The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-17
CENTRAL GETS THE SOLDIERS.
AND HEAVY ARTILLERY
LiOn ,, MOVE OVER IT'S LINE.

,.tteFy. TINS WIN leave lay @AAt0H
,,arrov-Comes billed Direct
,.,,uah while the Heavy Bat
VII Go TO Tybee-How Ar
,,ents for Military Transport
cation are Made.
central Railroad was notified yester-
,,or the two batteries of artillery for
u'' ,.b will come over routes that will
.-,,s that road as the terminal leading
savannah and Tybee, the destinations
r,.. soldiers and their equipment.
.ns. batteries are to come from Fortress
=. and from Fort Riley, Kan. That
fortress Monroe wiz be of heavy ar
No.. while the Western battery will be
,;,,t field pieces. 1t is not known ex-
Nv when the heavy battery will move,
s,tit is said that from Kansas will start
nav after tomorrow, which win put it in
, savannah Monday or Tuesday.
Tbs handling of the batteries for the
government has been plum that has
4 s,,o,ed tantalizingly before the traffic
.Hci,ls of the lines over which they
rnigbt move ever since information was re-
o,iyed that the movement was contempla-
ted They were asked to name rates over
Their routes by the initial lines. These
rates were furnished. and the initial lines
sent in their bids.
1nspeakng of the method pursued when
q is desired to have a body of troops
transported, Vice President Egan of the
Central said: THE adjutant general of the
denartment in which the point from which
tba movement is to take place is located,
notifies the roads, asking for bids on the
TRANSFORMATION. He gives information as
| IN where the troops are to be moved, and
insr how it is desired that they be carried
The bids are then sent to his office sealed.
provision of the land grant, by which
the government gains, is found when a
4 road is bidding that has been the recipi-
ent of grants from the government. Rights
of way are given railroads by the govern
ment, but they in return must carry gov
eminent property when desired at half the
ordinary rate.
IN time of war or when an immediate
movement of troops is necessary, the meth
cd of securing bids is discarded, the roads
being at once notified that troops will be
ready to board their trains at given time
4 and place All this talk saw some few
days ago about firing up engines and
everything being in an unwonted state of
i activity in railroad yards on account of
master mechanics having received orders
TO get engines ready is fOolishness. That
is not the way the first intimation of an
expected movement of troops would
come"
The battery of heavy artillery will come
9 n Iii
ceiye the men there from the Charleston
and Western Carolina, which road will
have taken them from the Seaboard Air
Line the initial road. There will be no
equipment other than that belonging per-
sonaly to the men with this battery, as
they are employed in working siege artil-
ery The battery. will go to Tybee, the
big disappearing guns on the Notifications
there being the instruments of war to be
manned
The bids on the transportation of the
light battery from Fort Riley were OPEN
ed at the department headquarters at
Chicago day before yesterday. Mr.. Egan
was notified that the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe was the initial line that put
in the most satisfactory bid. This was
peasant news to the vice president, o.
MS road is link of the route chosen by
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. This
route will be the Atchison, Topeka and
santa lie to Kansas City, where the train
wal De turned over to the Kansas City,
foit scott and Memphis over which ROAM
IL Will be taken to Birmingham There
the Central will back an engine against
1t and pull it to Savannah.
ms will be a long haul of a solid spec
Ia Tram. Ii will consist of fifteen cars.
Fullman for the officers, tourist cars
!oI the men and palace stock cars for
ele horses The field pieces, with their
G 70 si and ammunition, win be SHIPPED
IL freight cars.
Mr. J. W. Nall, agent at Augusta for the
central Vel Railroad, was among the visitors
VINO spent yesterday in the city.
Inc Georgia and Alabama Railroad has
oGlsled Its competitors centering here in
"snt Tor the business of bringing all the
players on the Savannah base ban team
tioh me places where they now are to the
10y FOR some three or four weeks all Of
s-le roads nave had their eye on the BUSH
ana the passenger men have been
s"e LOOKOUT TO get it. Had it not been
iet tne management of the club passed
In N tne hands of Mr.. Mcclure into those
WI stewart, it is said the Georgia and
-1,epaina would have been among the van
su'$ 5he instead Of the victor. Handling
me we players is quite good deal of bus
tiot,s ~ they are widely scattered, and
srnsts bringing them here will average
,r g,,S.lihs like $40 each. disappointment
e "1a written on the faces of several pass
dis ss asents Of other lines whenthey were
discussing the matter.
MT W. McF Williams, the energetic
Why Wiaa.enhg passenger agent of the Louis
er ,,' ana Nashville, who makes Montgom-
on b ~ neadquarters, was over yesterday
BUSINESS for his road.
os w.t. y. f, Jack, freight traffic manager
fron u'e Plant System, returned yesterday
''' d "trip to Jacksonville.
,. Inc railroads have offered a rate Of one
care care lor the round trip on account of the
60 ence. 1t is though there will be
Ty' No, attendance from Savannah.
Oh IS some talk of special car being
tbis Ueu Tor the crowd who will go from
CITY BREVITIEs.