The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-08
TICKET SALES AT DEPOT
JANUARY REPORT AHEAD OF PRE-
 VIOUS YEAR.
Increase fin Passenger Travel Indicates the Growth of Business In Mont EOmery-Otber News of the
 Railroads.

Notwithstanding the nasty weather during the latter part of last month which almost completely stopped the suburban passenger travel the sales at the unionTailway ticket office show an increase of $516 for that month over January 1903.
 This shows unmistakably the steady growth of Montgomery and the see- tion of country immediately surround ing 1t.
 The through business has been un- usually heavy for the past month, the fearful weather hurFying tourists from the North and East to Florida and California in droves. The local busi- ness however has been effected, and as the suburbanites have stayed at their homes for some time the ticket sales have dropped off accordingly.
 In round numbers the sales for the month of January amounted to $4s,- 451. O1. an increase over the samO month last year of $516O3.
 Concerning main track derails there are two distinct schools of opinion, says the Railway Age. One side contends that an interlocking plant should att tempt to make a collision physically impossible; the other view regards
  ments to discipline and training. Tn other wordz that to derail a rapidly moving trakh which Hisfegards sig nal Is an unnecessary harsh and ex- pensive measure, because a derailment at high speed may be as fatal as Q collision. The earnestness of the dis cussion, however, should not be all lowed to divert attention from the undisputed value of derails at sidings and other low-speed routes. There Is danger, in fact, that operating officials will give, too little consideration to the necessity for thus protecting the main track. One of the worst wrecks in recent years was caused by a wait ing freight train with a tired crew who fell asleep one hot summer night. The train drifted out just far enough to foul the main track and be struck by limited passenger train, and scores of similar cases can be cited which could have been saved bv derail at the clearance point, worked in connec- ton with the main track switch stand, The expense of such an arrangement Is so slight and it's advantages so great that it's general adoption can scarcely be too often or too strongly insisted upon.
 , MT w. J. ttdylOW ndb resigned HE superintendent of transportation of the 1st division of the Atlantic Coast Line north of Savannah, Ga. MT. Owen H Page, chief clerk to the general su- perintendent of transportation, has been appointed acting superintendent of transportation of the 1st division ir place of Mr. Haylow.- MT. J. T. King freight agent at Wilmington, N. C.. has been appointed car accountant oi the entire system.
 Mir. c. P. Pitchford has been appoint ed commercial agent of Che Seaboard Air Line at Atlanta, Ga, succeeding Mir. T. R. Thompson, who has been transferred to Kansas City. Mo, in 6 similar capacity. MT. c. S, Allen, Jr has been appointed soliciting freight agent at Atlanta in place of Mir. Pitch ford,
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 The office of signal engineer on the Southern Railway having been abol- ished, Mir. c. P. Adams, superintendent of telegraph, will hereafter have ! charge of all interlocking plants and