The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-22
NEW COAST LINE TRAIN
THE SERVICE WAS INAUaURAT-
 ED YESTERDAY.
Southeastern Alabama People May Now Come to Montgomery in Morning and Return to
 Home at Night.

For the first time in many months the people of Abbeville, and that section of Henry county, and Elba and all that part of Coffee county have the railroad ser- vice with Montgomery, that they deserve. The same holds good as regards the towns of Troy, Ozark. Dothan and the different towns on the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line.
 At 10:3o o'clock yesterday morning train puffed into the shed at the union railway station filled with people from Abbeville. Elba. Enterprise, Ozark. Doth an, Troy and Luverne. This was train 4b. Captain Jim Bowden in charge. the hrst train under the new service fnaugurated by the Coast Line. It left Dothan yester- day morning at SIS o'clock At o'clock in the morning a train steamed out Of the thriving town of Abbeville and landed its passengers at Abbevilie Junction at s:25 o'clock in time to connect with the train that had left Dothan at 6:15 train left Abbeville another train pulled out of Elba and landed its passengers at the Elba Junction in time to connect with the train from Dothan..
 At 6 o'clock yesterday morning a train left Luverne. connecting with the Dothan train at Sprague Junction, and at 10:3o o'clock No. 45, the Dothan train, reach- ed Montgomery with people from Henry. Coffee. Pike, Crenshaw ana the southwest ern part of Montgomery counties.
 At { o'clock yesterday afternoon this train. now No. A. left Montgomery on the return trip. the Luverne train meet ing 1t at Sprague Junction at 4:45 o'clock and at o'clock reached Luverne.
 The people of Luverne, Rutiedge and stations along the line of the Luverne branch now leave their homes at o'clock in the morning. arrive in Montgomery al 10:30 o'clock. spend the day shopping and attending to their business in the city and get back to their homes by o'clock that night.
 At 6 o'clock yesterday evening the peo. pie of Troy who had left their homes al s:So o'clock yesterday morning were in their homes after a day spent in Mont gomery, and the Ozark people who had left their homes at o'clock yesterday morning were back at 7:S0 o'clock last night.
 At s:2o last night train was waiting at Elba Junction when No. A arrived. leaving for the Coffee county metropolis immediately, and the people who had left Elba at o'clock yesterday morning were back in their homes at 9:30 o'clock last night after a day In Montgomery. A train was waiting at Abbeville Junction and at 9S0 o'clock the people of Abbeville were eating late suppers in their own homes. At S:3o o'clock the train steamed i%o Dothan with the people who had left there at 6:l5 o'clock yesterday morning. And the first run was at an end.
 Besides being a great convenience to the people living in the various towns men, toned 1t Is a big thing for the merchants of Montgomery, wholesale as well as re- tail. The local travelling men hailed the advent of the new train with delight for they can now leave Montgomery at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. get to Luverne, Elba or Abbeville by supper time, work their territory the next day and get back to Montgomery at 6:15 o'clock the next afternoon.
 The only other change made in the pas- senger schedule of the Coast Line yes- terday was that No. 40. the train that leaves Montgomery at a. m., now leaves ten minutes earlier or at 6:50 a. m.