The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-24
The Railway Situation in the So

The Railway Situation in the South.
The Charleston News and Courier is
much disturbed by the railroad situa-
ton in the South Atlantic states. The
situation grows, says that paper, more
interesting and complicated"
The News and Courier has IN mind the
reorganization ofthe Richmond Terminal
system, making it what is now the South
ern Railway system. It is true that the
railway situation is becoming more inter
esting, but Tiers is little to show that it
| is becoming more complicated. There
are no more roads in the Southern Rail-
way system than there were five or six
| years ago. Only those roads are in the
| Southern Railway that were in the Rich
mond Terminal system. Indeed, there
are not 50 many, because the South Car
DINA roads that were in the Georgia Cen
trail system are now practically out of it.
They are not included in the reorganiza-
ton scheme of the Georgia Central,
| though they are held as part of the as
| sets of the Central, which, of course, is
| controlled by the Southern Railway.
Instead of becoming more complicated,
the situation is becoming more clearly
i
its present management, is to be preferred
to the Richmond Terminal, because the
latter concern was wholly speculative
It's management apparently had only one
purpose in view, and that was 10 make
all the money possible out of it, regardless
of the interests of the security holders of
the various roads in the combination, or
| the interests Of the people of the territory
! tributary TO the roads. It is believed
that the management of the Southern
Railway will endeavor to build up the
country Upon which that great railway
| system is dependent, not because it cares
particularly to assist in developing the
country, but because in proportion as the
country is developed the value of the rail
way property will increase.
| For the present the Georgia Central
| will be operated as an independent sys-
| TEN How long it will be operated sep
arately it is impossible to predict with
any degree Of certainty. AT the time it
was put into the hands of a receiver it
was being operated by the Richmond
| Terminal As yet, therefore, the railway
situation is not more complicated than it
was several years ago.
The News and Courier, however, is par
| ticularly concerned about Charleston. 1t
| seems to think that Charleston will be
bottled up, as it were, unless it gets an
outlet through the Louisville and Nash
| vile, by the latter getting control of the
South Carolina and Georgia roads or by
constructing a new line to Augusta AS
a matter of fact, Charleston is no worse
off than it has been for years, and there
is nothing in sight to indicate that it will
be any worse off. What the News and
| Courier means, doubtless, is that it does
not now see in the reorganizations 60
ing on anything that promises greater
commercial Importance to either Charles
ton or other Atlantic ports south of Nor
| folk. This view is correct, unless it be
the purpose of the Southern Railway to
give prominence to Savannah by throw
ing all the business it can to it's magniti-
cent fleet of steamships which ply be-
| tween Savannah and North Atlantic
ports. There does not seem to be any
way at this time of finding out what its
policy is to be.