The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-25
WORK WILL SOON
Be COMPLETED
Improvements Now Being Made
by B. R. & E. Company
GREAT SCARCITY OF CARS
Railroads Are Grabbing" for Rolling
Stock-Little Delay i'll Unloe ding
A Good Word for Travelling
Passenger Agents

The work of constructing, repairing and
remodeling the various Zines of The Bir-
minsaam Railway and Electric company
is progressing with unusual rapldity and
as soon as these new lines are completed
this system Will be in excellent shape to
handle Birmingham street ear traffic with
speed, promptness and comfort
Tie work on the electrical equipment OF
the old Highland Avenue and Belt is pro-
crossing rapidly, and in all probability will
be ready wfthin ule contract INIT. The
Fourth avenue and Twenty second street
Fine is being re,aid with heavy rails just
as fast a big force of men can put chem
down. The fair grounds loop will within
tie next few days be completed and will
be formally opened several days before the
big State fair will have Thrown open its
gates to the world
They Want More Cars
There is still a long -dIawn-out cry for
more cars. 1t don't make much difference
What Kind they are or Who they belong to,
either. All daat the roads entering here
want is to get their hands on them. They
need item, and they don't get cold in the
yards until they are hustled out to be re-
loaded.
The Alabama Car Service association is
Keeping close track of everything that
comes into this district, and their records
show dhat there are fewer cars being de-
layed by tardy unloading than ever known
in the history Of the association This is
due to the fact uiat all OF the roads push
customers for the immediate release of their
rolling stock. The shortage for immediate
loading numbers several hundred at pres
emit 80
Eust!s on the Passenger Men
General Passenger Agent Eustis OF the
Burlington pays his respects to the pas
senger men in the following manner:
We depend a good deal on you boys.
once in while there is a road that needs
a travelling freight agent. but none of them
can get along without a passeagel, man,
know you spend days looking UP unso-
phisticSted people, and then can't get tlom
ito move in the right direction. | don't
want to praise you exactly. but what does
the public think of a travelling man? My
experience has been that when a man
breaks down in other pursuits mis- friends
bring him to us to make a passenger man
man over carefully; they don't do the bust
ness. | know that the public thinks pas
senser maa is full of tricks and dishonest
and all that; that he buys overcoats and
charges it up in the expense account as
sandwiches. 1 have met people who think
they have been fooled by passenger men,
and perhaps they have. Passenger men
meet all kinds of people and are naturally
inclined to see that they are net gotten the
best of. When he hears of an opposition
line cutting rates he jumps right in to cut
rates. Also, l would suggest that you seek
to revolutionize matters in your associa-
ton. ana aim to avoid this rate cutting
Don't be like a couple of terriers ready to
jump at one another's threats. If you hear
tina. rates are being cut, inquire into the
situa ton before you make any movement
Wherever L go l 1no That people are in
ciired to make jokes about you, which
suppose is due to your own actions in
throwing aside dignity of position. | would
suggest that you drop such levity as will
make you the butt of iokers and raise your
standard