The age-herald., 1901-04-26
SPECIAL RATES
 ID EXPOSITION Ticket from Birmingham to
 Buffalo is S31.40 MUCH RAILROAD GOSSIP Promoters of New Line From Birming- ham to Aberdeen and Atlanta Have Filed Declaration of h.
 corporation in Atlanta.
MUCH RAILROAD GOSSIP

The Southern Passenger Association has issued a circular announcing the rate to Buffalo on account of the Pan-Ameri- can Exposition which opens in that city on May 1 and closes November l. The rate from Birmingham to Buffalo and re- turn, as announced in the circular, Will be S3l. 40 where the final limit Is Novem- Der 1, and $26 10 on special dates and linn tied tickets specified. During the month of May tickets will be sold at the lowest named rate on the following dates and under the following conditions; On Mon days the 9th, 18th, 20 and 27th and on Tuesday mornings. May '. 14 A ana 2S' with fiual limit so fixed that the holder of the ticket must leave Buffalo prior to midnight of the Saturday following the date of the sale of the ticket.
 To take advantage of the special rate of s26 10 to Buffalo and return 1t will be necessary for the purchaser of the ticket to leave Birmingham not later than e o'clock on the Tuesday mornings named as he must make connection in Cincinnati with the trains for Buffalo not later than midnight of the day on which the ticket is dated.
 Harry T. Smith has been appointed joint validation agent at Buffalo and nus office will be at 50 Exchange street.
 Special Rates Announced.
 The Southeastern Passenger Association has announced special rates on account of the following events
 To Milwaukee, Wis, July 2S-25, annual Grand Lodge of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.
 To Montreal, N C., August 11-25, ac- count of the Montreal Bible Conference; also on July 21, August f. on account of the convention of Christian Workers.
 To Chicago July 25-2S, on account of the annual convention of the Baptist Young Peoples Union A rate of one fare for the round trip is granted.
 The New Railroad.
 A charter is to be secured in Georgia for the Birmingham and Atlanta Air Line Railway. Application for the charter was made in Atlanta on the same date the Alabama charter was applied for.
 The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday has the following to say of the new road;
 Application has been made to the Sec retary of State for a charter for the At- lanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway, to run from Atlanta to the Alabama State line, distance of about sixty miles.
 Advertisement of the notice of appli- cation for charter is published this morn- ing in the Constitution. The road is to run from Atlanta westward, with Bir- mingham, for the immediate future, as It's western terminus. It is projected to go through the counties of Fulton, Camp bell, Douglass, Carroll and Heard.
 The application for charter was pre- pared yesterday by Messrs King ana Spalding, and the charter will be grant ed by Secretary of State Phil Cook after the lapse of thirty days.
 MT. J. J. Spalding was asked about the new road yesterday.
 .I am not at liberty now to state just who is backing the new line,' he said. We are acting in good faith, however as you will see from our advertisement, and I can assure you that the road Is going to be built. The construction Of the road is a certainty, and it will not be long before work Is begun upon it.
 It Is understood that some one or more of the railroads entering Atlanta is back of the movement, but MT. Spalding would give no confirmation of this report, ex- cept to say that he was at liberty to make no statement
 While the petition for charter in Geor- gia gives the length of the proposed rail road as only sixty miles, the object is to run through to Birmingham, and applica-, ton for charter will be made in Alabama to that end.
 The incorporators as their names ap- pear in the application for charter are nearly all we'll known Atlanta men, They are L. B. Nelson Samuel N. Evins, J. E. yanvalkenburg, M. J. McCord, E. P. An sley, w. H. Hawks, H. s. Collingsworth and Jack J. Spalding of Fulton County; Joseph Kingsberry of Carroll County, and l.. S. Roan of Campbell County.
 The foregoing ask permission to be in- corporated as a railroad company under the name of the Atlanta and Birming ham Air Line Railway" to build a line