The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-09
N CUBA AFTER THE WAR.
svsTEM OFFICIALS LOOK
ING FOR HEAVY TRAVEL.

FOR HEAN 4 INA ILL.,
-fsts. returning Cubnns and PeO-
1oolsfnG for Opportunities to
-. 77oney VIII Rush to the Is
,.rd-,lant System said to Have
-,..,o. , Good Thing Out of the War
~ md Expects a Rush Of Trnf-
whom Pence Is Declared.
,.. war ends the Plant System Of
-..it.re that there viii be an unpre-
N-.-..5 ,-1vePto Cuba and harvest will
a., the steamship line from Tampa.
-f the tourists eager to see what
.-...., the war has wrought there win
.,..-fnds of Cubans anxious to return
sa.edily as possible, and host of
-..,-- aleer to get TO the island and
lr -5 opportunities there for money
,oszins. z, Is safe to predict that once
- is declared the passenger traffic to
.-,,o5 VIII be enormously increased,
sr3 me- freight business developed in pro-
portion
,-.s President Egan and Superintendent
r-,,e.. ol the Central, VINO have been alb
..,. from the city for a week are expected
home Today.
The Florida Central and Peninsular took
number Of recruits through Savannah on
~ earv morning train yesterday bound for
r.oc5 There we're twelve men for the
s.,anl New York Volunteers and about
t,r,y recruits from that state for the regu-
lar army. several of the men got left in
savannah and went on last nights train.
Mr. j J. Lucas, Jr., rate clerk in the
freight department. of the Plant System,
lsare. to-day on his vacation. He will visit
Grab orchard Springs, KY, and other
places.
rocaI freghts on the Plant System are
lighter now than ordinarily at this sea-
son of the year, but in the enormous
noyement of government freights the elf
ference is not noticed.
Mr. Haiden Miller, assistant general
freight agent of the Southern at Atlanta
was in The city yesterday.
Mr. D. Smith Pickett, Florida freight
agent Of the Southern, was in the city
Yesterday in conference with the Plant
System freight people.
Among the many expenses borne by
railroad companies the ice bill figures
cutie prominently For instance, on the
Baltimore AZ Ohio Railroad ii is expected
# viii take over $1,000 tons of ice this
year to meet the requirements of the ser
vice The greater portion is used in con-
reetion with shipment of perishable
goods: the balance in the passenger
train service. A great deal of this ice
is put up by the company in its own ice
houses bu, as the past winter has been
50 warm very large proportion will have
10 be purchased.
Tie louisville & Nashville Railroad
Company has placed a contract with the
Brooks Locomotive Works, of Dunkirk,
n. Y, for the building of twelve locOmo-
uyes
The car and locomotive builders of the
country are experiencing a big demand
for rolling stock and motive power, the
building of which will keep their plants in
active operation for a considerable time
TO come.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has placed an order with the Terre Haute
Car and Manufacturing Company, of
Iere Haute, Ind for the building of 500
box cars
The first order for railway postal cars
for South America has just been placed
with manufacturing firm at Springfield,
Mass. Ii calls for six cars, to be as sim
A3r as possible TO those used in this
country for the same purpose. The cars
are to be finished in mahogany; the di-
menSions. of course, will fit the five-foo
gauge Of Brazil roads. Some freight cars
VIII also be ordered for Brazil early this
month.
The decision Of the railroads that the
stamp on the duplicate bills of ladJng
snoold be paid for by the shippers has not
met with the approval of the latter In
We" orleans. The stamp is at present
oyius ai1Ned to the duplicate bills by the
su'Pers Of that city, but under protest.
"n4 Vney nave applied to the attorney gem
eai OF the United States for a ruling.