The age-herald., 1900-05-27
COMMISSION HAS
 BEEN APPOINTED
To Take Subscriptions to Stock of 0neonta 6 AttaIla R. R.
THIRTY-FIVE MILE BRANCH
Robert Newman Resigns Position of Private Secretary to Superinten- dent Frazier of Southern
 Excursion to Mobile

The secretary of state has appointed a commission to take subscriptions to the capital stock of the Oneonta and Attalla Railroad company. The commissioners are Milton H. Smith, president of the Louis- vile and Nashville railroad; H. ". Bruce, Cushman Quarter, w. w Thompson, J. II. Ringgold and J. II. Ellis of Louisville, Ky, and J. M. Falkner of Montgomery. The commissioners are all directors of the Louisville and Nashville company, and the Oneonta and Attalla is to be a branch of that system. The new road will run from Oneonta, Blount county, to Attalla, Eto- wah county. At Oneonta it will connect with the Birmingham Mineral branch of the Louisville and Nashville and at Attal- la with the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, which is partially controlled by the Louisville and Nashville. The distance is about thirty-five miles. At Attalla the Oneonta and Attalla will also connect with the Alabama Mineral, a part of the Louis vile and Nashville system, which runs from Attalla to Calera a distance of 125 miles.
 The capital stock of the Oneonta and Attalla is stated to be $2O0, GOO, divided into 1000 shares of the par value of s1OO each.
 With the building of the Oneonta and Attalla the Louisville and Nashville will have through line from Birmingham to Huntsville and Nashville.
 Excursion to Mobile
 An excursion will be run over the South ern railway from Birmingham to Mobile on June g. the rate for the round trip be- DO En tickets will go to the Confederate Veterans and will be applied to the care of needy Confederate soldiers. The train will con sst of first-class coaches While at Mobile the excursionists will be taken on a trip down the bay in a splendid boat, and Colonel Golf, president of the Pratt City bank, will entertain them at his planta- tion near that city.
 The summer excursion rates to the var ious summer resorts throughout the United States go into effect on June 1. The passen- ger agents in Birmingham have not yet received their tariffs quoting these rates, but 1t is generally understood that they will be on the same basis as last season. A large summer traffic is anticipated by all of the lines.
 The Central of Georgia ran an excursion from Birmingham to Columbus, Ga., leav- ing here at 800 p. m. last night. There was a large number of both white and colored who took advantage of the cheap rate.
 The Alabama Great Southern railroad will operate an excursion from Birming- ham to Meridian, Miss, leaving here at a. m Sunday, the Sd of June, returning the same night. The fair will be $2 for the round trip. Separate coaches will be pro- vided for both white and colored
 MT c. s. Hayden, superintendent of the Anniston division of the Southern railway, with headquarters in Selma, spent yester- day in the city.
 Robert Newman, who has been private secretary to Superintendent Frazer of the Southern railway the past two or three years, has resigned that position to engage in other business. MT. Newman, while yet very young man, has made a splendid re- cord with the Southern. His resignation takes eeffct on June 1. His successor has not been named.
 Passenger Agent Ellis of the Alabama Great Southern railroad announces that his line will run special train from Bir- mingham to Louisville to handle the Con- federate veterans from this territory. The special train will leave Birmingham at G:3O Tuesday morning, the 29th inst, and will run through without the usual stops
 Major General Cameron, commanding the Mississippi division U. c. V., and a large party of Mississippi veterans will join this train here. Camp Hardee will go in a body on this train.