The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-25

\ slight freight wreck on the Rldoihia
Great Southern railroad at cottondale
Saturday afternoon delayed traffic for a
few hours Three coal cars were de-
rallied. but the damage was slight Three
coal cars were also derailed at Blossbure
on the Southern railway Saturday after
noon.
The ago-Florida limited which
passes through birmingham daily on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad will
begin the use next month of the hand
some passenger station in Chicago on La
Sale street, which was recently COM
pleted. AT present the train uses the
Dearborn street station. The new sta
ton is more centrally located with re-
gard 70 the business section. The Frisco
system has made arrangements for this
change since it acquired control of the
Chicago and Eastern illinois, The Rock
Island. the Nickel Plate and the Lake
Shore use the new station at present.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
Louis railroad reports an unusually
heavy movement of grain. The fertilizer
movement and the live stock movement
continues very heavy over this as well as
other lines from the west
The matter of establishing a down
town ticket office in Birmingham is still
being agitated and it is thought the
railroads will take some action relative
to the matter in the near future. All
agree that a down town office where
tickets to all points could be sold would
greatly relieve the present congested
condition at the Union passenger station.
The Texas railroad commission has
issued orders reducing the passenger fare
for children on railroads in that state
from cents per mile to IL cents per
mills. The excess baggage rate has been
reduced by the commission from 10 per
cent of the ticket rate to II per cent. 1t
is said the reduction will cause a de-
crease of revenue to the passenger de-
partments of the Texas roads aggregat-
ing 100000 each year.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
| is receiving on the st. Louis DIVISION
preparatory to handling the heavy
worlds fair passenger traffic a number
of large ten-wheel passenger engines.
special from Chicago says: The last
vestge of the eastern pass agreement
was wiped out today, when passes ar
rived for local officials from the New
York Central and the Pennsylvania and
! Lake Shore railroads. To make it more
certain that the last link had been
broken. some the Lake Shore passes are
good ON the Twentieth Century limited,
a concession heretofore unthought of.
Free transportation is now on PRACTICAL
~ the same basis as it was three years
ago. The other roads have found it inn
| possible to withstand the force back of
the entering wedge put in by the Erie
when it sent exchange passes good over
the entire system. All the eastern roads
have now followed suit
The Savannah Morning News in speak
| ing OF the promotion of T. S. Noise to be
general superintendent of the Central OF
! Georgia railway says:
THE office to which Mr.. Noise has been
appointed was abolished at the time that
the late Captain T. d. Kline was made
general manager, and other offices were
created, that of general superintendent of
transportation, which until yesterday was
held by Mr.. Noise, and assistant to the
| general manager, which was filed by Mr..
| Il. s. Jette.
Upon the death of the general manager
the office of assistant lapsed and now
that of general superintendent of trans
| portation is abolished in the revival of
| the old offices of general superintendent
| and superintendent of transportation.
| Despite the fact that the office that has
been held by Mr.. Jette has been abolished
| that gentleman will be taken care of by
| the management and will remain in Sd
| vannah.
MIR. Noise has been connected with the
| Central road for some eighteen years. He
| came to Savannah some five years ago as
superintendent of the First division, hav-
| ing been transferred from similar posi-
ton on the Fourth division, with head
| quarters at Columbus He remained d.
vision superintendent until. some two
months ago, when in the various changes
| that followed the resignation of Mr.. John
| NJ Eagan as president he was made gen.
| eral superintendent of transportation. Mr..
| Noise is a thorough railroad man. is ia
miliar with every division on the Gem
| trail, and his friends are satisfied that
he will conduct the affairs of the new
| office with the same success that he has
| displayed in his former position.
| Mr.. j. r. Johnson. In his railroad OK
| perience, has almost followed in the footf
steps of Mr.. Noise, in that he was super
| intendent of the Fourth division. then of
| the First division, of which he took
charge a month or two ago, and is now
in position very similar, though of lesser
| Importance, to that formerly held by Mr..
| Noise.
This now leave the place Of superin-
| tendent of the First division open. It
will be filled shortly. and by the transfer
of the superintendent of some other divis-
| ion. Formerly such transfers have been
made from the Fourth division, but it is
| hardly probable that such precedence Will
/, be followed in this case, because of the
| fact that the superintendent Of the Fourth
diviSian has buf rpcantlV boan placed in