The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16
RAIL AND cRossrIE

I'll Barnard Of the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad is in town
&c Spaulding Of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad came down from Atlanta
yesterday.
General Passenger Agent J. A. McDuffe
of the Brunswick and Western railroad is
in the city.
The Georgia, Carolina and Northern rail-
road is being rapidly built toward the
Savannah river.
Travelling Passenger Agent Sam B. Webb
of the Central, with headquarters ct At
lanta. is in the city.
The Columbus Ledger says that Maj. w.
b. McClintock's private car has been thor
oughly overhauled and newly upholstered
in the Macon shop. The car is now one of
the prettiest on the system
General Yardmaster ]. s. Noise, formerly
yardmaster for the Central at Montgomery,
will. it is understood, take charge Of the
Centrals ward at Macon in few DAYS. W.
n. Hamilton, who has so long and accept
ably flied the responsible position Of yard
master, will take train on the main stem
in few days.
The standing passenger committee of the
American railway accounting officers is in
session in Chicago. The meeting is held for
ferred to it by the annual national conven-
ton. held at Niagara last July. The con-
vention referred to is made up of official
heads Of the different accounting depart
ments of railroads throughout the country,
and their deliberations are looked upon with
interest.
The Apalachicola Fla.) Times says: The
right-of-way of the Apalachicola, ITALIA
hassee and Georgia railway has been cut to
Charlottesville. The Tallahassee people are
confident the road will be completed
shortly. Less than six months remain in
which the work must be completed to the
Georgia line. We honestly believe that if
the work is not completed in the time
specified the road will never be finished, for
the legislature will refuse to grant further
extension of time 1t was only by very
hard work that the last legislature granted
the extension to May, 1890, and in the face
of the roads past record, no further aid
need be looked forward to from the Florida
legislature; therefore the present owners
and contractors of the Apalachicola, Talla-
hassee and Georgia should not lose mo-
ment's delay. These are plain facts, and
should have their weight.
One Of the most wonderful railways on
tho continent, if not in the worl1, is the
nine-mile branch which connects the towns
of Bedford and Belleview, Mass. The dis
tance is not so astonishing, except when the
gauge of ten inches is considered. In the
short distance traversed by the pigmy it
crosses eleven streams, with bridges from
five to thirty-five feet in hight. The rails
weigh but twenty pounds to the yard,
about the size of those used in the coal
mines of Alabama. The cars and engine
are constructed so as to be very near to the
ground, insuring greater safety. The cars
are provided with single seats on each side
of the alsles. The car itself weighs but four
tons, the weight of an ordinary car being
from twenty to twenty-six tons. The
engine without the tender weighs seven
tons, and runs with two passenger or
freight cars at the rate of twenty miles an
hour. There is a smaller railroad than this
IN the United States-the one in Bucks
county, Pennsylvania-bu it is only kept
as an expensive toy by a rich farmer, who
has made fortune in oil
The advance in Richmond Terminal stock
has been accompanied by rumors that an
other fight for the control of the company
at the annual meeting is to be made. A
director Of the company who has generally
been well informed, and another gentleman
connected in an official capacity with one
of the roads in the Terminal system, have
made statements in New York, according
to the Commercial Bulletin, relating to the
had any intimate knowledge of the work.
lngs of the Terminal property during the
last year have discovered, there is one
director of the company who has not con-
Cured in the efforts of the board to adj
vance the condition of the property. He
still continues this policy of opposition to
the efforts of the rest of the directors, and
his latest move has been to endeavor to
cause a contest for the control of
the road at tile approaching annual
meeting. He has caused the rumor
to be circulated that Mr.. Calvin
s. Brice is candidate for the presidency
Mr.. Brlce is in Ohio, and we know nothing
about it. The earnings and earning capac-
lty of the Terminal system are greater
now than ever before With reference to
the Richmond Terminal relations with Nor
folk and Western, Mr.. Pat Calhoun, coun-
sci Of the Richmond Terminal Company, an
nounces that harmonious relations have been
established among all the southern roads.
The situation in the south is rapidly hecom-
Ing clearly defined, and the Norfolk and
Western and Terminal have too many in
terests in common to engage in war. The
two concerns can fight, but the chances are
that an understanding, tacit or expressed,
has been entered into by which each will
leave the other alone. The coming indus
trial development will keep each company
SO busy that they will have little time left
for dispute.