The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-27
RAILROAD WORLD.


 w. J. Fitzsimmons. fuel agent of the Atlantic Coast Line, with headquarters in Savannah, spent yesterday in Rjr- mingham.
 W. F. Greaves of the Cleveland. cin- cinnati. Chicago and St. Louis railway (The Big 4. who has been away for sev- eral days, has returned. MT. Greaves was in Louisville, Cincinnati and St. Louis while absent.
 J. M. Cornatzer, division passenger agent of the Frico system. with head quarters at Memphis, was in the city yesterday.
 Charles E. Bell, commercial agent of the Southern railway with headquarters in Augusta, was in Birmingham yester- day.
 The Chattanooga Times says: Within thirty days a line of steamers establish ed by the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road company will be in operation be- tween Pensacola, Fla. and the most im- portant ports of southern Europe The arrangements for the line of steamers was concluded with the Austro-American Steamship line. The ships that will be used in the service are all new.
 A special from Houston says: The Rice Belt road, chartered to build from Houston to Slnton, via Galveston, Is Yoakum project The company was or ganized some time since, and Ross Clark. a wealthy planter of Calhoun county, was given charge of it. He has made ar engagements with MT. Yoakum to finance the project and the road will make connection at Sinton with the St. Louis. Brownsville and Mexico, and with the Central. The road will give the Rock Island Frisco a straight run into Mexi- co.
 An Austin, Texas. special says: The railroad commission has decided to hold the resolution to instruct the attorney general to file suit against the Rock Island for forfeiture of its Texas charter until the injunction case now pending in the Federal court at Fort Worth against the commission is disposed of.
 c. c. Harvey. president and general manager of the New Orleans and North eastern railroad, was in Birmingham yes- terday in his private car. He was ac- companied by D. D. Curran, the general superintendent of the road.
 MT. Harvey said that he was not here on any particular business. but more than anything else to see certain old friends and to get away from his office for few days of relaxation. He ex- pressed great interest in the arbitration that has just been held between the miners and the operators, and expressed a hope that matters in the district would now settle down to hard work, and that all parties would be prosperous. He says that New Orleans is delightful summer resort and Is all right fin the winter
 The following Is from the St. Louis Democrat:
 As yet there Is no special connection between the Seaboard Air Line and the Frisco Rock Island system, and will not be until the Birmingham line is com pleted The Frisco reaches Birmingham over the Kansas City, Memphis and Bir mingham. The Frisco-Rock Island will, of course, be benefited by control of the Seaboard Air Line on account of the lat ter's seaboard terminals and outlets for export freight. It will also have lipes into the cotton manufacturing district for Its traffic in provisions. while 1t will probably secure a considerable business in not only raw cotton, but cloth, to- bacco and other southern staples. which have found a market west of the Mis- sissippi. By far the greatest advantage of the combination Is that the Rock Island system gets into Birmingham. and is able to get a large portion of the traf- fic of the Birmingham territory. In se- curing the Seaboard 1t not only obtains the backbone of the system between Richmond and Atlanta, but several side lines which could well be dispensed with. Of these the Carolina Central represents about 8, COG. 900 of the bonded debt, and is one of the most unproftable lines of the group. for its only practical benefit is It's southern terminus at Wilmington, N. C. The line between Savannah and Montgomery, Ala. represents over s6.000.- 000 of the company's indebtedness. It traverse a very sparseIy settled region, and it's local traffic is inconsiderable. The probabilities are that the entire system will ultimately be reorganized as to management and it may be decided to cut off some of the dead weight In the for,,, of o,naII I,rorrboo ouarota1 n