The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-26
1yTHE RAILROAD WORLD.
..tters of Interest in Savannah and
Elsewhere.

The southeastern Passenger Associa-
IAN has issued its summer tourist rate
X.5eet. The rates to all the summer re-
n rts are about the same as those pre-
.siro last year. There are some few
%anres probably, but the basis upon
bicb the rates were figured is the same.
i1 The rates, both at the mountain and
Inside resorts, are effective on and after
june l.
The Plant systems summer excursion
,rain. between Savannah and Charleston,
ain he put on June 6, and continue until
w. fall These excursions have proven
nv popular, and have received the lib
ai patronage of the people of both cit
The round trip rate between the two
..;os is hut ST. but the number of pass
al r,are handled makes the service profit
Ne 70 the road. These excursions have
eoan RIM every summer for the last ten
81 years.
Excursion rates have been arranged on
-ba certificate plan by the commissioner
Of the Southeastern Passenger Associa-
tjon for delegates and members attend
81 INC the following meetings: Georgia Fee
nole Seminary commencement, Gaines
Industrial College commencement, Mil
n 1edpeville. May 2S-June 2; Peabody Insti-
n mic. AIarshallville, May 31-June u; Pea
hodv Institute, Valdosta, May S1-June y;
MOBILES of the Mystic Shrine Imperial
council Detroit. June ITO; Teachers In
stitute, Dawson. June 7-l1; knights OF
4 Honor supreme lodge, st. Louis, June Z
16. Peabody Institute, Athens, June 7-19;
Peabody Institute, Atlanta, June 7-19;
Peabody Institute, Rome, June 7-19; Pea
II bodv Institute Tennille, June 7-l9; Pea
II bodv Institute, GAINESVILLE, June 1926;
II Junior Order United American Mechanics,
II national council, Pittsburg, June 1913;
i Teachers Institute Warm Springs, June
81 26: Peabody Institute, Abbeville, June
9l-July 8: Peabody Institute, Newman,
L June 21-July 3; Teachers Instl-
II tute Newman. June 2S-July g.;
III Teachers Institute, Abbeville, June
2S-July 3; Peabody Institute, Column
bus, July 5-17; Benevolent and Protective
order of Elks grand LODGE, Minneapolis,
July $40; and East Tennessee Educational
81 Association, Sweetwater, July $3.50.
The passenger department of the Cen
trail has gotten out an attractive illus
trated pamphlet that tells in print and
picture of the many attractions at Tybee.
"a The officials expect the season at their
N coast resort to be a good one.
"a The Plant systems excursion from
Montgomery into Tampa yesterday car
1ied 1865 passengers. This was more than
had been expected for this train, but the
hopes of the passenger department were
not realized by the number of Macon
N excursionist turned over to them by the
Georgia, Southern and Florida. Only
about Us were taken into Tampa aboard
the train from Macon. The system did
big business in excursions to Tampa on
account of the celebration of the birthday
of Queen Victoria.
A creditable showing for the Southern
railways is made by the reports of the
principal railroads for the month of April,
n compiled by the Financial Chronicle. The
n total increase of nineteen of the principal
n systems for April was S1,S96S47. OF the
nineteen lines, eight were southern, as fol-
I lows: Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf,
n increase 1884, S49; Southern, $7O743; Chesa-
II peake and Ohio, $6S, 646; Texas and Pa
cifc, $57 1893; International and Great
Northern, $50 340; Missouri Pacific, $4S, 1888;
H Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pa
cific, S35, 1884, Louisville and Nashville, $780,
$685. This amount represents 1853 per cent.
of the total increase. 1t should be stated,
however, that of the nineteen systems, five
were the Canadian Pacific and Mexican
railroads. Deducting the earnings OF
Il these roads from the total, we find that
H the southern lines contributed 20 per cent.
A of the increase. The principal decreases
n were confined to ten roads, in which the
south was represented by but two.
a James Harrington has been appointed
81 superintendent of the Memphis and Lit
Is lie Rock railroad, succeeding A Gordon
Jones, who has been appointed assistant
x superintendent of the Birmingham dvis-
ion of the Southern Railway Company.
n It Is reported that the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad Company have given an order
for fifteen locomotives to the Rogers Lo>
tomotive Works, Of Paterson, N. ].
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has recently completed one of the larg-
est bridges used for railroad purposes in
his country. 1t replaces the one across
The Susquehanna river destroyed by high
water several years ago. The bridge is
N $500 feet long and contains twenty-seven
spans. It is built of steel, and, although
4 work was only begun on April 49, the
i structure Is practically completed.
George B. Ecker has been appointed
soliciting freight agent for the Atlantic
Coast Line, with headquarters at Atlanta.
Work on the extension of the Mobile
and Ohio from Columbia, Miss, to Mont
somery is now under way. The distance
IS 2lO miles. Grading has begun and the
track viii be laid as the grade is made.
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