The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-21
RAILROAD WORLD

W. E. Christian, assistant general pas senger agent of the Seaboard in Atlanta, spent yesterday in Birmingham and left last night over the Frisco for Memphis.
 "Our Memphis through business has proven very successful since we put on a through train from Memphis to Ports mouth" said MT. Christian, and through sleeper from Memphis to New York in connection with the Frisco.
 'I think it is the idea and wish of MT. Ryan, our general passenger agent, to make a through connection later with our other two trains out of Birmingham, Nos. 3S and fl. This will be done as soon as we consider it practicable.
 With the opening of the spring it is the purpose of the Seaboard to give the people of Birmingham an up-to-date serv- ice with cheap rates to summer resorts on our line between Birmingham and At lanta."
 J. M Barr president of the Seaboard; E. F. Cost, second vice president, and c. B. Ryan, general passenger agent, sailed yesterday from Tampa for Cuba
 The Seaboard has established a passen- ger and freight office in Cuba and the representative is MT. l.. M Shipman, whose headquarters are in Havana.
 J. G. Cantrell, assistant general freight agent of the SeAboard, left Monday for Portsmouth to have a conference with General Freight Agent c. L. Capps.
 
 The Seaboard is having built 1000 new freight cars, a number of new passenger coaches and several cafe cars. Some of this equipment will be sent to the Blr- mngham division to be used in the through business between Memphis and New York.
 Representatives of the various railroads who attended the recent meeting of the Southeastern Passenger association in Tampa are complimenting J. N. Cornat- ger, assistant general passenger agent of the Frisco. on an after dinner speech he made at the Spanish banquet rendered by the Board of Trade of Tampa. There were about 200 present at the banquet and it is said that the talk of MT. Cornatzer was one of the most humorous of the evening.
 J. S. B. Thompson, general agent of the Southern railway in Atlanta, is In the city He is also secretary of the Birmingham Terminal company, which is seeking franchises from the city coun- cil to erect a union passenger station on Twenty-sxth street between Fourth and Sixth avenues.
 Mr. Thompson and the directors of the company each of whom represents one If the railroads which will use the new station. will appear before the proper committee of the council today to secure the franchise Among other things the company desires to sink Fifth avenue under the station by building handsome subway to cost more than S2oO,00o. George L. Word, general southern agent of the Wabash railroad with head quarters in Atlanta, was in the city yes terday He was accompanied by b. Ii. Blair, travelling freight and passenger agent of the same railroad with head quarters in Atlanta.
 J. R. Davidson, commercial agent of the Cincinnati Northern with headquar- ters in Cincinnati. was in Birmingham yesterday.
 c. B. Gwathmey has been appointed travelling passenger agent of the Sea- board with headquarters in Atlanta. He succeeds Fred Geissler, who was trans ferred to Memphis when the Seaboard opened an office in that city. c. L. Lockwood. general passenger agent of the Grand Rapids and Indiana, a part of the Pennsylvania system; c. H Hagerty district passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railroad; George w. Weedon. assistant general passenger agent of the lines of the Pennsylvania railroad west of Pittsburg, and R. H. Lacey. southern passenger agent of the Pennsylvania will arrive in Birmingham this morning and will spend the day here. They will visit the various points of interest in the city and suburbs.
 G. B. Magruder, general agent of the Fort Worth and Denver City railroad with headquarters in New Orleans, was in Birmingham yesterday.
 c. F. Pierce, rate clerk in the office of w. c. Rinearson, general passenger agent of the Queen and Crescent route, has been appointed chief clerk to the general passenger agent of the Cincin- natl, Hamilton and Dayton with head quarters in Cincinnati.