The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-18

= Ncncrnl PNhhenfScr Agent or Ca * -.
halfway.
Mr. John ID. Potts. appointed general
passenger agent of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway, to succeed Mr.. II. w.
Fuller who has been made passenger
traffic manager of the system, reach
ed Richmond yesterday morning to cs-
tabish his headquarters here. Mr..
Potts and his corps Of assistants and
clerks were busy all cay transferring
the passenger department offices from
the Chesapeake and Ohio building, at
Eighth and Main Streets. to rooms on
the third floor OF the Mutual building.
The passenger department now has
three large rooms on that floor. and
they will be occupied by Mr.. Potts,
Mr.. w. S. Bronson. assistant general
passenger agent, and Mr.. w. O.
Warthen. the district passenger agent.
These offices Will employ u corps OF
clerks and stenographers, numbering
ten or a dozen. The ticket office wiz
remain at Eighth and Main Streets.
The career OF the new gcnral pas
scnger agent has been one OF con-
I tinual advancement IN railway work.
lie was born In Petersburg in 1858.
and began his railway work in 1874
with tho Richmond aSd Danville, for
which road he worked nine years as
telegraph operator. From 1854 to
1855 he was travelling passenger agent
OF the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, and from 1885 to 1886 ticket
and passenger agent of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio at Louisville, Ky. In
1856 he was appointed travelling pas
senger agent Of the Ohio and Missis-
slppi at Knoxville, Tenn, and held that
position for two years. In 1888 he re-
turned to the Chesapeake and
Ohio as division passenger agent
with office in this city. and in April,
1896. was made assistant general prt'-
senger agent ut the same point. In
a June, 1902, he was transferred to Gin
cinnati, O., as assistant general pas
scnger agent. which position he held
until his recent promotion J,
Work on the Tidewator, or Virginia
Railway, in the Southside counties
has been greatly retarded for tho past
two months by rainy weather. The
large forces at work in Lunenburg
county have been kept in their camps
more than half the time since tho lat
OF April because OF the unfavorable
weather Now that the summer has
with renewed rigor. It IS estimated
that there are over 1000 workmen
In the camps strung out through Lun-
enburg county.
The Seuboard Air Line and Georgia
are reported to have entered into a
trackage agreement on freight. It
gives the former a direct entrance into
Macon, Ca, where connection will be
made with the Macon. Dublin and Sa-
sannah for Vidaiia, from which the
6eaboard has its own tracks into Sa :
vannah.
The effect, If the report is correct
will be to give the Seaboard direct
competition will, the Southern and Cen.
tfal of Georgia on business into and out
of Savannah. In addition to it's traffic
business between Atlanta and Sayan-
rah. the Seaboard will be able to
handle It's own business from Bir-
mingAlam to Savannah.
1t is believed that the agreement
presagcs the building of n road by the
Seaboard from Atlanta to Macon. II
has been Obliged SO far to route Its
freight traffic by the Charleston and
Western Carolina by way OF Greenville
ind Fairfax.
Leonard's Railway News says Presi
dent Finley. of the Southern Railway
is keeping UP wonderfully well his in
dividual campaign OF education aimonf
the Southern people. His. speeches ar,
we'll worth reading. and they are do
ing power Of good. But they shoult
be read by every voter from Washing
! ton to Birmingham. The truths the,
contain arc well worth presenting
particularly to the country people o
the South. ts
The syndicate which underworld las