The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-20
E ALL AND CROSSrIE.

The Pullman Palace Car Company is
operating over 10000 miles OF railroad,
according to a statement just compiled.
Several improvements are being made
and number of others are contemplated
at the East Tennessee repair shops at Ma
con.
President W. B. Sparks of the Macon
Construction Company has gone to New
York 1t is understood that his trip has an
important meaning for the Georgia South
ern and Macon and Birmingham railroads.
The Val Street Neaos asks, How is the
Richmond Terminal to pay for the Erlanger
system of roads if the purchase is made?
Inc system does not begin to pay anything
like fair return now upon the money that
it will cost to buy it.
1t is currently reported that English CAPT.
talists are taking steps to build a railroad
from Huntsville, Ala, to Gainesville, Ga.
The bonds, it Is said, have already been
placed, and work will be commenced at an
early period, and the road pushed to COM
pletion.
Electric street railways continue TO null
tiply remarkably. The number of these
roads in operation in the United States in
January is stated at 1862 and numerous
other lines are under construction or pro-
lected. In towns and cities where the
traffic is not heavy it seems to be demon
strated that electricity forms a more ec)-
nomlcal and satisfactory motor than horses
for street car propulsion, although it is
liable 70 occasional ecc entricities The great
majority of the lines thus fer constituted
use the overhead wire system, although
storage batteries are used in few cases and
the plan of running the electric conductor
in conduit under the car has certain owl
dent advantages.
A Philadelphia dispatch says the Ameri-
can Iron and Steel Association has ascar-
tanned that the total quantity of Bessemer
steel rails made in the United States in
1889 by works producing their own ingots
was 1,644,234 net tons, or /, 46S, O66 gross
tons, d gain of only 102, 145 gross tons over
the production of 1866, 1921 gross tons in
1883 To the total net production Pennsyl-
wanna contributed in 1889, l., 1851, against
9ll,206 in 1888; Illinois 520024, against
439, 639, and other states 81 ,663, against
129,9S7. Although the Bessemer steel pro-
ductlon of 1889 Is shown to be but little
larger than that of the year 1898, vet the
production of BesSemer steel ingots last
year was about 100000 gross tons larger
than i'll 1888, and closely approached the
quantity produced in 1887, the year of the
the larg st production in the United States
OF BeSsemer steel, when thee where made
2,936O33 gross tons of ingoJs thus indica-
increase for steel for miscellaneous pro-
ducts which were formerly made of iron.
Sava nah is better off for short routes TO
the west than many people supposed The
statement made by prominent railroad
man day or two ago that the shortes;
route to Montgomery, Ala, was All miles
by the Ala anna Midland has been taken up
by the Central people, and they show the
following routes: Savannah to Montgomery
via Americas and Sterling, 345 miles; Sa-
vannah to Montgomery via Waycross
Brunswick and Western railroad and
Albany, 81 miles; Savannah TO Montgom-
cry via Macon and Columbus. 3S5 miles:
via Bainbridge and Alabama Midland, All
miles. The Central has also a route via
Edfaula, which is 4 IA miles, but this is not
the popular route, and in fact compare
lively little business from the west t. Sa-
vannah comes that way. The popular
route is By Macon and Columbus From
Columbus the Central has two lines-via
Opelika and via Union SpringS-to Mont
gOmery, either of which is less than All
miles. The Central's regular freight time
from Savannah to Montgomery is 3215
hours. This is considered the quickest time
to be made. The basis of the statement
that the Alabama Midland was the shortest
route was probably that the CentraI's
Eufaula route, which is Al miles, was at
one time popular passenger route. Prior
to the establishment of the Columbus short
route the best and most thoroughly equipped
passenger trains were run over the EufauIa
route, but that line has never been the
Ceutral's western freight line