The morning news., 1897-04-16
IN THE lA1LRoAD WORLD.
wg tiers of In crest to Savannah and
Elsewhere.

Elsewhere.
The executiv and traffic officials, to- |
0ot6er with thSattorneys, OF all the roads |
hat anticipate membership in the pro-
,ssd Southeatern Freight Association, |
-,r meet in 4lanta April 21 for the dis
,,.sion of thsrecent United States su-
.r.me court dcision in it's bearing upon
4to esta blishmnt of the new Organization. |
On that dayh meeting Of the Southern !
c,ates Freight Association will be held, |
"a the oficias take advantage of their |
oscassary attadanee upon that meeting
fnr the discussion of the new association. |
- everything S regarded as favorable, |
ID nothing isurmountable in the way
q tconstitutionh difficulties interpose the !
~, associatia may be established, and |
me meeting nTt wednesday may be the |
,ast of he Southern States |
Treight Association. The Southern !
ctotes Passenger Association will
oIso he in meeting at the same
ttn,e al Atland, and the discussion OF the |
iiralttv of ASSOCIATIONS of railways will
aiso include tht organization.
r. is NOT knMn what course will be
,1optad hut ii is believed that an organi-
ao,ion win bekustained in the face OF the
-1,nrene cout decision pronouncing as
Spiotions asIcontrary to the antitrust
NV II is esbected that some plan will
h. adopted hat cannot be construed as
nop,ine within the scope of the decision,
and that AGREEMENTS among the lines will
lii nreyail such is the hope of the Of
fciaIs and also of the public, it is believ-
"a for the decentralization of all rates.
mat would fllow, if all restrictions in the
matter of rite cutting were removed |
would he rltnous. The disastrous results
,,o,ld fall lot only upon the roads, but
,non merchants also as they could never
count uDon "a stability of rates, that re-
Iiance upon which all their shipping trans
actions are based.
While the executive officials are in At
1anta. it is probable too, that a confer
ence will be held with the city authorities
regarding the proposed new un-
ion depot at that place.
MANY of the officials will also appear
before the commission in the Brewer &
Hanleiter case, in which that firm has
netitioned for a horizontal cut of 1913 per
cent. on all freight rates. The rate COM
mittee and the rate clerks of the Southern
States Passenger Association will also be
in Atlanta next week, and the city Will
be overrun by the railroaders.
The third north-bound hotel help special
of the season viii pass through to-day
via the Plant system. The train will be
made up at Jacksonville, and a good
crowd is expected to be aboard. The next
of these trains will be the last, and will
be run over the Florida Central and Pc
ninsular Each of these roads will then
have run two of the hotel help specials
from Jacksonville to their northern con-
uections Those already run have been
very successful, and indications point to
the continuation of this success for to-
DAVIS train and the last over the Florida
Central and Peninsular.
Col. II. r. Duval president of the Flor
ida Central and Peninsular, spent yester-
day in the city and will leave to-day for
jacksonville
Mr. j. II. Polhemus, city passenger
agent Of the Plant system at Charleston,
came over yesterday on visit to head
quarters.
Mr. Remsen Crawford, the Plant sys-
TENS general press agent, who has been
located at Tampa during the winter sea-
son returned yesterday and will make
savannah his headquarters for a while.
The officials of the Florida Central and
Pernsular in the city yesterday and day
before, some in connection with the case
Of Lucas VS.. the Florida Central and Pc
ninsuar in the city court, and others on
the ordinary business of their depart
ments, left last night for Jacksonville.
The Cleveland o., Plain Dealer has this
about ticket scalping: THE anti-scaping
& bill, which fell by the way in the last con-
gress has been revived and will, if possi-
bic be jammed through at the present eX-
raordinary session. The position of the
Plain Dealer towards that measure was
defined when the bill was up before. 1t is
i Unnecessary, uncalled for by the people,
and is against the interests of the travel
Ing public. The passenger who buys a
ticket for passage between two points
s wns that ticket, subject to the conditions
the contract expressed on it and ac-
apted by the purchaser. If it is an un-
additional ticket the purchaser owns 1t as
tuch as he does his gripsack or his UNI
fe-a, He can sell it, II he chooses, to a
eoker and the broker can sell again to
bother traveller, who rides it out, and no
Tong is done to the railroad company
lhich is only required to fulfill it's contract
carry the holder of the ticket-whoever
may be-to the point named on the
l,ket If A, having purchased a ticket
aom New York to st. Louis, finds it nee
&ary to stop his journey at Cleveland
sells the unused portion of his ticket
Broker B. He in turn sells it to c..
io wants to go to st. Louis. C. gets
ride to st. Louis for something less
ban the regular fare. B. has made a
ae through accommodating A. and c.
u three have been benefited, while the
aroad has not been defrauded, as it has
zen required to do no more than 1t con-
acted to do for the money it received
We one passage from New York to St.
ms."