The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
SOUTHERN MAKES
 SEVERAL CHANGES New Divisions Will Be Formed to Better the Service OTHER RAILROAD NEWS Assistant Superintendent Lassiter Will Be Made Superintendent of the
 Selma Division of the
 Southern.
OTHER RAILROAD NEWS

of the many changes on the Southern railway. which will divide the various divisions into smaller ones. and which will mean the swapping of a division from the western district to the middle district, and one from the middle to the western.
 The Memphis division. which is now un- der the supervision of General Supern- terdent Foreacre is to be placed in the middle district. of which M. M. Richey
 is general superintendent. The Macon di- vision, from Atlanta to Brunswick, is to be placed in the western district under Mir Foreacre, both of which changes are considered logical. The Memphis division business naturally goes to Knoxville and therefore under the domain of the middle district and the Macon division business is in close touch with the western district business.
 The Birmingham divisoin is to be split in two. W. N. Deuel will be superintend- ent of the lines from Birmingham to Co., lumbus. Miss. including the Birmingham terminals, with headquarters in Birmng- ham, The lines from Weems, the east ern end of the Birmingham terminals, will be turned over to the Atlanta division to operate. amounting to about l6O miles Assistant Superintendent Lassiter will be made superintendent of the Selma divi- sion. which includes the lines from Br- mingham to Selma and the Rome, Dalton and Selma through Anniston, Talladega and that territory to Anniston Super irtendent Stanfield of the Mobile division, will have all lines south of Selma on what will be known as the Mobile di- vision.
 The Northern Alabama is to be added to the Birmingham division under MT. Deuel. which is considered another logical thing There is a greater exchange of business between the Birmingham divi- sion and the Northern Alabama than be- tw cen the Northern Alabama and the Memphis dvisoin, and 1t is believed that the change will be a great benefit.
 The Knoxville division is to be divided in three parts. c. c. Hodges, assistant superintendent of the Knoxville division, is to be superintendent of one division at Chattanooga; C. l.. Harris is to be superintendent of the Knoxville terminals and F. F.. Morris is to be superintendent of the remainder of the present division. There will be division between Atlanta and Greenville. S. C., and one between | Greenville and Charlotte.
 | All of these changes are made to bring l the superintendents into closer touch with | the shippers and enable them to get over | their divisions oftener and find out what | is going on It is believed that this
 will result in a great improvement ir
 the service. Beside the changes men,
 toned. there will he number of divi- | sons cut in half on the other two dis l tricts of the Southern.
 The Southern has added another train ! out of Atlanta for Washington in order i to carry out it's policy of not holding
 trains and thereby bettering the passenger service and preventing late trains. The new train out of Atlanta will leave
 on time every day. It Is scheduled to leave just ahead of train 3S, the vestibuled l limited, and 1t will not be held for con
 nections or for any other reason. It will
 run through to Washington, making all stops that No. 3S makes now. Leaving a | short while later. No. 3S will make several
 connections in Atlanta, such as the train | from Birmingham, but it will not be held l there for connections Train No 10 leaves 1 still later, and this train will catch all
 connections that train 3S misses. The Southern will not have the mail service after January ,, but it is probable
 that trains 97 and 9S. now used as mail | trains, will be continued for passenger
 service. It is not anticipated that these
 trains out of Birmingham will be changed
 at all.
 | O. M. Conley, assistant general freight
 agent of the Frisco in St. Louis, and w. T. Tyler, general superintendent i'll Springfield, were in Birmingham yester-
 day.
 | w. N Foreacre. general superintendent
 of the western district of the Southern, returned yesterday from Washington, | where he attended the funeral of Samuel l Spencer, late president of the Southern.
 MT. Foreacre said yesterday that he had
 never seen so much respect paid the mem-
 ory of any man, and that every railroad
 in the country. seemingly, had a repre-
 sentative at the funeral He said the
 services were very impressive. | R. H. Lacey, southern passenger agent
 of the Pennsylvania lines. with headquar-
 ters in Nashville, was in Birmingham yes
 terday
 l J. H. McAllister, commercial agent of i the Norfolk and Western in Chattanooga,
 was in Birmingham yesterday.
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