The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-20
RAIL AND ORO5STIE.

E. R. Dorsey, general passenger agent of
the Georgia railroad, was in town yester-
dav.
The Gainesville, Fla, people are agitat-
lug the project of extending the Green Cove
Spring and Melrosa railroad to Deadman's
bay via Gainesville.
By recent order of General Manager
Gabbett the name of the little station
Euphaupee, on the extension of the Savan-
nah and Western, has been changed to
Belknap, in honor of the former general
manager of the Central, Maj. NJ s. Belknap,
recently deceased.
Sam Hill. formerly chief dispatcher of
the Central railroad, has been appointed to
succeed S. A. Borders, assistant trainmaster,
resigned. The appointment took effect on
Aug. 10. The assistant trainmaster attends
10 all the work Of that department a. Sa-
vannah, the tralnmaster having his head
quarters in Macon.
There is a report, seemingly we'll authen-
ticated, that there will be change Of man
agement or ownership of the Covington and
Macon road at an early date 1t is said the
Georgia, Carolina and Northern and the
Richmond and Danville still have their eye
on the Covington and Macon, and would
like to buy. The Covington and Macon has
southern connections at Macon with the
East Tennessee, Central, and Georgia
Southern and Florida At Athens it will
have northern connection with the Georgia,
Carolina and Northern as we'll as the Rich
mond and Danville. J. E. Jones of Macon,
president of the Covington and Macon, 1t is
said has desired for some time to retire
from the position, and it has been expected
that Hon. n. E. Harris of Macon, to whom
the pres idency is said o have been offered,
would accept, but everything seems TO be
as 1t has been for several months. Mr.
Harris is the present attorney Of the road.
The LOcOnlOtiUe Engineer says: dur
ing part of the session master mechanics
conventlonl two men sat side by side whose
railroad history would read like a novel :;
one was John Y. Smith, inventor Of the
vacuum brake, who served as superintend-
ent of machinery Of the military railroads
of the United States during the civil war;
the other was John O'Brien, who served as
master mechanic under the stars and bars,
and who took charge of the me-
when Stonewall Jackson made his
ia nous raid into Maryland and captured
| thirty-eight locomotives of the Baltimore
| and Ohio, and took them south across the
country. Mr.. Smith was a man of nearly
% years of age when the war broke out,
| and had had experience from the very birth
OF railroads, having at the age Of Z been o
boy in the shops of the great George
Stephenson. Mr.. O'Brien was but a boy of
20 or 81 when Fort Sumter pulled down her
flag. Mr.. O'Brien is still in active service
as master mechanic of the Petersburg road
at Richmond, while Mr.. Smith has long
taken matters easy on the fame and fortune
he has made with his brake.n
The following are the recently elected
officers of the Southern Railway and
Steamship Association: President, Joseph
E. Brown; commissioner. Thomas II Carter :
abritrators, John Screven, E. K. Sibley and
James n. Ogden; secretary, Charles A.
Sindall executive board, Henry Fink, vice
president of the E lst Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia; W. G. Oskman, vice president of
the Richmand and Danville; E. P. Alexan-
der, president OF the Central of Georgia: C,
G. Eddy, traffic manager OF the CLYDE
Line; J. w. Green, General manager of the
Georgia railroad; C. W. Ward, general
manager of the South Carolina railroad: J.
NJ. Robinson, president of the Seaboard and
Roanoke; r. A. Anderson, general man
ager Of the Western and Atlantic; J. Lane,
general manager of the Georgia Southern
and Florida; E. L. Tyler, general manager
Of the Atlanta and West Point and Western
Of Alabama. and j. E. Jones. president Of the
Covington and Macon. Rate Committee
MessrS. g. s. Barnum, W. L. Guillaudeau.
Francis Asbury. T. S. Davant, C. II. Crom-
WELL Is. B. Pickens, A. Pope, I. NJ. Elmer.
son, g. A. Whitehead, j. II. Drake, F. w.
Clark. J. NJ. Brown, E. r. Dorsey, A. C.
Knapp and 4. G. Craig.