The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-28
RAILROAD WORLD.

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 The Central of Georgia has been called upon to pay a tax in Georgia upon it's | S1, 100000 of Western Alabama stock. but proposes to fight it out in the courts. An- other road. the Georgia. dla SC. and was beaten. the case being carried to the United States supreme court The Central of Georgia. which Is owned by J. P. Morgan & Co., does business and conducts it's affairs upon a basis dute different from that governing other railroad com panies, and this probably explains why the experience of the Georgia is not re- garded as q precedent Tn this peculiar transaction.
 The Railway World says:
 The Mississippi railroad commission has prepared a new circular to be posted in railroad waiting rooms throughout the state, in which rules and regulations pre- scrlblng the operation of trains, duties of employees. and other regulations, are set forth.
 One of the new clauses provides that 1t shall be the duty of all railroads op- erating passenger trains within the state  adjustable or portable step or stool to be placed by them for the use of passengers getting on or off the cars. In all cases where the elevation to the lowest step is greater than twelve inches.
 It is also ordered that all railroads op- erating in Mississippi shall provide two or more passenger cars for each passen- ger train, or shall divide the passenger 1 to aanarafQ r- commodations for the white and colored
 races. as provided by law And every railroad passenger conductor shall assign
 each passenger to the car, or the car
 used for the race to which the passenger
 belongs, and he shall not permit either race to unnecessarily pass through the [ cars or compartment provided for the
 other, nor permit either in any case to
 use the toilets or closets provided for tnf other Every breach of this rule will Pe
 construed as a wilful violation thersof
 and punishable as such.
 Clause 20 of the circular orders every
 railroad operating in the state to provide
 q glass from which to drink, at each
 drinking fountain, cooler, or provision
 made for carrying water. in every pas
 senger waiting room, and on every tram
 carrying passengers. The use or uh'
 
 slls other than glass by them for drink
 ing purposes for passengers is prohibited.
 Chairman Mcleod of the Western pas
 senger association yesterday wired from
 Chicago to the Frisco management rel
 ative to the Chicago-st. Louis passenger
 rates. stating that the Thanksgiving holi-
 day intervening had delayed the matter
 of submitting the Frseo's rate proposi-
 ton to the competing lines. He asked
 that no preclpitate action be taken by
 the Frisco looking to the adoption of the reduced rates between the the two cities until the chairman had called the inter- ested lines together The Frisco man !, r agement replied that in the opinion of It's | executive officers ample opportunity had 9 been given to the other Chieago-St. Louis e lines to restore the day schedul to eight Q hours and that in the absence of any s assurance that the schedule would Dc
 lengthened out, the Frisco would place . the reduced rates in effect on Monday. j. The rates will undoubtedly be met by e the Alton the Wabash and the Illinois t Central, and in that event 1t Is expected , that upon three days notice as required ' by the Western passenger traffic agree
 rnent the Frisco will announce . rate 8 of sl each way between Gnleaso ana n St. Louis and will at once put in ~ tounu- e trip rate of S2 between the two cities.
 The reduced rates to go into effect on . Monday over the Frisco as follows; d One way rate in both directions, Chi s cago-St Louis. s5 round trip rate, good }. in coaches s5 round-trlp rate m all n classes of equipment, sLooi tickets to pc t good on all trains.
 h IT. L. Mcconnell. president of the Amer
 ican banana company. building a rail- s road into the interior from Gadocan, Pan- Q anna, returned to Mobile yesterday from e that point. He says that work is pro- . crossing rapidly on the road and trains
 will be running in six months. This com f pany has been incorporated for three , quarters of a million of dollars.
 There is a demand for empty freight cars from all the lines in the south. and
 every available car is being utilized. The shipment of cotton Is being rushed ana such commodities lumber and freights of lesser classification are being kept. to
 some extent. in the background. The locomotive testing plant established
 and operated by the Pennsylvania rail-
 road system in the Transportation build
 ing at the Worlds Fair made remark
 able record Thanksgiving day. The loco
 motive on the testing plant wns one of
 the latest designs. known as the Cole four-cylnder balanced compound. Tho
 first test was run continuously for two
 hours at a speed of flfty-seven miles per hour The second test continued for an i, hour and half at speed of sixty-six 2 lniler per hour. The third test was for a full hour at the remarkable speed of . seventy-five miles. The drawbar pull was
 equivalent to load of five of the heav- lest Pullman cars-the number of revo- . lutions per minte, 32o
 . party of the local officials of the 5 seaboard went up the road to. Coal City. , thirty-nine miles from Birmingham. yes- terday morning and returned last night :. The Seaboard was just opened through 0 from Birmingham to Atlanta on Friday,
 and the party went over this end of the line to inspect it. The party travelled in