The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-15
m1I COME WITH THE TROOPS
n,uRoAD MEN WILL FLOCK TO
SAVANNAH.


n.i,ess From the Camps-Roads
-, Number of Them on the
,+ for the Men-Business Ont
,,,uuah Not Likely to He As
- That Ont of Jacksonville.
u.cciDts In the Passenger De-
n.uputs on Account of Troop
movements.
,r.., tbe coming of the troops TO Savan-
+tera will be a great influx of rail-
nl o,sn. There are a number of hust-
~, rsiroaders in Jacksonville now who
~. besn there ever since the establish
Of The camps near that city, and
ual come on up to Savannah to con-
~ tbe,r feast. 1t is said that there
of one time as many as thirty rep
motives of lines through various sec
,,,0s at Jacksonville, all on the lookout
(,r Messenger business. 1t is not expect
-, ,bat there Will be so many here, as the
illness will be of a different character.
,-.tbar reason that will serve to dimin-
49, The number is that there will hardly
anu. one time be as many troops here
=. t5ere we're at Jacksonville about
nth ago Ii was then that good
. .on, of the leading officials of passenger
4Dnartmenis were there in the effort to
gst tbe transportation or those regiments
a. we're 10 be sent back to their native
. Us n he mustered out or given fur
loughs. -, al, bo,,o
Somewhat different situation 10 deal
o,,b here. There will scarcely he as
Now soldiers 10 leave for their homes
nr fIrlo,1eh or for hospitals as left jack
sonvill4. The corps being under orders TO
nroceed TO Cuba will keep the officers from
grsnting furloughs to men to any greater
svrant man may prove absolutely neces-
sarv There will be comparatively few
of the soldiers who will get chance 10
% home after getting here, unless from
80 regiments. like the Second South
Caro,fna for instance, whose members do
mi live at such great distances. This
will cut down the furloughed soldier bus
mess of the railroad men considerably, as
fron jacksonville many were allowed TO
Get off for a few days for trips home.
As an illustration that Will be clear TO
savannah people, it will be remembered
tbat tbe members of the Second Georgia
Regiment found it difficult to get fur
LAUGHS while the command was under or
ders TO be in readiness to take the trans
norts ar any day A similar difficulty will
he encountered here, as it will not be
known at what time orders may come for
regiment to board the vessels.
Another big business for the roads was
the TRANSFORMATION of sick soldiers from
Jacksonville to hospitals at Atlanta or
further north. 1t is probable that there
will not be much sickness here, as the
season has so far advanced and Savan-
nah is very healthful city. The number
NJ cases will not be so great, and the sick,
moreover will probably be cared for at
the hospital that is to be erected for the
army here. 1t is thought this hospital
will be completed before the departure of
the troops for Cuba.
The railroads can well afford to keep
their passenger men on the lookout for
business among the troops, sending them
to the camps for the purpose. 1t is a we'll
known fact that the roads have made big
money out of troop transportation, both
in bodies and singly. The government has
raid for the movement of bodies of the
troops. and, strangest thing in the his
tory Of railroads, it has, as a rule, paid
more for such movements than 1t has cost
an individual soldier travelling singly. 1t
is not an unusual thing for the govern
ment 10 have to pay 2 cents mile per
capita on movements of bodies as large as
travel for ll2 cents mile.
The soldier who moves with bodies, how
ever, and for whom the government pays,
gets an advantage over the individual in
that an entire seat has to be put at mis-
disposal a cOnveience he cannot always
enjoy when he is travelling on his own
hook in a regular coach. But the passen-
ger departments of some of the lines have
been the star earners for some months
now. 1t is said that in some cases the
passenger people have earned more than
the freight departments, something that
Is also remarkabl
Mr. W. c. Dennis, assistant general
freight agent of the Plant System, has
returned to the city after trip through
ue West on visits to the various agencies
Of the system.
The Plant System and the Florida Cen
tTa and Peninsular will have each
handled the same number of regiments
after the present movement of troops
IRON Jacksonville to Savannah has been
wnpeted. As the score stands just at
present the Plant System is ahead by
Two regiments, but, as the system will
handle five of the twelve regiments to
phe' While the Florida Central and Pen
. '4suldr VIII handle the other seven, the
g9se of the movement win see things
eyened up.
Inc reduction of % per cent. in freight
la'es by the Merchants and Miners
transportation Company from eastern
i % poi to Nashville and Memphis and
h erl IN mat territory, announced in yes
wa uay Sdspatches in the Morning News,
wa s decided upon for two purposes. One
van Vs. ~ order that the Merchants and
~ . n line might meet the competition
ill., "g hanawha Dispatch, a fast freight
arJ mat ma runs from Norfolk to Nashville
ra5r. M.lfemphIs and that territory. The
nob ''uoh puts the rates through Savan-
sam, me same points on exactly the
NIT. oasis as that Of the rates from
Nc y points through Norfolk and over
In NsuaWha Dispatch.
shin a1otloh to the wish of the steam
TIA, leop.e 10 get some of the business
tIer. naS 0een going through Norfolk
thu vas another to induce them to make
ping auction This was the gradual slip
,"o"'y OF the Nashville and Memphis
sone from the Eastern trade. For
been 1u' Chicago and St. Louis have
Ing oaching upon this territory. taxi
the sIeaj deal of business away from
sppjisd POINTS that have In the past