The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-17
RAIL AND CROSSTIR.

Southern and Florida railroad spent yester-
day in the city.
The weekly pay roll of the Georgia South
| ern and Florida railroad is now S2T.50 Der
week. The track has been laid the other
| side of Jasper, and 1S5 hands are engaged
| in the work.
| The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company has let contracts for forty-Seven
miles of road, from Cumberland Gap to
Princess Flat, Va, where connection is
made with the Norfolk and Western. giviu g
a through line from Louisville to Norfolk.
The line will be open within a year.
There's another rumor out about Vice
| President NJ. II. Smith of the Louisville
and Nashville road. This time nothing is
said of his resigning, but there's talk
throughout the country of the fact of the
| Richmond and West Point Terminal want
ing him, and it may be that he will go to
| them.
The great Forth bridge Scotland. with
| 18th railway has already cost the immense
sum OF G3,O14,4 37, or over 5000 000 and
| a further expenditure of 91S7, $780, or nearly
| S945,O0 IS estimated to be necessary The
bridge is rapidly approaching completion.
The wonderful structure has been nearly
seven years in building.
The Tampa Tribune says that the Florida
| Central and Peninsula railway will be built
into Tampa from Pant City by Dec. l, aud
| that large force of hands will begin opera
| lions at Plant City at once Also that the
Georgia, Southern and Florida railway,
now being built from Lake City to Palatka,
| viii have its track laid into Tampa and
trains running early in 1899.
President L. K. Walker of the Darieu Short
| Line railroad has gone to New York city to
| purchase iron for the railroad. The iron
will be landed by schOoners at the railroad
company's wharf built at Cranton Island.
The railroad bed IS in fine condition, aud a
force OF hands is laying crossties ready for
| the iron. President Walker viii also DUR
chase the rolling stock for the road while in
| New York.
ltlsnow said that President Charles Schiff,
OF the Queen and Crescent system, will soon
| resign. MIR. Schitf is at present in England
| where he has been for some time. he is ex-
pected TO arrive at Cincinnati again on or
| about Oct 20. He will retire of his own
free Will, and, it is understood, for the
reason that he has interests abroad that re-
| qulre his attention. 1t may be that he will
retain the presidency until theannual meet
ing, which occurs in February next.
The fall meeting of the general passenger
| agents will be held in Atlanta to-day. The
| following railroad men went up from Sa-
vannah last night: Traffic Manager A. c.
Knapp Of the Georgia Southern and Flor
ida railroad, Traffic Manager w. +. She'll
man of the Central, General Passenger
| Agent William Davidson OF the Savannah,
| Florida and Western railway, General
Passenger Agent A. o. Mcdonald of the
| Florida Railway and Navigation railroad.
| and &. L. Charlton Of the Central.
An inventor, backed by st. Louis capital,
Is building curious railway coach. The
distinctive feature of the car is the fact
that 1T is all iron or steel. No wood will be
used in its construction. The roof, sides
and ends OF the car are made of steel boiler
plates rlveted together, and it is nothing
| more nor less than big boiler. 1t is not
quite round, however, being somewhat in
the shape of a horseSnoe-the round part
being the top. In the bottom are Sc Teral
| steel Orders packed IN cement much the
same as in the Pullman cars Along the
sides is an array of windows precisely sim
liar to those of all ordinary passenger coach.
The top of the car is destitute of the heavy
roof aud ventilating arrangement that is
| seen on ordinary cars. Ventilation is to be
secured by pumping air into the car through
| pipes.
A ''palace chicken car" is the latest de-
velopment of luxury in railway Transport
! tatlon. The idea OF carrying live poultry
| hundreds or even thousands of miles COM
fortably and with ample arrangements for
| feeding Is by no meaus absurd. Ii fact the
manner IN winch live fowls are packed into
small coops and allowed to suffer for food and
drink while on their way to market is often
an example Of cruelty deserving Of punish
ment. Some Chicago men of railway ex-
perience have had one or two cars con-
structed so as to contain large number of
separate coops with wire partitions, giving
| room for the fowls to move about and with
arrangements for supplying the passengers
with food and drink, and passage ways by
which each coop can be reached. Ihous-
ands of chickens can be carried IN one of
those cars across the continent in good con-
dition.