The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-01
WILL MAKE QUICK TIME.
TINE BETWEEN HERE AND NEW
YORK cur DOWN TWO HOURS.

AONh CUT DOWN TWO HOURS.
Plant system and Il. c. and y. Vesti-
bIes Go On Jan 17-Arrivc Here
Jan. 1S-Win BE More Elegant
Thnn Last Year Their Time
Equals That of any LOng-Distance
Trains in the COuntry-PuIImnn
Drawing Room and Dining Car
Service TO Be Continued to Tampa
and st. Augustine.
The through vestibuled trains of the
Plant system and the Florida Central and
Peninsular will be put on Jan. II. The
trains over both routes will leave New
York on that day.
There are some material changes in the
vestbules this season Last year they
were acknowledgedly as fine as any~train
in America and their regulations this sea-
son are to be sustained. They win be
even more elegant in their appointments.
and all of the latest improvements and
devices for the comfort and safety Of the
passengers will be in evidence. The roads
interested in these trains do not fail to
see to it that they are in every particular
suitable for the wealthy patronage they
receive.
The greatest change to be introduced is
10 De found in the time required for the
trips. Last year the run between New
FORK and Savannah was made in about
twenty-four hours. This season it is to
be re- cd to twenty-one and one-half
This remarkable time will make
trains in :he country. Railroad men agree
that the continued speed they will have to
make for such distance is remarkable.
AAother innovation will be found in the
continuation of the vestibule SER
vice of drawing room and
dining cars jacksonville win NOT.
of the service. 1t will be extended by both
the Plant system and the Florida Central
and Peninsuar to st. Augustine and Tam
pa. As many vestibuled cars as may be
required will be in service. This will be
a convenience that will be thoroughly APP
preciated.
The run of the Plant systems Florida
special, which the officials refer to with
pardonable pride, as the finest train in the
world has already been mapped out AS
has been stated, that and the train over
the Florida Central and Peninsu,ar will be
put on on Jan. IL. Neither train viii cause
any important change in the schedule of
other trains. The Florida special win
cause no change at all, and ii is said the
FLORIDA Central and Peninsular's changes
if any, Will be but slight affecting Savan-
nah not at all. The Florida special will
leave New York at 1890 D. M Jan, II, ar
irving here the next morning a 9:0l The
next 17S miles to Jacksonville, have the
excellent roadbed of the Plant sytem, that
has seen fast time, and the train will run
in less than four hours, or at an average
speed of more than forty-three miles an
hour. Returning, the special will leave
jacksonville at 3l5 D. m, arriving here at
7:l5 p. M. 1t will remain here ten min
utes, and then leave for New York
arriving at 545 the next morning Savan-
nah is to be congratulated, officials say,
upon having such a service 1t is equal to
the time made on the splendid through
/ lines from New York to the west.
The. route Of the Special" viii be the
! Pennsylvania lines from New York 10
! Washington the Atlantic Coast Line from
Washington to Charleston, and the Plant
4 system from Charleston to Tampa. From
| Jacksonville to st. Augustine the route is
| the Florida East Coast railroad.
| The vestibuled train of the Florida Cen
! trail and Peninsular will run on much the
| same schedule, the arrival at Jacksonville
! being the same that of the Plant sys-
! TEN special" Its route VIII be the Penn
! sylvania lines to Washington from New
! York, the Southern from the capital to
! Columbia, aud the Florida Central and
/ Pen.nsular from Columbia to Tampa the
/ Florida East Coast furnishing connection
| for the continued service to st. Angus
tine.