The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-19
THE CIRCUS VISITORS
THEY MoBBED THE DEPOT TICKET
 OFFICE.
Tn the Rush the Brass Rods Were Bent and Torn Out of Their

otrcet rasr Fush hae such a scene taken case yesterday.
 The head and front of all the offend- ing was Press Agent J. H. Davis of the Selis-Forepaugh circus. with his allur-
 ,ns alliterative literature. This put the biggest crowd in the Union Station that was ever known in the same length of time. The scene around the ticket of- nee in the general waiting room yes- terday morning and late Monday night ment-iike block around the ticket win dow was jostling,. seething, fighting mass of struggling humanity. The pressure from the pnfortunates of the lucky ones who were next. at the window were compelled to grasp the brass rods in front of the ticket ofsice to keep from being swept away. This was most disastrous for the rods--in several instances they were literally torn from their sockets while in both windows there was not q single one that was not twisted and bent
 A big majority of this enormous of white people helping to swell the throng. Most Of them came without baggage-fortunately for everybody but lot of the white people had hand tragedy connected with one of these handgrips and a congestion and tenn porary blockade of the entrance gate resultant. An old man bearing in his
 hand worn canvass telescope was i followed by his, wife and several chil- dren. Just as the gate keeper was about to punch the tickets. something
 happened with dIreful consequences :.
 --the straps doing the duty of holding
 the thing In shape had suddenly de- cided to go out of business. Down on
 the asphalt dropped the heavy telescope. | fr. A~ r----
 There was an instantaneous panorama
 or skirts. lingerie and feminine habili- ments. shirts, woolen socks, etc The
 interior furnishings not only protruded
 put Uttered the ground about the ent- rance gate and was rapidly threatening
 10 become acquainted intimately with | that section of the station. Everybody
 turned in with will, bending to the
 workof pushing the obdurate wardrobe
 pack Into the cavernous recesses of that
 old family telescope. It meant a case or nothing doing until the repairs had
 been made, but made they finally were,
 and the travellers streaked across to | To give some idea of the rusa some. thing over 5000 tickets were sold by Ticket Agent Surratt and his assist
 ants, Messrs. Copeland and Linnehan. l Very few of the tickets sold to Mont-
 gomery were return. most of them be-
 Ing straight tickets that of course had | to be bought here for the return trip
 The sales at the ticket once amounted
 to something over $S.o0o. and yester-
 day morning Agent Surratt had to get | carriage to take the money up town
 to his bank. s1.s00 in silver making the bundle pretty bulky. Mir. Surratt said
 that the sales to all stations on all the roads was very heavy, the biggest sales
 being to Letohatchie, 407 tickets being
 sold to that station alone.
 | Southern Double Track.
 The service on the Southern will be
 helped a great" deal this winter by the
 completion of the double track from | Washington to Orange" said Passenger
 Agent Metcalf of the Southern yester-
 day. The distance is ninety-five
 miles" he continued. "and trains can I now be run with much less delay, espe- cially as the c, and o. uses our road
 from Charlottesville to Washington. :" l The big new double track bridge over l the Potomac at Washington also great | ly relieves the congestion of trafic that
 was such menace formerly.
 "On Again, on Again.w One of the quickest pieces of rail- | road work seen in a long time hap | pened to Coast Line engine last night.
 Yard engine No. 147 was bringing a | coach over to the trainshed to replace
 one that was out of order on train 5S. manner jumped the track, the coach l staying on the rails. Wheels will al- | ways go back on the rails like they | come of" Is an old railroad aphorisni, | and acting on 1t the crew had the en- | zine back on the track with the loss of | barely minutes time.
 l To New Orleans.
 Dave Heilbrin, who has charge of ! the news stand at the Union Station, | left last night for New Orleans on a pleasure trip of few days.
 Late Connection.
 l The St. Louis and Chicago connection of Louisville and Nashville train No. 3
 was three hours late last night, the Cin- | cinnati and Louisville connection of
 that train being on time. The Coast Line train due to leave at 7:45 D. m. had | to wait, as they get a Pullman on that | train from St. Louis to Jacksonville. Birmingham Press Club omeers. Birmingham, Oct. 1S--(SpeciaL)- | At a largely attended meeting of the
 Birmingham Press Club today the fol- lowing officers were elected for the en- suing term: Emil Lesser. Birmingham | Courier, President; Frank Willis Bar | nett, Alabama Baptist. First Vice-Pres- | T,ao0 w Eriedman The Naws