The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-03
RAILROAD WORLD.

Arrangements have been made by the Birmingham Terminal company to work shifts night and day to complete tenn. porary union passenger station on Fifth avenue, pending the completion of the new station.
 number of electric lights are being hung where the workmen are building .he temporary structure, and shifts will De worked every night in order to complete the temporary building by the first oi next year, at which time all the railroad; with the exception of the Louisville anc Nashville, will have to vacate the pres. ent station. The Louisville and Nashville owns the old station. .
 The temporary station is being built about Fourth avenue and Twenty-sixtl street, block south of the place where the main entrance of the new station will be-
 A big force is at work on the temper ary building and Walter Harrison, en- gineer in charge of construction, states that he will have a structure ready or time
 A movement which has been slowly and quietly developing is that backed by T Peyton Giles, member of the Stephen &
 
 nan of the W. S. Donnan Hardware com pany, both of Richmond, Va, to secure a federal law levying penalties for slow movement of reight In the words of the organizers 'it is proposed when there is sufficient number of business aen and organizations enrolled in this cause to petition our senators and representa- tives in Congress to pass an act enabling the interstate commerce commission to issue rule to the railroads of the coun. try requiring a reasonable time limli per day of twenty-four hours on all in terstate shipments and in default oi such time being made on such shipments the consignee to be entitled to deduct from his freight bill amount (say per cent or 10 per cent for each twenty four hours delay beyond the daily move ment fixed by the commission, and ir cases of aggravated delay the cousignet to be entitled to punitive damages 60 bt determined by the courts; in case of de lays by flood fire accident or proyi dential causes of any character the rail roads to be relieved of this rule, pro yided they notify shipper and consigned promptly of locality and cause of sucl above-described delay, and deliver sucf shipment as promptly thereafter as is possible and in case a railroad gives other than the true time, place and caus, of delay on any shipment, sum to D, fixed by the commission or a court oi competent Jurisdiction be paid to con- signee by the railroad so offending" She, this movement was started last summer it's organizers have obtained the expressed endorsement of seventy-two commerca associations and boards of trade through out the United States.
 A similar movement is being made by Representative Madden of Illinois in con junction with the American Shippers as sociation and the Illinois Manufacturers association, who are drawing up a bl which Representative Madden will present in Congress fixing a minimum mileage pei day for the movement of freight.
 A. De Bernardi, general superintendent of the central district of the Missouri Pa cific, has been transferred to Little Rock Ark. as general superintendent of the southern district, succeeding Horace BalS el. resigned. w. J. Mckee, superintend ont of the eastern division, has been ap pointed general superintendent of the central district, with office at Coffey- vile, Kan, in place of MT. De Bernardo II. c. Clark superintendent of the White River division. has been appointed su perintendent of the eastern division, witt headquarters at Sedaia, Mo, to succeed MT. Mckee. J. w. Daniels superintend. ent of the Missouri division, has beer transferred to the superintendency of tho White River division at Auroro, Mo. in place of Mr. Clark. J. Cannon, here tcfore superintendent of the Southern Kansas division, has been appointed tC succeed MT Daniels as superintendent o the Missouri division, with headquarters at De Soto, Mo. J. E. Snedeker, hereto fore trainmaster at Sedalia, Mo-, has beer appointed superintendent of the Southerr Kansas division, with office at Coffey vile, Kan. in place of Mr. Cannon. Elf fective on December l.
 W. H. Wells, engineer of construction of the Southern railway, has made public the following detailed statement of doubls track work now in progress on the South erp railway: Danville division; WinsaI to Motley, Va, about thirty-six miles Danville to Pelham, N. C., about min, miles, Pomena to Spencer. N. C., abou fcrty-four miles. Atlanta division: Peytor to AusteTl. Ga, aobut eleven miles. Knox vile division: Knoxville to Morristown Tenn, about forty miles; Cltico to Oolte wah, Tenn, about fourteen miles. Survey, and estimates for double track from Nor rstown to Asheville, eighty-seven miles have been made.