The age-herald., 1900-08-09
Time Between Birmingham and
 Dallas Reduced II Hours.
SUMMER TOURIST TRAVEL
ce-Presidency of Kansas City Road Rendered. H. U. Nudge President Washburn's Health Foreei, His Re-
 tirement From Management

1 Crescent System will inaugurate a fast | schedule to Vicksburg, Shreveport and Dallas. The running time of this train will be twenty-one hours from Birmingham to Dallas q reduction of eleven hours in the present schedule time.
 The Queen and Crescent will run through day coach and sleeper from Bir- mingham to Shreveport and there connect with fast train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road which has just been open ed up for business between Shreveport aud Dallas.
 The schedule time of this train will be as follows: Leave Birmingham at 1010 D. m. and arrive at Dallas. Texas, the next evening at o'clock This route will be 12S miles shorter than any other between Birmingham and Dallas and the excellent roadbed of the Queen and Crescent and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas will ena- ble very fast schedule to be put on.
 The train will carry a Pullman sleeping car and day coach between Birmingham and Shreveport, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas will operate through trains be- tween Shreveport and Dallas. A dining car will be attached to the train at Vicks- burg, the train arriving there about S:3O a. m., and carried through to Shreveport. T.C. Powell Here T. C. Powell, assistant freight traffic manager of the Southern Railway, with headquarters in Louisville, Ky, was in the city yesterday consulting with Division Freight Agent G. R. Browder
 c. H. Morgan, travelling passenger agent of the Texas and Pacific, is at Atlantic City and other Eastern resorts on his va cation.
 The summer trouist business of al lthe roads is heavier this year than ever be- fore. The sleepers on all the trains going North and East have full complement of passengers every day. Passenger agents say that every berth on every train is taken before the train leaves Birmingham.
 Soliciting Freight Agent Frank M. Kit ehell of the Southern yesterday received a letter from D. II. Byrd and L. K. Ter rell, who are at Boligee, stating that they had caught more fish than they could bring home, and asking him to go down there and help them eat the catch.
 A large number of Birmia 5han people will go to Tuscaloosa tomorrow for the purpose of buying tickets to Chicago, St Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati, a cheap rate having been put on from that Iiace The rate from Tuscaloosa to Chicago will be $12; to Cincinnati $1L50; to Louisville and St. Louis, $10.
 Union Depot Extension
 The plan for the extension at the west end of the union passenger station, it is stated, contemplates the removal of the district and city passenger office of the Louisville and Nashville Company, now To- cated in the Morris building, First avenue and Nineteenth street, into the extension when completed. The freight office now In First avenue, will be removed either to the new building east of Twentieth street. or to one of the offices oyer the wait ing rooms.
 Industrial chooi Dr. H. L. Derr of Jerseyville, Ills, has written to District Passenger Agent P. Sid Jones of the Louisville and Nashville rela- tive to the establishment of a college for women and children at some point on the Louisville and Nashville road. He offers to contribute a sum equal to the amount any community will raise for such pur- pose He proposes to establish college to teach agriculture, horticulture, bee cul- ture stock raising, etc. Captain Jones has referred the letter to several towns along his road.
 Passenger Agent G. M. Williams of the Louisville and Nashville is in s)1th Ala bama.
 New Manager For Kansas City
 President Edward S. Washburn of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham road has been in bad health for several inla expressed the desire to be relieved of the active management of that system His physician had advised him to take a sea- son of absolute rest, and he is now at Rye Beach, N H., where he will remain some- time longer. A teregram from Boston yes terday stated that H. U Nudge, general manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, had been elected vice president with the actual management of the Kan sas City, Memphis and Birmingham. The telegram is follows:
 HI. U. Nudge, general manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F'e Railroad, has been rendered the position of vice president of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis, and Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, with actual charge of management of the road, and has taken the matter under advisement
 Edward s. Washburn, president of the Memphis road. who has been ill. has. it is said, indicated his wish to retire from the aVtice management of the property re- taining the presidency only with the un- derstanding that he is to occupy the posi- ton in an advisory capacity"
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