The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-08

Sam c. Porter, traveling freight agent of the Big Four, returned to the city yesterday.
 Clinton Franklin, travelling freight agent of the Kansas City Southern, with headquarters in St. Louis. was here yes terday.
 J. W. White, general industrial agent of the Seaboard Air Line, with head quarters in Portsmouth, Va, was here yesterday.
 R. McC Smith, southern passenger agent of the Grand Trunk, who is in charge of the free art exhibit the Grand Trunk is carrying on in the city hall, said yesterday:
 Birmingham seems pleased with our exhibit. Although it has been raining steadily all day we have had nearly a thousand visitors and they were the kind of people I like to see come, too. Up to 8 o'clock today we had had more visitors than we had during the entire two days we were in Atlanta.
 "Our officials are very much pleased with this method of advertising. Last year the business of the Grand Trunk increased 12 Der cent over the year be- fore which was Pan American year. Since we started this exhibit five sea- sons ago the business of the road has increased 100 per cent"
 Concerning the election of directors Of the Frisco, held in St. Louis Thursday, the Clobe- Democrat says:
 President Yoakum is at present in New York and the election was conducted in the presence of Vice Presidents Douglas and Beggs, General Solicitor Parker and Secretary and Treasurer Hamilton. The Seligman directors, 1t will be seen, are re- tired and what was known as the Selig- man bond syndicate is dissolved. Mir. Porter on the new board represents the Eastern Illinois interests: MT Henderson is the Frlscos general counsel in New York, and MT. Joseph s. Ford represents New York banking interests. MT. Full ton of this city is connected with the general managers department. Commer- eiai building The Frisco board meetings are held in New York and all the impor- stant matters are conducted there, but the statutory meeting of directors will take place in this city March 10.
 New York dispatch to the same paper says:
 The elimination of the so-called Selig- man interests from the board of direc- tors of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway company at the annual meeting of that company In St. Louis today was expected. It was reported in Wall street today that MT. Bixby was selected be- cause of his interests in the Pere Mar o,lette.. deal between which road and the Frisco has been rumored for some | time. An officer of the Frisco company was quoted, however, as saying that this was an error, and that MT. Bixby was elected because he represents, large inter- l ests in the Frisco, and 1t can be officially stated that the Frisco has no interest in 1 the Pere Marquette"
 The suggestion was made In Wall street that the inclusion of Messrs. Ford and Fulton in the board of directors might possibly indicate an understanding that the personnel of the board is to be changed at later date. The result of the election disposes of reports that repre- sentatives of J. P. Morgan & Co. were to be elected as directors.
 The New York Commercial says: None of the four new directors are in any way representative of the Morgan interest, though it is pretty we'll under stood that Morgan men Will take their places on the board in the course of time. The rest of the board is as follows: James A Blair. James Campbell. E. C. Hender- son. H. C. Pierce, E. F. Yoakum. B. P.