The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-05
RAIL AND CROSsTIE.

| A meeting of rate clerks Of the Southern
| Railway Passenger aud Steamship Associa-
| tion will be held in Atlanta to day. All
| the lines of the association will be repre-
sented. The meeting is held for the purpose
of compiling the rates to Florida made at
the recent meeting of passenger agents in
Cincinnati A meeting OF rate clerks,
| representing liues north OF the Ohio river,
will be held In Chicago, Oct. 10.
The Richmond Terminal Company is said
to be paying interest and rentals on the
Danville system aud Georgia Central
amounting t. about $500 600 President
Inman says that The money was provided
entirely out Of earnings, but he adds that he
has sold for the Terminal company 1900
shares of Baltimore and Ohio stock at 9719,
which has been held as on asset, but which
js no longer needed. and iaasmuch as there
is good market for it the directors author
lied the sale Of it. The company aid hold
1900 shares at one time. The proceeds Of
the sale have been used in part to reduce the
floating debt, which other wise remains un-
changed.
Freight and ticket agents in the United
States are not the only rate cutters. In
England millions of money have been lost
to the roads through the Generalization of
rates. and now, after five years. uuceasing
and very costly struggle in and out of
parliament against the public demand for
revision Of railway tariffs, the English
railway companies have obtained new
system Of rates, the exact value of which to
their shareholders OF to the trading
| community remains to be proved. The
enormous diversity Of the rates, amount
ing to scores of millions, renders
a comparative estimate of the changes from
the old tariffs an almost impossible task
But the required schedules are not 30 be
| enforced before August of next year. Civ
ing ample time for the exceedingly com,
pick process of revision to be carried out.
The order provides for a new classification,
applicable to all goods, and having new
longer deal with freight charges on the old
loose system. They cannot cancel rates
now, but must work within the maximum
They cannot contract in consonance with
the maximum, but IL they make contract
with one man, they must give other con-
tracts on the same condition.
There are several box cars chained to
side track in Macon, and thereby hangs q
tale. They have been there for several days;
| they belong to theEsst Tennessee railroad and
we're chained up by the East Tennessee.
few years ago the East Tennessee
road built a side track out to
the works and thersby secured a
good bus ness from the company. All other
! cara reaching the works had to 90 over che
| East Tennessee tracks and were charged
mileage. The Central railroad has grown
| tired of this arrangement, and a few weeks
| ago decided TO build a side track of its own
to the phosphate works. They began the
| work, but an unexpected barrier arose i'll
| the way. 1t was cars chained to the track.
| This is how it was: Between the main line
of the Central and the phosphate works the
East Tennessee owned side track, which
| the Central would have t. cross to
! reach the works The East Tennessee was
not over anxious for the Central to build this
! -ide track, and so It came to pass one day
| that, either by accident or design, a num-
| Der of cars we're chained to the side track
| Just where the Centrars side track would
have crossed. Whea those chained cars
| pick up the track and roll away, the Central
| will probably complete its unfinished side
track.
| The last debt owned by the Macon and
Atlantic road, the Telegraph SAYS, will be
| paid next week ana track laying begun at
| once is tho latest news about this ROAD. The
exact date set for all this is Oct. TO- but it
is claimed that everything will be ready
| for the payment prior to thai date.
| The last installment of the $3.50 900
| subscription is due on Oct. 10, but the
money il is said, is now ready to bs paid
| in. The subscriutjons were made in five in
sta,lments of S15000o each, but many of
the subscribers gave their notes, which were
to be placed in New York and the money
secured on them. The notes, how
over, were not placed and the
road had to depend on the cash
subscri 1ers alone From these $50 900
will 90 secured on or before Oct. 10. The
| amount now owed by the unfinished road,
and which must be paid before it is finished,
is S2S 900. This will leave the road bal
ance of $751; 900 to keep up operations,
which will suffice to keep the work
| going tor thirty days or more,
and then other money will be re-
ceived. AS soon as the debt is paid AID the
road is free. Strong q McKee, the con-
tractors, will send force of fifteen or more
hands below Brewton to begin track-laying.
Fourteen miles OF the track is already down,
and the force will begin at the end Of this line.
| Contractor Mckee told the Telegraph that
it was proposed to lay track at the rate of
three-quarters Of mile day at FIRST TO be
increased later, if found necessary. At
| Brewton to the South Bound will
lie completed and be ready for
the cars by Dec. Is. The grad
! ing force, he says, is sufficient
to keep ahead of .the track force, and
| both will be put TO their utmost. About
twenty-five miles of the road is already
dressed up and ready for the track, bat
some ErduluB nus yeC 10 Do u0ne enure De-
tween Guyton and the South Bound. This,
however, is light. only two-foot fill having
to be made, and it can be rapidly done
| Capt Mckee says there is positively no
reason now why cars should not be rum
ming on the Macon and Atlantic between
Brewtol and Savannah before Jan l. He
says the road will be finished now just as
fast as the work can be done, beyond u
doubt, and without a cessation of work.
In speaking of the line between Macon
and Brew5on, Capt. Mckee said the balance
of the grading needed will not cost over
$780, 90 and the entire other work not over