The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-17
RAIL AND CROS3rIE.


Company wants to establish street ilways
In Leavenworth. Kan, to be operated by
compressed air on the storage plan. The
company wants $3.50, 900 Of city real estate
In return for its beaefaction, and further
agrees to see that ten distinct manufacture
ing enterprises shall be established in the
town, each to employ not less than twenty
five men, and it proposes to supply tho ten
factories or any ten factories with COM
pressed air power free of charge for two
years. time.
Plans and specifications for a new union
depot in Atlanta are being prepared in
New York. The depot will be located be-
tween the tracks of the East Tennessee and
the old Monroe track of the Central road
near Mitchell street. 1t will be paid for by
the Richmond aud Danville, Central, East
Tennessee and Georgia Pacific jointly, and
will be used by them for all their passeu-
ger business. The Richmond and Dauville,
on behalf OF lines interested, proposes to
lease the nnion depot for one year only.
Before that time expires the new union
depot will be ready for use. AS their plans
for obtaining the right to use the old depot
have probably fallen through, it is intended
to begin work in q very short while on the
new one.
Col. H. S. Morse, the protector and builder
Of the Macon and Dublin railroad, says
that either a combination will BIS formed
between the Macon and Atlantic road when
completed, or tae Macon and Dublin would
proceed on to Savannah. The road he says
cannot afford to stop at Dublin, and does
not propose doing 80. From facts gathered
it seems, to the Macoa Telegraph, that the
Macon and Dublin has been and is still
waiting on the Macon and Atlantic people
to build, with the view of combining their
interests. There seems to be but little pros
psot that the Macon and Atlantic will
build further this way than Brewton,
and necessity forces it to combine or
sell out The Macon and Dublin people
have waited for the completion Of the road,
and are still disposed to wait until i; is seen
the road cannot he completed by the pres
emit projectors. In this case the Macon and
Dublin will offer to buy the road out COM
plete, or if this cannot be done then the
Macon and Dublin will build independently
TO Savannah. There is tie best OF feeling,
the Telegraph says, between the two roads.
and the Macon and Dublin would
under no consideration attempt to
parallel the Macon and Atlantic to
Savannah as long as there is a chance
for that road to be built, but, as Mr.. Morse
says, the Macon and Dublin must have an
outlet and will have it. The most generally
accepted view of it is that the Macon and
Atlantic will be completed to Brewton by
the present projectors, and will there con-
meet with the Macon and Dublin, giving
Macon another through line to the coast.
The Macon and Dublin, it is claimed, can
secure all the money necessary for making
any arrangements for buying the Macon
and Atlantic road.
The Chicago Herald describes at length
new electric street car, double decker,
weighing %, 000 pounds. which seems to be
successfully ana economically operated by
the Westinghouse motor. THE new car :"
says the Herald, ''is the joint invention of
Z. c. Sessions. a banker in Oakland, CAL,
and G. L. Pullman. 1t is operated by the
trolley electric system. In general appear
ancs it resembles the double-decked We
hicles in c6mmon use 10 London and Paris.
aud it presents a handsome appearance.
IL is 80 feet long, feet AID 4
inches wide, aud IA feet ~ inches
high. The chief aim of the inventors
was TO design car vita double the usual
carrying capacity. The new car will seat
forty passengers on each deck. The car
body is so arranged that the passengers may
enter at the center of either side, where
spiral stairs lead to the upper deck. Four
stairways, combined with two at the bot
tom, separate toward the top, leading to
either end of the car The entrances at the
center occupy no more space than the end
platforms on ordinary street cars The car
is equipped with electric chandelier and
double oil lamp in each compartment.
Electric heaters are also set in the car. Two
Westinghouse motors of twenty-five horse
mower furnish the force. The car rests
on two trucks of special design, arranged
with double-brake attachments and fric-
tion brake. The efficiency of the brakes
was demonstrated by the stoppage Of the
car within its own length while travelling
at a speed OF twelve miles an hour. The
operation of the motors was perfect. giving
great speed and being under perfect control.
The car requires the services of three en-
ploves. and cost 50, 500. An incorporated
company has been formed by number of
Chicago capitalists for the manufacture of
this new car, and they hope to be able 10
furnish an important factor toward solving
the transportation problem during the
worlds fair 1t will be known as the Pull
man center vestibule street car with upper
seats"
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