The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-11
PROBABLE FIGHT
BETWEEN THE M. 6 o. AND
 THE L. & N.
It All Arose Out of the Annual Ex- cursidn to St. Louis, Chicago, s. Etc, and Result Will Prob
 ably be Fight for Business.

Next Saturday there Is to be an excur- sicn--or rather a dual excursion out of Mont tsomery; the preliminary arrange merits to which will in all probability launch pretty lively railroad fight.
 The Mobile and Ohio and Louisville and Nashville will on next Saturday run the inmnsi excursion to St. LoSis Shic tse a1e not eXastly a tale of woe but a caudai dppenoage with the earmarks Of a rather good story attached to the end or 1t.
 Fer three years past the above named rQads have been running the annual cX- eersions mentioned. though not since the first one three years ago has there been anything like the rivairy that seems to b.. fareshadowed this week. That first ex- cursion will never be forgotten by local raiil oad pecple--the agreement was made anything else in regard to the excursion should be done until midnight of d cer- tata night. John Bragg was City Pas- senger Agent of the Mobile and Ohio at thai time and just the minute that the city clocks struck F that night he began operations. Before the changing bells had ceased their reverberations he had jump cd into carriage and was distributing gaudily colored Autographs telling in wonderful words of the big .'scursion' all over the city. Down through the busi- marvelously short time John had his pos ters o1 telegraph poles and in front of business houses on every street in the business portion of Montgomery About
 
 his way, into the residence portion on the south side. and was clustering things with the red, green and blue all up and down the aristocratic. silk stocking pre- cinetsI of South Perry Street About 4 o'clock he was arrested at the corner of High and Perry and taken down to ing ills without license. He sot out ail right. however. and the day that the excursion left here there were probably more special trains in the shed than ever before or since.
 This year when the excursion was planned the agreement was made-so The Advertiser is informed-that TO tickets Montgomery-the Mobile and Ohio seii- ing. from New Orleans, Meridian, Mobile and Tuscaloosa.
 put tickets on sale only at New Orleans and Mobile-the local stations on the line of both roads between the above naraed places of course to put them on sale. Mobile and Ohio had dodgers in Mont gomery announcing that tickets would be sold on all regular trains leaving New saH ioosa YesterdaS rdn the o0e TouisVille T % and Nashville people advertised that they would have tickets on sale for this ex- cursion at the union ticket office in the Union Station. They claim that the Mo bile and Ohio people have broken the contract or agreement and therefore they feel that they are justified in selling Agent Beusley of the Louisville and Nashville came down from Birmingham yesterday morning and last night receiv' ed a big batch of advertising matter with which the town will probably he flooded today. As to~srecial trains out of Montgomery on the day of the excur- sion when he was asked about them he said with one of those Foxy Quiller leers, If we need them the special trains will certainly be here"
 As to whether the Mobile and Ono will sell tickets out of Montgomery is matter of conjecture, but the supposition is that they will. It will all propaoly be known today. and the progress of the in- teresting chain of events will be watched with interest.