The age-herald., 1900-12-22
GREAT CROWDS
 THRONG STATION
Holiday Travellers Pass Through in Large Numbers
LOCAL BUSINESS IS HEAVY
The Southern Railway Will Not Accept Proposition to Lease the Cincinnati Southern-Official Announce
 ment of "Florida Flyer"

The Union passenger station was crowded all day yesterday and up to a. late hour last night with excursionists. Every one of the fifty or more passenger trains arriving and departing from that place carried d large number of persons who were taking advantage of the cheap holiday rates. Sev eral hundred persons came in from Texas during the day and transferred to other trains for different places in the South east. Local travel was also heavy and the gatemen were kept busy with the surgng crowds that sought admission or exit al
 the gates. Several extra trains were han dled during the day and the roads that did not run extra trains attached extra
 coaches to the regular passenger trains. During the afternoon hundreds of persons with their arms full of bundles of all sorts and sizes left town for different places in
 the district. They were carrying home with | them presents for kinfolk and friends which
 will go towards making the Christmas holt- days happier for those fortunate enough to
 be the recipients of some of the good things.
 The Christmas jug was not forgotten. The Cincinnati Southern Lease. President Samuel Spencer of the Southern Railway has. addressed letter to E. A. | Ferguson president of the Board of Trus- | tees of the Cincinnati Southern Railway, in
 which he states that the Southern Railway
 will not accept the proposition of the Chi
 cinnati Southern for extension of the l lease. The Southern is now paying an an- | nual rental of $1 GOO and after October l, I 1901, will be $1,25O,OOO. The lease expires October 1, 1906. The Cincinnati Southern demanded an annual rental of $1 250,000 for | a period of sixty years and made other de-
 mands which President Spencer says can
 not be agreed to by his company. It is probable that the Southern Railway l will build a line 130 miles long to connect | the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis | with the Jeflico line, thus giving the South l ern through line from St. Louis to the | southeast. Unless the Southern gets new lease on the Cincinnati Southern this gap
 will be necessary to connect the main DOT
 tion of the system with the St. Louis-Louis- | vile division.
 The "Florida Flyer" l Official announcement is made of the
 Louisville and Nashville's "Florda Flyer" which is to start from Chicago January II
 on its first trip. This train will leave Chi | cago over the Chicago and Eastern Illi- | nois at l0:30 o'clock on the morning of Jan l uary H. The passenger department or the l Louisville and Nashville has issued the | following circular, announcing the new | train
 | "To be inaugWated January II, 1901. Fast | est and finest train to the south, Chicago | and Florida Limited via Chicagi and East | and Florida Railway; Evansville and Terre | Haute Railway; Louisville and Nashville | Railroad; Plant System and Florida East | Coast Railway. Pullman coaches, drawing | room sleeping cars, dining car service all | the way. Thirty hours from Chicago to | Florida. Leave Chicago daily, I0:30 a. m. | leave Terre Haute 305 p. m. leave Evans | vile 6:10 D. m.; arrive Nashville 10:10 p. m.; | arrive Decatur 1:33 a. m. arrive Birmfng l ham a. m; arrive Montgomery 6:37 a.. m; | arrive Thomasville 12:21 a.. m.; arrive Jack | sonville 5:20 p. m.; arrive St. Augustine 6:30 l D. m.
 | No official information has been given | out regarding the schedule of the north bound train but it is understood that it l will leave Montgomery about 10 minutes | ahead of No. 4, or about 9:30 D. m., and ar l rive in Birmingham about 11:40 or Il :50 D. m.
 Another Florida Train.
 1 On the same day that the above train IS l inaugurated on the Louisville and Nash ! vile, the Southern Railway, in connection : with the Pennsylvania, the Monon and the : Big Four, will inaugurate a Florida special between Chicago and St. Augustine, Fla l This train will leave Chicago at noon and i arrive at St. Augustine the following day 1 at S:20 D. m. The train between Chicago l and Cincinnati will run on alternating days | via the Pennsylvania, the Monon and the ] Big Four. From Cincinnati to Chattanooga l it will run over the Queen and Crescent, l and from Chattanooga to Jesup, Ga, over 1 the Southern Railway The Plant System l will take the train at Jesup and haul 1t to l Jacksonville, where it will be delivered to | the Florida East Coast for the forty mile | run to St. Augustine.
 l The net earning of the Louisville and | Nashville for the second week in December | were $40,195 greater than for the corre- | spending week last year.