The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-05-10

and Atlanta on May IA. The first diner will leave Atlanta on train No. S7 at AIS D. m and will reach Birmingham that night at 1O:05 o'clock.
 Returning the diner will be attached to train No. 3. which leaves Birmingham at 6.10 a. m. and reaches Atlanta at Il :25 a. m. This will be quite an addition to the Southern's service to and from Atlanta.
 A diner was tried on these trains a couple of years ago but the business would not warrant one, and it was taken off. The passenger travel between the two cities has increased to such a degree in the past two years that the manage ment believes that the dining car ser vice will pay now.
 Engine No. l. the new fast locomotive of the Queen and Crescent route, has been put on trains No 1 and No. ?, and has already demonstrated its ability to haul the long vestibule trains between Birmingham and Chattanooga consider ably faster than the schedule time
 The train made up thirty minutes be- tween Chattanooga and Birmingham Mon day night Engineer Frawley was in charge and he was instructed not to push the engine at all, but to take 1t easy as the engine was new and the com pany did not care to strain 1t.
 The engineer said that without any eff fort the engine pulled the long train up the hills between the two cities, and made up a half hour. The engine can run ninety miles an hour over the track be- tween Birmingham and Chattanooga.
 Before the end of this month every mile of the A G. s. north of Birming- ham will be laid with heavy rail. The last few miles of the light rail Is being removed and replaced with SO-pound rails.
 West of Birmingham the lighter rail 4h also being replaced by heavier rail, ana this change is being made as rapidly as possible When the changes are made the heaviest trains can be pulled over the road at high speed without any risk ot ac- cident.
 A. L. Dabney, who has been connected with the Queen and Crescent route at Vicksburg, has been appointed ticket sell CT in the union passenger station in Bir- mingham He takes the vacancy caused by the appointment of J. w. Gam as city passenger agent of the Frisco in Birmingham.
 MT. Gam was chief clerk to Ticket Agent Iuckett, and c. w. keller has been promoted to that position. All the other clerks have been moved up one file"
 J. N. Scale superintendent of trans portation of the Southern railway, Is in the city on his regular monthly tour Of inspection. He arrived yesterday morn ing and will leave for Selma, Mobile and other points south and west of Birming- ham on the system.
 News comes from Jackson, Miss, that the Goodyear syndicate, which is now operating quite extensively in this state, backed up by a capital stock of $25,OOO,- GOO. will build a railroad direct from New Orleans to Memphis, coming up the Pearl river valley to Jackson, and thence on a direct nOrtherly line rom tIlS city lo the Tennessee metropolis.
 official confirmation of the plans of the Goodyear syndicate was revealed at the governors office last night, when re- quest was received for the issuance of a proclamation incorporating the New Or leans and Great Northern Railroad com pany, with New Orleans and Memphis stated as the terminal points.
 The request for incorporation, of course does not fully reveal the plans of the syndicate, but 1t throws a great deal of valuable confirmatory light on the plans as heretofore published.
 The incorporators set forth in the peti- ton for charter as follows: Frank H. Goodyear and c. 1T. Goodyear of Buff falo, N. Y.; Martin E. Omstead of liar risburg, Pa.; Charles l. Jones of Balti- more, Md; I. c. Enochs of Jackson, Miss; N. J. Pearsall and C. K. Mullins of Lou isiana.
 The New Orleans and Great Northern railroad will reach the Pearl river valley at point at near the town of Month cello, and will run directly up the valley to Jackson. It is understood from an au- thentic source that the contract will be awarded as soon as a survey can be made and the necessary specifications are pre-