The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-28
TO ABOLISH PASSES
LOCAL soLITICTING RAILROAD MEN ARE APPREHENSIVE.
The Western Roads, It is Said, are Going to Adopt Radical Reform
 Along These Lines About New Years Day.

| or the biggest problems In the railroad
 business, and the chances are that by the
 1st of January. 1902, 1t will be the big.
 gest.
 In the past, soliciting men-freight and
 rassenger-have been as much at home
 on any of the roads as even the lordly
 drummer. It begins to look now as If the
 cords are being drawn tighter on this
 pass question, and that before long the conductors on the foreign roads will, in-
 stead of salaaming before a soliciting
 railroad man. will gruffly punch hAs 1 ticket and stick a blue check in his hat
 just as If he were one of the common
 Having a bunch of annuals in our
 pockets we could always run home at | night If anywhere near our headquarters.
 Now when we get out on the road We | will have to stay the limit" said local | passenger man yesterday.
 | The local railroad people are looking l rather bilious over the prospects, cor It
 it said the western roads are thinking
 seriously of abolishing the pass exchange.
 It Is rumored that the only thing that
 has prevented the roads South of St. Louis from entering into an agreement
 is that fact that the Louisville and
 Nashville has refused to have, anything ! to do with 1t. One claim made by the | railroads in this section Is that the pro- posed remedy does not remedy the evil | but makes it worse, leaving the door I
 Since the action of the roads in the
 trunk lines association abolishing the ex- | change of passes in the territory east of | Pittsburg and Buffalo the action has been
 confirmed by the lines in the territory 1 east of St. Louis and Chicago and north
 of the Ohio River. The roads in the lat l ter agreement are what Is known as the | central traffic territory.
 | East of Chicago and St. Louis to effect
 this agreement 1t was necessary to get
 the cooperation of the Grand Trunk, the
 Wabash and the Canadian Pacific. The | executive officers of these lines have
 agreed to abide by the resolutions and
 the beginning of the year will witness one
 of the most general tests ever made or
 this extremely radical reform movement. The resolution of the Eastern trunk | lines reads as follows:
 Resolved, That the issuance by railway | companies, steamship and steamboat | companies of annual, time or trip passes be discontinued after January l, l9O2; that | each company use its own discretion as
 to the issuance of transportation to its | own employees over its own lines. Each company may use its own discretion as
 to issuing passes to officers or employees | of fast freight lines of such company. such passes being limited to territory on its own road which may be travelled by | such officer or employe in regular diS- | charge of his duties.
 That the resolution of December 1900, reading as follows: Resolved, That the | issuing of passes of all kinds to repre- | SenLaIlNeS or DTlNdLe car liUc5 Dc ulSCOn~
 tinued after January 1, 1901, be reaf- firmed; that the issuance of passes on account of industrial railroads be discon- | tinued after January l, 1902"
 | The roads that have so far subscribed
 to the above agreement are the Balti- | more and Ohio, Baltimore and South
 western. Boston and Maine; Canadian
 Pacific. Central of New Jersey, Big son Canal Company, Delaware. Lacka- wana and Western, Erie. Grand Trunk,
 Hooking Valley, Lake Shore, Lehigh Val
 ley. Michigan Central @ Nickel Plate; ,d%ss New
 phia and Reading, Pennsylvania and | Wabash.
 Today will be almost as Sunday with | the local railroads, most Of them ob-
 serving Sunday hours -
 Yesterday an agreement was entered
 into by the members or the Locai Agents Association" whereby every To-
 closed all of today. The uptown pas | senger and freight offices will also be | closed all of today though there VIII be some one around each of them Tn case of a call from anybody
 | Master Mechanic Walsh will give the employees of the Western shops holiday | all day. At the South and North shops yester- day Master Mechanic Briggs said the work there was so heavy that it would | be impossible to give a whole holiday. | hut he would let the men OH several hours at dinner time.
 A message from the Plant shops said | they knew nothing about any holiday at | all General Freight Agent Shepard of 1 inc Louisville and Nashville will give his | force A whole holiday as will also Traf- 1 fc Manager LutZ of the Western. Of course the transportation depart ments of the different roads will have to be kept open though the usual routine of work will be lessened.
 Very recently Chattanooga concern shipped forty carloads of tram cars for hauling sugar cane. to Cuba, and at the would make more than 100 car loads of these cars that the foundry has shipped to Cuba this season.
 A prominent railroad man of this city. who is familiar with the conditions in Cuba, in speaking of this shipment said that it was one of the best evidences of the awakening of the island that he had yet seen and that while 1t showed that Cuba was coming out of its long lethargy 1t at the same time showed what won derful possibilities the island offered for investment of American capital
 At the end of the Spanish-American war the whole of Cuba. said this gentle man. looked upon the United States and New York City as one and the same, and did not realize that the great inte- rior of our country amounted to much. This idea has passed away with the ad- vent into the island of representatives of manufacturing concerns that are in other cities than New York and the ship ments of the cars most forcibly shows that this statement Is correct.
 The shipment of cars was over the Alabama Great Southern from Chatta- nooga to Birmingham and thence over