The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-11

A phone numbers in the Union station building was made yesterday morning. Heretofore the three telephones, station masters office in the general waiting room. superintendents office and master of trains office on the second floor ana chief train despatcher's office on the third foor-have all been numbered "352." The station masters telephone was 352 four calls, the superintendents office 352 two calls and the despatcher's office 352 three calls. The changes made yesterday are as follows: the station masters office will continue 352, without any calls; the superintendents office will be ASA and the despetchers a great amount of confusion, as former ly when the train despatcher.s omce was telephoned the station masters of fee would almost invariably be given or vice versa.
 Railroad OmciaIs Here. T. M. Morton, Assistant General Superintendent of the Atlantic Coast Line and T. s. Tutwiler. engineer of roadway of the same road, both with headquarters in Savannah, spent yes- terday in Montgomery leaving at o'clock yesterday afternoon. Superin- tendent Hall of the Montgomery and Macon division of the Central also spent the day here. returning to Macon in the afternoon.
 
 The information now comes from in- ner circles that the office of vice-presi- dent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad will not be filled immediately. It is said that J. H. Ellis, secretary of the company, who was supposed to have been slated, for the position, will not be appointed. It is explained that the president now has sufficient assist ance, and that it is desirable that an attorney should be appointed as vice. president.
 AS the lines of the company pass through many States and as numerous complications of more or less import ance are continually arising, it has been considered important for the president to have a legal advisor close at hand. Walker D. Hines, whose resignation made the vacancy, acted in that capacity.
 Inspecting the l.. & N. On the Western Railway train due in Montgomery at 9:2O p. m. which was four hours late last night, was the private car of the new general manager of the Louisville and Nash vile Railroad Company, B. M. Stark. With MT. Stark was the new Fourth Vice-President of the company, George B. Evans. the former general manager.
 The two officials are making a thor ! ough inspection of the entire Louis- vile and Nashville system, their first trip over the system since tle recent promotions.
 Their car will remain in the shed at the union station untn 5 o'clock this morning when it will leave over the Mobile and Montgomery division as a special train running as the first sec- tion of train No. 5.
 At Georgiana the special will leave the main line and go over the Alabama and Florida branch to Graceville, Fla. Returning to Georgiana the special will continue down the Mobile and Montgomery division to Flomaton from which place 1t will go over the Pensacola and Atlantic division to Pensacola and River Junction. Then it will continue the trip to Mobile and from that place to New Orleans.
 Returning, the Pine Apple branch will be inspected to Selma. They have inspected everything north of Mont gomery and will now inspect every thing south of here.
 Central Promotions. Montgomerians read in The Adver- tiser yesterday with a great deal of pleasure the appointment of T. S. Noise as General Manager of the Gen. tral Railway and J. T. Johnson as General Superintendent of Transporta- stion.
 MT. Noise married daughter of pr. J. B. Gaston and his many friends here have noted with interest his rapid rise in the railroad world. The special circulars were received at the local of- flee of the Central yesterday.
 Gould Interests fin New Orleans.
 The fact that the Gould interests had entered actively into the development of the import trade of New Orleans came as a pleasant surprise to many who had not connected the Missouri Pacific with the wave of trade ad- vancement that has taken hold of the destinies of .the port. Foreign Freight Agent William F. Schmidt, who is in charge of the import and export de- partment of the Gould lines, is an au- thority on these matters. He was appointed last summer when the de- partment was first organized and will henceforth lend all his energies to the development of largely increased ton mage into this port, says North Caro- lima paper.
 MT. Schmidt came here yesterday with Assistant General Freight Agent J. P. Burnett and had their first con- ference with New Orleans interests when they met the president and sec retary of the Progressive Union. This forenoon Division Freight Agent Brag- gins and Messrs Schmidt and Burnett held a conference with Vice-President James w. Porch of the Board of Trade. who is also deeply interested In all matters pertaining to the operation of steamships into port.
 "We have blazed the way. so to speak" said Mir. Schmidt this morning, and if the people of New Orleans will do their share good results are bound to come. We have handed in the names of 25.000 live exporters in Europe with whom we have already been in comuni- cation and I believe that if the matter is followed by the commercial people of this city there will he a material improvent in the commodities brought into the port. There is more freight moving out of New Orleans than can be -----------------