The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-13
HEGIRA OF RAILROAD MEN.
JACKSONVILLE THE MECCA TO-
WARD WHICH THEY FLY.


Inents Are Fixed Up at Washington
But Small Bunches of FurIoughed
and Sick Soldiers Are Gotten for
Line by Active Work-TweIve
Regiments to Move From Jackson
vilIe-Plant system and #. c. Il p
Have Already Started Them.
There has been a flight of railroad men
from this section to Jacksonville, and they
are still making for that place of many
troops. a great deal of business is in sight
there, and the officials aud travelling
freight and passenger representative who
have gone and are going to the Florida
metropolis want to see that their respective
roads get their fun share of 1t.
1t is said that one would not be far
wrong in putting the number of railroad
men from a distance who are working in
jacksonville at twenty-five or thirty. W hen
1t is considered that the place is regarded
as a place of strategic importance in rail
road campaigning and that there are con-
sequently number of freight and pas
senger representatives of lines North and
South constantly in the city, something
can be better imagined than described
This competition, however, does not affect
the business of moving the troops in
bodies OF course it Is necessary 10 have
live representatives there in order that the
roads may handle the troops quickly. ef-
1ecuVely and satisfactorily, but they do
not have to do any work to secure the
movements. That is done at WASHINGTON
and there is no doubt there is generally a
strong fight going on at the capital. All
the lines want a finger in the pie and rs
an official said yesterday, it is the one
that can bring the strongest influence TO
bear that will get the lions share of The
FUNDS the government will pay out for the
transportation of troops
From the time the movements of the
soldiers were begun there have been rep
resentatives of the lines at Washington
They have been right at the fountain head
Of affairs, and routes have been selected
that have had the strongest pun exerted
in their favor. This work at Washington
has been regarded as of such great i'm
portance that the highest officials of the
big lines have thought it worth their while
to do a little soliciting. In talking with
railroad men now it can be gathered that
all seem TO think their lines have been
fairly treated in the distribution Of the
business. Some time ago complaints could
be heard from the representatives. of some
roads, one especially, but even these now
believe the department is trying to serve
all alike.
The lines most largely represented at
Jacksonville now are the Plant System
and the Florida Central and Peninsular
This is natural, as they are the initial
lines in the movements that are 10 be
made within the next few days. Regi-
ments have already begun moving away
from there to go to their respective home
states there to be given furloughs of thir-
ty days and then, at the expiration of
that time, to be mustered out of the ser
vice. 1t is said the Plant System and the
Florida Central and Peninsular each have
about eight men in the field. Assistant
General Passenger Agent H. C. McFadden
of the Plant System is there, and Superin-
tendent of Transportation NJ Y. Raley
of the Florida Central and Peninsular, and
Travelling Passenger Agent william But
Ter go down this morning. General Pas
senger Agent j. G. Halle of the Central
Railroad also goes down to-day.
1t is the soldiers going home on fur
Tough and sick leave whom the passenger
representatives. are after Burroughs have
been given the men in plenty. and this
business alone is enough to warrant the
roads in keeping men on the watch for it.
Added to those who are constantly going
and coming on furlough, there are the
sick, who are given leaves of absence of
varying length, at the request of the sur
geons. From a camp as large as that at
Jacksonville, where there have been as
many as twenty-five regiments for long
while, many go 10 the hospitals, and the
serious cases, upon the patients becoming
convalescent, are given leave to so home.
1t is said the daily movement away from
the camp of men on furlough and sick
leave often runs above fifty.
The present orders indicate that there
oTx 9crsr 1fe to ha Cd fYsory
Jacksonville to their respective states.
This movement has already begun, both the
Plant system and the Florida Central and
Peninsular having started the ball rolling
yesterday or the day before. Yesterday
the Plant System began with four trains,
carrying the Second Mississippi Regiment,
which goes to Lauderdale Miss. Three
trains over the same line also left during
the day for Raleigh, connecting with the
Charleston and Western Carolina and the
SeaDoard Air Line, with the Second North
Carolina aboard. To-day the Second Ohio
will move by the Plant, the Georgia South
ern and Florida, the Central the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis and the
Louisville and Nashville to Cincinnati
This regiment also Will move In four
trains. The Second Virginia is expected
to leave Jacksonville Thursday or Friday.
and travel by the Plant and the Coast
Line to Richmond and the Alabama reg
iment is expected to leave Friday or Sat
urday for Birmingham, as is also the Lou
isiana regiment for New Orleans.
Battery A of the North Carolina vol
unteers passed Savannah early yesterday
morning by way of the Florida Central
and Pennsular. Connection with the
Southern was made at Columbia, and the
battery went on through to Raleigh to be
furloushed. 1t had been encamped at St
Augustine. BY the Florida Central and
Peninsular the Fiftieth Iowa Regiment
will leave to-day for DesMoines. 1t is said
the regiments to leave Jacksonville will
be equally divided between the Plant Sys-
tenn and the Florida Central and PENN
sular for transportation.
The first trains, since the disastrous
floods of some days ago, passed over the
break In the embankment of the Florida
Central and Peninsular Railroad at the
Ogeechee river yesterday. There was a
elighf delay in tho acbadIla of tho train.