The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-02
RAIL AND OROssTIE.

trains each way will be run after tnat GATE.
The Texas railroad commission has been
getting up cotton tariff, says dispatch,
(which is estimated will save the farmers OF
Texas not less than 81 600 .000."
The separate coach law passed by the last
Arkansas legislature went into effect Aug.
%. It requires the railroads OF the state TO
furnish separate oars for white aud colored
passengers. The various lines had made all
preparations for the change and but little
trouble was experienced in putting it into
effect.
It is reported in Louisville that Stuart r.
Knott, present traffic manager of the Louis
vile and Nashville, will pc promoted to the
position of first vics president The report
is generally credited, and there is consider
able speculation as 20 The changes which
will follow the promotion. The report Is
that when Knott Is promoted to the first vice
presidency, Brent Arnold, the general agent
at Cincinnati, will be given Mr.. Knots
place. The name of Theodore Welsh, gen.
eral freight agent of all the Louisville and
Nashville lines south of Montgomery, is
also mentioned.
The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph thus
describes en- extraordinary locomotive
which is being built at the Pennsylvania
railroad shops at Altoona. Pa, to haul the
limited express train: The locomotive is
being constructed in the Altoona shops. 1t
will be about three times as long as the
average locomotive, will have two sets of
driving wheels. one set being in the front,
and one set of pony wheels under the pilot.
The wheels will be under trucks SO that the
locomotive can 60 around curves. Two
1remen will be necessary to supply the coal.
The locomotive, it is alleged, will be power
full enough to haul train Of freight cars a
mile in length.
The Financial Chronicles state 11ent Of
net earnings for the mouth of June and for
the half year includes 1872 roads or systems,
which operate III, 365 miles, or equal TO
about two-thirds of the entire railroad
mileage of the country. The figures for the
half year show an increase in both gross
and net earnings, in the former OF 81 ,3l7, 1913
and in the latter OF 1855, 6S9. The per-
centage of increase is 1872 IN gross and 3 l6
in net. The comparison is made with
period of very heavy earnings, when the
gain was about s35, 900, 600 on gross and
nearly $4,000, 900 on net. For the month
OF June the exhibit is particularly favor
able, there being an increase OF So, 1872, 400
in gross earnings aud 81. RS 1906 in net.
Assistant General Passenger Agent 8. Fl.
Hardwick of the Riohmond and Danvi!le
has issued circular No. l, to go into effect
to-day, announcing ths following appoint
ments: Alex 5. Thweltt, district passenger
agent. with office at Chattanooga, Tenn. M.
r. Powers, district passenger agent, with
office at New Orleans; Samuel b. Webb,
travelling passenger agent, with office at
} Little Rock, Ark; J. NJ. Means, travelling
passenger agent with Office at Houston,
Tex. John Metcalfe, travelling passenger
agent, with Office at Montgomery, Ala d.
II. Bythewood, passenger agent, with Office
at Macon; w. z. Adams, passenger agent,
with office at Birmingham, Ala; A. A.
Vernoy, passenger agent, with Office at At
} lanta.
,, G. P. Atmore, general passenger agent
: OF the Louisville and Nashville, has issued
the following order to conductors relative
, to the no9~interchange of business at Mobile
between the Louisville and Nashville and
/, the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
! railroad Tickets to points on or beyond
: this company's lines which read by the
East Tennessee, Virginia aud Georgia
, or the Mobile and Birmingham to Mobile
. south-bound, or on the same line north
bound, whether issued by the East Tennes~
,, see, Virginia and Georgia or by any other
> railroad company, must not be honored for
passage after Aug. 81 This order does not
apply to tickets issued by or over the East
tennessee, Virginia and Georgia by way of
any other junction point than Mobhe.n
3 News comes from Chattanooga that the
Western Union Telegraph Company, on the
q 9th, secured an attachment in suit
against the Chattanooga Rome and Column
I
ern railroad for $343 IS for telegraphing
done for the first named road. Office fur
nlture and an engine were levied on. The
telegraph company claimed that the Chat
? tanooaga, Rome and Columbus railroad has
been operating and exercising a railway
: and corporate franchise in this state with-
out any statutory authority to do 50. and
4 was therefore without authority to make
valid transfer of its property and franchises
4 and lease to another corporation without
the statutory consent of the state. so far as
the property and franchises of this state are
y concerned.
, 1t is reported, says the Engineering NetUS,
that single rail railway on the Lartigue
system is to be built from the Feurs to
6 Parricsieres, France. The line will be about
ten and oneh half miles long. The system
s consists of series of A frames resting on
the ground and carrying the rail on top,
. while guide rails along the sides serve to
steidy the train. The engine and cars
straddle the track, the latter having longi-
- tudinal seats, the Passengers sitting with
their backs to the track. A railway on this
= system ten miles long, has been in opera.
ton for some time IN Ireland. It is said
r that the French government has sent COM
mission TO Ireland to inspect this line with
? q view of adopting the system for lines in
the French colonies, and that the engineer
of q railway in India has also recently in
!, spected it with view of adopting the sys-
tenn for feeders to the railway.
In Buda>Pesth, Hungary, three electric
a railway lines using the conduit system have
been running more than 8 year and climb
ing steep grades. One of the wheels of each
!. pair rides on q Hartmann rail, which is
~ grooysd in the center. while the other rides
upon the top of the conduit which is built
= up by two angle irons. leaving slot l5s
9 inches wide The conductors consist of
+ angle iron, which has sufficient oonduc-
tivity and ia able 90 withstand the wear due
n to the friction OF the contact plow. The
d motor employed is Constructed in a manner
p similar to the Siemens dynamos, with mag
nets Of bar iron, adopted in order to reduce
r as much as possible the weight of the ma
u chine. The motion is transmitted
TO the car axle through the
;, medium of sproket chain. The electro
II motive force employed is 300 volts The
brushes are fixed on movable frame with
J. q gearing which connects with crank
b wheel on the platform. The operator is thus
e given an easy means of regulating the
K speed or reversing the movement OF the car.
t During the operation of these roads the
cars. up to the end Of December, 1890, had
covered more than 100000 car miles and
carried 4,924,030 passengers, averaging
a ; 54-lO0 passengers per car kiloinetre bout
a three-fifths Of a mile. Tho general speed Of
the cars within the city is limited to o.
o miles Dar hour fhOuOh havOrd Cartair