The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-23
THE sEABoARD's OPENING.
COMPANY TO EXTEND IT'S HosPI-
TALrTY ON A GRAND SCALE.

VIII Leave Richmond with Two
FaIatial Trains May 80, Going
Straight to Tampa Returning
stops VIII lie Made and Receptions
Held at the Leading Cities-'rhe
Party to Arrive in savannah 400
Strong, June L, and After Visiting
Hutchinson Island md Inspecting
the Terminals a breakfast viii DC
rendered Guests and Leading Citi-
zens-The Trip to wind Up with a
Grand Dinner mt Richmond.
The Seaboard Air Line has completed its
programme for the formal opening which
will signalze the completion CT It's through
route from Washington to Tampa. The
affair will occupy four days and prom
.ses to excel anything of the kind ever
attempted in the history of railroading.
Four days the officials Of the Ssaboard
and their invited guests will he swinging
back and forth over the great system
which has been gotten together by the
genius of Mr.. John SHELTON Williams, and
his associates within the last year
The trip will begin at Richmond on the
the night of June 2. The first day will be
devoted to through run from Richmond
to Tampa. Two thirds CT the time on the
return trip will be given up to entertain
ing the officials and prominent citizens on
the line of the route. No less than six
different receptions will be given and the
entertainment will be of the lavish char
acter BETTING the beginning of a great
new commercial route.
The party will leave Richmond We'd
nesday morning. May 80, in two palatial
trains of Pullman palace cars. President
John Shelton Williams will head the par
ty, accompanied by a number of the di-
rectors and leading officials Of the com
pany, together with friends of the Sea-
board and prominent citizens of the
states along the route. A number of
newspaper men, representing the leading
papers Of the several states traversed by
the line will be the guests of the COM
pany on the trip
Only brief stops will be made along the
route and the party is scheduled to ar
rive in Tampa the next morning. y
breakfast will be given there 20 the lead
ing citizens and guests of the company.
May 81, the party Will arrive in Jackson
vile for supper. After receiving their
friends there the party will leave for Sa-
vannah, arriving here early on the morn
ing of June l. At $3.50 o'clock the Wis
itors, accompanied by the Mayor and AL
dermen and leading citizens and officials
of the railways centering here will take
q Seaboard train for Hutchinson Island,
crossing the new bridge and coming down
the island to where the new terminals
are in process of construction, opposite
the city. After inspecting the terminals
a steamboat, chartered for the occasion,
will be boarded and a trip made along
the river front Az 1870 o'clock the party
is expected to arrive at the De Soto,
where both local and visiting guests will
be entertained at a luncheon. Speeches
| complimentary to the enterprise of che
| company and the ability of It's officials
will be in order md will doubtless be
| forthcoming.
| Leaving Savannah in the afternoon the
party will arrive at Columbia in time to
meet the citizens of that place at sup
per. Next morning the party will arrive
! at Raleigh, VIII re a public breakfast VIII
| be rendered the friends of the company
! there The tour win conclude Saturday
afternoon June 2, with a grand dinner at
the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, at which
a number of the leading public men and
! railroad officials Of the several states
through which the line passes will be
! present.
The scale CT magnficence on which the
! O. enirg of the new line will he conducted
exceeds anything of the kird ever before
| attempted in the South, and augurs' well
| for the prosperous future of the new COM
pauy. Capt w. W. Mackall OF Savannah.
is In charge of the programme at this end
Of the line and. needless to state. the
| matter is in able hands.