The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-06-03
MR. BRIGGS HONORED
MADE HANDSOME PRESENT By
HIS w0RKMEN.
Master Mechanic of South and North
shops to Be Succeeded by w.
+. Tate of Decatur
Shops.

Tfere was a sudden change in affairs
at the. South and North Railroad shops
yesterday-a change that has started
@ossipy tongues to wagging. Dave JUS
eral foreman of the local Louisville and
Nashville shops. an order being issued
yesterday naming W. F. Tate of the De-
catur Stops as Mr.. Briggs's successor:
Mr.; Briggs has been at the head of the
south and North shops in Montgomery
q Few months over one year, having
come here on April list, 1901. His record
while in Montgomery has been such as
the head of the mechanical department
OF the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
MIR. Briggs came to Montgomery from
the Nashville shops of the Louisville and
Nashville and before that was general
foreman of the Louisville and Nashville
shops in New Orleans.
In 1895 he was running an engine be-
tween Montgomery and Mobile, being
of general foreman of the New Orleans
shops. He leaves Montgomery with the
hearty friendship and cordial best wishes
OF everybody who has been In the re,
hottest degree associated with him, and
his many friends In Montgomery wish for
him a successful career In Admission.
As the noon hour struck at the shops
yesterday a pretty scene was enacted.
gathered around their former chief and
II was evident that there was some
thing doing" In a most happy talk Mr..
Collins on behalf of the employees Of the
shops presented Mr.. Briggs With hand
some pair of solid gold cuff buttons.
Mr.. Collins said: Mr. Briggs. accord
ing to a custom of ours we take the lib
erty of expressing to you our apprecia-
stay has been but a short one. neverthe-
less 1t has been long enough for us to
know and to appreciate you.
1T has been our constant desire to do
your pleasure and make your burdens
light 1t Is a well-known fact that har-
mony Is the chief strength and support
of all well governed institutions. There
fore there has been no contention among
us save that noble contention, or rather
emulation. as to who can best work and
best agree. Our working together has
been as one man.
You have treated us we'll. Your stay
has been both prosperous and pleasant
and II Is with a feeling of deep regret
that we bid you farewell. We congratu-
late you on your well earned promotion
and may this be but the beginning OF
what is in store for Won. May your ser
vices become more and more valuable
each year to the old Reliable until you
shall stand at the head Of its mechanical
department.
1--WE also heartily congratulate the An
niston shops on having received the ap-
polntment of d. ID. Briggs as its master
mechanic.
II now present YOU with a material
token of our esteem and friendship. M ay
it be an ever present reminder of the
1--WE wish you well, and when from
your nerveless grasp shall forever fall
the working tolls Of life and your
soul shall stand naked r, and alone lon
you hear from Him that setteth as the
Grand Master Mechanic. We'll done thou
good and faithful servant, enter thou
into the joy of thy Lord
49, h.,h h
Briggs made the following response:
Gentlemen. it is with sincere regret
that | am not invested with words be
fitting this unexpected occasion and |
pleasure to know am leaving friends
and not enemies. | am sure my success
Is due principally to you men. You have
made my task light and always shown
how difficult a task or how Indictment
the weather.
II sincerely ask that you give my sue
cessor the same. cooperation
Thursday morning. the work of laying
rail on the. Alabama and Florida division
of the Louisville and Nashville Will be
resumed. The road had been built, track
laid and all, for a distance of seven miles
from Geneva to Blacks Station. Work
was suspended when the rails gave out
some months ago. The steamer load OF
new S0-pound rails having arrived work
u.
Mobile and Montgomery division will be
taken up and used on the Alabama and
Florida, the new S0-pound rail being
us ed between here and Mobile.
From Blacks Station to Graceville the
distance of fifteen miles and Roadmaster
Shields Of the Mobile and Montgomery
division. who was in Montgomery yes
terday said that he hoped to have trains
running through from Montgomery to
Graceville by the first of July.
Taking effect at noon Sunday there
was a change in the Birmingham ac-
commodation and the Prattville trains
The Birmingham accommodation train
will hereafter arrive in Montgomery one
hour earlier-at $50 a. m. instead of 9:55
a. m. as heretofore. In the afternoon
that train will leave for birmingham
thirty minutes later-at o'clock instead
of $50 o'clock.
The morning Prattvilie train will ar
rive at 7:i5 O'Clock instead of sos o'clock,
and leave at sos instead of S:l5 o'clock.
Division Passenger Agent Iifsey Of the
Plant System has the honor of taking out
the biggest excursion train ever run on
that road. On the Tampa excursion last
week he went into Tampa with 5000
people. Three sections were run, he and
Tom Bottoms IN charge. and nearly 400
people went out of Montgomery