The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-13
REBUILDING BRIDGE
REPAIRING wRECkAGE DONE By
STORM AT ESCAMBIA RIVER.

REPAIRING WRECkAGE DONE By
STORM AT ESCAMBlA RIVER.
During Progress Of Work TraMc Is
Being Seat to Florida
Polnts By. Way Of
The task Of rebuilding the long
bridge over Escambia River on the
Pensacola Division of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company has
been rushed night and day since the
recent storm.
The bridge and approaches include
one mile and half in length, but 1t
Is thought that 1t will be virtually
completed by the early part of next
week. All business, freight and pas
senger. out of Montgomery for River
Junction and Jacksonville has been go
Ing around by the Alabama and Flor
ida division to Opp and then down to
Florala where connection Is made with
the Yellow River Railroad which con-
meets with the Pensacola and Atlanta
near Crestview. Fla.
Car after car of tim5er and bridge
material have been going out Of the
Montgomery yards to the work at Es
Gambia River. and 1t is thought that
the last cars left here for that place
yesterday morning.
Superintendent Mckinney of the Mo-
bile and Montgomery division of the
Louisville and Nashville says that the
rush of freight business all the way
from Montgomery to New Orleans is
something enormous. The car famine
is causing lots Of trouble on that line
and as fast as cars can be unloaded
the emptIes are hurried to other points
along the l:ne.
The work on the new tracks at the
South and North Yards in North Mont
gomery. which was well under way
when the storm caused all the men
employed there to be rushed to the
Tensas swamps and the New Orleans
division. will probably be started again
new tracks built with room for be-
tween $50 and 400 more cars than the
present capacity of the yards.
Erie Road Claims Credit.
The Erie Railroad Company has is
sue a public notice that the maximum
rate per mile over it's lines after No
vember ! will be reduced to 1-2 cents.
and in an accompanying statement
takes credit for the conditions that are
expected to result from other lines in
Central Passenger Association terri
tory meeting the reduction. The state
ment says in part
1.-The advocates for cheaper railroad
fares have urged that they are the
same today as during war times, and
that the increased population has nat
urally increased travel to an extent
that the present rate. based on cent
a mile, is no longer ju'stifiable. for
getful Of the fact that the cost of han
ding such traffic has increased materi-
ally within the last decade. Wher-
ever the population along steam lines
has become dense enough to justify 1t
electric lines have stepped In and
taken away the larger percentage Of
~ ton NJ hA ri n
in thus voluntarily reducing its fares
will. of course, be followed by other
lines, but nevertheless the credit for
this concession to the public will be-
long to the Erie as being the pioneer
in the march of progress. The Erie's
new rate is less than obtains for first
class accommodations on any other
great system in this country or that
prevails in any other country in the
world"
The New Railroads.
The aggregate railway mileage I'M
der contract for construction or an
immediate prospect in the United states
and Canada is more than $4,000 miles
says worlds Work. The aggregate
Of cash to be used in this construction
and In the great projects of the Amer
lean trunk line railways is more than
s75o. 900, 900 If the entire gold pro-
duction of the world in the two great
est gold years Oh nis'orH W.T. a.
piled to thlS CONSTRUCTION IL "o"i' ian
far short of meeting 1t.
In the early part of the year the
Railway Age compiled the railway pro-
jects at that time uhoor c"n'ractS VI
under construction III the '"'''' ''otee
This COMPUTATION showed an 'SSreSa'e
of more than l3.ooo miles iocateo as
follows:
Miles.
Now England states ..... 90