The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-10
BAIL AND OROsSTIE-

The new leSsees OF the STATE ROAD nave
purchased fifteen uinety-ton engines and
Loco freight cars
AR 7 r. TAYLOR, late general manager Of
,hs Rome and Decatur railroad, has been
aonointed assistant general manager of the
knoxville. Cumberland Gap and Louisville
abroad. and will remove to Knoxville,
Tenn.
The prospects are bright for the Valdosta
md DeadIuans BaV railroad, soon to reach
Madison. Fla, and the Cedar Key CONNER
ci1l saws il will then branch out from there
and be built to the gulf, either through
TAYLOR or Lafayette county.
The Plant system has issued a neat circu-
lar Besides description of their routes
and the points along tine lines. cuts and an
account of the new and elegant Tampa
hotel are given. The magnificent hotel
will be opened January, 1891.
II has been suggested that some day a
railroad may be built through British
America or Alaska to Behring straits and
1bare connect with the railroad the Russian
government proposes to build through ST.
IBERIA. That would make it practicable 10
travel from Southern Florida TO Gibraltar,
Spain, by an all rail route.
Ersstus Wimans plan for constructing q
two-track railway tunnel under New York
bav between Staten Island and Brooklyn is
said to be favored by New York capitalists
and railway men. The entire cost is esti-
mated at sc, 000,000 Mr.. Wiman is quoted
as saving that the transportation of coal
alone would make the investment a paying
one.
Mr. W. H. johnson has been appoin ted
Charleston freight agent of the Charleston
and Savannah Railway Company. He has
had long experience in railroading, and
was connected with the Port Royal and
fD- 20 teI Il
was la terly with the Charleston and Sa-
vannah railway in this city and has been
promoted to the position of freight agent at
Charleston.
j. G. Sullivan has resigned his position as
timekeeper In the trainmaster's Office of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, at
Macon, to accept position with the fore
man of the Central shops in Macon. Mr..
Sullivan has been succeeded by Mr.. J. ?.
Webb. at one time clerk in the road way
department of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia, at Atlanta, and late yard
clerk in the East Tennessee yard at Macon.
A Macon special to the Atlanta Constitu-
ton says that l.. H. Taylor, banker of
Philadelphia, with syndicate of friends,
has taken up Col. Machen's scheme of a
short line to the sea. At the convention of
southern governors, to be held at Atlanta,
the subject Of direct transportation of cot
ton to Europe will be fully discussed. The
syndicate stands ready to build the road
and put on steamers as soon as preliminaries
are arranged.
Work on the Charleston, Sumter aud
Northern extension, it is said, is progress
ing rapidly. The corps of graders have
reached point nineteen miles east of Sum-
ter. while the other section is eight miles
west of Darlington, and they are pushing
rapidly forward. 1t will not be long till
they will meet, and then laying of rails will
be begun. MeSsrs. Pringle & Co. have 100
mules at work. and would like many more
men than they have. says the Sumter
Adudnce, but cannot get them.
E. T. Charlton, general passenger agent
of tie Central railroad, was asked yesterday
by a MORNING NEWS reporter why the
Rome railroad and the Western Railway of
Alabama have withdrawn from the South
ern Passenger Agents Association. Mr..
Charlton replied that the Western Railway
OF Alabama really continues a member of
the association through the Atlanta and
West Point, of which it is a branch. He
gave no reason for the withdrawal of the
Rome railroad, but as it is only eighteen
miles long, running from Rome to Kingston,
on the Western and Atlantic, the Southern
Passenger Association is weakened little, if
any, by its withdrawal