The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-27
POINTERS TO THE FUTURE
WHY SAVANNAH WILL BE a
GREAT COMMERCIAL CITY.

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Gen. Alexander Believes That IL Has
just Entered Upon Career Of Pros
perity-The Development ofits Trade
and it's Commercial Facilities-To be
the Great Distributing Point for
South Americon Products - What
the Railroads are Doing.
Gen. Alexander takes a roseate view Of
the future of Savannah. The city, he says,
is just entering upon its career of pros
perity, and it is destined TO become a great
commercial and distributive point
The improvements contemplated 10 the
wharves Of the Central railroad, be says,
will facilitate the prcmpter and more
economic handling Of freights, and with the
completion of the Savannah and Western
new impetus will be given to the trade
and commerce Of the city.
THE EDEN EXTENSION.
The Eden extension, Gen. Alexander
says, will not be open as early as had been
hoped for. The difficulty in obtaining the
timber for the bridge over the Canoochee
river viii cause a delay of two months in
opening the road All the available tim
Der along the river has been RATED away,
ana the timbsS for the bridge was got out
on one of the Ball tributaries of the Ca
noochee, but the contractor has been wait
ing for freshet to raft it down to the site
of the bridge, but so far there is no indica-
ton of enough water, and Gen. Alexander
said he has given orders that they must
look for material elsewhere and go to work
| at once to provide temporary structure
on which to cross the river with trains,
nm. .-r,~ orr CITE
"When will the new steamship Kansas
City be ready for her tradeH Gen. Alex
ander was asked
I'VE expect to have her ready by Christ
mas, and Gen. Alexander went on to ex-
plain that the two months delay has been
due to the fact that there is such a demand
for skilled labor that the contractors have
not been able to keep up with their orders
He says that the Central had contracted for
thirteen locomotives to be delivered bv the
first of last month, aud thus far only two
have been delivered He is promised the
eleven others during the month Of Deem
Der.
THE NEW QUARANTINE STATION
The proposed improvements to quaran-
tine, Gen. Alexander says, will be a mate
rial aid by increasing the shipping of
Savannah. The success of the fruit steam
ers plying between Savannah and Bluefeld
has not escaped the attention of the presi-
dent Of the Central, and he says that there
is no reason why the trade should not grow
to large proportions He looks upon Savan-
nah as the most available port for the i'm
ports of South American products, and he
feels satisfied that with the betterments
proposed for the now quarantine station the
coffee trade Of Savannah can be regained
and greatly enlarged over what it once was.
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Referring to the enterprise of the Plant
system in establishing a lire of steamships
from Port Tampa to Central American
ports, Gen. Alexander says that he is glad
to note the enterprise, while he does not
think that Port Tampa can compete with
Savannah for the fruit traffic of Central
America, on account of the longer distance
which the fruit can be brought in steamships
to Savannah, and with consequent reduc-
tions of freight, yet he believes that the
Tampa and Central American line of steam
ships will be successful. It will give the
Plant system, he added, q monopoly of the
passenger trade, with Pensacola, Mobile, and
New Orleans, as competitive points for
freight traffic
TRADE WITH BRAZIL.
Gen. Alexander took down an atlas, and
drawing a line on the map from Savannah
geographical location of Savannah, with
reference to steamship connections with
the South American coast, is far better
than that of any Of the gulf ports, and
northern and northwestern railroad con-
nections with Savannah unite to make this
city natural distributing point for South
American products, and for an interchange
of the commodities of a large section Of
this country with the South American
countries
NOTHING IN THE COMBINE.
To the question if there is any foundation
for the rumor of great railroad consolida-
ton of southern lines, embracing the Louis
vile and Nashville road, the Central, and
the Richmond and Danville, Gen. Alexan-
der said that he had heard no serious men
ton of such pool, and did not believe such
a consolidation probable, or even possible.
He said he is not authorized to speak for
the Louisville and Nashville, which is fire.
quently mentioned i'll connection with the
proposed syndicate; but he does not believe
the Louisville and Nashville entertains any
such idea, as majority of its stock is
owned in Germany and England, the
finances of the road are easy, and he imag-
ines the stockholders are satisfied with the
management and the earnings of the Louis
vile and Nashville and its various lines.