The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-10
TEXAS MELONS COMING OUT.
MAY YET COMPETE WITH KOLU
GEMS IN THE MARKETS.

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Railroads Have Handled Over Three
Hundred Carloads Already This
Season From the Lone Star state.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Restoring Reductions in Wages to-
Its EmpIOyes-GcneraI News of
Southern Lines.
The Georgia watermelon may soon have
| TO compete with formidable rival in the
| Texas watermelon. If the Lone Star
State produces melons in proportion as she
does cotton, her competition may develop
into a serious NATTER and rattlesnakes
from San Antonio may vie in Norther
markets with Kolb gems from the san
| beds of Brooks. 1t is stated that so far
this season there have been shipped from
Texas over 300 cars, which have found a
ready market in the West. The crop IS
reported not to be so large as was antci-
pated, owing to drought, but the quality
is good, and the outlook is for an in
creased acreage hereafter.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
reduced the wages of its employees in 1898.
President Milton II. Smith has Just is
sued a circular in which il is announced
| that one-haf of this reduction is now re-
stored, and ihe remainder will be restored
on Jan. ]. 1899
Richmond merchants, DESTROYS of ex-
tending the trade of that city, are moving
TO have a railroad built through tidewater
| Virginia, along what is known as the
northern neck of the state.
In two years the receivers of the Balu-
more and Ohio Railroad have bought 175
| new engines, some of them monsters, and
| between 10000 and u 600 new cars Fully
l 50 per cent. of the entire system has been
reaid with new track, new ties and stone
! ballast. The total expenditures for these
| purposes, and for which receivers certtf-
Gates have been issued were about $780,
600 The gross earnings of the Eastern
system for the year ending June 80 of this
| year were $28, COO, an increase of $780,
600 over 1894, and with rates 80 per cent.
| lower than they were during that period.
| The business has been increased in the
proportion that the number of loaded cars
handled daily has grown from 800 to 5000
or 1900, and the maximum was reached
one day in April of this year when the
number was 11.400 and on that day they
were sent over the road without any more
delay than is usual in freight movement
The Merchants and Miners 'Transpor-
tation Company's steamship William Law
renee will sail from Savannah for Balts-
| more Tuesday, July p, at ? p. M, instead
of Wednesday, as heretofore advertised.
Connecting rail lines and shippers should
take notice of this change.
The annual meeting of the Association
of Railroad officers will be held at Indian
apolis next week on Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
Five suits have been brought against the
Cotton Belt by the attorney general Of
Texas for giving rebates on shipments OF
merchandise.
1t is predicted that within year tho
number of roads in the hands of receivers
viii be as small as it was in the years
Immediately preceding 1893.
AS an illustration of the extent to whsh
the railroads will have TO use revenue
stamps and the expense involved the fact
may be noted that the requistion of the
Baltimore and Ohio for one months sup
ply was filed at an expense of $1,000
The use of oil to keep down dust on
track that has not been ballasted win
stone is no longer an experiment on the
Pennsylvania. It's practical utility has
been fully demonstrated, and It IS found
that where the road was treated with Oh
last year it is now necessary to repeat IT,
The Pennsylvania continues TO pay US
employees salaries by check, though under
the revenue law viii cost the company
over $1,000 a month for stamps, about o.
90 being used.
Computation has shown that the net in-
come 70 the Pennsylvania on its South#ts.
system from a passenger travelling IIy
miles, during 1927, was exactly 3la cents
This is cited as one of the strongest argus
ments possible against rate cutting