The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-15
contested FREIGHT MOVED.
FLORIDA CENTRAL AND PENINsU-
L,H HAS CLEARED IT'S YARDS.

BreaL in the Bridge Over the Ogee-
.chee Observation-Disclosures of the
Troops at Jacksonville Soon to be-
sin-PIant system to Move Three
Regiments TO-mOrrOw-Genera
uniIroad News of Interest.
The Florida Central and PeninsuIar has
about gotten its yards here. cleared of the
great quantity of freight that had ac-
,sumuIated on account OF the tracks north
and south having been washed out by the
recent floods.
The delay in getting the freight off to
the norward was not so great as in the
opposite direction, as the break above here
was repaired much more quickly. 1t
look so long to get the Ogeechee washout
in shape for the passage of trains again,
however, that there was a perfect con-
essuon of freight awaiting an opening for
ii to get off to the southwark. Points
below here also had stacks of freight to
get off, and the road has kept freight
trains hustling since its line was opened.
The break in the approach TO the bridge
over the Ogeechee was repaired last Mon
day afternoon, and on Tuesday and yes
terday there were six or eight freights a
dav running in each direction. It is now
re-)orted that the rush is over and that
the operations of the road have again as
slmed their normal condition.
About day after tomorrow the Florida
Central and Peninsular will undertake
the movement of some of the troops at
Jacksonville, whose transportation will fall
10 its share an the disposition the govern
iuent will make of the great amount of
business that will follow from the orders
IT, many of the regiments there to go 20
in raised n
be mustered out. The road might have
eoones begun the movement haO 1t not
been for the interruption caused in its traf-
fc over its own line. Now that the COM
nun ication with the North is unbroken
over the Florida Central and Peninsular,
the re will be lively exodus of troops
from Jacksonville, as both that road and
the Plant System viii take up the business
ID earnest at the same time.
Freight Traffic Manager D. F. Jack and
General Freight Agent James MenZies of
the Plant System are at Hot Springs, Va,
attending a meeting of the rate commits
tee Of the Southern Freight Association.
Vice President John NJ. Egan of the
Central Railroad returned yesterday from
& trip to Atlanta.
The Plant System will start three volun-
teer regiments from Jacksonville to-mor-
row These will be the two Alabama reg
ments of white troops and one of the
Louisiana regiments. They are going to
points in their respective states to be mus
Tered out.
The Atlanta and West Point Railroad
Company will begin work in almost thirty
DAYS on a belt line road to extend around
the eastern side of Atlanta to connect their
road with the Georgia Railroad. The line
was decided upon at the recent meeting
of the stockholders in Atlanta. The stock
owned by the Louisville and Nashville and
the Georgia Railroad in the Atlanta and
West Point was voted in favor of the line,
and il was this that secured it, as the
minority stockholders were opposed to the
PLAN The new belt line will be six miles
long and will cost 100000.
One of the significant Indications of the
outlook for railroad business in the South
is the large number of orders recently
given by Southern railroad companies for
rolling stock. The Louisville and Nashville
has ordered 800 freight cars, 200 fiat cars
and go coal cars. The Pullman Palace Car
Company is working on contracts for 1000
freight and 1000 coal cars for the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company; also on
siXty-five freight cars and three passan-
ger coaches for the Pecos Valley and
Northeastern Railroad, now under con-
structon in Texas. The Nashville, Chat
tanooga and st. Louis Railroad Company
has placed orders for $50 freight cars, while
the Southern has ordered 1850 cars, of
which 600 will be coal cars, $50 fiat cars
and $40 box cars. The Southern has also
ordered one passenger car and four COM
binauon passenger and baggage coaches.
The specifications for this rolling stock
snow that the cars will be built with all
Of the latest improvements, while the
freight cars are to be of a large capacity.
The total value of these orders will aggre
gate fully $225O,0O0.
The Hampton and Branchville Railroad
Company has decided to make an extern
sion to their line, which is now in opera
ton distance of twenty-five miles. The
proposed extension will terminate at Har-
leyyle, and win be twenty-eight miles
long 1t will give the Hampton and
BranchviIle a connection with the Charles
ton, Sumter and Northern Railroad. The
line will be laid with rails weighing from
ntty six to sixty pounds to the yard. W.
h. Mauldin is superintendent of the COM
pany
Mr.. c. G. McCraine has been appointed
freight agent of the Plant System at
Tampa.