The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-14
RAIL AND CROSSTIR.

ALTON Angler, general passenger agent OF
the Western and Atlantic railroad, head
quarters in Atlanta, has resigned to ACCEPT
the duties of United States consul to
France. His successor will probably be
George Brown, a brother to Joe Brown, Jr
Superintendent Curran of the Columbus
and Western railroad denies the report that
any white fremen had beel discharged and
their places filed By negroes. He stated
that at this season of the year it is custom
airy to reduce the crews on the trains, for
the reason Of the falling off of business,
but that in no instance will the white fire.
men be superseded by negroes.
A correspondent writing from Utah to q
Chicago paper tells the following incident,
which Is said to have occurred on the Cen
trial Pacific: "Some friends of mine were in
Pullman next to the locomotive, when a
collision occurred that turned the car over
on its side and demolished the two ends.
My friends were in the center, and were
unhurt, but had to be taken out of win
dow. At one end there hung cags with
parrot; the cage WIS broken, but the parrot
was unhurt, and got out of the car when the
others did. OF course it was shock to the
ladies and caused great confusion, but in
the midst of it what did they hear but the
parrot saving: What In the will hap
pen neXtY"
Spar wants another railroad, and the
IShnlaelite does not want the subject to
drop out OF the minds of her people. The
town has evidently entered upon new era
Of progress and general improvement, but
it cannot attain that high degree of devel-
opment possible without an increase in its
railroad facilities. Sparta wants more
direct connection with Savannah and the
seaboard. This can be effected by the ex-
tension of the U Mon Point and White Plains
railroad to Tennille by way of Sparta. This
extension can be secured, the Ishmdelite
gays, by the manifestation Of the proper
earnestneSs in the matter on the part of the
people Of Sparta, and, it adds, interest in it
ought not to be permitted to flag. Oppor-
tunities that die of neglect seldom know a
resurrection. Now is the time to take steps
to insure the building of the road.
General Manager Hainess, in his speech
before the general time convention in New
York, speaking of the relations Of the rail-
road to the public, said: 1--WE are but too
unpleasautly aware of the attitude assumed
toward railroad companies by the general
public. Whatever the causes may have
been, whether watered stocks or political
demagogry or discrimination between ship
pers and communities in the matter of
rates, we all know of its existence. We feel
it but too sensibly in federal and state leg
islatiOl and in municipal ordinances;
IN litigation. in political speeches,
IN newspaper abuse. Must this condition
of affairs continue! Is it the relation
which must of necessity be maintained be-
tween the nation, the cities, the people who
have been made prosperous by means OF
railroads to an extent never dreamed of
before, and the companies through who
efforts these great results have been OBJ
tanned: IL the triunphs of war have
earned for the soldier the applause of his
fellow citizens, the triumphs of peace have
at least earned for the railroad man the
right to decent treatment at their hands.
And hope and believe that there will be an
Improvement in this respect with the
disappearance of animosity over dis
putes abCut matters of traffic and
revenue. The great contention as to dis
elimination in rates is nearing an end, for the
margin between the rate and the cost per
ton-lnile has now narrowed down to a sur
vival Of the fittest. The determination on
the part of politicians to insure competition
has but proved the truth of Stephenson's
assertion that where competition is possible
combination is probable; the prohibition of
pooling has fastened the absorption of the
weaker by the stronger corporations, and
the time is approaching when one of two
solutions of the railroad transportation
problem must be attempted-either a gov
eminent management or a territorial divis-
ion among private corporations. In no other
way can the differences between the rate ard
the cost per ton-mile be reduced to q mimi
mum, that minimum being the lowest
acceptable return upon the capital invested.
When that time arrives, the era of the rail-
road protector, of the manipulation of stocks
and Of the soliciting agent will have passed
away