The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-06
RAILROAD WORLD.

A. 1IiBBS naS been appointed Superln- tendent of the Alabama Great Southern Railroad company, vice A. J. Frazer, who resigned several weeks ago. Assist ant Superintendent J. w. Hood has been acting as superintendent since Captain Frazer quit the road, and has discharged his duties satisfactorily. MT. Griggs was superintendent of the Alabama Great Southern years ago. Recently he filled the position of superintendent of the Chi eago and Alton. He is regarded as an able transportation man and is personally popular in the Birmingham district
 Eighteen or twenty civil engineers are encamped at Sheffield and are busy rum ming lines in a southwesterly direction They are non-communcative but 1t Is un- derstood that they are making surveys for a line to connect Sheffield with the Illinois Central at Aberdeen junction.
 Assistant General Manager R. A. Dugan of the Southern is in Birmingham.
 The St. Louis Globe Democrat says that President B. F. Yoakum of the St Louis anu Odn FIdHclSCU ItdliIOdu COiupdIlyy and James Campbell of St. Louis have purchased that roads stock, which was held by the Cheney estate of Boston. B. P. Cheney, who Is one of the trustees, retains his personal Frisco holdings, which are large. The purchase Is consid- cred significant In financial circles as indi- eating exclusively where the control of GA Go. to held. There has been considerable dis cussion on this point from time to time It was generally understood several months ago the Pierce-Stow syndicate held the controlling interest. This, how ever appears to have been a mistake, the holdings of these interests at no time having amounted to a clear majority.
 It is now known that the controlling interest in the St. Louis and San Fran cisco is safely lodged with B. F. Yoskum. James Campbell and B. P. Cheney. There are the best grounds for the state- ment that none of this stock will come upon the market.
 It Is also safe to say that no change will take place in the manner in which the controlling interests in the company is now held until the present plans of the management have been completed. The | Cheney estate was among the largest single holders of the St. Louis and San Francisco stock. With the sale of these holdings the stock of the company has become more closely concentrated in the hands of a comparatively few financiers than ever.
 Without going into a discussion of the possibility of a closer alliance with the Seaboard Air Line or an entrance into Brunswick over the Brunswick and Bir- mingham now under construction it would seem reasonable to suppose that the Frisco will make a bid for the traffic of the more northerly states on the Att lantic seaboard.
 Referring to the New York fast mail, New Orleans special says:
 "A new era in the intercourse of the north and south and southwest will begin. for while the Southern railways new train now carries mail exclusively as far as Atlanta and passengers from there on, it Is not at all improbable that passen- ger equipments will be added and travel CTS leaving New York at 2:15 o'clock one morning will arrive in New Orleans at Il :SO the following morning and Houston Tex, at Il :55 that night
 Some weeks ago 1t was announced by the management of the Southern Pacific that double daily service would be inau- gurated OF November 15 between New or leans and San Francisco. the Sunset lim- tied being the morning train and the Golden State Limited being the evening train. The latter name is now changed to the Pacific Coast Express, as the title originally selected conficted with the Golden State express of the Santa Fe from Chicago. Eastbound the second train will be known as the Crescent City Ex- Press
 Late developments lead to the we'll founded belief that the Frisco will enter New Orleans from the west, the purchase of the Louisiana and Arkansas and number of small lines In Louisiana, Ar kansas and the Indian territory making that route a possibility. The line will parallel the Texas and Pacific from Alex andria to New Orleans and bring the Frisco thence to Its Mississippi river terminals