The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-19
RAIL AND CROsSTIE.

President John H Inman of the Rich
mond Terminal Company, is making two
weeks trip over the lines in the system.
The Birmingham Age Herald says that
J. C. Shaw, travelling passenger agent of
the Central of Georgia, is on the war path
after the scalp of business.
The bridge contractors on the Georgia
Southern and Florida have struck it soft"
in Mud Swamp, three miles south of Val
dosta. The piings cut for the bridge were
30 feet, and it was supposed that they were
plenty long, but not so. When one Of them
was driven out of sight they got others 60
feet long, and when one 60 feet long was
driven out of sight they put another on top
of it, and another, and at last accounts they
had gone down 166 feet, and they were still
going II inches at a blow from the hammer.
There is no telling where the bottom is
The bridge at this point is to be 300 feet
long and If the whole span is as deep in
mud as at the spot where they began the
pilings the company will have serious
time getting the bridge in place.
report has been wired to the various
points in the west and south that the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
Company has decided to make direct con-
nections with Birmingham, Ala, and that
Chief Engineer Wilson, Vice President
Fink and General Manager Hudson have
been at Birmingham completing arrange
ments for so doing. The president of the
East Tennessee company, Gen. Samuel
Thomas, is quoted in New York as saying
that the road is not to be carried into Bir-
mingham, there being no necessity of con-
structing such line, as the Georgia Pacific,
another road of the Terminal system, runs
through that city from Admission. The
East tennessee management, however, has
decided that it is necessary to secure for the
road some of the coal traffic of the Birming-
ham district. With this end in view a line
has been surveyed, and will be constructed,
from point on the main line quite a dis
lance south from Admission, extending in a
westerly direction into the center of the
mineral region, then in a northerly direc-
uon. 1t is expected that this line will secure
LOT the East Tennessee road good tonnage
Oh coal, ETC., for Admission and more north
ern points. The tota! length of the road to
De constructed is about twenty-five miles.
There are rumors of disturbance in the
passenger end of the railroad camp The
Interstate commerce commission Is said TO
% the innocent cause of 1t all. Some time
ago tne legality of the party rate was ques-
uohed and it went before the commission
ior bearing, and the commissioners have
uecided that twenty-five or more persons,
uniformed or Unauthorized, travelling the
same way at the same time, have no more
rights to reduction in rate than an indi-
Viuuai, or at least that is the construction
81 Rlaced on the decision by railroad men.
iue southern Passenger Association has
senl OUT circular to all lines bound by
constitution, to discontinue the sale
VI these party tickets on April %.
|. me commissions ruling is as construed
win damage the railroads considerably,
auu WIN work tremendous injury to travel
us theatrical companies. Macy of them
8, over 5000 miles per annum, and the
@anIhg OF the party rate would mean thou
|l sr naS 10 such as they. Party rates were
M established in November, 1887, and
nave been in general use on all the rail
10 aus IA the country since that time. Cut
lily .hem on will doubtless affect materi-
10y inc attendance at tho celebration of
ne centennial Of Washington's inaugura.
su ou Last month the commission had
No., No., men yanked up and kept them
H thg In their boots for three days for
fouthern business.