The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-05
NEEDS MORE TRACKS
UNION STATION CROWDED FOR
 HOURS WITH TRAINS.
With the Inauguration of the Chi cago Limited Next Month There will Be Trouble in
 Handling Trains.

Down at the Union Station the ques- ton of more trsck room is getting to De an exceedingly vital subject. From the hour of o'clock in the even- Ing to o'clock at night there are just eleven trains arriving and departing. and Tn the space of the hours mentioned ey- cry track is occupied. How this is to be managed when the Chicago Limited Is put on next month is the question that is perplexing station employees. and 1t looks as If for a few hours in the even ing the trackroom will be totally made quate to handle the trains.
 There will be a number of railroad men in the city today. though the fact of them all being here has no special significance. In addition to the Big Four Sunday. there will be a n number of Mo- bile and Ohio officials. The Big Four party will reach the city on the Il o'clock Western train from Atlanta. and will 2. special train will come. in oyer the Mobile and Ohio with Col. D. l.. Rus sell, General Counsel; General Manager Ackert, General Superintendent c. s. Miller, Superintendent of Transportation J: N. Scale Superintendent Mobile Di- vision J. D. Clark, Superintendent St. Louia Division H. W. Clark and several other officials.
 There will be more latitude on the sub- ject of students holiday tickets this year than has been the case heretofore. In the territory of the Southeastern Pas senger Association--east of the Missis- sippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers-students presenting certificates signed by the Superintendent or Prin- attending will be sold round trip tickets at the rate of a fare and a third, tickets being on sale from the 18th to the 22nd of December. good returning until Jam general public at the rates given above from the 2sd to January 1st. limited to January Sd.
 The Central has inaugurated a new train between Columbus and Americus, Ga, leaving Columbus at 3 p. m. and arriving in Americus at 715 D. m: leav- ing Americus at s:3o a. n., arriving in Columbus at 10:30 a. m.
 Division Passenger Agent Lifsey, of the Plant Sytem. has been notified of the interchangeable mileage tickets between mond. Fredericksburg and Potomac. Mileage books on all divisions of the roads mentioned are good on the other roads.
 Commercial Agent Charlie Adams. of the Seaboari Air Line, left last night for Savannah.
 The Western train from Atlanta due here at 9:2o was three hours late last night. Waiting on the Southern In Att lanta caused the delay.
 The general passenger agent of the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis Railroad, has caused an innovation tn railroad circles by appointing woman as travelling passenger agent. Miss El- vira S. Miller, tho young woman receiy- ing the appointment, Is fairly well known as writer In the South, and is said to be a fluent and agreeable talker, and in all respects well fitted for the posi- ton. The agent who engaged her has done so with the idea of beating out his competitors in the race for patronage ing at first hand the kind of accommo- dations that women want.
 There Is much food for thought in the summary of the new industries estab- lished along the line of the Southern Railway during the year ended June SO, 1901, prepared some weeks ago by the Land and Industrial Department, says The Southern Field. It was shown that during the year there were placed In | operation 800 new industries, represent | ing a capital of over 00,00O, and an | estimated annual tonnage of 14S,OOO cars. In detail these included seventy-nlne cotton mills nineteen knitting mills six- teen cotton seed oil mills, and 1l5 lumber mills. fifty-four furniture factories, eighty-fve other woodworking plants. and grist mills and over 200 miscella.
 neous establishments At the present time there are thirty cotton mills under construction along the lines Of the South ern Railway, and scores of other plants of every description.