The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-16
RAIL AND CRossrIa. ia

that body and been signed by the governor.
| has become a law.
The rate-makers of the various roads
| about Chattanooga interested are hard at
| work on the new rates occasioned by the
rebilliug privilege All the roads entering
the city have agreed to the change, and
will be ready to announce the new rates in
a few days.
The Halifax and Indian River Railway
| Company, reported as organized to build a
| railroad from Daytona to Titusville, q dis
| tance of fifty miles, has been chartered by
George N. Robbins and Walter s. Graham
of Titusville, and w. M. Brown. The CAPT.
tai stock is $500, 900.
The Jacksonville, Gadsden and Alfalfa
fla Railroad Company is said TO have de-
| cided at q recent meeting of the stockholders
| to build railroad from Jacksonville In a
southearterly direction TO the Georgia state
line; also to build road from Alfalfa Ia q
northwesterly direction TO the Tennessee
| line.
| In New York the supreme court holds
| that when a passenger, while passing from
the smoking car, where he went TO smoke,
to his seat in another coach on q moving
train, is thrown off by the breaking of the
| coupling between two cars, caused by the
negligence Of the railroad company, the
company Is liable.
| A new method OF ventilating railroad
carriages and preventing dust from enter
| ing with the air has appeared in France
The more quickly the train moves the more
rapidly the apparatus works. The air is
made 60 traverse a receptacle containing
water, which cools il aud relieves it OF
dust, after which it goes through another
hltering before entering the carriage.
| A new departure in railway insurance
has been inaugurated. It has long been
| the custom with some railways to insure all
| freight In their possession whether In transit
| or at the various stations on the line, but
the Long Island Railroad Company is re-
ported Co have made encouragement with
the American Casualty Insurance and
Security Company of Baltimore under
which ell claims for personal injury shall be
assumed by that company. thereby reliev-
ing the railroad company from any liability
in connection Herewith.
The Missouri Pacific company has issued
an order abolishing smoking on all passed.
| ger trains in Louisiana and Arkansas, ex-
cept in the smoking rooms of sleeping cars.
This action is taken on account of the re-
cent law requiring separate coaches for
white and colored persons. The company
has heen running divided smoker for the
accommodation Of the two colors, but this
did not meet with the requirements OF the
| law, which says that separate coaches must
be provided. The company could not af-
ford to run two smoking cars on each tram
hence it was decided to prohibit smoking
altogether.
A railroad company Is negligent 10 fall
ing to provide freight train with a suit
able number OF links with which 10 make
the couplings required, aud in requiring
the brakeman to use II link so misshapen
that his hand was crushed between the cars
in attempting to use it. A brakeman on q
freight train is not guilty OF negligence in
al 4Tf To Ia kokr.r
cars of unequal hight with misshapea link
which he had been directed by the conduo-
tor to take from the ground and use, when,
owing to darkness and storm. he did not
discover the defect in the link in time to
avoid the accident. 80 held the supreme
court Of Colorado in a recent case.
Eastern roads will charge ons full rate on
exhibits for the worlds Columbian exposi~
ton. The full rate will bo charged on ship
ments comming 20 Chicago, but the exhibits
will be returned free. This was decided at
the Meeting of the freight committee of the
Central Traffic Association last week No
measures were taken to allow a half rate
one way on perishable exhibits which are
not returned. The association takes the
ground that il half rate is allowed in each
direction, instead Of the rate adopted, the
doors for extensive manipulation in freight
rates would be opened, as large quantities
Of freight would be sent to Chicago on
exhibition rates which would not be en-
titled to any concessions.
The RGilt0dy Age says now that the
cablegrams to the daily press has begun to
report railway accidents In Europe the
American public is learning that the rail-
ways OF this country do not suffer much in
comparison with those of other lands in re-
spect TO casualties. A dispatch from Paris
dated sept. reports that through the neg
lect OF switohman train was telescoped,
lnjuring fourteen persons, ami that another
express train was run into by freight
, train from the rear, the passengers only es-
Gaping by reason or the fact that the last
car of the express was a baggage car. Az
most OF the railways on the continent are
under government control 1t Is probable,
the Age thinks, that reports Of accidents
are very frequently suppressed, while on
the other hand in this free country the I'M
fettered press hastens to record the slightest
casualty.
The interstate commerce commission has
rendered a decision which somewhat inter-
feres with the opera alton OF tho separate
coach law in Texas. A negro who had pur-
! chased a chair car ticket in Louisiana on
the Southern Pacific was against his will
transferred to the car for colored persons
upon reaching the Texas state line. He
appealed to the interstate commission,
which decided that the law had been vio-
lated, iuasmach as it provides that no dis
elimination against race shall be shown.
This decision has caused the Southern Pa
cific company to issue the following circu-
lar TO its conductors: "Colored people
making Interstate trips have a ri91t TO
accommodation in all sleeping and chair
cars Ii they can secure fTst-class tickets of
the agents, but where colored people are
making local state trips they are not en-
titled TO sleeping or chair cars under any
consideration unless the car lie placed in the
train aud held exclusively for colored pas
sengers.n
1t is thought, says the Macon Telegraph,
that track-laying will begin in earnest on
the Macon and Atlantic Just as soon as
force OF a hundred or more hands can DO
secured and organized Contractor Strang
is also IN New York, but is expected to
come home at once and begin this work. Ii
is given out that track-laying will begin
fourteen miles beyond Brewton. where it
left of, aud another force may be started
each way from Guyton. IL is proposed to
lay track at the rate Of a least one mile per
day and they may go faster. 1t is believed
the entire road from Brewton to the South
Bound can be completed by Jan. /.
Only q few miles Of two foot filing remain
to be done on the road aud then only track
laying. There are thIrty-five miles Of rails
at Brewton ready TO be put down, which,
with the fourteen miles already laid, will
make forty-nine miles ready for the cars,
il is hoped, by Nov. l, II not SCORER. About
affV miles OF traok would than raTnain 70 ha