The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-19
LOW RATE GRANTED
REUNION RATE OF A CENT MILE
 TRAVELLED.
Col. Harvey E. Jones Receives Official Notification from Southern Pas senger Association-Gen.
 Oates Will Entertain.

Col Harvey E. Jones. Adjutant Gen i eral of the Alabama Division of the United Confederate Veterans, has been notified by Chairman Joseph Richardson | of the Southeastern Passenger Associa- | ton that a rate of one cent mile. | travelled. had been granted by the asso- citation on the occasion of the State re- union on October F and 13. The low rate will. 1t is confidently eX- pected, bring to the city the largest crowd l that Montgomery has entertained in the present year. Last years reunion. al- though the first of the Alabama Division. was marked by great attendance. even greater than had been expected This year larger crowd is expected and the preparations for the entertainment of
 the visitors will be made with that In view
 The reunion crowd will contain not only the old Confederate soldiers but a large
 crowd of visitors who will be attracted
 to Montgomery by the extremely low
 rates.
 Chairman Richardson's letter to Col one Jones is as follows:
 Col. Harvey E. Jones. Montgomery. Ala. Sir:-Referring to our recent corre- spondence relative to rates for the above occasion. I beg to hand you herewith copy of my circular No s. F. 1105 issued
 today announcing individually for each of the railway lines mentioned therein, a rate of one cent per mile traVeled tn Montgomery and return account of the
  spectfully. Joseph Richardson, Chairman. Atlanta. Sept. 16 1902. Special Occasion-Annual reunion. Ala | bama Confederate Veterans, Montgomery, l Ala, November 12-15 1902.
 | At the request of the Alabama Great | Southern Railroad, Atlantic Coast Lina Railroad. Central of Georgia Railway, Frisco System (K. c. M and B: R: R:),
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Mobile | and Ohio Railroad, Nashville, Chattanoo- | ga and St. Louis Railway. Southern Rail- way. Western Railway of Alabama, a | rate of one cent per mile travelled, short line distance, plus arbitraries (minimum
 rate 50 cents), from all points in the | State of Alabama to Montgomery, Ala. and return, account of occasion hereon | mentioned. is announced.
 | The following rates on this basis will govern from points named below: Anniston. $2.95; Attalla. $3.05; Birming- | ham, sl,95; Calera, $1.25; Childehsburg, | $1.s0; Decatur, $3. 65; Flor ence, $4.65; Gads- den, s315; Huntsville. s415; Tuscumbia, | $1.S5; Selma. $l.00; Sheffield $55; Syla- | cauga, s1.95; Talladega. $235; Troy, s1O5; | Tuscaloosa. $215.
 Tickets of form "C,'' adopted as stand | ard by the American Association of Gen | eral Passenger Agents, restricted to con- | tinuous passage in each direction, to be | sold November Il and F, with final limit November IA, 1902
 Joseph Richardson. | Chairman. Gen. William c. Oates, who command | ed the 18th Alabama in the great strug- | gle and who was among the most distiu- guished soldiers from Alabama in the Confederate army. will take personal charge of the entertainment of the he
 roic survivors of his old regiment. The organization took part in some of the bloodiest and fiercest fighting of the war.
 General Oates will issue general in- vitation to his old comrades to meet him in Montgomery. He will communicate
 with the survivors and urge their at tendance upon the reunion. No soldier
 who served n the 18th will be neglect 4d a moment of the time that he spends in
 this city. General Oatess special recep- tion of the members of his old regiment
 will be one of the features of the re- union