The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-08
IMPORTANT PLACE
 ON Q. & [. ROUTE
Gen'I Pass. Agent Rinearson
 Says Birmingham Ranks High IS NEXT TO CINCINNATI
Birmingham Has Passed Other Cities In Passenger Business Which For merly Ranked Her-Other
 Railroad News.

W. c. Rinearson, general passenger agent of the Queen and Crescent route. and J. c. Conn, division passenger agent at Chattanooga, were in Birmingham yes terday. MT. Rinearson was in. conference with Secretary Babb of the Commercial club regarding some important matters affecting Birmingham. Later MT. Rinear- son said:
 ''The passenger. business on our line is growing rapidly, and I believe the other roads are having a good business also. Birmingham is now one of the best points on our system.s and it is showing a much better rate of increase in the passenger business than any other city.
 'As an originator of business. Birming7 ham stands next to Cincinnati on the Queen and Crescent route. It was not very long ago that other cities on the road gave us more business than Birming- ham, but this city has increased at a more rapid rate than the others and has rapidly caught and passed each of them except Cincinnati.
 q will be in New Orleans Monday and a number of other railroad officials will also be there. It is a conference in regard to the terminals of the Southern, the Queen and Crescent and the Frisco in the Crescent City. The Frisco intends building a station with excellent connections, and the Southern and Queen and Crescent will also use it. I do not know what other roads will use it yet, as no definite state ment has been made.'
 Mir Rinearson went to Chattanooga last night and will go to New Orleans to- morrow morning. He is accompanied by MT. Conn.
 w. J. Murphy. vice president of the Queen and Crescent will pass through Birmingham today en route for New Or leans to attend the conference mentioned hy Mir Pinearson. Other officials of the load will probably be with MT. Murphy on his private car.
 R. NJ. Coffey, travelling passenger agent of the Seaboard, was in Birmingham yes- terday making the final arrangements for handling the Across the Pacific com pany out of Birmingham.
 A special train consisting of a sleeping car, coach and a baggage car, left Bir- mingham about midnight last night over the Seaboard tracks, the first passenger train to leave Birmingham over the newly finished tracks.
 On the train was Colonel Parsons, su- perintendent of the gham-Atlanta division, and M. J. Mcdonald, travelling freight agent in Birmingham, who went to Atlanta with the company.
 It is ssmi-officialy announced by the Seaboard that the first passenger sched- ule will be inaugurated about January 15, but 1t will be only local train with a long schedule to Atlanta. It is also said that the first through passenger train making fast time will probably be com menced about April 1.
 Cincinnati January 7-What is claimed to be the finest terminal entrance into any city fin the country will soon be finished and placed in service by the Big Four railway at Cincinnati. The work repre- sents an expenditure of $3,000,0OO and in cludes almost an entire new right of way. as well as double track from Cin- cinnati to Lawrenceburg Junction, twenty miles from the city. The work not only includes double track for the entire dis tance. but slso twenty-five concrete bridges of from two to five spans each In a number of places. for the sake of a straight line. the old roadbed has been entirely abandoned and in one instance