The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-01
RAHAND CROSsTIE.

- corps of engineers is camped near
quincy, Florida, and lines are being run
several directions for a new railroad.
Interest in the Palatka fla and Lake
Shore railroad is reviving. Arrangements
Tor It's Immediate completion are said to have
been made, and work Is to begin at once.
This road viii be an air line from Palstka
to hissimmee.
The surveying corps of the Macon and
birmingham railroad has reached the VI
entity OF birmingham, and the entire sur
Vey VIII soon be completed. This line as
surveyed is 230 miles long, and the lands
along the route abound in mineral The
building Of the road Is said to be certain.
S. II. Hardwick has resigned the position
OF assistant general passenger agent of the
East Tennessee road, to accept the position
OF general passenger agent of the Georgia
Pacific. c. n. Knight, formerly western
agent of the East Tennessee Virginia and
Georgia railway, with headquarters at
Little Rock. Ark, has been appointed Mr..
Hardwicks successor.
The Chattanooga Times says that this Is
official: The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railway Company has lust ne
gotlated 81, $780, coo bonds TO London parties.
the amount being for the extension of the
Memphis and Charleston from Chatta-
noOga to Stevenson, Ala. Mcdonald. Shea
q Co. have the contract to build the extern
sion, and will proceed with the work as
soon as practicable.
Herman Myers, president of the South
Bound railroad, says that all the rights of
way have been received up to the Cha than
county line, and rights of way are now
being secured in this county. He says tn at
by the middle of next week he will be able
to close the subscriptions, and when this is
done the rights of way taken in this county
aud rights Of way granted by the city
council, it will not be long until work
on the South Bound will begin. Col. Mike
Brown of Barnwell, S. c., is expected in
the city to-day or tomorrow.
The government is experimenting in New
ork and Washington with u new scheme
tor the delivery Of mail. It's object is to de-
liver the mail just as soon as it reaches the
city without having to handle every letter
twice in distributing them at the postoffice
Clerks go out from the city on every road
aud meet the trains forty or fifty miles away
and work up the city mail before the train
reaches town. AS soon as the train arrives
at the depot every street carrier is on hand
at the mail car to get his mail which has
been assorted, and delivered il without ever
going to the Office. The box mail rs also
worked in the car 50 that it can be placed
IN the boxes at once. A special scheme
sack" is provided in the car for working the
large amount of mail. The new plan is
proving a successful one, and no doubt will
be in operation out of all the large cities IL
a short time.
The building of the Savannah and
Western railroad is progressing rapidly
westward. Four hundred men are at work
west of Morrison's and several miles OF the
road are completed. All of the material is
on hand for putting the road in working
order. A telegraph line is being put up as
fast as the road is completed, 50 that the
Savannah Office may be IN direct communi-
cation with its employees. Track laying will
be completed out as far as Sterling, a dis
lance Of about sixty miles, Oct. l, aud only
few months more will he required to build
the line to Eastman, a distance of not more
than forty miles The Central is going
right ahead with the work, railroad man
said yesterday, and not many more weeks
will pass before the whistle of a Savannah
and Western locomotives will eniven things
through country where trains have never
run before The people along the entire line
of road where the Savannah and Western
railroad survey is made are exultant over
the effort of the Central railroad to place
them in rail communication with Savannah.
a large portion of the Savannah and
Western railroad toward Americas, is sur
Yeyed.