The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-15
GOES TO THE EAST COAST LINE.
Mar. II. s. Ixealhofer Appointed It's As
sistant General Freight Agent.

StStAhI NftACEtA 50 - = NhAs
Mr.. H. S. Kealhofer leaves this morning
for ST. Augustine. with his family, 30 as
sumo the position of assistant general
freight agent of the Florida
East Coast Lines. His home
and headquarters will be at ST.
Augustine. Mr.. Kealhofer came to savan-
nah from Memphis about a year ago End
has been chief clerk TO General Freight
Agent Winburn of the Central Railroad.
While here he has made many friends who
will be pleased 10 hear of his good for
tune. Mr.. Kealhofer has had sufficient
training and possesses the ability 20 make
him valuable man in his new position.
Mr.. Cornelius Shields, late general sup
erintendent Of the Chicago Great Western,
has been appointed vice-president and SEN
eral manager of the Spokane Fails and
Northern Railway. Mr.. Shields was con-
nected with Mr.. John NJ. Egan, viee-pres-
ident of the Central of Georgia, for several
years, serving under him in different ca
pacities and is recognized as one of the
most progressive railroad men in the coun-
try.
The Santa Fe management has made
the costly discovery that center ice tank
refrigerator box cars are failure. The
discovery is costly for two reason. The
first is that during the three years the
cars have been in service on the road
there has been a loss in the amount of
ice used on the basis of the amount used
in the ordinary refrigerator cars. The
second is that to save further loss in this
way the cars are to be remodeled at a
cost of several hundred dollars each. Two
hundred and fifty of the center ice box
fri TOR p1IFch0cG1 fDa
Santa Fe about three years ago. The ice
box was built in the center of the car
with space for produce at either size, and
it was claimed that the arrangement was
economical in the use of ice.
The Burlington has adopted the policy
of giving buttonhole bouquets to women
guests of it's dining cars. The howers pro
vided for the tables in the dining cars
will be arranged in buttonhole bouquets
and each woman upon leaving the car
will be expected to take one of them. The
innovation is original to the Burlington
road, and IS an idea of General Passen-
ger Agent l.. w. Wakeley of the lines in
Missouri
S. NJ. FELTON,, receiver of the Queen and
Crescent, is determined TO rid passenger
trains of the smoke nuisance. Tralnmen
are now required to carry blanks and to
note date number of train and where
smoke could be noticed coming from the
stack of the engine, and to report to the
division superintendent Mr.. FELTON, has
had photographs taken of trains moving
at a high speed and not curl of smoke
can be noticed escaping from the stack
of the locomotive.
The legal department of the Burlington
and Missouri River is reported to have
ruled as follows: when a passenger pre-.
sents himself for passage with property
that under the rules Of the company Is not
allowed TO be carried by passengers, then
the duty of the company is to refuse such
passenger passage, with such property in
his possession; and If he has succeeded
in getting into the car with such proper
ty, and refuses to have the same shipped
as freight or express, then both he and
his property should be removed from the
car. The railroad company has no right
to take the merchandise from him against
his will. II the company should take II
| from him and remove it from the car the
| company would become the voluntary Gus
todian, and would be liable to restore it,
or answer for its value in damages; bal
! the passenger has no right to ride In the
car with such merchandise, and conse-
quently the companys duty would be in
case he would not agree to ship 1t as
freight or express, to remove both paSsen-
ger and merchandise from the car. II
after removal he should choose to aban-
don his property ana having a ticket en-
titling him to personal passage, he would
then have the right 10 abandon his prop
erty and ride in the car as a PASSENGER
and the company would not be RESPONSE
BILE for the property abandoned"
Grand Master Sargent of the Brother.
hood of Locomotive Firemen says: Dur
ing the thirteen years that have occupied
my present position the affairs of the or
der have never been more prosperous OF
harmonious. A perfect understanding eX-
lists among all the organizations, and the
| railroads are disposed to treat us witt
perfect fairness. The time Of great railroad
| strikes seems to have been done away with
by the new principle Of justice"
Automatic couplers for freight car equip.
ment are not believed to have much chance
for adoption in England owing to the fact
that such cars are owned in the majority
by coal miners and other large shippers
and that the influence of this commercial
| class would be thrown against any leglsla-
ton calculated to make the use of The
couplers compulsory, as in this country
Moreover, on the English roads the char
acter of the device used is such that it is
not necessary to go between the cars Il
make coupling while they are in motion
| The record of accidents Is therefore small
er than it was in this country when the
old link and pin coupling was used en-
| tirely. In 1896 the number of people killeo
while coupling or uncoupling cars was 1
and 492 were injured. In this county,, lr
| spite of the uumber Of automatic couplert
| in use, 229 were killed and a,457 Injured
| OF course, in this connection, the fact Is
to be kept in mind that the train mileage
| here is about three times that of England
The earnings of the Georgia and Ala
bama Railroad during the first week ir
August were $27, 1884, against $17,54S during
the same week last year. The total earn
! ings from Jan. l to the end OF the frs
week in August We're s7lO,064 against 1892
2i3 during the corresponding period in 1881
The earnings of the Central of Georgia
Railroad during the fourth week in july
we're $l4752i, against si2l 1855 during tho
| same week last year The t0tm earnings