The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-31
RAIL AND CROSsTIS.

A conductor on the Panhandle recently
took up a mileage book held by Philadel-
phia travelling salesman and put him off the
train because he refused to pay his fare.
The travelling man brought suit for S., 900
and the company has compromised by pay
ing MIN 81 $50. The conductor was dis
charged.
The farewell banquet rendered d. B.
Robinson, recently resigned as general
manager of the Atlantic and Pacific. at
Albuquerque, N. NJ, Aug. IA, was a
brilliant affair. The hotel at which it was
held was deliberately decorated with ever
greens and beautiful flowers and was lighted
by 1000 incandescent lights Over /, 900
persons were present, and dispatches state
that every town and city in the territory
of New Mexico was represented.
1.-THE Macon and Dabln railroad will be
built to Savannah" said an official of that
road in Macon the other day to a TeIeqrdph
man. ave are not going to lease or buy
any other road to get there, but will 20
there on our own rails. All this talk about
leasing the Macon and Atlantic is without
official sanction. There may have been Mt
EQUATIONS of this kind pending at one time.
but say now there is nothing in it. The
track is now laid TO the Oconee river
There the terminus will remain until we
are ready to begin work again, which will
be done only when the money is on hand to
do it with. We shall pay for the building
OF this road as we go. and it will be as inde-
pendent of other roads and systems when
we get through asst is now"
The Telegraph rot yesterday saws the
flcin topic of conversation in Macon rail-
road circles SaturdaY,w the removal of
Superintendent w. W. Starr of the Cen
trails main stem. Everybody was SURPRISED.
And fbar farx
the reason for Mr. Starts removal. His
many years of sconpection with the Cen
trail, his ability and bus faculty for max
ing friends seemingly made him one of the
strongest men on the system and the least
likely to be affected by the cyclone of
Changes that has struck the Central. It
seemed to many q cruelty on the part of the
Richmond and Danviile to raise Mr. Starr
to the head of one % its biggest divisions
for one month only to drop him, when they
might have let himgo at first when he was
only master Of transportation"
The Telegrdphe alludes to Virgil Powers
aud Henry L. Jewett as among the most
prominent railroad veterans in Macon, In
lSSS-'S9 Mr.. Powers helped survey the old
Monroe road. At THAT time less than fifty
miles of rail had been laid in Georgia.
There was hut little money and even less
enthusiasm about railroads then, and it was
hard to procure the necessary funds. The
rails used on that road were of ordinary
wrought iron weighing forty pounds to the
yard. They had to be hauled overland a con-
siderable distance, and cost on tie ground,
Shopper ton. Mrs. Jewett still retains the
estimates made for the road at that time by
Engineer Griffin, and they are interesting
reading. Mr.. Je%ett was secretary and
treasurer of the Southwestern railroad,
which was built ten years after the Mon
roe road. He has since been almost contin-
uously connected with railroads and
other important corporations in that
capacity, and is now rsckoned as one of the
most important and hardest working Off
cials Of the Georgia Southern railroad sys-
TEN. Mr.. Powers is a member of the
Georgia railroad commission, and these ven
erable members Of the profession seem likely