The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-25
VAST WEIGHT IN A TRAIN.
TIM HUNDRED TONS IN THAT RUN
MING TO ATLANTA At NIGHT.


nm Average Rate Of Thirty-Five
uiIes an HOur-TraveIing Not Di-
finished by Accidents-New Safe
-, Coutrivance Which Has Met
With Approval.
When the Central train left for Atlanta
,,et night over $4,000 worth of rolling
stock started on the long all night run
TO the capital In the train, which was
evpected to make the 290 miles run in
ten hours, there was a total weight of
about 200 tons, or 100000 pounds. This
enormous mass was to be moved by the
magic power of steam at an average
sneed. excluding stops, of thirty-five miles
an hour.
II may be hard to appreciate that this
enormous weight is really represented by
one of these night trains on the Central
BUT the weight is unquestionably there
The engine and the tender weigh about
forty-fve tons, without fuel; the baggage
car and the express car will each weigh
at least sixteen tons, the two ordinary
dav coaches are about nineteen tons
weight each, while the sleepers, if they
were put upon the scales. would surely
tin the balances at twenty-five tons each
q total Of 800 tons. The fuel, the baggage
and the passengers will increase this total
by at least ten tons.
Accidents, no matter how disastrous in
their accompanying loss of life, have
ceased to have any deterrent effect on
travel The time has passed when people
ship was lost or two trains collided and
the list of dead was long. The war may
have checked travel abroad, but it is safe
to say that the loss of La Bourgogne did
not affect travel beyond a very few su-
per-nervous folks who believe in the old
superstition that accidents come by threes
and are still anxiOusly awaiting the other
two and staying ~'close to home"
People read about an accident one
day, discuss it the next, and forget 1t the
third said a Central Railroad official
yesterday. "The American people have
become so accustomed to travelling and
have so much confidence in the railroads,
that the idea of personal danger does not
enter their minds. Considering the many
millions of passengers handled every year
and the minute proportion who are in
iured in any way, they are taking the
right view of it. A man is almost as
safe on railroad train as in his own
home or on a city street. Take the last
five years and you will probably find
from the records that the number of peo-
pie killed or injured in different ways in
the city of Savannah exceeds the number
killed or injured in that period on any
railroad entering the city"
The excursions of merchants TO Phila-
delphia from various sections Of the coun-
try are proving an unprecedented sue
cess On one day 1900 merchants arrived
In the city on five different excursions.
The 500 Railroad has just completed a
trial of the famous life saving continuance
invented by Harry d. Wallace of st. Paul
and known as the Wallace train order
signal the result being a strong confr-
nation of the favorable opinion expressed
by the Great Northern officials after their
IOt-mle test last year. The mileage reg
isler was exact and the automatic air
break setting device worked perfectly The
signal was attached to No 100 one of the
mammoth Schnecetady engines, which
makes the continuous 355-mile run from
TINS city to Gladstone, Mich This is the
invention which signals every stop on a
run and automatically stops the train If
through injury to engineer or for other
reason The stoppage is not made at the
proper time by him. 1t has attracted much
attention among practical railroad men.
The road of the Manila Railway Com
pahy was the first built in that island, and
was brought about through British CAPT
TAI and efforts. Its most prosperous wear
was In 1894 when it carried over 100000
passengers. Not much opposition to Amer
lean occupation VIII be manifested by the
owners of this property, for that same
year the Spanish governor clapped a tax
Vi ~ per cent on the earnings of the road |
President Baxter of the Tennessee Cen
tal has secured the necessary funds for
the completion of the road Tomorrow. |
Hl C'arksvlle Tenn, bids will be opened |
loi llle Work on the eastern end, from Mon |
Iffey 10 Knoxville. About fifteen miles
OF grading remains 10 be done and all the |
rack laying. The work is to be finished |
IN ninety days, and then through connec-
uoh from Nashville to Hartman on a |
Ulrect line will have then established |
over the Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
I-ouls TO Lebanon, thence over Crawfords |
Ivdd 10 Monterey, and from Monterey to |
hartman over the Tennessee Central |
ms arrangement will only be temporary, !
a. me tennessee Central will build its own |
i'He9 from Hartman through to Nashville
~ soon as practicable. Then the road from |
->3ShVllle to Clarksville will also be con- |
4Lulled. The road is to be finished within |
two years.
Vim the formal transfer of the |
iolk southern Railroad to the Pennsyl- |
Una railroad Company, 1t had been an |
Igi3dlsd that renewed efforts would be |
Haqe to acquire the Baltimore and Lee
a. t.'sn railroad the acquisition of which, |
- was generally supposed, would natur- |
tts IoIiow that CT the York Southern. 1t |
, w. peeh stated, however, that the nego-
N"-'ons which contemplated the purchase
Ii7 baltimore and Lehigh road by the
- wanna Company have been declar-
me following resolutions were adopted |
,'e employees in the Mobile shops of the
utto'.sF'He and Nashville in recognition of
NJ. recent restoration of wages Resolved, |
f',ltt our sincere thanks are due and are
II'.i'pE rendered to the officials of the |
i -.. 'lae and Nashville Railroad for the
AZ on anu liberal treatment accorded us at
to- ''l'es' and especially for the restora-