The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13
TWO HUNDRED MILES ADDED
 TO SEABOARD AIR LINE ROAD Coveted Western Outlet is at Last Obtained.-
 Passenger Traffic.---Other News and Gossip Of the Railroads.

When it comes to the spreading busi- ness the Seaboard Air Line Is not by any means to be left out of the calcula- tions.
 MT. Williams's road has, within the last twelve months. been hard at work on branch lines that will make an addition of 200 miles of track to the already huge network. Just few days ago the Macon, Dublin and Savannah completed the last of a stretch of fifty miles from Dublin to Vidalia, Ga. At Vidalia 1t merges with the Georgia and Alabama branch of the seaboard-from Montgomery to savan- @ tory from Macon to .Vidalia. There seems to be no doubt of the fact that the Sea board either owns or controls tnls roao, and the territory of the Central of Geor- Ria is again invaded by the Seaboard- Macon. The Macon, Dublin and Savan- nah is the road of which Harry Deal was appointed General Ere eht Agent. He was formerly chief clerk in the office of Gen eral Agent c. P. Jackson of the Mobile and Ohio. He went from Montgomery to Dublin to take charge of his new posi- tion but his friends learn that his head aqarfsrs navs neea t mossd 70 sa;nns Saxamnan. n being built by the Seaboard. One branch of forty miles extends from Turkey Creek on the Tampa line. to Palmetto. on the Manatee River. while in Taylor County, being constructed from Live Oak to Per ry. thus putting Live Oak in line with the Florida winter resorts. The last of the extensions in Florida is from Starke to Wanee on the far-famed Suwanee River. There HOW seems to be no doubt of the fact that the Seaboard is behind the Union Springs and Northern. This line has already been completed from Union Springs to Ft. Davis, on the Mont gomery branch of the Seaboard. From Ft. Davis 1t Is to be extended to Mill stead and from there to Birmingham, giving the Seaboard the western outlet 50 long looked for.
 The perfection that has been reached in passenger travel Is brought horne to one in force bv watching the trains at the Union Station. It has not been SO very many years ago that Pullman sleep ing cars were considered very eXpen- sive luxury and one of them was looked on not only as a novelty but curiosity. Now a through train without one or more Pullmans argues itself dead letter. and the number of these palaces on wheels that pass through the Montgomery shed every. twelve hour would be incredible to old-timers.
 The greatest strides. however, have been made by the addition of dining cars which few yearr ago were compara- lively unknown in this section of the country. Two of the handsomest dining tars ever built pass through Montgomery on the Louisville and Nashville every day. one going south and the other north. Besides this the Western Railroad
 
 through trains from here to Atlanta and vice versa. The convenience to through travellers in this arrangement can readi- ty be seen. Passengers from New York pr Chicago no longer have to jump out of the cars in Montgomery and burn their tongues with hot coffee in the customary twenty minutes" Instead they do not have to leave the train. but leisurely en- joy a comfortable meal with the train running forty pr fifty miles an hour. The following from Chicago paper shows the extent of the "dining car habit:"
 The Illinois Central Railroad Company Is building three immense green houses at Champaign, H., to supply shrubbery and plants for all It's stations, roses for fits ching cars and bouquets for each lady passenger, People of the South who live In a Hand of perpetual flowers cannot an- preciate what this means to the people of the North who look out of the windows upon bleak ard dreary fields or broad ex- parses of cinder-strewn right of way The Michigan Central, the Erie and one or two other Northern roads already maintain green houses and give bou- quets to every lady passenger who pat- ronizes their roads with the result that there Is a great rush of travel over these lines. If the present plan succeeds the Illinois Central will also establish great green houses at some point in Missisip- pi and decorate all it's stations with graceful and fragrant plants.
 A dispatch from London says:
 Quite justfiable felicitation attends the