The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-30
MIR. .BURGESSPROMOTED
APPOINTED LOCAL AGENT OF
 sEABoARD LINE.
Will Succeed MT. Allen Who Was Presented Yesterday With Hand some Token of Esteem by
 Former Employees.

the State of Alabama yesterday were General Agent Wade Allen of the Sea- board Air Line, and his Chief Clerk, MT. W. T. Burgess.
 As stated in The Advertiser several days ago. MT. Allen has accepted "a position with the woodstock Iron Com- pany, having entire charge of the accounting department of that corpora tion with headquarters in Anniston. From the time that Mir. Allen accepted the position with the Woodstock Com pany he made the strongest kind of recommendations to the Seaboard off, cials to have MT. Burgess appointed as his successor in Montgomery.
 When the news was received here yesterday morning of the appointment of MT. Burgess to the position of local agent of the Seaboard it was . com pliment to Mir. Allen as well as Mir. Burgess:
 At noon yesterday in the upstairs office of the Seaboard Air Line there was assembled the entire force of the local freight office and the force in the uptown office on Commerce Street. The men had gathered to present a hand some token to MT. Allen.
 A0e Aucn, tfe uldn WHO IOT tnS past three years has been General Agent of the Seaboard in Montgomery and who has made staunch friends of every man under him. was escorted into the room. As he entered, Mr. Burgess, Chief Clerk in the office, stepped up and made the following ad- dress:
 Tt affords us great pleasure to offer you this token of our esteem and good fellowship. We have passed many happy days together since you entered the service of the old Georgia and Alabama. and our associations have been uniformly pleasant.
 We thank you fer many acts of kindness and the consideration with which you have met our many short comings. Allow us to congratulate you upon the good fortune which awaits you in your new field of action. We wish you many years of happiness and prosperity
 MT. Burgess then presented an ex- tremeiy handsome solid silver pitcher with massive silver goblets lined in. side with gold. The following inscrip- tion Is engraved on the pitcher: Presented to MT. Wade Allen, General Agent Seaboard Air Line Railway, by clerks in his department at Montsom- cry. Alabama. June 3oth, 1901" The following was printed on the presenta- tion card:
 Your sincere friends.
 W. T. Burgess, c. S. Adams, Frank Bevill. J. L. Gibson. A. B.. deMontmol- lin. H. J. Ambrose, A. T. Ambrose. A. w. Powell. Browder Finn, R. G. Job son. s. H. Adams. James Taylor, Gil- mer Weatherly. H. L. Kennon, R. M. Turner"
 Mir. Allen was taken completely by surprise and his response was made in voice filled with emotion.
 Each man then grasped the hand of MT. Allen and told him that he felt more as if he was parting with a loyal. Dig hearted friend than superior of ficial.
 A handsome lunch was served. to which every one did ample justice, and 1t will be long time before the par ttcipants forget the happy occasion.
 MT. Burgess has been chief clerk in the local freight office of which he is now the chief for the past nine years, having been in the office when it was the old Savannah. AmeFicus end Montgomery" and later the Georgia and Alabama. He was chief clerk when the lamented Mir. Deming was agent of the IS. A. M" and Iaier G. & A. retaining that position when Mir. Manahan succeeded Mir. Deming after the death of the latter and still re- matning chief clerk when MT. Allen succeeded MT. Manahan.
 Mr. Burgess has been in the railroad business since 1879. beginning in that year as telegraph operator at Clinton Miss, of the old Vicksburg and Merid- ian Railroad. In 1885 when the New Orleans and Northeastern opened he billed the first lot of freight, a car of oats from Texas, to Meridian.
 Numbers of times in the past few months Mir. Burgess has had charge of the office when Mir. Allen was either out of town or busy with the uptown office. and Mir. Allen has always had the greatest confidence in him.
 A telegram was received yesterday from the Travelling Auditor telling MT Burgess to take charge of the office until it was checked up. Generally when an agent gets out of his office 1t has to be minutely checked up before making a transfer.
 MT. Allen will leave for Anniston to- morrow and his many friends in Mont gomery and all over the State will wish him the best luck and success possible.
 MT. Burgess will take charge of the
 
 L. 6 N. Is Reaching Out.
 It looks like the Southern Railway Is not the whole thing in the matter of taking up new territory. The Louis vile and Nashville is doing something in the reach out and lead" line itself.
 The Louisville and Nashville already has a line from its main line at Geor- giana to Geneva, and by next winter the chances are that the extension will be completed to Mariana on the main line of the Pensacola and Atlantic Di- vision of the Louisville and Nashville. This will give this company a much shorter route for the handling of the fast Western fliers via Montgomery, Geneva and River Junction to the Florida points.
 The gap between FIomaton and Rep ton has been completed, and the Louis- vile and Nashville has straight line from Pensacola through the rich coun- ty of Wilcox to Selma. Now it has been stated that the Louisville and Nashville will extend the line from Selma into the rich coal fields of Bibb County, and the territory in that sec tion to a junction with the Birming- ham Mineral If this is true 1t will give that road virtually a double track from Gadsden to Pensacola, one track being the main line from Nashville via Montgomery and the other by Selma, Pine Apple and F'lomaton
 A story which has come to The Ad- vertiser means, if true, bigger things than the Louisville and Nashville has heretofore attempted and an invasion of the Southern Railway territory. The