The age-herald., 1901-04-03
PASSENGER MEN
 HOLD CONFERENCE Excursion Business Was Sub- ect Under Consideration THE CINCINNATI SOUTHERN Hurried Conference Held in New York Between Trustees and President Spencer of Southern Railway.
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 Similar conferences will be held in At.
 lanta. Montgomery, Chattanooga and ! other central points.
 An agreement was entered into last
 year that practically took the excursion | business out of the hands of outsiders, | and the same agreement is made erec- 1 tive for this year. The plan decided upon
 will be forwarded to the chairman of the | Southeastern Passenger Association Tor l his approval, and it is supposed that he | will issue a circular in few weeks an- nouncing its terms
 The plan stipulates that where trains | are chartered for excursion purposes the | person chartering 1t must pay $2.5O per
 mile for an engine, baggage car and
 three coaches and 50 cents a mile addi-
 tional for each extra coach. It also stipu-
 lates that each passenger must be pro-
 vided with seat in some one of the | coaches The enforcement of this clause
 of the agreement practically puts stop l to the excursion business except when
 handled by the roads themselves, as no
 profit could be made on train chartered l on those terms.
 The representatives of the passenger de- 1 partments of the various roads present
 at the conference yesterday were tn fol- l lowing:
 E. G. Johnson, general advertising | agent of the Louisville and Nashville
 Railroad, with headquarters in Louis l vile; c. A. Benscoter, assistant general
 passenger agent of the Southern Rail-
 way and Alabama Great Southern Rail-
 road, with headquarters in Chattanooga,
 Tenn. J. w. Taylor, general agent of the
 Atlanta and West Point Railway, with
 headquarters in Montgomery; E. Posey, | chief clerk to the general passenger agent l C. NJ Shepard of the Mobile and Ohio | Railroad, with headquarters in Mobile;
 B. F. Wylie, general passenger, agent of
 the Atlanta and West Point with head 1 quarters in Atlanta; A. B. Freeman,
 travelling passenger agent of the South-
 ern Railway, with headquarters in Selma | C. M. Billhemer, city passenger agent or 1 the Kansas City, Memphis and Birming- l ham; l.. B. McKitterick, traveling pas | senger agent of the Louisville and Nash
 vile Railroad, with headquarters in Bir-
 mngham; c. E. Jackson, traveling pas
 senger agent of the Southern Railway, 1 with headquarters in Birmingham; D. P O'Rourke, commercial agent of the l Atlanta and West Point Railway, with
 headquarters in Selma; Fred Robinson,
 chief clerk of general passenger agent J. | C. Halle of the Central of Georgia Rail-
 road, with headquarters in Savannah; J..
 N. Harrison, city ticket and passenger
 agent of the Southern Railway at Mobile; 1 commercial agent, Solon Jacobs, of the | Central of Georgia Railroad with head
 quarters in Birmingham; J. c. Lusk, trav- l cling passenger agent of the Alabama l Great Southern Railroad, with headquar- | ters in Birmingham; w. D. Hammett, | travelling passenger agent of the Central | of Georgia Railroad. with headquarters | in Birmingham, and Division Passenger Agent To1d of the Plant System at Mont | gomery.
 The Cincinnati Southern. | conference between Judge John R. | Sayler and Mir Thomas B. Morrison, members of the board of trustees of the l Cincinnati Southern Railway and MT. Samuel Spencer, president of the Cincin- | natl, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Rail- way Company, was held in New York | Monday for the ostensible purpose of l coming to some agreement in regard to | renewing the lease that Mir. Spencers s
 company has on the city's railroad prop
 erty, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. l This hurried conference is the result of l a meeting of the trustees with commit | tees from the Chamber of Commerce. the
 Business Mems Club and the Taxpayers l Association Saturday afternoon The lat
 est terms offered by the leasing company l for control of the property were carefully 1 gone over and in the main proved most
 satisfactory to the gentlemen present l Several amendments to the lease were
 suggested, such as having the Southern
 Railway, of which MT. Spencer is the | president and which owns an interest in | the Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas | Pacific Company, guarantee the rental of l the road, and an argument that local | shippers shall not be discriminated l against in the matter of rates as com l pared to those given to the south from | other Ohio river gateways. The meeting | was a most harmonious one. and the fact
 that the terms of the new lease appeared | to be so favorably looked upon by the | gentlemen present leads to the belief that | the contract for control of the road by | MT. Spencer's company will be closed l within a short time.
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 | The party of railroad and steamship l men who arrived from New Orleans on | the Alabama Great Southern train early yesterday morning were taken to Besse- | mer, Ensley and other places in the Bir- l mingham district on a special train over l the Southern Railway. Division Freight | Agent G. R. Browder, Soliciting Freight l Agent F. M. Pittman and Superintendent 1 c. S. Hayden took charge of the party | and entertained them while in the city. | They left on the afternoon Southern Rail- | way train for the east.
 | E. Olin Soue, general agent of the pas | senger department of the Burlington, Ce- | dar Rapids and Northern Railway, with | headquarters at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was | in the city yesterday.
 | Charles Jones, travelling passenger agent | of the Kansas City, Memphis and Bir- | mingham Railroad, has returned from a
 trip over his territory
 | W. l.. Henderson, agent of the land de- l pertinent of the Southern Railway at Mo- | bile, is in the city.
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