The age-herald., 1898-01-19

4iC &.elol IolILllUBfdIu QulHilly lilC 10 " ing rapidly equipped with electricity and by the last of April, it is thought, the troll ley cars will be in active service on this line.
 The Birmingham Traction company, which owns the road, has contracted with Chicago parties to equip the road. The plant which is to be located about Eighth avenue and Thirtieth street, North, is all ready being constructed, and will be made in duplicate. This means that one-half only of the plant will be used at time, making the capacity just double the needs, and should anything happen to one plant another will be ready at moments notice to turn on for duty.
 This company will use 250 horsepower motors on each car, not because so much power is necessary to move the weight of the train, but to get high rate of speed. They will also construct an excellent road bed, using sixty-pound rails, and as there are very few curves in the line, speed of twenty miles an hour can easily be at tained.
 The Traction company is very proud of tIt ldCl llldl II ieio ptlioi hOiiiS 'iANN9 tries as far as possible. The Birmingham Foundry and Machine company is furnish ing the engines, and Crellan & Co. are making the boilers.
 This company's route has heretofore been from Birmingham out Eighth avenue through East Woodlawn to Gate City.
 The company made all arrangements to change the course of the track and run the line through Woodlawn proper, but were enjoined by the Birmingham Rail- way and Electric company from crossing it's track at that place. Mortimer Will Hams, manager of the Traction company, was seen by an Age-Herald reporter last night, and he said that this injunction would delay them only temporarily, and that the courts will decide the matter shortly.
 Mir. Williams said that the contract for the poles and wire work had been let and work will begin this week. Entirely new cars will be ordered within the next two weeks. They will be the large-sized cars, and as stated above, will be able to make twenty miles an hour.
 Cattle Quarantine Postponed
 The Kansas City, Memphis and Birming- ham railroad office in this city yesterday received the following dispatch: ID. E. Salmon, chief of bureau of agri- l culture, at Washington, D. C., wires in- | spector instructions to permit shipments of | cattle to enter Kansas until February 1, in conformity with state regulations. This will permit interstate shipments moving into Kansas until February 1. Notify all interested parties
 'E. K. VOORHEES,"
 This action was taken by the govern ment on account of the starving condition of numerous herds of cattle which are in the territory just south of Kansas. These cattle are from the flooded districts bor- dering on the Mississippi and from other sections where all feed for the stock had been exhausted. The owners are com pelled to sell, which they do at any price. The Kansas feeders are buying them in, and at their request the government has suspended the quarantine law. The rail roads are taxed to their utmost, and the Kansas feeders expect to make fortunes on the deal.
 It is not thought that this postponement will effect the cattle shipments from Bir- mingham in any great degree. About a thousand head will probably be shipped. Nearly all who had cattle to ship to the western grazing fields did so before Jan. 15, when the cattle quarantine law was to have gone into effect.
 Car Service Association
 The Alabama Car Service association held it's first quarterly meeting yesterday after noon at the Morris hotel.
 There were present w. P. Harris, of Montgomery, superintendent of the Plant system; J. I. Mckinney, of Montgomery, superintendent of the Montgomery and Mobile division of the Louisville and Nash | vile; A. Gordon Jones, of Selma, superin- tendent of the Anniston division of the Southern; J. H. Hall. of Macon, superinten- dent of the Central of Georgia; T. S. Noise, of Columbus, superintendent of the Central of Georgia; J. H. Sullivan, of Memphis, superintendent of the Kansas City, Mem phis and Birmingham; c. A. Wickersham, of Birmingham superintendent of the Ala bama Great Southern.
 J. T. Welch, of Birmingham, assistant superintendent of the Montgomery and Decatur division of the Louisville and Nashville; H. B. Spencer, of Birmingham, assistant superintendent of the Alabama Great Southern; w. D. Knox, of Anniston, superintendent of the Alabama Mineral.
 Only the routine business of the associa- ton was considered. There were no off, cers to be elected, and no changes were made in the rules. The presidents annual report was submitted.
 Railroad Personals.
 Yesterdays Age-Herald said that Charles Jones, the Kansas City, Memphis and Bir- mingham's railroad passenger agent for this city, was one of the agents who made the fight for transporting the thirty-nine Italian laborers to Chicago. This was mistake. It was w. R. Jones, of Atlanta, another agent of the road Charles Jones did not arrive in Birmingham until the fight was about over.
 D. W. LaBeaume, general agent of the Cotton Belt road, was in Birmingham yes terday.
 Fred H. Jones. district passenger agent of the Cotton Belt road, is in the city. No Roadway Made. Columbus, O., Jan. 18.-The senate com-