The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-30
BOOM AT BAY ANNETTE
NEW RAILROAD TO BE BUILT TO
 MAGNOLIA STRINGS.
Line is to Reach the Rich Truck Gardening and Fruit Growing District of Baldwin.
 County.

By the construction of railroad from Bay Minette to Magnolia Springs, Baldwin County. the first named town Is expected to experience boom.
 Bay Minette is located on the Mobile and Montgomery division of the Louis- vile and Nashville Railroad, 155 miles south of Montgomery and twenty-five miles north of Mobile. The town has already attained considerable notoriety growing out of the transaction in court houses of Baldwin County. This page in the history of the town. however. will pale into insignificance in the light of the new railroad. ''
 Between Bay Minette and Fort Nor gan is a tract of just about the most adaptable fruit and truck growing country in the United States. In order to develop this section, encourage the fruit and truck industry and inciden- | tally to handle the products railroad will be built from Bay Minette to Magnolia Springs. The road Will De thirty seven miles long, terminating at Magnolia Springs. but the indications are that eventually 1t will be extended about thirty miles further, terminating | in the vicinity of Fort Morgan. T. F. Hamm, a Chicago capitalist, | Is president of the road. He owns large proportion of the land through which the survey has been made. G. W. Oliver of Chattanooga, Tenn, has l been awarded the contract for grading the thirty-seven miles, the Louisville and Nashville Company laying the rail. The contract calls. for completion in February, 1905, that they will be able l to handle the fruit and truck crop next season.
 Yesterday the real estate immediately ] surrounding the station at Bay Minette i was filtered with scrapers and other grading paraphernalia, and early next week work will begin on the new road | and will be continued in rush until | February. Of course this means a proportionate | enlargement of railroad space at Bay Minette, and Master of Trains Mizell said yesterday that work on these inn l provements will begin at once. new | depot adequate for the use of both roads will be built, and about seven | switch and house tracks will be put in. l Bay Minette is booked for the part | of a metropolis.
 | Bettering the Dining Service.
 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has made several important Improvements
 
 small yearly profit and creating not too large deficit in order to give a very much better service. The system has twenty five dining cars in daily use and seven of them have been built | within the last two years, averaging in cost about $20, 900 each. Within the past few months the wages of the stewards have been increased and pre- mium placed on good service and atten- A1t AI,A La.o been employed. whose sole duty 1t is to inspect the kitchens and instruct the | cooks in their work. The new system has been effective for several months. with the result that the service Is greatly improved and the receipts larger.
 Pamphlet on Coach Ventilation.
 An interesting pamphlet has just been published by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. showing the ex- haustive experiments that have been conducted with a view of bettering the ventilation of passenger coaches Charles B. Dudley. Ph., D.. chemist of the Pennsylvania, Is the author and he has set forth in full. yet simple, style the problems that confronted the scientists to whom the experiment was given over and the various schemes that were tried before the present sys- ! tenn was adopted. The nnal results are those used on all the regular coaches of the Pennsylvania Railroad and on all the new ones being built, or rebuilt for the lines west
 Want sound Men for Employees.
 At the next meeting of the Amerl- can Railway Association, the safety ap- pliance committee will recommend that employment fin the operating depart ment of railroads be made dependent | upon a rigid physical examination After employment. periodical examina- tions are to be recommended. and there will be a requirement. that the em- ployes shall keep up to the physical standard. While the recommendations of the committee will create considera- ble discussion. it is believed that they will be approved by the association, as many railroad officials have been con- sidering this method of raising the physical standard of the operating em- ployes.
 The big negro excursion that came up from Pensacola Tuesday returned ha