The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
Railroad News

One of the most sumptuous railroad publications ever issued is one gotten out by the passenger department of the Southern Railway descriptive of its magnificent winter tourist train, The Southern Palm Limited"
 The well-known Washington corre- spondent of The Chicago Record Herald and The Washington Star, has written the descriptive matter and history, em- bellished with q profusion of photo graphs. Is interesting to a degree. The story of the Southern Palm Limited Is called The Road to Florida" and 8 companion book, also written by Mir. Curtis, tells of the beautits and at fractions of Cuba and Nassau.
 The Washington Post says of it:
 There was issued from the press yes- terday for the Southern Railway a thirty-page brochure depicting the ease and elegance of that company's new Southern Palm Limited that sets an exceedingly high mark for the future of railroad printing. The little pam phlet Is. typogra phically. an artistic creation. and from cover to cover 1t al- most smells of the delicious odor of the Southern palms. fruits, and flowers of which, In the accompanying text, Will Ham E. Curtis writes so entertaining ly.
 This pamphlet Is not of the ordinary folder" variety. Some person of taste conceived it's every page, Text and il- lustrations are arranged neatly, and each page is framed in tinted border, after the fashion of an edition de luxe, with rough. uncut edges. As this pamphlet is intended to convey as ade- quate an idea as Is possible in print of beauties and comforts in the land of perpetual sunshine, and to appeal to
 
 climate and surroundings too rigorous for their health or pleasure, it's mission Is accompanied in way that appeals tO the reader.
 Mir Curtis describes the the trains and the equipment that carries the pas sengers from New York to St Angus tine between noon Of one day and early afternoon of the next; pictures the health resorts and abodes of pleasure in the various States on the way, mo- tably Aiken, Asheville. Augusta. and Charleston, and the winter resort the Sky" the Beautiful Sapphire Country" and the Smoky Mountain" regions of North Carolina and Tennes- see.
 Before concluding his story. Nr. Curtis tells his readers of the sights of Jacksonville. the wonders of quaint ana unique St. 2DGiStlne, the gIorieS of Florida, where 1t is summer always, and leaves them at Inn Beach amid the beauties of the leyal Ponciana, with q final suggestion of further pleas ures on the Florida peninsula and q visit to the Pearl of the Antilles" which recently has become more than ever attractive to Americans.
 The necessary time cards, giving to travellers full informant as to the trains of the Southern Railway. includ- ing both the Southern Palm Limited and regular trains over the different branches, accompanied by a detailed map form q part of this artistic brochure
 Reward for Service.
 The Western Railway will, beginning on the lst of the year. Monday, cdopt the system of rewarding their conduc- tors and engineers which has been used by several companies for some years. The Pullman Company was the first to adopt the plant of having a gold strip on the arm of their conduc- tors coats. each strip to mean five years of service with the company. The Louisville and Nashville gives it's en1- ployes passes whenever and wherever asked for, but the Western and other