The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-22
RAIL AND CROssTIE.

The Atlantic Coast Line offers cheap ex,
cursion rates to the @. A. r. eucampment
at Washington, D. G. Sept. Is to 30. Tick.
cts will be good to return until Oct 10.
Some western railroads have begun K
distribute worlds fair souvenirs as adver
tisements The Chicago aud Alton and the
Maple Leaf are out with handsome pictures
Work on the Readings Frankford branch
at Philadelphia has been temporarily
| stopped, owing to a change of grade.
Freight and passenger stations costing
$4,000 will be built at frankfort.
The Aurora and Chicago Interurban rail-
way, which has been granted franchise at
Aurora. Ill, will run an electric line from
that city to Chicago, distance Of forty
| miles, via way Of Riverside. It is to be
running by December. 1898.
Receiver Sparks Of the Georgia Southern
and Florida railroad has requested permits
sion OF the court TO borrow the sum of $500
900 for she purpose OF building branch
road from Triton to Townsville. The con-
struction OF the branch will make 800, 900
OF assets available to the road.
The Lynn and Boston street railway, and
the Lynn belt line and Naumkeag street
railway have been purchased by asyndicate
| composed Of j. and w. SeliRman & Co,
August Belmont & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co. !.
Z. w. Clark 81 Co. and Fl. B. Hollins &
| Co. The price is said to be about 50 ,00O,-
| 600. The line will be equipped with electric
cars.
It Is understood that the stock and bond.
holders of several OF the western roads are
| getting very tired Of the Generalization 10
| rates both fraiOhk and and
pose in the near future to take hand in re-
storing them TO something like tariff. It is
thought that they will do this through the
advisory board of the W estern Tariff Associ-
alton, which will meet early in October.
Early next month a subcommittee. com
posed OF members Of all the passenger asso-
Citations in the country, will meet and de,
| eide what will be the rate of fare to Chicago
! during the worlds fair. This includes rep
resentatives Of the Trunk Line Association,
the Central Traffic Association, the West
ern States Association, the South
| ern Passenger Association and the
Transcontinental Association. While
| no agreement or understanding has
| yet been reached the sentiment 10 railroad
circles is In favor Of making the round trip
fare two-thirds Of what the full rate each
way would be, or what is technically known
as fare from all points.
The New York newspapers are getting a
| great deal OF amusement out Of the scramble
| of trunk line agents for west-bound freight.
| A few days since nine Spanish jsckasses ar
rived by the White Star Line to be- for
| warded to q stock farm near Bruins wick,
| Mo. The ranchman in charge was sur
rounded by contracting agents and his life
was in jeopardy until he had routed his
jackasses at figure away below established
| tariffs.
| An estimate made at Denver Of the mum.
Der Of return coupons for the Knights Tenn
| plar excursion disposed of in that city, placed
| the figures at 20, 600, and one firm of scalp
| ers admitted having gathered in 1000 OF
these tickets for eastern points. They have
a return limited until Oct. IL, so that the
east-bound travel at regular rates will not
| be heard Of for nearly two months in
that section.
Grand Chief Engineer Arthur of the
| brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, in
| tervie@ed at Cleveland, o., said his order
had received no request from the amalga-
mated association to boycott Carnegie ma
terial; that the brotherhood is under cou-
| tract with nearly every railroad in the coun-
try to haul its trains so long as the compa.
| nies live up to the terms of their agreement
| These contracts are regarded as sacred and
not to be broken under any circumstances.
An incident in railroad life occurred at
| Houston. Tex. last Thursday, which dis
plays the tenderness of heart OF the average
| railroader, no matter what may be his lot
| A switch engine running at a fair rate of
| speed ran over a handsome New Found
land dog that morning, cutting one of his
legs completely off. The poor brute suf-
| fered agonies that only his large brown
eyes could betray. He tossed from side TO
side on the railroad truck, but only a slight
murmuring escaped his lips. 1t was a case
| OF animal feeling that only Rosa Bonheur
could portray. Presently the boys gath
cred near by, and, lifting him from his bed
| OF blood, they carried him to the nearest
drug store, where he was as tenderly cared
for as the highest parsonage in the land
| Although he could not speak, those large
brown eyes gave evidence Of appreciation
far greater than the average man displays
on similar occurrences.
The Macon Telegraph says of the Macon,
| Dublin and Savannah railroad bridge
Probably the most important structure now
In course of erection in the city is the Macon
and Dublin railroad bridge over the Oemul.
gee river near the Central railroad bridge
This bridge is what is known as the Howe
truss bridge, and is guaranteed, with
ordinary usage, to last fifteen years. The
bridge proper will ba $50 feet long and the
approaches u feet each. making in all a
distance of AGA feet. The piles that are now
being driven on both sides of the river are
put into the ground a distance of thirty
fe0t with hammer weighing 1850 pounds
The center piles will be driven down fifty
feet. These piles will BE placed in the mid
die of the stream and will be IS or 20 inches
In diameter. Before the allotted twenty
days, the limit for the bridge to be com,
pleted, have expired, the Ocmulgee will be
spanned by another handsome bridge