The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-28
New Train Established Between
Birmingham and Sheffield,
Florence and Tuscumbia
CARRIES The AGE HERALD
INTO LARGE TERRITORY
Party of Birmingham Business Men
VIII Go on Train This Morning
to Meet Business Men
Along the Route.

The Age-Herald's Northern Alabama
Flyer leaves Birmingham this morning on
it's initial trip.
The train runs from Birmingham to
Parrish over the Southern and from Par
IRISH to Sheffield, Florence and Tuseumbia
over the Northern Alabama road. 1t will
leave Birmingham at o'clock and will
reach Sheffield at II o'clock. Returning
it will leave Sheffield at 1890 o'clock and
arrive in Birmingham at $50 o'clock to-
night.
On the train will be a large party of
business men of Birmingham, guests Of
The Age-Herald on the inaugural trip. On
this outing the party will meet merchants
and business men at all the cities be
tween Birmingham and the Tri-Clties.
The party will remain for half an hour
at Sheffield where a number of promi-
nent men of the Tri-Cities will meet 1t.
This is the newest train out OF Biz
mingham, and it promises to be one OF
the most important to Birmingham peo-'
pie and also to people living between Biz
mingham and the Tri-Cities.
It will carry The Age-Herald, with all
the latest state, foreign and local news,
into twenty-six towns which have previ-
ously not received the news until late In
the afternoon. The same train will carry
mail from al parts of the country into
Northern Alabama.
A dozen representatives of The Age
Herald will be on the train this morning
with a thousand or more copies of this
mornings paper to be distributed at the
various stopping places.
The edition of The Age-Herald that
goes into North Alabama on this train
will not be a pony edition, published
before midnight and before more than
half of the news has been received from
all parts of the world over the Associated
Press wire, and by special service 1t will
contain all the news up to o'clock ev-
cry morning 1t will contain the full As
ISOLATED Press service, all the state news
dispatches up to the hour the telegraph
offices are closed at night, and all the
news of the birmingham district happen
ing as late as o'clock.
This paper will go into every city and
town between Birmingham and the Tri-
Cities before noon every day, practically
six hours earlier than the paper has ever
reached any of those cities in the past.
The new service is the result of an earn
est effort on the part of The Age-Herald
to get the Southern and the Northern
Alabama to inaugurate this service. The
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Birmingham at an early hour every morn
ing on the Southern going west, and con-
Meeting with train on the Northern
Alabama at Parrish, would be of vast
benefit to every merchant, business man
and travelling man in Birmingham and
the Birmingham district. 1t also realized
that every business man and merchant
between Birmingham and the Tri-Cities
would be benefited greatly. The Age
Herald also realized that it would afford
great opportunity to send the paper
into thousands of homes and offices in the
twenty-six cities and towns along the two
roads, furnishing the freshest news for
everyone.
The Birmingham party will make the
trip this morning on special cars pro-
vided for the occasion. Southern private
car No. ia and passenger coach No. 1858
will be used. The coach is one of the
very newest of the Southern railway, and
accommodates a large number Of people.
Lunch will be served all the guests of
The Age-Herald on the private car.
The new train will serve to bring these
merchants and business men into much
closer touch with each other, and will
make their business relations much
closer and more intimate.
All the travelling men in the Birming-
ham district will appreciate this new
train. They have long wanted just such
a train out of Birmingham in the morn
ing in order that they might work the
territory to greater advantage. 1t will
enable them to leave Birmingham in the
morning, go even as far as Sheffield,
Florence and Tuscumbia, and return the
same day. In the cities closest to Bir-
mingham they can canvass two three or
even four in one day and return that
night. Thus it is that this mornings train
practically opens up new territory for the
Birmingham merchant.
The train out of Birmingham in the
morning is No. 49, which formerly left
Birmingham at 1926 p. m, and reached
the Tri-Cities about o'clock at night.
Returning, the train left the Tri-Cities
about 10 o'clock in the morning and
reached Birmingham at p. M Instead
of reaching Birmingham at o'clock
train No Sc, Will reach here at $3.50 p. m.
At the same time that these other
changes are made a train will be inau-
, gurated between the Tri-Cities and Biz
mingham that will leave Florence, Shelf
field and Tuscumbia about 4 o'clock in
the mornn, connect with the Corona ac-
commodation at Parrish, and arrive in
birmingham at 1915 a. M. instead Of
at 9:35 a. m. The train from the Tri-
Cities TO Parrish is new one and from
Parrish to Birmingham is the Corona ac-
commodation.
Returning, this train will leave Biz
mingham at $40 p. M, and reach Parrish
at D. M, making connection with the
Northern Alabama train. which will
reach Sheffield, Florence and Tuscumbia
about 10 o'clock at night
The Age-Herald's Northern Alabama
Flyer leaving Birmingham every morn
ing at o'clock. after connecting at Par
IRISH for Sheffield, will run through to
Columbus Miss.