The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-26

ular meeting donated the sum of SIS
to the dinner fund.
For several days the officers have been
busy cooking the dinner There will be
| hundreds and hundreds or pounds of roast
turkey and roast beef potatoes. cram
berry sauce. light bread and butter. cakes
pies and fruits served.
| Gadsden. The main line has been located
from Mobile to Florence and the branch
from Tuscaloosa is under survey to Birm-
| ingham, 60 miles The contract for the
| entire line has been let to the Terry g.
Gahagan Construction Company Of re
Wall street, New York, and grading is to
begin as soon as the right of way has
| been secured The road will be built
| chiefly for coal traffic and will have q
maximum grade southbound of six-tenths
per cent and northbound of one pre- cent
Maximum grade. six degrees; weight of
rail, rs pounds. Edward f. Terry, presi-
dent, 70 Wall street; Walter A. Gahagan.
vice president: L. A. May, treasurer, and
Charles B. Bush. secretary; all of 70
Wall street. New York.
r. Montfort. civil engineer of the Louis
| Vile and Nashville, which controls the
I Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern, writes
that the latter company is rebuilding
sixty miles of its line from Knoxville
| south to Etowah, Tenn. The changes
being made are extensive, making prac-
tically new roadbed for the entire dis
tance. Grading is being pushed rapidly
| by w. J. Oliver 8. Co. OF Knoxville, the
| contractors, and tracklaying will prob
ably begin in March next. and will be
completed by July /. The company is al
so grading eighty-seven miles of new
| line extending from Etowah, Tenn, to
Cartersville, Ca, where connection will
be made with the Western Atlantic and
the Seaboard Air Line. This work Is be-
ing done by Wright, Williams &. wadley.
contractors, of Birmingham, Ala Track
| laying will probably begin in May or
June of next year and be- completed be-
| fore the end of 1906. The officers IN
charge of this work are: ]. II. Ellis OF
Knoxville, Tenn, general manager; r.
Montfort, Louisville. KY, civil engineer;
John II. Peyton Madison, Tenn. engineer
| OF construction.
Effective on January 1. Charles s. Fay,
| general freight agent Of the Southern
! Pacific lines in Louisiana, will assume
| the duties OF traffic manager of those
| lines, with headquarters at New Orleans,
retaining his present title. The office OF
traffic manager has been vacant since
| the death of w. II. Masters C. w.
| Owen, division passenger agent at La
| fayette. La. has been appointed assist
ant general freight agent, with office at
New Orleans D. P. Stubs has been ap-
| pointed to succeed Mr.. Owen at Lafay-
cite, and Stewart Maunsell, division
freight agent at New Orleans has been
appointed assistant to the contracting
agent at that point in place of Mr..
| Stubs.
| The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas
Pacific Queen and Crescent Route has
ordered 200 drop-bottom coke cars of co.
900 pounds capacity, of the Western Steel
Car and Foundry company. These cars
J will be 40 feet long. feet II inches wide
| over side stills They will be equipped 1t
/ brakes. Climax couplers. American Steel
Foundry company's holsters. Miner draft
rigging and McCord journal boxes. They
| will be built at Admission, ALI.
Proceedings have been instituted in the
| Unit ed States district court NJ SPRING
| field, ILL., against the Big Four, Southern,
Chicago and Alton, Louisville and Nash
| Vile, Wabash, Illinois Central and the
| Terminal Railroad association of st.
| Louis for alleged failure to provide cars
| with handholds. grab irons, etc. in ac-
| cordance with the provisions of the
| safety appliance law.
| Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pa
ciho Queen and Crescent Route is re-
ported to have ordered seventeen loco
| motives of the American Locomotive
| company This line was reported In the
| market recently for five consolidation en-
| gines, and the Alabama Great Southern
for eight consolidation, three switch and
one passenger locomotives.
F. NJ Pittman. chief clerk in the Office
Of G. G. Thompson. IT,. division freight
agent of the Southern Railway. Is at mis-
home near Atlanta spending the holidays.
/ Lee Clary, general agent of the freight
department OF the Louisville ana Nash
Vile railroad, is in Cincinnati spending
the holidays with his relatives and
friends
George E. Herring. Florida passenger
agent Of the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road. was in the city Saturday route
to Memphis to spend the holidays with
relatives.