The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-31
RAILROAD WORLD.

1 The changes in the Louisville and Nash vile go into effect tomorrow, and the sew era officials who have been promoted will change their places of residence. B. M starks, general manager, leaves today 1 for Louisville, where his offices are, and l Y. E. Brooks will arrive Monday from Nashville to succeed MT. Starks as super intendent of the South and North and Birmingham Mineral divisions. J. R.
 Wheeler. superintendent of the Nash vlle division, is in Nashville going over the division He will return here today and remain until E. J. Haylow is able to assume the duties of assistant super intendent, vice MT. Wheeler promoted. R. Montfort, chief engineer of the Louis vile and Nashville railroad. was in Bir- mingham yesterday. He left last night for Louisville in his private car No. 1852. He was en route north and stopped over for the day.
 Lee Clary general agent of the Louis vile and Nashville, left yesterday morn ing for Cincinnati to spend New Years with friends and relatives.
 The Queen and Crescent route has is- sued folder with information relative to it's Florida schedules and the winter resorts to which it has through service In connection with the Southern rail way The folder contains some beautiful illustrations showing many familiar southern scenes.
 c. B. Proctor, route agent of the South ern railway in Knoxville, was in the city yesterday.
 A small freight wreck occurred yester- day morning on the A. G. s. at Porter vlle between Birmingham and Chatta- nooga. Seven empty cars were derailed and piled up, but the wreck did not delay traffic a minute. It occurred where there was a side track and the side track was used for all other trains. Superintendent Giggs went to the wreck and superintend- ed the clearing of the track, which was completed in time for the afternoon trains The cause of the accident is not known here.
 W. w. Blakely. who was formerly trav- cling freight agent of the Baltimore and , Ohio in this territory, has been appointed commercial agent at Louisville for the same road. He is well known in Birming- l ham.
 l M M Richey, assistant general super l intendent of the Southern Railway, is in Atlanta attending to some business in
 connection with the opening of the new l passenger station at Madison avenue and | Mitchell street. He is member of the board of control. which has entire charge 1 of the station.
 | Among other things in connection with l the trip was the announcement that J. | D. Patterson, one of the oldest conduc-
 tors in the employe of the Southern, has 1 been appointed station master at Atlanta. | He has run on the Southern as passen- ger conductor between Atlanta and Bir-
 mingham for years and is we'll known. 1 All of the trains on the Southern from | the south and west which originate here 1 or have their connections in Birmingham, will use that station. The Seaboard may | also use it when its passenger business
 is started.
 l w. c. Rinearson, general passenger l agent of the Queen and Crescent route, will be in Birmingham Monday or Tues
 day to confer with the Commercial club
 railroad committee relative to some im-
 provements that his line has to suggest ] in reference to Birmingham The nature 1 of the improvements are unknown, but ] it is stated from a reliable source that
 they will be of great practical benefit
 to the city. It is also probable that
 other officials of the same road will be
 in Birmingham on the same day relative to the projected improvement.
 The various railroad officials in Birmingham are busy now distributing
 the annual passes for those in this dis
 trct who are entitled to them. Several
 hundred annual tickets have to pass
 through the representatives of the vari- ous roads in Birmingham, as on more
 than one of the roads this is the dis
 tributing point for a large territory.
 The 1905 passes go into effect at mid | night tonight and instructions have been issued to the conductors on various roads | to take up the 1904 passes. The number l of annual passes issued by the various roads would surprise those not familiar
 with railroading.