The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-29
RAILROADS BURDENED
HEAVIEST TRAFFIC KNOWN IN
 MONTHS IS NOW ON.
All the Roads Have Special Schedules and Every Train is Crowded to
 the Guard Rails Com-
 ing Into Town.

Many a long day has it been since the ocal railroad people have had as hard a iay's work as they had yesterday. From o'clock in the morning until leariy F o'clock last night the Union Station was a solid mass of humanity. j,lly good-natured crowd hurrying hel- CT -skelter across the platform to the exit gates. The crowd was out for good time. bent on setting to the circuS and to Montgomery's Fall Festival. Farmers with their wives and children. pretty girls and their attendant swains. we men with rosy-cheeked babies n tneir a, ms, all made up the throng that rusneo through the railroad gates.
 In view of the great crush and coa- fusion, the order and system that Stauon Master McRae Is preserving is something marvellous. His capable corps of assist ants. of course, makes the task some what easier, but with all that, 1t is a hard job The two gatekeepers have @ Job themselves. The exit gate Tn the morning and from noon until midnight the entrance gate, and most of the time both of them, are blocked.
 Tn the ticket offica. Mir. Surat and his assistants have comparatively soft thing as most of the people coming In on the different trains have round trip uck- cts.
 Every town within a radius Of nifty miles around Montgomery will, by reason >of the convenient schedules this week. be in speaking distance of the city. but Prattville is decidedly the best of in this respect The Mobile and Ohio has two special trains from that place, one leav- ing Prattville at o'clock in the morn ing and one leaving there at 7:15 in the evening, leaving Montgomery at and Ii D. m. The Louisville and Nashville regular Prattvilie, leaving there at 7:45 a. m. and D. m., have been augmented by one more, which leaves Prattvilie about in the afternoon, returning about Il at night. This makes i've daily trains to and from Prattville, and the people of that town can run over to Montgomery and get home at any hour they please.
 The biz crowds of yesterday will prob ably be greatly enlarged today, as the special trains of the different roads be- gin operation this morning. The Central of Georgia has, beginning this morning. a special leaving Eufaula every morning at $50 and arriving at the shed at $50 Re- turning. this special leaves the shed every night at o'clock. except on Thursday night, when it will leave at il o'clock so as to give it's patrons an opportunity of witnessing the fireworks display that night.
 Beginning this morning, the Plant Sys- tenn has a special train leaving Dothan every morning at 6 o'clock and arriving here at g, returning at in the evening. This morning the Mobile and Ohio has a special train leaving Tuscaloosa at 7:30 and arriving here at 11:H. returning at Il o'clock tonight. This train. however. is only for today.
 The Birmingham accommodation of the L. and N. will be held one hour every af- ternoon this week, leaving at o'clock in the afternoon instead of 1.
 On the M. and M. division of the L.. and N, a special train leaving Flomaton at 6 o'clock and arriving at 9, will begin this morning and continue all this week. leaving here at o'clock in the evening.
 In addition to this. the Geneva train of that road is doing yeoman service, and so convenient is the schedule that it is almost a special itself. The through trains of the Western as well as those of | all the other roads are doing local work | and the number of passengers on them is great