The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-30
SPECIALSARE CROWDED
FESTIVAL TRAINS ALL BRING ING VISITORS TO THE CITY.
Greatest Traffic of the Week Expect ed Today on Account of Military Day and the Other
 Attractions.

There was a falling off in the crowds
 at the Union station yesterday morning.
 but still crowds of pleasure seekers
 poured out of the diffrent trains.
 The special trains inaugurated for the
 week by the different roads began opera
 ton yesterday morning. and fo- the first
 trip the number of passengers that they
 handled was very satisfactory.
 Passenger Agent Rogers, the local rep
 resentative of the Georgia Central, said
 yesterday that the revenue of his Eu-
 faula special and all his other trains was
 interfered with by the presence of the
 Wallace circus in Union Springs yaster-
 day and. lot sof people on the line of his
 road went there instead of coming to Montgomery.
 Today though he, as we'll as the repre- sentatives of all the other initial lines, look for the heaviest business of the
 week on account of Military Day and
 other many attractions.
 Superintendent McKinnie of the M. and M. says that track laying on the Geneva earnest tomorrow morning. The bridge across the Choctahatchie River. about | one mile the other side of Geneva. has been completed and the construction | river. The bridge Is a very substantial one-two large brick piers with stone abutments. the bridge proper being heavy plate girders. Track laying will now be | on to Cottondale, about twenty-five miles | from Geneva, the track being already laid from Geneva to the river. It will be only
 matter of a few months now before
 trains will be running through to and
 from Montgomery and junction with the
 F. and A. division Of the L. and N. This will open up another rich field for the
 Montgomery merchants. as in addition | fn ha hoavy do hal ha
 between here and Geneva they will get most of the business beyond Geneva that
 formerly went to Mobilue and Pensacola.
 As has been stated, this will be proba-
 bly, the heaviest day of the week for the | local railroads, and the passenger men all
 said yesterday that they are anticipating | an enormous travel. In addition to all
 the special trains mentioned above South eastern Passenger Agent Hay of the Mo- | bile and Ohio said yesterday that today every factory and saw mill on his line between Montgomery and Tuscaloosa will | shut down and most of the employees will come to Montgomery. Passenger Agent Rogers of the Central and Division Pas | look for an unusually heavy traveL-while the M. and M. special from>Tlomaton and the Geneva and Prattville trains of that | road will be taxed to handle the crush | that is expected. The Westerns Selma
 division last night came in with crowd | that over1owed the seating capacity of | the coaches and today extra coaches will be handled on the morning and afternoon | trains of that division as we'll as on the | main line trains between West Point and Montgomery. The Seaboard Air Line will also have extra coaches on their incom- | ing trains, and altogether the railroad crowd today promises to be something un- precedented.
 The Western train from Atlanta was | two hours late last night and the south Y " A~nN Nk AEnA ont | for New Orleans until nearly midnight. President Charles A. wickersham of the Western reached the city from Atlanta yesterday morning and spent the day here looking after the interests of his road in Montgomery.