The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-16
RAIL AND CRossTIE.

Passenger Ito conductor)-"Where's the
ousrtermasterl" Conductor-"Do you i'm
agine you are on board shipl" Passenger
''No. sir; but I'm on Pullman car and
want the porter. PUCK.
The surveying corps of the Mexican Gulf,
Pacific and Puget Sound railroad, which is
projected from Pensacola to the Mississippi
river, have reached Pensacola from Eutaw,
Ala, the terminus Of the road.
The locomotives for the Jaffa and Jerusa-
lem railroad have reached Palestine. They
bear the names of Jerusalem, Ramleh and
Jaffa. A Philadelphia company has the
honor Of supplying the motive power.
Here is a little road that pays. The
January statement of the Wrightsville and
Tennille railroad shows the net earnings
for that month to be 81 ,SSS 46, which is
over per cent. on the capital stock of the
company, or about 20 per cent. more than
for the corresponding month Of last wear.
Recent statistics show that the French
railways annually kill one person out of
each 100000 carried, while in England
81 600, 900 are carried before one meets a
violent death in a railway accident. French
railways annually wound one passenger out
of each SOC, 900 carried English one in each
750, 900, Belgium one in each 1850, 900, and
Prussia only one in each 4,000, 900.
The Reading Railroad Company has
taken an important step in ordering auto
matte couplings for more than 5000 now
cars. which will also have air-brake appli-
ances. The order calls for more than 8 900
coal cars, l 1000 gondolas, 1000 box cars and
the company $4,000 and the extra cost
of couplers will amount to S125,000.
Charles Watts, superb ntendent OF the
Chicago division of the ri ttsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago road, claims that the
fastest time ever made on an American
railway was on that road lately. His Of
fetal report showed that this special train
| ran ffty-three miles in forty-fve minutes,
eleven miles OF which were covered in seven
minutes, or at an average speed of ninety
four miles an hour.
The colored people of Louisiana have or
gained an equal rights association to force
| the railroads to give them the same accom-
modations that the whites have. a similar
organization is to be established in Ala
bama. The leaders Of the movement claim
that the Central of Georgia aud the East
| Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia roads are
| the only ones in the state that give them
| accommodations equal to the whites.
A colored lad has obtained Judgment of
| s., 900 at Raymond, Miss, in suit against
the Alabama and Vicksburg road for in
juries received by being struck by an en-
| CINE. The company made no defense, the
| attorney claiming that he had received no
uOUIC0 OL Ou6 SulJ. EVlQ6nC9 was given,
however, to show that notice had been
served. and as no defense was made the
| company is left without the right to appeal
the case.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford has added to its equipment q car
specially built and fitted up for the trans
purtation of invalids. The car has accom-
modations for twenty persons. and in
| it are two large staterooms 10 feet long and
feet wide. 1t is also supplied with -four
sleeping sections, with no upper berths
| and has vestibule chairs, sofa seats and
movable chairs. The doors are wide enough
/ to admit the passage of a cot.
I Some time ago Postmaster General Wan
amaker offered prizes to the railway postal
clerks who stood the best examinations
| The awards for the Fourth division have
just been made. The successful contestant
! was Henry NJ. Robinson Of the Charlotte
and Atlanta road. e. R. Bolger, who runs
between Charleston and Columbia via Sum.
ter, received honorable mention. His per.
centage was .02 below that Of the winner
who made 999S per cent, handling 10.0Sf
cards in hours aud So minutes.