The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-17
The Eleriaa Limited.

The Florida Limited. The possibility of the Louisville anu Nashville running a fast train from Chicago through Montgomery and turn ing 1t over to the Seaboard Air Line at River Junction was mentioned In
 special to The Advertiser some days ago. The first Chicago and Florida
 limited was run through Montgomery
 to St. Augustine nine years ago. Since
 then the flyer has been routed by Att lanta and Macon, but this year there seems to be some speculation. in regard to 1t.
 Speaking of this train Nashville paper says:
 "while numerous reasons are assign ed by ticket agents for the delay in perfecting arrangements for the usual fast trains to the extreme South this
 winter none seem to be accepted gene rally and there is great deal of spec uiation about the probable action of the roads interested in this important matter.
 heretofore the names. schedules and complete routine of these tourist trains have been annouced much earlier but this year all efforts to learn what will be done have proved futile Last sea- son there were two fast trains from Chicago that passed through Nashville for Jacksonville and St. Augustine. Fla. This year these trains will proba- bly run through Nashville but the roads are vet undetermined as to how they are to be managed. Last season one of these trains was run over the Illinois Central from Chicago and over the
 Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis
 through Nashville and Chattanooga to Atlanta. Another came over the Chi- cago and Eastern Illinois and took the N, c. and St. L.. at Nashville. Thus far none of the roads will discuss the trains for this season. although the pas- senger departments state that the trains will be put on about January 1.
 It is generally understood that the Illinois Central will run it's own trains into Nashville this winter and there are many who say that the fast Chicago Florida trains will come over that line and take the N. c. and St. L.. here. This. 1t is said, is causing the delay In arranging the matter"
 '. c. to Build Into Birmingham.
 An unfailing source of gossip during the past year has been how the Ilii- nois Central would get into Birming- ham. The following special from Chi cago to The Nashville Banner will set
 tie the matter for all time:
 The Illinois Central Railroad an- nounces that 1t will begin building line iron. Jackson, Tenn. to Birming- ham, Ala. The distance is 200 miles, from Chicago to Jackson is 470 miles.
 The road will go into the vast coal
 region of North Alabama, enter the Chicago of the South and the greatest coal and iron mines developed and un- developed the world has ever known.
 Simultaneously comes the announce ment that the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
 will put on through trains from Chi
 cago to the Gulf City. The Western
 terminus of this system now Is at St.
 Louis. It, too, penetrates part Of the
 territory which the Illinois Central will
 traverse The Mobile and Ohio will en- ter Chicago from St. Louis over the Chicago and Alton tracks. In time this
 road will build here. commencing at somc point near Cairo. It Is the sec ond oldest track in the world. In exist enee more than a half century, 1t has never killed a passenger.
 Chicago newspapers are enthusiastic over the announcement. The Examiner today says: Tt Is a new field for Chi cago merchants It is one of the rich- est in America.
 From Jackson to Birmingham there is enough coal to supply all the States for countless ages There are iron and steel enough to build all the bridges, all the houses. all the elevators. all the blows, all the chains necessary for a | worlds eomme-se until the end of an other century. No mind can compute it's possible tonnage. With this branch line completed, it will give to the Illi-
 nois Central the best yielding part of America, as field belonging almost wholly to this immense system of rails. Tn Mississippi the road has side- tracks to most of the big cotton planta- ticns, in Louisiana 1t enters thousands | cf sugar fields, in Tennessee it handles
 the tobacco and timber and fruits of most of 'he territory lying between the | Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers. It
 means more to Chicago than any new
 ent tsrprise that has come about in twen- | ty ysArs.
 | The road is to cross the Tombigbee | River in Fayette Cou lty, Alabama" | l.. and N. Double Tracks. It is understood on good authority
 that the double tracking of eighteen