The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-23
TO CUT TRAINS OFF
RuMoRs AFLoAr AMONG SOUTHERN
 RAILWAY EMPLOYEs.
Passenger Tretns May De Discontinued sn Many hlnes Throughout the {. state neginnin6 With the
 New Year.
Advertlser Bureau.

Advertiser Bureau.
 Selma. Dec. 22.
 With the approach of the new year. there are many rumors afoat among the employees of the Southern Railway. as to what that system will do here during the coming twelve months. These rumors are unconnrmed, but 1t ts more than likely the next ten days will prove that q part of the rumors are true.
 The principal one of these, and the one which will be felt, the most If 1t proves true. Is that shortly after the beginning of the new year. the South eru Railway will discontinue several of their passenger trains on the Mobile Division of the system. Already the work of taking on passenger trains on the Southern system In Georgia and the Carolinas has been started. and the number of trains between Macon and Birmingham have been reduced The rumor here is that a passenger train will be taken off each of the lines to Akron, Meridian and to Mobile, and that possibily one of the trains to Birmingham will also be discontinued. There are two passenger trains a day operated out of here on those lines, and the discontinuance of either one or thm would prove of great inconven- fence to the travelling public. The discontinuance of these trains would mean eight trains less a day in and out of Selma To . great extent. 1t would retard business throughout Central Alabama and would cost the citizens many thousands of dollars each month.
 If these trains are discontinued. the suit of the railroad reform measure ss which have been passed by the Legis- lature during the recent sessions of that body. An ofiicial of the Southern Railway stationed here. states that the system is losing money every day in the operation of trains, and that this makes Unnecessary for the number of passenger trains to be reduced so that this dedciency can be made up.
 It Is said that 1t fs the intention of the Southern to reduce it's passenger service to the extent of 5000 miles c day over the entire system. The sys- tenn traverses the States where the re- cent railroad reform movement has been the greatest and where the passenger fares have been reduced, and to make up for what the system is losing by these reform measures. the public will be greatly inconvenienced by the road operating less passenger trains each day.
 In this reduction of passenger trains which are to be taken off, the Mobile Division will suffer more than any other division of the road if the four trains which the rumor states will be taken of prove true. For the discontinuauce of these four trains will mean the sav- ing of nearly a thousand miles travel a day by trains on the division. It will also mean tie laying off of many employees of the system.
 While no orders have been received from the headquarters of the system at Washington, announcing the order to discontinue these trains. the oficials of the division expect these orders ev- cry day. It Is generally believed by railroad men that the trains which will be discontinued, win be the morning trains out Of here. That instead of the morning trains. the afternoon frains will be operated to their destination and will return the next morning.