The age-herald., 1900-12-10
CONTRACT WILL
 BE LET THIS MONTH
For Grading Branch of K. G. M.
 & B. Railroad
HEAVY TRAVEL EXPECTED
Extra Trains Will be Run to-Accommo. date the Rush-Special Rates Announced Among the
 Officers and Agents

The contract for grading the nine-mle branch of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham road from Horse Creek to the Empire mines in Walker County will be awarded this week. Bids for doing this work were submitted by four contracting firms last Friday and forwarded to the geenral offices in Kansas City. It is be- lieved that the contract will be let within the next two or three days. The contrac tors who submitted bids for this work are Hutton and Company, Oliver and Com pany, Smith and Company and Redmon and Company This branch line will be built for the purpose of affording trans portation facilities for the Empire Coal and Coke Company and other coal com panies in that portion of Walker County. The contract when let will call for the completion of the grading by March 1, 1901.
 Holiday Travel.
 The holiday travel from Texas to the Southeast this year will be the heaviest in the history of the railroads. It is expected by the passenger agents that several thousand persons will visit their old homes In Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas during the holidays. Travelling Passenger Agent R. M. Ellis of the Alabama Great Southern states that the Queen and Cres- cent, of which system the Alabama Great Southern is a part, will bring not less than 250O passengers over it's line through Shreveport. The Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham and the Louisville and Nashville will probably bring a like num- Der through Memphis and New Orleans. During the holidays the Southern Rail- way will run extra passenger trains to ac- commodate the unusual travel at that time It is probable that trains numbered 35, 36, 37 and s. between Birmingham and Atlan- ta, will be run in two or three sections.
 Special Rates.
 Chairman Richardson of the Southeast ern Passenger Association has issued cir culars announcing special rates to Charles ton, s. C., on account of the convention of the Woodmen of the World on February 12-14, ad to Buffalo, N. Y, on account of the National Association of Master House Painters and Decorators, February 1921 These rates apply to all points in the terri tory of the Southeastern Passenger Asso- citation.
 A circular has been issued announcing that holiday-rate tickets will be on sale December 30. These rates had already been announced for December 22-25 and Decem- Der 91 and January 1.
 A rate of one and one-third fare has been granted by the railroads to Birmingham on account of the convention of the United Mine Workers tomorrow.
 The delegates from Alabama and Missis- sippi to the Southern Educational Associa- ton in Richmond, Va, will leave Birming- ham over the Southern Railroad on the morning on December 26.
 Personal.
 l.. D. Dunlap, who has been correspond ing clerk in the office of the superintendent of the Southern Railway, has resigned to go with the Republic Iron and Steel Com pany.
 It is reported that General Freight Agent J. D. Riddell, of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Road, will be appointed traffic manager to succeed the late J. J. Fletcher, whose death occurred in Kansas City last Sunday.
 Sam Galloway. assistant superintendent of the Louisville and Nashville, Is In New Orleans.
 General Manager Jones G. Moore, of the Birmingham Southern Road. will remove his family to Birmingham about the fist of January.
 Earnings.
 The Central of Georgia reports net earn ings for the fourth week in November of s174,616, an increase over the corresponding week in 1899 of $S7S9.
 Net earnings of the Nashville, Chatta- nooga and St. Louis Road for the fourth week of November were $4535 greater than for the corresponding week in 1899.
 Effective today, the Alabama Great Southern passenger train No. will shorten the run to Chattanooga five minutes, leav- ing here as at present at 5:45 a. m. and arriving at Chattanooga at $40 instead of 9:45.