The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23
NEW ENGINES ARE HERE
HEAVY EQUIPMENT FOR THE
 L0UISvILLE AND NASHVILLE.
They Were Needed Becanse of the Ever Increasing Freight Traf-
 fic--Nevs Netez of Local

Tho last or the pig consOtfuateo eh- zines ordered by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company for the Mobile and Montgomery and South and North division have been delivered. The order was for fifteen of which five were for the Mobile and Montgom- cry division and ten for the South and North, the five for the Montgomery and Mobile division being already In ser vice between here and Mobile. The en- zines are about the largest running out of Montgomery. weighing 177.000 with 15S,00O pounds on the drivers. The freight traffic on the Mobile and Montgomery division Is constantly and steadily growing. and these new en- zines were badly needed. though 1t Is pretty certain that the steadily in- creasing traff1c will soon make anoth- CT requisition necessary.
 More equipment" seems to be the cry of all the railroads in this section now. and from the equipment ordered by the different roads for delivery in the next few months there will not soon be any danger of a car famine for coal, | cotton grain and fruit and vege- tables.
 From Mobile and Ohio officials in Montgomery, 1t is learned that some- thing over 200 freight cars will be re- built at the company's Whistler | shops.
 The Southern has placed orders for 1000 box cars of 60.o00 pounds capa- city to be used on the Atlantic lines.
 and 500 coal cars for use in the Bir-
 mingham district.
 General Manager Starke. of the
 Louisville and Nashville passed through l the city yesterday morning, his pri- vate car. being attached to train No. 1, reaching Montgomery at Il a. m, en
 route to New Orleans.
 | Station Master McRae, returned yes-
 terday morning from a visit to rela-
 tives in Barbour County.
 The Southeastern Clergy Bureau has
 sent out more than 5000 clergymen per- mits for a reduction of fare since the first of the year. This would seem to prove that there were good many of- ficials of the straight and narrow road"
 and also that they expected to do lot
 of visiting.
 III Report comes that South Carolina's
 railroad commission Is opposed to negro flagmen for the protection of the rear
 end of trains. claiming that the respon- sibtlity Is too great for them.
 If the figures of the interstate com l meroe commission are true, railway off, flee clerks are not getting as much as
 they did ten years ago. On the other
 hand, almost all of the other class of | employees have secured increase of pay during the same period. These figures show that general officers average
 did ten years ago, while general office
 clerks have lost about sS.s0 per month.
 Communications have already been
 received asking If the southern roa, will make special rates to Washing
 ton for the inauguration of President
 Roosevelt. Arrangements have already
 been made for the usual reduction of
 rates at that time by all of the lines
 in the southeast.
 The Golden Gate party. an annual af-
 fair, with some 150 tourists, including
 capitalists and wealthy people from New York and other cities, will make
 It's way to the Pacific coast, arriving
 early in March. over the West Polnl
 route. After going west by the South
 ern route, the party will return to thu
 east over one of the northern lines
 The Pennsylvania railroad gets up tho
 party each year.
 The work on the new Atlantic termi.
 nal station Is moving right along and
 there is again talk that all of the ter. minal lines will use the new depot
 says The Atlanta Constitution. Accord. ing to rumors circulating about the cln- der colony, the prospects are better right
 now that the Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis. the Georgia and the Sea- board will all go in. It is stated by many that the Nashville, Chattanooga : and St. Louis can hardly afford to stay } out, as the Central of Georgia is its principal connection. As for the Sea.
 board, this road gets much of It's trave ) from the southwest coming into Allan. ! ta over the West Point route. The , great advantage to the public in having ] all of the lines run into the same sta ton are too obvious to need men, tion.
 As yet no, actual date has been set
 for the official opening of the new de. pot, but among railroad men there is } @ general disposition to make the event a memorable one, with exercises and
 speakers and festivities befitting such an important occasion. The mater has been informally discussed in the rooms of the Transportation Club again and l again. It seems to be the consensus oi opinion that in view of the many years Atlanta has waited for some relief from the present old carshed, the real ar. [ rival of the day warrants the very big gest kind of demonstration.
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