The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
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Frank s. Newman. who was recently
appointed city passenger agent of the
Frisco to succeed L. b. Washington, has
| again been promoted. This time he goes
to Memphis as city ticket agent of the
Frisco
When Mr.. Newman was previously pro-
NOTED he was assistant ticket agent at
Memphis and came here to be city pas
senger agent. The successor to Mr.. New
man has not been announced. The change
| is effective in a few days.
| T. c. Deece, statistician In the office
of the general superintendent of the
| Southern railway, was in the city yes
| terday. He is working on the western
district now securing facts and figures
relative to the companys coal consump-
ton. He will try and devise ways of re-
ducing the quantity consumed.
While on this district Mr. Deece is re-
| vising forms and reports of various kinds
and abbreviating them when possible. As
soon as engineers are assigned to regu-
lar engines on regular runs he will at
tempt to secure comparative figures show
ing the work of each crew and each en-
| CINE under the existing circumstances and
the coal consumption.
| At present, owing to the heavy traffic,
crews and engines are "chain ganged."
In other words, engines and men are sent
out in rotation and not assigned to regu-
/ lor
| crews will be assigned to certain trains
and worked regularly in that way
r. A. Dugan, assistant general mana
ger of the Southern railway, with head
quarters in Washington, was in the city
yesterday. He arrived on the A. G. s.
from New Orleans yesterday morning
and left yesterday afternoon for Chatta-
nooga, Knoxville and Washington. He
was in conference with several of the
representatives and officials of the large
industrial companies.
| Milton II. Smith, president of the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad, passed
through Birmingham yesterday afternoon
on the l.. & N en- route to points on the
line south of the city.
w. j. Rosser, travelling agent of the
Burlington route, was in the city yester-
| day.
Gadsden. May 2.-(Special.)-1t is Of
cially stated that the first train on the
Alfalfa and Altoona branch of the Ala
bama Mineral division of the Louisville
and Nashville will be run next Sunday,
| when a freight train will go through from
| Birmingham to Gadsden. The work on
this extension has been delayed several
months by the heavy work on Tumin
gap, but the contractors have prom
Used to have the road completed by Fri
! day next. and the first train will be run
on the Sunday following.
A passenger schedule will be put into
effect about the 18th of May, but the
arrival of the trains will not be changed
as far as Gadsden is concerned. The
evening train. which passes through
| Gadsden, will go on to Birmingham,
reaching there about o'clock.
This new branch is only fifteen and a
half miles long. but 1t passes through
some of the richest land in the south, in
all Kinds of minerals. Several of the
large steel and iron companies now OPP
Grating In Alabama have land along this
new branch, among them being the Ala
bama Steel and Wire company, the Ala
bama Iron and Steel company, the Elliott
Chapman Coal and Coke company. the
Van Zandt company and the National
Furnace company. One or tine greatest
advantages to be derived by Gadsden by
of 10 wi bQ 40 ah aa N
fuel supply which will be opened up to
the city and section. The Louisville and
Nashville proposes to divert 100 cars Of
freight from the main line every day to
relieve the congestion. The opening Of
this road means a great deal to this
section, and especially to Gadsden.