sandersville to Savannah. The
tinh from Carrolton to Columbus, already
IHeGlued on, is 30 miles; from Carrolton &c
mJn,anta, 40 miles; from Griffin to Monti
S veio' 20 miles; from Monticello to Sanders
IT, IT, OO miles, and to Savannah 100 miles
auIS makes total Of sos miles TO build in
th uer 10 connect the entire system Oh
AIS, ~ miles, from Columbus tc
1ni I1any' IS being built Seventy
nes' from Albany to Quincy. vii
pe Quilt by the Florida Navigatjor