The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-19
TO MANAGE
 LOCAL BUREAU wv. P. Lewis is Chosen
 For the Place. AN EXPERIENCED RATE MAN He Will Have Charge of Montgom : cry Adjustment. Montgomery Merchants VIII Profit by
 Reductions Already secured.--- i President vandiver is Pleas
 ed With the Selection. 

Walter P. Lewis, of New York, forS merly of Alabama. has ben elected Manager of the Montgomery Freight Bureau and will assume the position February L. with offices in suite 5s. Moses Building.
 Mir. w. F. Yandiver. President of the Bureau, made this announcement yes- terday. saying that the Board of Di- rectbrs of the Bureau had made con- tract with Mir. Lewis for a term of years.
 Mir. Lewis is Traffic Manager of the Metropolitan Steamship Company. which operates a line of steamers be. tween New York and Boston. He be-. gan his railroad and traffic career at Marion, Ala,,S and has had twenty four years experience as an employee and official of raii- roads and steamship lines. He will not come to Montgomery as a stran- ger. as he was located here twice as an official of railroad companies and resided several years in Marion and in Selma.
 Experienced Rate Ohicial.
 In 1882 Mr. Lewis began as an office boy in the railroad depot at Marion under W. F. Davis as agent, and work ed himself to the position of Chief Clerk. Later he went to Selma as Chief Clerk for E. B. Evans. then agent of the old c. S. and M. Railroad and when 1t was merged into the West ern Railway he continued in this ca pacity with the consolidated agent. James Lauderdale. In 1889 he went to Atlanta as a clerk in the office of H. Nj. Abbott, Treasurer and Auditor Of the Western Railway He came to Montgomery in 1890 as Chief Clerk in the office of Charles H. Cromwell, then Traffic Manager of the Western Rail- way, and remained here until Mir. cromwell went to the Danviile and Atlantic Railroad when Mir. Lewis went to Americus, Ga. as Chief Clerk in the office of E. s. Goodman, General Freight and Passenger Agent Of the old s. A. M Railroad. July i, 1899. he was promoted to be General Agent of this company. with headquarters fin Montgomery, and stayed here about a year when he accepted a position as Snief Clerk in the office of Cecil Cab bett, General Manager of the collnh,s Southern Railway In Columbus. Ga.
 Successively Mir. Lewis served as Commercial Agent of the Georgia and Alabama Railroad at Columbus. Ga. Chlef Of Solicitation in charge of tho export cotton business of the Central or Georgia Railway at Savannah. Ga Chief Clerk to General Freight Agent or the Georgia and Alabama Railroad at Savannah. Ga.; Chief Clerk to tho General Freight and Passenger Agent of the Ocean Steamship Company in New York: Chief Clerk to Traffic Man ager of the Metropolitan Steamship Company in New York; Acting Trafic Manager of this company and a short while ago was called to the head of the traffic department of this company.
 MT. Vandiver said yesterday that MT. Lewis had the reputation of being a very aggressive man of wide experi- once in rate matters and that the mem bers of the Board of the Freight Bu- reau felt gratified over their ability to secure such Manager for the local Bureau
 It is expected that the Bureau under the management of MT. Lewis will con- tinue the work of rate adjustment which has been the object of Mir Van divers attention for the last i've months.
 Reductions in Rates.
 ''The reductions we have already se- cured" said Mir. Vandiver yesterday, will amount to many thousands of dollars a year for Montgomery and Selma shippers. The items we have al+ ready re-adjusted will run from SIP to $i64 per car of twenty tons"
 Where do the reductions in rates apply from in the Western territory?" MT. Vandiver was asked.
 The rates from Cincinnati and Ev- ansville to be reduced the same extent per hundred pounds as the reduction from Louisville.
 Rates from points north of the Ohio river on and west of the Buffalo Pittsburg zone, as well as from points west of the Mississippi river. are di- rectly affected by the change from the Ohio river or St. Louis. except that the Buffalo -Pittsburg-W Wheeling Erie-Ash- land zone, which are made not only as related to the west but from the cast as well, this territory will not be af- fected to the same eXent Der hundred pounds as the Ohio river or St. Louis, except wherever the adjustment from the zone referred to is fixed at the pres- ent time with relation to the west, re- auctions therefrom will also be the,l same number of cents per hundred"
 number of Selma merchants who were in Montgomery yesterday had conferences with MT. Vandiver rela- tive to the freight rate establishments. and 1t is understood that they are much interested in the work of the local l