The age-herald., 1898-10-13
YESTERDAYS NEWS .----e-WFh THE RAILROADS

The strict quarantine which is now being enforced by the state of Alabama against Mississippi and Louisiana is playing havoc with the railroads running from this state into Louisiana
 >. On this account, but more especially on account of the suspicious cases Of fever that are reported at Columbus, Miss, the Southern was compelled yesterday to dis continue it's trains running into Columbus from this state The trains leaving Bir- mingham go only as far as Fern Bank, which is just on the boundary line, and there they stop. So far, no arrangement has been made to get any passengers into or through Columbus from that point.
 The Alabama Great Southern is little more fortunate, being able to run their night trains through Meridian, although the main crew which handles the southbound train must disembark at Arklet, and spe- ciaI crew takes the train on through Merid- ian, and on the other side of the city an- other regular crew takes charge of the train This same course is adopted on the northbound train. The southbound day train must stop at Cuba, and there the few passengers which the city authorities per- init to enter the city are carried on in special train.
 Travelling Passenger Agent Ellis of this road yesterday received a telegram from Dallas, Tex, saying that the gateway to >--e west through Shreveport, La, was still open to all passengers from non-nfected districts and who held health certificates.
 The Louisville and Nashville has also had a time with its trains between Mobile and New Orleans, most of the towns the trains pass through being guarded by shotgun quarantine. The Louisville and Nashville also has through route to Texas and the west though New Orleans.
 Yesterday was a big day for the freight railroad on the Montgomery and Decatur division. From Birmingham towards the south this road handled eighteen train loads of freight, each train averaging twenty five loaded cars. All of the regular freight trains were run in several sections, No b alone being made up of seven trains. Numbers Il, 73, 19 and II were each made up of two sections and No. 25 of three sec- tfonS.
 Over half of these trains were filled with Birmingham pig iron and coal bound for New Orleans. Pensacola and Mobile. to be e ported. The remaining trains were filled . h merchandise and freghts of various kinds, being shipped to the south from the north. The officials of the road say that they could increase these shipments by half If they had the cars. These figures of yesterdays heavy freight business do not include the freight ship ments to the north. nor do they include any of the passenger trains.
 Commercial Agent Solon Jacobs of the Central of Georgia railroad has now fin- ished moving the offices of his road from the old location on Morris avenue to the office building on First avenue, where he is endeavoring to fit up one of the hand soonest sets of railroad offices in the south. The little fight which has been going on for a short time past between the High land Avenue and Belt railroad and the Ala bama Great Southern over the removal of six old scrap engines of the latter road, which had been placed on one of the High land Avenue lines tracks. came to an end yesterday by the removal of the engines