The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-04
L. & N. EXTENSION
LINE TO MERIDIAN, MSS, IS
 BEING CONSTRUCTED.
This Will Make New Route to New orleans-Mariana VIII Get Terminal-Other News
 of the Railroads.

Yesterday the story published by The Advertiser some weeks ago to the enect that the Louisville and Nashville was heading for Meridian. Miss, was con- firmed.
 A railroad man who has been on the line of the old Birmingham. Selma and New Orleans for some months was in the city and stated that work was to be resumed on the extension within few days. The extension is now at Linden, the pretty little county seat of the Coun- ty of Marengo and 1t Is said that new life has been infused into all that sec house costing in the neighborhood of $so,- 600 is to be built in Linden, the country roads adjacent graYelled and other inl- provements made. All this is the result of that great artery of development--a railroad-and the town of Linden bids fair to become the most important conn mercial center in the rich canebrake sec tion. Reliable information comes to The Advertiser that in the very near future side of the Tombigbee River. the exten- sion being continued from there to Me ridian. At Meridian the connection is made with the New Orleans and North eastern-and there is a new route to New Orleans for the Louisville and Nashville.
 It has been definitely settled at last where the terminal of the Alabama and Florida branch of the Louisville and Nashville will be. Ii is Mariana on the line of the Pensacola and Atlantic divis- ion of the Louisville and Nashville. The work of laying rail on the other side of the Escambia Rever near Geneva had been pushed rapidly until the recent heavy rains put stop to 1t. For the past few days. however, every section man available has been working on the breaks in the Pigeon Creek bottoms, but that section of the road being open now work on the extension beyond Geneva ba hua haau etafpd iy The Advertiser several times. this exten- sion to Mariana will save the Louisville snd Nashville something over one hun dred miles on their Florida route. h. stead of going from Montgomery to Flomaton and thence to Pensacola the new route will take them by Georgiana and Geneva to Mariana, where connec- tion will be made with the P. and A. River Junction where the F. c. and P. division of the Seaboard Air Line takes them on to Jacksonville and other Flor ida points.
 The Southern now has four Assistant General Passenger Agents. Brooks Nor gan being appointed to that position with headouarters in Washington. He was some time ago promoted from the otfice of District Passenger Agent in Atlanta. Agent Hardwick, and now he Is Assist ant General Passenger Agent, the office having been created for him.
 H. w. Wagner, formerly way hill clerk in the office of local agent Jenkins of the Louisville and Nashville, succeeds MT. Francesca as Chief Forwarding Clerk, the latter having been appointed local agent of the Seaboard Air Line,
 MT. Fred J. Robinson of the Central of Georgia has been appointed Assistant General Passenger Agent, with headquar- ters in Savannah. The official notice of the appointment was received here yes terday morning. MT. Robinson Is one of the best known passenger agents in the a number of years for some time having had charge of the passenger business in Atlanta. From that position he was pro noted to Chief Clerk to the General Pas senger Agent at Savannah. Mr Robinson was last week offered good position with a Western road. with headquarters in Chicago. This he declined, to accept the new position with the Central.
 Train No. 37, the fast Western vesti- buled train due here at 9:20 p. m., did not get in last night at all. and 1t was ' o'clock this morning when it reached the local she'd eight hours late. The cause of the trouble was a wreck on the Southern in Virginia and instead of get ting that connection in Atlanta at o clock yesterday afternoon it was nearly 1 o'clock this morning when the Western got it and started out of Atlanta for Montgomery. The other Western trains are running all right and have almost resumed schedule time.