The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-24
STILL MOVING TO TAMPA.
TROOPS GOING THERE WHILE
OTHERS BEING MOVED AWAY.

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a Military Camp vice President
Egan on the Georgia Peach as an
Advertiser-Trade Excursions WIN
Never BE Revived Here Other
Railroad Matters of Interest
Judging from the way in which the rail-
roads are handling the troops It is diff
cult to tell whether the government pro
poses to abandon Tampa as a point of
mobilization or not
While regiments are being moved away
from that point by the +. C. & p, the
Plant System continues TO move troops
in. Yesterday the Plant people placed a
special train of recruits In Tampa from
the west and to-day another special VIII
leave Philadelphia also bound for Tampa,
passing through Savannah probably to-
morrow night. If Tampa is not to be
continued as a camp as the removal of
so many soldiers to Fernsndlna would
Indicate, IL Is hard to determine what the
object is IN moving the new volunteers
to that point, unless il he that the war
department is sctuated solely by the de-
sire TO help the railroads out by giving
them all the hauling possible out Of the
army. The Plant System people evidently
think that the best days OF Tampa as a
camping ground are over.
To-day, after breakfast, the Tampa Bay
Hotel closes its doors. II had closed for
the summer when the war came on ind
was reopened to Accommodate the officers,
their families and others drawn to Tampa
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General freight agent James Menzies,
of the Plant System. is at Asheville, at
tending the meeting of the Southeastern
Freight Association.
philadelphia has thirty-hve merchants
excursions to that city arranged for. They
cover a great extent of the country ana
will bring thousands of buyers into that
market. While these excursions are pri-
marily intended to advance the lobbiug
and manufacturing interests of the city
they at the same time are an important
factor to the retail trade, vast amounts
of money being expended in personal shop
ping by the visitors. At one time, 1t viii
be remembered Savannah enjoyed some
trade excursions, which were Intended to
promote both the wholesale and retail
trade of the city. There appears to be
no hope of a revival of these excursions.
The railroads are apparently set against
their re-eSta blishment, taking the ground
that their only practical effect, in the end.
is to curtail the revenues of the railroads.
LAS soon as Savannah IL granted such a
concession said a prominent local rail-
road man yesterday, Atlanta, Macon,
Americas, Augusta, and every other CEN
ter of trade is found asking for the same
privilege. 1t cannot be granted to one in
discrimination against another point, and
VVnnid he
would be running everywhere and not pro-
noting the trading interests of any place.
A fair trial was given with these excur-
sions and you can safely say that there is
an extremely remote possibility OF there
ever being another one"
Vice President Egan of the Central has
become a sort OF peach Santa Claus He
IL the recipient of some very choice fruit
from along the line OF the road and a
basket of choice specimens of what Geor-
ga orchards can produce Is generally in
his Office. Yesterday he had peaches on
hand that would have done credit to any
exhibition In the country. Two hundred
of them weighed 100 pounds an average
Of one-half pound to the peach They
were Elbertas firm. ripe, yellow streaked
with pink and red No more luscious fruit
has ever been seen here. Visitors were
made the recipients of specimens and be-
culture has done in this section. These
peaches were not a rare exception either.
Crate after crate of just such fruit has
gone forward to the Western and Eastern
markets. Mr.. Egan considers that the
peaches shipped from Georgia this year
make the grandest advertisement the
state has yet had. Wherever they are Of
fered for sale they are card that speaks
In unmistakabe language of the great
possibilities Of this state In the cultivation
of all fruits. In the colder sections they
will attract attention OF farmers and
others to Georgia as a place for loca
ton. The liberia peach this season, Mr..
Egan thinks, is superior TO all the print
ed advertising that could be sent out de-
scriptive of the advantages Georgia offers
to the wide-awake agriculturalist.
The right of the express companies to
compel shippers to furnish the revenue
stamps for the receipts given them by
the express companies for freight and ar
tlcles received for shipment is to come
up before the Board of Railway and
Warehouse Commissioners Of Missouri for
hearing on the 18th. The question will
come up on a complaint filed with the
commissioners by Commissioner Valland-
ingham of the st. Louis Freight Associa-
ton, in which complaint 1t is charged the
express companies are charging shippers
exorbitant rates.
Superintendent of Motive Power Ma
chinery J. p McCune, of the Cincinnati
Southern Railway, has closed a contract
with the Ohio Falls Car Company for 100
new fiat cars. The company has just
completed 100 new box and stock cars
for the Cincinnati Southern also four
new vestibuled cars and one new baggage
car.
Mr.. Walter G. Coleman general travel |
ing agent of the Florida Central and Pen
insular, has been appointed general agent |
In charge Of government traffic, at Wash |
ington, with Office with the Southern Rail- |
way.
WATER RENTS STILL COMING IN.
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