The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-17
Superintendent of [. & N. Gets
Merited Promotion
HAS EXCELLENT CAREER
Started With the I. & N. In 1876 as
Assistant Agent, and Now He Is
General Manager Of the Road.
Birmingham His Home.


mingham Mineral. was promoted to the
position of general manager to succeed
George f. Evans, promoted to fourth
vice president, position which was
created.
The change takes effect January 1, and
on that date Mr., Starks will remove his
headquarters to Louisville AS yet the
matter of his successor has not been
considered, and there are even few ru-
mors regarding it. No official announce
ment of the promotion has been received
by Mr.. Starks, and therefore he will
not discuss the matter.
At the meeting of the board II. L.
Stone. city attorney of Louisville, was
appointed counsel for the road, vice C.
l.. Burch, resigned The promotions in the
transportation department will necessi-
tate other changes in the Birmingham
district
There is probably no better known or
more popular railroad official in Alabama
or in the southeast than Mr.. Starks He
has been with the Louisville and Nash
Vile railroad since 1876, when he COM
menced as assistant agent of the road
at Hadenville, Ky. The first work he
did was to check baggage to the Phila-
delphia centennial. Following that he
was telegraph operator at Guthrie, KY,
and then agent at that place.
In 1886 he became trainmaster oil the
Greensboro and Nashville division, the
main stem OF the road and On January
/, 1899. he was made traiamaster at Biz
mingham In 1891 he was appointed SUI
perintendent of the south and north divis-
ion and the Birmingham Mineral. On the
first of January, 1898. Mr.. Starks was
promoted to superintendent of the Louis
willie and Knoxville division, and two
years later he was made superintendent
of terminals at Nashville.
On the first day of January 1898. Mr..
Starks came back to Birmingham as SUI
perintendent of the south and north and
the Birmingham Mineral His promotions
have come generally as New Year
presents.
Mr.. starks has lived IN Birmingham
longer than any other city and feels
like this is home. He has many friends
in the city who have watched his pro-
motions with a great deal of pleasure
and qualification. He is still young man
but his capacity has brought him the
merited rewards.
The Louisville Courier-Journal prints
the announcement that the Louisville and
Nashville railroad is to erect a ten-story
office building in Louisville % be its head
quarters. The building is to cost about
900 and to be 60x200 feet 1t is to stand
where the present freight depot In Louis
Vile stands. and is to be of steel. brick
end stone.
The new freight rates, granted by the
railroads to Atlanta as a result of the
arbitration conference between their rep
resentatives and the citizens committee,
will be put into effect February of next
year.
s. r. PARROT, chairman of the South
eastern Freight association, is authority
for this statement. Mr.. Parrot declared
Thursday morning that the meeting in
progress at the Piedmont hotel at the
present time is for the purpose of work
ing out the details of the proposed reduc-
lions and getting ready to put the rates
in on the date agreed upon
Car builders are asking more for their
product than they did a month or two
ego, and especially last August Prices
have advanced from SIS to s125 a car, ac-
cording to style of construction 1t is al
ready evident that in 1905 orders will be
placed for at least 10000 new cars and the
number may be swelled to $4,000, as
go still higher. In 1902 the builders had
a regular bonanza when they turned out
1893. 700 cars, the cost OF which was COM
paratlvely high.
General Passenger Agent NJ. Beall Of
the Mobile and Ohio. who has recently
returned from a trip to Havana, with a
party of western and eastern passenger
agents, announces that another steamship
line with first-class passenger facilities
| would be operated out of Mobile at an
early date to touch Panama and Mexican
ports.
John Nourse, chief clerk in the Texas
general passenger office of the Frisco.
who has been promoted to chief clerk in
| the advertising department, under Cen
eral Passenger Agent Hilton, with head
| quarters in st. Louis, Is succeeded by F..
NJ Mcclure, chief clerk In the general
passenger office of the Denver. w. IL.
| Card, who held similar position with
the Cotton Belt at Tyler, succeeds Mr..
Mcclure.
NJ. l.. Todd, agent at Cincinnati for the
Lake Shore and Lehigh Valley Dispatch,
was In the city for a few hours yes
| terday.
| The local offices of the Southern rail-
| way have received the official circulars
| announcing the resignation of Lee Nc
/ Chung as assstan freight traffic manager
| and the appointment Of r. l.. Nc
| KeIlar to succeed him, with head
| quarters in Louisville. Randall Cliff
ton has been appointed to succeed Mr..
Mcclellan as assistant general freight
| agent at Memphis, and e. II. Shaw has
been appointed division freight agent at
( Greensboro to succeed Mr.. Clifton. The
successor to Mr. Shaw has not been
| named.
| The Louisville and Nashville railroad
has issued phamplet showing the vari-
| GUS winter resorts along the Florida and
Gulf coast. The book is beautifully IL
Illustrated and has many half tone cuts
| of the various points of interest reached
| by the line.
The phamplets are being distributed to
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