The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-26
NEWS OF
THE RAILROADS
Impressive Ceremonies Attending S.
[. Opening.
MANY DISTINGUISHED GUESTS.
President Mckinley Expected to Be
Present on That Occasion.
Other Items Of
Interest.
MANY DISTINGUISHED GUESTS.

commemorat ting the contamination OF
great project and the putting into actual
service a competing line between North
and South.
The first train will be a magnificent
yestibuled train and will bring DIS
tingulshed party, and among them
Is expected TO be President Mckinney,
governors, senators, members or Con
gress, mayors of the cities, weli-known
newspaper men and prominent citizens
from all the seven States through which
the Seaboald Railway runs. The follow
ing are the States which will be repre-
scented: Maryland, Virginia. North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia. Alabama
and Florida. When the train arrives
here it will be stopped at Grace Street
Master John Shelton Williams. Jr.
assisted by his grandfather, Mr.. John L.
Williams will then place the god spike
in position, on the viaduct, about 100 feet
from Broad street, and drive 1t IN, thus
driving in the last and completing spike
of the large railway system.
REGULAR TRAINS.
The train Saturday will be followed by
regular trains running on schedule time
from Tampa to this city over its own
tracks Going north the trains will run
over the Chesapeake and Ohio and Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac rail-
roads.
The following invitation has been sent
out by the Seaboard Air Line:
The president and directors OF the
Seaboard Air Line Railway invite you
to be present at the ceremonies attend
ing the opening Of the lines of railroad
between Richmond. Va, and Tampa, Fla.
and the arrival of the first train from
Tampa at Richmond, Saturday, June I'd,
A. D. 1900 half-past o'clock.
The first train from Tampa will be due
jHh
at half past O'Clock, Saturday June the
I'd, 1902 and Immediately before the
arrival OF rhe train the last spike, COM
pleting the system of 1900 miles of road,
will be driven in the main line OF track
at this point
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES.
When the train arrives. the officers and
directors of the system, together with their
guests arriving with them from the South,
and others who may be assembled TO
welcome the train, will proceed up Broad
Street to the Capitol Square, where appro-
pirate ceremonies will take place under
the auspices of the Richmond Chamber of
Commerce. Addresses by the Governor and
others will be delivered from the east
portico of the State Capitol, and after
these ceremonies carriages will be found
in waiting to take the invited guests for
drive about the city. a banquet will
be served at the Jefferson that evening.
THE PROGRAMME
Next Wednesday morning at 9 O'Clock
two trains. composed of five Pullmans
each and one bearing the private car of
President Williams, will leave this city for
Tampa The party will so direct to the
southern terminus of the SYSTEM ar
irving at Tampa at o'clock Thursday
morning, There will be about two hun
bred gentlemen in the party, and they
will be given q breakfast at the Tampa
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on the return trip, arriving at Jackson
VILE at P NJ An elegant dinner will
be served in Jacksonville, and at midnight
the tourney will be continued. Savannah
will be reached al Z A. M, June 1st and
the party will stop there until l p M,
during which time a breakfast, to which
distinguished citizens of Savannah Will be
invited will be served
Leaving Savannah at l 2. NJ. the trains
will reach Columbia at P NJ, and a
| dinner will be served in that city. At
| II P NJ the start will be made from Co
| lumba, and Raleigh viii be reached at
| o'clock on the morning of Saturday, June
I'd Breakfast will be served in that city,
and at 1880 the trip will be resumed AL
o'clock Petersburg will be reached, and
there an elegant luncheon will be served
in Library Hall. Petersburg will be left
at 4 o'clock. and in half an hour later
the first train will arrive here.
THE BANQUET.
The banquet, which will be served at
the jefferson on the evening of June "a,
will be one of tbs, most elegant ever
served in this country. The menu cards
| and punch boxes will be works OF art
! and have the names of the guests en-
prayed on them In the banquet hail or
| the Jefferson one wall will be ooscored
! bv an immense bank of flowers, repre-
senting q map of the entire seaboard
| Air Line System.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
: A party OF weIl-known railroad men ar
rived in this city yesterday over the
Chesapeake and Ohio from Hot Springs
! where the sessions of the International
Car Accountants Association were held
during the week. The party is now at the
Jefferson, and entertained by Messrs. e.
S. Sipp. car-service agent OF the Chesa-
reake and Ohio. and D. E. Spangler. car
service agent OF the Norfolk and Western.
| who are members OF the Committee on
Arrangements for the recent convention.
This moliaing the visitors were driven
about the city to various points OF inter
est and shown the beauties of Richmond
The members of the party are: NJ. NJ.
Vincent traffic manager Kansas City Rail
way. and Mrs Vincent, OF Kansas City,
Mo-: F. NJ. Luce, auditor car mileage, c.
! and n. W.: Mrs. Luce and child, Of Chi
l
| nent of the western Masons, and is Post
| Grand Recorder of the Shrine of the
| United States. He had recently conferred
on him the Esd degree cottish Rite. F. x.
Mudd, general manager Live Poultry
Transportation Company. Of Chicago. He
| Is accompanied by Mrs. Mudd and child;
John Hart, general manager American
Tank Line, and Mrs. Hart, of Cleveland,
O.; Carl Schwartz of st. Louis, car ac-
countant st. Louis Refrigerator Car Com
pany;s J.. C. Smith, car accountant A. and
n. E., and Mrs. Smith, Milwaukee; F. A
Sphinx, vice-president and general mana
ger Anglo-Amercan Refrigerator Car
Co., and Mrs. Sphinx; F. NJ, Cary. general
manager G. C. A. r. Line; c. ]. Fellows.
Lafayette. Ind: T. NJ. McGif. general car
service agent and superintendent OF tele-
graph Central Vermont, st. Adams; VIII
liam Flanagan, car accountant Atlantic
Coast Line, Wilmington, N. c.; D. E.
Spangler. car service agent, Norfolk and
Western, Roanoke, and Mrs. Spangler.
RAILROAD NOTES.
Mr.. L. F. Sullivan. comptroller Chesa-
| peake and Ohio, and Mr.. Johnson, private
secretary to President ingalls,, OF the Big
Four, have returned from an European
trip. They arrived at Newport News
Thursday on the steamer Appomattox, OF