The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30


cent was shown in the receipts at the
union passenger ticket office for the holt
day trade as compared with last year.
While the exact figures are not obtain
able, the increase In business during the
dates of the sale of holiday tickets was
about $50 600, which brought the total hol
iday receipts up to about $4,000. The
dates of sale for the Christmas rates was
December 20-e5, inclusive.
The largest receipts for one day were
about $4,000 which is a good increase over
any previous sale for one day, and there
were several days on which the sales
amounted to almost that much.
Union Ticket Agent Luckett declined to
give any figures about the holiday busi-
| ness further than to state that the in
crease was between 80 and 40 per cent,
and that the business was much larger
than it had ever been before.
The sales for Christmas, 1906 were prac-
tioally twice as large as those for 1904,
and considerably more than twice as large
as in 1903.
People who were at the union station
during the holidays can easily believe the
figures in regard to the increase in sales
of tickets. The station was packed with
people from morning to night for three
or four days, and there were hundreds of
people every day who were unable to get
inside the waiting rooms for hours at a
time.
E. A. deFuniaE, general freight agent
of the lines of the Louisville and Nash
| VILE south of Decatur with headquarters
in Montgomery. spent yesterday in Biz
mingham.
When the changes in schedule on the
Southern and the Alabama Great South
ern go into effect on January there will
be three trains scheduled to arrive in Bir-
mingham after II midnight. One of these
is on the Southern and two on the Queen
and Crescent.
Railroad men are discussing the mat
ter of street car accommodation for the
people arriving on these late trains, and
the matter will probably be taken up with
the officials of the Birmingham Railway,
Light and Power company.
There are already street cars on sew
eral of the lines which do not leave the
city until after 70 o'clock at night, and
!
late as 1890 o'clock. When the trains are
oil time these cars will accommodate the
people, but when the trains are late the
people will either have to walk or hire
| hacks.
1t is not believed that owl cars would
pay in Birmingham, although they have
been suggested several times, and Super
irtendent Harris of the street railway
company has considered the matter. The
railroad men state that they believe the
street railway company will take care
| of this late business. as 1t has always
taken care of Birmingham in the matter
of street car service.
A special from Hattiesburg, Miss, says:
D. C. Dunlap of Chicago, engineer in
charge of the preliminary reconnaissance
of the route of the Birmingham and Mis-
sssippi Southern railroad, projected to
run from Birmingham to Baton Rouge
and thence into New Orleans. has just
completed his trip from Hattiesburg to
Birmingham over the line of the road,
having previously made the journey over
land from Baton Rouge to Hattiesburg.
Accompanied by Secretary VIII A. Aaron,
who has Travelled with him over the whole
of the route, he returned to this
last night, and this morning the two
started for Waynesboro, Miss, whence
they will travel over the branch line from
that place to Scranton. At Scranton they
will investigate the prospects for suitable
terminals They report that at Brming
ham they found conditions favorable to
securing easy access to that city. They
inspected various short lines of road on
the route which 1t is proposed to incor-
porate into the big system. Mr.. Aaron
made the declaration that the contracts
for most of the system would be let soon,
and that work would be pushed from
| half dozen starting points Simultaneous
| ly, as there Is no question OF the COM
pany having ample backing with which to
push the enterprise. Mr.. Aaron said that
at the completion of these preliminary
surveys he thought the affairs of the com
pany would be In such shape as that the
public could be taken into the confidence
| of the promoters, and it will then be
made known who are behind the road
F. e. Resler, travelling agent of the