The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-15
FIFTY MILES AN HOUR
GREAT RUN ON MOBILE AMI OHIO RAILRoAD.
One Hundred and Eighty-one Mile. In Five Hours, Including 32 Stops-Other News of the
 Railroads.

An average speed of fifty miles an hour for a road that is not so very old IS what the Mobile and Ohio people have just cause to be.
 A few days ago the local Mobile and Ohio people received a wire that there train from AtlantA for them. The Wes- tern train was nearly an hour late and the Mobile and Ohio train due to leave at 9:15 a. m., did not get away until lz o'clock. The passengers were for Hot Springs. Ark, and In order to make the competitor the Montgomery division would have to get them to Artesia, Miss, in time to catch the main line train to St. Louis. The main line Is due at Ar tesla at.5:3o in the afternoon. the Mont gomery train being due there at 5:H Leaving here two hours and forty-f1ve minutes late an ordinary run would have put the Hot Springs passengers in Ar tesla at TAO that night and of course they would have lost the St. Louis train. The distance between Montgomery and Artesia is 1S1 miles, and including thirty two stops the run was made in five hours and fourteen minutes actual running time. At very low estimate the time required for a stop is three minutes. so that for the thirty-two stops ninety-six minutes would have to be deducted-or one hour and thirty-six minutes. making the speed of the train something over three hours and a half for the lSl miles -49 3-4 miles an hour. The train rolled into Artesia on time not delaying the St. Louis train second, and the twelve all right The crew that made this re- markable run was Engineer Cornell with engine n, Conductor Rogers being in charge of the train.
 Whether the great improvement in the passenger service of this road Is due to the new life infused into 1t by MT. John M. Bealf, Assistant General Passenger Agent or not is not known. but the Feb arxy nm n sHrha A00S-an ly handsome railroad magazine issued at Chicago. says of him:
 "A great awakening has come to the Mobile and Ohio since its acquisition of Mir. John M. Beall as Assistant General Passenger Agent at St. Louis. In the opinion of several general passenger agents of ripe experience and finesse judgment. young Beall has in him the making of a passenger traffic expert. His first season with the Mobile and Ohio Is just on, and he has remarkably electri- Jed the Florida and Gulf coast volumes of travel into those territories. The now uncommon for the through Florida sleepers over the M & O. to arrive there with a score or more of thEough pat rons. The M. & O. is a historical and ways thoroughly enjoyed. MT. Baall was formerly the California coast represen- tative of the Southern Railway and is ex- perienced in recruiting American resort patronage.
 The story about the extension of the Jacksonville Valdosta and Northern is again being talked about. and this time 1t looks as if the gossip will result in something more than printers ink. The story is that the above road will early in the spring. be extended in the direc- ton of Moultrie, Ga. the eastern termi- nus of the Georgia Northern. The Geor- gia Northern is a little lumber road thlr- ty-one miles long with Pidcock. Ga.. at the other end of it. Pidcock is on the Plant System seventeen miles the other side of Thomasviile and 22s miles from Montgomery, and the presumption Is that from Vaidosta the A.. " & W. will be extended to Pidcock from which place the Georgia Northern branch will be used to Moultrie. From Moultrie the distance is not so great to Albany and the com pletion of the extension would give the A., V. & W. a direct line from Albany to Jacksonville At Albany the A., V. & W. would connect with either both the Seaboard and Central. The Montgomery and Macon lines of the Central has a branch dropping down from Smithville to Albany and the Georgia and Alabama branch of the Seaboard has a branch from Richland to Albany-or rather from Columbus and crossing the Montg omery line at Richland.
 Assistant General Freight Agent F. H. Harwood of the Illinois Central at Ev- ansviIie Ind. spent the day in Mont gomery yesterday looking after the freight interests of his road in this sec tion.
 The friends and acquaintances of Will liam Montgomery. Jr:. Assistant Baggage Master at the Union Depot. Birmingham, regret to learn of his illhess at St. Vim cent Hospital and hope he will soon re- cover.
 The Westerns train B. due here at 9:20 last night. will arrive at 7:3O this morn ing. being a little over ten hours late. The cause of this delay is explained by the fact that the Southern train. due Tn Atlanta at $50 yesterday afternoon was ten hours and fifty minutes late roach ing Atlanta at 1:50 this morning. This train. together with the Western. brings the trans-continental connection from the East to the Louisville and Nashville here and of course the Western had to wait on the Southern. There was a wreck on the Southern somewhere in North Caro- lima and the passenger train of the South ern was behind 1t, the track being block ed
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