The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-13
NEARLY 100000 SOLDIERS.
-, .~T SYSTEM HAS HANDLED THAT
n,-NBER SINCE THE WAR BEGAN.

Has Not Had an Accident of Any
kind and Has Not Broken Into n
ScbeduIe-A Record the Road OFF,
oi.ls May Well BE Proud of.
I, is estimated that the Plant System
hos handled in the neighborhood of 10000
troons since the war broke out. The move
rnent over it's lines, backward and for
ward. before the war is over, will probably
nor he far short of 100000. Despite the ex-
,raordinary character of the business, the
rrsb orders, the breaking up of sched-
MOS etc. there has not been an accident
of any character. Not a single soldier has
hen killed or injured. The Plant System
hos not done much blowing about the
enorrous traffic it has handled, as some of
The Northern roads have done, but II is
safe 10 say that there is no road in the
country that has a better record than this
col. 3. w. Wrenn, passenger traffic man.
ar of the Plant System viii be in Sa-
vannah from now on, except when called
arr nv business. For the last three months
h. has practically been stationed in Florl-
da at Tampa and Jacksonville, looking
after the handling of troops. The change
hack 10 Savannah is not at all unpleasant
IN the colonel, who finds no place to excel
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II when il comes to a long time residence.
There is a report that General Superin-
tandent Frank Shepard of the Pennsyl-
veuia. viii shortly retire from that posi-
tior because of the condition of his health
and take a less eXacting position at the
companys headquarters in Philadelphia.
Mr. SHEPARD has been at Atlantic City for
some time If he retires General Superin-
tendent j NJ. Wallis of the Northern Cen
trail and Philadelphia and Erie, may be
his successor.
A rumor has arisen that the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad Com
many and the Boston and Albany Railroad
Company have been consolidated.
p II. Wyckoff, general freight agent of
the Central Railroad of New Jersey, died
at his home in Elizabeth this week. For
the past thirty years he had been con-
uected with the railroad. He was about 60
years of age.
AT meeting of the presidents and traf-
fc officials of the Vanderbilt lines, Ii has
been agreed to consolidate all the va
rious fast freight lines operating over the
different roads in the Vanderbilt system
INTO two, the one TO be composed of the
lines operating over the New York Cen
trail and Hudson River Railroad and its
4 connections, and the other of those run
q ming over the West Shore Railroad and
i its connections. The former line will en-
brace the present Red, White, Midland,
Blue and Canada Southern lines; the lat
ter the North Shore Dispatch, West Shore
4 line and Nickel Plate line. A clearing
house viii be esta blished at Buffalo to
Il audit all accounts and claims for both
of the new lines. AS fast as practicable
all line agencies west of Chicago and st.
Louis will be consolidated.
The carefully made quart of coffffe pre-
pared by a Baltimore and Ohio firemans
wife at Glenwood the other morning met
with a remarkable fate. The dinner
bucket fell off at the middle of Sand Patch
tunnel and half of it went down the. de-
scent to join the water of Castlemans
river and finally enter the Yough and the
Ohio, and land in the Gulf of Mexico,
while the other half went down the grade
10 meet the head waters of the Potomac,
and finally mingle with the waters of
Chesapeake bay.
The office of traffic manager of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad has been
abolished by President j. w. Thomas of
the Nashville Chattanooga and st. Louis
and as a result. Mr.. Joseph NJ. Brown,
after twenty years service with that road,
has been forced out, his removal to take
place Sept l.
The appointment of President Thomas
brother as traffic manager for the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and St. Louis, with au-
thorly over the entire system, was made
the basis of the notification to Mr. Brown,
who says frankly that the move was one
entirely unexpected by him. 1t will come,
too as a surprise TO railroad men, and to
Mr. Browns many friends.
In the shake up no place was found
LOT Traffic Manager Brown. He is known
as one of the most capable and most eff
cent Of men, and his business ability was
eQuaIed by his erudition and culture. He
Is Keen as a railroad official, and is a
hard worker He is also man of wide
reading and valuable information
lie was originally associated with the
western and Atlantic during the lease of
the Old company, of which the late Hon.
joseph E. Brown was president. He en-
tered the service of the road in a minor
capacity and was literally reared in it,
gong into railroad work Immediately af-
Ter MS graduation from the state univer-
shy The old lease expired ten years ago,
at Which time Mr.. Joseph M Brown was
he traffic manager Of the Western and
atlantic. The Nashville, Chattanooga and
o. Louis became the lessee President
Inomas retained Mr.. Brown as traffic
manager which position he has held since.
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