The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-08
NEW DEPOT Al MOBILE Commission Will Hold a ]. Special Meeting TO SELECT A SITE Will Meet Under Terms Of
 Hoffman Act. Commission Issues Final Order for
 the Erection of a New
 Depot at Decatur.

The Alabama Railroad Commission Will hold special meeting in Mobile. March II, to determine and select a site for the construction of a union depot in that city, under the terms of an act passed by the fast Legislature. This, was, perhaps, the first matter which came before the Alabama Rail- road Commission at it's regular meeting held yesterday @at noon at the Capitol. At this meeting the full membership of the commission, President, John V. Smith. As- | sociate Commissioners W. c. Tunstali and w., T. Sanders were present. It will be recalled that the last Legislature passed B law compelling the railroads entering the city of Mobile to erect union pas eenger depot. In the event of the railroads | falling to agree upon a site and location | of the depot, the law provided that the Railroad Commission should take charge of affairs. <,
 In accordance with this provision. the commission yesterday gave notice that 1t would hold a special meeting in the City Council Chamber in Mobile, March H. l The commission issued final order di- recting the Louisville and Nashville and the Southern to build a union depot at Decatur. This matter has been before the commission for several weeks. The commission visited Decatur in a body a month ago. and Inspected depot condi- | tions there.
 A delegation of prominent citizens of Decatur headed by Mayor R. E, Skeggs, | was before the commission yesterday. In l the delegation were T. M. Jones, J. A. Nelson and J. W. Knight. The order for | the Decatur depot from the commission was as follows:
 Mayor and Council of the City of Deca- tur vs. The Southern Railway Com pany' and Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. Depot accommo- dations at Decatur, Alabama. Before the Railroad Commission of Ala | bama. March 2. 1904.
 This cause coming on to be heard. upon full hearing and consideration of the evidence submitted. the commission is of the opinion that the passenger facilities | the Louisville and Nashville Railroad | Company in the city of Decatur, Ala, are inadequate and insufficient, and they are hereby declared to be so. It further appears to the commission | that the site upon which 1t is desirable to erect and maintain a new passenger | station for the city If Decatur Is owned by and Is the property of the Southern Railway Company.
 It Is therefore ordered and decreed that the said Southern Railway Company shal
 erect a passenger station in the city ot
 Decatur on the site indicated and accord ling to the plans and specifications of de
 sign No. ''F 12S2.' which is hereby refer
 red to and made part of this order
 Construction of and work upon said pas
 Senger station shall begin within nj lety
 days from the date of this order.
 If the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
 Company shall use and occupy said sta
 tion hereby ordered aud decrsed to b,
 built by the Southern Railway Company
 they shall bear such proportion of the ex
 penses of the construction and mainten
 ance of said station as they mutually
 shall agree upon.
 If the Louisville and Nashville RailroaC
 Company does not occupy and use sait
 station hereby ordered to be built at tn, city of Decatur, it is heraoy ordered anC
 directed that said Louisville and Nash
 vile Railroad Company shall erect anC
 maintain in the city of Decatur, Ala.
 station according to the plans and specih
 cations of design No. "F 1232' on a sit,
 to be selected by said Louisville ant
 Nashville Railroad Company and approv
 ed by this commission. If said Louisville
 and Nashville Railroad Company does no
 use and occupy said passenger station hereby ordered to be built by the Southert
 Railway Company, they shall submi
 within sixty days from date of this orde
 for the approval of this commission (
 site in the city of Decatur, Ala, for tn, erection of a station according to tn, plans and specifications herein above re ferred to.
 In the case of D. A. Walker ct als. vs | the Southern Railway an order was is sued directing that the town of Walker Springs should be furnished with bettel depot facilities. The order specifies that l an additional room shall be built for the accommodation of white passengers.
 The commission gave notice that a, spe. cial meeting would be held in Birming- l ham, March 25. at which two causes, both entitled the Southern Sulphur Ore Com pany vs. the Eastern Railway Company of Ala, would be heard. che is for a lower rate on pyrites and another is a pe- tition for a side track.
 The commission was notified that the Central of Georgia and the Atlantic Coast Line had agreed to make physical con nection of their lines at Dothan In view of this, the case of G. H. Malone against these two lines was dismissed. The peti- tion for depot at Fitzpatrick was con- tInued.
 A matter of importance to Selma and Montgomery was decided in the fixing of the passenger fare between these two towns Heretofore the Western Rail- road has charged for fifty miles at 8 cents mile. the fare being N5O. The commission directed that the fare should be charged upon the actual distance 4z6s miles at cents a mile