The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-01
"Behind the clouds the suns still shin

"Behind the clouds the suns still shin ing"
 That comfortable maxim held good yes- terday in . Rajority of cases with the local railroads. but with the Western | well, they have so far been unable to
 locate the silver lining back of their clouds.
 Yesterday the main line of Superinten- | dent McKinney's division from here to | Mobile was open for business. and for | the first time since Saturday night regu- | lar passenger and freight traffic was re- sumed. Through passenger and freight | trains from the north left here for the south end on time and trains from the
 south came through. True, they were a bit late on account of necessarily slow
 rtrning. but they came through all right The Alabama and Florida-Geneva- branch of the l. and N is still tied up. the Pigeon Creek bottom near McKen- zie being still master of the situation. Nothing can be done there until the waste of waters subside, but the army of laborers that have been at work on
 the M. and M. will today be put on the Geneva branch. It was announced yes-
 terday morning that the train for Ge-
 neya would leave here as usual at 3:3O p. m., but later in the day that order was countermanded and the announce
 ment made that the Geneva train was annulled once more.
 The Western people are as deep in the midst of their troubles as at the begin ming, but the' hope to find a bunch of
 daylight by tonight or in the morning at the farthest. The break at Notasulga
 has been patched up so that trains can
 run over it, and this morning at 6:30 Superintendent Edwards will send out a
 local freight train. This train will only | Cusseta keeping the road tied up from Opelfka to West Point. At 1:30 D. m.
 passenger train 34 will be sent out, but this also will only go to Opelika. It is hoped that by this morning the waters will have gone down enough to permit | some hard work. The last through train was the one that came in from Atlanta Saturday night, but the indications are | that by Thursday morning through traf- | fic will be resumed. The road is all right from Atlanta to West Point, the trouble
 now being between Opelika and West | Point.
 The Seaboard Air Line has adopted a | standard letter head, the object of which | is to give prominence to the word Sea | board" This will be made to take pref | erence to everything else on all Sea | board Air Line stationary and advertis-
 the line is generally known and the title
 which sounds best to the officials. IA dispatch from Indianapolis says | Secretary Wilson of the United Mine | Workers of Amerisa, said today that the
 lack of transportation facilities is doing | a permanent injury to the coal mining
 business throughout the country. The | shortage of fuel in the larger cities, he | thinks, will accustom the people to burn
 smaller quantities. so hereafter they will
 know by experience that 1t will not be necessary to buy as heavily as they have | when the market was well supplied. He | believes this will lessen the future de- l mand and have a tendency to hurt the business. The lack of transportation fa- cilities he said, exists throughout the entire mining district of the United | States. Many mines have been shut down and others are only operating half time.
 The Indianapolis Journal has the fol- lowing in reference to the question of
 paying for the use of freight cars per 1 diem:
 "A number of railroad officials have re- ceived from the Secretary of the Amer ican Railway Association list of seven
 questions affecting the problem of charges for cars on foreign lines. At the last meeting of the association in St. Louis the committee on car service was instructed to take up the matter or per diem versus mileage charges and be pre- pared to report at the next meeting. Practically every railroad of importance has representation, and the results of their deliberations possess much weight.
 There is every reason to believe that the
 larger systems will make determined
 effort to have the per diem charges put
 into effect. Cars tied upon railroads and
 not returned promptly, despite the urgent
 need. has been more manifest of late
 than heretofore. and some more effective
 method of fines in the mileage system
 now sa use must be adopted. Query is
 made in the seven questions for the diff
 ficuIties liable to be met in the practi-.
 cal operations of the per diem system