The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-17
NO FLeRIDA SPECIAL
EXTRA PULLMANs WILL DO THE
 TOURIST WORK THIS YEAR
Annual Inspection of the Louisville
 and Nashville Will Not Take Place This Year--other ~SsN f Railroad Items.

Although the big Florida tourist hotels do not open their season for month or so yet. still the winter Florida schedules of the trunk lines from the East ana West to the Land of Flowers have been decided on.
 Last winter General Passenger Agent Stone of the Louisville and Nashville, with his customary enterprise inaugural ed limited vestibuled flyer In connec- ton with other roads, The Chicago and East Illinois brought the train from Chi cago to connection With the Evansyhle and Terre Haute. This latter read
 Louisville and Nashville took it up and came to Montgomery with 1t. Here 1t was delivered to the Plant System which road carried it to Jacksonville, Fla. the Flag Ter East Coast road taking it from Jack sonville into St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States.
 St. Augustine is the mecca for tourists not only on account of the interest at taching to the old World antiquity of the place, but also from the fact that in the palatial Ponce de Leon and Alcazar ho- tels the facilities in this line are unex- celled probably in the world. .~. Local railroad people remember the su- perb equipment of the Florida Special' the most complete Pullmans, observation and drawing room library cars that the Pullman shops ever turned out. MT. Hii who now has charge of the Louisville and Nashville dining car service, had charge of the dining cars on that run, ana the most exacting eplcure among the hordes of tourists could find nothing to complain
 of in this direction.
 During the coming season, however, it has been decided not to put on this train again. through Pullmans from Chicago, St Louis. Cincinnati and Louisville doing the work. In addition to this. the Big
 Four, Monon and Pennsylvania roads each operated special Florida trains last winter but this year it has been found impracticable to have the same service, and through Pullmans on the lines men, toned will do the work.
 The annual inspection of the Louisville and Nashville system will not be held this winter, Superintendent Mckinney of the Montgomery and Mobile saying that the immense amount of business on the different divisions makes 1t impraeticable for the heads of these divisions to spare the time necessary. The amount of busi- ness on the Louisville and Nashville has
 assumed gigantic proportions. On the South and North and Mobile and Mont gomery divisions of the Louisville and Nashville forty trains are operated daily between Birmingham and Mobile. each train averaging 1000 tons, making 40,0OO tons a day handled by the two divisions.
 The fire in the coal chute at the South and North shops has been located but 1t
 is still burning The flames were found Tn numbers of different places and forty of the big bents or timbers were burned and charred so as to he worthless-these bents averaging S5 each. The fire Is sup posed to have originated from water com- ing in contact with the sulphur and py- rates in the coal, causing sulphuric acid and spontaneous combustion.
 As soon as the fire has been checked Assistant Superintendent Sam Galloway of the South and North will begin the work of rebuilding the buJned portions of the big chute. The fire has been very disastrous. burning nearly one month. and will cost the Louisville and Nashville in the neighborhood of 5000.
 Leon A. Bell. General Agent of the Chicago and Great Western at Atlanta, spent the day in Montgomery yesterday. There was a rumor to the effect that the arriving time of train No. from New | Orleans would be changed from 6:S0 D.
 m, the present time, to 9:30, the old | schedule. If this is done, 1t will necessi-
 tate a change in the arriving time of the l Plant in the evening and the leaving time of the Western for Atlanta, Washington and the East.
 Nothing definite seems to have been l done. however.
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