The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-15
RAILRoADING IN TIE SOUTH.
Meeting of the Railway and Steam
ship Association.

Meeting of the Railway and Steam
ship Association.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-The rate commit
tee CT the Southern Railway and Steamship
Association, which has been In session for
two or three days at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, had a lively meeting to-day. The
committee has been trying to agree upon
schedule Of rates which should put all the
companies on an even basis Of competition.
The Mobile and Ohio Rail-
road Company, which has been to
some extent disturbing factor,
was onetof the topics under discussion, and
President Clark OF that company was asked
plainly to agree to proposition intended
20 do away with any further trouble from
that quarter. A somewhat excited debate
followed, and, In the end, the trouble was
referred to committee to be adjusted.
ALARGB ATTENDANCE.
The attendance at the meeting yesterday
was larger than il has been OF any previous
session. The following companies were rep
resented: The Alabama Great southern
Railway Company, the Atlanta and West
Point Railroad Company, the Baltimore,
Chesapeake and Richmond Steamboat
Company, the baltimore Steam Packet
Company, the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley Railroad Company, the Ciuoip-
natl, New Orleans aud Texas Pacific
Railway Company, the East Tennessee
Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company,
the Georgia Railroad Company, the Geor-
gia Pacific Railway Company. the Georgia
Southern and Florida Railroad Company
the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham
Railroad Company, the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, tha Louis
vile, New Orleans and Texas Railway
Company. the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad Company, the Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company, the Mo-
bile and Ohio Railroad Company, the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis Railway
Company, the Newport News and Mlssis-
sippi Valley Railroad Company, the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company, the Ocean
Steamship Company, the Old Dominion
Steamship Company, the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company, the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railroad Company
the Sea oard and Roanoke Railway Com
pany, the Western Railway Company of
Alabama, the Western and Atlautlc Rail-
road Company, the Wilmington and Well
don Railroad Company.
NOT EARNING DIVIDENDS.
In the course Of the discussion statements
were made that railroads in the south
which had once been on a paying basis had
paid no dividends In several years. Bonds
il was said, Of some OF the companies repre-
senting simply the actual cash invested in
construction had been productives OF no
revenue. Complaint was made Of the
teachings OF ''demagogues" In the southern
states with reference to tho relations
which railroad companies bear to
the general prosperity OF the
country and these dsmaRogues were treated
10 some plain English. "a demagogue was
born narrow. he grows up narrow. be lives
narrowly and will die narrow" said one Of
! the speakers who was complaining OF the
bad business which some of the roads repre-
sented had experienced within the last few
! years. One of the railroad men said that
reference 10 demaRogism doubtless meant
the position against these railroad compa-
nies taken by some OF the organizers of the
farmers alliance, which had helped manu-
facture a sentiment against the companies
that had interfered with successful business,