The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-15
PUTTING VIRUS IN THEIR ARMS.
PLANT SYSTEM EMPLOYEES BEING
MADE SMALL-POX PROOF.


and Passenger Departments Vac
cinated Yesterday-3,OO0 Employees
VIII Bare Their Arms to the Sur
geOn-oficinls Are Not Exempt.
Assistant Surgeon VIII Go All Over
the system.
All of the employees of the Plant Sys.
tenn are being vaccinated. This is in ac>
cordance with an order that has gone
forth from the Office of the general super
intendent. 1t is being executed all over
the system.
NOT only are the clerks and working
men of the system being vaccnated, but
the virus is being sent into the veins of
the officials. as well as into those of the
men whose labors they direct None are
! being spared, and all will bare their arms
| TO the instrument of the surgeon. The
order is general and inclusive of its pro-
mulgator. 1t will include all, from the
| general superintendent down to the office
boys
Assistant Surgeon Bryan is up from
Waycross. the headquarters of the Plant
| System Relief and Hospital department.
He was busy yesterday injecting the vac
cine into the arms of the clerks of the
auditors, the passenger and the freight
departments. Day before yesterday he
was with the employees of the local freight
offices.
The fact that many of the employees are
able to show marks Indicating that they
have already been vaccinated does not save
them from having to undergo the opera
tion second time. The sturgeon had his
order from the general superintendent Of
! nee TO show as his warrant and all had
to give consent to the performance of the
! operation. One or two of the clerks will
| nave the vaccination done by some local
! physician, and so stated They were not
lnoculated by the visiting surgeon, who
wore the uniform of the department TO
which he belongs.
There are some 5000 employees of the
| Plant System. The vaccination of them
! al IS something of a task and will require
some time for completion. The road is
! trying to cut down the chances of any of
lts employees shutting off this mortal coil"
! through the agency of smallpox
! The order is not only benevolent in its
OBJECT of preserving the lives and health
or the employees; it is also businesslike as
! every one of the employees is insured with
the road in its hospital and relief depart
ment
The passenger traffic department of the
| Plant System has prepared a circular
showing the entire sleeping and parlor car
| lneS or the system and their schedules
| Some of those included in the circular be-
come effective Jan. II, when the FLORIDA
| special" the vestibule train from New
| York to ST Augustine, with continued
service to Tampa, will be put on for the
| season. The lines given by the circular
are the New York and Florida special
between New York, Jacksonville, st. Au-
gustine and Tampa; Pullman sleeping car
/ line, between New York and Port TAMPA:
two lines between New York and Jackson
vile; Pullman line, between ST. Louis,
| Jacksonville and st. Petersburg; Pullman
line, between Cincinnati Jacksonville and
Port Tampa; Pullman line, between st.
Louis and Jacksonville; two Pullman lines.
! between Nashville and Jacksonville; Plant
System parlor car line, between Waycross
and Brunswick; Plant System parlor car
! line, between Tampa Bay Hotel and Port
! Tampa; Plant System parlor car line, be-
| tween st. Petersburg and Tarpon Springs;
| Pullman and Plant System paror line. be-
! tween Jacksonville, Tampa Bay Hotel and
Port Tampa, and Plant System parlor
car line, between Tampa Bay Hotel and
Punta Gorda.
The first quarterly session Of the year
1898 of the Southern and Southwestern
Railway Club has just been held at At
| lanta The Southern and Southwestern
Railway Club is composed of the officials
of the mechanical departments of the
roads between the Ohio and Potomac riv-
ers and the Gulf and the Mississippi river.
The officers are as follows: w. II. Thorn
as, president, Washington, d. c., super
ntendent of motive power Southern Rail-
way Company; H. w. Hudson, first vice
president, Salisbury, N. C., master me-
chanic Southern Railway; John S. Cook,
second vice president Augusta, master
mechanic Georgia Railroad; Robert e.
Libby treasurer, Atlanta, southern man.
ager New York Air Brake Company; S.
A. Charpiot, secretary, Savannah Central
Of Georgia Railway Company.
The North Carolina Railway Commission
has notified all the roads in North Caro-
lima in the Southern, Atlantic Coast Line
and Seaboard Air Line systems to appear
before it Jan. 1921 and show cause why
passenger rates should not be reduced. 1t
is also announced that later similar no
tees will be served upon all roads.
Among the out-of-town railroad men in
the city yesterday was Mr.. M H. Con-
molly, general agent at Jacksonville for the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis.
It is. said that an assistant general
freight and an assistant general passen-
insular Railroad will be appointed. No in
formation from official sources has been |
received, but it is said that the assistants !
will be added to the office of each depart |
ment A traffic manager as successor to |
MIR. N. S. Pennington, recently resigned |
is not to be appointed, the work Of the |
traffic department being done by the gen. |
eral freight and the general passenger |
agent 1t will be for the assistance of |
these officials in the discharge of their in
creased duties, it is said, that the ap-
pointment of the assistants is to be made
Speaking Of the business of the turpen- |
tine hands this season as compared with |
that of last year, Mr.. l. M. Fleming, dfvis-
ion freight and passenger agent of the |
Florida, Central and Peninsular Railroad |
says that it has been larger. The season |
is not yet over, but the movement of the |
hands from the Carolinas to South Geor- !
gia and Florida is but slight. For the past |
day or two there have been no parties |
moved, though negotiations are on to Sc
cure two or three within the next day or |
So Mr.. Fleming says he found this sea- |
son that more of the operators themselves |
have gone up to secure the hands. Hereto |