The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-27
RAIL AND CROsSTIE.

Inc railroad commissioners u hauodS lluu
that the principal roads Of that state which
carried seed grain and other supplies free TO
destitute farmers last winter handled traffic
which in the aggregate would have been
charged $40, l57 at regular rates.
On Aug. 90 the Arkansas separate coach
law will go into effect. This law requires
not a separate compartment, but separate
coach for cOlored passengers, and as the
colored travel in Arkansas only averages
per cent it will operate as a heavy burden
on the railroad companies.
Frank Darlington, superintendent of the
Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania
lines, has in his possession the first time
table of the Columbus, Piqua and Indiana
road, issued Sept. 10, 1853. The dis
lance from Columbus to Urbana is forty
seven miles, and the fast passenger train was
three hours and thirty-ffve minutes making
the run. The distance Is now daily covered
by several Of the Pennsylvania trains in one
| hour.
Railroad msn predict that within the next
three years a great deal of new railroad
| building will be done in the southern states.
Most investments there are said TO pay well,
| and considerable railroad building is now in
| progress In the gulf states to develop rich
| territory which capital will Immediately
| improve. The far west seems to have lost
| it's attractiveness for railroad enterprises,
gradually being transferred TO the southern
and western states.
The Columbia State says there is a rumor
that another railroad. giving very import
ant connections, is leading toward Column
bla and with a little exertion, could be
secured. The road is the Ronaoke and
Southern, which is coming southwark and
will soon reach Winston, n. e. From there
it is believed that the road will 90 to
| (fbarlptfa Tho prniaOt sc tn ba
| road to seek its southern outlet in Columbia
| by making bee line between Columbia and
| Charlotte. The connection to be made is
with the South Bound road. 1t is said that
Winnsboro has voted large sum and other
towns intend to do likewise. If it IS built it
will shorten the distance by thirty miles.
THE German East Africa Company has a
big scheme on its hands" says the New
| York Sun. "if the report is correct that it
has decided to SPEND Sl5, 100000 ia building
a railroad from Tanga to Karagwe Tango
is little seaport about fifty miles northwest
Of Zanzibar, and Karagwe is distant from
| the starting point about 625 miles. 1t is the
C untry of the good old King Rumanika,
who 30 charmed both Spoke and Stanley
that they endued hin with most of the vir-
| tues and pictured his country rs an African
paradise. The proposed railroad, by START
ing from Tanga, will avoid the hard climb
| up the Usagara mountains. 1t will doubts
| less run almost due west to Tabora, the CEN
| er of things in inner East Africa, aud will
| then strike north and northwest to Victoria
| Nyanza and Karagwe, which is within 100
| miles of the western boundary of Germany's
| possessions"
Boston officials claiming TO act in the in
| terest of public health have asked for an
| injunction TO restrain the Boston street
| railroads from running open cars into the
| suburban distric,s. The grounds for the in
| junction are that # open cars are allowed
to be run, people riding on them will,
through such exposure TO the open air, be
| liable to take cold and thus invite an at
tack of the grip, and ailments Of Il like
| dlnd. This leads the Mining
and Scientific Press to ask:
| Who are the people who suffer most
| from maladie5 of this kind! Always sit
arCuses" those who live in unventilated
| rooms, ride in closed cars and III other ways
seek to protect themselves from the least
breath of air. The street gamln, with his
| barred throat, never has the grippe, nor are
outdoor laborers Of any kind apt to suffer
| from this or similar Complaints Wind
| alone hurts no one, if warmly dressed
Tho passenger who, thus protected,
cannot In far weather, ride on an
open car, however strong the wind, had
better make will and order cofIln
The fact is, air starvation has killed more
| famine. Shutting out what is calei a
| draught has delivered over 10 death more
| victims than war or pestience. Through
lack of ventilation we deliberately convert
| our homes aud our schools, our courts aud
| workshops, and even our places of emusa-
ment and worship, into verltable BLACK
| holes," spending often good deal of money
| TO thoroughly exclude the life-givlug ele.
ment.n
| The supreme court OF North Carolina held
IN the recent case Of Purcell VS.. Richmond
and Danviile Railroad Company, reported
IN the RGiltody aud Corporation Lolc
| Journal, that railroad company commits
a tort and becomes liable for punitive
| damages in willfullY failing to stop for pas.
| sengers at a regular station, and cannot
escape liability on the ground that there
| was not sufficient room in the train if it ap-
peared that by reasonable diligence it might
have provided extra cars. The court said:
mo regard for their own profits Or con-
yenlence will justify the corporation in hav-
ing only sufficient cars for the ordl-
nary amount of freight and travel, leaving
the public to bear the inconvenience and
loss when, on unusual occasions, the volume
OF business may swell beyond the average.
Common carriers could not be held liable
for en- unseen and extraordinary rush of
business not within reHsonal cal
culation, but when the additional
|
such as, with reasonable foresight, could be
expected, it is the duty of the company to
have the extra cars furnished With the
modern facilities of telegraph and telephone
the occasion of an unusual number of pas
sengers or quantity of freight can be
promptly notified and provided for. If this
is not done, it is gross and willfuI neoh
gence, and the company should not be al
lowed to find its profit in a willful aud reck-
less disregard of the rights of the public
and OF its own duties. 1t may be that on
the whole testimony the defendant could
show sufficient matter Of excuse, but the
plaintiff was entitled to have the phase of
the evidence set out in his PRAYER for in
struction presented to the jury. Taking
the evidence to be true, aud nothing else
appearing, he was entitled 10 recover punt
tive damages"
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