The age-herald., 1900-12-06
Reduction Asked by Carolina Mill
 Owners
A NEW COMMERCIAL AGENT
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Will Establish Local Office in This City-Items of Interest Gather
 ed Among the Agents.

E. K. Voorhees,, assistant general freight agent of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham road. returned from Mem- phis yesterday. While in Memphis MT. Foorhees attended a meeting of the rate committee of the roads interested in the hauling of cotton from Mississippi and Alabama to Carolina mill points The mill owners in South and North Carolina last spring asked the roads to grant them a lower rate on cotton shipments from Ala bama and Mississippi and the matter has been under advisement by the traffic de- partments of the lines interested. The Southern Railway sometime ago granted a slight reduction to points on it's line and other roads terminating at Mobile and New Orleans at Alabama mill points granted similar reduction
 The Southern Mississippi Valley Freight Association held meeting in Memphis yesterday to adjust rates from Mobile and New Orleans to Ohio River points and to Memphis and St. Louis. The result of the meeting has not been made public.
 It is reported that the Southern Railway will build a second track between Chatta- nooga and Knoxville to relieve the con gestion of cars it has recently had~to con- tend with.
 Another Commercial Agent.
 " M Cluis, commercial agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road at New Orleans, will come to Birmingham within the next few weeks and open an office for that road. The office at Now Orleans, it Is understood, will be abolished and MT. Cluis will be permanently located in Birmingham.
 The Legislature of Georgia has defeated the bill providing for the building of a union passenger station in Atlanta. The vote on the adoption of the bill stood Ss for to 69 against it, lacking five of the necessary majority.
 J. J. Fletcher, traffic manager of the Kansas City, Memphis and Kansas City Fort Scott and Memphis roads, who died in Kansas City last Sunday. was buried in Indianapolis yesterday afternoon His re- mains were taken from Kansas City to h. dianapolis in private car, and were es- corted by officials of the road and num- Der of friends of the family.
 Jim Crow Law.
 The Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed the constitutionality of the act of the Kentucky Legislature requiring the Chesapeake and Ohio road to furnish separate Cars for colored passengers with in the limits of that State.
 The Birmingham and Vicksburg Railroad Company has been incorporated in Missis- sippi to build, road from Vicksburg to Birmingham. The capital stock is fixed at s, ,50O,OO0 A. Krauss of Chicago is presi- dent, and John Wehmer and David Levy of Canton, Miss, are two of the encorpor- ators.
 Announcement has been made of the plan of operation of the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis road recently acquired by the Southern Railway. January 1, on which day the Southern assumes control, there will be created department to be known as the Louisville and St. Louis lines of the Southern Railway. George c. Smith will have charge as general manager, lo- cated in Louisville. He will have complete supervision of the Air Line and the Evans vile, Rockport and other branches, and of the Louisville and Burgen, Louisville and Lexington and Versailles and Georgetown lines. in Kentucky. The authority of As sistant General Passenger Agent William H. Tayloe and Assistant General Freight Agent Edwin Fitzgerald will be extended over the Air Line As rapidly as possible the Air Line equipment will be replaced with that of the Southern. Through sleeping car service from St. Louis to Florida will be maintained