The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-16
RAILROAD WORLD.

The monthly report of the Car Service association has been made public. The amount of cars handled in the dis trict during September was 61,093, a marked increase of more than 10000 over the month of August The exact number of cars handled by the different roads is as follows:
 Alabama Great Southern railroad, 5017, Alabama and vieksburg railway, 157; Att lantic Coast Line railroad, 925; Birming. ham and Atlantic railroad, AIS; Birming- ham Belt railroad. 7s4; Central of Georgia railway, 1172; Chattanooga Southern rail- road 1o5; Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line railroad, 1853; Frisco system, 1537; Illi- nois Central railroad, Ii: Louisville and Nashville railroad, 26.SS4; Mobile and Ohio railroad, 41O7; Mobile and Bay Shore rail road. 11S Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis railway. 736: New Orleans and Northeastern railroad, 42 North Ala bama railway, ISIS: seaboard Air Line railway, 137; Southern railway, 15,0S4; Western Railway of Alabama, 907; Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad, 525. grand total 61,093
 The movement of pig iron handled dur ing the month was much less than in some months previous and this increase in the number of cars bespeaks prosperous ac- tivity in other branches. The returns for the present month will probably show great increase on the corresponding month of last year as all the yards pre-. sent an unusual scene of activity.
 The Pacific Express company has rent ed offices and will erect elsewhere in Gin cinnati depots and stables and be ready for business when the new Gould line, known as the Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville railway, begins running into Cincinnati next month. A. II. Singer, formerly local manager of the United States Express company, will be the agent here of the Pacific express. This settles the question as to who is back of the new railway about completed be- tween Chicago and Cincinnati and soon to be built to Louisville.
 General Passenger Agent Hilton of the Frisco system yesterday issued a circular announcing that effective November 1, Mir. J. c. Lovrien is appointed assistant general passenger agent with headquar- ters at Kansas City, Mo-, vice MT. James Donohue, resigned. MT. Lovrien is di- vision passenger agent at Joplin, and has been connected with the Frisco passenger department for several years. The pro- motion is well merited in every way.
 Assistant General Passenger Agent J. M. Chesbrough of the Vandalia yesterday announced that Charles c. Trueb is ap- pointed travelling passenger agent, with headquarters at Logansport, Ind, vice Charles w Hartman. resigned, to accept service with Pennsylvania lines. MT. Trueb will give direct attention to the Terre Haute and Logansport and the Lo- gansport and Toledo lines and the Pe- oria territory The passenger agency at Peoria is abolished.
 Lew W. Price, travelling passenger agent of the Frisco, is to succeed MT. Lovrien in Joplin as division passenger agent. and is to take charge at once.
 A dispatch from New Orleans dated October 13 states:
 Forty-fve general passenger agents reached New Orleans tonight over the Illinois Central to attend the convention of the American Association of General Passenger agents. The special on which they came consisted of five Pullmans, a buffet dining car and an observation car, all new equipment The distance between Memphis and Canton, Miss, 1S9 miles, was run in 1S7 minutes, including the time consumed In one stop. A second special will reach New Orleanse tomorrow over the Queen and Crescent, bringing in the eastern agents. Several cars will also come in over the Louisville and Nash vile.
 The Memphis Scimitar says: Two im- portant changes in the Memphis passer- ger offices of the Rock Island-F Frisco sys- tems, together with others in the offices at Birmingham, Kansas City and other points, will probably occur November 1. They will grow out of the retirement of James Donohue as assistant general freight agent of the Frisco system at Kansas City on that date and the ad- vancement of J. c. Lovrein, division pas senger agent at Joplin, Mo, to MT. Don ohue's position. The changes of MT. Don-