The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-19
RAIL AND OROSSTIf.

Commencing to-day trains will leave
Savannah on the Tybee road as follows:
Sundays at $50 a. m. and $3.50 p. m. week
days at 1890 a. m. Returning sunday
trains will leave Tybee at II a. m. and D p. |
m. and on week days 4 p. m.
The salary Of the employees on the
Alabama Midland has been increased about !
10 per cent. The passenger conductors now
get the regular Louisville and Nashville
standard pay. This is owing to the great
increase of business on the Midland and the |
way the men stuck to the road during their |
nard times last fall
Lately the Richmond and Danville has
given orders that the Belt Line be virtually
boycotted. mo freight is allowed to be
received from the Belt Line at the depots of
the Richmond and Danville," SAID Capt
Rucker to q Banner representative. What
ever virtue there may be IN the power of
the railroad commission it will be tested.
The case will be before the commission at
ISIS next meeting.
Athens is after the Richmond and Dan
| vile. The Banner says. The Belt Line is
short railroad that connects every railroad
line running into the city. 1t was built for
this purpose by Capt. j. H. Rucker, and
has been operated for more than a year by
Capt. Rucker, very much to the con-
venience and advantage of the merchants
can very easily be shifted on the
Belt Line to any other railroad depot
that might be desired. thus saving
the merchants very much expense OF
| draying, etc.
Street railway statistics are given as fol-
lows by the Street RdillUdy Journal: THE
total number of miles of street railways in
the United States aud Canada is IL ,029, Of
which 5 ,442 are operated by animal power.
5000 by electric power, 1913 by steam
| power and $50 by cable power. The total
| number of cars employed in the street rail-
way traffic of the United States and Canada
is SO ,5l7, of which 25,424 are operated by
animal power, 6,732 by electric power, 1917
| by cable power and 1.044 by steam power.
| The total number of companies operating
| street railways in the United States and
| Canada is LOB, of which 412 operate cleo
| trio lines and "a operate cable lines. The
| number OF horses employed in street car
service is IS, ia, Of mules 10 ,002, and of
steam motors 200 It is interesting to note
| that since November, 1890, the number of
horses employed on street railway lines has
fallen from 1l6, 10 to SS,114 that is, 2S,6S1
| in one year."
No man in the country. says the New
| York Times, has made q greater study OF
| the art of living than John F. Chamber
lain. He rode to Utica on the Chicago
limited the other day and subsequently said
to friend: "Fhe fault with all these rail-
| ways that maintain dining cars is that
they try to do too much. Americans are
the most considerate people in the world,
and while they invariably demand q full
equivalent for their money, they are salts
fed with less, if it is of the best quality,
than superabundance of poor quality
Now, these dining cars endeavor TO lay too
many dishes before their patrons. People
eat less when they travel than when they
are at home or attending to business
What the traveller desires for dinner is a
good soup, not canned, but fresh, a salad
and light desert. OF course. all persons
would not be suited, nor are all suited now,
but am convinced the majority of travel
erB would be better satisfied
Four cases, as announced in the MORNING
NEWS Atlanta dispatches yesterday, have
been brought by the Georgia Railroad Com
mission before the interstate commission.
The first case is against the Clyde Steam>
ship Company, the South Carolina Railroad
Company, the Georgia Railroad and Bank
ing Company. the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company and the Central Railroad
and Banking Company of Georgia, lessees
of the Georgia railroad, the Richmond and
Dauville Railroad Company, aud the Geor-
gia Pacific Railway Company, lessees of the
Central railroad of Georgia. 10 this
case the defendants are charged with
unjust discrimination against Greens
|
towns in their freight rates from New Y ork
in favor of Augusta. The second case is
against the Ocean Steamship Company, the
Central Railroad and Banking Company of
Georgia, the Georgia Pacific Railway Com
pany and the Richmond and Danville Rail
road Company, as lessee Of and now operat-
ing the Central railroad and the South
western division OF the Central railroad of
Georgia. In this the charge is made that
the company involved unjustly discrilni-
mates against the towns OF Everett, Butler,
Geneva and Schatulga on the Columbus line
in favor of Columbus and Georgetown in
rates from New York. The third
VS.. .the Western and Atlantic Railroad
Company, the Louisville aud Nashville
Railroad Company, the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis Railroad Company,
) the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas
Pacific Railway Company, lessee of the
= Cincinnati Southern railway. and the Gin
cinnati Southern Railway Company. In
this the plaintiffs aege that the rates of
freight into towns and stations on said rail-
road in the state Of Georgia were unreason-
able and discriminating in their nature, in
that a greater rate of freight is charged
from Cincinnati to Marietta, Gainesville,
= Acworth and other points between Atlanta
and Chattanooga, than to Atlanta. which
is a greater distance. The fourth case
is brought by the commission
against Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Texas Pacific Railway Company, lessee
of the Cincinnati railway, the Clncin att
Southern Railway Company, the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Com
pany, the Central Railroad and Banking
Company of Georgia, the Georgia Pacific
Railway Company, and the Richmond aud
: Danviiie Railroad Company, lessees Of and
operating the Central railroad OF Georgia
ATLANTA division). 1t is charged that the
! n Macon n
! is less than the tariff to intermediate points
less distant from the shipping poiut. These
cases will be brought before the interstate
commission, at Washington, by Assistant
Attorney General Little