The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05
RAILROAD WORLD.

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 General Superintendent c. s. MeManus of the Southern Railway company was in Birmingham yesterday.
 W. J. Murphy general manager of the Queen and Crescent route, has returned from Europe, and has resumed the duties of his office. The following orders have been issued:
 Alabama Great Southern Railroad
 Office of the General Manager,
 Cincinnati O., November l, lso2 General Order No. 2:
 Mir. M w Mcguire is appointed gem eral superintendent, with office at Cip- cinnati O., the position of acting assis- tant general manager being discontinued. The superintendent and superintendent of car service will report to the general superintendent.
 Effective this date. W. J. MURPHY.
 General Manager. W. w. FINLEY,
 Second Vice President.
 similar order has been issued an- nouncing the appointment of Mir. Me Guire to the office of general superin- tendent of the Cincinnati. New Orleans Texas Pacific Railway company, leased by the Cincinnati Southern.
 The announcement made by the South ern Pacific railroad that on November 15 double daily service would be inaugu- rated between New Orleans and San Francisco is taken to mean that this winter will witness rate war of con- siderable proportions between the Hiil and the Hartman interests with the Santa Fe on one side or the other and with the eastern allies of the three drawn In as feeders to the great trans-conti- mental systems. The southern gateway has always more or less suffered in the fact that the facilities were not such as to attract the bulk of the travel, but the simultaneous announcement made by Passenger Traffic Manager E. O. McCor- mick at San Francisco, Assistant Pas senger Traffic Manager 5. F. B. Morse at Houst on, Tex, and Assistant General Passenger Agent F. s. Decker at New Orleans that the Sunset Limited would be daily instead of a tri-weekly ser vice, and that the Golden Gate Express" had been put on as an entirely new daily train, indicates the direction of the wind
 
 put after the passenger business as never before. Every indication points to very heavy westward and southwestern move. ment this fall and winter, and the inau. yuration of these two through trains from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean means that the Southern Pacific intends to enter the fight to control the larger part of it.
 Some two months ago the plan was de- termined upon at a meeting between Messrs Mccormack and Morse and Pas senger Traffic Manager w. A. Turk of the Southern railway. and the latter road Is now the strong eastern ally of the Hartman line and is preparing to ad- just its schedules to conform to those of the Southern Pacific at New Orleans The Southern Railway Is asserted to be the real owner of the immense Port Chal- mette terminals used for the past year or more as the depot for the shipment of horses and mules to the British army In South Africa, and it Is also believed that President Samuel Spencer in his re- cent trip to Europe, concluded deal with the Erlanger syndicate in England for tHe pOSSeSSlOH OI the NeW OrlednS ana Northeastern railroad, which connects with the Southern at Meridian, Miss At present the Southern comes into New Or leans over the Louisville and Nashville railway.
 The Frisco is quietly buying valuable property in the very heart of New Or leans and now holds options on a tract of ground, 20 blocks long and one block wide, which will give them an entrance over the right of way of the Louisiana Midland and across Lake Pontchartrain Into New Orleans. President Yoakum says he will get into New Orleans and 1t is believed that he will build from New Albany, Mass, on his Memphis and Birmingham line, over the right of way of the Mississippi Midland through a vir- gin country between the Illinois Central and the Mobile and Ohio. traversing some of the most fertile land in the entire south. It is said that the Big Four also has something to do with the deal.