The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-21
MARDI GRAS RATES
SOUTHWESTERN TARIFF Asso-
 CLAYTON TO ARRANGE
At Meeting Several Bricks Will Be Thrown at Scalpers-Passenger Agents Go to New Orleans
 Other Railroad News.

vile train No. yesterday morning was General Passenger Agent Charles M. Stone looking as neat and fresh as one of his beautiful dining cars.
 No, there is nothing especially new, said Colonel Stone. T am on my way to New Orleans to attend the meeting of the Southeastern Passenger Associa- tion, which begins tomorrow. It IS a regular meeting of the Association and routine business will be transacted. or course Mardi Gras rates will be discuss ed and possibly several bricks thrown into the camp of the festive scalper."
 Colonel Stone was the only passenger man on the Louisville, and Nashville train but when the Western train from Atlanta arrived it brought General Agent McMillan of the passenger department of the Georgia Railroad from Augusta and several other passenger men who went to- New Orleans on the Louisviile and Nashville train.
 Master Mechanic Briggs of the South and North Shops Is having the motor house built for the new electric turn table which will be put in operation with in the next few days. Two competent motormen will operate the machine-one on the day and the other the night watch twelve hours on duty each. Mas ter MeCndUlC mlHbO UL tuc 0uOblft bhoPS who has been looking through the local shops left for Mobile yesterday morning.
 Superintendent Hall of the Montgom- cry and Macon division of the Central reached the city in his private car at HIS yesterday morning spent the day inspecting the local property of his road and left for Macon yesterday afternoon.
 The folIowino from a Meridian paper is very significant in view of the exten- sion of the Birmingham Selma and New Orleans from Selma down and The Advertisers story about the Louisville and Nashville and Northeastern in Meri- dian published some time ago. The Meridian paper says:
 By unanimous vote of the meeting an invitation is to be extended Colonel F. M Abbott of West Point, to come to Meridian and address a citizens meet ing in the interest of the proposed Louis- vile .and Nashville connection vita Meridian.
 The people of Meridian are now aroused and a new railroad outlet may soon be a fact Officials of the various railroads entering have decided to build a new union depot, which has long been con- sidered a necessity by citizens.
 
 city a meeting of a number of high of- ficials of the Southern Railway and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, says The Mobile Register of Sunday. Some of the officials are already in the city, Third Vice-Presideni and General Manager Cannon of the Southern Railway, hav- ing reached here yesterday morning on the Mobile and Ohio train from Meridian. Colonel William Butler Duncan. who is a Io. .to ,tol1 and the Mobile and Ohio, reached the city on the afternoon Louisville and Nashville fast mail train, and will be at the meeting. Today Second Vice-President w. W. Finley of the Southern, will ar- rice in the city, and tomorrow morning there will arrive here General Manager Ackert of the Mobile and Ohio.
 A Norfolk, Va. dispatch to The At- lanta Constitution says: tf
 It has been rumored that the coming of w. H. Pleasants from the Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah, to as- sume< the position of Traffic Manager of the Seaboard Air Line Railway here would cause a general shake-up.
 Having the entire responsibility for the freight and passenger department. it was argued that MT. Pleasants would bring his staff with him and that resignations of General Passenger Agent R. E. L..
 
 R. Capps would be forthcoming upon Mir. Pleasants's arrival.
 Mir. Bunch today emphatically denied the rumor so far as it affected him. <
 ''I have not resigned, nor shall l." was his comment upon the rumor.
 Mir. Capps is in the South and could not be seen, but in his department the possibility of his resignation Is not con- sidered.
 A Knoxville dispatch says: Tt is an- bounced authoritatively here today that Superintendent F. K. Huger. of the Sea- Raleigh, has resigned and will go with the Southern as Superintendent of the Charleston division on February 1.
 MT. Huger is well known here, Knox vile having been his home for number of years. He was connected with the East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia>for q number of years. In fact. he helped build the road and was with it until it went into the Southern.
 ''He was then made Superintendent of the Knoxville division, which position he held for several years. A year or so ago he left the service of the Southern for some reason and did not engage in rail- road work until a few months ago, when he went with the Seaboard.
 '"The announcement that he was to re- turn to the Southern was received by his friends here with much surprise"
 According to the Interstate Commerce Commissions report there were 704, 743 em- ployes enlisted in the railway service in this country, in 1890. while the number fin 1900 reached 1.O17. .653. Another interesting item from this report is that in 1890 the gross earnings were $964, ,S16,129 while the dividends paid amounted to only $S2, 110 19S. In 1900 the gross earnings of the rail- roads amounted to $1 .4S7. 7.044.s14 while the dividends declared aggregated $139, ,6O2, ,51L The prosperity of the railroads means the prosperitY of the peoDle-Four-Track for January.
 It is stated that in 1902 all railroads will cut down fence and billboard advertis- ing and eXpend the amount saved in talk ing more space in daily papers. Adver- Using is becoming a sort of exact science of tke railroads. and the cry for econo- my in railroading has reached the ad- vertising department. It is proposed. says d railroad man, that more care be