The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-23

O'CLOCK train last night brilliantly lighted
WITH gas. This is an improvement that
was hardly expected by the railroad men
themselves. The cars are built with gas
fixtures and the gas is supplied by fhe
storage system, being stored in large tanks
under the carr, and she supply being saffi-
Client 20 last thirtY-six hours. The cars
VIII run between Savannah and Atlanta.
Several other cars will also be fitted up with
appliances for gas lighting. The CentraTs
new cars are beauties anyway, aad gas
lighting was only needed 70 make them
complete.
The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
according 10 statement made at the
recent convention at Los Angeles. now
numbers l4,057 members, an increase of 900
during the past year. It was stated, how
ever, that the organization has branches
not only in the United States. bet also in
Canada. ireland and Sweden, so that the
actual membership in this country does not
appear from the figures above. Sad and
| impressive evidence of the dangerous
nature OF the traiDmen's occupation is gwen
In the statement that during the year 275
disability and death claims, to the amount
| OF nearly 1915, 900, had been paid, and that
OF the total number of claims over 200
resulted from railway accidents, and of
these $50 deaths were caused in coupling
cars.
The cathedral car, built for Bishop Walker
OF North Dakota, is thus described: The
car is to be used for holding religious serv-
Ices In the small villages along the railroads
In that state which have no churches. In
appearance the exterior of the church
| differs but little from the ordinary Pull
man, except that from each side, mid way
the two extremes, is a slight projection,
Gothic in form, which rises to hight Of
what Is known as the second deck. This,
| Bishop Walker says. is for the purpose Of
giving the car more the appearance of a
church. The car is go feet long and 10 feet
wide. Its interior is finished in oak, after
the Gothic style. AT one end is a room de-
voted to the bishops use. The main body
of the car church contains a cbancel, altar,
lectern, bap ismal font. a bishops chair
and cabinet organ. There are seats for
seventy people.
The Vandalia road. says the st. Louis
| Republic, is introducing electric headlights
on all Of its engines as rapidly as possible.
| The electric headlight is wonderful sight.
| Running through rolling prairie country
| one may stand 10 the cab of an engine and
count nearly, if not quite. thirty telegr aph
| poles ahead of him. He can see small OBJ
| 1ects on the track more than half a mile
away, and everything which comes within
| the rays of the intense white light seems
to be magnifed or intensified. He can
actually see clearer than during the day
everything except the shining path which
stretches far ahead of the engine
being shrouded in darkness But
more wonderful still than this is the curious
effect made by an approaching engine which
| Is fitted with one of these hghus. Long
before the light itself can be seen bright
| glare is discerned upon the sky, sort oil
| slow moving flash of lightning. high UT
over all hills and forests, curving first to the
right and then to the left as the engine
| swings around the curves. 1t has a weird
and strange effct, and if the engineers are
watchful it is hard to understand how
"head on" collisions could occur when bott
locomotives are armed with these lights.
| The locomotive and car builders, the
RotJtUoy Age says, are overrun with orders
and the new equipments constructed dur
| ing the present year will be remarkable in
| quantity as well as of a generally i'm
| proved quality. One western railway com
pany alone Is adding no locomotives anc
5000 freight cars, which is equivalent to G
new locomotive nearly every other day
| and more than ten cars every working day
Other companies also have been increasing
their rolling stock all the year at a rapid
rate, and have every engine and car in ser
vice, and yet the cry is c instantly going NJ
for more cars to move the crops and tht
merchandise. If decently remunerativ,
rates for transportation were being paiC
this would mean great prosperity for tn,
railways, and that would largely benefi
every other interest. But when, as is to,
often the case. transportation is being fur.
nished at less than the actual cost, all thu
elements Of cost considered, the rush o.
business, instead of being gratifying, il
suggestive of danger to all. The country
generally is prosperous, and merchants
manufacturers and farmers are doing we'll
The railways, 10 which In q large measur
| this prosperity is due, ought to have a rea
sonable share in III.
| "How would government ownership OF
railways" says the Rdil,Ddy Age; "worl
in connection with such a political part,
revolution os has just been witnessed in thi
countryi In a single day the dominan
| party has been overthrown in congress a
we'll as in many of the state legislatures
and the hosts Of the newly ascendant party
hungry and thirsty for the spoils of Office
are already clamoring for their reward
What would be the feelings of the million
or so of people in the railway government
service if they realized that for every plac,
/ there were dozens or hundreds o.
| applicants. each insisting on his loyalty
to and services for the party
newly come into power, and political enc
mics should be turned out to give place K
faithful friendss How would such an over
turning affect the efficiency and safety o.
railway operation throughout the country
The ciamor and excitement over the ap
pointment of few Thousand petty post
masters, whose work requires no ability Oh
experience whatever, is painful enough
but the results Of turning over the man
agement and operation of 1855, 600 miles o.
railways TO a new set Of political favorite
would be dangerous, and often injurious il
| the extreme to those Using the roads-tha
| is, to the entire public"