The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-08

1.-THE Four Hundred" a society journal
published in Chicago, devotes several
pages of it's last issue to a description
of Savannah, the Plant system and tina
west coast of Florida. Many of the
principal points of interest along the Gulf
coast are written up in entertaining man
ner, and the Plant SYSTEMS big hotels
come in for a lavish share of description.
Pictures are given of the Ocala house, the
Kissimmee, the Belleview, Tampa Bay
hotel and Port Tampa Inn besides many
others, showing the grounds and neigh>
boring points of interest. Decorating the
cover are cuts of the new Casino at
Tampa. Photographs of President II. 3.
Plant, Passenger Traffic Manager B. W.
Wrenn, Division Passenger Agent f. M.
Jolly and the hotel managers
are reproduced, making an at
tractive set of illustrations for an
entire page Sunny, smiling and SUI
blime Savannah is the gracefully ALTER
alive introduction to the -Four Hun
dred's" description of the city. Faithful
and artistic illustrations of Christ church,
the Independent Presbyterian, the Her.
mitage, the theater, the Telfair Academy
of Arts and Sciences, the De Soto in Two
views, the fountain in Forsyth park and
the pendant moss of Bonaventure are
given, and the articles, on the whole, are
Such as 10 lure many OF tne TedueTS OF
the journal to the land of sunshine, balmy
breezes, fruits and flowers.
Mr.. c. H. Morgan, travelling passenger
agent of the Illinois Central, formerly at
Memphis, has been transferred to Dallas,
Tex.
The latest rumor with regard to the
Georgia and Alabama is that it will con-
soldate it's Columbus Southern offices at
Columbus with those of the Southern.
Since the Georgia and Alabama acquired
the property, many reports of different
resulting changes have been circulated.
BY the move that is last rumored thirty
clerical employees at Columbus would be
thrown out of employment The rumor
goes further to say that Feb. / is the time
intended for the perfection Of the plan.
The report of the intercontnental rail-
way commission. which was appointed
several years ago by the several countries
through which it was proposed to run
the line has been almost completed. The
United States, Mexico Central America
and some of the South American coun
tries will be connected by the line if it is
built. The commission, it is said, propose
to report the entire practicability of the
line. Estimates of the cost will be fur
nished and these will show some of the
widest variations for certain localities ever
embraced in such report. The mighty
Andes will be crossed and the engineers
will have to run the line along precipices,
across chasms and over foaming noun
tain torrents. A small portion of the pro-
posed gigantic system has been already
built, and one or two of the governments
are making concessions to enterprises to
extend the line through their own terri
tories. The commission estimates that
1850 miles of roadway will have to be
constructed from the Mexican border to
a point in Peru. This point will be Lake
Titi-caca, whose altitude of 1900 feet is
the highest of any body of water in the
world. Only a few hundred miles Wal
have to be built to connect the Chilean
system with this proposed terminus. Il
is estimated that the cost of building the
line across wild and rugged Peru will be
SIS, OOO,O 00 Several of the countries have
already adopted the routes through their
territories recommended by the commits
sion.
The Rogers and Baldwin locomotive
works are building thirty-one locomotives
for expectation to Japan.
There were 11,755 locomotives built in
1885, an increase by "A over that of the
year before.
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