The age-herald., 1900-07-21
PASSENGER AGENTS
 FAILED TO MEET
They Will Come to Birmingham
 at a Later Date.
INCREASED GROSS EARNINGS
Holders of Central Incomes Want Q Per Cent. Dividend-Fruit and Vegetable Traffic from South
 Unusually Heavy

A meeting of general passenger agents of southern roads was to have been held here yesterday but it was postponed until a later date to be fixed. Several of the gen. eral passenger agents came to the city to attend the meeting, they not having been notified of the postponement until after their arrival here yesterday morning.
 Among the general passenger agents who came to Birmingham to attend the meet ing were J. c. Halle of the Central of Geor- gia and J. A. Boyd of the Louisville and Nashville.
 The Louisville and Nashville is making arrangements to handle export pig iron on a more extended scale at New Orleans. It is stated that to enable the road to do this some track privileges are needed and the city of New Orleans has been petitioned to grant these. It is understood that the Louisville and Nashville, if granted the right to do so, will erect chutes and sheds for the cheap handling of iron at the docks. Mexico is taking considerable southern
  Steamship Company will put on another steamer in the fall. The Louisville and Nashville also handles a good portion of the Alabama iron that is exported to Eu rope, some of which now goes through New Orleans and the balance through Pensacola.
 Committee to Meet
 A meeting of the American Associa- ton of General Passenger Agents held some time ago a committee was appointed to report plans for the enlargement of the usefulness of the organization. On this committee are General Passenger Agent w. A. Turk of the Southern Railway and Joseph Richardson chairman of the South eastern Passenger Associa ton. This com mittee will meet in New York on Wednes- day of next week to consider several sug- gestions that have been made The next annual meeting of the American Associa- tion of General Passenger Agents will be held in Buffalo, N. Y, in October.
 Increased Gross Earnings
 For the fiscal year which ended June 30 the Central of Georgia showed the largest gross earnings in it's history. At a meeting of the directors held in Savannah recently il was shown that the company had earned 31a to per cent. on the first incomes after charging off $200,000 more than the year before for the purchase of new road and for permanent Improvements. It is stated that Southern holders of the first incomes / have recently come together in an agree ment that unless the full per cent inter- est is declared on the incomes in August the court will be asked to adjudicate the matter and give bondholders representation on the board of directors as we'll as appoint an accountant to watch after their interests in the future.
 Commercial Agent J. A. Merryman of the Southern, at Mobile, is in the city.
 c. r. Jackson, division freight agent of the Mobile and Oho at Montgomery, was in the city yesterday
 General Manager George H. Clark of the Birmingham Belt Railroad has returned from Georgia.
 The watermelon and fruit business over the Louisville and Nashville and other Southern roads is very heavy this summer. Two or three train loads of fruits and veg etables pass through Birmingham nearly every day from South Alabama, South Georgia and Florida points, The shipments go to Northern cities and to the North west.