The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-19

It Is coincidence that simult taneously with the publication of the Selma story in yesterdays Advertiser rehashing the story about the Georgia Railroad and the Atlanta and West Point and West ern Railroad being made a division of the Louisville and Nashville with Thomas K. Scott at the head of it. that that gen. tleman should reach Montgomery.
 MT. Scott came in from Atlanta and went south at Ills o'clock yesterday mor ming on Louisville and Nashville train No. 1. the ostensible object of his trip being pleasure jaunt to New Orleans.
 ''I want to go over your division in daylight" he said to Superintendent Mo- Kinney of the Mobile and Montgomery division Having gone over 1t at night for the last few years I want to see one of the finest pieces of track in this part of the country
 MT. Scott said that just thirty years ago yesterday he was stationed in Montgom- cry as local agent of the Louisville and Nashville. His career in the railroad world since then has been watched with interest by his many friends in Monfgom- cry. He was with the Louisville and Nashville after leaving Montgomery in several places in Alabama and a good many years ago was stationed at Annis- ton. Then he was stationed in Augusta, Ga, as General Manager of the Georgia Railroad. where he has been ever since. The Georgia Railroad has. in recent years been more of a Lou sville and Nash vile property than anything else, and MT. Scott has never been anything but a Louisville and Nashville man.
 In 1897 there was a bitter fight between the Louisville and Nashville and Central of Georgia at the annual meeting of the Western Railroad in Montgomery. The | igh hrru0Hf hI ha Of who was to cast the vote of the Georgia Railroad-the Louisville and Nashville or Central, both roads at that time having an interest in the Georgia Railroad. The officers of the local courts were kept ex- tremely busy for a couple of days, and injunctions flew as thick as leaves on a windy day in October. The affair, how ever. was finally amicably adjusted and the Hon and the lamb lay down together.
 On the day of that meeting, six years ago, the railroad columns of The Adver- tiser told a story to the effect that the Georgia Railroad in connection with the Atlanta and West Point and Western Railroad would sooner or later be made division of the Louisville and Nashville from Augusta to Montgomery, with MT. Scott in charge.
 When the L. and N. disposed of part of its interest in the Georgia road to the Atantlc coast L1ne-tne Georg1a central being out of the game on account of it's failure to meet regular payments on the Georgia lease-The Advertiser repeated the story of six years ago. The Adver- tiser's story of a few weeks ago in re- gard to a probable fight between the Louisville and Nashville and the South ern has revived the story of the Georgia and Western. and 1t has been extensively copied in. this section of the country.
 If the Eastern mail Is brought to Mont gomery by the Atlantic Coast Line, Geor- gia and Western, there is little probabil- ity of the Louisville and Nashville routing it by the Selma division of the Western, Birmingham. Selma and New Orleans to Meridian, Miss, and thence over the Northeastern to New Orleans. It will be several years before the track and road bed of the Birmingham. Selma and New Orleans will be able to stand the strain of the fast trains such as the Eastern mail would necessarily be compelled to use. If the Atlantic Coast Line route is adopted the main line of the Louisville and Nashville by Mobile to New Orleans will continue to be the route as at pres ent.