The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-02

seems to be lacking.
The contracts have besn let and work will
be commenced on the Charleston, Cincin-
natl and Chicago railway within thirty
days, and the road finished as soon as posi-
BILE. When this iS done it will be one Of the
grandest trunk lines in the United States,
running from Charleston on the Atlantic
coast via Cincinnati 10 Chicago on the lake
IS will also develop some of the finest min
eral and timber country in the world, which
is now dead to IL.
The full bench of the supreme court Of
New Hampshire has rendered an opinion In
favor of the defendant In the case Of Frank
Jones against the directors of the Concord
and Montreal railroad, brought TO secure an
injunction 10 prevent pro-ratiug among all
classes of stockholders 81 200, 900 of the
stock voted at special meeting of the cor
poration.
The time Is not very far distant, SAYS the
Courier-JourlaL, when the Ohio aHd Mis-
sissippi and the Louisville, Evansville and
st. Louis will have a competitor for st.
Louis and Louisville trade. The end OF the
year may see Louisville and Nashville trains
leaving the union passenger station and
going direct to So. Louis over the tracks OF
the Louisville, st. Louis and Texas This
IuAOELHdelOu COLuos LfOu OUlCldl SOURCES.
When the directors of the Louisville, st.
Louis and Texas met last week, IL was de-
cided thas the road should build from West
Point toward Louisville, abandoning the
tracks and terminal facilities of the New
port News and Mississippi Valley. and also
the privileges of the union depot The
Louisville and Nashville has stepped in.
and, while it cannot buy the Texas road, il
has secured sucn control as will enable it to
operate trains over the lima The Louis
vile, st. Louis and Texas will bridge Salt
river near West Point and connect with
the Louisville and Nashville near South
Park.
The Philadelphia Record says that "Erial
of speed between English and American To-
comotives, which will set at rest the con-
fiioting claims of superiority made by both
countries, will be an interesting and novel
feature of the worlds fair. The scheme
has been preached to both the Pennsylveuia
and New York Central companies, but no
definite action has yet been taken by either.
IL is not known which Of the two great
roads will undertake the contest. The plan
is to bring over an English locomotive Of
the latest pattern, which will burn English
coal, with a crew who will speak with an
English accent. The run will be made from
New York to Chicago and return, either
with heavy or light train, or possibly both,
The run west may be made with a heavy
train, and the return with a lighter one.
The American engine will carry the same
weight aud go By the same route, and the
palm will be awarded to the one making the
run IN the shortest time. The English loco
motives are built for use upon tracks with
out such heavy Trades and sharp curves as
are constructed In the United States, and
they are not supplied with a system of
springs such as are used upoa American
engines. A fair test of the merits of thu
two machines could be made upon the New
York Central railroad, the route of which
20 Chicago avoids the mountains, 30 attract
i've 10 every through passenger upon the
Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio rail
roads"
A train Of forty grain cars OF 10000
pounds Il 900 bushels capacity was recentl
drawn from Chicago to Philadelphia by one
| engine, occupying i've days, giving speed
of fifteen miles an hour. THE distance be-
tween division points for changing engines
has been increasing in this country of late,
and some western roads are now running
engines 200 to 800 miles where they formerly
ran only 100 miles or less"
| A dispatch from Niagara Falls says "the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company pro-
poses TO establish an Independent entrances
into New York state by building a line
from Woodstock to Niagara Falls and CROSS
| ing the gorge on a bridge Of It's own.
The new bridge will be constructed between
| the present cantilever and the suspension
| foot structures, and will consist Of a single
arched steel span resting on buttresses on
either bank some l 200 feet apart"
RIVER AND HARBOR