The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
RAILROAD WORLD.

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 ". B. Wrenn, formerly passenger traffic manager for the Plant system, has been appointed general agent for the New York Life Insurance company with headquarters in Buffalo. He will assume his new duties on September l. He Is one of the best known men in the south.
 L. c. Cardinal. ticket passenger agent of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, of Montgomery is in the city.
 General Superintendent John A. Dod- son of the Southern was in Birmingham yesterday. He left last night for Selma.
 r. A. Barzen, one of the Pullman com pany agents in this territory, spent yes- terdag in the city.
 D. Deuoll. who was recently appointed terminal train master for the Southern railway at the Birmingham yard, has taken charge. This is a new office Mir. Deuell comes from Spencer, N. c. His jurisdiction includes the Woodlawn-Bes- semer branch.
 A special to the Atlanta Constitution from Savannah, Ga., says: Directors of the Ocean Steamship company in Savan- nah were seen today relative to the re- port that a meeting of the board would be held on Saturday, and Traffic Mana ger W. H. Pleasant of the Seaboard Air Line would be elected vice president and general manager. They said that they had received no notice of such a meeting, and that they knew nothing to indicate that MT. Pleasant is to be elected to the position. They say that they have heard rumors to that effect, but that their knowledge extends no further.
 A ticket counterfeiting scheme Is caus- ing the officials of the Frisco Systems passenger department much worry just now. The road has been "worked" for a number of long distance tickets, with some of which other lines have also been interested. As yet the railroad has been unable to apprehend the counterfeiters, or to locate the point from which they are operating.
 The counterfeiters have had printed exact duplicates of the regular skeleton
 
 said that these counterfeit forms have been placed in the hands of ticket brokers at different points and that the brokers are filling them out, stamping them In regular order, and disposing of them to customers desiring tickets over the Frisco lines. The customer may not discern the forgery, but the tell tale serial numbers of the tickets make this plain to the railway officials A. Hilton, general pas- senger agent of the Frisco, has issued circular explaining the method of counter feiting the tickets and instructing agents and conductors to be on the lookout for them.
 The Western Union Telegraph company is contemplating rearranging the classi- fications of its wires and changing the numeral order for all the different rail road routes over which the company has wires. Under the present arrangements the first wire erected on line of railroad is No. 1, the second, No. 2, and so on in regular order. The last wire erected Is therefore the highest number on that railroad. There is no distinction made in the number classihcatons for iron and copper wires and for commercial and railroad lines. This method makes 1t im- possible to distinguish the class of wire merely by the number. The new plan di- yldes the wires into four classes of each railroad line. The plan Is to number Iron wires for railroad business from 1 to 100 inclusive; copper railroad wires from 1ol to 200 inclusive; iron commercial wires from POI to 300 inclusive; copper commer- cial wires from 301 to 400 inclusive With these changes a lineman, when sent out to repair trouble on the line, may be di- rected to repair, for example, l.. and N. 215, referring to copper wire for rail- road business. No. 15 on the Louisville and Nashville route. Telegraphers and linemen favor the change.
 The Frisco system has put Into service one of the new combined cafe and ob- servation cars ordered several months ago from the Pullman Car company. This car is being operated on through trains No. 205 and 206. between Birmingham and Kansas City. via Memphis. Two of these cars were ordered and the second one Is nearly ready for delivery. One-half of the car is for the cafe and the other for an observat tory. It IS attached to the rear Of the trains. They gre very similar to the observation and cafe cars operated on the southern division last year. Since that tina the Frisco has been using full dining cars, leased from the Pullman company, the combination cars being put in service on another division The Pull man cars Will be returned 10 that com pany