The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-10
WANTS ANOTHER FRANCHISE.
CONSOLIDATED GETTING IN SOME
MORE GOOD WORK.

Now Seeking Right of Way over n
Paved Public ROad-Chairmnn Pal
mer of the County Commissioners
Has Ceased to BE a Director-Fif-
teen Men to BE Sent to Manila
Eastern Circuit Cases Finished.
Some Damage Suits.
Atlanta, Feb 9.-The fight between the
Atlanta Railway Company and the Con-
soldated Street Railway Company broke
out virulenuy before the board of County
Commissioners to-day, over the appica-
ton of the Consolidated for franchises
TO Mcpherson barracks where the At
lauta now has the only line
The Consolidated wants to use the public
road which has recently been laid with
ebert, and is a favorite drive. Great OPP
position to the grant of this privilege has
been work up and there was a large dele
cation of residents and property owners
before TIE commissioners to protest
against the franchise being granted.
The spiciest feature of the row, however,
involves the action of Chairman Palmer
Of the county board Mr.. Palmer was put
on the board through the influence of
Joel Hurt, the Consolidated magnate. Then
he recently became president of the board
through the same influences As chair
man of the board he appointed himself
chairman of the subcommittee which has
In charge the granting of franchises on
the public roads, and which, therefore,
had to pass upon the application of the
Consolidated. Mr. Palmer was a director
for the Consolidated, and this raised
great howl from the other side.
Palmer Not Now Director.
To-day, when the hearing was called,
the other side was plumed for a bitter
fight against allowing Chairman Palmer
the right to vote, because of his interest
in the matter.
When this point was sprung, however,
Mr.. Palmer calmly announced that he had
resigned as a director of the Consolidated,
and had no stock now in that company,
which would remove his disabilities in the
matter of voting on the question, if he
ever had any Chairman Palmers an
nouncement created a great surprise.
Several weeks ago. when the Consoli-
dated wanted stakeholder to apply for
an injunction against the Atlanta Railway
Company, Mr.. Hurt went out and bought
stock of that company for man and set
him up for this purpose. Now il appears
that when being a director in his COM
pany threatens to interfere with the big
fight, il was just as easy to get rid of the
director as il was TO get hold of the
stockholder in the other case All of
which shows how intense is the fight be-
tween the rival street railway companies
The Consolidated is almost sure to get
the right TO run to the barracks at the
hands of the County Commissioners.
Soldiers to Go to Manila.
Fifteen men of the hospital corps at Fort
Mcpherson have been ordered by Surgeon
General Sternberg to go to Manila. and il
is expected that they will be started on
their long voyage by Monday next
The order came by wire last night and
when the men were called upon to state
their willingness TO go, over fifty in the
corps asked for the privilege. There was
considerable excitement at the post to-day
over the orders.
The battalion of the Fifth Regular In
fantry now at the post is under orders to
so to Cuba, and is waiting only for the
word to start
To-day a company of the Sixteenth In
fantry arrived at the post to be garrisoned
there indefinitely.
Eastern Circuit Finished.
AAAN RAPACiliC NOuIN lO-udy finished hear
ing cases from the eastern circuit. the last
case heard being that involving the dis
puted City Court clerkship of Savannah.
The cases argued to-day were as follows.
savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Company VS.. Reed Tony; Henry Solomon
d Son VS.. Ann Carroll, submitted; Travel
ers' insurance Company VS.. JEANNE s
Wynness; Brush Electric Light and Power
Company VS.. c. Simmonson; ]. S. Collins
VS.. Waring Russell, Jr.; Central Of Georgia
railway Company VS.. ". e. Dorsey: Cen
tral OF Georgia Railway Company vs. H.
A. Cannon. -
Three Suits for Damages.
Three suits were filed In the civ Conn.
to-day against the Georgia Cotton on
Company. They were filed bv David
jackson, Oliver Lee and Jessie Gordon,s
attorneys. These men allege that thew
were formerly employed by the Companv
and that they were injured on different
days by the same machine in the com
pany's mill. The machine was a new
zone and had never been used by the com
pany.
jackson alleges that he was the first
man hurt by the machine. He was work
ing with II on Nov 10, 1898 when il caupht
his right hand and cut off part of il
Eight days afterwards Oliver Lee was AZ
work on the machine when ID caught his
right hand and crushed It,
Jessie Gordon was the last man hurt nv
the machine. His right hand was caught
In It and crushed on Nov. 30, 1898. The men