The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-18
RAIL AND CROssTIE

Mexico to Jalapa on July 10. also announces
that dining cars will be run on through
trains. This Is said to be the first Mexican
railroad that has adopted this feature.
II is said that claims for damages against
the Illinois Central, as result of the strike.
already reach nearly s275, 900. These are
principally from shippers of live stock and
perishable freight. The checklist claim.
however. is that of the men, who asked 70
be paid for the time they were on strike.
The Pennsylvania company ran an ex-
cursion train last week TO Gaze MAY, having
on board about 800 newspaper representa-
tives from Washington, Baltimore, New
York and other eastern cities. The railroad
| company reserved the entire Stockton house
at Cape May for their guests, who remained
three days
Capt. F. Y. Dabney, chief engineer of the
Central of Georgia, has made his temporary
| headquarters at Troy, Ala, for the purpose
| OF looking after the location Of the route
for the Mobile and Glrard extension. A
corps of engineers left Troy Tuesday to
survey the line southwestWard toward Pen
sacola and Mobile. The route will cross to
the west side of the Conecuh river, six
miles below Troy.
The contracts for the new road to be
| built from Cordele to Albany have been let
| for the building of the road, and the work
will be pushed. King & Hannah of Ameri-
Gus have The contract for the grading, A.
Coulter q Co. of Americas for the bridges
| and trestles and R. r. & B. n. Stewart of
Americas for the crossties. The company
| has ordered 8, 500 tons Of steel rails of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company, to be deliv-
cred IN August. and it is expected to begin
track-laying by Sept. l and have the road
completed by Oct. l. w. w. Campbell,
chief engineer. is now locating the line.
An engineering party of the Sheffield,
birmingham and Tennessee River railroad
mas reached Bessemer, and will continue the
surveys on the extension OF that road be-
tween Jasper and Bessemer. The prelim-
| mary location has been about finished, and
the permanent surveys will now be made.
The new road is ID built by New York aud
Philadelphia capitalists, with Alfred Par
rish, president of the B., 8. and T. r. road,
| at their head. The extension will give this
| road connection Of its own into the Bir-
mlngham district, SO that it can transport
| heavy freights to the Tennessee river for
shipment abroad by water.
The Independent Order of Railway Con-
ductors has been organized in New York by
the men who seeded when the convention
at Rochester, n. Y, by a vote of SIG to &C,
| decided to eliminate the prohibitive strike
clause from the ritual of the order. The
| men who comprise the new organization are
the conductors on the New York Central
| and Hudson River railroad and those on the
New York, New Haven and Hartford. Ex-
Chief Conductor Wharton, who was de-
| feated for reelection at Rochester, is at the
head of the new order. The headquarters
are in New York city and the secessionists
are now at work getting recruits.
Col. W. S. Green of Columbus, with
Engineer Kennedy of the new Alabama,
| Georgia and Florida, has been in Birming-
ham and BesSemer for the last few days, the
NetoS says, organizing a surveying party to
| begin locating the route for the new road
between there ana Jernigan, on the Chatta-
| hoochee river, in Russell county, Alabama.
The party will begin surveys from Besssmer
this week, and after going to Birmingham
| VIII take a southeastern course toward
| Florida. 1t is not yet known what the ex-
act route will be, as these first surveys are
only preliminary locations The engineers
Will go as near as possible in direct line
According to the London RaiL1Udp NetCS
an American company is now constructing
line IN San Domingo, starting from the
capital of the republic and going first west
ward distance of twenty-five miles to the
town of San Cristobal. From there it is
contemplated to push it on to Barri and
Aqua. and then later, by the Lake Eure-
qulllo to Port au Prince, the capital of the
republic at Hayti. 1t is known as the
"Santo Domingo Short Line railroad and
the concesslonalre is Ogden 2. Pell of New
YORK. The engineer of the road Is Henri
Ihomassek, Frenchman who has resided
for seven years in the Dominican republic.
The first practical step toward the great
Pan-Amerlcan railway from North to South
America has just been taken at Brownville.
lex. Ground was broken for the Corpus
| Christi and South American railway The
first division is 100 miles long and extends
from the Rio Grande to Corpus Christi, at
which point 1t connects with the railway
system of the United States The Rio
Grande is to be bridged from Brownville.
Tex, to Matamoras, and the line extended
first to the City of Mexico, over a route
several hundred miles shorter from St
Louis, Chicago or New York than any ex-
1stlng line. From Mexico City it continues
south to the Guatemalian line and beyond,
Work is now in progress 1t both ends of the
first division, which will be completed in
about nine months. The Mexican and
United States authorities participated, and
an International salute was fired across the
| Rio Grande
Considerable interest has been excited bv
a circular issued by the president of the
illinois Central asking the employees of the
company to take its stock, saws the Rail
road Gazette. In a recent interview. Mr.
Fish said: 1.-THE company has stock for
sale, but 1t proposes to assist any of its
officers or employees to buy one share at
time, at fair market price, to be fixed
when the purchase is made, the purchaser
to pay for his share in sums of S. or multi
pies thereof. On the sums SO paid interest
is paid at the rate of 4 per
cent, and when the sum at the
credit of any purchaser amounts to
the sum at which the stock was bought
he will receive certificate for his share of
stock, and can then, if he wishes, begin the
purchase of another share The purchaser
may, however, at any time, have his con-
tract Cancelled and his money returned to
him with interest. Thus the company
assumes the entire risk of fall in the price
of the shares and the expense of doing the
work. 1t is hoped to enlist every frugal
person in any way connected with the cor
poration as partner on basis of the
utmost liberality to the small proprietors, /"
1t is said that large number Of applica-
tlons for stock have already been received
from the employees
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