The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-31
FORUPTOWN OFFICES
PROPOSAL THAT HAS UPSET RAIL-
 ROAD OFFICIALS.
Separate Ticket Windows For Races and Telephone Service at Mont EOmeFy Union Railway Sta-
 ti0n Are Installed.

The question of an up town ticket office in Montgomery has become species of nightmare that is causing bad nights for local railroad officials.
 An ordinance is pending in the City Council which if passed. will force the local railroads to open up town ticket offices And this Is just what the rail road officials are trying in every way to get out of doing Some time ago the city license for railroads was in- creased from $500 to $1.OoO a year with the provision that if an up town ticket office was opened by the rail- roads the license would he reduced.
 The opening of an up town ticket office would materially change the rail- road situation as every railroad now having an up town office would be forced to have at least one additional man. The Louisville and Nashville at present has no up town office. Tray cling Passenger Agent Wolf of that road having his desk in the office of General Freight Agent F. A Defuniak in the union railway station
 The matter will in all probability be definitely decided next Monday night when there will be regular meeting of the City Council.
 The following notice will be distrib- uted generally throughout Montgomery by the authorities of the union railway station:
 For the convenience of the travel ing public. a telephone has been i'm stalled in the ticket office of the un- ion railway station.
 For information as to passenger rates, tickets. sleeping car berths. time of arrival and departure of passenger trains at Montgomery. etc, call tele- phone No. ITO.
 It is stated that arrangements will shortly be made whereby negroes must obtain tickets at a different point from the place where white passengers are accustomed to obtain tickets. Addi- tional ticket agents have been pro- vided so that during all hours. day and night. ample force will be on hand to look after the wants of the travelin 6 public at the union station.
 It is confidently believed by the railroad authorities that with this in- creased facilities the demand for up town ticket office will be withdrawn. It is contended by the railroad author ities that the union railway station Is not located at a remote point from the business center, and even if an up town ticket office should be estab- lished the difference in distance would be insignificant. It is also suggested that the average person who wishes information as to passenger or ticket matters would ordinarily prefer to use the telephone in any event and of course the telephone service is as available with the union ticket office located at the depot as if 1t should be located further up town.
 Car Famine Continues.
 If freight cars were made from big blocks of pure gold they could hardly be more in demand by the different railroads than they are right now. It is simply impossible for the roads to fill many orders that come to them, as they cannot get the oars. A local railroad man said yesterday that some of the roads entering Montgomery were losing at the lowest estimate $1,000 a day by reason of this famine.
 The cotton crop has begun to move. and the roads are put to the direst straits in securing cars of any kind to handle the fieecy staple. The double deck system Is being used in the trans portation of cotton. Instead of send ing a car out with twenty-five bales of cotton, twenty-five additional bales are put on top of this lower tier, mak- ing one car carry fifty instead of twenty five bales. Flat cars, coal cars and every kind of car that can be grabbed is used for the moving of the cotton crop. When a number of flat cars loaded with cotton are put in a train, several additional men are sent with the train, who, with buckets of water. watch the flat cars to guard against any possibility of fire.
 This car, famine is getting worse instead of better, and the worst feat yu hot chance for any relief.