The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-12
WILL TALK OYER
BIRMINGHAM RATES
Joint Meeting of Traffic Mana
gers and Business Men.
ALLEGED DETERMINATIONS
Question Will be Taken Up and Adjust
ed, if Possible John w. Martin
Transferred to Mobile-News
of the Railroads

joint meeting of the traffic managers
and general freight agents of the railroads
of Alabama and committee from the Com
mercial club will be held at the Commercial
club rooms at o'clack this afternoon.
At this meeting the representatives of the
various roads will take up the matter of
alleged determinations against Birmingham
and Alabama by the railroads having lines
in the state.
Sometime ago complaints We're made to
the Commercial club by several merchants
that the railroads were discriminating
against Birmingham in the matter of
ferred to the transportation committee with
instructions that they bring the matter to
the attention of the Alabama Railroad COM
mission. The complaints were tabuated
and forwarded to the commission and in
reply the committee was requested to ap-
pear before the commission in Montgomery
last week.
The railroads at this junoture came into
the negotiations and conference was ar
ranged for last week, at which the traffic
managers would go over THE alleged dis
examinations with the Commercial club.
For soma cause the meeting was postponed
until today.
Those Who Will be Present
The following representatives of the rail-
roads will be present at the meeting:
A. w. Graham, traffic manager, Louisville
and Nashville.
]. T. Poe, general traffic manager, Mobile
and Ohio.
mi t~a fia ocyo1- Snth
Railway.
70. T. Wilcox, contracting agent, Kansas
City, Memphis and Birmingham.
E. A. Hinton, traffic manager, Central of
Georgia.
R. e. Lutz, traffic manager, Western OF
Alabama.
The transportation committee of the COM
merciaI club comprises the following gentle
men:
w. II. Kettig, chairman; E. W. Barrett,
Morris Adler, b. Steiner, B. b. Conner, L.
V. Clark, ]. D. Chichester, Oliver Chali-
fouX, G. NJ. Morrow, r. F. Lewis E. Solo
mon, c. NJ. Shelley, George Eustis, E. M.
Tutwiler, James A. Going, Henry b. Gray,
Sterling A. Wood, w. B. Archibald, w. G.
Estes, d. ]. Fox, Ben M. Jacobs, T. c.
Thompson, Scion Jacobs e. Lesser, d. B.
Luster, A. I. London, N. L. Miller, B. f.
Moore, r. S. Munger, J. w. Minor, Otto
Marx, Charles Irwin.
Every member of this committee is urged
to be present.
The executive committee of the board of
trade the freight bureau and all persons
interested in the matter to be considered at
the meeting, are requested to be present.
he I.ef
mercial club and the railroads the COM
plants filed with the railroad commission
are held in allegiance.
A Well Deserved Promotion
John w. Martin, who has for the past
five or six years been assistant to the trav-
cling passenger agents of the Southern and
the Alabama Great Southern roads, has
been transferred to Mobile, where he will
be assistant to the city passenger and ticket
agent of the Southern. This Is q well de-
served promotion of faithful and capable
employee and the best wishes of his Birm-
ingham friends go with Mr.. Martin to his
new field of labor.
He will be succeeded in the local office by
Buford Chenoweth, nephew of w. A. Chen
oweth, of this city. Mr.. Chenoweth recent
Holiday Rates
Holiday rates of one and one third fare
for the round trip have been announced.
Tickets will be on sale December %, 18th,
S0th and 31st and January l, good to return
not later than January 4. The same rate
has been granted students at schools and
colleges, with dates to include December
1921, and will be issued to students pre-
senting certificate of attendance at any
school or college, signed by the principal
or president thereof.
Personal Mention
Third Vice President Frank S. Cannon,
Assistant General Superintendent j. S. B.
Thompson and superintendent c. L. Ewing,
of the Admission division of the Southern,
were in the CITY yesterday MIR. Cannon
left in the afternoon for Memphis, and Mr..
Thompson will return to Atlanta today.
F. C. Shepard, general freight agent of
the Louisville and Nashville at Montgom-
cry, is in the city.
Sam Ogilvie, gateman at the union depot,
has returned from a visit to Tennessee.
Charlton III. Morgan, travelling passenger
agent of the Texas and Pacific, is In Nash
ville
Telegraph Wires Down
Some of the railroads were having trou-
BILE with their telegraph wires yesterday,
the heavy wind of Sunday night having
blown the wire down in sayarnt 1Iapel