The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-04
RAIL AND CaOsSTIB.

Construction trains are now running into
Jacksonville on the Macon and Dublin
road. A regular passenger schedule to JEFF
fersonville will be put in operation on or
about Monday, April Is.
A bill before the Massachusetts, legisla-
ture compels companies running sleeping
cars on railroads Of the state to accord to
the occupant of the lower berth in sleeper
the opportunity to have the free air and
ventilation OF the entire section, unless the
upper berth is paid for and occupied.
The electric headlight is certainly des-
tined to be the headlight Of the future.
There is, perhaps. some objection on ac-
count of first cost, but no engineer who has
ever used 1t would care to exchange it for
the oil light-dim, uncertain and unhandy
as 1t is. A number Of Indiana roads are
now using the new headlight
An order, dated March IS, from j. G.
Key, receiver of the Covipgton and Macon
railroad. appoints Maj. Hamilton Wilkins
superintendent and chief engineer Of the
company. The same order appoints A. G.
Craig, heretofore acting superintendent, as
assistant superintendent and general freight
and passenger agent Of the company.
The case Of Mclaughlin Bros. and others
against McTighe & Co., the contractors for
the Macon and Atlantic railroad, is occu-
plying the attention Of the United States
court in Macon. 1t is claimed that McTighe
& Co. are insolvent. In the meanwhile all
work on the railroad is stopped. Tho Tells
graph says the court room during the
hearing is crowded every day with suit.
contractors and others to whom are due vas
rlous amounts for work done ard services
rendered on the Macon and Atlantic and
other lines under construction by the Macon
Construction companies.
The separate coach bill has passed both
houses of the Texas legislature. 1t re-
quires separate coaches OF equal
comfort and convenience for white
and colored passengers, but separate CON-
partments in one coach will answer. Nurses
may travel with their employers, and
freight trains, as we'll as sleeping and chair
cars are exempt from the operation of this
act; neither does it apply to excursion
trains run strictly for the use of either race
separately. Conductors must separate the
races and are 10 be fined from IS to $25 for
failure to do so. A passenger in the wrong
car and refusing to lie I'VE it is subject to ike
fine. Railroad companies are liable to
fine Of 800 to 81, 900 for each train for fail
ure to provide separate cars.
Rates of one full fare going and one-third
of the highest limited fare returning, on the
certificate plan, have been authorized by
the Southern Passenger Association for per-
SUD bu0 Oh the pan
republic congress committee, to be held at
Washington April to II, inclusive. Dele
gates 60 the meeting can secure tickets at
principal points for the going journey on
April 5, q and Z, and should, at the time of
purchase, request a certificate, showing the
amount of fare paid aud the route over which
the ticket reads. This certificate, upon be-
ing properly Endorsed by the secretary of
the meeting in Washington, will be honored
at Washington for return tickets &C one
third fare, if presented on or before
April IA.
The principal subject which engaged the
attention of the general passenger agents at
Birmingham this W eek was the matter of
summer excursion tickets. The lines mainly
east and west, which compose the Southern
Passenger Agents Association, last year
removed many of the vexatious restrictions
as to limit and signature, and found ir to
work we'll. The commissioner of that asso-
citation will decide whether TO use the same
form for another year, and all the lines that
are members will abide by that decision.
The lines not members concluded not to
make any change from the old ironclad
rules, and the tickets used will accordingly
be strictly limited and signature be required.
Should the commissioners OF the association
decide to go back to that form all the
members will then unite in the same kind
OF tickets with the others. Ii is generally
understood, however, that this decision will
be favorable to the plan used last year.