The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-09
TWO ENGINES IN DITCH
LARGEST MACHINES ON WEST ERIN WILL BE ovERHAULED.
Within Few Hours Both Leave Track Wrecks Caused by Flood. Other Railroad Notes
 of Interest.


 engines on the Western Road should have been ditched within few hours of each other.
 Engine No. 21 that went through the culvert near Notasulga was companion of engine No. 12 that went through the culvert near Cusseta. Both were big combinations and were the last bought by George c. Smith when he was General Manager of the Western. The force at the local shops began work on the A yesterday morning, but No. 12 has not been taken out of the ditch yet. A track has been built down to the wrecked en- zine. .and it is thought that within few days the stripped machine will be brought to the shops in Montgomery.
 Florida travel has set in in earnest now and it is very rare thing that a Pull man over any of the roads going to Flor ida does not leave the shed crowded.
 A dispatch from New Haven Conn.,, 10 The New York Evening Post says:
 There appears to be little doubt that there will be an appeal to the federal courts from the decision of Judge Lever- tritt, holding that Henry B. Plant, the testator in the Plant will case. was a resident of New York. Judge Lynde liar risoD, one of the executors, says. howev- CT. that the matter Is in the hands of the attorneys for the executors in New York City. and that final decision has not been reached. If an appeal Is filed the case is sure ultimately to be taken on the question of Jurisdiction to the United States Supreme Court.
 In regard to the decision of Judge Lev ertritt, Attorney General Phelps of this State says that the State of Connecticut will stand by its rights in the matter, and will resent to the utmost any at Stempts of the State of New York to take the jurisdiction of tho property of the testator in Como cticut. rue State Treas urer. in succession tax matters, has pow CT of appeal to the courts. He expects an appeal to be taken in the present case.
 A person here thoroughly familiar with the case says that the effect of Judge 1!eventritt's decision. if sustained, in sub- stance merely affects the widows dover right, and will give her several millions of dollars. The executors will. in that the New York Jurisdiction, exactly as they. would in Connecticut, transferring to the widow her dover. The Plant Railroad and Express Company will not be much affected. and the management will continue as under the terms of the Will. Estimates of the Plant properties range here from $15, 0O0 to go, ,0Oo, 900.
 Before he died. MT. Plant bought here a large central residential property which, 1t is safS, was intended for offices for the management of the company. The house was vacated by the owners after the purchase, and has remained unoccu- pied ever since. Mr. Plant also owned other New Haven realty.
 There is no question but that the abo- lition of tha interchange of annual passes between the trunk lines north of the Ohlo river Is rigid one, and the en- foreement of the new order of things is having a very decided effect in many ways. For example, since the first of the year nothing like the number of visiting railroad men have come to Nashville that usually get around at thls season of the year, and it is all attributed to the fact that the transportation has been cut off, and that as yet the travelling or outside men of the railroad companies have been unable to adjust themselves to condi- tions.
 man in discussing the situation this morning said he thought it would not be very long before the passes would be forthcoming as of old. He is connected with line that maintains an office he, e. and the high man. in this territory has not been here for some time, pre- sumably because of the fact that trans portation Is not being exchanged between his road and the lines that enter Nash vile. The local official stated that from what he heard already some of the man agers of the railroads had come to the conclusion that it would be the better policy to exchange passes, particularly .n the Southern and Southwestern territory, for in these sections the railroads have declined to go into the pass abolishing business. and some of those north of the river have been suffering because of the fact that their representatives were not getting around as often as usual Nashville Daily News.
 The comparative statement of gross earnings of the Louisville & Nashville Railway system for December has just been issued and shows an increase over the earnings for the same period of 1900 of $27.6T. The increase in earnings of the last week in December. 1901, was $3s. 902.
 Following is the statement:
 Earnings for fourth week of Decem- bcr, 1901, 502, 300; corresponding week of 1900. $637, ,99S; increase, $2s,90
 Total for four weeks of December. 1901, z, 452. zoo; corresponding period of 1900, E. 425. .023; increase, $27,67T.
 July to latest date. 1902, sl5. 129.059; corresponding period of 1901, $13,S56 s16; in crease, N,272,243
 Mileage, 19Ol-19O2, s.s13,25 miles, miIe- age, 1906- 1a01, 3, l6S. 2S miles.
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