The morning news., 1898-07-12
oENTRAL'S DIRECTORS MEET.
ROADS BUSINESS LAST QUAR-
TER EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE.

the Dissolution of the Consolidated
Bond Syndicate-Rush of Govern
ment business Has Interfered
With Plant system's Excursions.
The Phosphate OutIook-General
Railroad News.
| The directors of the Central of Georgia
Railway Company held their regular quar-
terly meeting ar the Office of President H.
/ NJ. Conner yesterday.
The meeting was considered quite an inn
portant one, this being the end of the
fiscal year. There were present President
H. NJ. Conner, Vice President John NJ.
Egan. Directors George ]. Mills, A. Vets
! burg and Joseph Hun Of Savannah, Evan
| p. Howell of Atlanta, ]. +. Hanson and
S. r. Jacques of Macon, U. B. Harroid of
Amercus and G. Gunby Jordan of Colum-
! bus.
President Conner said. after the meeting,
that there was nothing but routine busi-
ness before the board. The meeting was
comparatively a short one, and was spent
| in the discussion of matters relating to
the business Of the company. The Cen
trails business, during the year, and es-
pecially for the last quarter, has been ex-
! traordinarIy good, it is said. as the re-
| ports from month to month have shown 1t
/ will probably be a month or two yet be
fore the annual report of the president is
| published, as the accounts of the last
| month or so have 10 be first figured up,
and the whole consolidated.
! President Conner, when asked about the
| dissolution of the consolidated bond syn
| dicate, said he knew nothing definite with
regard 10 it. The company has nothing
| whatever to do with these bond syndi-
| Gates, and as a matter of fact, the con-
solidated bonds all being held in New
| York, the question is one of very little
| interest here, except in general way
| The only result is that the consols will
probably so upon the market whereas
| before they were held in a lump and none
| were offered for sale.
The Plant System has been out of the
excursion business this season up to this
time owing to the demands made upon its
facilities for the movement of troops and
army supplies. The rush in those lines
being apparently over 1t is expected that
the popular cheap trips will soon be re-
sumed. The Sunday excursions to Charles
ton will doubtless start up again in two
or three weeks, and about the same time
| some excursions may be run 10 Tybee
| from distance of two hundred miles or
more from Savannah. Many inquiries
have been made about the Charleston cx-
| cursions, in particular these having been
a very popular feature of the summer
passenger traffic heretofore. Letters ere
also being received from interior points
about cheap rates to Tybee, and it is cvi-
| dent that if a few excursions at low
rates are run they will have heavy pat
ronage.
| will be oR
phosphate an Florida this season, Judging
from the reports received by the railroads.
OF the rock exported the great bulk will
go through Fernandina, but Savannah
will get a few cargoes. Rock is now being
brought here by the Florida Central and
Peninsular for the steamship Ness, which
| will carry out a large cargo Contracts
are said to have been already made for the
shipment of over 5000 tons from Fernan-
dina. The hauling of the rock to that
point is quite an item with the freight de-
partments of the railroads.
The grocers' excursion returned to At
lanta last night. The special left Savan-
nah at $50 o'clock, and will reach Atlanta
al o oclock this morning. This was one of
the largest crowds ever handled on a SIM
gle excursion of this character, there be-
ing about $50 passengers, the greater num-
Der of whom went to Tybee. The Central
may give the Atlantians another chance
to visit the seashore at an extremely small
outlay of money before the season ends.
The Central will ruin an excursion from
Macon to Tybee leaving Macon next Sat-
urday night, and returning Monday night.
1t will be under the direction of the Trav-
elers' Protective Association, and a very
large crowd is looked for The rate has
been made 81. rs for the round trip, includ-
| ing the fare to Tybee. The regular Sum
| A1o ta will
her of visitors to the city and island by at
| least 200, that being a low number to come
from the Fountain City, at this season of
low rates.
The handling Of the hospital trains from
Tampa, it is expected, will be divided be-
tween the Plant System and the Florida
Central and Peninsular. The route which
is taken will give the Central the haul
from Macon to Atlanta.
Yesterday morning light battery from
Fort Myers, near Washington, d. c., left
for Tampa. The train is made up of two
sections, and will be turned over 10 the
| Florida Central and Peninsular at Colum-
ba. The battery will go through Savan-
nah some time this morning. Il is not
known whether the trains will come into
the city or not, but it is hardly probable
that they will.
MIR. M. " Raley Of the Florida Central
and Peninsular returned to Tampa yester-
day, after of has flying trips home
Capt. Raey reports that the congestion
of freight at that point is a thing of the
past. The greatly increased yard facil-
tiles and the experience obtained have
made it comparatively easy to handle the
freights now reaching there. While there
has been a falling off in the volume of
this business it is still enormous and re-
quires a small army of men to handle it
properly.
Baggagemaster Cotton Mather of the
Central Railroad Is still laid up as a re-
suit of the rough treatment he received
from a number of the Rough Riders"
while they were passing through the city
last week. Mr.. Mathers legs are reported
considerably swollen from the bruises he
received, and he is otherwise temporarily