The age-herald., 1901-02-13
TRAVEL TO THE
 CARNIVAL CITIES
Passenger Agents Are After
 Mardi GraS Business
PENSACOLA IS A BIDDER
Cincinnati Southern Directors Invite President Spencer of Southern to Make Another Proposition.
 Links and Pins,

Passenger agents of the Louisville and Nashville and Southern Railway are de- voting the greater part of their time this week to the Mardi Gras travel to Mobile, Pensacola and New Orleans The number of people who will go from Birmingham and vicinity to ono or the other of the cities for the Mardi Gras celebration is expected to be much great CT than ever before and the railroads have besn m'aking arraascnents 10 h.n- dle the increased crowds.
 Passenger Agent McKitterick of the Louisville and Nashville is booming Pen sacola for Mardi Gras. and among the attractions he announces for the week in that city is the appearance there of sev- eral war vessels. Speaking of these yes- terday he said: "The Atlantic fleet will be at Pensacola during Mardi Gras. In this fleet is the battleship Alabama, the greatest battleship in the world, named for the first Stato in the Union. The opportunity to go on these vessels. and officers will show them the machinery, guns and equipment This feature alone will be worth trip several times greater than the trip to Pensacola. and is an att traction that will draw thousands of peo- pie from all over the country to that city next week. The rate to Pensacola Is only s7.75 for the round trip"
 Passenger Agents Coffee Jackson of the Southern and J. c. Lusk of the Alabama Great Southern were out yesterday dis tributing literature on the Mobile Mardi Gras. Among tho literature was a circu- lar giving the names of all the hotels and boarding houses in that city that will bc open to visitors during the carnival
 Another Prcrosition Invited.
 Trustees of the Cincinnati Southern have adopted resolutions inviting Presi- dent Spencer. of the Southern systcm, to make another propooltion as a substitute for the one they made for an extension of the lease of the road and which Mir Sperccr promptly rejected There was never the slightest probability that he would adept any other course, consider ing scme of tho terms named, for they were In themselves prohibitve It looks now as though tho trustees had been frightened by preparations upon the part of the Southern system to close the gap between Jcllico ard Burgin and surrcn- der the Cincinnati Southern when tho lease expires. On the other hand. there are other men In Cincinnati who regard this move of the Southern as only a great buff that ought to be called when the proper time arrives
 l.. a Fl. Notos.
 It Is announced from New York that Jackson Smith, division passenger agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. will resign to 50 with the James P. Mo- Donald Company. MT Smith Is quoted in an interview as follows: ''I have been made a very natterins offer by tho James P. Mcdonald Company, engineers and contractors, to take service with them. with headquarters in New York.
 
 tracts for building 60 miles of mountain railroad In Ecuador. South America, large tunnel contract in New Jersey and several millions of public works in Mexl- CO., The offer is a good one. MT. McDon- aid would want me at once if 1 accepted his proposition. l have been with the Louisville and Nashville Road for a num- Der of years and have always received the best treatment. I, of course, could not leave the service of the Louisville and Nashville under the existing con1i- tions."
 c. J. Shpley, building inspector for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, was in Birmingham yesterday inspecting the new office building adjoining tho Union passenger station. MT Sh.pley stated that the work on the building was pro- gressing satisfactorily and it would soon