The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-10
THE MEETING TODAY
FOUR RAILROAD PRESIDENTS
 WILL BE HERE.
Mr. Smith of the Louisville & Nash vile Will Go to Atlanta With ohicials-0ther
 Railroad News.

There will be four railroad Presidents in Montgomery this morning and four pri- vate cars. The cause of their visit is the annual meeting of the Western here to- day.
 President wickersham of the Western ssss6; fFsysd HarrS s,sr. ass night ahe tSs come on the ii o'clock train from AL lanta and President John M. Eagan of the Central Railroad will arrive at u:15 o'clock on the Central Railroad. Major Hanson accompanying him On the ac. commodation train from Birmingham will be Louisville and Nashville private car bearing President Milton H. Smith of that road: President Smith IS not. @ di- on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad. and will go to Atlanta with Mir. Wickersham and others of the Atlanta and West Point road in Atlanta this afternoon.
 The Western Railroad meeting will be | held in the general offices. corner Talla- poosa and Coosa Streets. at 12 o'clock. At the meeting of Railroad Presidents in New York last Monday. a radical change in the free pass system was made. The Chicago Tribune says:
 Free passes will go out of fashion on all the railroads of the United States on and after January l, 1902. A complete abon- tion of the e.honored custom of giving
 
 upon yesterday by sub-committee rep resenting all of the railroads in the Trunk Line Association, the Central Traffic As- sociation, and the Western Passenger As- York.
 As these three associations include ev- cry railroad ofsany consequence in the country, the dead head" tourist will see hard times ahead of him. No exceptions are to be made in the new policy. to be adopted. Even the Presidents Of the va- rious lines. who have been accustomed to riding where they pleased without paying. will put down their money In the future like any ordinary traveller. and submit their tickets to the conductors punch.
 One of the S,.nS dn on the free pass system is supplied by the railroads themselves. They have been issuing thousands of family passes to exchanging passes with the Presidents and Superfntendents of other roads until there seemed to be no end to the de- mand. The abolition of the custom, 1t Is said, cannot decrease the amount of the passenger business of any. railroad. while the prospect of an increase in receipts will be encouraging under all ctrcum- stances. % sss
 Walker D. Hines, the new First Vice President of the Louisville and Nashvile. left yesterday morning for Mobile after spending Tuesday in Montgomery, the guest of superintendent J. I: Mckinney of the Montgomery and Mobile Division; He Is one of the most companionaDie ana approaehable men on the Louisyiile and Nashville system. Mir. W. J. Dickinson. who was elected Third Vice-President. has been for some years comptroller of the company.
 The following Is the official circular in regard to the election:
 Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.
 Office of the Secretary.
 Louisville, Ky, October 5. lsol. At meeting of the Board of Directors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad End instant. Mir. Walker D. Hines was elected First Vice-Tresident, and MT. Wil- liam J. Dickinsonr Third Vice-President of this company.
 The First Vice-President will, under the direction and supervision of the Presi- dent, have supervision over the Law De- pertinent, and will assist the President In supervising the Traffic Department, and perform such other duties as may, from time to time. be assigned to him by the President
 The Third President will. under the direction and supervision of the Pres ident, or First Vice-President, have spe- cial charge of relations with competing and connecting lines, and the manage meNt of the Traffic Department He Will perform such other duties as may, from time to time, be assigned to him by the President or First Vice-President
 J. H. Ellis. Secretary.
 President wickersham and General Pas seifger Agent Ben Wyly of the Western. reached the city on the Western train last night.
 The Plant System train due here at 6:So o'clock yesterday evening was about Tour hours late arriving about II o'clock last cessitating slow running was the cause of the delay.