The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-13
WINTER SCHEDULES GO ON.
III START NEXT SUNDAY ON
voRTH-AND-sOUTH LINES.

~,.o. nay tue Southern VIII Turn
.r Its Cincinnati and Florida
,..,i,ed to the Plant system at
,..cp Instead of to the Florida
.trog and PeninsuIar at Everett,
Has Been the Policy Since the
rim Was Put On-This Is Taken
show the Intimate ReIatiOnsllip
mot Is Being Established he
,,vern the Plant System and the
santbern-BeIieved Morgan Does
-. Ffaure Behind the seabOard.
,,-;,,ter Tourist Business.
1-,,t are known as the winter schedules
~. r5rth and south lines will become
I've next sunday. No considerable
- i'm the schedules of the trains run
INTO and out of Savannah over either
-, plant system or the florida Central
a. psn,rsular will follow on account of
production of the new schedules.
,ho,.h there viii he changes at other
gsn-s
One change Of Importance that viii
.-.r.r.re next sunday is the transfer of
-. -.rtberu's train, the Cincinnati and
rl,rid, Limited, from the Florida Central
and Peniusular TO the Plant System. The
s,ut6ega has been working in connection
Nth ,be Florida Central and Peninsular in
.ts bu.tuess. turning the train over to
A,Io,sr road at Everett to be taken into
r.oasonvile. Beginning next Sunday the
,-,,, Mn be turned over to the Plant Sys-
TEN at Jesup.
Tb. transfer of the business to the
Pant system is no more than might be ex-
r.c.el as The Southern and the Florida
central and Peninsuar could hardly main
,fr The same relationship when they d.
vide their interests north of Savannah
The Plant system succeeding the Florida
Central and PeninsuIar north of this city
anil south as well, as an ally, it is no more
Than natural that the Southern should turn
over it's train from Cincinnati to the new
hi,nd at Iesup.
rlk with G railroad man relative to
The idea that has been advanced from time
n time of ]. Pierpont Morgan being a
srong factor in the Williams syndicate
that has secured control of the Seaboard
Air Line and associated roads discovered
reasons that would seem to snow that such
a supnosition is absolutely without foun-
datiou. The gentleman said TO the Morn
ing News that it would scarcely have
been the course of the Seaboard If Mr..
MORGAN were deeply interested in that, as
well as The Southern. to force the issues
as il has during the past few months,
driving the Southern to make the most
Strenuous efforts to keep up its connec-
tons south and compelling it to build an
extension in a remarkably brief space Of
time In order to admit of any connection
Of all being maintained, This approach
ng transfer of the Cincinnati and Florida
Il Limited from the Florida Central to the
Plan. system would seem to emphasize
s. The warning interests of the Seaboard and
the Southern the former road, as is well
known now owning the Florida Central
q and Poninsular.
The inroduction of winter schedules
4 means the roads are taking official no
tee of the opening of the winter tourist
season. Already the movement of tourists
q from North to South Georgia and Florida
n has assumed wei defined proportions, and
8 the business this year bids fair to be
large.
Col B. w. Wrenn. passenger traffic man.
ager of the Plant System, was seen last
night and asked for an expression relative
70 the prospects for the tourist season. He
is firmly convinced, he says, that the most
Profitable season in the history of South
GeOrgia and Florida as tourists fields is
i opening Personally he has received many
Inquiries and been assured by countless
4 prospective tourists of their intention to
visit the South during the winter, and the
reports from the many agents of the Plant
& System throughout the country indicate
the same thing.
The passenger business of the roads is
even now very great 1t is larger than
II COL Wrenn has known in years for the
Il same season, being a movement of COM
III mefci0l men, tourists and others. The Wis
ltors from the North are as yet those, for
lne most part, VINO are in search of health.
ihey are not those who come down purely
Tor pleasure for the big winter hotels of
the railroads in Florida have not opened,
ana 1t is not until their accommodations
are afforded that the wealthy pleasure
M seekers leave for their trips.
* BROWNSVILLE, Col. Wrenn reports, has al
ready secured a great crowd of visitors.
W Many or those who have already reached
IlaJ resort and others own their own
homes, The smaller hotels and boarding
houses also come in for large proportion
ol the early business.
Inc Florida hotels of both the west and
east coast will open Jan. 15 The follow
lls Gay the vestibuled trains over the
,iIee INES, the Plant System, the Sea-
poard Air Line and the Southern. will
W -'N" lOIh, the common initial line,
uIe pennsylvania, bringing them out of
that city
shortage of freight cars is the cry in
canada as well as in the United States.
Tgn.,1l Manager Hays of the Grand
lu4A says: We are quite unable to
Hdl1ie all the freight poured in upon us,
t,e1 though we have taken two-thirds Of
i've 1L9 cars we usually have on American
mes and transferred them to Canada.
& SI'in elevators on the Georgian bay
o,u H'Ver Saint Clair are full, and we
o o.4no' take any more wheat, barley or
G p until these have been emptied We
+r a,g ceased to take part in the grain
4 49, from Chicago simply because we
nave been unable to handle it. I do not
~" wvA Tor any relief from the present press
U'e lor a couple of months"
me toAowing are The officers of the