The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-05-19
SELMA AND AKRON
 ID UT NEW TRAIN Southern Will Put on Early Train Between the Towns WILL BE A CONVENIENCE President Barr of the seaboard In 6lrminsham-on a Tour of h.
 sPeotlon-ThrOush Train
 Service July 1.
WILL BE A CONVENIENCE

new train leaving Selma about o'clock every morning and reaching Ak
 ron about S:2O o'clock will be inaugu- rated on the Southern May IS. The train will leave Akron about o'clock at night and reach Selma about II :30 D. m.
 By this new train the people living at Selma, Marion, Greensboro and several other prosperous cities in that vicinity will be able to leave home early in the morning, reach Birmingham at 1925 noon and return home that night, leaving Bir- mingham at 4;4O in the afternoon.
 The new train will make connection with the A. c. S. train No 6 at Akron in the morning. and also with A. c. s. train No. 5, which reaches Akron at S:25 D. m.
 The train Is to be inaugurated at the request of ". c. Tunstall one of the railroad commissioners. MT. Tunstall has been trying to procure this train for some time, and yesterday he had a conference with Assistant General Superintendent M. M. Richey of the Southern. which re- suited in the announcement of the train.
 President J. M. Barr and General Su- perintendent F. K. Huger of the Seaboard arrived in Birmingham yesterday after noon, each of these officials travelling in his private car General Superintendent Huger was accompanied by Admiral Har- rington, U. s. N, commandant at the Portsmouth Va, navy yard and Medical Director Pearson of the Portsmouth naval hospital This party left last night for Chattanooga.
 MT Barr will remain here until this morning, when he will leave for Atlanta. He expects to reach his headquarters in Portsmouth Sunday.
 '1 am travelling over our line on tour of inspections" said MT. Barr. "The Sea- board will inaugurate it's fast passenger service between Birmingham and the east, on the first of July. But for the scarcity of labor we would have had our roadbed between Birmingham and Atlanta ready for the fast trains earlier than July l." Referring to the scarcity of labor MT. Barr said that the problem was now very serious.
 "The rapid development of the south naturally calls for a greater number of laborers in this section. Every southern state is suffering for the want of work men. South Carolina has established bureau in New York for the purpose of inducing some of the Italian immigrants to settle in that state. Other southern states will doubtless follow South Caro- lina's example,"
 MT. Barrls accompanied by Earnest Williams of Lynchburg Va, who is en- gagged in the lumber business in North and South Carolina on a very large scale.
 The Southern railway will erect a large brick freight house at Thomasville In the near future. The building will be about 120x56 feet, and will be in keeping with the large number of handsome brick buildings being erected in Thomasville. The old depot will be repaired and will be used as a passenger station and wait ing room.
 The Southern will spent about $l0,OO0 or $l2,00O at Thomasville. Most of this will go towards the erection of the new sta ton and about 5000 will be used in repair ing the old station. Since the fire which destroyed Thomasvile some months ago great improvements have been made, and a number of substantial brick buildings are being erected to take the place of those destroyed. The Southerns station will be a credit to the city.
 Train No 21 of the Southern railway, which leaves Birmingham at 12:15 mic night, will be changed to l0.s5 p. m. on May 2s. This is the date set for several important changes of schedule on the Southern, the only one of which effecting Birmingham Is train No. 21.
 Private car No. 110, which is used by Assistant General Superintendent Richey, has just come out of the repair shop and Mir. Richey used 1t for the first time on his recent trip to Washington. He said yesterday:
 T had the four wheel trucks changed to six wheel trucks and it is a won derful improvement. The car rides easier and is safer now than before.
 '"The car rode splendidly yesterday when the Southern was making 80 miles an hour on a portion of it's track on the eastern division, and this morning we were clipping off "A miles an hour on the Alabama Great Southern, coming from Chattanooga. The car was all that l could ask"
 Kansas City, May ls.-Herman Sielcken and associates of New York, who at the stockholders meeting In this city yes terday secured control of the Kansas City Southern railway, are planning ex- tensive Improvements. Daniel c. Boise van of New York. one of the directors, said today:
 "The Kansas City Southern has been held down by the voting trust. It could not be developed We intend to make it a Great Northern of this section. Just as that road sto )d in St. Paul as the feeder and fed by five or six lines. so shall the Southern be in Kansas City. We can get all the money we want now, and we shall make the road what it should be. We shall try to mske Port Arthur a port of entry so that Kansas City shall have another connection with steamship lines and the rest of tile world"