The age-herald., 1900-01-16
Work on the Proposed Road
 Begins Soon:
SOUTHERN INTO MEMPHIS
When the New Road is Completed the Southern Railway Will Have a Direct Line to Memphis
 Via Sheffield


 from Ensley to Parrish, distance of about
 thirty-five miles, is to be built this year.
 The books of subscription to the capital
 stock of the company will be opened next
 month, and work on the construction Of
 the road will most likely begin early in the
 spring.
 The incorpirators of the company are
 A. G. Smith, James Weauherly, A J. Fra
 ger and c. A. NJickersnam. The first two mentioned are district attorneys for the ''outhern Railway and the Alabama Great Southern in Alabama; A. J. Frazer is su- perintendent of the Birmingham division of the Southern, and c. A. W.ckersham is superintendent of the Alabama Great Southern.
 The preliminary survey of this road was
 made in November and December and the final survey will be made next month"; The Ensley Southern will be continua- tion of the Northern Alabama railroad which now runs from Parrish to Sheffield -125 miles-and the two roads together will give the Southern direct route from Bir-
 ming'ham to Memphis by way of Sheffield and the Memphis and Charleston. The Southern railway owns the Northern
  | ated independently. and it is understood that the Ensley Southern will also be an independent line.
 Freight Agency Abolished The office of assistant general freight agent of the Northern Alabama railway has been abolished and the duties of that office assigned to L. Green, division freight agent of the Southern Railway in this city. R. H. Mcclellan, with headquarters in l Memphis, has been acting assistant general freight agent. of the Northern Alabama since its absorption by the Southern Rail ! way last year.
 Mann Boudoir Cars on A. G. $. | Trains numbered and on the Alabama Great Southern now carry Mann boudoir sleeping cars between Birmingham and Louisville. No. arrives from the north l at 11:So a. m, and No. departs for the | north at 4:15 D. m.
 The Chattanooga Southern | Referring to the report that the Chatta- | nooga Southern would be extended into Bir- l minglham at an early date, the Chattanoo- ga Times prints the following: "A reporter called upon General Manager l M. F. Bonzano, of the Chattanooga South 1 ern, yesterday to learn of the building o4 I an extension of that road into Birmingham. ! MT. Bonzano stated that he was not pre- pared to say anything concerning the mat | ter but did not deny that the company was preparing to run on into that city. W'helh CT or net such an extension will be built | he declined to say, but that the road will run into Birmingham is not denied by the management.
 "It is thought that the Chattanooga Southern will not at present build its own tracks into Birmingham, but will, by traf- I fic arrangement, go in over the tracks of the Seaboard, which has about completed l lthe arrangements for the ownership of the East and West road of Alabama, the tracks of which they intend extending into | Birmingham in such a manner that they will pass within twelve miles of the termi- nus of the Chattanooga Southern. By building an extension of twelve miles the Chattanooga Southern will be able to tap | the rails of the Seaboard, and it is in this manner, it is thought by some, that the I Chattanooga Southern will reach Birming ham,"
 About Railroad Men Y Vandenberg, frs. vice president of tine Louisville and Nasf fville. was in the city l yesterday.
 ' E. A. deFuniak, general agent of the Louisville and Nashville, accompanied by | Mrs. deFuniak, has returned from short | trip ito south Alabama and Florida.