The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-04

l fell through. That General Passenger Agent Stone of the Louisville and Nashville is not of the | same opinion as MT. Atmore is shown by | the following from a New Orleans paper | of Wednesday. The Montgomery travel | ing men will be equally benefited, and the | work that the Travelers Protective As 1 sociation began ten years ago, has al last borne fruit.
 The New Orleans paper says: 'On April b matter of great import | ance to the commercial public of New Orleans will transplre and on that date and after interchangeable mileage tickets will be sold, good on seventeen of the lines of the Southeast This announce ment came today in the shape of letter from General Passenger Agent C. l. Stone of the Louisville ana Nashville Railroad to Mir J. K Ridgely, Division Passenger Agent of the line at New Or leans, in which the names of the differ ent roads were given. Following Is the letter, which is self, explanatory; Louisville, March D, 1902. MT. J. K. Ridgely, D. P. A.. New Or
 leans, La:
 Dear sir-Please call on MT. Louis Ochs, Chairman of the State Railroad Committee of the Louisiana Division of the Travellers Protective Association, and advise him that. taking effect not later than April 15, the mileage tickets of this compahy's issue will be good over the following lines:
 Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Rail- way.
 Atlanta and West Point.
 Atlantic Coast Line.
 Baltimore Steam Packet Company (be- tween Baltimore and Norfolk.)
 Chesapeake Steamship Company (be- tween same points.l
 Charleston and Western Carolina Rail- way.
 Columbia. Newberry and Lauren Rail- road.
 Georgia Railroad.
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
 Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad.
 Northwestern Railroad of South Caro- lima.
 Plant System.
 Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.
 Seaboard Air Line.
 Washington Southern Railway.
 Western Railway of Alabama,
 Western and Atlantic Railroad.
 The benefit which will accrue, partlcu- IaFly to the travelling representatives or New Orleans houses which enter that territory can easily be seen The whole sale houses and refineries Of this city sell an immense amount of molasses, su- gar and rice throughout the Southeast and by the purchase of interchangeable mileage books both money and trouble can be saved As 1t now stands, separate tickets must be bought for travel over each separate road. Very often it is not convenient to purchase tickets at small points and by having the mileage book, all trouble is avoided. The mileage books. of course, are also beneficial to any de- string to travel in the territory embraced and the coming of the innovation will undoubtedly be hailed with delight by all travelling men, Such conditions exist in the East, North. Middle West and West but very little in the South. but it has been gradually coming this way and this is the first big step in the direction that will afford convenience and saving to New Orleans travellers.
 "A decided peeuliarity of the inter changeable mileage agreement and one which will create considerable comment in railroad circles is that the Southern Railway is not party to the compact. The Southern being one of the largest and most important systems in the South, the fact will have an important bearing upon the question. Whether the South ern will come in later or not Is not known.
 An incident happened on the South and North division of the Louisville and Nashville yesterday morning that shows the speed with which that road moves its freight trains. o
 The first section of fraght tIa-n NO. 10 coming south left Calera yesteoh morn ing twelve minutes behind No. 9, tha Birmingham accommodation The freight train took three side tracks and with that came into Montgomery ahead of the messenger train. No. 13 was in charge of Engineer l.. II. ShaIIion and Conductor Thomas and had 940 tons Of freight.
 There is quite stir among the local railroad offices, the opening Of their ticket office by the Sea board Air Line being re- vertiser few days ago the Seaboard