The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-09
RAIL AND CRosSTIE

miles, Of the Carolina Midland is now COM
pleted to the connection with the Port
Royal and Augusta line OF the Central
Georgia. The rails have been purchased,
and track-laying will be commenced as soon
as they are delivered.
The monthly record of railway accidents
j In the United States, pu 5lished in the Rail
| road Gazette shows that in June there
were l67 accidents, in which sixty persons
were killed and 1871 injured. OF those killed
| five were passengers and and fifty en-
lploFes; Of those injured l67 were passengers
and $50 employees. Fifty of the accidents
were the result Of collisions and 100 were
| derailments.
4 The South Carolina board OF railroad
! commissioners Jane report makes a good
showing for South Carolina railroads The
earnings shows pretty good increase over
| the month of May. The net increase over
( those OF the same months last year is 500
666 3l-nearly s60sa00-or IS. 1872 per celt.
The increase In the freight earnings is much
larger than the passenger earnings, owing
! TO the big watermelon shipments.
! The Millen Southern railway is now
I finished to Millen, and the road from Rogers
is TO be Abandoned. The new line from
Millen to stillmore wiA be in operation on
1 and after Wednesdays Aug. 10. Close con-
nections are to be made at Millen with all
scheduled trains on the main stem, and Au-
| gusta and Milen branches of the Central
Passengers for Millen and Southern trains
will change at Millen, and shippers will
have TO route freight via Millen instead of
| Rogers, as heretofore.
| An expert electrician, in a paper upon
Electricity as the Rival of Steam" before
scientific institute, recently, concluded:
In this we have seen that we must look upon
| electricity not as in any sense able to dis
| place steam as a prime mover, but as an
| enormously powerful and convenient means
Of transferring power from one point to an
other with the greatest simplicity and small
losses. Probably for long time TO come
| by far the greater portion of dynamos will
continue to be driven by steam engines; but
80 far as use at given point is concerned
| the electric motor is a most successful rival
| OF the steam engine. II the day ever comes
as it may, although we can hardly dare to
| look for it-when we can obtain electrical
energy directly from coal, as we now OBJ
tain heat energy, the days Of the steam en-
CINE will be numbered. AS already pointed
out. electricity and heat are very intimately
| connected. Every time we heat piece of
| iron, for example, We stir up not only what
we call heat, but also electric magnetic
energy, which is the form in which heat is
radisted; and if we go on heating long
enough we may raise the iron to a white
| heat, and recognize the energy in its
familiar form of light. But all this is merely
the dream OF the future; perhaps it will be
| fulfilled some day-but until then we must
| depend upon our present dynamos.
| The railway carriage used by the autoorat
| of all the Russias is thus described: The
windows. while ample for light, are high,
/ so that a person sitting down is invisible
from the outside, and the sides of the car
are fortified with plates Of steel concealed
| in the ornamental woodwork, but strong
enough to resist bullet There are two
sentry boxes In the carriage, one at each
end, and each looking out at an opposite
side from the other. The guardsmen on
duty in these apartments are shut in from
any observation OF the interior of the car
riage, but at Intervals of about two feet
the whole length Of the saloon are electric
buttons communicating with the guard
chambers, as well as with the two car
riages, one containing the suite and the
other, in the rear, occupied by the guards
men not on duty. So far, therefore, as the
train itself IL concerned, the car could be
no more secure in st. Petersburg The
train speeds on to its destination without a
lalt, except on account of accidents. At
distance Of not less than five miles ahead is
a pioneer train, In which the imperial direc-
tor of railways and the chief engineer of
the particular railways on which the czar is
travelling always ride. AS the pilot train
whizzes by the reserves along the line rush
to arms and guard the sides Of the railway,
waiting until the imperial train has passed
80 that the spectacle is presented Of continu-
GUS lines of soldiers for hundreds of miles.
Arrived at the end of his journey, the car
IS escorted to the quarters Intended for the
imperial family
A school for railroading is the newest
thing in the railroad line, and it has been
| inaugurated by the Reading line in the city
of Resding. The employees of the road ia
that city assembled TO listen to lectures by
experienced and competent trainmen and
employees on the general art of railroad
ing, and more particularly to hear
an expounding of the rules and regulations
OF the company. This school Of instruction.
as 1t is termed almost unique in the history
or railrcading IN this country, ia the result
OF long and careful study and experience
in railroading of Assistant General Su-
perintendent Bonzano. He some time ago
recognized the Importance OF some means
OF familiarizing the employees of the road,
and, especially the trainmen, with the
rules of the company, and at once pro-
ceeded to put his ideas into practice Ac-
cordlngly a circular letter was sent out
early in June calling meeting Of the en-
ployes for June IA, the call stating: THAT
the object Of these meetings is to give the
trainmen who are not entirely familiar
with the single-track and other
rules, or who are in doubt upon the moan
| Ing OF any rCle, special Instructions
At first only the trainmen centering in
Reading attended, but, as the Importance
of the project became known among
the men, others began to come in until
now representatives from all along the
line attend. While the attendance at
this school Of instruction is not compulsory
every employe who attends is registered,
and In case of al accident, by reason of a
failure to comply with any rules OF the
company, those who have not attended will
NOT be permitted to plead ignorance, and no
| NfFNnp0Gtanpa hnW nallS
excuse them. This school, which
was started more 3 in the
nature Of an experiment, has met
with such hearty co-operationTon the part
of the traihmen that as soon as a sufficient
number Of trainmasters at different points
along the various lines of the company have
been thoroughly drilled as instructors il is
the intention to establish these schools at
various other points. seqtle
The object Of this school is not only to
thoroughly instruct the trainmen
in q, the rules of W. the COM
pany, but to establish among them
that conh5sncs in each other, which comes
of thorough knowledge Of all the details of
railroadtng When two conductors, run
ming trains, especially on a single track
road, which are coming toward each other
and viii pass at given point, know that
each has complete and thorough know
ledge of therules prescribed II will allay any
fears that either may have of accidents by
reasons Of the others ignorance"
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