The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-11
CONSIDERING BIDS
 IOR NEW STATION Presidents of Railroads Met in
 Washington Past Week OTHER RAILROAD NEWS
As Soon as Engineers and Architects Finish Examining Bids the Con- tract Will Be Let and the
 Work Will Begin.

As soon as the engineers and archi- tects finish working out the details for the new union passenger station the con tracts will be let and the work of con struetion will commence. About fifteen bids have been submitted.
 G. B. Mccormack president of the Birmingham Terminal company returned yesterday from Washington, where he attended a conference of the presidents of the six railroads which will use the station and stated that there was no hitch whatever in the plans or the mat ter of building the railroad.
 Walter Harrison, engineer in charge of the construction of the station stated recently that there was an immense amount of work in figuring on the de- tails of the various bids. He said that he expected the actual work of construc- tion to commence about the last of the present month.
 At present the railroad companies which form the terminal company are the Southern, the Seaboard, the Illinois Cen tral, the Alabama Great Southern, the Central of Georgia and the Frisco. In regard to the Louisville & Nashville and the prospects of it's entering the union station Mir Mccormack said that so far as he knew nothing of that kind was contemplated. He said that the Louisville and Nashville had not taken any interest in the erection of the new station, as it already has a station of its own.
 By an arrangement completed yester- day the Seaboard and the Frisco will operate through day coaches from Ports mouth to Memphis via Birmingham.
 On the first of the present month the Seaboard and the Frisco completed ar arrangements for through sleepers between Memphis and New York. and the matter of running through day coaches was taken up at the time.
 The coaches come from Memphis on Frisco train 203, which arrives in Bir- mingham at $40 a. m. and they are at tached to the Seaboard train which leaves Birmingham at 6:35 a. m. Return ing the coaches reach Birmingham at 9:1O p. m over the Seaboard and are attached to the Frisco train 2O4, which leaves Birmingham at 10:30 o'clock.
 J. A. Scott assistant general passenger agent of the Illinois Central railroad, with headquarters in Memphis, spent part of yesterday in Birmingham. He is accom- panied by his wife. They were enroute to Atlanta.
 4.. J. Anderson. assistant general pas senger agent of the New Orleans & North eastern, with headquarters in New Or leans, spent yesterday in Birmingham. He was enroute to Atlanta.
 l.. Sevier, general freight agent of the Alabama Great Southern railroad, was at his office yesterday after an absence of two or three days on account of sick ness.
 l.. Green, freight traffic manager of the Southern railway with headquarters in Washington, arrived in Birmingham yes- terday morning and will be here until tonight.
 Freight business Is very heavy at pres ent and we are getting all the business that we can possibly handle" said MT. Green. This is not only true of the 6lTHuuBHdHl ulNlSloIi, Dul dISo ol lIie eH- tire system
 Since June, 1904, the Southern railway has ordered about 21,OOO freight cars, more than the system had when 1t was first organized. We now have orders placed for large amount of equipment"
 w. N. Foreacre, assistant general super intendent of the Southern railway, re- turned to Birmingham yesterday.