The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-18
|. .&N.-WEST POINT DEAL
REPORT THAT MERGER HAS
 BEEN MADE.
Probable That the Division from Augusta to Montgomery Spoken of by The Advertiser Will
 Be Formed.

Some time ago a statement was made in The Advertiser that there was prop ability of a division being made from Augusta, Ga., to Montgomery. From Au- gusta to Atlanta that part of the divi- sion would be over the Georgia Railroad and from Atlanta to Montgomery over the Atlanta and West Point and western of Alabama. It has been pretty gener- ally understood all along that the Louis- vile and Nashville has controlled the Western of Alabama from West Point, Ga to Selma. From Atlanta to west Point Is the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, of course a part of the line from Atlanta te Montgomery, but Hulk that prevented control by the Louisville and Nashville. When the Louisville and Nashville unleaded its interest in ths Georgia Railroad to the Atlantic Coast Line the story of the division from Au- gusta to Montgomery was repeated. but the Atlanta and West Point was still link in the chain that made pons as l. orum. Not very long ago 1t will be re- membered that the Atlantic Coast Line had secured control of tho Louisville and Nashville. Shortly after the statement The Advertiser had an exclusive an- nouncement that the meeting of the West ern of Alabama this year would be held ~---- month Now heretofore the meetings of the Western have invariably been held at the general offices of the Western on Tallapoosa Street and 1t has always been thought that the charter of the road required the annual meetings to be held in Montgomery or Alabama. By the sar;c tokoh 1t was thought that the charter of the Atlanta and West Point required the annual meetings of the road to be held n Georgia and they have heretofore been held in Atlanta. When 1t was found out that the annual meeting of the Western this year. instead of being held in Mont- gomery. would be held in Atlanta on the same day as that of the Atlanta and West Point. 1t was thought that some thing was in the wind If an Associated Press dispatch that came to The Advcr- tiser last night is true a good deal of light is shed on several very abstruse problems. It not only means the forging of the A. and w. P. link, but means the welding together of loose ends of the Southern Security Company.
 The telegram referred to is as follows: St. Louis, Oct. 1.-The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company has acquired or will soon acquire control of the Atlan- ta and West Point Railroad from Atlanta to Montgomery. according to a report in St. Louis and will merge the new acoui- sition with the Georgia Railroad.
 It Is stated that the Atlanta and West Point and the Georgia Railroad will be operated as one system, the Louisville and Nashville and the Atlantic Coast Line and the recent acquisitions as an- other. This will make three big railroad systems In the Southeast Increasing the Southern Railroad or Morgan system. | The Seaboard Air Line and Frisco Bir- mingham line are left independent
 | It Is reported that the Southern Rail- road will remove its auditors office from the Washington, D. C., headquarters te Atlanta to which point the company'' freight offices were recently removed.