The age-herald., 1901-05-12
FAST SCHEDULE ON QUEEN & CRESCENT Time Between New Orleans and
 Cincinnati Reduced SOLID TRAIN RUN THROUGH Win Leave Birmingham for the South at s:so a. nn., Carrying The Age.
 Herald to It's Thousands
 of Readers.

ern Railroad, in connection with the rate a new fast passenger train service between Cincinnati (. and New Orleans. Under the schedule promulgated the new train, which will be run solid between New Orleans and Cincinnati. will reduce the time between those two cities to-twen- ty-two hours and ffty-five minutes, sev- eral hours quicker than the run is now made by any passenger trains.
 The schedule of this train Is as follows:
 Leave New Orleans at 9:10 a. m.
 Leave Birmingham at 6:50 p. m.
 Leave Chattanooga at 10:40 D. m.
 Arrive in Cincinnati at s:05 a. m.
 At Cincinnati close connection will be made with a train which will arrive in Buffalo at 7.3o D. m.
 Returning, the Queen and Crescent train will leave Cincinnati at p. m.
 Leave Birmingham at $50 a. m.
 Leave Meridian at 2:10 D. m.
 Arrive in New Orleans at p. m.
 This train has been named the Pan American Special. but 1t Is not the inten- ton of the Queen and Crescent Route to discontinue it when the great Buffalo Ex- position closes next fall It js a Derma- nent train put on by the management to accommodate the immense passenger traffic the Alabama Great Southern ard the Queen and Crescent handle. The train will be made up of an engine, baggage car. first and second-class coaches, one sleeper and a dining car. The dining car will be operated between Chattanooga and New Orleans.
 Aee-Herald Delivered Earlier. One advantage to accrue from the ope- ration of this fast train will be the de- livery of the Age-Herald. Alabama's s greatest daily newspaper. along the Ala bama Great Southern Road early in the day. The train will leave Birmingham at $50 a. m. and arrive at Tuscaloosa about a quarter past Il o'clock. It will be delivered as far south as Meridian by ? D, n. six or seven hours earlier than at present The Age-H Herald will reach Me ridian ahead of the morning papers from any other city, and therefore will he the first paper to give the news ot the world to the citizens of that progressive city. The people in Tuscaloosa, Eutaw. Tiv- ingston and other towns between Bir- mingham and Meridian who have been accustomed to reading their morning pa- per late in the afternoon will hereafter read it by noon.
 The general freight offices of the rail- roads in Birmingham closed at o'clock yesterday afternoon and will continue to close at that hour on Saturdays through hardworlking clerks a chance to rest after five and a half days of close attention to their arduous duties
 Scalpers Leave Buffalo. The ticket brokers who iocked to Buff falo in anticipation of doing rushing business there during, the Pan-American Exposition have left there. Many Of expense, but when Governor Odell sign ed the anti-scalping bill they decided to quit business It is stated that the law will be tested in the courts. Radical Changes. It Is reported from San Francisco that c. M. Hays. president of the Southern Pa cific. is about to introduce a radical change in the management of the sys- tenn. He will form a cabinet of advisors, to be composed of the heads of practically all the principal departments of the road. with the exception of the law department. The object of this cabinet arrangement | is to centralize the authority and respon- l sibility. By this means President Hays will have a frmer grasp on the details of | operato of the vast system, and all or ders will be issued directly by him after consideration by the cabinet. It Is under stood that the cabinet will have no su- thority to interfere with the preident, but the members in reality will be advisers to the president. who will be responsible only to the board of directors. It Is also stated that II. E. Huntington will not accept reelection to the vice presidency, but that he will continue to be member or the cabinet
 Reunion Business.
 The passenger agents of lines that run
 to Memphis and of connecting lines are | devoting considerable time to reunion business. It Is estimated that several thousand old veterans and others will ga from the southeast to Memphis on the occasion, of the reunion, and each road is anxious to carry as many of them as possible.