The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-30
PLANTS LAST DAY
TOMORROW 1T WILL DE THE AT
LANTIC COAST LINE.
FIRST COAST LINE TRAIN.
WILL BE NO. IS. ARRIVING AT L
O'CLOCK TONIGHT.

Cease TO-day-IO-morrOW III Will
Belong to Atlantic Coast Line.
plant system Relief and Hospital
Department VIII BE Continued.
Employees Losing Their Positions
viii Have Privilege of Keeping Up
Their ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of
Operating Department of Second
Division to Remain ns at Present.
Expected That Mr.. w. L. Clay and
Mr.. It. s. TutweiIer VIII BE Re-
tained.
This is the last day of Plant System
Independence. Tomorrow the property
will pass under the control of the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad Company,
and the two systems will be CONSOLE
dated. They will be under one man
Ggement and will, in fact, be one prop
erty, all owned and under the name of
the Atlantic Coast Line.
There will be no ceremony incident to
the turning over of the Plant System
to the Coast Line. The transfer has
been arranged for between the legal
depar. ments of the two companies.
Everything has been done save the act
ual turning over of the property. which
will be accomplished simply by the ac-
acknowledgements by Plant System Of
ficials of the authority of those of the
Coast Zine.
The first Atlantic Coast Line train
TO run into Savannah will be what has
been No. rs on the Plant System. 1t
will get in tonight at l a. m. At
midnight the independence of the
Plant System ceases. and after that
hour all of the Plant System trains will
be the Atlantic Coast Lines.
Plant System officials and employees
are awaiting with much interest and
some anxiety the next development in
the situation. They will be on the
watch for news from Wilmington, the
headquarters of the consolidated sys-
tenn. Although the suspense has been
relieved in some quarters by the issu-
ance of circulars touching some
branches of the operating and traffic
departments, there are yet number of
points upon which information will be
welcomed.
The Relief Department.
one of these is the Plant System Re-
lief and Hospital Department There
has been no official information given
out, but it is expected that this depart
ment will be maintained under the At
lantic Coast Line as it is at present.
Either that, or it will be combined
with the Relief Department of the At
lantic Coast Line, of which DIR. G..
G. Thomas is superintendent and chief
surgeon.
The Relief and Hospital Department
of the Plant System is under the man
..FE
Is. Denham. Mr.. Denham said some
days ago to a representative of the
Morning News that there will be no
change in the personnel of the Off
cials of the operating department of
the Second division of the Coast Line,
now the Plant System, but the Relief
and Hospital Department is not,
strictly speaking, part of the operat-
ing department. 1t may be subject
to some change. If a change should
be made, it will be simple combina-
ton with the department of the Coast
Line, whereby those now insured in
the Plant Systems department will
suffer no loss, but possibly reap an
advantage. They would not be re-
quired to conform to rules more strin-
gent or be given treatment less lib
eral than is received at the hands of
the Plant System.
WIFI Retain Their Membership.
Those who lose their positions be-
cause of the consolidation of the Plant
System and the Coast Line will not
be dismissed from the Relief and Hos
pital Department. The contract of
the Plant System employees with the
company is that their insurance in
the Relief and Hospital Department
shall continue, even should they lose
their places, by the payment of the
~. 10 fYa
ploy of the Plant System, the monthly
premiums are deducted by the COM
pany from the amounts to the credit
of the insured on the pay roll.
1t is probable that most of those
who lose their positions, if they are
able, will keep up their insurance in
the department. While this is a sort
of paternal institution, it has its dis
tinct advantages. 1t is compulsory for
those entering the employ of the Plant
System to become insured in the de-
partment, but the rate is low, and
there are more advantages than dc-
crue from the ordinary insurance.
The Plant System Employees Mutual
Relief Association will be maintained.
This is an organization with which
the company has no connection, though
1t sanctions and commends it. 1t is
an old Savannah, Florida and Western
institution, having descended to the
Plant System. 1t viii be continued up
on the Second Division of the Coast
Line. Its membership extends over
the entire Plant System, and has af-
forded relief to many of the employees.
Genuine regret would follow it's disin-
tegTation.
Looking for More Circulars.
More circulars will doubtless be
forthcoming, relating to the Coast
Line organization. In the operating
departments circular there was no
reference to the engineering depart
ment, though this is under the operat-
ing department. The Atlantic Coast
Lines chief engineer is known as en-
gfneer of roadway. This is a title
that will probably be conferred upon
MIR. T. S. Tutwiler, chief engineer
CT the Plant System, whose authority
will continue over the Second division.
Mi. +. =. Peasants is engineer OF
roadway for the Coast Line.
No word has come as yet from the
legal department. Messrs. Hamilton
and Elliott are general counsel for the
Coast Line, and Mr.. W. l.. Clay is
general counsel for the Plant System.
II Is believed that Mr.. Clay viii be
made division counsel for the Coast
Line, having charge of the legal affairs
OF the company over the territory now
reached By the Plant System.
suDerfnfeBdenfs 10 Remain.
eupt. Denham is expected back from
Warrington to-day. He may and he
may not Issue a circular as general SUI
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