The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-25
LEN. TO NEW ORLEANS
WILL REACH THERE WITH
 NORTHEASTERN BRANCH.
Prediction Made by The Advertiser Will Doubtless Materialize. Other Railroad News
 in Brief.

Could get ticket to Snow Hill to- night by way of Sel-n I?'' was a question asked at the Union ticket office last night.
 An affirmative answer being given, the gt nil. man bought the ticket, and, board- ing the Selma train. left for that place.
 The incident opened up a gossipy con yersation among several railroad men, speculation as to future events being the trend of thought. The fact of tickets be- ing sold from Montgomery to Snow Hill by way of the Western to Selma and the Louisville and Nashville branch from Selma by way of Snow Hill. Camden, etc, to Repton and Flomaton. started the gossip Then the talk drifted to the Bir- mingham, Selma and New Orleans. the assertion being made that before very long tickets will be sold through from Montgomery to Linden and other points in the county of Marengo.
 The B., $. and N. O. has already been completed from Selma to below Thomas ton, and very soon the greatest commer- cial developer in the world, the steel rails of railroad, will be knocking at the doors of the pretty little capital of the wire grass region of Marengo County. fair Linden. The town has already taken new lease on life, and more money Is being invested there than was ever known before. A handsome court house to cost $31, 900 is already being construct ed, a Montgomery firm, as was stated in The Advertiser recently, being the successful architects. It is stated that the Marcngo county roads leading out of Linden are to be paved with chert or gravel, all the result of the coming of a railroad.
 Looking little further into the future of the B., s. and N. O.. after that road has crossed the Tombigbee and entered the town of Meridian, Miss, the old story of the Louisville and Nashville getting to New Orleans from Meridian over the Northeastern, comes up again. The Ad- vertiser was the first newspaper in the United States to publish this L. and N.. Northeastern story. and, like that ex- tremely unreasonable and inconsiderate shade of the late lamented Colonel Ban quo, the story refuses to be downed. The story was extensively copied at the time from the East to San Francisco. the New York papers dwelling on it largely, and so far it has never been officially denied.
 Messrs. J. D. Clark, Division Superin- tendent of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Meridian, Miss; George S. Mckee, Su- perintendent Motive Power and Car Equipment, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Mobile, Ala; G. W. McGehee, Supervisor of Bridges and Buildings, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Okolona, Miss, were in the city yesterday.
 It is noteworthy that among the rail- roads sold under foreclosure proceedings in 1881 was one--the Blue Ridge-which had been in the hands of receivers for over forty years. The Railway Age re- intended to run from Anderson couyt house in Northwestern South Carolina. across a corner of Georgia and through North Carolina to Knoxville. Tenn, a distance of only about 130 miles bv air line. hut considerably more over the diff ficult mountain route that was involved. Its construction would have completed a direct line from Charleston to the west. and hence that city and the State of South Carolina took the chief financial burden of its construction. subscribing for $2. 100000 of the stock. Thirty-four
 miles of track were completed in 1859. from Anderson to Walhalla. and at that point the road has ever since terminated. with the wall of the Blue Ridge Noun tains discouraging further progress. Some tunneling and rock work was done be- vond. but in 1861 all work was suspended. after about $3,0O0000 had been spent, for lack of the sl0,0O0oOO more needed to complete it. In the consultations and combinations of subsequent years, the Blue Ridge Railroad was left alone and has long been operated under receiver.
 The New York, Atlanta and New Or leans line operated by the Pennsylvania. the Southern. the Atlanta and West Point, the Western of Alabama. and the Louisville and Nashville is the longest mail route in the United States over which a train travels every day.
 The rate on through private cars has been changed and hereafter parties mak ing trans-continental trips in private cars will have to pay their eighteen fares as well as travelling short distances. Here tofore only fifteen fares have been charg- ed for trans-continental trips.
 A handsome booklet has been issued by the passenger departments of the Louis vile and Nashville. Atlanta and West Point. and Western of Alabama, adver- Using mardi gras at New Orleans. Mobile and Pensacola, February to H. The booklet contains a history of the carni- val and tells of the points of interest in New Orleans.
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