The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-10
ENGINES MEET IN fOc
s1vY1AL AoCrDnKTs IN RAIL.
 LOAD YARDS Y8sTERDAY.
Every Prscaution Was Taken, But Some pamegss Was Dous--other News of Interest in Rail-
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The impenetrabie for Of ycsteraay morning caused several accidents over Tn the railroad section.
 With their headlights lit in front and rear, a couple of yard engines were groping through the dense curtain or gray moisture over in the Western yards. Engineer ccniey was on the HOT and En- gineer Maxy on the 4-it was between and 6 o'clock in the morning and the two engines were kicking cars about and getting strings together Tor outgoing freight trains. Notwithstanding the headlights, the heavy fog made it impos- sible for anything to be seen. and sud denly the two engines came together with a crash. At the time engine/3 3 was almost at standstfll. and engine hW backed into her. The & was not dam aged much but, the 1107 had to be. pulled over to the shops where several days work will be required. Shortly after this Q Western yard en- zine was backing cars for the morning train for Selma over to the Union sta ton. A Seaboard yard engine was back ing over the train that leaves for Sa- vannah at $40 a. rn., and at the ! near the Perry Street crossing. the two front coaches brushed against each otn, CT in the fog. Both trains were stopped as quickly as possible, however, and for tunately no damage was done.
 The pass question on the Eastern roads seems to be decided For good and all, and rate, there wili be a conspicuous .ab- sence of the exchange of courtesies.''
 On the Ard day of January ,promi- nent Southern official who was recently Pennsyisania P Toad % for trip Ie pass o out 'o of Washington for one of lf,s employees. The Pennsylvania people were sorry that they could not issue the pass. but the new rule among the Eastern roads prohibited it entirely. Colonel Chase. of the Chicago and Alton, who was in Montgomery yes- terday, had q somewhat similar experi- ence. He made request some days ago on the Big Four people for a pass. and received the same answer that the South- ern Railroad official did.
 South. of the Ohio, River, however, passes will be interchanged by the roads as usual-they are a bit late but they will be issued all the same. A Mont ceived most of his annuals for 1902, ex tending over every road in this territory.
 The new weighers Association adopted by the local railroads Is proving one of the most valuable things that ever hap pened for them. Scores of times in the past few months cars Of high class goods billed out as lower clsss have been
 
 the true tarin put on them. A fey days gro a car of lumber was shipped from the East to California. the way bill on the car reading as plain pine lumber. When 1t reached Montgomery the local weighers got held of It. examined and weighed 1t. On examination it was found that instead of plain lumber the car was loaded with the finest kind of hard and soft woods for office furniture. The true value of the tariff was placed on the car and the consignees had to pay an overcharge of $466. Thousands and thousands of dollars are saved to the railroads every month by the Weigh ers' Association. ,...., Probably the heaviest work ever known over at the North and South shops was yesterday afternoon when Master Me chanic Briggs had to get ready for the road seven engines from o'clock to a few minutes after :.
 recent washouts on the Western has ar round-house is being rushed, a large part of the foundation walls being already up. On the southbound Louisville and Nashville train No. 3 last night, was the private Pullman, Orlando" with Mark Hanna. IT,. and party of ten from Cleveland. en route to Thomasville. Ga. Conductor Sam Johnson, who took out the Plant train last night, had 8 train of eight heavy cars-four Puiln1ans and four coaches. Three Pullmans leave hero every night on the Plant, but the Hanna party last night made four.