The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-27
RAIL AND CRoSsrIE-

Port Royal had a railroad wreck the other
morning that made the town think an
! earthquake had struck it. An incoming
train eollided with a section OF cars in the
Port Royal yard. The engine struck one Of
| the fiat ears, the greater portion of it pene-
trating the boiler, completely destroying the
locomotive. It has been estimated that she
damage will reach not less than SIS 600, and
| by some the damage has been placed at
about $40, 600 The locomotive is a complete
wreck. Four or FIVE fiat cars were com
pletely demolished
Ii is understood that General Manager
McBee's offica and the few other offices
which the Richmond aud Danvile have left
IN operation in the old building at West
Broad and New streets will shortly be re-
moved to the new building just south Of it.
The old Office building viii then be con-
verted into storerooms. 1t was jokingly
suggested yesterday by gentleman speak
ing or the deserted appearance OF the place
that II any of Savannah's judges wished to
punish criminal severely all that would
be necessary would be sentence of solitary
confinement on the frat floor OF the Gen.
trails old office building.
As q comparison of English and American
railway fare, the SouEheAstern railway Of
Eagland has for few years been running
what1s called "club train between Lon-
don and Dover in connection With its
channel steamboat service and the Cont
mental railway service to Paris and other
cities, This train has been regarded as an
elaborate affair, and a very high extra fare
has been charged for the privilege OF travel
ing on It; in fact, much higher fare than
the accommodation warrants. The train
consists OF some cars of the American type
somewhat like the cars built in this country
several years ago, but having through COM
munication and vestibuled connections be-
tween the cars The run Of about seventy
five miles is made in an hour ana forty min
utes without stop, the average running
time being little over forty-three miles per
hour. The fare on this train is 90 20. In
this country travel is much cheaper and the
accommodations are infinitely better
The Boston Globe in a long article on rail-
rosds, says: There are just about $4,000
locomotives in the United States. One-hslf
of these are used in hauling freight trains.
It's pretty accurate to say that the locomo-
tives in the United States cost $3.50, 600, 600.
There are !, 100 600 cars of all kinds, Of
which &c, 900 are passenger cars and the re-
mainder freight or road service cars. The
passenger cars cost about $3.50 900, 900, and
the freight and other cars about $500, 000,-
QUO. 30, you see, we have approximately
81, 500, 000, 900 as the cost of the rolling stock
OF our railways, sum great enough to pay
the national debt and more. Now, suppose
All eneso tocohotlNes "ere coupleo 6oSebner
and started across the country in one solid
train. how long do you think it would be?
asks the statistican of the interstate com
MERGE commission. Three hundred miles:
yes. 800 miles of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS enough
to pull Jupiter down to the earth, could we
only hitch to him. Then add the passenger
cars, and we should have $40 miles more.
and IL we wanted huge mixed train, and
were to put in all the:box, fiat and every
other kind Of freight cars, our train would be
cars could carry more than 500 0G0 Of peo-
pie. and upon the freight cars could be
loaded the weight of all the pyramids of
Egypt and all tnestate capitols in the United
States