The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-13
Railroad Men Surprised by Heavy Traffic.
winter Travel, says an omcial of the Mobile and ohio, This Yesr-sas Becn Double that of Any
 Previous Year.
By will T. sheehan.

Mobile, Feb 12.--(Staff Corresponds ence. )-The soft life of the Gulf coast appeals to man, no less than 10 does to the instinct of tho wild birds of the North. 1t is the migrating season for man, Oven as 1t Is for the birds of the air.
 The honking geese and the cluster ing ducks~have come to be harbingers of the coming of their human neigh bcrs in the North. Through ffeecy cloud and rain. with a busy world be- low them, the freer citizens of the air cleave their way to the soft sunshine and the warm breezes of Americas Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico. They come earlier, too. being independ- ent and having naught to consider but their comfort. and for this native in- stinct stretches forward their neck, in the flight through the air. eager and steadfast in purpose.
 When air ships are made man IS go- | ing to do the same thing and in the same way. Then man is going to chose his way to the luxuriance of the Guif climate through fleece and sunshine For the present the best he can do l is to take a Pullman. If he be thrifty 1 he migrates with s16 excursion ticket 1 in his pocket with his knees propped up on the seat in front of him. There | are tkOdS6HoS Ok thto ~~st -t- ~fe~ Pullmans ana the day coaches.
 Unpreeedented Movement. The railroad people have never seen anything like the movement South this year. If Marai Gras was on. they might look for something like this travel. but Mardi Gras is weeks away, The heavy Southern movement Is en- | tirely unexpected and without season I Of course. there was going to be a | |. aAa ThaFa l has always been such al movement but the railroads were not prepared | for the scope it has assumed.
 A day or so ago The Advertiser chronicied the congestion of traffic on I the Louisville and Nashville, conges' ] tion which came of the fullness Of the winter travel and traffic. It was told | that every yard, every sidetrack, pore burdens of waiting cars, and overflow from this flood and freshet of travel | Every regular passenger train thai comes into Alabama from the North comes in with every car. with every | seat filled Extra sections, additiona | trains are the rule now, rather than tho l exception The trainmen tell you thai they have never before had such tasks lIt's double out" double out neari, i all the time. | "I undertake to say" said well known official of the Mobile and Ohio | "that the winter travel to those parts O 1 the South is at least double that of an. other year, for the big roads. For oui i road, and have no doubt the same | l true of the other lines running Nortl and South, can say that we are taxed l to very near the limit to handle ou | passenger business. Extra trains ar constantly demanded
 l south im Advertised.
 "The South for one thing is adver tiser to it's advantage better than eve before In the North it is now beini regarded and justly, as one of tn I most prosperous. one of the most prom ising sections of America. They hav learned,- too, that there iS no fine climate. no matter where they ma! travel, than the splendid climate whicl is the boast of the Gulf coast"
 Mobile is a natural distributinl point, for this winter traved. o course much of 1t goes through to Ney Orleans. The race track crowd---an' It is a very bis one-goes through ' the New Orleans racing meet. Pull mans race through Mobile as they d through Montgomery. filled with tour ists who have time and money to spend twho want to spend the remaining week of winter in the sunshine in New Or learns or along the Texas coast.
 ! But still Mobile gets more than ue Idue share of the commerce and busi lness which comes of winter travel lit is almost as great 8 distriputini Ipoint for tourists and homeseekers a 1.-the larger city of New Orleans. It 1 mot a bad hotel town--even withou lthe Battle House--which is to say tha Iit has hotel room adequate to its sig land importance And yet not one Ibut often has it so happened that tn travellers filled all the hotels, an there was neither room nor place fo lthe late conner. In these winter week lit is the normal condition of the Mo bile Hotel to have a tax on its bes Icapacity.
 The Middle WesternerH.
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