The age-herald., 1901-02-07
Talk of Seabord Air Line Coming
 to Birmingham.
RUMBLlNGS OF THE RAIL
Victoria Wants a Branch Line-lnter. view With Mir. Dcdson of Southern. Links and Pins-Amonq the
 Agents.


 ham. This time it is stated with certainty that the Seaboard will be running trains into Birmingham within the next year, or at the latest by the fall of 1902. In speaking of the Seaboard's extension to Birmingham a local railroad man said yesterday:
 The Seaoard is coming to Birmingham and that soon; that much you can state with certainty. Just how long it will be be- fore one of it's trains steams into Brming- ham l cannot say, but I do not believe 1t will be later than the spring of 1902 There is deal on now in which the Seaboard is dickering for another road of considerable magnitude, and the chances are 1t will be consummated at an early date.
 "The East and West which will likely pass into the hands of the Seaboard, has been rebuilt, practically during the past few months. and new and heavy steel rails have taken the place of the lighter rails that had been in use so long The roadbed has been improved and in many places rebuilt This work has been completed, or is about completed, and it is almost a cer- tainty that some definite announcement as to the final disposition of this property will soon be made"
 Links and Pins.
 It is stated that the recent resignation of General Manager St. John of the Seaboard was due to stricter supervision of the business of the system by President John Skelton Williams. Mir Williams, it Is said has undertaken to get the best possible re- suits from the operation of the road, and surrounded himself with a large number of friA past month nearly three hundred officials and employees have been discharged or their offices abolished. This would indicate that every department of the Seaboard system is to be revolutionized and new men and methods introduced
 In an interview with a Chattanooga news paper reporter General Superintendent J. A. Dodson of the western division of the Southern Railway says:
 '"The changes being made by the South ern now are for the benefit of their freight traffic. The M. & o. is principally freight bearer and opens new ports on the Gulf for the Southern. The next thing now is new seaports. These will come in the course of time. The Southern was at one time after the Florida Central and Penin- sula, but the price demanded was so high that they could better afford to build new road. I cannot say what the Southern will get, but I'm sure they will soon give their patrons the benefit of new seaports."
 The Louisville and Nashville has recently leased two locomotives form the Western Railway of Alabama which are used on the passenger run between Montgomery and Mobile
 Want Branch Line.
 Commercial Agent Solon Jacobs of the Central of Georgia Railroad yesterday re- ceived the following, which he forwarded to the President of the road
 Victoria, Ala, Feb. ?, 1901. "Mr. Solon Jacobs, Birmingham, Ala Dear Sir We are in need of a short exten- sion of railroad to this place (Victoria, Ala.) of about sixteen or seventeen miles, leav- ing the Central system at Charlton, Ala We are holding out some strong induce ments. I want to come in communication with the general manager Will you please give me the names and addresses and kindly state the subject before them and in- sist on their sending a man at once to in- vestgate the matter. I hope to hear from you at once. I am-very truly yours.
 FOX CALDWELL" Charlton, Ala, is on the Eufaula and Ozark extension of the Central.
 General Passenger Agent J. C. Hailes of the Savannah line announces that the steamship Chattahoochee has been over- hauled and is again in service between Sa- vannah and New York. It now carries first class passengers exclusively, the inter- mediate and steerage accommodations hav- ing been removed
 The Louisville and Nashville has found 1t necessary to add another day coach to passenger train No. 1, leaving here at SAP a, m for Montgomery. This train now car ries three day. coaches. The travel over this line, both through and local, is heavier than ever before in the history of the road
 Personal.
 Travelling Passenger Agent McKitterick of the Louisville and Nashville states that requests for sleeping car reservations are coming in rapidly, and that he has already reserved large number of berths for per sons going to Mobile, Pensacola and New orleans for Mardi Gras.
 w. R. Fearon, the newly appointed western passenger agent of the Central Of Georgia, with headquarters at Memphis, was in Birmingham yesterday enroute to Memphis MT. Fearon was rate clerk in S. H. Chadwick's office in this city when the latter was general passenger agent or the Georgia Pacific and later the Richmond and Danvie road. He has a number or friends in Birmingham, who extend nm their congratulations on his deserved pro- motion.
 Frank A. Jones, general passenger agent of the Kennebec Steamship Company or Boston, was in the city yesterday.
 F. w. Swan travelling freight and passen- ger agent of the Denver and Rio Grands' with headquarters in St. Louis, was in the city yesterday.
 J. w Ogilvie, travelling freight agent or the Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific, with headquarters in Memphis, was in the oity yesterday
 Traveling Passenger Agent c. H. Morgan of the Texas and Pacific states that his line has put on a new free reclining chair car between New Orleans and Fort Worth. The train carrying this car leaves New or leans at 8:16 a. m.
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