The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-11
RAIL AND CROSsTIE.

General Manager Gabbett Of the Central
railroad is in Atlanta.
Train ''staf tickets" to be given to loco
motive engineers at time of departure and
delivered by them to train staff operator on
arrival at destination, are the latest kink in
red tape trainmaster tactics.
At the annual meeting of the Atlanta
and West Point railroad the following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing year; G..
II. Phinizy, president; h. NJ. Abbot, secre-
tary and treasurer. Directors: d. n. Spesr,
Pat Calhoun, J. w. Green, W. B. Berry,
A. E. Thornton, Jacob Phinlzy. A. E.
Thornton succeeded Gen. Z. 7. Alexander
as a director of the company.
The Central railroad has made two ap-
poIntmentS that are of interest to
Augustans. r. T. Waldrep, from the
South Carolina road, has been appointed
bridge supervisor of the Augusta and
Savannah and Port Royal and Western
Carolina roads, vice j. G. Palmer, resigned.
G.. T. Maxwell of the South Carolina road
has been appointed supervisor of tracks for
the same division of the Central vice j. A.
Benson, resigned. MIR. Benson has accepted
position with the Augusta electric road.
This is from the Augusta ChronicIe'
"Gen. Alexander, president of the Central
system, has no great fondness for private
car. lie prefers to quietly take his Glad
stone Tag and bolrd a sleeper for the point
of destination, dispatch his business and
return to Savannah in the same unobtru-
sive way. He let's officials of cross town
railroads dazzle the eyes of communities
with private cars and fiunky menials. This
makes the general more elusive to the re-
porter who spots a private car from affair"
The London NelOS says the most remark
able short line of railway in the world is
probably the submerged railway at Onton,
near Bilboa, described in the current part
of Chambers Journal 1t runs down an
evenly sloping shore in double line to dis
tauce of $50 feet, and has been constructed
| by a Spanish engineer for the sole purpose
OF facilitating the shipment of iron ores.
| The only car Is a massive iron tower on
wheels in the shape of a pyramid rising
seventy feet from the track. Upon the
| platform of this tower the ores are placed,
and thus they are conveyed to the vessel
the pyramid car, whose wheels are always
under water, returning automatically as
soon as the cargo has been mechanically
shot into the ships hold.
D. Altman, formerly of Hawkinsville,
| but now of Macon, is the inventor and pat
entee of anew and perfect life-saviug auto
matte car coupler Mr. Altman has been
some time improving and perfecting his
invention, but the patent has just arrived
| The invention may be described briefly as
adjusted t. any style of car bumper. 1t is
all iron. This device can be instantly ad-
| justed to any old style bumper by slip
ping the arm into the old bumper
and dropping in the pin, the same as in
making an ordinary coupling Time re-
! quired not over two seconds. When ad-
| justed the old bumper, with the device at
| tached, is not more than six inches longer
than it was before the device was attached.
! The entrance to the throat is very sloping.
wide and open, to insure certain and I'M
avoidable coupling every time, whether a
crook, a square or straight link is used.
| The device is self-acting When the cars
are pushed back the coupling is done auto
matically, without the necessity of the
brakeman going between the cars at all
| When the link touches the ordinary
pin in the bumper, the pin is partially tilted
| kward in the throat till it is automatic
ally lifted far enough to drop safely and
securely into the link, thus making q sure
and solid coupling. The rest of the inven-
ton consists of an attachment for I'M
coupling. 1t is not even necessary for the
brakeman to go between cars to uncouple
| A long lever under the head Of the pin aud
| extending both sides flush with the outside
of the car, needs only push downward to
| lift the pin and release the link, thus I'M
| coupling the car.