The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-22
RAIL AND CRossTre
The Macon and Birmingham track will
ne in operation to ThOmastou by Sent.


De in operation 70 Thomaston by Sept. !.
The Richmond and Danville division of
the Georgia Pacific has given an order for
200 new Locomotives.
Traffic Manager A. c. Knapp Of the Geor-
gia Southern and Florida spent yesterday
In the city and returned to Macon last
| night.
Contractors broke dirt Tuesday on the
50-mile Georgia Southern and Florida con-
tract on the branch between Triton and
Townsville.
Air brake instruction trains and schools
for railway employees are now recognized
valuable standard institutions with all large
railway systems.
The Wilmington, Onslow and East Caro-
lima railroad, prosperous short line OF
twenty-three miles in length, is row in
daily operation from Wilmington to Sandy
Run, s. c.
1t is rumored that the Georgetown and
Charlotte Railroad Company, which was
organized some years ago, is about to go TO
work and construct the line. Books OF
subscription have been opened in Char
lotte
Master Mechanic Thomas Of the Central
railroad at Macon has resigned. Mr..
Thomas a few months ago succeeded Dan
Gugel. Mr.. Thomas resigns to accept
GINA Midland road.
T. l. Chapman, superintendent of motive
power and machinery on the Central, head
quarters Savannah, has rendered his resig-
nation to take effect Sept. l. 1t is under
stood that A. w. Gibbs, master mechanic
of the Richmond and Danville division, will
succeed him.
Instead Of increasing the weight of loco
motives TO secure better traction, efforts are
being made to use the electric current. An
experiment has demonstrated that the
passage of a current through the driving
wheels increases the traction far beyond
what additional weight aocomplishes.
1t is expected that the entire Savannah.
Americas and Montgomery bet geen Ameri-
Gus and Louyale will be made standard
gauge by Sept. 20. The standard gauge
track has been finished to Richland, twenty
seven miles west of Americas, and the work
is now in progress on the remaining twenty
two miles.
The Charleston Ne,Us and Courier says:
''The many friends Of Master of Transpor-
tation j. w. Craig of the Charleston and
Savannah road will be glad to hear that the
painful accident which he met with on
Tuesday evening is not as serious as was as
first thought By slipping on the trestling
near the Northeastern railroad wharves Mr.
Craig lost his foothold and had a fall of
several feet He dislocated his left shoulder
blade, which was adjusted by Drs. Lock
wood and DeSaussure. Mr.. Craig is now
getting along very well and expects to be
out in few days."
Capt. ]. c. Haskell, purchasing agent of
the Central railroad, has recently placed
orders for new supplies to the amount of
$l25, 000 This is not large order for the
Central by any means, and its monthly bill
frequently runs great deal higher. Three
thousand tons Of 6315 pound steel rails and
quantity Of spikes aud bolts were bought
for equipment Of three miles Of railway
that will be built from Troy, Ala, TO An
dalusia. This is a branch road that is to be
completed this spring. The three miles
will be built Immediately to facilitate work
| upon the bridge that is being built across
the river.
NJ. Slaughter. commissioner of the South
ern Passenger Association, has authorized
the following round trip, one-fare rates:
gainesville district conference of the Meth
| odist Episcopal church, Lawrenceville, Ga.
| Aug. 20 and %. Certificates signed by r. L.
Adams, secretary, Covington Ga. Agents
at Gainesville and Athens will honor certif-
Gates to points beyond if presented on OF
before Aug. %. Rome district conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church, Temple,
Ca, Aug. 81 and 25 Certificates signed by
+. M. Gordon, Cave Springs, Ga. Single
tax conference, New York city, Sept. and
3. Certificates signed by G. ST. J. Leav.
ems, No. IL Union square, New York
city. Convention of clerks of the su-
periOr courts, Brunswick, Ga, Sept. 1913
Certificates signed by G. B. Forbes, score
tary, address Atlanta. Agents at Bruins
wick, Atlanta, Savannah, Macon and Al.
bany honor certificates for points beyond
when duly executed, if presented on or be-
fore Sept. %. To Macon, Ga, and return
for Georgia state fair, Oct. 1921. From al
points in Georgia, Alabama, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida
one first-class limited fare for the round
trip, provided that rates that way from
Atlanta may be made, 80 %, including ad
mission to the fair, and from Savannah anG
Brunswick, $4, including admission to the
fair. Additional tickets will be sold Oct q
to 30 inclusive, and limited to November
from points outside of the states named
above. Four cents a mile for round triI
tickets to be sold Oct. 20 to 35 inclusive. anc
limited to five days from date of sale. AL
tickets from points outside Of Georgia to be
OF ironclad form, limited to q contnuou:
passage in each direction.
The boldest electrical project yet sug-
gested is one which is under consideration
IN Russia, for line from st. Petersburg
northeast to Archangel, on the White sea, G
distance of over 500 miles 1t is proposed
to furnish the electric current from a serie;
of generating stations distrib tied along The
line, and the cost of the undertaking. in
GLIDING rolling stock. is estimated at only
about 93, 900 per mile. Archangel, the pro
posed northern terminus, lies in 641$o NORTH
latitude, close to the Arctic circle. II is fal
above the latitude of the northern shore OF
Hudson bay, and almost as far north as the
narrowest part Of Behring's straits, the sug-
gestion of crossing which, by railway. hal
been assumed BY many to be impracticable
1t may be that electricity will furnish
the solution of the difficulty of operating
railways in extremely cold regions which
attends the use of steam Evidently
an electric railway can be built of any de.
sired length if power-generating stations
are supplied ut proper intervals, and hence
it becomes only a question of obtaining
sufficient traffic to warrant the cost of con
struction and operation. The electric loco
motive has no steam and water pipes tt
freeze and burst in the intense and long
continued cold of a far northern winter
and electricity, by which trains can b,
lighted, will doubtless ere long be success
fully applied to the purpose of heating also
Scould the remarkable enterprise of ar
electric railway to the White sea be actually
carried into execution it will not be hare
to believe that Il similar line may be pushed
through Alaska to meet at Behring strait
an extension of the Russian railway system
through Siberia, and complete a continuou,
railway line uniting America, Asia anC
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