The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-23
IMPORTANT GATHERING.
Meeting of the Southern Railway and
Steamship Association.


Coney Island, N. Y, Aug 22.-The
Southern Railway and Steamship Asso-
citation was called to order at II 80 o'clock
this afternoon in a meeting supplement
tary to that held here in July, when the
questions regarding rates and the con-
tinuance of the association for another
year were discussed Gen j. w. Thomas,
president of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis railroad, of Nashville, was
chairman. Secretary w. l.. McGill of
Atlanta reported that the tentative agree
ment to restore rates until Sept. l.. after
the cutting which prevailed from June l
until the July meeting, had been accepted
by all but about dozen roads.
AS the meeting adjourned soon after
roll call until 10 o'clock tomorrow, it is
evident the session is to last two or three
days Of the forty or more corporate in
terests represented in the association, all
but eight were on hand at roll call, in the
person of the president or prominent
traffic officers, the Atlanta and West
Point, the Mobile and Ohio. the Seaboard
and Roanoke and the South Carolina be-
ing the most prominent roads not putting
in an appearance. Among the prominent
men on hand, in most cases with
ssubordinates, are: Gen. Thomas,
Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
Louis railroad; S. NJ. FELTON,,
Queen and Crescent system: M. H. Smith,
Louisville and Nashville; H. B. Plant
and Col H. S. Haines, of the Plant sys-
TEN: Stuyvesant Fish, Illinois Central;
H w. Conner, Georgia Central; Sol Hasse
representing President Samuel Spencer,
Of the Southern Railway, formerly the
Richmond and Danville; T. M. Emerson,
traffic manager Atlantic Coast Line
w. H. Guillandeau, traffic manager of the
Old Dominion Steamship Company; NJ.
II. Clyde, representing Clyde Steamship
Company, and T. K. Scott, general mana
ger of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
road. In all about 100 important officials
have thus far registered and more are ex-
pected, including President Spencer of
the Southern Railway.
A meeting of the executive committee
was called for this afternoon. 1t seems
probable that the association will be con-
tinued another year if present indications
of harmony prevail, and Col. E. B. Stahl-
manwlll evidently be continued as COM
missioner, unless some 'opponentifor the
place and salary of $4,000 comes sud
denly into view.
The chief discussion of the day occurred
at a session of the executive committee,
presided over by Commissioner f. B.
Stahlman, which took up the entire after
noon. Representatives of the Louisville
and Nashville and Queen and Crescent
took up most of the time on the old trouble
which caused the temporary withdrawal
last spring of the former road from the
association, which seemed for a time to
be disrupted. Without action, the COM
mittee adjourned until tomorrow.
The session will last two or three days,
the settlement of the rates question for
the ensuing year, and election Of officers
being the most important matters.
This evening representatives. of the
Southern Railway Company, Plant system
Central railway of Georgia, Atlantic
Coast Line, Clyde Line, Ocean Steamship
Company and Old Dominion Steamship
Company, and the Merchants and Miners
Transportation Company held confer
ence on the question of rates on oranges
to the north and east. The decision will
be of interest.as the tariff on the favorite
Florida fruit has not been formally re-
vised for three or four years.