The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13

completion of the Uganda Railway. Of course, nnaiity cannot be claimed for the undertaking at present, but completion ts attained Tn so far as is constituted Dy The arrival of the first train at Port Florence. the Victoria Nyanza terminus of the line.
 The first rail was laid at the sea coast end In August. 1896, and the full length or the nne-5S2 miles-has been completed In less than five /and a half years. The magnitude of the understanding does not appear in the mere statement of mileage. ana the 450OO.000 which the work has cost The work has been extraordinarily difficult.
 The mere mention of a railway SHE gests civilization, but this system which connects the shore of the Indian Ocean with the great plateau of the Central African lakes has had to be laid in country such as has probably never be- fore been at the disposal of the railway engineer.
 No fewer than 3S steel viaducts are, in- cluded in the railway. The rope incline down the Kikuyu Escarpment is said to be as wonderful achievement.
 The country through which the line runs is in part an ideal one for the tourist who has stomach for a spice of danger in his settlements. The scen- cry Is magnificent: the plains or downs in some places like Scotch moors. and in others like great English parks, thin ly wooded, but thick with game In the woods ringing the line are buck. leop- ards and lions. swarms of guinea fowl; and among the hills droves of elephants.
 There is something picturesque and wonderfully grand in the thought of frisking through the lair of the primeval lords of the land, lions are as plenti- full in the land as berries in an English autumn. But with the picturesqueness mingles an element decidedly inimical to health. The Uganda lion preserves unim- paired his appetite for the flesh of man. He has been wont to gratify it during the construction of the line.
 At one place-Isavo-which is about 13O miles from the coast, no fewer than 2S coolies were killed and eaten by the lords of the forest. So great was the ter TOT inspired by the lions that the poor laborers refused to continue their work and only with the extremest difficulty was the work forwarded.
 The New Orleans States says:
 Travelling Passenger Agent R. c. Rog- CTS of the Central of Georgia, at Mont gomery. Is in the city for the purpose of picking up some business for the Chicago and Florida Limited service. in which the Central of Georgia. Louisville and Nashville and others are interested. Mar di Gras visitors or others who desire to go over to Florida may leave New Or leans at 8 D. m, via the Louisville and Nashville and reach Montgomery shortly after 6 o'clock the next morning, leaving Montgomery at S:N D. m. giving day light run through the picturesque South ern country. St. Augustine is reached at 9 D. m. Close connections are made at Jacksonville and St. Augustine for in- terior points in Florida.
 MT. Rogers has his headquarters with Commercial Agent Harry Byrnes of the Central of Georgia, No. 7lS Common Street.
 The tide of mardi gras travel from New Orleans. Mobile and Pensacola began flowing northward yesterday. and is about as heavy as 1t was going down. though 1t will not last as long. Train No. from the south. came into Mont gomery with two sections last night, both heavily loaded.
 Over in the South and North wards yes- terdav morning were two of the largest engines ever seen in Montgomery or this section of the South. They were built hv the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Southern Pacif" and will bA used on the Western division of that road in tho mountains and near Tucson. Ari1. Tho enRires are Nos. 22S3 and 29s4. each weivhine without the cab or eoupments. eighty-five tons The cabs are steel each has two sets of air brakes. high pressure cylinders 16-inch and low pressure cvlin- der. 29-inch. Each has 2s-irch stroka and 200 hounds steam boiler pressure and 7200 gallons of water. They are ten- wheel passenger engines. six driving wheels and two pair of pony trucks. the driving wheels being 72 inches.