The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-19
VETERANS SPECIALS.
ALL ROADS TO DALLAS PUT ON
 EXTRA TRAINS.
Traffic to Reunion is Heavier Than .Anticipated-The Atlanta and
 Memphis Limited-0ther
 Railroad News.

 The rush of Confederate Veteran busi- | ness began yesterday morning and 1t was far heavier than was anticipated by l the railroad people.
 The low rate tickets to Dallas and re- turn went into effect yesterday morning and will be on sale until Monday with limit to May.
 The Western from Atlanta, the Central from Eufaula and Union Springs and the Plant System from Troy, Ozark and oth- CT points along the line, each came in yesterday morning with big crowds. The Louisville and Nashville came in at II o'clock with another big crowd neces- sitating sending that train to New Dr. leans in two sections-sixteen cars in all. The Mobile and Ohio also had an un- usually heavy run when It left, after holding for the Central. at 11:15 Tonight the Central will have Its special from Macon in here at o'clock. leaving for New Orleans at s:30. Tomorrow the special trains of the Mo bile and Ohio and Louisville and Nash vile leave Montgomery, the NJ. and o. getting out at Il 80 a. m. and the l.. and N, at F o'clock. noon. the NJ. and O. having another train out at S:S0 tomor- row night. s~ gurated new train between Memphis | and Atlanta, leaving Memphis at p. m. | and reaching Atlanta at 1l:4o a. m.-leav- ing Atlanta at p. m. and arriving m | over the Western and Atlantic from At lanta to Chattanooga, Nashville. Chattanooga and St, Louis from Chattsnooga to Nashville and on strikes the Memphis division of the l.. | and x. and goes straight to that city. The train will carry through sleepers and | buffet cars and will be known as The I I i,,,tt tfI ha In l tercha ngesble mileage books of the l." | and N. good over sixteen lines being good over the above lines will prove great convenience to the travelling public l The Southern Railway Textile Direc- 1 tory for 1902 has been complied to meet | the demand for the valuable information | it contains.
 The builders of new textile works op- | eratng in cotton now fully recognize that | for safe and successful employment of 1 capital In the manufacture or cotton | goods the mills must be located where all | the conditions favor and so bring about | economical production of the yarn and the cloth. The cotton industry in the l territory of the Southern Railway sys- 1 tenn is more extensively installed than elsewhere in the great cotton areas. | This useful source of informa tion gives | the ocation, name and capacity of opera l ting cotton and other textile. mills. It
 shows m aggregate equipment in ooO
  | The increase for the yea. was li.SS9 looms and 6i5.2s6 spndlcs in the cotton 1 industry alone.
 There were fortyfour new textile | plants erected during the year. Several | more arc now under consi alteration, and the prospects are that the present year | will see a considerable extension Of the industry.
 l obtained on application to the Land and | industrial Department of the Southern l Railway and NJ. and o. R. R. Washing ton, D. C.
 1 The admirable system in vogue at the l Union station was never better demon- 1 strated than last night when one Of the heaviest and most unexpected rushes Ithat has been through the station in years | took place.
 It was the first day that the low rate | tickets to Dallas went on and while ths:c | was a. big crush yesterday morning still the ra lroad pebple were totally unpre- | psred for and taken completely by sur prise by the gigantic crowds last night | Not since the beginning of the spanish American War has anything Ike the nus" 1 crowds been in the general waiting room and out under the train shed that Was l the case last night.
 | During the early days of the Spanish war there was congestion at the Union ] station caused by throngS Of MontSom- | erians watching the troop trains go | through to Florida. Last nights crowds. however, completely overahadowed .eN- erything that ever happened in the way l of rush--Mard Gras, Street Fair nor any other crowds approached 1t.
 l The night trains. Western. Plant Cen
 tral and Seaboard, came in loaded to the guards and the Louisville and Nash | vile train from the North was packed to the doors. Every one of these people | except the ones on the L. and N. train
 had to buy tickets here and the scene | around tho ticket window was curiosity
 1ls EA utVabN. | pushing jostling mass of humanity that | made the picture indescribable. Every | available inch of seating space in the
 general waiting room had more than it's | quota of wora-out. deieCted looking men,
 women and even little children
 Out under the train shed the condition
 of things was such as to almost make
 the station employees throw tts-pufinc | engines bringing in every piece of equip
 ment possible. cars borrowed from tho
 yards and shops of the different local
 roads-porters rushing over the platform
 with great trucks piled high with huge
 trunks the hiss of steam and the glare
 of electric headlights from numbers of
 engines making the picture of confusion
 complete. Three trains were sent to New
 Orleans, thirty-two coaches and Pull
 mans making them up. The first train left
 on time with only day coaches and bag
 gage cars. no Pullmans at all. The sec
 ond train went out on the arrival of the
 Westerns 9:20 train carrying one day
 Codcn ana elgnt Iull.ndnS ana DdS-
 gage car. The third train left at l0:Su
 with solid train Of Pulmans-ten of the
 big fellows-and a baggage car. Numbers
 and numbers of people who had reserved
 Pullman space in advance were unable
 even to get in sleeper last night, the
 Pullmans being loaded to their capacity
 as fast they were brought under the | shed. while every day coach that went out had people standing on the platforms
 and in the aisles.
 One of the most surprising features oi the affair was tre amount ot baggage that\ was carried, The I. and \. train
 from the north came in with loS pieces of baggage and seven huge truck loads
 of trunks were sent to the southbOund
 car bv the local baggage people. There
 was not much space left in that sixty
 foot car when the trair started and the
 bagEa gemaster barely had room to check
 up his run The Western train came in
 with an even 100 pieces of baggage, q
 number being delivered by the local ba E.
 gage room. and that car was also packed
 10 its capacity. The baggage ear of the
 third section had the lightcst run of the