The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-25
RAILROAD WORLD.

The various officials of the southern' inc Queen and Crescent and the Moplle and Ohio. who spent Wednesday ana yes terdav in Birmingham left last night with the exception of J. s. E. Ihomp- son. general agent of the Southern ih Atlanta. He leaves this afternoon al 650 o'clock.
 The officials spent yesterday on the woodlawn- Bessemer division or the Southern on tour of inspection nun her of improvements have been nade on that portion of the Southern hiles in the Birmingham district, and w. w. Finley. second vice president, desired 10 inspect them. These Improvements ih- clude the yards at North Birlninghah and the cut off to the Mobile Junction.
 The party left on special traln al W lo o'clock and returned shoruy Hltei iA o'clock. On the trip visit was paid 10 inc nlant of the Woodward Iron com pany at Woodward
 MT. Finley left yesterday afternoon as e:50 o'clock for Atlanta and Washington. w. A. Garrett, general manager ol the Queen and Crescent, left at t:o0 O CLOCK for Chattanooga and Cincinnati. '. II. Aclxert. fourth vice president. went to Louisville on the Louisville and Nashville at noon yesterday. H. B. Spencer, gen. eral manager of the Southern ana L. Green, freight traffic manager, went to Louisville via Chattanooga, and .. B. Mc- Manus went to Chattanooga ana KNOX vile.
 w 10 Christian, assistant general pas senger agent of the Seaboard, with head quarters in Atlanta, accompanied py ms son. Jackson. are in the city. MT. Chris tian came yesterday morning ana VIII remain in the city until this afternoon. He said yesterday:
 we are very much gratified with the passenger business of the Seaboard be- tween Birmingham and Atlanta. IL IS showing a wonderful increase anu we believe that it will continue to grow. July showed A remarkable increase over June, and August is showing gratifying im- provement oyer the July business. When the fall travel commences we expect to show a still greater increase in busi- ness.''
 Warren l.. Rohe, western passenger agent of the Norfolk and Western, with headquarters in Chattanooga, spent yes terday in Birmingham
 "The quarantine is of course hurting our passenger business to some extent. Travel to the summer resorts of North V Virginia has been very heavy, and the mountains are filled with people. l have never seen so many people at the sum- mer resorts before.
 q am q great believer in the quaran- tine and favor a national quarantine. Without the quarantine the entire south might suffer an epidemic, and then the freight and passenger traffic would be tied up and the railroads would suffer. If we had national quarantine and 1t had taken charge of the New Orleans situation when the fever was first dis covered there would have been no need to quarantine anywhere except right around New Orleans.
 At the meeting of the southeastern Passenger association to be held at ..t- lantic City on August 30 the question of selling tickets in the down town offices of the various roads will probably come up for consideration.
 A railroad man said yesterday that the building of the new union passenger sta ton would make 1t imperative to sell tickets in the down town offices of the various roads, and that the question would be settled very soon in order that the various roads could begin making the necessary arrangements. It is doubtful if any action will be taken on the ques- ton at this meeting.
 c. A. Benscoter assistant general pas- senger agent of the Southern, with head quarters in Chattanooga, was in the city yesterday.
 M. M. RIchey, assistant general super intendent = the Southern, will leave this morning for Chattanooga on 10 Queen & Crescent train at 5:45 o'clock.
 J.. F. Van Rensselaer,, general agent of the Union and Southern Pacific roads in Atlanta, was in the city yesterday.