The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-06
IN THE RAILROAD WORLD.
Matters of Interest in savannah and
Elsewhere.

Elsewhere.
1t is not generally known that the
Trans Mississippi Exposition. at Omaha.
has come within an ace Of being ruined
by reason of the depredations Of the ticket
scalper. When the exposition was pro-
jected. the railroads agreed to give cheap
rates. provided their interests were pro-
teeted from the scalper. Special legisla-
ton was invoked by the exposition man
ayers to block Mr.. Scalper's little game.
and the reduced rates We're scheduled
The scalpers secured an injunction re-
straining the Omaha authorities from in
terfering with their business. and ticket
scalping blossomed out a thousand fold.
The railroad people in turn took ORA site
action, and notified the city of Omaha
and the Omaha exposition managers that
failing TO receive that protection guaran-
teed, they viii forthwith withdraw the
reduced passenger rates The exposition
is threatened with shipwreck and bank
ruptcy stares the guarantors of the ex-
position in the face. The citizens of
Omaha, so it is said threaten that If the
scapers be allowed by the authorities 10
remain, they win take the matter in hand
themselves and drive the brokers' out of
the city with shotguns.
IL tAOAbAC bCtNG1Ai lllS tSleSTdpL6TS
and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
road have been satisfactorily adjusted.
The minimum rate of pay has been made
$40 month.
For the, accommodation of increased
travel South during the summer months,
brought about by the movement of SOL
diers and their friends to and from the
army posts located in that section, the
southern Railway, in connection with the
Queen and Crescent Route, will put on
a fast Florida train, beginning July 6.
This new train will leave Louisville at
TAO a. m, and at Cincinnati at $50
a. m. daily, uniting at Lexington and
reaching Atlanta al II 40 D. M, Jackson
Vile the next morning at $40, and Tampa
at 800 p m. Through cars will be run,
and similar quick time made returning
This is the quickest Florida schedule
ever made during the summer months.
Hereafter there will be no discrimina-
ton against employees of the Pennsylvania
Railroad because they belong to one or
more of the orders represented by rail-
road employees.
The total spent in new railroad construc-
ton this year Will probably reach $50, Co.,
900. There will be $2O,Oo0,0OO more spent
this year than has been spent in any year
since 1883, And there is probably no 9TH
er way in which money spent is of so great
public advantage. In the first place the
cost of new construction is almost entire
ly paid to labor-eitherf directly 10 the
construction gangs or in the purchase of
materials (such as rails, track supplies
and TIMBER, in the price of which labor
is by far the largest element OF the $780,
100000 being expended certainly not less
than so per cent, or $4S0OO,O0O will go to
labor.
Three cars filled with recruits for the
Nineteenth United States Infantry went
through Macon en- route for Florida Mon
day nights --s 's-'a' :
The Merchants and Miners Transporta-
ton Company has issued it's summer
Tours by Sea for 1898. 1t is one Of the
neatest little brochures that has recently
been issued, 1t contains a hundred or
more pages of descriptive matter and il
Illustrations, with descriptions of tours
from Savannah and Baltimore to all of
the leading summer resorts in the North
and East, reached by water and rail, with
rates and connections. The introduction Is
a brief but interesting sketch of the Mer-
chants and Miners Transportation Com
pany and its ships from its Incorporation
in 1852 One of the first two ships The
company built, the William jenkins, was
burned at her wharf in Savannah Ia 1861.
The company now owns and operates 1900
miles of steamship line, and one of the
finest fleets of passengers teamers on the
Atlantic coast and is the. only line ply
ing between. Baltimore, Norfolk Newport
News and Providence Baltimore, Norfolk,
Newport News and Boston; BaltimoTe and
Savannah. Twelve staunch, fast and ele-
CANT steamships comprise the fleet. One
of the inducements the company offers 10
summer travel North is round trip rate
from Savannah to New York and return
via its own line to Baltimore and the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad to Philadelphia,
the Philadelphia and Reading to Bound
Brook and Central Railroad of New Jersey
to New York This is the Baltimore and
Ohio line from Baltimore to New York.
The round trip rate for this trip is $28.
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