The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-06
PLANNING TRANSFER
 OF ALL PASSENGERS
Terminal Company Takes Up
 Important Matters
SURE TO MOVE IN JULY 1
Ticket Cases Will Be Placed In All Downtown Offices, Where Trans portation Can Be Secured
 Without Delay.

A meeting of the Birmingham Terminal company was held at the offices of the company in the Brown-Marx building yes terday morning and the decision recently announced that five railroads will begin actual use of the new station on July 1, was finally ratified. All roads interested in the new terminals will begin at once to make preparations to handle the busi- ness at the new station as much remains to be done before July l.
 The business before the board was not concluded and adjournment was taken until Saturday morning, when another meeting will be held The principal mat ter before the board was the arrange ments for transferring passengers from one depot to another and this matter was not concluded.
 Before the five railroads go into the new station arrangements must be made by all the roads for transferring through passengers from one depot to another to prevent any passenger from missing a train. This tranfer business must be contracted for in advance or great con- fusion will result, hence the long discus sion that caused a postponement of the meeting until next Saturday.
 Another matter that was not brought up but which Is agitating the city ticket agents of the five roads is the arrange ments for ticket cases for the city of fees which must be ready for use by July l. There are no ticket cases in any of the city offices at present as the Louis- vile and Nashville union depot is so close to the business center of the city but when the other five railroads move out the city offices must be equipped for selling all kinds of tickets and the pas senger men want the cases here as soon as possible.
 It Is understood that the railroads will all have the new cases ready by July 1, but not before, as 1t will not be neces- sary to use them until that date. Some of the local passenger men said yesterday that they would like very much to have the ticket cases here at least week ahead of time so that they could begin to train the public for the new order of affairs.
 Work was reported progressing favor ably upon the union station yesterday and there is no doubt that the facilities for handling passengers will be adequate by the contract date although the quar- ters will be somewhat cramped for about sixty days.
 Those at the meeting yesterday were W. N. Foreacre, chairman of the board of control; G. B. Mccormack, president of the Terminal company; R. E. Boswell. superintendent of the Alabama Great Southern w. H. Hanison, chief engineer of the Terminal company; H. B. Craw- ford, superintendent of the Central of Georgia: H. M. Waite, superintendent of the Seaboard Air Line; c. B. Gray, vice president of the Frisco; A. D. Lightner, general superintendent of the Frisco; John A. Scott, assistant general passen- ger agent of the Illinois Central; c. A. Benscoter assistant general passenger agent of the Southern; J. W. Johnson, division passenger agent of the Seaboard; NJ. II. Bone. division passenger agent of the Southern; H. E. Osborne, city pas senger agent of the Frisco.