The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-30

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| The appellate court Of Indiana has held
| that while a railroad company may run an
excursion train at reduced rates and require
| passengers to purchase tickets as condition
upon which they shall obtain the benefit of
such rates, and may enforce this rule
| against all who by their own fault fail to
| comply with it, yet where a passenger is
unable to procure a ticket tn rough the fault
OF the company, he may take passage on
| such train and upon a tender of the ticket
fare will be entitled to all the rights and
privileges that ticket would give him.
Among the bills which received second
reading in the South Carolina legislature
last week was the bill Co charter the
Charleston, Batesburg and Western rail-
road. The line of the route laid down in
the charter is as follows: "a railroad
from Batesburg through Lexington, Aiken.
| Edgeheld and Newberry counties, to such
| point on the Barnwell Aston aud New
berry railroad as the company, when
formed, may determine upon, with the
privilege. when the company shall see fit. to
extend the line to Charleston, s. G., which
| It. when formed, may determine upon"
The incorporates are: John Huiet, U. x.
| Gunter, T. J. Kernaghan. N. A. Bates. An
| drew B. Watson, w. B. Plunkett and L. ID.
Cullum. The capital stock is 100000 with
power to increase to IS 900 900. No active
| promoters of the enterprise appeared and
| the bill went through without discussion or
| amendment.
An Atlanta Journal man heard the only
| Machen remark the other day that there
| will be another road from Atlanta to Savan-
nah within three years, aud that when it
| comes it will not only be sixty miles shorter
| than any other line between the two places.
| but would save drummers living in Atlanta
and Savannah who travel between these
points $l2, 900 year. What do the houses
who pay the travelling expenses of the
aforesaid drummers think of this?
They have got railroad travelling down
to pretty fine point in France, where the
deaths from accidents from 1875 to 1880
were only one to evUry $4,000, 900 passen-
| gers, and OF wounded only one to every
| 1,000,300. IN other European countries it
is considerably greater, while in this coun-
try where we rush things, take more chances
and value human life less, the proportion
| of deaths was between 1881 and 1888, one
| killed to every 100000 and one wounded
to every $4,000.
The grading on the Washington branch
| OF the Wilmington and Weldon railroad is
| now completed to within ten miles of Wash
| ington. The branch will be twenty-five
| miles in length, and extends from juno
tion with the Albemarle and Raleigh rail-
road to Washington.
| William B. Astor holds no title in the
| railroad world, occupying no Off ial posi-
ton, but, although it is not generally
known, as the owner of the securities Of
| railroads he ranks but little lower than men
like tie Vanderbilts, Gould, Huntington
and a few others Inheriting enormous
wealth, Mr.. Aston has neither the time nor
| the inclination to take any active part in
| the management of the many railway prop
critics in which be is interested. He ocoa-
sionally does act as director and has formed
the habit of attending nearly all Of the
| important directors meetings OF the com-
panies he is most interested in. At these
meetings he usually says little, but when
| his advice is asked and followed it is in
variably found 10 be sound. The story is
told that Mr.. Astor was once asked to take
the presidency of a railway company about
to be reorganiZed, and was promised that
if he did accept that Office it would involve
no work on his part. He replied: mo,
I've got couple of lots uptown that re-
quire all my attention. If became presi-
dent of railroad and did no work the d.
rectors would have too good time. think
| you had better take Mr.. Gould or somebody
who knows more than do" So he has no
| railroad title except that of director.
A gentleman, just returned from Darien,
reports the people there enthusiastic about
the building of the Darien Short Line New
| York capitalists have taken hold of the en-
terprise, and it is thought the road is now
settled fact. 1t will run through a
splendid section of country, and will be
thirty-one miles in length. The Short
Line will connect with the Savannah,
Florida and Western at Walthourville.
The earnings Of the East Tennessee, Vir-
GINA and Georgia for the second week of
November we're S144, 1864, loss of SIS, S91
as compared with the corresponding period
in 1890.