The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-06
RAIL AND CRosSTIE.

The Charleston and Savannah railroad
summer excursions will begin to-day. The
schedule OF rates and time appear in the
MORNING NEWS advertising columns.
The electric railway at Jamestown, N. Y,
has recently been completed. The line is
about twelve miles in length, and connects
with Lakewood, the well-known summer
resort on Lake Chautauqua, four miles west
OF Jamestown.
The New York World contains the fol-
lowing: From undercurrent information is
gained sufficient to warrant the belief that
Two or the most important systems in the
south--the Louisville and Nashville and the
East tennessee, Virginia and Georgia-wilf
at no distant date be practically under one
management or operated jointly. 1t Is not
long since the latter named road absorbed
bne queen and Crescent system, and from
present indications it would seem that
another deal is on for the joining of forces
OF the two lines. Whether
direct consolidation is to be the direct out
come cannot be stated at the present time.
but sufficient to say that q mutual under
standing that division of the territory and
traffic will be one object attained If no
more. For the past month or more high
officials of the two lines have been busiy
engaged in the collection of tonnage Stats
Tics from every important traffic point
south OF the Potomac and Ohio rivers which
are touched by the two systems. 1t is a we'll
known fact that this has been the dream of
the presidents to so consolidate the roads
that the traffic of the entire south could be
controlled by the one system. II is
believed by those who have watched the
progress OF affairs of southern roads since
Jay Gould became interested in the Rich
mond terminal that the present working Of
the Louisville and Nashville and East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia moves another
step i'll the direction of Mr.. Gould's pro-
posed consolidation scheme which is to COM
bine trunk lines of the south into one
gigantic corporation. The East Tennessee,
In conjunction with its newly acquired
Queen and Crescent, parallels the Louisville
and Nashville ct almost every important
point in the south.
A. j. Vanlandingham, commissioner of the
kansas City transportation bureau, who is
well known in Savannah, presented series
OF resolutions TO the National Transportn-
tlon Association in Chicago last month
favoring what is known as zone tariff, the
essential feature Of which is a uniform
charge for conveying passengers on rail-
roads from points within a given radius TO
central point. This system has never been
tried in this country but is successfully car
ried out In Austria, and Hungary. and
within the present y ear has been adopted in
Belgium. Mr.. Vanlandingham's resolutions
add an important chapter 10 the discussion
OF railroad measures in this country, aud
are therefore given in full:
Resolved. That the adoption by the railways
OF rates similar 10 what is known as the Austro-
Hungarian tariff system fer passenger trsfflc
between commercial centerS and territory
within reasonable radius of such commercial
centers, would be of great benefit TO the general
public as well as profitable to the railways.
Evidence of the fact that such special tariffs
would not only increase travel but the revenues
or the railways is found in the official reports
of the state roads of Austria Hungary for 1890 as
compared with 1889, which show that a decrease
in passenger rate of 40 per cent. brought about
an increase in travel of 10 per CENT, and in
crease in the revenue of the railways ON their
passenger traffic of II per cent
We know that the railway and commercial
situation In American is very different from that
OF Austria Hungary, and that our people would
not be satisfied to accept the accommodations
and slow time of their trains; at the same time
| we believe that the railways can afford to try
| the experiment of a modified zone tariff, good
| for one day of each week, between commercial
| centers and their tributary territory within a
| radius of $50 miles. With that end in view, we
| respectfully request the railway officials to
make the experiment for twelve months. II
| directly or indirectly, we could not object to
| its abandonment.
MIR. Vanlandigham says: 81 believe that
| special rates should be made at first for one
| day in each week only, and that two rates
should be made-first and second class. The
second class rate would be taken advantage
of by many farmers market gardeners and
| others, who would ship their produce into
the city by express, and come on the same
train with it to see that it brought the best
prices in the market. I believe that the
| greatest increase in travel would come from
| this source"