The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-28
WANT TO HAUL THE SOLDIERS.
,,,>Y RAILROAD MEN HAVE COME
WITH THE TROOPS.

rave Their work Mapped Out.
t.ir>t sergeants, Hospitals ana
po,master's Officers Are Deemed
Fn,orabIe Fields for Operation.
savannah Lines Increase Their
er> From Several Points-Who
Thcy Are.
T1s expected railroad men are here
Tba,, who prophesied the coming of trav-
.i.ne. passenger agents with the arrival of
,as hoops were not false prophets They
trev what Tampa and Jacksonville had
seen in the way of passenger agents while
the Zig camps were there, and they had
ey4rg reason to believe that the increased
importance of the city as point of pas
s.pg.r traffic would be sure to bring them
alous
All the lines out of Savannah win have
an increase Of representatives here to work
ND business for them. The soldiers viii
be moving right along, and there will ne
busuns on the part of the railroad men
TO get them 10 travel by their lines.
There are more than a dozen passenger
representatives. from distance in the city
now and the number has not yet reached
lis limit Several more are known to be
on the way here or to contemplate coming
very soon. Just at present there is not
very much doing in their line, but things
Will be looking up in a few days. All
the regiments will have their men busy
during the next few days getting their
camps wen established Burroughs will
10
has been Strengthened out.
Il is this furlough business that the
roads will watch for some time yet. 1t
vail be about the only thing they will
have 10 do in the passenger line until
the hospitals get more men in them. which
is something that is not expected to come
to pass while the troops are here There
will of course, be some. sickness. but
there is no reason to think there will
De as much of il as there has been at
some Of The other camps earlier in the
season.
As soon as the soldiers begin to receive
short burroughs to visit their homes the
work of the passenger agents will be cur
out for them. They have different ways
OF trying to get soldiers to travel by their
lines and different fields of work One
of the most common methods is to go
TO see the first sergeant of every company
and ascertain from him if he has any men
who are contemplating a trip home. A
list Oh such men is secured from him. and
then the passenger men look up the SOL
ders personally, and make their little
speeches, setting forth the fact that they
have the only direct line that their ser
wee Is Infinitely superior to that of any
o'her' that they can give just as low a
rate and that greater satisfaction can he
obtained "a limo TN.rF I,.,s..
laot they make a soldier think he will
snow himself up as devoid of all intelli-
gence If he thinks for a moment of taking
another line.
one of the most fruitful fields for the
4a0ofs OF the solicitors is the offices of
we paymasters. Some of them try to be
on hand at the offices all the time There
the scheme is to catch soldiers who are
ABOUT TO get Off after having secured dis
cHarges This thing was worked 10 a
HaSh IN Jacksonville, where there were
SO many discharges given, but it is not
"hely that 1t Will be such feature of the
sohclt9rs efforts here as there will not
be SO many soldiers to get out of the
service. The commands here will be re-
t9Ined' and only the few who can get dis
cndTSes from the war department indi-
NauaiIy viii be getting their final state
nehts cashed by the paymasters. These
l0ea VIII undoubtedly be watched by
A''e'iSNl men, InOQ2h thew Will not
snow the record they did at JacksonvilIe
me big hospitals are also worked with
asSlduity by the solicitors Conva ,es
I'9 are SHOWN the advantages Of lines
~ asked to travel by them. At Jack
4pn -',iie there was big business done along
rins, ,,ne' ana the Florida Central and Pc
'ietlidI came in for the lions share Of
H. II was worked up by the renrnsenta
tons " 10 ""ecl cohhec-
"a neIe Is something of history connect
Gu WIN the Florida Central and PENN
sd success IN moving so many of the
S'Oh soidiers who were lea vino Tacl-so,
VHe on furlough. When the arr,1, 49,,
a. tampa every advantage in the wav of
te location OF tracks lay with the Plant
SS9,ein ana the hospital business WIS
SolNeu DV that line to the queens taste.
I'm le sort OF disagreement arose be-
ta1 lie Two lines, and the Florida Cen
udi ana Peninsular could not place cars
'ne tlant tracks to load the soldiers
VIZ hdd to he put aboard at the nearest
pT1SIpie point to the hospitals
sit -t0n tle army was at Jacksonville the
1e"'1ioh was reversed. The Florida Cen
u va ana Penlnsular had the thing It's own
an it ne camps and hospitals were right
- own line a few miles out from the
ely and there was a good oDnortlinitv,
~ f ~ Ior retaliation. 1t was then that
N Idht system could not place its cars
~" I!le Florida Central and Peninsular
e IacAS 10 get sick soldiers aboard Jack
tI ne ana Tampa nave, therefore, left
t the roads road even on the sick question. but
one rant System people have the bulge
uIIrl mere. The hospitals are nearly two
ttlr,eS nearer its tracks than they are 10
nose OF the Florida Central.and Peninsu-
al az II looks as if the Plant System will
Oo me hospital business here.
among the visiting railroad men are mas
lfQf fvry.s- -
f"estern lines. These will solicit business
iol their lines, in most instances, without
naNlnS anything TO say to influence their
P.pospecuVe passengers with regard to
wat initial line they may take. That is
iir 'liihg they can't afford to do. as the
HnIe IS double-eged. The initial lines
LII IN retaliation, do them more harm
Wneh worked against by the visitors than
cue iatter could do them. It's only repre-
tenlauVes Of those lines that work in close
~ Ou0H win the initial lines that try to put
~ ~ d WORD Tor them Every Savannah line
tile central and the Georgia ana Alabama