The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-01
RAIL AND CROSsTIa.

The Railroad Commission Of Alabama
will meet i'll regular sessi IN to-day The
president of the commission says that the
number Of cases on the docket is unusually
large
Five miles of sixty-pound rails have been
shipped for the Macon and Dublin, says the
Macon NeI0s. They are expected to arrive
by the latter part of this week, and track
laying will Degin at once.
The contractors on the western extension
of the Admission and Atlantic railroad are
progressing finely i'll clearing up the road
bed, and it will not be but short time
until that road will be completed to Calera.
A big party of white and negro laborers
passed through Birmingham the other day
over the Louisville and Nashville railroad
en- route to Tennessee to work on the new
branch of the Louisville and Nashville rail
road from GAINESVILLE to Dickson. The
contractors ere pushing the work, but
complain Of a scarcity of labor.
The Louisville and Nashville road is now
building line from Alfalfa to the Tennessee
river. That road will be finished in less than
a year. At Alfalfa it will connect with the
line formerly known as the Admission and
Cincinnati, which is now owned by the
Louisville company. This new road will
run up a valley west of Sand Mountain, and
the Louisville and Nashville people aresnow
figuring on the construction of a branch to
Fort Payne.
About 800 men are employed on the
western extension of the Savannah, Ameri-
Gus and Montgomery road from Louvale,
Ga, to Montgomery, Ala. The grading
has been finished from Louvale to the Chat
tahoochee river, and the track laying on
this section will be finished within thirty
days. 1t has already reached point within
Il Il I,
the river will be about 400 feet long, and
its erection will delay the work on the line
This is the only bridge or trestle of any
length on the extension. The grading is
now in progress from Hurstboro east and
west through Russell county, Alabama.
The grading and track-laying is done by Tue
Georgia and Alabama Construction Com
pany, which has been formed by King &
Harmon, contractors, of Montgomery and
Others.
1t is suggested by Perry, 8. c., gentle
man that the South Bound come on the road
already built as far as Perrys, which, he
says, will be found as near on a line with
Columbia as any other route that can posi-
bly, be found practicable. The distance from
Blackville TO this point is only twenty miles;
from there TO Columbia is only twenty
five miles by direct line, and we think this
to be as near a route as can be found. Now
as to the route from here to Columbia it is
feasible one. The North Edisto can be
crossed quite easily at certai point. The
route surveyed year ago by Mayor Lee
was not the most practicable one.
He failed to strike the Edisto at
the most practicable point Of crossing, also
by missing this point tho route laid out was
heightened at least five miles. If the proper
officers or surveyor of the road would come
to this point they could receive much useful
information in regard to this matter.
Traffic on the Southwestern railroad has
recently become so heavy that the Cen trail
has decided to replace all light engines on
this line with the 17-inch cylinders All
the engines of the Central are to be
equipped with standard Pennsylvania
whistles. The difference in sound will read
lily be distinguished by passenger from
freight whistle, the former being thirteen
inches long, the latter five. In addition to
these improvements the Central has re-
Gently received twenty-six new engines
three for the yards. four passeng gers
aad nineteen freights. They are all of the
Pennsylvania make, with 6211 inoh driver,
1S-inch cylinder with polished castings A
number Of. l6-inch light engines will be
overhauled and fitted with modern i'm
provements, for work on the branch lines.
The Central has added to its army Of en-
ployes an experienced landscape gardener
from Edinburgh, Scotland, who will lay off
and establish depot parks at Fort Valley,
Smithville. Albany, Cuthpert. Eufaula and
Union Springs These parks will be planted
in beautiful flowers and shrubbery of all
kinds and are intended to rest the eyes of
weary wayfarers passing over the COM
pany's lines.
The Kennesaw Gazette says: whenever
any thing important is done there are always
plenty of people to claim the credit either
for starting it or for seeing it through after
the initial steps are taken. There are others.
however, who are more modest, and do not
lay claim to one-half as much merit or one
half as many of the good things they are
responsible for. We have been led
into this train of thought by
thinking Of the remarkable move
ment of Georgia watermelons to
the northwest during the season which has
just about ended. The writer of this has
been generally considered pretty we'll up
on all subjects pertaining to the water
melon traffic, and has probably had
a v ardod TO him fully as much praise as he
has any just right to claim; but there is
nothing which affords him more pleasure
than to bear witness to the superior