The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-28
RAILROAD WORLD.


 Negotiations have been effected which will permit the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Louis trains of wheat to be carried straight through to New Orleans. The Kansas City Southern and the Southern Pacific via Kansas City, and Lake Charles will be used. This increases the New Or leans exports on grain materially.
 The plan of Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan to organize a Seaboard Air Line Hospital association has been submitted to the employees of the road and they are asked to vote on the matter. Her plan is to give $45O0O to erect hospitals at Peters burg, Va; Hamlet, N. C., and Tampa, Fla. and provide wards in the city hos pitals for the employees of the roads.
 In turn, each employe is to give not more than ] per cent of his months sal afy towards maintaining the hospitals and the road Is 10 give $500O annually.
 The hospitals will be managed by a board of governors to be composed of the general manager other ofhcails and em- ployes. MT. Ryan is largely interested in the road and his wife is taking this means of aiding the employees.
 At the special meeting of the stock holders of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company, called to meet in Louisville, Ky, March 2S, they will be asked to formally authorize a mortgage on the Atlanta, Knoxville and Cincinnati division of the road.
 The authorization is necessary in order to permit the management of the Louis Nillp and Nashville tulkp m the pxigt- ing bonds of the new division and to issue bonds later on for the completion of new construction
 While the stockholders are asked to au- thorize an issue not exceeding S50,0O0,OO0, 1t is not expected that any great amount will be issued for some time The new bonds will be put out as construction de- mands.
 On January l the Louisville and Nash vile took over the mileage of about 330 on the new roads, upon which the mort gage will be made
 John G. Walber assistant to the vice president and general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, has his own ideas about passes on a railroad. In order to prove his point he has di1i- gently searched the scriptures and has brought forth fragments of verses to dem- onstrate that it is wrong to travel on railroad on a pass. He has these scrip tural rules in printed form above his desk where all may see them. They are as follows
 Search the scriptures"
 "In these days there were no passes"
 Thou shalt not pass Numbers Xx:1S. Suffer not man to pass. Judah,
 'The wicked shall pass no more."- Nathan i:15.
 None shall ever pass.r-Mark xiii 80.
 "'Tho they roar, yet they shall not pass '-Jeremian.
 "So he paid his fare and went."-i:3.
 General Manager w. A, Garrett of the Queen and Crescent route will pass through Birmingham this morning en route to Meridian, and he will return to the city tonight. MT. Garrett will be in Birmingham all day tomorrow and will re This is Mir Garretts first trip to Birm- ingham in some time, as he was i'll for several weeks recently
 J. M Culp, third vice president of the Southern railway, was in the city yes terday. He left last night for Atlanta.
 T. C. Powell. freight traffic manager of the Southern. with headquarters in WaSnlnston, was III the city yesterday. He is accompanied by J. W. Bell, his private secretary.
 Private Secretary Dozier to Third Vice President Culp has rendered his resigna- tion and will become private secretary to c. s. Clarke, second vice president of the Missouri Pacific.