The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-09
WAITING ROOMS MUST BE PROVIDED Order is Passed By Railroad
 Commission EXCURSION RATE RULES Special Rates for Specific Occasion May Be Established Without Per
 mission From Commission.
 Capitol Wing Up.
EXCURSION RATE RULES

Montgomery. July S.-(Special.)-T state railroad commission has passed an order requiring all railroad entering sta 1 tions to maintain and operate sufficient waiting rooms for the accommodation of passengers, having due regard for the adequacy of the rooms, the comfort and convenience of the patrons and the sep aration of the races.
 It Is further ordered that such apart ments shall be kept clean and sanitary, the rooms suitably heated in cold weather and supplied with fresh water for drink ing, also said station shall be kept open an hour before the departure of trains.
 This order Is supposed to be indirectly applicable to the Mobile depot contro- versy, wherein the people of that city are trying to force the Louisville and Nashville railroad to enter the new union depot at that place. It is said that there Is not room for depot in the neighbor- i hood where the said road now operates
 in that city and the effect of the new order would be to compel the road to either build new depot or go into the union depot already erected by the South | ern railway.
 l It has been contended by the Louisville and Nashville that 1t would be impractic- able to enter the new union depot at Mo- | bile, but the railroad commission has ordered that it go in anyway.
 Excursion Rates.
 The railroad commission has also adopt ed number of rules with regard to ex- cursion rates In the state The order in | full follows: Rates for an excursion limited to a designated period of not more than three days may be established with out special permission of the commission upon posting tariff one day in advance in two public and conspicuous place in the waiting rooms of each station where tickets for such excursion are sold and mailing a copy thereof to the commission.
 Rates for an excursion limited to a designated period of more than three days, 1 but not more than thirty days, may be established without special permission of the commission upon posting tariff three days In advance In two public and con 1 spicuous places in the waiting room O each station where tickets for such ex- eursion are sold, and filing a copy of such tariff with the commission three days in advance of such selling date.
 "rhe term limited to designated period used in the foregoing means the period between the time at which the i ticket can first be used and the name at 1 which 1t expires
 Accepts New Capitol l A
 today the architect, Frank Lockwood. reported that the new east wing had been
 completed and 1t was turned over to the
 state As the building was to have been l turned over the first of last December l there is a question of forfeit yet to be
 settled, which will be taken up in
 short time. The departments of agricult- i ure and of education and the attorney l general are to nave into the new wing at
 once.
 The flag of the cadets of the univer-
 Storrs, In the last of the civil war has | been presented to the state department l of history by Seth P. Storrs, of Tallas- l see, son of Captain Storrs It was made i by Mrs. Lorenzo Leedy of Aberdeen Miss, from silk of her wedding dress md
 bears the motto fortuna favet fortibus" The bars are of heavy worsted, well pre-
 served. Dr. Thomas M. Owen, the di-
 rector, Is very much gratifed to receive
 this flag, one of the memntoes of the
 universitys part in that struggle Frank N. Julian, secretary of state who has been at his old home at Tuscumba f roseveral days Is back at his desk, where he will have his hands very full during the sessions of the legislature tpta ta l-t.. f those connected with the state fairs
 over bill which will be introduced be-
 fore the legislature when that body | conyenes next week. This bill, q copy of
 which is given below. is to provide ap- | propriations from the state for county | fairs, and 1t Is said that the legislature will probably act favorably upon it's passage.
 Under the provisions of the bill, each and every county in the state is to be benefited, the appropriation to be made upon the population bases. The bill fur ther provides that no association shall receive an appropriation in excess of $5.- 000.
 copy of the bill has been mailed to every person in the state interested In the county fairs. by whom the matter will be taken up with the legislative rep resentatlves of each county.
 The bill will probably introduced next week. and it's passage is confidently ex- pected. The bill is as follows:
 Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the leg fslature of Alabama that, there Is hereby appropriated annually out of the money In the state treasury not otherwise ap- propriated for the assistance of each county Agricultural Fair Association which shall have made satisfactory proof to the commissioner of agriculture and industries of having held an annual fair and made reports as hereinafter required q sum equal to forty per cent of tho total amount of premiums paid at 1t an- nual fair for the current year for ex- hiblts of horticulture, agriculture, poul- try, live stock. and domestic and mo- chanical arts. provided that this appIo- priation shall be on a population basis. and provided further that no annual ap- propriation for any such association shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. Sec. ?. The state auditor shall upon the certificate of the commissioner of agriculture and industries, accompanied by the sworn report of the secretary of the county fair association herelnafter required, draw his warrant for the sum to which such fair association is en- titled under the provision of thls act on the state treasurer in favor of the state treasurer of such county fair associa- tion.
 Sec. 8. No county fair association shall be entitled to the benefit of the appro- priation herein provided for, unless it's secretary shall before the 18th day of December of each year, file with the commissioner of agriculture d indust- ,fne uunrn sta of he actttaI