The age-herald., 1900-06-05
EARNINGS OF THE SOUTHERN ROADS
  Show Gratifying Increases Over Last Year.
NEW LINES IN THE STATE
Passenger Agents Rounding Up Dele gates to the National Conventions 70. w. Gibson Leaves M. O..
 Weekly Rate to Mobile

Railroad companies in the south report ing earnings for the month of April show | gratifying increases oyer the same month | last year. The roads of the entire country | reporting gross earnings for the third week | in May show a total gain over the same week last year of sS14,S60, being 10.n per l cent, compared with 1043 for the second week and 9.54 per cent for the first week | The following southern roads have report | ed earnings in the month of April and for the period from July l. 1899 to April 30, 1900: | Alabama Great Southern-Gross earnings in April, $1i0oS9; increase. $2.734; from July I 1, 1899, to April 30 1900 s1.770,459; increase, | $27OO1i.
 Central of Georgia-Gross earnings in l April, 1900. $i0S,2S7 increase, $2OS65; gross earnings from July l. 1899. to April 30, 1900, | S, ,277, ,SS0; increase, $252, ,209.
 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Gross earnings in March, 1900, $495. .47O; in crease, $66, ,104; gross earnings from July |. | 1S99 to March S1 19O0 $4395, ,6S3; increase, | $7S5, ,2GS.
 Louisville and Nashville-Gross earnings | in April, 1900, s2,14S371; increase, $23O,Sl0; gross earnings from July 1, 1899, to April l 3O 1900, $23, 304. .299 increase, $3S53,272. Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis | Gross earnings in March, 1900, $5S2, 567; in | crease, $69, ,1S5; gross earnings from July l. | 1SS9 to March 31, 19OO $,953,Oi9; increase l $916 126.
 Norfolk and Western-Gross earnings in March, 1900, $1,172,1S6 increase, S72,O8o; gross earnings from July 1, 1899, to March | B. 1900, s10 ,911; increase, $1,694,2SS. Southern Railway-Gross earnings in | April, $2,3S6537; increase, $272,134; gross | earnings from July l, 1S99 to April 30, 1909, $26. BPS, 40; increase, $3,1S6,Sn Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com | pany-Net earnings in April, $2S9,4O5; in crease $2O1 ,9S3; net earnings from January l, 1900, to April 30, 1900, sl,2731 194; increase $967 1883.
 Georgia Railroad-Gross earnings in April, $127 4S4; increase, sS,SS5 New Lines in Alabama Twenty miles of the right-ofway of the Florida, Alabama and Northern railroad have been surveyed and located and the contract for the construction of that DOT ton of the road will probably be let within the next four or five weeks The Florida, Alabama and Northern will run from Florala, point on the line between Ala bama and Florida, by way of Green Bay and Bullock, Ala, to Troy a distance of ffty-fve miles. E. E. Reese, Laurel Hill, Fla, is the general manager of the road.
 Eight miles of the Carrollton Short Line being built from Carrollton to Reform, Ala, have been graded and three miles Of track laid The entire length of the road is ten miles. At meeting of the direc- tors held on May 25, the following officers were elected: President and general man. ager, John T. Cochrane of Tuscaloosa; vice-president, F. D. Willett of Carrollton; secretary w. G. Robinson of Carrollton; treasurer Frank M. Moody of Tuscaloosa.
 Hot After Delegates
 Local passenger agents are busy now rounding up the delegates to the national republican and democratic conventions. The republican convention comes off first, it being slated for June 21 at Philadelphia. The attendance at this convention from Alabama will be quite large, as there will be two delegations, contesting for the right to represent the state in that body The regular delegation to the democratic convention, which meets in Kansas City, Mo, on July 1, consists of twenty-two members. In addition to these there will be quite numDer or altefnateS and V1S- itors to the convention. The large number of persons going to each convention makes the business quite attractive to the passen- ger agents.
 MT. Gibson Resigns
 c. w. Gibson has resigned as assistant general traffic manager of the Mobile and Ohio road to accept position elsewhere. He has been connected with the Mobile and Ohio since 1874, with the exception of 1886 and 1887, when he was general south ern agent of the Evansville and Terre Haute. He has been assistant general traffic manager since May IS, 1899.
 "Week-End" Rate
 The Southern railway will put on "week- end' rates between Birmingham and Mo- bile, good on the train leaving Brmng- ham at 1920 D. m Saturday night, good to return Sunday night. The fare on this ticket will be $5.10 for the round trip or $2.70 less than the regular straight fare