The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-09
TAMPA-HAvANA LINE CoMrs OFF,
Last Trip From Cuba VIII De Made
To-day by the OIivettc.

up rum Cuba VIII De Made
To-day by the OIivettc.
1t was announced here last night that
the Otlvette of the Plant line Of steamers
between Havana and Tampa will make
the last trip to-day to be made by that
line for the present
The Olivette will leave Havana at 2
o'clock to-day, and according to autbori-
tative advices had in Savannah last night
she will bring with her Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee and all other Americans left there
who desire to come
The steamship Mascotte arrived at Tam
pa last night with about $50 passengers.
All the state rooms We're filed and others
secured quarters on board as best they
could. The Olivette will probably bring
similar crowd to-day.
Col. b. w. Wrenn, passenger traffic
manager of the Plant System. said last
night that the Olivette and Mascotte
would continue to make tr-weekly trips
between tampa and Key West, but that
the line would not run any more to Ha-
vana for the present. These are positive
orders, he states, and there was no doubt.
ne stated that Gen. Lee would leave on
the Ohvette at o'clock to-day. unless
the unexpected should happen and there
should be very sudden change in the
situation.
The war files in the general freight Of
fees of the lines interested in the North
and South business have grown wonder
tully within the last few weeks. Some time
ago the offices began to receive requests
for rates for the transportation of guns
and gun carriages from the North for the
defense of the Southern ports. The move
ments began soon after The rates had been
furnished and the initial lines put in their
bids for the business. Savannah. Key
West, Tampa and other Southern cities
have had the ordnance shipped for their
defenses, and the railroads have found
considerable business from the transpor-
iation of the freight and the troops sent
along to put the guns in place and man
them afterwards. All this has necessitat-
ed vast deal of correspondence, and the
freight offices have opened files for ord
nance and for gun carriages, while the
passenger departments have been taking
care of the correspondence bearing upon
the movement of troops.
An effect on transportation lines is be-
ing produced by the war scare. The rail-
roads have been notified by kilograms that
the Morgan Line, between New Orleans
and Havana, will receive no more freight
for the latter place The Mallory line has
given notice that it will receive no freight,
except cigars and tobacco, or passengers,
from Key West for Galveston. 1t is said
the lines are fighting shy on account of
the war being likely to come. Some of
their vessels might be intercepted before
they could make port, if war were de-
clared, as it would not take long for a
hostile cruiser to get in its work.
The passenger department of the Plant
System has just received a lot of hand
some photo-etchings of the steamers Oil
vette and Mascotte on the line between
Havana and Tampa. The order for the
pictures was given only a short while
since, but they are subscribed with the
names of the vessels and the Tampa-Ha-
vana route, thus indicating that the Off
Gals had not much thought of withdraw
ing the steamers from that line Or it
may be that they thought the war would
not be of long duration, and that the
advertisements would come in we'll for the
line after peace has been restored.
1t was reported yesterday that a hort
zontal cut in salaries would be made at
once by the Plant System, and that none
of the employees would escape. 1t was
said they had all been put on notice.
When the report was heard the matter
was looked up. Half dozen employees
were seen, but they had received no no
tice, and the question was the first init
nation that they had had of anything of
the kind. General Superintendent Brad
ford Durham was out of the city so that
a verificaton or denial could not be OBJ
tanned from him, but Superintendent of
Transportation w. ]. Haylow, in answer
TO a query, said the report was false, that
such thing had not been considered. 1t
is understood generally that the past sea-
son, except during the time the war scare
has been most pronounced has been very
successful for all the departments of the
road. and the employees, believing this TO
be true, would be greatly wrought up by
such cut as that reported.
Capt. D. f. Maxwell, general manager
and second vice president of the Florida
Central and Peninsular Railroad, was
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