The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-19
RAILROAD MEETING
HERE YESTERDAY
Southern Officials Discuss
Matters of interest
OVER THIRTY IN THE CITY
Men From Every Department of the
Southern Meet In Mr.. Richeys
Office With Fine
Results.

More than thirty officials of the South
ern railway met in the office of Assis-
tent General Superintendent, NJ. M. Rich
ely, yesterday morning. They discussed
matters for the good of the service.
Mr. Richey asked all the division SUI
perintendents. master mechanics. freight
men and representatives of the passen-
ger department to meet in conference.
Il is the first that has been held on the
western district, but others will follow.
Mr.. Richey presided as chairman and
c. H. Reeder acted as secretary. The
discussions We're taken down in full and
every one on the western district Will
receive a printed copy of the proceed
ings
Mr. Richey briefly outlined the object
o. the meeting. and then asked repre-
sentatives of various departments to
speak, making five or ten minute talks
about their respective work and to sug-
gest what Improvements could be made
for creating a better service.
R. L. Mcclellan, assistant freight traf-
fc manager, spoke on traffic matters and
the prompt movement of shipments He
was followed by J. H. Scale, superinten-
dent of transportation, who spoke on the
car supply and the distribution of cars.
W. II. Hudson chief master mechanic,
talked of motive power, repairs of en-
gines and cars. and general equipment
for the road Thomas Bernard, engineer
Of maintenance of way. talked of road
beds.
G. R. Browder, assistant general freight
agent. discussed the best methods of So
Letting business. His talk was very inter-
esting and he made some valuable sug-
gestions II. e. Hutchens superintendent
of the Memphis division, covered a num-
Der of points concerning transportation,
and Walter Kennedy, assistant chief law
AGENT touched on the legal end of the
railroad. =
G, R. Loyal. superintendent of the
Knoxville division, the largest of the
Southern railway system, emphasized the
Importance of prompt train movement,
and A. Ramseur of the Asheville division
gave some interesting accounts of the
difficulties of operating a road in a noun
famous district Superintendent Foreacre
of the Atlatna division spoke of the work
where there are heavy terminals and
great concentration of freight business
from many directions.
]. j. Cotter of the Birmingham division
made one of the best talks at the meeting.
He emphasized the Importance Of prompt
traffice movement and made many sug-
gestions which were regarded with great
interest d. J. Eagan discussed the
travel on his division at Mobile, and w.
N. Duel assistant superintendent of the
Knoxville division, talked of the need of
good terminal facilities and yard service.
His remarks were endorsed by j. w.
Webb assistant superintendent of the
Birmingham division.
Among the others who attended the
conference were ]. e. Platt, road mas
ter Knoxville division; S. c. Ramsey,
roadmaster Ashville division; B. b. Ar
wood, roadmaster Mobile division; ]. N
Biddy, roadmaster Birmingham division;
J. s. Semond, roadmaster Atlanta divi-
sion; ]. Y. Hill. roadmaster Memphis
division; r. Clifton, assistant general
freight agent; H. L. Miller division
freight agent at Knoxville; G. G. Thomp-
j. L. Cox, commercial agent, Columbus
Miss: T. L. Davant, commercial agent
at Memphis; e. M. Craig, soliciting
freight agent at Sheffield; r. B. Pegram,
commercial agent at Birmingham; r. L..
Simpson. commercial agent at Chatta-
nooga; ]. w. Hunter, commercial agent
at Selma; J. N Harrison, district pas
senger agent, Birmingham; ]. b. Michael,
master mechanic at Knoxyille; S. M.
Dolan, master mechanic at Atlanta; G. N.
Hawson. master mechanic at Brming-
ham, and N. N. Boyden at Selma.
Several of the railroad men remained
in the city last night and will be here
today. They had never visited Birming-
ham before and were DESTROYS Of study
in the resources of the district. superin-
tendent Cotter entertained them.