The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-15
RAIL AND CROSSTIE.

J. A. Sans of the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad is in the city.
Travelling Passenger Agent John Gee of
the Atlanta and West Point railroad is in
town.
All of the United States railway mail
clerks on the Wilmington and Jacksonville
route are standing an examination for the
postoftlces in the state of Florida during
the present month.
The car lamp, like the deadly car stove,
has got to go. 1t is abundantly demon
strated that better and safer lights are in
the market, lights that enable every passen-
ger to read easily. These improved systems
are IN use on the largest and most modern
Tallroads IN the country, such as the New
1ork Central, the Pennsylvania, Philadel-
phla and Reading, and others, and the pub
tic Is thoroughly satisfied on all of these
roads, Southern and western roads are
now testing both the Pintsch and Frost
systems, and are pleased with their opera
zion. The car lamp will soon be no more.
Inc new schedules on the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway, which were
announced in the MORNING NEWS a few
Gays ago, will go into effect day after to-
morrow. Two new trains, Nos. Is and &c,
from \, New York to Savannah will be put
4n. The first train will be run as follows:
IL Will leave New York at $3.50 o'clock in
Ine morning, and will arrive in Savannah
al 1880 the afternoon of the next day.
ram No, GO will have equally as fast
schedule These two trains will be run in
connection with Nos. IA and 81, the present
last mail trains. The vestibule train will
oe put on Jan. 13.
Ihe Northwestern Rdilrodder, in it's
number just issued, publishes an important
article on the railroad vote in the recent
election in Iowa. After remarking, in gen.
eeral, that the result is a good thing
t t,T railroads, the paper continues:
Inc result is very largely owing to the
railroad employees vote Let there be no
mistake about this. 1t is not the railroad
companies who have done this thing. The
corporations were not in the fight Very
lew railroad officials of lines in Iowa have,
we venture to say, had any. knowledge of
What the railroad employees have of their
avn initiative been doing in Iowa. The
Northtoestern RdiLrodder has had such
knowledge from excellent sources, and the
result comes to us not at all as surprise.
The railway employees of the state of Iowa
w would GId control, if united. not less than
ov,oOO votes. They are not yet united; but
oney are sufficiently united on certain
points to turn IL, 200 or 20 600 votes, and to
SWING state election. The power which
mas been put forth In Iowa has exerted itself
~ sileht4y, with so little movement on the
surface, that no one not in the secret has
known of its existence. The railway en-
ployes have awakened to the knowledge of
t .neir own strength. They have learned
mat their cause is not the
grangers cause, and that they have
noSning to gain and everything to lose by
p9hcy OF oppression of the companies from
wnem they get their work, their salaries,
suelr bread and butter. Republicanism and
democracy in the abstract have no interest
lor Them. They are not swayed by party
.nlotiVes, and are no more under the leader
s.Illp OF party bosses than of the corpora
, sIns. But whatever the party may be, or
whoever the man may be. that strikes ct