The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-26
RAIL AND oRossrIE.


The charter for the Santa Fe and st.
Johns (Fla.) railroad has been renewed.
Thadeus c. Srurgis, of the East Tennes-
sse, Virginia and Georgia railroad, is in the
city.
The lines Of the new railroad from Green
Cove Spring to Melrose, Fla, are being
surveyed.
Division Superintendents w. W. Starr,
Macon, w. H. McClintock, Columbus, aud
d. u. .Curran, Augusta, of the Central rail
road, are in town.
The number of locomotives in the United
States is now over %, 900, to which Canada
and Mexico can add about $500. making
the total number on abe North American
continent not far from 80 800. The average
number of locomotives per mile of road in
the United States is about 54
The Pennsylvania railroad system has
almost 10000 employees, as shown by an
official statement, the exact number being
81, 500 As the Pennsylvania system com
prlses IL, 5S9 miles of railway this gives an
average of IL. 70 employees per mile, which is
much higher average than that of any of
the other large systems in the country. On
the l,ol7 miles of road between Pittsburg
and New York 45, 227 persons are EN-
ployed, which gives the very high average
OF "A. 50 to the mile. On the 2, 396 miles of
lines leased, operated and controlled east of
tlttsburg and Erie the number is ii $50, or
only ASS per mile, while the S,36S miles
west of Pittsburg and Erie employ 80, 453
persons, an average of 9.63 per mile.
The Peirce & TORY Investment Company
has been building railroad from point
on the Taveres, Orlando and Atlantic rail-
road, one-half mile east of the depot in
Apopka, Fla, by East Apopka. when they
cross the Florida Midland track. thence on
to Clay Springs. The length of the road is
six miles, is standard gauge, and will con-
meet with the Taveres, Olando and Atlantic
and Florida Midland railroads at its south
end, and the Clay Springs branch of the
Wekiva at its north end. The connection
with the Midland railroad and the line to
the hotel at Clay Springs have been laid
| and surfaced up in fine condition for the
rolling stock. The line to the Taveres,
Olando and Atlantic will be laid in few
| days
A railroad manager, on the subject of
ticket scalping, is quoted by the Indian
| apols Journal as follows: "The trouble
| now is, and alwas has been, that some gen.
| eral passenger agents, in order to work up
| their business aud make big showing for
themselves and their lines, persist in hav-
| ing tickets sold via roundabout routes; they
| inform brokers of the scheme that they
may purchase the tickets, and thus heir
them out still further by redeeming the un-
| used portion of the through tickets by
whomsoever they are presented. A broker
consequently knows when he goes to q
ticket office and purchases through tickets
by line doing business in this way, and
| resells to passenger with an order on his
correspondent for a rebate, that even if the
ticket is limited closely,9 and his CORES
pendent at the intermediate point does not
succeed in disposing ofsthe unused coupons
within the limit, the arrangement is such
that the line selling the ticket will redeem
| it, and he will make his margin out of it, ,