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

The net earnings for the above five
| months are $54,354 and show an increase
| of S34,774 over the corresponding period
of 1926.
The betterment account shows that the
company has wisely expended its money
in preparing to do business upon scale
much larger than hitherto attempted.
Not including several items of minor inn
portance, the company's equipment has
been increased by the addition of two
mogul locomotives, 8 stock cars, 100 fiat
and 100 box cars, camp cars and one
officers car; it has built round-house
at Mobile, costing $1,000, and machine
shops costing $16,304. Its trestle con-
struction cost $4,000, and its steel rail-
to replace the iron, $4,000.
The following is a copy of the bill now
before the New Jersey legislature in ref
erence to railroads and other common
carries which the League of American
| Wheelmen are chaperoning:
ANY person who shall have purchased
a ticket issued by any railroad corpora
ton emitting such person to transporta-
ton on its railroad and ferries as pas
senger, shall have the right, by virtue
thereof to have transportation on the
same boat or train with such passenger
as baggage one bicycle to or from the
place designated in such ticket, without
further or other payment to the railroad
corporation thereof. No passenger shall
be required to remove any ordinary or
usual bicycle bell or lantern from such
bicycle nor to crate, cover or otherwise
protect such bicycle. Any railroad cor
poration refusing to transport bicycles or
refusing to accept the same for trans
portation as baggage, in violation of the
next preceding section, shall forfeit and
pay to such passenger the sum of $40 for
each and every offense, to be recovered in
am action of debt in any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction"
The following was received by special
by the Atlanta Constitution Sunday
night:
Mobile, Ala, Jan. S1-(Special)- w.
N. CUP, general freight agent of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, died
here this morning quite suddenly from
heart disease. Mr. Culp had been in
Mobile a few days. He came here to
seek relief in a change of climate. APP
parently he had heart trouble, compli
Gated with Bright's disease. He caught
cold on the journey and was a very sick
man when he arrived here He began to
improve soon after and was very much
better up to yesterday afternoon. He sat
/ up during the day, and when his ply
stefan called he found him weak from
.bverexertion and almost without pulse
EMP Culp passed a bad night and died
Carly this morning without premonitory
indications of a fatal termination of ILL
ness.
"The remains were shipped to Louisville
| this afternoon for interment. His wife
and a male relative were with him."
| The railroad reporter of the State Her.
| aid has been under the impression that
] the Louisville and Nashville had only
| two general freight agents, viz: C. B.
| Compton, Louisville. and F. c. Shepard,
| Montgomery If Mr.. Culp was general
| freight agent his appointment must have
| occurred since Jan. l.
|
New York. Feb 1.-The Louisville and
| Nashville railroad earned gross for De-
cember $1.S54 971. an increase of $97.115;
net $671. 956; increase 1921, 1865, and net 3d.
| XII 253 decrease S353lS9