The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-10
Rail AND cRossTIE.

The railroad commission Of Georgia pub
fishes to-day circular No. us.
SURVEYS have been completed for ship
canal from the interior of Pennsylvania to
Lake Erie. and although the cost is esti-
mated at 25.0O0, 900 or more. commission
appointed b. the legis AZURE proposes to ask
the state 70 complete the work.
The board Of Vermont railroad commits
sioners. in their report inst issued, recon-
mead the adoption of automatic freight
train c3uplers and brakes and be te- sys-
tenn I ventllating passenger cars than that
now in use. The reduction of local pas
senger fares Is also recommended by the
commissioners.
The Manufacturers Record says: Be
sides the railroads thus far mentioned, it
may be added that the three C's or the
Charleston Is. c., Cincinnati and Chicago
railroad is now building an extension of its
line to the mouth Of the Big Sandy river.
and that another line has been surveyed
and chatered to extend from Kenova east
ward across the states Of West Virginia
and Virginia to the sea via Richmond.
A meeting OF ths directors OF the Mobile.
jackson and Kansas City railroad was held
last week, says the Mobile Nel0S. A propo-
sltlon was made TO form Mobile construc-
ton company TO undertake she work of
| building the proposed line of railway 1t
was decided to abandon all negotiations
with the Anglo-Southern Construction
Company. aud to form construction COM
pany in Mobile at the earliest possible date
1t is resolved that another meeting be called
on Nov. % to arrange and perfect details
for the formation of the Mobile Construc-
ton Company.
A Baltimore dispatch SAYS: "John
Scott, the inventor of the locomotive cab,
died suddenly in a street car last night of
| heart disease, aged n. He was born in
| Philadelphia, and came here when child.
| he learned the trade of machinist in the
| Baltimore and Ohio shops, and was in the
employ Of the company over half q century,
being one OF its first engineers. He dis
tributed for Prof. Morse all the material
| used in the construction of the telegraph
line in 1887. He was also inventor of the
copper wire joint, with which all locomo-
tives are now provided"
Among the numerous railroads chartered
by the last legislature of Kentucky aud
now being rapidly pushed is the Charleston,
| kentucky and Western railroad from
! Charleston, s. c., via Middlesboro to Gin
cirnati, says the Manufacturers Record.
| direct line between Cincinnati and the
South Atlantic seaboard has now been con-
tracted for, and several charters have been
secured. A corps of engineers will be put
In the field and the WORK will be pushed
rapidly. The distance is 2O6 miles from
| Cincinnati to Middlesboro, which will run
via Pinevile, Manchester, Bonneville,
Beattyyille. Clay City and Mount Ster-
| ling, thence via Charleston to Cincinnati.
The announcement has gone forth that
| the Richmond Terminal Railroad Com
panv is back of a project to give the ci Y
of Norfolk, Va, through trunk line to
Cincinnati, o. This statement comes from
company officials. and may be relied on as
trustworthy intelligence. The line will
| start from Norfolk over a road recently
completed to Tarboro, in North Carolina,
and extended to Stanhope, in Noah county
OF that state. Thence 1t will 60 to Raleigh
where it connects with the regular Rich
mond and Danville line to Wilkesboro, by
way OF Greensboro and Winston. From
| Wilkesboro the road is in course of Coz
struction to Bristol, Tenn, where it will
connect with the South Atlantic and Ohio
railroad, which is being pushed forward to
Cincinnati.
English railway men of all classes, the
PGitlody Age says are paid far less than
those In this country, and work many more
hours. Recently the goods guards freight
conductors) OF the Manchester, Sheffield
and Lincolnshire railway managed to OBJ
tain what were thought to be quite liberal
concessions as to time and other conditions
OF service, the following being some feat
ures of the new basis Rates of pay six
days to the week.: On appointments, 25s
per week. increasing each year Is per week
up to 30s per week, the maximum pay.
Time: Twelve hours to constitute a days
work; above twelve hours in any day to
be paid for at the rate of eight hours per
day. Sunday duty will be paid for at the
rate of time and half. and to
be considered as any time worked between
Saturday midnight and Sunday midnight,
providing guard has signed on duty be-
tween these times, but not otherwise. A
days Sunday duty to be twelve hours, as
on week days, and any additional time made
calculated at the overtime rate of eight
hours to the day" The plan of considering
Sunday work overtime aud paying for it at
the rate of so per cent. extra is commenda-
bic, the Age adds, and is in advance Of
American practice; but the conductor in
this country who should be asked to work
twelve hours day for six days in the week
for from S25 rs to $50 IS per month would
kick" nightly and justifably.