The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-16
WILL OPEN IN FINE STYLE.
SrABo ARD AIR LINE WILL ENTER
TAIN HERE ON JUNE L.

engagements Have Been Made by
officials of the Company for Ex-
cursion Trains TO Leave Richmond
on Way 3G-They VIII Go to TAMPA
With Many Guests OF the Company
iAbOard-Tampa, Jacksonville, Sa-
visited on the Return Trip - 4
Luncheon VIII Be ServedjHerc and
other CourteSies Saown-ThrOugh
Line win BE Open at the Same
Time for Passengers ana Freight.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway will
omen its through route between Tampa
and Richmond with great eclat. The ex-
ecutive officials have determined upon an
opening that win be dazzling, and the
many who will participate in it will en-
10Y themselves to the utmost as the guests
of tie great system that has been con-
solbiated through the financial genius of
Ioiln Shelton Williams and his associates.
June / has been fixed upon as the date
of the opening in Savannah. The event.
however, will, by no means, be confined to
this city, for at most Of the important
points along the route there will be cele-
bratons of the opening up of the new
line
The programme for the opening has not
yet been definitely decided upon, but it
has been determined TO have two special
trains of-Pullman cars leave Richmond on
May 80. They will have at least 100 of the
leading officials of the system and prom
inent citizens of many cities of the East
and South. Newspaper men will also be
along in force, representing the leading
papers of the section through which the
Seaboard runs That the opening and the
railroad will be widely advertised cannot
De questioned.
After leaving Richmond the run will be
direct TO Tampa, where the trains viii ar
rive the morning of May 81. A dinner will
be served In that city, the guests of the
Seaboard will be shown the points OF in
terest and the departure will be in the
afternoon. A stop viii be made at Jack
sonville on the way back, and the pro-
gTamme is now being arranged for the en-
tertanment that will be shown the guests
OF the company in Savannah on June l.
A luncheon will be feature of the hos
ptality Of the Seaboard in Savannah. A
list of speakers will be made up, and it Is
safe to predict that the affair will be en-
will be shown before the party gets away,
which will be in the afternoon. A supper
will be served at Columbia, and then the
trains will go on to Richmond. The trip
will be pleasant one, and those who re-
ceive invitations from the company and
can accept them will be fortunate.
Capt. w. w. Mackail, secretary of the
board of directors of the Georgia and Ala
bama, returned yesterday from Richmond,
where he had a conference with President
Williams and others, connected with the
Seaboard The plan for the opening was
there discussed. 1t is understood that
the regular through service for practice
will be inaugurated the day after the
trains leave Richmond, with the party of
eXcursionists. Then the tide of travel and
freight will be constant over the new
route between the South and the East.
All but a short stretch of the line be-
tween Richmond and Ridgeway has been
completed. When it has been finished the
Seaboard will have its own route, with
connections made at all points. The three
roads that are embraced in the consolida-
ton will then be as one