The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
CHANGING ITS TRACKS AT Triton
Plant System Is Moving About Three
Miles of Its Line.

tracks through that place. Nearly three
miles of track are to be taken up and re-
laid. the line being considerably straight
ened thereby.
"A misundersta landing with Mr.. Tiff, who
owns almost all the lands about Tfton
made it necessary to change the line of
The road. A question of right of way came
up, and it was found that the best way to
settle 1t was by moving the line. In maxi
ing the change, the grade of the road at
IifCon viii be considerably reduced.
The Plant System has a large force of
hands at work, and it will not lake a great
while to complete the undertaking. A
great deal of grading will have to be DONE
and three months is the time that is re-
garded as necessary to finish IT, Two
trains are at work constantly, and both
steam shovels and steam plows are used.
In addition to the work that is being
done by the Plant System. a union depot
IS to be built at Triton by that road, the
Georgia Southern and Florida, and the
| Triton and Northeastern This is an or
| der from the Railroad Commission. TO
which complaint was brought of the utter
lack OF depot accommodations at the
| place. Triton is a point of considerable
railroad and commercial importance, and
the improvements that are to be made will
De gladly welcomed by the citizens.
Mr.. A. Pope general freight and pass
enger agent of the Georgia and Alabama
Railroad, will return to-day from New
| York, where he has been for the past few
days on a business trip.
Mr.. Smith D. Pickett general agent at
| Jacksonville for the Southern Railway,
ygeFk 4 ~
! city Mr.. Pickett is just back from a va
cation spent at the North.
| meeting of freight rate clerks of the
| Plant System, the Central of Georgia, the
| Southern, the Georgia and Alabama and
| the South Carolina and Georgia was held
| yesterday, at which the rates on fertilizers
| for the coming season were arranged 1t
was stated that the rates are essentially
! the same as those of last year, the only
| difference being the correction of two or
| three errors that have existed before,
| Some being In favor of the roads and some
| of the shippers. The corrections, it is
| said, have only equalized things, neither
! the roads nor the shippers getting any
| the better of 1t by the changes. Those
who represented the roads at the meet
| ing were Chief Rate Clerk Davis of the
| Plant System, Barnum of the Central,
Browder of the Southern, and Smith of
the South Carolina and Georgia.
| A largely attended meeting of merchants
| and leading railroad men of the United
| States was held a few days ago at Chi
| cago to adopt way and means of help
| ing on the fight against railroad ticket
scalping. 1t is the plan of those interest
| ed to bring the matter up In Congress
| again at this session, Notwithstanding the
| hard luck those who have favored it have
| already had. The railroad men confidently
expect to be more successful this time
/ Something of the feelings of the assem-
| bled merchants and railroad men toward
| The practice of ticket scalping may be
| judged from the following resolutions that
were adopted, and which also show some
| thing of the intention and mode of action
| 1t is proposed to follow up in the fight:
| Resolved, That general railway condl-
tions the superior character and how cost
| Of transportation service rendered by
| American railroads, and the evident de-
sire on the part of representative railway
| men to cultivate a spirit of cooperation
| and reciprocity between mercantile and
common carrier industries, furnish good
| reasons for manufacturers, merchants
| and commercial travellers everywhere to
use their Influence individually and col
| lectively to secure reasonable and neces-
/ sary legislation in the interest of common
| carriers.
| Resolved. That careful Investigation
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| criminal history of the various states DEM
| onstrates clearly the fact that the prac-
/ tice known as railway ticket scalping Is
| pernicious in It's effects, unfair in its re-
| suits, is contrary to the American spirit
| of fair play, is an evasion of the plain in
| tent of the interstate commerce Jaw as it
reads, and, therefore, the practice should
| be abolished by national legislation.
| Resolved, That the government having
| asserted the right to regulate and control
| interstate commerce, has. therefore, as
stunned the responsibility of protecting COM
mon carriers against unjust attacks upon
| their revenues.
Resolved, That the chairman of this
| conference be authorized and instructed
to organize a central anti-scalping com
! mittee, with subcommittee in each large
distributing center throughout the coun-
| try, for the purpose of cooperating vigor-
ously and continuously with common car
riers until Congress shall permanently
abolish the vicious practice Of railway
| ticket scalolng.
The Chicago and Alton has decided to
abolish the use of gates on passenger
| cars. General Passenger Agent Charlton
says: THE Chicago and Alton placed
| gates on its passenger cars commencing
June /, 1898, making 1t necessary for all
| passengers to show their tickets to lie
| Cancelled before boarding the trains. The
| object was protection of passenger rev.
enue, protection against accident, and Sc
curing that passengers boarded right
| trains and were provided with proper
| transportation. The new system did
everything 1t was expected to do. Pas
| senger revenue, especially on short-dis-
| lance travel, was greatly increased There
| has not been one single case of accident
on car-gated trains since the system was
| adopted nor has there been a single case
of passengers boarding the wrong. train.
| The car-gated system on this line has
| been more effective and less expensive
| than the depot-gate system generally used
| in all large cites throughout the country.
| Our customers, however, are dissa tiefed
| with 1t, and In Difference to their views
we have decided to abolish it," From a
statement In the Grand Rapids Herald, 1t
appears that the Chicago and West Mlcnl-
gan has also given up the use of gates.
The Atlantic, Valdosta and Western has
ordered two American type locomotives
| from the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in
| addition to those recently ordered.