The age-herald., 1901-05-24
BIRMINGHAM IS
 OBJECTIVE POINT All Travel from Southeast is
 Centured Here BIG BUSINESS IS EXPECTED
Railroad Men Are Getting Busy Over Contracts for the Passengers To the Various Conventions
 Which Meet in Summer.

Birmingham is the ODJectlVe point in all travel from the Southeast for the Mem phis reunion next week, and the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham will han dle the largest business in the history of the road of indications can be counted on in the least.
 the road if indications can be counted trains from other lines to this road has been announced as follows:
 On May 26 there will be delivered at Birmingham on Seaboard Air Line coach and two Southern coaches; on May 27, special train from Central of Georgia, two coaches from Southern, one Louisville and Nashville special train at 10:S0 a. m. and one special Louisville and Nashville train at 1000 p. m; one coach from Southern and one special train from Southern.
 A special train will be run from here to accommodate this citys portion of vet erans who will attend the reunion. A number of extra choaches will also be added to the regular trains. but these have not yet been arranged for, and will not be announced for several days
 Working Epworth Leaeuers.
 It is yet more than one moth before the Epworth League convention meets at San Francisco, but the railway men are already scattering themselves over the entire country to fight for the passenger traffic which is expected to be very heavy. A number of these men have vis- ited Birminham. and it is said others are now en route for the city.
 Yesterday HI Rehlander, travelling pas- senger agent for the Missouri Pacific Rail- way, which is connected with the Iron Mountain route was in Birmingham talk ing with the other railway agents, and telling of the great advantages his road has in going to California. among which is the carrying of through train from St. Louis by the northern route, over which George Gould is ruler
 The Louisville and Nashville Railroad is now busily engaged moving their of-
 fees from the Morris Hotel to their new
 building adjoining the express office and
 near the passenger station. Within the
 next few days all the furniture and fix lures will be installed in the quarters. and the office force will be working in a
 new home. The present offices of the
 road will be occupied by the Kansas City,
 Memphis and Birmingham The latter
 force will make numerous Improvements
 in the appearance of the office. and will move when the Louisville and Nashville has changed.
 Personal Sayings. Travelling Passenger Agent John c. Lusk, who looks after the interests of r the Alabama Great Southern at this place and in adjoining territory. is now in
 Jackson, Miss, where he will remain for several days. t c. E. Jackson of the Southern passen-
 ger department, with headquarters in Birmingham, is now in the State of Mis- sissippi making visits to numerous points. Travelling Passenger Agent s. L. Par
 rott of the Cincinnati Hamilton and Day ton. whose headquarters are in Atlanta.
 is in the city for two days Robert W. Snyder of the Seaboard Air
 Line local office has returned from
 Palm Beach, Fla.
 R. s. Fife, commercial agent of the M. K. & T., with headquarters in At lanta. was in Birmingham yesterday. J. T. Johnson division superintendent of several friends, is in Birmingham for a stay of several days
 verstyle Glenn of the Southern Rail-
 way engineering force. was in the city for several hours yesterday enroute to Mobile.
 Charles I. Malone, general eastern freight agent. and William W. Tull, New
 England agent of the Seaboard Air Line,
 were in Birmingham yesterday. c. W. Cecil, commercial agent for the
 Seaboard Air Line, is in Anniston.