The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-18
RAILROAD WORLD.

Railroad companies are calling the at tention of agents and shippers to a rule that has been in existence for several years, which requires system cars to be used for loads destined for points on their own system. When traffic is light this rule is not enforced but in the fall and winter the companies feel constrained to protect themselves as far as possible. It has always been the custom when prac- tcable for foreign line cars to take loads going in the direction of the home road.
 C. s. McManus, general superintendent western district of the Southern railway, and staff will take up their new quarters in the Woodward building on Monday. The office furniture and fixtures will arrive here from Chattanooga on Monday morning, three cars being needed to make the removal. Teams have already been engaged to transfer the effects, and the office force will arrive today.
 The work on the new yards of the Southern railway at North Birmingham IS DtlflB puSHtU dS IdplQly dS PooSiDiS. It will be remembered that about hum dred acres were purchased in North Bir- mingham to meet the growing demand for more facilities. 1t was impossible to extend the present yard as 1t was hemmed in by city property; hence the ne cessity of the present arrangements. The grading has not yet been finished but it is thought that track laying will com mence in the near future.
 J. W. Richardson, chief clerk to Su
 perintendent M. M. Richey, with his wife and family have gone to Chicago on a ten days visit to their old home. J. w. Moore Is acting as chief clerk in MT
 Richardson's absence.
 In the course of the annual address be- fore the American association of general passenger and ticket agents, MT. Warren J. Lynch of the Big Four said: Within a few month the gates of a great exposition will be thrown open at St. Louis to ceie- brate the purchase of an immense terri tory, within the borders of which we have been so royalty entertained. To express in tiugures the number of people whom It IS expected will attend the exposition is a useless task, but when we say that every being who attend the exposition will be dependent to a greater or less extent on the gentlemen here present, and the inter- | ests represented by them we have visible | tangible subject to contemplate But the | travel to this exposition, enormous as 1t will be. exceeding as it undoubtedly will any movement in the past, is only an item in the flood of duties which confront us. | All the commercial travel the local travel,
 the convention travel and tourist bus mess and the thousand and one items in
 adition which go to make up our earnings, are to be taken care of, and the question
 at once arises: Are we ready? Have We grown as fast as the business, and have ! we developed as rapidly as the earning I capacity of the interests under our
 charger If the answer is not in the af- frmative, the passenger men of this coun- 1 try have suffered their first defeat.
 [ The passenger business is, of course,
 a matter of evolution. The business itself
 and the principles governing it have l grown up under the stress of daily emer- gency, and ofttimes in the glare of the l hercest competition. It is to the credit i of the gentlemen who inaugurated and 1 developed our underlying rules and prac-
 tices that they have proven sufficiently
 elastic to take care of business of such | rapid growth. But while preserving and
 cherishing all the good that has come to | us from the past we must not hesitate l to abandon precedents which have out lived their usefulness, or to adopt new practices which may be warranted by
 our more modern development"
 MT. Lynch dwelt upon the evils of | ticket scalping and ticket forgeries, and
 said that the frauds discovered and the { criminal practices under which railroads
 are robbed constituted an indictment of
 the passenger men and a most severe con-
 demnation of the entire present system of
 railroad tickets and ticket printing
 Washington dispatch says experi- ments are being made on the elevated electric railway of Berlin, with view of