The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-27
RAIL AND cRossrIE.

There was a wedding on a Northern
Pacific passenger train in North Dakota the
other day, the ceremony beng performed
while the train was running at a speed of
forty-five miles an hour.
Two more Mormon Union Pacific officials
have resigned, and steady march of de-
capitation has been inaugurated among the
railroad saints. The Union Pacific is no
longer the Lords road"
The Order of Railway Conductors will
have an excursion 10 Tybee over the Cen
drai road to morrow at very low rates.
Tickets will be sold from all stations be-
tween Millen and Tybee and Lyons and
Iybee, and will be good to return on regular
trains for four days from date of sale.
The Nickel Plate is perhaps the only road
In the country on which the train conduc-
tors sell round trip tickets. The reason for
this sale is that large number OF flag sta
lions exist on the line of the road where
ticket offices cannot proitably be estab-
llshed, and that passengers from those
stations could not otherwise get the benefit
of the round trip rates.
1t is a peculiar fact, and one not generally
known, that for sixty miles the Southern
Pacific track is below the level of the sea.
This is ON the extreme west of Arizona and
eastern edge of California. As the highest
point on the Iine-Polsano, a station about
zoo miles east of Ell Paso-is 3, 092 feet above
the level of the sea, it is evident that the
system experiences some ups and downs IN
It's course.
The Chesapeake and Ohio has introduced
an innovation which is particularly agreea-
Die to travellers during the heated term. 1t
IS an electric fan, placed at the end of the
dlnlng-cars on the f. +. V. train in such a
manner as to force circulation of air
1hrOnDh in the dIrnCflon of the
kitchen. This appliance not only cools the
car, but prevents the kitchen odor from
entering the dining-car.
Valdosta special says that work has
again started on the Florida Midland and
Gulf railroad. This road, that has been
and is still known as the "Spool Cotton"
road, getting this name from William
Clark of the o. N. 7. Thread Company,
who was its financial head when it was first
begun some five years ago. for some cause
was stopped after some 900 TO S6O,0OO
had been spent on it. Recently a construc
lon company of.$100, 900 capital wasformed
by capitalists of Savannah and Valdosta,
"a, and Madison, Fla, who have bought
out the rights and franchises OF the CIark
Company. New surveys have been made
and the line located to Dead Mans bay,
ria. Work will be pushed until 1t is nm
lshed. ]. M. Wilkinson, ESQ.,, OF Valdosta,
~ oSlueub Oh bno COnsUTuCbiou COMPANY
With this road finished to a connection
with the Florida Central and Peninsula OF
Florida, Valdosta will have three indie
pendent lines of railroads, reaching both
east and west.
The Pennsylvania railroad has fixed up
suite of rooms in its station in New York
Tor the benefit of its employees. where con-
ductors and brakemen, when off duty, enjoy
much of the comfort and convenience OF
club house There are toilet aud bath
rooms, dressing rooms. a dormitory, and a
spacious and airy apartment, overlooking
the North river, and containing carefully
selected library of nearly 1900 volume,
which is for the exclusive use of the ein-