The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-27
CENTRAL IN GOOD SHAPE.
GEN. ALEXANDER ON THE RE.
CENT DECISION.

It Was no More Than he Expected the
Supreme Court Would Do-Bffect
of the Decision on the CentrePe
New Enterprises 49, The Heavy
Movement Of Fertilizer Freights-
The Sunken Wharves to be Rebuilt
at Once-Gen. Alexander's Theory
as to tho Cause of the Accident.
Gen. Z. P Alexander returned yesterday
afternoon from Atlanta, where he had
been attending meeting of the capitol
commission, and. on his way home he
stopped over Friday in Augusta.
Gen. Alexander said yesterday, that he is
very favorably impressed with the activity
Of business at Atlanta and Augusta. He
SAYS that tho demand for fertilizers from
the interior is so great that the Central is
being taxed beyond its present capacity to
furnish cars TO move fertilizer freights.
Tho planters want their fertilizers at once.
Very heavy shipments of fertilizers are
being made from Savannah, Port ROYAL
and Charleston, and factories at Augusta
and A tlauta are doing well. The southern
manufacture IS largely displacing tho north
ern and foreign fertilizers, although the
ductiOu.
TIE SAVANNAH AND GRIFFIN CASE.
Gen. Alexander was asked what he thinks
Of the supreme court decision in tho Savan-
nah. Griffin aud North Alabama ease. He
replied that ii was no more than he had
expected He had not lost all confidence In
human nature aud IN courts of Justice, and
therefore he could not hold to any other
opinion than that the supreme court would
decide, as IL did, in favor of the company.
Gen. Alexander was asked il the action
Of the supreme court will not have ten
dency b. remove some of the distractions
which have been standing in the way OF the
proposed enterprises Of the Central, and he
answered that as far as the decision goes, it
will He is evidently not yet prepared to
say that the way is clsar to build the road
from Savannah TO Americus; to build the
twin steamer contemplated, aud to remodel
the Ocean steamship wharves. These are
the enterprises that President Inman Of the
Terminal company was willing the Central
should have embarked in and which seemed
almost certain of being carried out, it
was said, when a few minority stock
holder, through the courts and other Use,
succeeded in bringing them to a staudstil
by a breaking off Of the pending negOtia-
tons for funds to carry the enterprises out
TO REBUILD THE wHARVES AT ONCE.
Gen. Alexander says that the work IT re-
building that portion OF the wharves which
broke down under the load of guano last
Tuesday viii begin at once. He accounts
for the accident in this way: The sections
OF the wharf which went down are built
over the delta Of MusgroYe creek, and be-
fore his connection with the Central. The
bottom ther' is not a firm as at the river
bank, and there is moro mud or sediment in
the loose bottom # the creek, which has
been sinki so much that it has neces-
STATED u little propping Up of the structure
from year to year. He does not think the
pilug on which the frame timbers rested
was sunk deep enough, that they did not 60
down to tho solid sand When the col
lapsed portion Of the wharves is rebuilt the
piling will be driven into the sand, as it
should have been in the first instance.