The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-13
RAIL AND CRosSTIH.

The Railroad Commission of Georgia pub
fishes else where in this issue Circular No
1SS
The newly chartered Orlando and Mos
quito Inlet Fla.) railroad will be fifty miles
long.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the Florida Southern Railway Company
will be held in Palatka April 20 for the
election of directors
The building of the Midland and extern
sion OF the Mobile and Girard has increased
the taxes paid by railroads in Pike county,
Alabama, from $1,000 to over $1,000.
The decision at Palatka tFla.) of the
referee. Calvin ellis, in the suit of Wells
VS.. the Florida Southern railway for dam
ages in S25. 900 for the killing Of her bus-
band in collision, gives the plaintiff IS, 900.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad has
offered a reward Of $50 for the arrest add
conviction of any person or persons reck-
lessly, wantonly or maliciously throwing
stones or missiles at or into its engines or
cars.
officers of the East Florida and Atlantic
Railroad Company: President, c. II.
hutchins; vice president. j. r. Mizell :;
treasurer, +. +. Knowles; secretary, j. Nj.
Russell; general manager, J. II. Abbott
| auditor, ]. $. Capen; general travelling
agent, II. s. Chubb. This road is the con-
sohdation Of the o. and w. P. and o. and
l.. j. railways.
Some time ago Judge D. M. Key of the
United Sta es court in Tennessee rendered
decision in favor of the United States Ex-
press Company restraining the controller of
the state from collecting privilege tax of
$4,000 imposed on the company. His de-
cision was to the effect that the act levying
the tax was unconstitutional. The supreme
| court mas reversed this decision and sus-
tanned the constitutlonality of the tax law.
The Emerson Car Company Of Charleston
has completed the first contract for the use of
its patents upon the Georgia Central road.
The Central roads cars will be sent to
Charleston for equipment and will be fitted
out one at time at the local workshops
The two private cars of the system will first
| be equipped with the machinery and the
| passenger coaches afterward. 1t is expected
that contract will be made with the Plant
| system and the Atlantic Coast Line for the
Introduction of the patent on their lines,
The New York Tribune asks: "Must we
be nothing if not English? Already we
have guards on our trains. and now comes
one of the great American railroad compa-
MES putting placard in its Broadway win
dow advertising the booking Office of the
| company Is iG q step or a stride from ZEN.
| gineers' to drivers from baggage cars to
AuEShEo VANS, duu III ING uSAG summer
| time STALL we talk of coming up to New
York and going down to Squankum9 Shall
we ask that our switchmen' be transformed
into 'pointsmen, and beg the privilege of
riding over the line instead Of the trackFp
| Railroad companies controlling over
| $4,000 miles of road and over zoo. 900 freight
cars report that they have adopted the
! policy of applying automatic couplers Of
the master car builders type to new freight
cars, and over SO, 900 cars were equipped on
Jan. l, 1891. Concerning the application
of automatic brakes, railway companies
controlling S7,9l5 miles of railway and
69S325 cars report the adoption of the
| policy of equipping new freight cars with
automatic brakes, and about 10000 cars
were equipped with these brakes on
January. 1891. Besides the companies in
cluded in these totals, a great number of
companies have begun the use of the
couplers and brakes, hut have not yet
adopted a definite policy with regard to
| them.