The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29

The agricultural car of the Frisco sys- tenn will be placed on the southern tracks on Twentieth street and Powell avenue.
 The "Night Before Chrstmas'' Theat- rical company will leave this morning over the Queen and Crescent route for Cincinnati.
 W. P Brawley, travellng passenger agent of the Big Four. with headquarters in Chattanooga, was in the city yester- day.
 Charles W. Petit, traveiing passenger agent of' the Erie railroad. with offices at Nashville, was In Birmingham yester- day.
 J. c. Lusk, district passenger agent of the Southern railway. will leave for Mis- sissippi today.
 The eighteen new naval recruits will
 leave this morning at s:lo over the South
 ern railway for the east.
 There Is great demand for transpor- tation to the Pacific coast. It was stated i. yesterday that the past week had been l partment, augmented by the fact that the northwest tourist rates expire on the last day of November.
 A special to the New York Commercial from Memphis says:
 The report which was circulated some time ago to the effect that the Louisville and Nashville is to shorten it's road be- tween Nashville and St. Louis about seventy five miles has been renewed with unusual vigor. Now 1t Is said that. fn- stead of double tracking between the points named. the Louisville and Nash vile proposes to get another line between Nashville and St. Louis which will give 1t the advantage of a double track and entrance at the tame time Into new ter ritory.
 The report Is to the effect that the Louisville and Nashville will build line from Hygeia Springs, Tenn, on the Hen derson division between Guthrie, Ky, and Nashville, to Clarksville. Tenn. Then short gap between Princeton and Shaw neetown. Ky. Is to be filled fin. Sur veyors have recently been in the terri tory, and one of the engineers Is author ity for the statement that such a line is contemplated.
 A special dispatch to the New York Commercial Advertiser says:
 A suBHestlVe renectlOn or tho generally recognized importance of southern ports In American commerce is given in a study in this weeks issue of the Manufacturers Record of the imports and exports at those ports together with the figures ot their respective populations. in, compari- son with similar facts about other ports of the country. The south is now actual ly producing in the neighborhod of 70 per cent of the total exports of the country. although 1t embraces but about 90 per cent of the total area of the country, and contains less than one-third of the popu- lation. During the past fiscal year. too. southern ports handled more than & per cent of the total exports of the coun- try, while of the s3s. 41s.613 increase in tha value of exports over the preceding year $35, ,342 395 was at southern ports. It is thus seen that the south is doing much more per capita in the production of material for American commerce and In the handling of 1t than Is the rest of the country. When comparison is made of individual ports upon similar basis. using the latest figures available of popu- lation. those of 1900. and of commerce., those of 1903 the striking exhibit of southern ports in comparison with those of the rest of the country is made.