The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-29
(, B McCormack is President and Member of Board,
 Other Officers
COMPANY WILL PROCEED
 10 ITS WORK ACTIVELY
Architects Have Been Invited to Sub mt Plans for the New Station. Five Roads to Enter
 the Station.

The Birmingham Terminal company was l organized yesterday to construct and op-
 crate the new union passenger station. meeting of representatives of the five railroads which will enter the sta
 ton was held yesterday and the organiza-
 tion was perfected by the election of a
 board of directors and officers The officers elected are as follows
 President-G. B. Mccormack
 Secretary-J. s. B. Thompson. Treasurer-H. c. Ansley.
 Assistant Treasurer-E. F. Parham. The board of directors is composed of P. Tillman, A. D. Lightner A Griggs and James Weatherly
 | With the exception of MT. Mccormack each of the directors represents one of | the roads which will use the station. | namely, the Southern, the Alabama Great Southern, the seaboard Air Line, the Cen tral of Georgia and the Frisco system. Mr. Mccormack was selected as presi-
 dent by virtue of being a neutral party,
 so to speak, as between the railroads and
 selected representative of all Birming- ham interests.
 To Proceed at Once. l At the meeting yesterday President Me- | Cormack was authorized to proceed at
 once with the matter of having plans for
 suitable station prepared. Until the
 various architects submit plans no idea
 of the building can be ascertained, except that it will be one of the largest, hand
 somest and most perfectly arranged in
 the south. It is to be ready for use on
 or before the first of January, 1907 The site for the station has already
 been purchased and as soon as possible
 the work of tearing away the present l building and the grading will be com menced The property lies between Twen- ty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets and
 runs from Second to Seventh avenues. The meeting yesterday was held in
 the office of M. M. Richey, assistant gen. 1 eraI superintendent of the Southern. l. | s. B. Thompson, general agent of the Southern in Atlanta, was in the city to
 attend the meeting and to participate in the organization,
 The depot will probably be directly managed by board of control elected by l the board of directors. This was the plan adopted in Atlanta and other cities and has been found very successful Every railroad entering the station is to have an equal voice in the manage | ment and the expenses of the station | will be prorated according to the number of cars run into the station by each of
 the railroads.
 To Issue Bonds. The terminal company organized yes- terday will issue bonds in sufficient
 amount to cover the expenses ot con structing the station and the other ex- penses in connection with it. As was stated recently by c. H. Ackert, | fourth vice president of the Southern' | the station will be in keeping with the | importance of Birmingham and the 1 growth of the city for years to come. The appointments of the station will be elegant and the building will be man- tained in an equal style to that of any station in the south.
 Cause of Action. The action of the five railroads in pur- chasing the property and going ahead with the plans was made necessary by
 the notice that they could not occupy
 the present station after January l, 1907. The Louisville and Nashville owns the depot now used as a union station, and about a year ago notice was sent to the presidents of the roads using the station that they would have to vaeate when their leases expired-which would be January 1, 1907 An effort was made by the roads to have the Louisville anu Nashville enlarge the present station and allow it to be used as a union station, but President Milton H. Smith refused the request. The other roads then joined and proceeded to purchase property and per feet their plans for new station. i The reason given by the Louisville and Nashville for notifying the roads that
 they must vacate was that the present
 station is only large enough for the
 needs of the Louisville and Nashville.
 It will require about fourteen months
 to erect the new station so that work will
 probably commence within the next sixty or ninety days in order that the building will be completed by the time the roads
 have to vacate the Louisville and Nash vile station.