The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-27
SCHEDULES WILL BE CHANGED
REVISION OF PLANT SYSTEM SER
VICE IN EFFECT TONIGHT.


Departure AItered-New Trains to
60 On-HOw They Will Arrive at
md Leave savannah - Railroad
Notes-MOvements of officials.
A general change in the SCHEDULE of the
Passenger service of the Plant system will
% into effect tonight at Z o'clock. The
change will be sweeping. only one train
remaining upon the present schedule.
meeting of officials of the Plant sys-
tenn the Atlantic Coast line, che Florida
East Coast railroad and the Pennsylva-
MIA lines was held a short lime ago at
washington, and the work of a meeting
that had preceded it by several weeks was
concluded and the schedules that Will go
on to-day were adopted. These will be
what are known as the early winter sched-
ules of the road and they win probably
remain in effect without changes until the
vesubue trains are put on Jan. II.
The train that is to have no change made
I'm its time of departure from Savannah is
No. 6, which will, as now, leave for
Charleston at a. m. Train No. 80, from
New York to Tampa, will arrive at Sa-
vanuah at S:15 a. M, remaining here
twenty minutes, as has long been the Gus
tom with trains stopping here. Train No.
%. the express from New York, win arrive
here at 80 a. M, leaving twenty minutes
later. Train No. will arrive from
Charleston at 7:25 p. m. No. q
will leave for Jacksonville and other
points to the south at $50 p. m. No. %,
which will run on Sundays only, will leave
for Waycross at 80 p. m. Train No. 80,
which is the fast mail from Tampa to
New York.. will arrive at 12:45 p. M, leav-
ing at LOS. No Is, the express from Tam
pa to New York, will arrive at 1:2O a. m
and leave at 1:45 a. m. Train No. "a
will run daily and arrive at 1856 a. N. from
the south Train No. %, which will be a
new train, will arrive at 1910 p. m. from
the south and west. Mixed train No. 307
Wilt leave daily, except Sundays, at 7:15
a. m. for Waycross. No 25 which is also
a new train, will leave daily, except Sun
days, for Waycross at HIS a.. m. No.
S06, which is also a mixed train of freight
and passenger service, will arrive from
Waycross at 6:45 p. m.
Trains Nos. 20, o and % are new trains
that have not been run during the sum-
meF Train No. 26 will be discontinued,
No. "A taking its place. No. 20 will run
on Sundays only, while all trains, with
the exception of Nos. %, 20 and SO6 will
run daily.
The transportation department of the
Florida Central and Peninsular railroad is
also figuring on changes in schedule. These
changes will not take place until Dec. 8,
and will not effect the arrival and depar-
ture of trains at Savannah TO any great
extent. The changes will be made neces-
sary by the putting on of the winter tour
list vestibtIle train of the Southern railway
and Florida, Central and Peninsular from
Cincinnati to Jacksonville, via Everett.
This is one of the finest trains in the coun-
try, and offers a splendid opportunity for
tourists from the west for Florida points.
The train will make its first arrival at
Jacksonville this season at $40 a. m, on
Dec 6. The only change that will be
caused here by the vestibule going on will
be in the arrival and departure of train
No. SO, which, now arriving from Jackson
vile at 1t:25 p. m, and leaving at 11:S5,
will arrive and depart five minutes later
than the present scheduled time. By quick
ening the schedule along the line, time will
be made up 50 that there will be no differ
ence in the arrival and departure of other
trains.
Mr.. w. G. Brewer, city passenger and
ticket agent for the Central railroad and
Ocean Steamship Company, has returned
from a very pleasant visit to New York.
Vice President John NJ. Egan. General
Superintendent r. d. Kline and Traffic
Manager E. H. Hinton of the Central rail-
road are out on the road on a trip. Yes
terday the officials were at Birmingham.
Mr.. C. S. Adams has been appointed COM
mercial agent of the Central railroad at
Montgomery. Mr.. Adams was connected
with the road for a long while at Macon.
He is a young man of great ability.
1t is announced that one of the under
ground railways of London is to use cleo
trio locomotives similar to the apparatus
now being operated in the Belt tunnel of
the Baltimore and Ohio. They are to be
of a capacity to haul train weighing 40
tons at the rate of at least thirty-five miles
per hour. The General Electric Company
of New York, has secured the contract for
the equipment.
The Chattanooga Southern Railway
Company has a corps of observation in the
field looking up the shortest and most pro-
ftable route to Montgomery, to which
point it is said the road is to be extended.
NJ. T. Lewman & Co., of Atlanta, have
received a one-milllon-dolar contract
from the Mobile and Ohio railroad The
contract is for the erection of all depots,
shops, roundhouses and other buildings on
the observation-disclosures extension of the
Mobile and Ohio.
Assistant General Manager t. A. Phil
lips and Trainmaster M. V. Raley of this
division of the Florida Central and PENN
sular railroad, will leave early in next
month for a trip to California. The gem
tleman will inspect the property of the
Good Title Gold Mining Company, in
which they are largely interested. They
expect their trip to last for two or three
weeks.
North Carolina state officials are being
criticized for accepting and using railroad
passes. The criticisms are on account of
the officials, Gov. Russell and one of the
circuit judges having taken decided stands
against the railroads and their Issuance of
passes. Since the gentlemen adopted their
pronounced stands on the questions, the
railroad men have been making many dis
coveries about the number Of times they
have ridden free.
The following from the Atlanta Consti-