The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
TRAINS CHANGE THEIR TIME.
GEORGIA AND ALABAMA AND CEN
TRIAL PUT ON NEW SCHEDULES.

New Freight Trains Go On-Better
Connections Given and Quicker
Service with Northern Alabama
POints-Centrars Changes General
Except at SavannRh-OnIy One
Train Affected Hcre-Rnilroad Men
After Sewer Business.
"A number of changes will go into effect
to-day in the passenger and freight sched-
ules of the Georgia and Alabama rail-
road. The changes, the officials say. will
give the patrons of the road much bet
Ter service than that they have hitherto
had.
The new schedule will give Savannah
and Montgomery a double daily strictly
passenger service. The time for the de-
parture of the passenger trains will be at
7:25 a. m. and at 7:45 p m. They will ar
rive here at $40 a. m. and at 11:2O pm,
Trains Nos 10 and % have been changed
from mixed freight and passenger to pas
senger service solely. They will connect
a Helena with the Southern railway and
al Tordele with the Georgia Southern and
Florida. At Montgomery they will con-
railroads trains, north and south bound.
They will thus give a much better service.
Both will carry sleepers which is itself
an innovation.
Train No. 1S which formerly arrived
from Montgomery at 8:55 p. m. will now
arrive al 1:2O p. m. The change is caused
by that train having to wait at Montgom-
cry for the arrival of the fast through
train from the north over the Louisville
and Nashville. The close connection made
by these trains will give Savannah a much
quicker communication with points to the
north of Montgomery.
In teu of the mixed trains which Nos.
10 and 20 formerly formed. there Will now
be two fast freights on the line. These
freghts will be Nos. p and %, and they
will run all the way between Savannah
and Montgomery, making the trip in eigh
teen hours
Many radical changes will also go into
effect to-day in the Central railroads
schedules. Both freight and passenger
trains will be affected, though of the lat
ter only No. which has been arriving here
at $50 p. m, will have their time of arri-
val or departure from Savannah changed.
This train will hereafter arrive at p. m.
The changes reach over the entire system.
The last publication of general orders
from the office of Superintendent l. NJ.
Terrell of the Fourth division of the rail-
way mail service gives the clerks of this
territory opportunity to feel a great zeal
of pardonable pride 1t contains copy
of letter written to the office of Mr.. Ter
rell by the general superintendent of rail-
way mail service at Washington. The
letter refers to the conduct of the route
agents during the recent yellow fever ep-
idemic and says:
ut was a pleasure to be able to report
to the Postmaster General that, under cir
cumstances calculated to try the nerve
and weaken the heart of the stoutest, no
cler "A connected with this service shirked,
or t4%eavored to shirlS i'm the slightest de-
gree, the performance of his regular du-
ties, or to answer promptly and willingly
any and every call for work of an extra
hazardous character; that our officers
have remained on duty day and night to
see that no opportunity to advance the
mails was lost, to ascertain the exact sit
uation, a thing at times very difficult to
do, to furnish assistance to the marine
hospital surgeons, and to keep
the department advised as to the
ever-varying conditions; that the men
have not hestated to go into the quaran-
tine stations and into the fever infected ci-
ties when asked to do so, have faced the
guns of local quarantine officers, have
borne the discomfort of working in cars
loaded with the fumes of disinfectants,
have submitted to Inconvenience by re-
naming in detention camps in order that
they might be the sooner qualified under
the local regula tons to perform their reg
ular duties; that they have done this not
only without a murmur but voluntarily
and willingly; and that aside from this
there have been offers from clerks in nom
infected districts proffering their services
al
great pride that this office has been able
to make such report to the postmaster
general and to the second assistant post
master general.
Those of us who have grown up in the
service know that there was nothing I'M
usual in all this; that the men employed in
the railway mail service have never fall
tered in the performance of any duty be-
cause of its hazardous nature. Neverthe-
less it is pleasing to feel that there has
been no deterioration of the splendid esprit
de corps which has always characterized
the service, and which has risen equal, and
more than equal to any emergency that
has, or, we firmly believe, may arise.
You will please accept for yourself and
for the men under you the thanks of the
department for the magnificent record
made during the past four months"
During the past few days the number
of freight agents for foreign lines in the
city has been rather unusual Several OF
the lines have had their Representatives
here on the watch for something big in
the way of business. The local railroad
men say it is the sewer contractors the
visitors are watching. They want to be
on hand when the contracts for all the
building material and supplies that will
be necessary in the construction of the
sewers are made, so that they can at once
get in their work. All of the material that
is to be used win represent a big item
in the quantity of freight hauled by
road and all are hungry for the pie. A
local man said yesterday that he imagined
that the sewer men would have a
chance during the next few days to listen
TO some nice offers in the way Of rates on
building materials. you don't mean to
say that any of the roads would offer TO
cut the rates?" II have heard of such
things being done to get business" was
the significant reply.
The special train which brought the De
Wolf Hopper company over from Charles