The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-22
RAIL AND CROSsTIE.

Townsville has guaranteed President
Smith $50, 900 in case his new railroad
passes through that city.
The Nashville committees which have
been canvassing for a 100000 subscription
for the Nashville Northern railroad have
secured S75,0 900.
The Charleston excursion train, which
has been running Sundays between Savan-
nah and Charleston, has been taken Off
The train is put on only during the summer
months.
The directors of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford have decided to abolish
the dining car service on that road, because,
it is said, of the danger from fire in case of
accident.
Knoxville has five new railroads under
construction. The new roads are the Wal
denis Ridge; the Powell's Valley; the Knox
vile Southern; the Carolina, Knoxville and
Western, and the Tennessee Midland.
The Central railroad ticket office is being
crowded with inquiries about the state fair
at Macon, which begins tomorrow. The
agent expects to have a great deal more
business with Macon than with Atlanta.
The 2-cent fare law having gone into
effect in Michigan, the railways Of that state
have decided to make no more special rates
for fairs, conventions and other gatherings
10 WHICH uGTbUOlOT6 Uu0 IdU6 VI Ou6 duu Oub-
third fare for the round trip has been
granted.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat says:
"wednesday a solid train, made I'D of
twenty cars, loaded with Is, 900 bales of cot
ton, will be started from Denison for Liver
pool, England, via Boston" This looks
strange. In this section no such an amount
of cotton could be loaded on twenty cars.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company is
utilizing in Chicago a two-horse power
motor which drives an engine to pump gas
into tanks, which serve as reservoirs on its
trains The arrangement is an experiment
in train lighting. Each car thus Illuminated
has eleven lamps, with four burners each.
1t is claimed that 600 cubic feet Of gas will
serve to light a car three days.
The RdiLtoau Age says locomotive and
car builders are generally busy, and report
good prospects for orders ahead. The
Baldwin works, which last year turned out
$50 locomotives, expect to increase this
large output during the present year
Meantime new railway enterprises continue
to develop. and the indications are that
1889 will see much activity in construction.
The Chattanooga Sunday Times says:
1.-THE new ten wheel passenger engine soon
TO be introduced by the East Tennessee,
Virginie and Georgia railroad arrived at
thc bnOpS III bhib SlAl JNoOOAuh1
direct from the locomotive works at Sche-
nectady, N. Y. AS soon as the huge piece
of motive power has been 'limbered' up 10
a sufficient degree IL will be put in service
either between Chattanooga and Knoxville
OF Bristol and Knoxville The engine Is
calculated 10 make eighty miles per hour.
and, from all appearances, will do IT,"
The Southern Railway and Steamship
Associations new demurrage rules will take
effect Nov. |. They provide that all pack.
age freight which is not received by the
owners within forty-eigbt hours after
arrival shall DO subject 10 a
cha 90 for storage Of cent
per 100 pounds per day for shipments
~ loss than carload quantities, and 3 cents
per Ton por day for carload quantities
loaded ears - be uuloadet BY 80 signees
end subject after foriy-eight hours 10 a
d0muTrage charge ~ u per day, the car 10
b. hep. accessible " the c9nslgnes Tor
unloading