Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-02-10

much of the credit is due. As your cor
respondent understands 1t, the rule in
these annual inspections and awards is
"honor to whom honor is due" and there
fore as a matter of course the entire force
on each section spreads itself to win the
high honor, so worthily bestowed upon
the Greenville section, for the year 1896.
This section is really in fine condition,
as is the whole division, and when the
work of ballasting, now IN progress. has
been completed, better road will be hard
to find. The Louisville and Nashville. al
ready one of the best and most popular
systems in the country, keeps abreast
with the times, ever furnishing the very
best accommodations, including speed,
safety and comfort, to say nothing of
elegance, to Its hosts of patrons and the
general public. The officials of the road,
in all branches, with whom the writer
has been thrown, are, as rule, efficient,
polite and oblging, and to this fact no
doubt Is due in a great measure the vast
popularity of the system. The entire
corps, from top to bottom, are to be con-
graduated upon the condition of affairs.
The above remarks are especially APP
plicable to the employees here, from sta
ton agent on through to warehousemen,
than whom there are none better in their
respective positions
A NEW ROAD.
Monroeville Feb. ESPECIAL Core
spondence)-Mr. S. N. VanProog, the
ern Railroad company, accompanied by
it's chief engineer, both of whom have
been in this vicinity for several weeks
past, are now actively engaged in prepar-
atoms for the location and construction
of the road, Mr.. VanProog has succeed
ed in placing the bonds of the company
on favorable terms. The people of Mon
roeville and along the line are considering
VanProog's railroad the most feasible
project in the south. and have great faith
in his ability and steadfastness of pur-
pose.
GOES TO THE CENTRAL.
H. A. Dunn, at present assistant au-
ditor of disbursements of the Santa Fe
railroad, has sent his resigna ton to the
officials to take effect on Feb. 20, after
which he will take charge OF the audit
ing department of the Central of Georgia.
Mr.. Dunn has had the offer under con-
sideration for some time and will move
his family south to Savannah within a
month.
DON KINNEBREW'S LATEST.
D. ID. Kinnebrew, formerly of this city,
has arranged for railroad collision to
take place on the Tampa, Fla, fair
grounds April g. B. W. Wrenn, of the
Plant system, has announced a special
rate over his lines for the occasion Don
is hustler and it is predicted he will
make a success of the collision.
CHICAGO IN LINE.
The following from the Chicago Journal
relative to that vulgar habit, Splitting on
the floor of a railway car" is worthy of
perusal by the state law makers, as it
might induce them to incorporate a law
of a similar nature:
Charged with defiling the floor of a
Twelfth street car by splitting thereon,
Attorney j. r. Newcomer was arrested
this morning and bundled into one of the
cells at the armory until he could procure
bail.
The arrest brought out the fact that the
street car companies have sent out spot
ters," whose business it is to ride over the
various lines and watch for violators of
the anti splitting ordinance. The young
man who called the officer and secured
the arrest of Attorney Newcomer said
that he was employed by the railroad
company and was simply performing his
duty.
"Are you employed by the street rail-
way company in the capacity of inspector
of expectoration ?" he was asked.
well, I don't know about that" he
laughed. you'll have to ask the COM
pany. l draw a salary, but have moth
ing to say as to what my official title is
the company will have to define that"
In his cell Attorney Newcomer paced up
and down and declared it an outrage that
he should be detained from his business
and herded with lot of criminals. The
man under arrest is of the firm of New
conner & Dellenback and has offices at
No 95 Clark street This morning, &C
cordng to his story, he was on his way
downtown in Twelfth-street car. He
was standing up, he says, when man
in front of him, who had cigar In his
mouth, spit on the floor.
1.-THE man looked like stranger in the
city," said the imprisoned lawyer, "and
when that spotter came up to him with
all the pomposity of a drum major and
commanded him to stop splitting or go to
Jail I, along with several others, COM
mented unfavorably on the officiousness
of the employee. He happened to hear
me and threatened to have me arrested,
too, if I didn't keep STILL l made some
retort and that was all there was to it.
The next thing the lawyer knew po-
liceman was shouldering his way into the
car.
That's the man, there, who is slob-
bering over the car" said the street car
employee, pointing to Newcomer. By this
time the car was downtown and the po-
liceman dragged the protesting attorney
over to the armory station, took him
down to the basement and had him
locked up. According to the man who
made the arrest Newcomer and not the
man in front of him was the one that
did all the splitting, and he added: 81
would have had him arrested If he had
been Mayor Swift"