The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-20
RAIL AND cRoSsTIE.

| Dispatcher N. a. GoSSett Of the Central
railroad main stem at Macon spent yester-
day in Savannah.
F. Dunn, formerly dispatcher for the
Savannah. Florida and Western railway in
Savannah, is now working second trick
in Macon on the Southwestern division Of
| the Central railroad
The main stem of the Central railroad
will have force of six dispatchers in a
| short time. Three are conducting the bus
lness now. The increase in the force is
caused by the putting on of more trains
and the increase in traffic.
The safety plates which the Pennsylvania
| company now uses on its locomotives to
prevent the parallel rods lnjuring the fire.
man and engineer in case OF breakage are
five-eighths of an inch thick, and since the
| company adopted this thickness no man on
the footboard has been injured when par.
allel rod broke.
There seems to be no doubt of the Dur
chase of the Rome and Decatur road by the
| Louisville and Nashville. An official of the
Louisville and Nashville is reported as say
| ing that it will have a road of its own into
Atlanta, and the Rome and Decatur is di-
rectly on the line TO the junction with its
system at Decatur.
The universal electric railway signal
company gave a private exhibition in
| Washington few days ago of new inven-
purely electrical, and the idea is to enable
| the engineers of locomotives to commune
cate with each other by telephone or a code
OF signals at any point along the line of the
road when they become within a specified
distance Of each other, running either in the
same or opposite directions.
The Waycross Air Line railroad from
Waycross to Cordele, a distance of 107
| miles, is being vigorously pushed II is
claimed that this line is the shortest line
possible from Atlanta to Jacksonville, via
Macon, Cordele, and Waycross. 1t has
been completed to within a short distance
OF Douglass, the county seat Of Coffee
county. 1t goes through an entirely new
country not heretofore traversed bv a
railroad. 1t is expected to pass through
| Ware, Coffee, Irwin, Wilcox, and Dolly
counties. L. johnson, of Stillwell, AIillen
q Co, is general manager. Savannah will
draw largely from the road.
In the third annual report of the inter
state commerce commission the following
in regard TO the earnings of railroads since
the last report is noted: 1.-The lowest rate
of increase upon given number of roads,
in any month, was nearly AZ per cent,
and the highest was over II per cent, being
the largest since the extraordinary rate of
earnings in the year 1880. Ii is to be noted
that with the exception, perhaps of some
coal roads, the increased earnings have
been shared by the various groups or classes
of roads in the various portions of the ooun-
try, and apparently in the following order
The Pacific slope roads, the trunk lines. the
roads south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers,
the southwestern roads, and in less degree
by those elsewhere"
The members of the Roadmasters' Asso-
citation of America have testified their ad-
miration Of Mr.. J. W. Craig, the roadmas-
ter CT the Charleston and Savannah railway
in most interesting manner. The follow
ing letter will explain the matter:
ATHoL4 Nov. 90, 1889.
DEAR SIR-When we were ENJOYING our ex-
cursion among the Rockies l was intrusted
| with certain sum of money with which
should purchase a cane and forward to you by
express, and present to you by letter. have
attended to that duty, and now find it great
| pleasure and a special privilege to present to
| you this cane in behalf OF the members of the
Roadmasters' Association of America, in
token OF our appreciation of you as a
man and a brother roadmaster, who has so
ably presided over our meetings for the past
three years, and did so very much in the best
interests of our association. We now hope and
trust that, while for many years it will be only
ornamental to you, that you will live to that
good old age when, if one is in the best of
, mental and physical condition. it will become
useful as well as ornamental. l trust you will
} receive it from us with as much pleasure as it
affords us to remind you by this presentation
that your zeal and earnest labor in our behalf
has been fully appreciated and will never be
forgotten. Hoping to meet you at our next
annual meeting, am personally, and in behalf
OF the members, very truly yours
The cane, which accompanied the re-
going letter, is very handsome. The head is
very massive and worked in the most skill
fully executed and beautiful designs. The
J ground work is nugget gold, on which are
disposed leaves. branches, birds, etc. Be-
side these there are four panels of plain
gold. The cane is Of ebony. The inscrip-
tion is as follows: "presented to j. W.
Craig by the Roadmasters' Association OF
America. Denver, Colorado"
The Savannah, Americas and Montgom-
cry road is about completed to Sterling, OF
will be within week or two, at which point
it intersects the Eden extension of the Gem
trail, thus making almost an air line between
Savannah and the west The Savannah
Americas and Montgomery has made rapid
progress in the building of its line eastward
in the past year. Sixty-two miles Of road
from Americas to Abbeville, were made
standard gauge, and seventy miles of EN-
tirely new road were built from the OcmuI-
gee river toward Sterling. The entire
line is admirably constructed, being laid
with 6O-pound steel rails, the Pennsylvania
standard, and iron bridges put in where
found necessary. AS soon as the two roads
meet at Sterling, an immense volume OF
through business will be done between the
west and Savannah. There is abundant
evidence of this fact shown in the earnings
of the Savannah, Americas and Mont
gomery for the month of December. The
gross earnings of the month were $25, 900,
expenses $4,000, leaving the net earnings
Sl5.S00, which is nearly three times the
amount of fixed charges. This is a
creditable showing, inasmuch as these
amounts accrued entirely from the
handling of local business. A large
force is now at work changingkthe gauge
of the western division of the line which is
rapidly being extended to Montgomery. 1t
is now six miles from the Chattahoochee
river. At Richland the road crosses the
Columbus Southern, and arrangements
have already been entered into which will
give Americas direct communication with
that city, aside from the two lines she
already has. Eleven new locomotives have
recently been added to the rolling stock,
and four others, together with 500 cars, are
on the way now.
Walked Up Bfectually.
A lethargic, dormant condition of the liver is
hardly 70 ba oryeroonoa With drastic oatbart{ce