The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

vile and Nashville The car was on track at Clay street-right where the battle field had been two weeks be- fore-and General Manager Mann of the Mobile and Ohio, with the attorneys of both the Louisville and Nashville and Mobile and Ohio. President George c. Smith of the Western, with General Harrison. Right then the treaty of peace was signed and the dogs of war caled off
 The Louisville and Nashville and Western had agreed to the proposals of the Mobile and Ohio and the cross ing at Clay Street wts put in. The Mobile and Ohio bridge was almost fin ished about this time and the work of completing the track between Mont gomery and the river was rushed through. June 15, 1898. the Mobile and Ohio ran it's first train into Montgom- cry. Dan Buhl was division freight agent in Montgomery at the time, and ase he had been soliciting freight for this train for some time previously, the train came into Montgomery with a long string ofN Nheavily-loadedr freight
 wesssFRE Terminals.
 For a year or so before that the Western Railway, under the manage ment of President Smith, had been buy ing valuable property on TallapoSa Street. on which they were erecting their superb general office building, and terminals on the corner of Coosa and Tallapoosa Streets. July 1, 1893, the general offices of the company were moved from the old building near the present shops into the handsome new building. This made every railroad coming to Montgomery having freight terminals either on Tallapoosa Street or near It. The Louisville and Nash ,A foot of Lee Street and close to Talla- poosa. The Plant System had it's freight terminals and agents office at the head of Tallapoosa Street on the corner of Columbus and North Court, the tracks of the Belt Line connecting every one of them. The Georgia and Alabama passed into the hands of the Seaboard Air Line about that time, and they began buying property. They got hold of the old Raoul place on the corr ner of Columbus7 and North Perry Streets and q conlmodious freight depot and agents office was built there
 The Western Railroad has already begun the work of building it's new shops, which, when completed, will cost The Louisville and Nashville is now spending $5O,O0O in enlarging the trackage of their yards in North Mont gomery. The Atlantic Coast Line has plans on foot for tearing down the old Coles mansion and building modern general office buildings and freight terminals No steps have been taken on this yet. but 1t all serves to show the money that the railroads will build in Montgomery within the next few years.
 A few days ago the Mobile and Ohio began improving. some property bought in 1S92-the triangular block beginning at the intersection of Coosa, Tallapoosa and Jefferson Streets, and extending for two of the blocks between Jeffer- son and Tallaposa Street, terminating where the Roman Cotton Company now Is. on the corner of Perry and Jefferson Streets. They will put two lines of tracks in there to be used as an over flow freight yard.
 This puts Montgomery, in December, 1906, seventy two years since the char ter of Colonel Pollard's Montgomery Railroad Company" among the leading railroad centers of the New South. Many are the changes that have taken place since those old days. and from the struggling village of small wooden houses, Montgomery is now city of palatian homes. modern brick and stone buildings. paved streets; in fact, modern 1908 American citq
 With the railroads. there have been changes as material as those of Mont gomery. The Plant System is now