The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-14
ARTILLERY MOVING cUBAWARD
TWO BATTERIES OF REGULARS IN
SAVANNAH YESTERDAY.

Nearly 800 Officers and Men-Vice
President ERan to Attend n Meet
ing of the New Railroad Organi-
zntiOn-The Ways and Means Com
mtttee in New YOrlx-Peaches Nov
ing MISUNDERSTANDING Car Loads
Handled by the Central Tuesday.
The officers of the Second and Seventh
batteries of light artillery, United States
army, took dinner at the De Soto hotel
yesterday AT the same time the men,
26S in number, were served with coffee at
the Central depot, and made a meal out of
that and the regulation rations allotted
them. The batteries are from New York,
and came In on the Florida Central and
Peninsular on their way to Tampa and
thence TO Cuba and actual warfare. The
troops left the city shortly after o. clock.
They occupy eleven coaches. and have
two cars of baggage.
The hospital train is again on it's way
to Tampa to carry wounded and sick sol
diers from that point TO Fort Mcpherson.
or perhaps to some place further North.
The train of empty coaches left Atlanta
last night over the Southern, which trans
fers it to the Florida Central and Peninsu-
lar at Everett.
Master Mechanic z. Burton, in charge of
the shops of the Florida Central and
Peninsular at Fernandina, was in the city
yesterday. Considerable repair work is
being done at these shops, some of the cars
being practically rebuilt.
Vice President Egan of the Central left
yesterday on the Florida Central and
Peninsular for New York to attend a
meeting of the ways and means committee,
an important association of railroad in
terests.
The peach movement is now getting
heavy. Yesterday reports were received
showing that on Tuesday slxty-nine car
loads were moved by the Central from the
Marshallvine and Fort Valley districts.
From now until the end of the month the
daily haus Will average from sixty TO
one hundred or more cars of this fruit.
Mr.. ]. D. Bowling, travelling freight
agent of the Louisville, Evansville ana
St Louis, called on the Plant officials yes
terday in the interest of his road.
Mr.. L. A. Shipman, the new assistant
general passenger agent for the Florida
Central and Peninsular has assumed
his duties. His headquarters are at jack
sonville.
Of the nineteen Leading English railway
lines, only six. according to their traffic
and earnings returns for the first half of
the year, appear al all likely to pay an in
creased dividend, while the probability IS
that eight will pay the same amount as
last year, the remaining five making re-
duction.
Twenty engines for New Zealand are be-
ing built by the Baldwin Locomotive
Works. Heretofore New Zealand has plac-
ed its orders in England.
Kansas City shippers propose to boycott
the express companies by shipping as
many packages as they can by freight, en-
addition to mandamusng them if they re-
fuse to accept shipments on which the
stamp tax has not been paid by the ship
per.
prominent passenger man says that
the attendance upon the big conventions
of the year has been less than one-half
what was expected. He attributes the
lack of travel to the absorbing interest in
the war.
The Baltimore and Ohio and Wisconsin
Central roads are the only two railroad
systems of any size that are now in the
hands of receivers. The Baltimore and
Ohio will be reorganized and taken out of
the hands of the receivers on or before
the first of next year. How soon reor-
ganization of the Wisconsin Central will
be perfected is not known.
Along in the early part of 1894 receivers
were operating 30 railroads, with 36,91e
miles of track, or about one-ffth of the
total mileage of the United States. On
the first of last January but IA, 900 miles
of road were operated by receivers, and
so far during the present year the courts
have not been called upon to take charge
of much more than 500 miles of road. The
Union Pacific and other large systems that
have been reorganized within the past
year or so all are doing well and showing
healthy increase in their earnings.
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