The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
NEWS OF THE RAILS.
ASPECT OF DEPOT HAS CHANG
 ED ALTo0ETHER.
President c. A. wickersham of the Western Met With Accident Last Week Through
 Gas Explosion.

The Montgomery Union Station Is as different now from the same place of few years ago as an arc light Is from a smoking fambeau.
 To begin with, there are forty-two through and suburban trains in and out of the shed every twelve hours. and from o'clock in the morning until half past o'clock at night the station employees are kept on the jump
 The luxury and completeness of the passenger service is probably unequalled tn the 8 South. thy Most os Sa of the % ~ tSrossh trains are vestibuled throughout, about the handsomest in this respect being the Mobile and Ohio trains.
 arrive and depart, three over the Vest ern from Washington and Atlanta and two over tho Louisville and Nashville from Cincinnati and New Orleans. The pares favorably to that of the best hotels in the country.
 The Louisville and Nashville dining cars are said to be among the handsom- shops General Passenger Agent Stone has brought the service of these cars up to a degree of excellence that Is perfect.
 One of the busiest places around the city is the North and South shops. Mas ter Mechanic Briggs Is rushing work through every day. Every yard switch engine has within the past few months 
 everyone presents a neat appearance.
 Engine Al will be turned out in a few days and by the last of next week En- zine 412 will be finished This will com plete the yard engines and no more work will be done on them this winter.
 The work of rebuilding the burned DOT tions of the trestle work of the coal chute will be completed this week and then test will be made of the new sandhouse:
 One of the biggest jobs going on in the shops now is on the big South and North freight engine, SSS. that stripped itself near Riverside Park ,.,. feW weeks " hss ing put cn, =he big drivers being sent down from the Decatur shops and put on with a seventy ton hydraulic pressure. Heavy work of this kind Is usually done so disabled that 1t was dangerous to att tempt the trip to Decatur and the dis- mantled machine was brought back to tho local shops.
 Local railroad people were sorry to hear of the painful accident that hap pened to President Wickersham. or the Western. in Atlanta the other day.
 In Mir. Netherlands residence in Col- lege Park, a suburb of Atlanta, he burns actylene gas. the meter being kept in the tSa h. %ens down E09s es nves gate There was a leak and he struck match to find it. The flame of the match was evidently held too close and there was an eApjOSlon, D face and hands being badly burned He is still in bed, though his friends are glad to learn that his eyes will not be permanently injured.
 The Southern Railroad has issued fold CTS containing a list of every boarding house in Charleston with the rates by day or week.
 The Southern has inaugurated two new sleeping car lines and has extended ar- other. These changes became enectlve December l. A line has been put on be- tween Washington ard Pinehurst, N. c. Cars leave Washington Mondays, We'd nesdays and Fridays and returning leave Pinehurst Tuesdays, Thursday and Sat urdays. A daily line has been put ,oh on will be run during the Exposition. The daily line between St. Louis and Ashe- vile has been extended so that the cars now run between St. Louis and Charles for the Charleston Exposition. both in advertising and in service
 The new double daily train service of the Seaboard is growing in popularity, the night train leaving here for Savan- nah catching on with the travelling pup lie in great shape. The Seaboard people are playing the Charleston Exposition heavily.
 Yesterday plans were received at Mas ter Mechanlc walsh once Tor the Dig new engines mentioned by The Adver- tiser. It will probably be March before they are delivered. Chief Clerk Baugh of the Master Mechanics office saying that work in the locomotive works was never before as heavy as a present.
 Timekeeper Tossing of the South and North shops has been transferred to Mo bile. Timeke sper Ea1ey succeeding him al the local shops.
 
 Mrs. Ballard Helped
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