The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-29
RAIL AND Cross TIE.

r.. Georgia, Carolina and Northern was
,---Istad 20 Elberton, April Is. and work
m h. rushed from that place to Athens.
~. Pullman Palace Car Company has
. .-,-ssed a large manufacturing site at st.
p No. where, it Is stated, new works
- ~ erected that will give employment
fo 900 men.
r German railways now aggregate 24,6O0
Il - and employ $500 locomotives, zoos
a.i-sa9yer cars, 5j6,S51 freight cars and
nj officials and ether employees. L,
! ~ r-are were :, 0SS accidents of all kinds.
~ /. an average Of one for about every
-. miles, which, on the mileage of the
It'd states, would mean over p, 900 acct
'fents.
,ir,s passengers in dining and buffet cars
= informed that no wines or liquors can
n ssrged until the state line is passed.
r. me Colorado legislature has passed an
4 ~ providing that beverages of all kinds
= be sold in such cars without obtain
= any towD, city, county or state
/ ,5nse as liquor dealers or otherwise"
The Colorado law, as amended, in regard
the liability of railways for live stock
4 led by their engines fixes the following
Gale of prices TO be paid to owners, in case
e. railway is not fenced: American sheen
y 50 each, Mexican sheep and goats 81 So:
"A exas cattle-yearlings $40, 2-year-olds
I'd. 8 year-olds S17, 4 -year-olds or over S22;
a merican cattle-yearlings Sl2, 2-year,oIds
81. 3-year-olds $25, 4-year-oid and over
sol cows $50, calves 81 so.
General Manager Greene of the Big Four
ksys that the company's experience with
#rket collectors on certain divisions has
ben very satisfactory, and that the service
Kill be extended over other divisions. The
Conductors are given ample time to look
a tier the running of their trains; they
#rske better time and are more exempt
Erom accidents than ever before. When
r9nductors take up the tickets there are
klwavs passengers who object to something.
Hssk explanations of their tickets and a
Thousand and one questions which are so
bitten annoying and TexatiOus to con-
''uctor, drawing his attention from running
bis train and making it possible that he
forget some important order.
John Hayes, brakeman who has been in
he employ of he Albany G. Snsquehanna
-ailroad in New York State for eight years,
las spent more than five years of that time
u hospital suffering from injuries received
n the discharge of his duties. Twice he
aas been caught between the bumpers
while coupling freight cars, in one case
having several TlDS DTOKeQ, anu mas laQ DIS
hight hand badly crushed. On several &C.
asions he has sustained injuries more or
ess severe in collisions and derailments.
Some weeks ago, while standing on the car
If a freight train, the car jumped the track
and went down bank, throwing thebrake-
nan on his head and shoulders on the
!rozen ground. He is now in q hospital
With c)ncussion Of the brain.
The longest sleeping car run in the world
doubtless that on the Canadian Pacific
alway from Montreal to Vancouver ., 9O5
miles This is nearly 200 miles longer than
he run from st. Louis to the City of
Mexico which was mentioned in rece It
ssue as probable the longest and in regard to
rhch an officer of the Canadian company
Kindly corrects us. If the Canadian Pacific
we're desirious of increasing this remarka-
blerun it could easily extend 1t to :, or
niles by starting its cars at Quebec, or it
ould make the mileage still more extraor-
Euary by adding 4Sl miles ard commenc-
ng it at st, John, N. B.-3,3S5 miles over
rs own line from Vancouver. But it is
hardly necessary to increase the continuous
ervice Of sleeping cars above the mileage
Already made on several of the long lines,
lltbough when the great International rail
Fay is completed it may be that passengers
viii be able to ride from well up toward
he north pole down to the vicinity of
Cape Horn without changing cars.