The age-herald., 1900-07-22
SATURDAY TRAVEL
 UNUSUALLY HEAVY Every Train Leaving Town Yes- terday Afternoon We'll Filled. REDUCED RATES TO CHICAGO Excursion Tickets to Niagara Falls Will be of Iron Glad Form and Good
 Only for Original Purchaser
 to Prevent Scalping
REDUCED RATES TO CHICAGO

Passenger business into and out of Bir- mingham yesterday was unusually heavy. It has grown to be a custom for big Satur- day crowds to come to the city from the outlying district, but yesterdays crowd was larger than usual. From 3:i5 to 4;30 o clock yesterday afternoon 1t is safe to say 800 persons passed through the en- trance gates at the Union Passenger sta ton. The greater number of these had tickets to nearby towns, such as Bessemer, Blocton, Adgers, Warrior, Newcastle etc. The Decatur accommodation, which left at 410 D. m., had two coaches almost packed with passengers, many of whom were go- ing to Blount Springs to spend Sunday. The Alabama Great Southern trains, both for the North and the South, which leave at 4:15, had good crowds, and the Southern eastbound and also for Brookside had we'll filled coaches.
 There was such jam at the ticket office that it was almost impossible for any one to get near enough to purchase ticket. All three of the waiting rooms, as well as the space between the waiting rooms and the railing were packed with people, most of whom left on some one of the trains.
 Station Master Meglemry, after watching the crowd jostle and push each other at the ticket window for some time, decided to make some changes that will prevent so much confusion in future. In short time he will have guard rails put up at the window with three passage ways, one from each of the waiting rooms for white people and one leading to the door next to the shed. In order to do this the radiator that
  have to be removed, but that will prove no inconvenience as it hardly ever has any steam in it any way. If the guards are put up they will prevent a congregation around the window and facilitate the sale of tickets.
 To Prevent c,iping
 The Central Passenger Association has recently adopted new rules governing low rate tickets sold to Niagara Falls It Is estimated that not less than 30,000 persons go to Niagara Falls every year, about two-thirds of whom are sight-seers and the balance business men travelling on ex- cursion tickets. It is stated that the greater part of the business men travel on excursion tickets purchased by them with the view of selling the unused DOT tions to ticket brokers at Buffalo, and thus make their trip less expensive. This is the principal reason why there have all ways been more scalpers in Buffalo than in any other city of its size in the world.
 All the railroads in the Central Associa- tion G1at reach Niagara Falls have agreed hereafter to only tickets of the iron clad, signature form, good only for the transportation of the original purchaser, for excursion business to Niagara Falls. In case any excursionist wishes to stay at the falls longer than two days, he must, on arrival, deposit his ticket with a joint agent of the Central Passenger Associa- ton. On tickets deposited with the joint agent a maximum return limit of twelve days will be allowed. It is claimed that this agreement will destroy the business of the ticket broker, and that the railroads will be gathers by securing regular rates from persons who have been in the habit of taking advantage of excursion rates when making business trips.
 The Southern Railways weekend rates to Mobile are proving very attractive to the public. The train out of here every Saturday night is crowded, and in many
  get berths in the sleepers.
 The Louisville and Nashville showed in- creased earnings the second week in July, but not enough to offset the decrease of the first week. The increase the second week was s7,3s5 over the corresponding week in 1899, but the decrease for the first two weeks was S2S, 175.
 The Louisville and Nashville has an- nounced rate of one first-class fare for the round trip, plus s5. .75. to Chicago on ac- count of the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in August The rate from Birmingham will be S17 for the round trip. The other roads will make the same rate.
 Captain P Sid Jones, of the Louisville and Nashville, has gone to Ohio and Penn sylvania in the interest of his road.
 MASCOT TOMORROW NIGHT