The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-30
RAIL AND CROSSTIE.

The complete valuation of railroad prop
erty IN Alabama for the year 1889 is $4S-
100000; in 1879 it was $S,000,00C.
There are 1895 miles of railroads in
Canada, representing a paid up capital of
$3.50, $40, 446, on which 81, 1I1,570 was
earned net last year. The railroad mileage
has doubled since 1880. q
The Railroad GGsette's record of train
accidents in May includes 6S collisions, Sc
derailments and other accidents, total of
129 accidents, in which Is persons were
killed and 140 were injured.
Miss Fannie Williams, the female railroad
contractor, has begun work at Wellington,
o., on her twenty-five mile contract of
grading for the Cleveland and Wellington
railroad, according to the press dispatches.
A large number OF men and horses are en-
ployed under her super vision. She has just
completed contract on a branch of the
Mackay system.
Every conductor on the New York Gen.
trail, as indeed every other trunk road, is
supplied with little book of instructions
for making conductors car reports and sta
ton numbers According to the instruc-
tlons he must commence at thesengine, take
the initials, kind, number of wheels, condi-
ton of fastening and number of each car as
it stands in the train, and compare the en-
that letters or figures havsnot been trans
posed. "a
A novelty on the Prussian state railroads
is the provision of cars for the transporta-
ton of sick travellers. One of these is kept
at each of six of the chief railroad centers,
and will be sent to any station where
wanted. How they are fitted up we are not
now informed, except that they have "beds
and everything necessary for the trans
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in such a car you must buy twelve first
class tickets, which amounts to about 40
cents per mile.
The annual meeting of the Covington and
Macon road should have occurred in May,
but was postponed. 1t is now announced,
the Macon Ne1OS says, that it will take
place on July o. 1t is an understood fact
that Col. John E. Jones has expressed his
determination to retire from the presidency.
The belief is growing very strong that the
Covington and Macon will soon be sold, if it
has not already been sold, as reported, to
the Georgia Southern and Florida. The
general belief has been that it would be
bought by the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern.
In 1880, the Hungarian railroads formed
a mutual insurance society to meet the cost
Of damage by fire and accidents. During
the first three years the expenditures were
112, 139 forms for insurance for which they
would have paid to insurance companies.
according to their former practice. SOS 2l3
horins. Hereupon, the Austrian railroad
Joined with the Hungarian companies and
formed an association for the whole empire,
which in seven years has given the Hunga-
rian roads alone insurance for 661, l64 flor
ins, which the insurance companies would
have charged zoos, 5SS forms for. At the
beginning of this year the association was
divided into two, one for Austria and one
for Hungary.
The latest news in that portion of the rail-
road world which embraces Chattanooga Ia
its territory is that road is to be built from
Athens, Ca, to Chattanooga. Application
for a charter to build such a road has been
filed with the secretary of state. The road
is to start from Athens and extend through
the Georgia counties of Clark, jackson,
Hall, Gwinnett, Forsyth, Dawson, Chero-
kee, Pickens, Gilmer, Gordon, Whitaker.
Murray, Catoosa and Walker. 1t is said
that work is to be begun at once, and pushed
forward to completion as rapidly as possible,
The incorporates are W. A. Robinson and
E. II. Frazle of Atlanta, j. T. Robinson of
Athens, and E. r. Hulbut of Chattanooga.
The capital stock is 81, 600 900. divided into
10000 shares Of 800 each. The read will
be known as the Chattanooga Southeastern.
That part OF the line from Athens to the
Georgia line, in Walker county, was sur
veyed some time ago, the distance being 155
miles.
1t is stated upon good authority that the
building of the Cordele and Albany rail-
road is an assured fact, and that work upon
the road win begin at an early day. Ne
gotiations looking to the building of this
line have been pending for some time, the
Macon Net0s says, but not until recently
have final steps been taken toward an early
beginning Of the work However, this has
been done, and the road will be built. The
distance between Cordele and Albany is
about thirty-fve miles, and the proposed
new road will open up magnificent 'agri-
cultural and timbered country nearly
the whole way. Besides, it shorte1s the
distance several miles between Macon and
Albany and gives the latter city new aud
independent outlet to the mort and east via
the Savannah, Americas and Montgomery
and Georgia, Southern and Florida roads.
An engineering corps is now in the field en-
gagged in the work of locating the line. and