The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-17
PRESIDENT BARR
 PAYS LAST VISIT
Retiring Seaboard Official Here
 Last Night
OTHER RAILROAD NEWS
w. A. Garrett, General Manager of the Queen and Crescent Route, Spent Yesterday in 5lrmlne-
 ham--Harvey on Visit.

JIM. Barr, president of the seaboard. arrived in Birmingham late last night on | his last official trip, as he retires AS president on May l, He was accompanied by C. If. Hix, general superintendent: W. L. seddon, chief engineer. and Mir Wn- llams a partner of MT. Barr In the lum- Der business.
 The party will leave this morning at j:35 o'clock for Atlanta and Portsmouth The officials came to Birmingham from Anniston, where they have been nvesti- gatlng conditions rqelative to building an extension from the main line between Birmingham and Atlanta to Annlston.
 In speaking of the matter last night Mr Barr said:
 We are contemplating building into Anniston, but that is not definitely set tied yet. We have been to Annlston figur- ing on the matter, the cost of construc- ton and other things. I was returning from Florida, where I have been several days, and went to Anniston from Talla- hassee."
 
 Queen and Crescent Route spent yester- day in Birmingham on one of bis usual tours of inspection, and will leave this morning at 5;45 o'clock on train No 2 for Chattanooga and Cincinnati
 MT. Garrett said that If there was any deal on foot for the purchase of the New Orleans and Northeastern, the Ala
  Shreveport and Pacific, by the Southern, or long lease on the property, he knew nothing about it.
 c. c. Harvey, president of the New Orleans and Northeastern. the Alabama and Vicksburg and the Vieksburg Shreveport and Pacific. spent yesterday in Birmingham, accompanied by W. J. Kel- leher, purchasing agent of the roads. He returned to New Orleans yesterday after noon at 4:30 o'clock
 Mir Harvey will leave shortly for u trip to Europe, and report in railroad circles has 1t that this trip is in con nection with the reported lease of the three roads, of which he is president, by the Southern railway, or the possible Ol the three
 Railroad men say that the re-establish- ment of the old Queen and Crescent Route under one management, would be an ideal railroad condition, as all rates and schedules could then be arranged to much better result
 A majority of the stock of the roads of which AIr. Harvey is president, Is held nit ic bo is going to Europe to make the final arrangements for the transfer or to sign the lease.
 w. J. Murphy, vice president of the Queen and Crescent Route passed through Birmingham last night on train No. l, at 10;20 o'clock en route to Mexico. He was accompanied by Mrs. Murphy, and they will spend two or three weeks in Mexico.
 MT Murphy is in search of rest and & little recreation after rather stren- uous winter in Cincinnati. He is travelling in his private car.
 J. S. B. Thompson, general agent of the Southern railway in Atlanta, spent
 
 retary of the Birmingham Terminal com- pany
 The state railroad commission will com mence a tour of inspection today over the lines of the Southern railway in Ala bama, and it is probable that the re- mainder of the week will be consumed in this duty.
 The Louisville and Nashville and the Queen and Crescent Route are making great preparations to handle the veterans to the reunion to be held in New Or leans next week. The movement will be the largest that Birmingham has ever known. and the railroads expect to show an increase of nearly 50 per cent oyer any previous movement through Brming- ham.
 The Queen and Crescent expects to have to use every piece of equipment at it's command. All the locomotives that can be secured. even the freight engines, will be pressed into service. and it is probable that every coach on the route that can be spared will be used.
 w. N. Foreacre. assistant general super intendent of the Southern. returned to the city yesterday after a long stay on the road. Since his appointment to that position about three months ago he has been almost constantly on the road. He was recently in Washington at the semi annual meeting of the superintendents of the various divisions to arrange the time card.