The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-01
MANY BUNDLES LOST
PASSENGERS LEAVE PACKAGES, IN COACHES.
Station Master Has Great Trouble in ! Looking After Property of Travelers--other Rail
 road News.

make weary the souls of Station Mas fer McRae and hfs assistant, Jim OGuinn not the least vexatious is the habit pas sengers have of leaving bundles. etc. Tn the cars. The suburban trains furnish the major portion of this edifying amusement" but the through trains hold up their end in this respect. The ,norninr suburbat, trains, however, fur nish the main cause of the trouble, the coaches stopping in Montgomery ana being inspected and swept out oy the car cleaners at the several local shops. Dur inr a big fush, such as the Street raH. inc ofice of the station master resembles an embryo deBartfiient store: Then comes the task of locating the owners or the different pieces of property, stupendous task. from which the average layman would shrink in fear and tremn- ling. The Pulimans and through cars are swept out at the terminus & oi tns different roads--NeW Orleans, Chleaso and Cincinnati en the Louisville aid Nashville, Atlanta and Montgomery on the western, Savannah. Jacksonville and Florida points on the Plant Savannah, and Montgomery on the Seaboard Ar Line, Artesia St. Louis and Montgomery on the Mobile and Ohio and Macon and Montgomery on the Central.
 The annual report of the passenger department Of the f,ehish Valley Rail road as regards the f1iatter of baggage handled during the year 19oi. brings up a rather interesting point Iii connection with this matter. A report of g certain railroad stated that during tho year. 1,2Tu articles of various descriptions were found in the coaches Of rasseiiser trains on that line. not including the articles found in Pullman cars Of these articles 2SS were claimed and returned to owners. the balance of the number, sS2, still re- maining in the hahds of the baggage de- partment of the company. hwaiting claimants. The law of nearly all States in the Union provides that if these articles are not claimed by the owners within one year they may he sold at public sale, after due notice, after which the claimant has no right to any article so found. The articles left cn trains are varied in character, ranging from books to umbrellas, pocketbooks. wraps, valises, merchandise, etc. Ii is hard to explain the low percentage of calls made for such articles left on trains. unless 1t be that passengers In the m lir,. do not understand that such articles as are found and turned into tho baggage de- partments of the various railroads are ht Ia thsre subject to orders cf the owners. There are probably some articles that are left on trains by passengers and picked up by other passengers, but as a general thing such articles are found by the trainmen and turned into the railroad companies offices, AS stated above,
 That rupture has occurred between George J. Gould and F. Ii. Hartman is becoming more apparent. Ever since Gould obtained control of the Denver and Rio Grande and the Rio GIande Western roads the friendship between the two magnates has been or the wane. says a Chicago paper.
 The Rio Grande has to dspcni for It's outlet to the coast west from Salt Lake City upon the Southern Pacific, Central Pacific branch. and bting a direct com petitor of the Union Pacific betwccn Denver and Salt Lake, it naturally wants the same ad 9antages from the Southern Pacific that the Union Pacific enjoys. Hartman, being the owner of both the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, is not willing to place the Gould lines on T par with his own.
 A short time ago Mir. Gould gave veht to his feelings by having the Missouri Pacific and Rio Grande roads give notice Of withdrawal from the Colorado Utah Traffic Association. because he says his roads are being unfai ly treated by tho Union Pacific.
 A report now comes from Denver that surveys are being made. and rights-of- way obtained in the district west of Salt Lake City to San Francisco by agents representing George Gould and his asso- ciates which indicates that the Rio Grande systems will be extended from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, and within another year will form a great trarseontinental route 10 rival the Union Pacific and Santa Fc routes.
 All the g-neral passcngr departments of railroads entering or tributary to Dal- las were represented in a meet ting held with the managers of the National Con- federate reunion in Dallas a few days ago The object of the meeting was to determine If the railroads would allow reduced rates for the National Confsder- ate reunion to be held In Dallas during April next.
 The railroad representatives announced that no reduction of rates would be al- lowed unless the City Council of Dallas would pass an ordinance providing for protection to the railroads against the