The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-20
RAILROAD WORLD.

RAILROAD WORLD. }I
 An official statement of the enormous passenger business handled at the St. Louis union terminal station during the Louisiana Purchase exposition period shows the following figures: Total num- Der of trains, 91.56O; cars, 45I6S; daily average, 4s6 passenger trains; 2lSO cars. During September and October the daily average was about 52O trains and 2eO0 cars. In some instances as high as eighty four trains were handled in the station in sixty minutes. Pieces of baggage han dled 1,7ss.o .ooo.
 About 10,000,00O people is the estimate for the whole season. Tickets sold s47 TIC, amounting to $3.2s92s2. As all visitors to the fair held round trip tickets, and as all railroads have downtown ticket of fees. the above sales, which are an in- crease of about 100 per cent can be bet tel appreciated. About so per cent of all this business was handled during the hours from a. m. to g a. m., and from D. m. to p. m.
 Officials of the Atlantic and Birming- ham. which recently came into possession . of the Brunswick and Birmingham, are spending upwards of s10O0OO in rebuilding portions of the latter line. Several changes of alignment have been made be- tween Nichols and Offerman, Ga; ter- minals at Brunswick have been improved, and several small shops built in that .,agIo been completed to Montezuma, Ga, which is south of Macon. This is more than half way to Birmingham Besides this the road has a branch to Thomas vile, eighty miles long, and another from Waycross to Nichols, twenty-nines miles, It is reaching towards Birmingham, the proposed route being through Talla- dega.
 L. J. Skarry, who for the past year has been chief train dispatcher of the Nash vile division of the Louisville and Nesh- vile railroad, resigned Friday, and A. w. Brant was selected to succeed him.
 Mir Bryant has been an operator in the office of the chief dispatcher for sev eral years. and is one of the best mon who could have been selected to All the vacancy. MT. Bryant was stationed at Co., lumbia before coming to Nashville.
 MT. Skarry will probably go to Louis vile.
 The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad will be held at the companys of fees in Mobile Wednesday for the pur- pose of naming the board of directors President Byrd M. Robinson, F, M, Stail- so, II. ". swayzer and w. D. Stfatf6n arrived there yesterday from New York and will remain to attend the meeting. The road is completed from Mobile to Bolivar, Tenn.
 The Alabama Great Southern, of the Queen and Crescent route, has made a wonderful showing in the past two months in it's Birmingham passenger business. For the month of November the percentage of increase in business over the same month last year was 24.2 and for the first two weeks of this month the increase has been SS per cent over the first two weeks of last year. Such an increase indicates healthful and progressive business conditions in Birmingham, not only as city, but also as a railroad center. It is hardly prob able that any other city on the Queen and Crescent routes shows anything like the same percentage of increase. | H. B. Crawford superintendent of Co., lumbus division of the Central of Georgia railroad was in Birmingham yesterday. | He pays weekly visits to the city to look after the terminals here He also pur- chases the coal used by the Central, prae- tlcally all of which is mined in the Bir- mingham district.
 R. M. Ellis, who was formerly travel | ing passenger agent of the Alabama Great Southern railroad, with headuuar- | ters in Birmingham, arrived yesterday l from Boston to spend the holidays with his friends. He is now district manager of the American Tobacco company, with headquarters in Boston. He was one of
 the best known railroad men in the south, and all through this section he
 was familiarly called ''Rube." | C. Il. MoFBdIl, IrdV~ilIlB passenger aBonl
 of the Texas and Pacific in Birmingham, will return today from his trip to Mex leo, with the National Association of Travelling Passenger Agents, which held it's annual meeting in the City of Mexico. | A telegram was received from him yes | terday as follows:
 Me and Christmas are en route. Don | tell anybody we are coming. Nothing but Mexican money left"
 | John W. Wood, travelling passenger agent of the Queen and Crescent route at Meridian, was in the city yester- day.
 S. F. Cowan, commercial agent of the Central of Georgia railway, will leave the latter part of this week for Richmond, where he will spend the Christmas holi- days.
 J. c. Armstead, travelling freight agent of the Alabama Great Southern, with headquarters in Birmingham, will leave this week to spend the Christmas holi- days with his relatives and friends in Richmond.
 F. M. Wallace. travelling freight agent of the Frisco at Kansas City was in Birmingham yesterday.
 M. M. Richey. who is a member of the board of control of the new passenger