The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-13
TRAINS WERE LOADED
RAILROADS DID RECoRD-BREAK.
 ING PASSENGER BUSINESS.
Estimated That 4,442 Persons Were Brought to Montgomery in One Day by the Various
 Railroads.

It would be difficult to find a more sur prised lot of people than the railroad men or Montgomery were yesterday. When the low rates to Montgomery, on account of the Confederate reunion were announced, 1t was expected that the travel would be unusually heavy. The enor- n ous rush of yesterday literally took the breath away from railroad people in and out of the city. The different roads were not only not prepared for the tremendous business, but they were almost over whelmed.
 From the time that the first train rolled into the car shed early in the morning. until 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the changing of engine bells and hiss of steam had an accompaniment of tramping feet. Old railroad men eaid that the business Of yesterday was the heaviest for one day ever known in Montgomery. the record breaking business Of the two last . Street Fairs included.
 Every road entering the station was pressed. and only the excellent training of some of them in responding to sudd er emergency calls prevented a swamp.
 The Alabama Midland division of the Atlantic Coast Line carried off the hon. o's of the day and holds the palm foi the banner passenger business. At o'clock in the morning its train No. 57 ' came in with nine coaches, every one loaded to the limit with people standing On each others toes in the aisles ant hanging on to tho platforms of ever, coach. There were exactly 1.042 passen sers on the train, 43i of them coming from the Luverne branch of the road from E Spragues Junction down into Crenshav County.
 The next biggest business done was by tho Canava A a hA rna and ElnffHa hrq of the Louisville and Nashville. ( Tha train got in at 9:45 o'clock in the morn ing with between TOO and 500 passengers.
 With the other Louisville and Nashville trains, the fast train from the south a 6:30 a. m., Birmingham accommodation a 9:45 o'lock. morning and afternoon train: fl om Prattvil1e, fast train from the norti at Ii o'clock, two fast trains from tht south in the evening and the fast trair E from the north at 7:45 last night, the days busirtss foH that road amounted tC about l,600 persons.
 Probably the next heaviest business was done by the Western road, the morning and evening trains from Atlanta and morning and evening trains from Selma bringing in between 700 and 800 persons.
 The Central of Georgia trains brought in 600 at 11:15 in the morning and about POO last night.
 The SeaDoaru AIT Line tram yesterday morning and the Mobile and Ohio train in the afternoon brought in in the neigh bor hood of 200 persons.
 A good average of the days business from yesterday m orning until last night was 4,442 persons, the heaviest passenger traffic ever passing through the train I shed for one day.
 Todays business is expected to be as heavy, if not heavier, than yesterday, but the roads will be better prepared to ha ndle 1t today.
 Last nights Atlantic Coast Line and southbound Louisville and Nashville E trains carried extra coaches several hun !dred persons leaving on the two trains.
 Last night Rubber Avinger. one of the telegraph operators in the office of Chief Train Dispatcher Young of the Mobile and Montgomery division of the Louis ville and Nashville, left for Georgiana where he takes charge of the entire dis patcher's forces of the Ala bama and Flor
 ida division. Operator Hendricks of Su- perlntsndent Mckinney's office succeeds him in the Chief Dspatcher's office. and one of the operators in the South and North yards will take the desk in the su- perintendent's office.