The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-01
RAIL AND OROSSTIE.

The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
has placed an order for 200 freight cars
with Blaine Bros. of Florida
Ground has been broken on the Empire
and Dublin extension from Hawkinsville to
Grovania, and the contractors are pushing
the work with large body of men.
The latest "klnk" to get cattle off the
track fright away in hurry" is sort Of
hot water squirt gun attached to the loco
motive 1t is the invention of a western
alkali eater.
Roadmaster A. H. Porter of the South
Carolina division of the Central railroad
has rendered his resignation and goes back
to his old home in Maryland. His successor
is j. R New, formerly with the Savannah,
Florida and Western. Agent K. A Scott
OF Waynesboro has resigned, and W. A.
Hillhouse, his clerk, has been chosen to
succeed him.
Pullman's Palace Car Company has Just
issued circular which will be of interest to
the travelling public in general aud especially
to ladies who are obliged to travel without
male escort Hereafter in selling berth
to be occupied by woman or girl, agents
must indicate that fact by writing the word
LADY" in the space assigned. The adjoin-
ing space must then be reserved for other
ladies, the intention being to separate the
sexes, as far as can consistently be done.
An Atlanta special says: "If reports
from Augusta are true, the Richmond Ter
minal company is about to surrender some
OF its Georgia and South Carolina railroad
properties. 1t is telegraphed that the Au-
| guSta and West Florida IS negotiating for
the purchase Of the Carolina, Knoxville and
| Western, and that the trade is 60
| Through the Central the Richmond
Terminal controlled this line, which
embraces the Augusta and Knoxville,
| Greenville and Laurens, the Savannah Val
| ley and the Greenwood, Laurens and Spar
tanburg, the latter three splendid little lines
that have opened up the richest and most
productive portion of South Carolina"
| The Baldwin Locomotive Works of
Philadelphia have recently completed or
are now building, locomotives weighing
10000 pounds each for the Northern Pa
ciflc, Philadelphia and Reading, Cromwell
and Lebanon, Pennsylvania and North
western, Central of New Jersey, Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, and
| Wilmington and Northern. The use of
these locomotives is rapidly extending, and
the only obstacle to their immediate intro
duction on many roads is the insufficient
strength Of bridges. Among other orders
on which the firm is engaged at present are
| 80 locomotives for the Manhattan, 80 for
the Union Pacific, q for the Northern
Pacific, As for the Denver and Rio Grande,
| IL for the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific, and 20 for the Balti-
more and Ohio. OF the latter, three will be
high speed passenger locomotives with cyl
inders 20x24, and driving wheels Is inches
In diameter. A large proportion of the
work In hand is for export. The three loco
motives for the railroad from Jaffa co
Jerusalem, in Palestine, were shipped on
| July 10. Three compound express passen-
ger locomotives are building for a broad
| gauge railroad in Brazil, and one narrow
gauge l0-wheeled compound freight loco
motive for the Mexican National
Augusta is elated over the advent of the
Atlantic Coast Line system there. By the
abandonment of the present detour to
| Wilmington and the adjustment of the
angle an almost straight line is secured
to Sumter From there the Manchester and
Augusta railroad. which has been built to
the Santee river, a distance of twent v
miles, gives a route straighter than the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta road
The distance from Augusta to the
Santee river via the route of
the road which is to be built is ninety-four
miles. Manager Walters, President Elliott
Of the Wilmington and Weldon railroad,
and Chief Engineer Gardner of the Atlantic
Coast Line have been inspecting the
approaches to Augusta and available sites
for freight yards, shops and depots The
Chronicle quotes Mr.. Walters as saving
that he has about decided to come into
Augusta at the southeastern confines. A
railroad man known throughout the south
as thorough student of the railroad situa-
ton. in speaking of the desire Of
the Atlantic Coast Line to come to
Augusta, said he felt sure they would
do SO. While in New York recently
at railroad meeting he heard
MIR. Walters remark that his people had
firmly made up their minds to tap Augusta,
aud be in position TO share in the business
diverging from there through the Carolinas
and Virginia. He says the Coast Line folks
have been led to this by the signs that have
been evinced on the part of the Richmond
and Danville road; that the agreement to
cooperate together for offense or defense
was not chung to by the Richmond and
Danville folks with the old fervor since that
line has become part of the Terminal svs-
ten. The Richmond and Danville felt that
they had waiting for them the bulk of the
business in this field, and the Coast
Line would have to whistle for it if they
said SO. Now comes the Atlanlc Coast
Line to Augusta with the expressed claim
of being preferential carriers with the
Louisville and Nashville system. Things
are getting interesting. Railroad men have,
continued the same speaker, felt all along
that tue Louisville aud Nashville road
would reach the seaboard via the South
Carolina road which line is liable to be
offered for sale by order of Judge Bond
almost any day. | cannot imagine what
the Louisville and Nashville will do with
two connections at Augusta. The situation
is far more absorbing than game of chess,
for the pawns are momentous and the board
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