The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-07
PASSES TO WIN OUT
THE STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
 OPPOSED TO ABOLITION.
The Plan of the Eastern Lines to Do Away With Passes Seems to Have Met Objections by All
 Southern Roads.

 the effort to do away with railroad passes would be defeated. As stated in The Advertiser some days ago the Eastern roads had agreed to the abolition Of the pass but 1t appears now that the roads in the Southland especially ths terri tory-are bitterly opposed to 1t. With fight being made on it by the Southern roads the plans of the Eastern lines would be seriously handicapped left at the post with too much impost so to speak. In addition to all this the steamship lines entering New York have made sundry dire threats connected with the fateful English word war" These steamship lines have their agents out all over the country working up busi- ness-at stated intervals some or this class of gentry have been detected in Montgomery.
 Now they did not walk to Montgomery nor yet ride the bumpers or even blind baggage"-they came in Pullman sleep ing car with even King Porter lowing obeisance. for, concealed in their breast
 pocket with their expense money was a bundle of annual passes.
 Now if these passes were abolished and the aforesaid agents continued working Montgomery and other towns the steam ships would have to congh UP coin of the realm for the transportation of the aforesaid agents-hence tic strenuous kick. 5,-..4-..-....
 On next Friday night a meeting of the executive officers of East ern and Southern lines will be held in New York to discuss the pass question, and it looks like the project will die then. Speaking of the steamship end of the matter The New York Journal says:
 The transatlantic steamship lines, which land at this port about 5500Oo passengers yearly, many of whom go to interior points over the trunk lines, have decided to adopt retaliatory measures against the railways for refusing to re- new the annual passes heretofore given their travelling agents. Several confer ences have recently been held, and it has been decided by the Continental Con- ference, which includes the lines to Con- tinentaI Europe, and the Mediterranean Confernce including lines to Mediterran-i can ports. to forbid, after January 1, railroad representatives to solicit busi- ness on the docks, heretofore permitted without charge.
 The measures against the railway con- panies, will, it is understood, become ef- fective on January 1st prior to which official notices will be sent to the general agents of the railways in this city by Lawson Sanford, the secretary of the Steamship Conferences at No. 19 Broad way. If 1t is then found that the rail- way companies will not renew the an- nual passes. it Is proposed by some of the aggressive steamship men to upset all pooling arrangements of the railways by concentrating their business upon one line and selling to steerage passengers tickets over that one road, to the West, leaving out all other roads. In this way the Pennsylvania, for example, would receive all the immigrants from an incomzsl ing steamer when it was prepared to handle only small proportion, and when the next boat arrived. soIge other road, probably the New York Central, would be inundated in the same way. | O. for several consecutive weeks one road would get all the business.
 The Continental conference, which has already discussed the matter. includes | the Hamburg-American, North German Lloyd, Holland American, French. Scan- djnavian American, Florio- Rubatino and Fabra Lines The British Steamship conference will soon be held. where similar action is expected, covering the | Cunard, White Star, Dominion, Beaver. | Anchor and Atlantic Transport Lines
 The steamship men contend that their | travelling agents visiting various cities in the interior, disseminating Attractive | litera ture and forming special fgYcursion | parties for various European ports | create business, which the railways other wise would not obtain During thegyear | 1900, the actual number of passengerV landed at this port were 137,s52 cabin and | 4G3,491 steerage.
 The companies pay New York and Jer- sey City and Hoboken many hundred thousand dollars yearly in dock rentals.
 Lawson Sanford the secretary of the steamship conferences, when seen yester- day afternoon refused to discuss the re- talliatory measures to be taken but would not deny that some such action was contemplated.
 For the next two years Colonel Cal l Devinney, one of the most D ypular rail- road men running out of Montgomery, will be Chief Engineer of division 495 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers.
 The annual meeting of the local division was held yesterday, the following officers being elected:
 Calvin C. QeVinney, Chief Engineer: Benjamin J. Clements, First Engineer; Hugh J. McGrade, Second Engineer John F. Mullen. First Assistant Engineer: Charles J. Wicker, Second Assistant E,n- gineer; $. $. Osborne, Chaplain; John A Freeman, Guide; w. W. Sprucl Delegate to Convention: John G. Spruell Chairman of Local Grievance Committee.
 Dispatcher's Office Enlarged at CaIera
 Because of heavy business between Bir- mingham and Montgomery the Louisville and Nashville Railroad has found it nec- essary to divide the train dispatching tricks at Calera Five new men have been given employment, three dispatchers and two copyists. The new men will be placed at Caera and trains on the north ern portion of the south end of the South and north Division of the louisville and Nashville will be handled between Bir- mingham and Calera and on the southern end portion by telegram between Calera