The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-11
RAIL AND CROSS TIE.

Inc Illinois Central during the past year
bought elghty-nine locomotives, sixty-five
passenger coaches, 1850 freight cars. ten
baggage cars and ten postal cars, built
forty bridges and laid 26, 900 tons of rails.
The new station of the Pennsylvania rail
road at Jersey City will be the widest in the
world, covering twenty tracks with single
span. 1t will be 256 feet long, and the
hight to the middle Of the roof will be ninety
feet.
George A. Riviere, for some time past con-
nected with the passenger department of
the South Florida railroad at Sanford, Fla.
mas resigned his position and will leave
shortly for Chicago. @. c. Woodruff will
supply his place.
The Central railroad has issued instruc-
lions 70 agents to sell excursion TICKETS for
one fare for the round trip during the
augusta Jockey Club races, Nov. II to Nov.
a. Ilckets will be placed on sale Nov 49,
limited to Nov. "a.
Last week special on the Southern Pa
enc made the run from Sabine river TO
Beaumont, distance of twenty-nine miles
az the average speed of sixtY-four miles Der
nour. From Beaumont to Houston, eighty
iour miles, an average speed of forty-six
miles per hour was made, all stopping
points included.
Passenger men will be interested In
learning that the supreme court of Cali
lorna has decided that the ordinance tax
ing agents of foreign roads 300 per annum
Tor dong business in San Francisco is un-
conseitutlonal. The foreign agents located
III Dan FRANCISCO got together and deter
mined to test the case, with the above re.
suit. ~
Il. K. Porter & Co. have lust COMPLETED
az their light locomotive works. in Pitts
purR, the smallest Locomotive they have
ever Quilt. This locomotive is 23% inches
gauge, and the cylinders are Eve inches in
diameter and ten inches stroke. IL has four
driving wheels twenty-five inches in diane
ter, and tho weight Of the whole machine is
about three TONS
The rate committee of the Southern Rail.
way and Steamship Association. as already
stated in the MoRNING NEWS. will meet IN
New York Nov. 70 to take action upon the
new uniform classification which, it is
tnought, Will become generally operative
throughout the United States by next
spring. The new system of Classification
mas been Endorsed by the majority of the
rallroad associations and also by the boards
OF trade OF Chicago and other cities.
Inc members OF the committee are
as follows: Sol Haas, traffic manager of
the Richmond and Danville; j. D. Drake
general freight agent Of the Richmond and
Danvule; t. NJ. Emerson, general freight
agent Of the Atlantic Coast Line; F. ".
Clark, general freight agent of the Seaboard
Airline; G. A. Whitehead, general freight
agent of the Central Railroad of Georgia;
A. Pope, general freight agent of the Nor
folk and Western; E. Fitzgerald.
traffic manager of the East Ten.
nessee, Virginia and Georgia; T. s.
Devant. general freight agent of the
East Tennessee. Virginia and Geor-
gia, E. R. Dorsey, general freight
Craig, general freight agent of the Port
Royal and Augusta; g. s. Barnum, general
freight agent OF the Georgia Pacific; J. M.
Brown, traffic manager of the Western and
Atlantic; R. E. Lutz, traffic manager of
the Western of Alabama; A. G. Knapp,
traffic manager Of the Georgia Southern
and Florida; W. II. Stanford, vice presi-
dent Of the Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany, and Theodore Eager, traffic manager
of the Clyde lines.