The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
RAIL AND CROSSTIE-

/ cllOL dispatcher Tue
| ion of the Central system.
John H. Ward, who for several months
has filed the position of ticket agent for the
! Central railroad at the union depot at Ma
con, has been rendered and has accepted the
| position Of southeastern passenger agent
| for the Texas Pacific road. he viii be
located at Atlanta.
Passenger conductors on the Missouri,
| Kansas and Texas railway system will in
/ the future be required to furnish bond for
| the honest performance of their duty, or, to
! put it more plainly, if they are caught
knocking down." their bondsmen Will be
held responsible. Passenger men are
| making vigorous protest against this new
order of things, which they say places them
at the mercy of the spoilers"
The addition of. say. 1900 miles of new
road during the year means that, at the
moderate average of $50, 900 per mile, the
vast sum Of $106, 900, 900 has been invested
in their construction and equipment, and
| that employment for the future has been
| furnished thereby to from $4,000 to $4,000
more men, who will be required to carry
on the operations of these lines, while
thousands more will be kept busy in sup
| plying the various manufactured articles,
the demand for which is increased by the
addition Of every new mile Of railway.
The Wall Street Neacs says that some
one seems to be holding the bag open in
| Richmond Terminal, as whenever the stock
looks in any way firm it is freely offered
for sale by brokers who are generally sup
| posed to represent prominent insiders. 1t
is true the stock has not lately been sold in
| large blocks, but it is the constant dribbling
of long stock in comparatively small quanti-
ties that wears away the price and the
| patience of the disguised holders, who have
been continually fed on fair promises as to
what would be done in the future. 1t
looks very much, the NetCS thinks. as though
| the old time Wall street game of freeze
out" was being played again.
Superintendent Guckert of the Philadel-
| phia division of the Pennsylvania road
! says that three-fourths of all the accidents
TO orakemen and switchmen are caused by
| the carelessness of the men. "ro the vet
/ eran brakeman there is fascination about
making reckless couplings which an mex
perienced sane man would never think of
| attempting. The very mention of brake
man diving between freight cars while they
| are in motion is enough to freeze ones
blood, but the feat is performed. not only
| daily, but hourly, by these wizards of the
brake-wheel and the coupling pin. Their
| apparent utter disregard of the simplest
rules Of safety leads the uninitiated to over
| look the fact that Skillful railroad brake
a marvelously quick thinker, and acts with
the inception of thought"
The Brotherhood of Railway Conductors
Is occupying very prominent critical point
in railroad affairs just now. Its grievance
committee Ia in Chattanooga investigating
the discharge by the Cincinnati Southern
| of the conductors who were members of
| the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors,
and if they decide that the discharge was
mn xsfars tod ~.r;lI
That effect. and a decision will then be
reached as to what shall be done This case
is a most interesting one. The Brotherhood
| OF Railway Conductors ia an organization
| formed of members of the Order of Rail
| way Conductors who have withdrawn from
the latter order. The brotherhood now
numbers 4, 500 members in the United States,
and is rapidly gaining strength in
the east and south. The conductors who
have withdrawn from the Order of Railway
| Conductors seem to have done so because
the order does not countenance strikes,
| while the new Brotherhood of Railway
| Conductors is organized upon much the
same principle as the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Engineers. In shoot, the Brother
hood OF Railway Conductors indorses strikes
when necessary, and when Supt. Clark dis
| covered that such an organization had been
| formed on the Cincinnati Southern road be
discharged all the members, conditionally
that they might retain their positions if
they would renounce the brotherhood. 1t
is thought that few of the conductors have
accepted these conditions in order to hold
| their positions.
The total or new railway mileage for 1889
is nearly 300 miles less than that of 1888.
| and some 800 miles less than that for the
| year of Phenomenal construction, 1887.
During the twenty years preceding 1889 the
| mileage OF the present year was exceeded
In ten years, and it IN turn surpasses that
OF ten other years, the periods of large con-
| structlon seeming to move in waves of
four and five years each. While the con-
struction in 1889 was less than in the years
'SS, 'S7, 'S6, '83, 49, '81, 80, '72. III.
and 10, it was larger, and in most cases
very much larger. than IN the years 'S5. 'S4.
'79, rs, ~, '76, rs, IA, '73. and '69. The
smallest amount of construction in any of
the twenty preceding years was in 1875,
! when only LII miles were added, although
In 1871 the large amount of 1879 miles had
been built, and in 1870 6,070 miles. The
present is the second year Of decline from
the maximum The states showing the
| greatest extent of new mileage
are as follows: Washington 1893 miles.
Georgia 356, Texas 343, Virginia 245. Mich.
| igan 243, all the other states and territories
showing less than 200 miles each. The only
| pOTllouS VI bu6 country from winch no new
| track has yet been reported for the year
are Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware.
| Nevada Arizona, and New Mexico Taken
by geographical groups, it will be seen that
the ten states which may be distinctively
known as southern have far sur
| passed every other group, reporting 1899
| miles of track laid on 81 lines.
| The southwestern states and territories
made considerable progress, building nearly
800 miles, which, however, is scarcely half
of the mileage added in 1883. The north
western states nearly hold their own in
comparison with last year, and the Pacific
| coast region has shown considerable &C.
tivity. although this has been chiefly con-
| fined to the thriving state of Washington.
while California, which in 1888 built almost
| 900 miles, now has added only about 1870.
| The eastern and central parts of the country.
already pretty well supplied with railways.
naturally have not shown as rapid rate of
increase as the newer portions, although
| the railway builder has not by any means
been idle in any of them excepting Yer
mont, Rhode Island, and Delaware. Penn
| sylvania and New York have continued to
build numerous short lines, the former state
| adding 1SS miles on twenty three lines. and
| the latter 153 miles on nineteen lines. both
these states greatly exceeding their record
| or 1888.
Yesterdays Late Trains.
Train No. 81 on the Atlantic Coast Line was
| delayed two hours yesterday morning the