The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-06
RAIL AND CROSSTIE.

I road are said e. be very hatteTing.
The new rate sheet, No. 81 Of the Southern
/ Passenger Association, j sstissued embraces
/ more points than auy previous sheet.
I Among other additions It IS noticeable that
{ plln ) IN ~ ashlnEtJu territory are quoted,
which has not heretofore been done.
The laying of the siie-racks and switches
in the yards of { g Columbus SOuthe n
railroad, on the south commons. Columbus,
was completed Saturday. The work Of
track layin on the main line commenced
yesterday, and the c)ntract0r7 expect that
the track will be lail to Bull creek by the
end of the week
! Excursion rates on the certificate plan
/ have been an ounced to the following
I events: American association for the adj
1 vancement of science, Toronto, Canada,
/ Aug. p to Sept. :; col red teachers de-
! partment of the Peabody institute at
/ Angus a, Ca, Aug. 1880; grand lodge of
/ Georgia, U. o. o. F., at Americas, Ca,
| Aug. 6-l0
The Bib ALA Blade SAYS: The engi-
neers and sur veyOrs OF the No tgomery, tbs
| kalooSa and Memphis railroad are camped
! at Ceutervi.le this week, and are surveying
| toward Tuscaloosa. THIS road IS an extern
| sion OF the Alabama Midland. The route
! through Bib will be from Mapesvjlle to
| Tuscaloosa. thereby going through OF near
CenteTVlIle. 1t Is The most certain line in
| course of erection.
! 1t has been a custom for long time with
| the Cybee railroad officials to hold the train
| two or three minutes for people who are on
their way to the train to go to Tybee, but
| that state Of affairs viii not continue.
| SUpt. Cobb and General Freight and Pas
senger Agent Woodruff were clOseted
| about two seconds yesterday morning, and
| they promulgate / an order forbidding the
| train to be held under any circum stances.
! The order is posted, SO that he who runs
may read.
1t is said that the Covington and Ma
| con road has changed its intention
| of going into the union depot at Mac IN,
| but has made a contract with the East
| tennessee road to use their terminal facili-
| ties. The tickets of both roads will be sold
at some centrally located up-towI office,
and as the trains will leave aud arrive from
! the same depot, a ew schedule will be
arranged. The contract is to go into effect
| Oct. l, but 1t is uudest d that the depot
will be used before that date.
The worst enemy that a street car con-
duct and his pas engers have Is the man
who calls the colductor's attention to man
block away whistling at The car t. stop.
| such jackanapeS Ou.h nj to be locked up
for disorderly conduct" an ex-conductor
said yesterday. Il have been put out of
my schedule a hundred times, guess, by
| haYl 8 to wait for people to run $50 yards
to get the r. When would not have heard
them if my attention uad n t been called to
1t by these blockhead passengers"
The survey of the Alaba IA, Georgia and
| Florida railroad, which runs from Dawson
| south to Junction with the Flori la Cen
| trail and Peninsula railroad east of Quincy,
| i far cheaper than the Their line running
through Cuthhsrt, and it is abolt thirteen
miles the shorter line. The line runs south,
! gong through Baker county, leaving Balm
| bridge to the west and crosses the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western road near Wing
! ham. 1t taps the Florida Central and
Peninsula about ten miles east of Quincy.
| A passenger train on the East Tennessee,
| Virgil lie and Georgia road came near being
wrecked near Hot Springs, N. c., last Fri
day, by the washing away of bridge. As
! % last car of the train uched the bank
the whole struc ure gave way, and had the
| engineer been one minute later in opening
the throttle of his engine and rushing the
| train across, the whole train would have
been pTecipitated and horrible loss of life
| ensue /. The foundations of the bridge had
! been loosened Dya cloud burst or hea w
rainstorm during the afternoon, and the
engineer had no warning that the bridge
was unsafe until his engine rolled upon it,
and he felt the timbers giving way beneath
its weight.
story is told of how the shah stopped
an English railway train while he took a
nap. o. the occasion of the last visit of
the shah on making hi, first railway Jour
ney in England, he asked the nse of the
button which moved the connection with
III engine-drlver, and was told that it was
Tor the purpose of stopping the train
Thereupjn his majesty rose and pulled it
sharply, with the result W ich would nave
rendered any ordinary mortal subject to
penalty or impris )nment. On being asked
why he wished to stop the train, the shah
replied that he was tired ID wished to 60
to sleep, ID it was some little IL he befo .
he could be made to understand that the
traffic of the Southeas ern railway must
not be brought to a standstill for an hour
even for the Shah-in-Shah.
The Rockford, (Al y Aduocate has it that
the Montgomery and Sylacauga Railroad
| Company has Succumbed to what was
thought TO be the inevitable. The report is
that the A. and A. has bought its franchise,
and viii extend its line to Montgomery
Immediately. Nothing definite can he
learned from heaequarters but the report
n safely be relied upon. A neH and full
corps of surveyors left Syllacauga week
before last, and are now working down
Neogutka valley in the western portion of
the county. Ii is given out that they are
seeking the most direct and practicable
route TO Montgomery and have d .cided to
follow the old jackson Trace" road,
believing that it is the one. If this plan is
carried out the survey will cut the western
part of the cou ty in halves, I'll ming S miles
from this place and 10 miles from the river.
The Advocate has always rotested that
eventually the A. and A. would be extended
TO Montgomery; that no other road would
be built south from Admission; and now ii
believes that the indications point to the
fulfillment of both these prophecies. The
survey is under the direction of Captains
Frazier and Odell, both well-known and
reliable civil engineers.