The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-22
DAY OF LATE TRAINS
CHRISTMAS TRAVEL WAS HANDI-
 CAPPED vEsTERDAY.
Beglnnlng fn AIorning Trains Day and Nlght Were Lafe~-ChxAst- uas Travel Centinues
 Good.

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 late trains, later trains. latest trains:
 That represented the condition or things at the union station yesterday and last night, big crush Of pretty sore passengers being the result;
 The late train stunt started in with , the early trains yesterday morning ana consistently maintained aH unprokep record until an early hour this morn ing. Everything was lats--no favor- ites were played and with the exeep- tion of a few of the suburban trains every train that came into the train shed at the union station yesterday was anywhere from twenty minutes 10 SIX hours late.
 The first trains due yesterday morn and ss from Selma. both due at $50 s m.. and both late. Train No. 2. r. q N, from New orleans. due at I4s a. m.. came in pretty tardy. as did the AL lantic CoAst Line train S7. due from Jacksonville at 6;05 .. m. The next few hours was taken up by local trains all of which came in pretty neaIiy o on n l again and tried to show . waiting pub | lie just how late trains could be when the effort was made in . business-iike | way.
 lanta at 1o:65 a. m.. was something over three hours late,not setting in un : | til 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The l delay. however, was not with the Wes- l tern but with the Southern up in Vir- | ginia. Iris train is link of the | trans s-continental conhection from New | York to San Francisco. Then they got | down to real business in the late train | idea. The Louisville and Nashville | train No. due from Cincinnati and | Chicago at II .. m. was over six hours | ivr al E.20 veStarday Af- | ternoon. The through passengers that came in on the delayed Western at | o'clock, had to grit their teeth and say uncomplimentary things about the railroads until 5:so ?. nn., as the r. S
 N. did not run . train out to Mobile.
 Pensacola and New Orleans until the | arrival of train No. from the North.
 Last night 1t was even worse thar
 in the day. The l.. q N train No.
 from New Orleans. due at e:3o p. m-
 was two hours late. causing the Wes-
 tern train 3s which connects with the
 evening train from New Orleans. to
 leave for Atlanta two hours late The
 Louisville and Nashville train due from
 Cincinnati at 7:25 p. m. was three hour'
 late. The Coast Line. which gets . Pullman from Chicago to Jacksonville
 on that train, left on time-7:45 p. m
 without the connection. The Allan
 tic Coast Line train due from Jackson
 vile at 6:15 p. m. was three hours late
 This train brings the return Pullman
 from Jacksonville and turns 1t over t
 L. & N. train No. for Chicago bu last night the L. 6 N. train went north
 without the Jacksonville Pullman ant the passengers in that car had to sta!
 under the shed until S:30 this morning
 if the L. 6 N. train No. is on time
 Both the night trains of the Central o Georgia and the Seaboard Air Lint
 were late last night, and the only trail that got into the shed on time was tha
 of the Mobile and Ohio. The last trai , to get in was the Westerns train 37
 due at 11.40 p. m. That train wa
 over four hours late, getting in after , o'clock this morning. The delay wa due to the Southern above Atlanta From the heavy suburban travel yes . terday the local merchants should hay had a big days business--every one o the suburban trains came in crowded The Western ran a special from Sel
 ma at 512 o'clock yesterday with tn
 young ladies of the Judson at Marion
 This winds up the school travel unt
 the students start back to their col
 leges after the holidays.
 The Louisville fHhd Nashville trai
 No. 3 that was wrecked near Caleri , Friday evening reached Montgomery a i o'clock yesterday morning. The crev i came in with the train, Conductor Ar ; mold and the rest of them receivin only minor bruises. Agent Shoemake
 of the Southern Express Company, say |. that beyond the loss of few crates o i, eggs and crates of turkeys his damag was nominal. Very little of the ma
 was lost and hardly any of the bag
 gage. Engineer Hays of the freigh train died at an early hour yesterda . | morning.