The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-13
MANY R. R. MEN ID COME THIS WEEK R. R. Commissioners ASSocia- ton Convenes on Tuesday IN SESSION SEVERAL DAYS Southern Land and Industrial Agents Meet Next Wednesday-TimeIy Dis
 cusslons-Traveling Passenger
 Agents Convention.
N SESSION SEVERAL DAYS

1 IdHrodu WoFlu, anu thS PioSA"' N clude number of interesting subjects which will be discussed.
 On Tuesday the sixteenth annual con- ventlon of the National Association Of Railroad Commissioners will convene and be in session three days. The meeting will be opened by an address of welcome by Mayor Drennen, and immediately after his address the regular programme will be :. taken up and the talks on various sub jects heard.
 l When the meeting is over the commits sioners will take a trip for two or three weeks through Mexico. visiting great many points of interest. The attendance on the convention will be very large, as every state in the union is expected to be well represented. All metings of the convention will be held in the city hall
 The Association of Southern Land and Industrial Agents will meet Wednesday and Thursday Much business of impor- tance is to be transacted at these meet ings.
 Among other entertainments to be fur nished the visitors will be trolley ride on special trains through the suburbs and the principal industrial sections Of the city and county, as reached by the car lines. The Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company has had print ed an attractive pass book containing twenty-four complimentary tickets to be given to the members of the two assoei- ations coming here this week. On one of the covers Is a picture of Vulcan, now accepted all over the country as symbolic of Birmingham and this district.
 Local travelling passenger agents are greatly interested in the thirty-second an- nua1 convention of the American Associa- ton of Travelling Passenger agents which meets in the City of Mexico in December. C. H. Morgan, representative of the Tex as and Pacific and Frank Griffiths, of the Frisco. will attend, and possibly others from Birmingham
 The special train with the agents will leave St. Louis on December 3, and it will be entertained by the following roads before returning to St. Louis on Decem- Der 21: Missouri Kansas and Texas Southern Pacific: Mexican International;
 
 raidroad.
 The Itinerary is as follows:
 St. Louis. December 3: SansAntonio and Eagles Pass, December 5l Zacarecas, De- cember 6; Agnascalientes, December T; Marfil and side trip to a point of in- terest. December 8; Guadalijara, Decem- Der g; City of Mexico and surrounding points of interest, 10 to IT; San Luis Pa tasi, December IS; Monterey, December 19; and St. Louis, December, H.
 The inspection party of the A. G. S., left yesterday morning for Chattanooga on a special train. after having inspected the tracks and general condition of the road bed on the Birmingham division Before leaving the various officials ex- pressed great satisfaction on the the condition of things found on this divis- ion.
 C. F. Fegan, assistant general passen- ger agent of the Texas and Pacific rail- road accompanied by John H. Word, southeastern passenger agent for the road, with headquarters in Atlanta. passed through Birmingham yesterday. | days in New York, and was en route to Dallas. where his headquarters are To- cated.
 The Alabama Great Southern railroad sold nearly 800 tickets from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham Thursday night and yes- terday on account of the football game yesterday afternoon. There were 290 of the school boys on the trains yesterday morning and at noon, and others had all ready arrived the day before. | The Central of Georgia ran a special train into Birmingham yesterday to bring the Auburn supporters to the city It was in charge of L. A. Camp T. P. A., at Co., lumbus, Ga. The Alabama Great Southern had a number of extra coaches on it's northbound trains to accommodate the rooters and also extra coaches to carry them back last night.
 George R. Browder, assistane general freight agent of the Southern road, with headquarters in Atlanta, was in the city yesterday. He was accompanied by J. B. Davis. his private secretary. MT. Browder was formerly division freight agent with headquarters in Birmingham. He Is q most popular railroad man and has large number of friends in the city.
 John w. Wood, travelling passenger agent of the Queen and Crescent with headquarters in Meridian, was in the city yesterday. He has a number of friends here. and he spent much of the day calling on them.
 J. A. C1ates, travelling agent of the Mallory Steamship line with headquar- ters in Mobile spent yesterday in Bir- bingham looking after the lines busl- ness here He states that travel is heavy on his line. and that it is rapidly pick | ing up.
 The Southern and Louisville and Nash l ville railroads are both making extra pre- l parations for accommodating the con- federate ve,erans and others who are to attend the reunion at Mobile this week. The Louisville and Nashville will have a special sleeper attached to it's regular train going south tomorrow morning at 1 s:33 o'clock and a second sleeper will | be picked Gp at Calera, where a number | of veterans will go to catch it. The Southern expects to have heavy travel | out of Selma, Unontown, Demopolis and Marion. and special train will be run