The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-09
WILL Be SHORT LINE
NJ, ID. & S. EXTENSION WILL BE A
CUTOFF To MACON.
IF PLANS ARE CARRIED OUT.
CONNECTION WITH sEABOARD AIR
LINE AT VIDALIA.

Distance From Macon to Dublin, the
Eastern Terminus of the Road, Is
"a MiIes-FrOm Dublin to VidaIin,
the Line Would Probably Be 40
MiIes-FrOm VidaIia to Savannah
Is so Miles, Making the Distance
From Macon to savannah 174
Miles-Distance Via the Central Is
10I MiIes-This Would Mean Re-
duction in Rates TO Meet the Short
Mileage.
The outlook now is that Savannah and
Macon will have another direct railway
line connecting the two cities. A dispatch
states that the Macon, Dublin and Savan-
nah Railroad has been granted terminals
in Macon by the Council of that city,
/, with the understanding that the railroad
begins work upon the extension of its
line to Savannah or to connect with some
other line entering this city within six
months. The general manager of the
Macon, Dublin and Savannah has said
that work will be commenced at once.
The Seaboard Air Line will be the con-
Meeting link over which the Macon, Dub
lin and Savannah will get into Savannah.
The plan is to build the Macon, Dublin
and Savannah from Dublin, the eastern
terminus, into Vidaia, a point on the
Seaboard Air Line. This has been def
nitely settled it is claimed though it was
stated some time ago as the purpose of
the Macon Dublin and Savannah people
to build into Lyons, few miles nearer
Savannah than Vidalia. This project was
given over however, because of the adj
ditional cost it would represent. To
build to Vidalia would mean that two
rather large streams would have to be
crossed, and the bridges would be ex-
pensive.
For some two years, before the Georgia
and Alabama was merged with the Sea-
board Air Line, efforts were made by the
Macon, Dublin and Savannah to effect
some agreement under which connection
might be made by an extension. 1t was
thought that both the Georgia and Ala
bama and the Macon, Dublin and Savan-
nah would profit by such an agreement,
and the latter was anxious for il. The
terms of the agreement to which the
Georgia and Alabama would consent,
however, were not entirely satisfactory
to the Macon, Dublin and Savannah peo-
pie, and they had to wait until the Sea-
board Air Line management was in con-
troll. 1t is now said that close traffic ar
rangements will exist between the two
lines as soon as the connection has been
effected.
From Macon to Dublin is "a mites.
From Dublin TO Nidalia, In an air line, it
is something less than forty miles. AS
Stunning that the connection would be
forty miles long, the distance from Sa-
vannah TO Macon by the new route would
be TIA miles, it is eighty miles from
| Nidalia 10 Savannah. That would be the
short line The Central railroad now Of
| fers the shortest line between the two
cities, the distance being 1871 miles.
The operation of freight and passenger
| service via the Seaboard Air Line and
the Macon, Dublin and Savannah would
| mean that the Central would have to meet
the new order of things by a reduction in
! rates. Its rates would be adapted to the
! short mileage. When the old East Ten
| nessee Virginia and Georgia constructed
! its line, the Southern's, from Atlanta to
| Macon, it shortened the distance between
| the two cities over the Central, and the
| latter had to reduce it's rate. The same
! thing will happen between Savannah and
Macon, If the plan of the Macon and Dub
| lin people is carried out and the distance
! between the cities shortened something
| like seventeen miles.