The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-08
RAIL AND cRossrIE

W. P. Dawson of Augusta has been APP
pointed passenger agent of the Central,
with headquarters at Al con.
Passenger Agent J. c. Shaw has gotten out
useful timetable, giving the time of arrival
and departure OF all trains over the Cen
trail in and out of Savannah. The table
gives the leaving time and the arriving
time, and the number Of trains to a ID from
Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Birmingham,
Montgomery, Columbus, Rome, Chatta :
nOoga, Memphis, and New Orleans. II also
gives the time of arrival aud departure of
the Ellabel, POoler, and Guyton trains.
The number OF mercantile failures in the
United States during 1889, as compiled
by that reliable journal, BrddstreetS. was
IL, us, representing assets to the amount Of
$40 599, 769 and abilities aggregating $40, =
S6O,59O. These are large figures and yet the
liabilities repre- ented in all these COM
mercial disasters are far less than those in
volyed in the failure the past year of only
twenty-five railways TO meet their obliga-
tions, which resulted in their being placed in
the hands of receivers.
The latest report in connection with the
rumored changes in the management of the
East Tennessee road is that General Man
ager Hudson is to be displaced by Mai.
remembered by older Cnattanoogans, was
general manager of the East Tennessee four
or five years ago, when he resigned to take
an important position in the operating de-
partment of the Mexican National with
Capt. Raoul. Prior to being general man
ager of the East Tennessee, he filed the
position Of general superintendent.
A new punch has bee invented to thwart
conductors knocking down" proclivities.
Tne ticket is half red and half blue, each
portion being covered with figures incl ]sed
in squares. On the red portion these figures
denote cents, as 5, TO- Is, 20. %, etc., while
on the other side they represent dollars.
The punch, which is a trife larger than
those in ordinary use, has hollow recepta-
Gle so arranged that the piece Of card
board punched out by the die falls into it
and is out Of reach of the operator. This
receptacle is fastened by a double safety
lock, Of which the keys are kept in the main
office. When a conductor starts out on
trip he is given a punch, and when he re-
turLs he hands it to the proper clerk, who
unlccks aud empties it, and in a moment
can tell the amount due the company.
A passenger or a Canadian Pacific train
tells Of the folio wing thrilling accident to
the through express train in the mountains:
"A rail gave way at point on the mount
ain side high above the Columbia river
The engine passed over safely, but two
coaches following swung about and toppled
over. The bank there was very perpendicu-
lar, and the cars would have tumbled sew
eral hundred feet below into the flowing
river had it not been that the coupling
twisted around and held the tremendous
weight. There were the two cars, one with
its load of passengers, suspended between
heaven and earth. The weight of the engine
and the rest of the train prevented the sus-
pended cars from drawing tho whole train
down. The suspense was dreadful The
frightened passengers were compelled to re-
main in their perilous position until train
hands built platform around aud under
meath the hanging cars, enabling all to
make their escape. The place where the
accident occurred is considered the most
dangerous in the mountains