The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-30
ooKING FOR LARGE FREIGHTS
ac,, AND ALABAMA COUNTING
~ HEAVY FALL BUSINESS.

=, Good Condition, Naval
-os and Lumber Shipments
.,.,,i,.- Their own and the Move
IN. or General Merchandise Sat
.tor,-The Georgia and Ala
NE earnings for Three Weeks
- tul,-GcnernI Railroad News.
-5 Georgia and Alabama Railroad is
.,. coward to an exceptionally good
-ts5f movement over its tracks. Re-
s~5m its various agents, who are in
b with the shippers at their respec-
citations. are all TO the effect that the
.-l iz for a fine fall and winter bust
80 The crops along the road are report
-, he in good condition, the naval stores
7 l,,n1ber shipments are holding their
INV and the movement Of general mer-
oL.r1tsa is quite satisfactory. The Georgia
e,1 Alabama has caught but little of the
..r business and its showing is not swol-
~, liz any business of such an extraordi-
,,.,. character. For the three weeks end
IN, ru,v %. its approximate earnings were
CO.'S AGAINST $57. 9O2 last year, an in
...,s. of S. 266 For the third week in July
ooo. che earnings were $50 $40, against
s,o g9f The roads mileage is the same.
The Plant System has not been shut out
If the moving of troops from Tampa to
Fsrnsrl.na after all 1t has contracted to
r,o,. troops from the former point to
os,l8. and there turn them over to the
Florida. Central and Peninsular, which viii
finish the trip to Fernandina. The move
-, }, t1,,
next few days.
The Florida Central end Peninsular viii
take charge of a regiment from Chicka-
maugs which is to go to Jacksonville, re
ceviug the trains at Everett. There will
be SIX trains in all.
Mr.. John L. Brannan, the well known
Central conductor, running between Sa-
vannah and Atlanta, is seeing the sights
of Cincinnati this week.
Assistant Secretary Howell of the treas
urv department has ruled that manifests
or lists of exports that are solely for sta
tstical purposes are not subject to the
stamp tax but the certificates to mani
tests are taxable.
Up to the first of this year the amount
expended upon Russia's trans-Siberian
railroad was 500 100000, and by the time
the road is completed i'm 1890, that amount
will have been doubled Then through
trains will be running from st. Petersburg
to the Pacific ocean, and a territory Offer
ing great posi- biities will be opened up.
The legal advisers of the railroads are
not i'm accord as to whether it is neces-
sary to stamp the receipts for cash fares
paid on trains The roads do not like to
abolish the rule requiring conductors to
give receipts, and if they are given and
have to be stamped, the margin of profit
to railroads VIII be considerably reduced.
A St. Louis engineer has succeeded in
equpping an ordinary handcar with a gas
engine, which furnished sufficient motive
power to do away with the manual effort
10 prope' The car. 1t makes a mile trip in
fifteen minutes easily, carrying eight or
ten men with their TOOLS using a quart of
fuel which is at d cost of one-third of
cent per mile. The car has on one or two
occasions carried seventeen men. Equip
ped 1t weighs LAO pounds, and can be
readily lifted on and off the track by the
men, Fuel sufficient to carry the car and
crew distance of 100 miles weighs only
forty pounds, which makes very evident
the superiority of this kind of a motor
over the steam, engine, with its bulky
boiler and heavy coal box. Apart from
TINS no skilled engineer is necessary to
run tne engine The motor used on the
car was designed for a small launch.