The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-06
SEABOARD SPREADING IT IS SAID THE SYSTEM HAS A
 WESTERN OUTLET.
Union Springs and Northern is Be- ing Extended and Rumor Has It That Williams Will Reach
 Birmingham, Over It.

It was said yesterday that John skel- ton Williams head of the great Seaboard Air Line, has consummated deal where by his system of railroads will have an Western country.
 Some months ago a little short line run ming from Union Springs to a little sta tion on the seaboard called Fort Davis was projected. w. R. Blount Of Union Springs, built the road.
 Now this short line running from the capital of the County of Bullock to a small station some thirty miles away Yet this insignificant affair is the link that gives John Skelton Williams what he has been praying for all these years a Western outlet. The little short line is called the Union Springs and Northern, but not for a moment must anyone think that the builders of the road are content to stop at Fort Davis.
 Yesterday The Advertiser learned that engineers are in the field making sur vey from Fort Davis to Milstead, the Tallassee junction town about seven miles from the main line of the Western Rail- way of Alabama. From Millstead the en- gineers are running survey straight through to Birmingham. And there is the scheme in a nutshell From Montgomery the Seaboard can either send its trains to Fort Davis and via Milstead to Bir- mingham where the system will have sev- eral outlets.
 Seven or eight years ago a railroad was projected and finally was completed from Americus, Georgia, to Montgomery. This and Montgomery road and Colonel Haw- kins of Americus was its President. It was not very long before the new road reached Savannah. giving Montgomery it's third railroad line to that port.
 Then, by a gradual transformation pro- cess the name of the road was changed to the Georgia and Alabama" with John Skelton Williams of Richmond, Va, Pres nRl. Nlk hAA city and then of Savannah, Vice-Presi- dent and General Manager.
 Soon another change took place. MT. Williams's ambitious dreams of a Great soon burst on the railroad world. The Seaboard Air Line became a stupendous enterprise sweeping over the country from Washington, Norfolk and Portsmouth to Tampa, Florida. There were myriads of where. In Virginia, the Carolinas and Florida there was a network of them The Georgia and Alabama line from here Division of the great system: The com pany had straight lines from Washington to Atlanta and branching off in the Car olinas got into Florida, most of the way its trains from Savannah to Montgomery. Down in Florida its own rails got into Jacksonville over the Florida Central and | Peninsula. l The system or MT WllllAiIlS WdB III Montgomery bottled up and the question | of a Western outlet has caused htm many If the seaboard has secured the little Fort Davis, and if it completes this line by way of Milstead and Tallassee to Birmingham. it will have secured the desired Western connection.
 l Some months ago road was projected from the pert of Brunswick, Ga, to Bir- | minRham It was supposed to be a scheme to furnish an outlet for the Kan sas City read out of Birmingham to the | Atlantic seaboard At one time 1t was thought that the road would come by way of Montgomery. In fact an agent of the Brunswick people spent several days here feeling the pulse of the local
 This was nearly a year ago. Now eiRhL teen miles of road extends to Thalman Junction, sixtv-six miles from Savannah. crossing of the Seaboard division from | Montgomery to Savannah. From Thal- man the road is being constructed to Birmingham as fast as men, money and mules can build It.
 All the business that the Seaooara hauls from Montgomery to Brunswick | is turned over to the new road at Thal- mans Junction and taken to Brunswick bv the new route. All the business that the Brunswick and Birmingnam mas do5 Lo5 l tha two nlacas. is turned over to the Sea hoard at Thalman by the Brunswick and Birmingham road
 If is claimed that beyond congenial trao Il. the RSans@C ssaH0srd aSS hSs Rirnninsbam, iaGcn,ns The latter road has its own n officers. E. C. MaGhen RSiSDe,i of of New New York Vice President; J. s. McMaster of New York. secTstaTy and GreasEreri cnas1T . J. ager and Traffic Manager; l.. w. Robert az Rrnnswick. Chief Engineer, and Geor1e u'' N Coates of Brunswick. Au- ditor .ho sa.hoord Air I,ra ia com,,leted. it will make two roads bending every energy to bS get sIaS i1to BFm F9pt meLIs Ips and the Brunswick road.
 Tbs presumption IS that the Seaboard
 viiI ne cdnnect p with the East and West Railroad Riii oS to be extended from Pell City ma nSiii tben 4n straight into Atlanta. In the otbar direction Of course the Seaboard 2ss its rail, s.oanaS fqm MqntsS@sFy n s@atSn to to Rt uIS 5r'insu,irk and Birmingham connec- tinn at ThaImau Junction.
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