The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-11
!, AND AS PROSPEROUS YEAR.
TUE cOMPANYs ANNUAL MEETING
N AMEHIUs YESTERDAY.

Increases Ii Earnings Reported.
The Improvement of the Road
Ouring the Last Year - The COM
,,Iotion of ItJ Connections VIII
Give savannah Shorter Route
xUast-A Remarkable Record For
Accidents.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Georgia and Alabama railway took
mace in Americas yesterday. The re-
rorts of the ofhcfs showed the company
10 be in prospectus condition.
The gross earnings for the year ending
June 3d. 1897, amo nted to $1,O21, ss6. against
ss2SO 51 for the var ending June 80, 1896,
an increase over he previous year of $685.
7S5 The net earnings for the fiscal year
/ ending June 80 1a7, were $284,O54, against
s16s sS6 for 1896, anincrease of $120,11S
The large expenditures which have been
I made upon the property since its organiza-
nion two years agohave resulted In bring
3ng it up to the safe of high perfection,
hts physical conditi'n being second to none
M this section of the country, During the
4 last year. by the construction of eleven
and a half miles # entirely new road,
Through an exceedingly difficult country,
between Richland and Louvale Junction.
the company has rhuced its maximum
grade from per CEN. to IL per cent, and
Its maximum curve from - degrees to
about 6 degrees, and has effected an ad-
dtional saving in distance by which this
line becomes the shortest operated route
between Savannah md Montgomery by
eeventy-four miles.
The completion of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad to Montgomery, which will be
Finished within the next few months, will
ppen a new highway by which, over the
Mobile and Ohio and the Georgia and AL
ALBANIA, Savannah Will become the nearest
Atlantic port to Kansas City, and the
granaries of the west and it is believed
this will do more towards the development
of Savannah's grain business than any,
thing heretofore undertaken in that direc-
tlon.
The records of the company showed that
There was no accident on the road during
the year resulting in the death or injury
bf any passenger.
Owing to the unavoidable absence of
some Of the largest stockholders of the
company it was decided to postpone the
election of directors until an adjourned
meeting to be held thirty days hence, Dec
10 1897 Among those present at the meet
ing were President John Shelton Williams
Nice Presidents Cecil Gabbett and Mid
dendorf, General Counsel W. W. Mackan
and Directors James d. Stetson and J.
w. Sheffield.
The time made by the Central railroad
In transporting the Macon fire depart
ment to Milledgeville was fifty minutes,
and is considered a good record.
Mr.. ]. H. Palhemus, city ticket agent
of the Plant System at Charleston, was
in the city yesterday.
Mr.. r. l.. Todd travelling passenger
agent of the Plant system at Montgomery,
returned to Savannah yesterday from
Jacksonville.
Mr.. H. G. McFadden, assistant general
passenger agent of the Plant system, left
yesterday for Jacksonville, where he will
be several days on railroad business.
Master of Trains Bruner, of the Central
railroad, left yesterday for Macon to at
tend the funeral of a relative.
The annual meeting of the Georgia, Car
in Atlanta tomorrow President Hoffman
Vice President St. John and several of
the directors will be present. 1t Is said
the present officers will be reelected. as
the road has done the best business of its
history during the past year.
Mr.. W. II. Leahy, who represented the
passenger department of the Plant system
at the Cincinnati meeting of the rate clerks
OF the lines interested in the appointment
OF the rate sheets on winter tourist bust
ness from the Ohio river gateways to Flor
Ida, has returned to Savannah
Circulars have just been issued from At
lanta by the Southeastern Passenger AS
ISOLATION, announcing that excursion rates
nave been arranged on the certificate plan
for delegates and members attending the
following meetings: Congregational
church Omitted conference of Georgia)
GAINESVILLE, Nov. AS; A. NJ. E. church
(Macon conference), Sparta, Nov. 10-16;
National Fox Hunters Association, Gym
thiana, KY, Nov. 1871; Baptist convention
(South Georgia., Abbevile, Nov 1920;
Baptist conference Gree Wild, McDon-
aids Oouglas), Nov. 1923; Educational
and Farmers congress, Albany, Nov IT.
u; Methodist Episcopal church, south,
(Memphls conference), Trenton, Tenn,
Nov. 17-22; Methodist Episcopal church
North Alabama conference), Florence,
Ala, Dec. is; Methodist Episcopal church
alabama conference), Dothan (Kinsey),
Dec 49, Methodist Episcopal church
lsouth Georgia conference), Savannah.
Dec. II; Methodist Episcopal church,
south alabama conference), Union
springs Ala, Dec. 1922; Presby terrain
church, Synod Of Atlantic) Rome, Ga,
NOV, lO-l5; Presbyterian church alabama
synod, Tuscaloosa, Ala, Dec. I'll; Meth
odlst Episcopal church Georgia confer
ehce), Waco, Ga, Dec. 1920.
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