The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-21
THE PASSENGER MEN ONLY.
,r1II, ATTEND THE CONFERENCE
COMMITTEE MEETING.

STATED That No Naval stores Factor
From savannah Could Appear Be
tore the Committee in Behalf of
PRODUCERS to Advocate "a Lower
Rate on Turpentine Hands From
the CaroIinas to south Georgia
and Florida POints-It Is said the
chances of the Reduction Hoped
for VIII Thereby be Reduced.
noiIrond Men Say the Rates viii
Rcmain as at Present.
The November meeting of the Confer
.,,s Committee of the Southeastern Pas
ssnger Association viii be held to-day in
Atlanta. The general passenger agents of
the lines entering Savannah will be in at
,enaapce with the other members of the
association.
one of the principal matters regarding
rates that will come up at the meeting of
,he committee is that of the transporta-
ron of turpentine hands from the Caro-
1iras 10 points in South Georgia and Flor
Tia The producers of naval stores are
Greatly interested in this matter, they
having, through their factors in Savannah,
brought the matter to the attention of the
general passenger agents of the lines
principally interested and secured the
promise of their help in doing all that the
circurnst ances may warrant.
If was expected that several of the Sa-
yannah factors would make the trip to AT
lanta This, however, was mistake, one
Of those who has taken the most prom-
nent part in the movement for lower rates
saving last night that he did not know of
single one who would be able to get off
from his business to make the trip. Had
16e meeting of the committee been held
at savannah, as was the wish of the gen.
eral passenger agents of the dimes enter
ing the city, there would have been a
large attendance of the factors and the
interests of the producers would have been
looked after. 1t is now rather a safe
bet a railroad man conversant with tho
situation said, that the rates will remain
as at present
The telegraph and the railway are so
Intimately associated that improvements
in the one closely concern the other. Old
time operators have not yet grasped the
possibilities of the new invention of wire
less biography, and now they are con-
fronted with an automatic device by which
il is expected TO send 600 words a minute
This latest discovery is to be tested in
Chicago in few days, under the auspices
of a company which has had the enter
prise to bring the two inventors, Pollak
and Virag from Buda Pesth, Hungary for
the purpose. The invention is described
in general as an automatic sender and re-
cever of electrical pulsations, which will
transmit more than 900 words a minute.
A perforated strip of paper, the perfora-
tons representing the signs of The Morse
code. is passed through the sending ma
chine and the code signs are repeated in
A. vtF,urT mo oh Inns n
the electrical current are reflected on a
small concave mirror and are photo
graphed as reflected. A sensitized strip
of paper receives the Photographic inn
pressions, and they are reeled out to the
operator for translation much the same as
ribbon In an old Morse telegraphing ma
chine The first test will be an attempt
to send 500 words minute over a distance
Of 600 miles.
Mr.. John Bragg has resigned as city
passenger agent of the Mobile and Ohio
at Montgomery.
Mr.. ]. s. Hanahan, Jr., has been APP
pointed commercial agent of the Plant
System at Charleston.
Mr.. C. C. Johnston has been appointed
travelling passenger agent of the Southern
Railway, with headquarters at Atlanta,
IN place of Mr.. w. T. Cosby, who will
be transferred to Jacksonville on Dec. l.
Mr.. j. w Morgan, supervisor of bridges
and buildings of the Columbia division of
the Southern Railway, has been appoint
ed roadmaster of the same division, with
headquarters at Columbia, S. c., in place
of Mr.. G. W. Payne, resigned.
The Central Railroad has decorated both
its passenger depot and its general Of
fees in honor of the visit of the Confeder-
ate Veterans.
WENT WITHOUT SAYING WHERE.