The age-herald., 1900-08-05
Passenger and Freight Service
 Unexceiled.
6.888 MILES IN THE SYSTEM
Magnificent Equipment- Solid vestibul- ed Trains s-Handsomest Pullman Sleepers Elegant Dining and
 Observation Cars

ra1lrOAd mileage ll the Sldte oL AiaudHid These. systems are noted for their splendid E schedules in the passenger service and for the remarkable rapidity with which they handle freight As will be seen from the accompanying map, the lines of the South ern Railway system extend in every dfrec- ton from Birmingham. and compose the shortest and quickest lines to almost every point in the country.
 The Southern Railway has in recent yenrs grown to be one of the greatest railroad systems in the world. It is progressive and up-to-date in everything. It has done much to develop the mineral district of Alabama, and 1t win do much more.
 The. Southern. Railway Company was orr ganizsd in July 1894. and with all the lines that it owns, operates and manages, con- sists of 6.SSS miles. Into this magnificent system have been merged the Richmond & Danvil1e Railroad systems and controlled liness the East Tennessee. Virginia & Geor- gfa Railroad; the Georgia Pacific Railway; the Memphis & Charleston RafIroad; the South Carolina and Georgfa Railroad. the Atlantic & Danville Railroad and other smaller Iines
 All of the separate lines that have been merged into the Southern Railroad were in the hands of receivers, and their property was in diapidated condition, prior to the reorganization; but since the Southern Railway has taken charge of these proper ties, and merged them into one magniff- cent system, under progressive and en- ersetic management, they have been won derfully improved. The roadways have been improved by remodeling the grades, curves etc, and by the relaying of a. large DOT tion of the track in new so and s5 pound steel rail Thousands and thousands of new ties have been put under the rails and many hundreds of miles of track have been rebailasted; so that the Southern Railway line at the present time is strictly modern in its track construction, the improvement is being continued every day, and no ex- pense or care is being spared to hrillg the road in every way up to the highest stand lard of eaccellency Since the Sout heTn Rail- way has acquired the many smaller hnes it has improved the rolling stock and equprn ealt in every possible way. New and powerful engines have been purchased and some or the most powerful locomotives that have ever been built are now running on Southern Railway lines, hauling their fast limited passenger, mail and express trains. Hundreds of coaches of the most modern type have also been purchased, and recent ly they have turned their attention to i'm proving the standard of the Pullman sleep ing cars, running over their lines, and have required the Pullman people to build and remodel many new cars for service on their lines The improvement of freight. equipment has also been carried on as extensively as the improvement in passen- ger equipment. The Southern Railway proper is managed in fifteen operating divisions. as follows: Washington division, headquarters Char lottesviHe, N C.: Norfolk division, head quarters Greensboro, N. C.; Charlotte divis- ion. headquarters Charlotte, N. C.; Dan hear 101Ia Fiji Va Atlanta division, headquarters Atlanta, Ga; Richmond division, headquarters Richmond, Va. Asheville division, head quarters Asheyille, N C.: Columbia diyis- ion, headquarters Columbia, s. C.; Charles ton division, headquarters Charleston, s. C.; Knoxville division. headquarters Knox- vile. Tenn. Macon division, headquarters Macon. Ga: Birmingham division. head quarters Birmingham. Ala: Annistan diyi- sion. headquarters Selma. Ala; Louisville division, headquarters Louisville, Ky: Memphis division, including Northern Ala banna- Railroad. headquarters Memphis. Tenn The Alabama Great Southern Rail- road is also controlled by the Southern Railway. but operated separately, with headauarters at Birmingham Ala
 SOUTHERN HEADQUARTERS.
 The general headquarters of the South ern Railway system are. in Washington, D. C.. with the presidents office in New York City The general officers are as follows: Samuel Spencer, president; A. B. Andrews first vice president; w. W. Finley, second vice president. Frank s. Cannon, third vice president and general manager; A. H. Plant, auditor: IL c. Ansley, treasurer; J. M Culp, traffic manager; W. A Turk. gem eraI passenger a&ent: T. C. Powell assis- tant freight traffic manager, with head quarters at Louisville. Ky, while h. A. Neil is general freight agent, with head quarters at Washington. D. C. The general freight agent has five assistants. as fol- lows: J. H. Drake, with headquarters at Richmond, Va; R. L1 Mckalar. with head quarters at Memphis, Tenn; L. A.. Emer- son. with headquarters at Charleston. S. C., and L. Green, with headquarters at Wash ington. D. c.
 The general passenger agent has three assistants: S. H. Hardwick Atlanta. Ga.; C. A Benscoter, Chattanooga, Tenn, and William H. Tayioe. Louisville, Ky.
 George R. Browdef, division freight agent of the sixth traffic division, has charge of all the territory tributary to Birmingham with F. M. Kitchei and F. M. Pfttman, soliciting agents, located at Birmingham reporting to him; and solicit ing agents at other points in the Alabama and Mississippi territory.
 C. A Benscoter, assistant general pas seuger agent with headquarters at Chatta- nooea, Tenn. has charge of all the pas senger business on all lines west of Bristol Tenn, and Atlanta, Ga, including all tue lines in Tennessee. North Georgia, Alabarua and Mississippi. He is assisted at Birming- ham by c. D. Jackson. travelling passen- ger agent with other travefing and solicit fng agents located at various points.
 A J. Frazier superintendent of the Birna- fngham division, has headquarters in this city and his trainmaster, H. G. Farrar, is also located here Superintendent c. S. Hayden. with office at Selma, Ala, has charge of the Anniston division, one branch of which reaches Bir- nninsham from Selma through Wilton and Gurnee urction-
 x4a PASSENGER SERVICE.
 The Southern Railway radiates from Bir-