The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-17
IN THE RAILROAD WORLD.
Matters of Interest In savannah and
Elsewhere.


Elsewhere.
/ The Elliott car works a, Gadsden are
turning out ten cars day on an order
! from the Seaboard Air Line for 500 box
cars.
! Selling tickets TO imaginary excursions
is an industry which has been repeatedly
| worked in Chicago with considerable profit
/ 70 the projectors. Recently q smooth
! young man, or perhaps a number Of them,
/ sold several hundred tickets purporting 10
| call Tor transportation 10 a picnic OF the
] Railroad Freight Clerks Association, Dut
/ when the buyers appeared al the station
/ tney FOUND that the railway management
! mad no knowledge Of such an event, and
/ that the tickets were worthless.
The prolific field for railway building
which the vast continent Of Africa offers
/ Is destined TO witness great activity With
/ an area of IL, 500, 600 square miles. or nearly
] TOUR times that of the United States,
| emitting Alaska, and with a population
/ Or l6SOW'OOO compared with our 100000,
! me entire continent, according to the
/ railway Ages figures, has only 5000 miles
/ OF railways. against the Isl 900 Of the
! United states. The few lines that foreign
enterprise has already built lie almost
entirely near the extreme north or the
! extreme south coast, with a few miles
/ on the west coast, while the vast interior
/ is unprecedented and transportation in the
/ dark continent, Is n whole Is still being
! done upon the backs Of men. But sthe
/ change has commenced. Great Britain
] has long desired to secure hold on the
] rich country of the great lakes lying
/ near the equator and toward the east
coast, and the House of Commons has at
/ last passed bill for the construction of
| the Uganda railway, a line 600 or 100 miles
! long, from Mombasa, on the Indian
ocean, inland to the north shore of Vic
| toria Nyanza, the great lake of Livings-
| toms discovery. The road. which will be
] n Of nd fa o. IN
about Sl5,OOOO00, win open to the worlds
! commerce a fertile country swarming
with 100000 people.
Among those in attendance at Judge
Slmonton's court Saturday were: Presi-
dent Samuel Spencer, First Vice President
/ A. b. Andrews, Second Vice President w.
/ II. Baldwin, Jr., and Traffic Manager 1.
| NJ. Culp. of the Southern, with their gen
! eral southern counsel, Col. William Hen
/ derson, and Mr.. Albert Howell, Jr., of
| the Southern's counsel at Atlanta; Col.
! Cothran, the Southern's counsel in South
| Carolina; Judge Leigh X. Watts, the Sea-
| boards general counsel; Messrs. Alex c.
| King and Jack J. Spalding. the Sea-
boards counsel for Georgia; Capt. V. Z.
| McBee, general superintendent, and II.
| w. b. Glover, traffic manager of the Sea-
! board; President Milton H. Smith and
FIRST Vice President Stewart r. Knott
| of the Louisville and Nashville; Col. H .
>. Haines, commissioner, and Secretary
! McGill, of the Southern States Freight
| Association, with the associa TONS coun-
| sci, Messrs w. H q Eugene Black OF
Atlanta; President II. NJ Conner. Of the
Central with his counsel, Capt. H. c.
cunningham, and his general freight
agent, W; F. wlnDurne; First Vice Pres
ident William Checkley Shaw, of the
Georgia Southern and Florida Receiver
AVepih and General Freight Agent r
n. Wright, Of the Port Royal and Angus
"a; Commissioner Joseph Richardson, Of
the Southern States Passenger Associa-
uoni Reuben Foster. president of the
York River Steamship Company.
W. H Mitchell who represents the Bal
timore and Ohio at Atlanta, at present.
1t is claimed has a better chance for IN
appointment under the next administra.
ton than any other person in the United
states, as he may be made watermelon
collector plenipotenuary, whether sound
money or free silver wins at the election
Democratic Presidential Nominee w J.
Bryan has written Mr.. Mitchell letter
thanking him for the big Georgia melon
he sent him, and saying that he will re >.
ommend him for that place. The letter is
as follows: W. n. Mitchell, Baltimore
and Ohio Railway, Atlanta, Ca: My
Dear Strive are in receipt OF the water
melon mentioned in favor of July Is and
beg to express our thanks We called in
the newspaper correspondents who are
temporarily sojourning here and II re-
CURED about sixteen persons to eat the one
melon IL the melon sent to Mckinley
was as satisfactory as the one received
by us, think he Will join me in recon-
Inending YOU as watermelon collector
plenlpotentiary under the next admins
tration, whoever may be elected. Yours
very truly, w, J. Bryan.
Mr.. James Vaughn, local freight agent
Of the South Carolina and Georgia rail
road at Augusta, has resigned to accent =
! position with the Pennsylvania railroad
Mr.. vaughn resignation Is to take effect
at once, and he will be succeeded by MIR
A. X. Rossignol of Augusta
The Baltimore Morning Herald of Aug
Is has telegraphic dispatch from Savan.
nah, dated Aug. IA. headed Must Vote
Tor Mckinney and reading a circular
letter sent out from here, the headquar-
ters OF the Plant system, warns every
employe TO vote for Mckinley or be sum.
dignant."
The dispatch occupied a prominent nIace
IN the Herald's Mckinley column None
of the officials of the system could be seen
last night, but the statement is beyond
question without any founda ton in fact,
Mr.. c. H. Howard, the Plant svstem's
city ticket agent at Jacksonville. was in
the city yesterday.
The Plant system excursion from Jack
sonville yesterday brought about $50 peo-
pie to the city Among this nun,bar u,os
quite delegation of colored cyclists. six
OF whom will engage in the races TO-DAY
The trip was made without any DELAYS
a part OF the eNcursionists returned In
the afternoon, while the others will re-
main over until tomorrow.
BY steamer, Train or BoatF
Which of these have you selected as a
means Of travel? No matter. Whichever
it is, recollect that for sea-sickness. disor.
ders of the stomach. liver and bowels