The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
BOTH TRYING ID SELL FIRST TICKET New Railroad Rates in Effect at
 Midnight GENERAL RAILROAD NEWS The Southern Sold the Flrat Ticket to Mobile, But the A. @. S. Train for
 Tuscaloosa Was Due
 to Leave First.
GENERAL RAILROAD NEWS

Considerable rivalry has existed among
 the different railways with local offices
 in the city to sell the first ticket to | points in Alabama, under the new 2n
 cent rate, which went Into effect last
 night at R o'clock. The ruling, which l has been observed by all railways enter
 Ing the city except the Louisville and
 Nashville, was effected some time since
 the action of the Alabama legislature, Two claimants for the honor of selling the first tickets under the new arrange ments are the city passenger agents of the Southern railway and the Alabama | Great Southern, respectively M Cox | well, city passenger agent of the South
 ern railway. sold two tickets from this l city to Mobile at noon yesterday. The
 train left the city at 12:so o'clock this | morning.
 ticket to Tuscaloosa was sold by the city passenger agent of the Alabama 1 Great Southern yesterday afternoon. The latter official claims that though his ticket was sold later than that issued by the Southern railway, his train leaves
 the city at 1920 o'clock, ten minutes ear
 Her than that of the other road and that
 the time of departure is of more import
 snce than the time when the ticket was
 issued. Honors seem very nearly equally divided between the respective represen-
 tatives of the roads. and 1t may sevral l days until an umpire of sufficient courage
 can be secured to arbitrate the matter. l.. Sevier, first vice president of the o,-5 city in the interests of his company. MT. sevier arrived Friday night, and will leave this afternoon.
 The private car, Number Five" con taining MT. Sevier and his secretary, is
 stationed at Twentieth street and Powell
 avenue. Mir. sevier will spend the day
 visiting his friends in the city, where he
 is well known,
 H. M. Waite, superintendent of the local
 division of the Seaboard Air Line rail-
 way. who has been spending some time in
 the north, will arrive in Birmingham this
 morning.
 D. T. Wilcox, assistant general freight
 agent of the Frisco system, spent yester-
 day in Birmingham in the interests of
 his road. MT. Wilcox is now stationed in
 Memphis, and has been absent from the
 city only three weeks. being division
 freight agent of the same road here. His
 many friends were glad to see him in his
 old haunts yesterday. and regretted that
 he could spend no more time in the city.
 R. W. Norris formerly travelling freight agent for the St. Louis and Missouri railway, passed through the city yesterday. Mir. Morris Is on his way to Columbia, $. C.. where he will be commercial agent for the Seaboard Air Line and the St. Louis and Mis- souri roads.
 Notices to the members of the Hoo Hoo regarding the attendance upon the annual meeting to be held at Atlantic City, September 9-11, have been Issued by Vice General Sibley P. King and have been placed in the hands of the Alabama delegation and their friends
 large delegation will attend the con
 catenation from Alabama, and all state
 and local officers are making arrange ments for tho meeting. The route of the Albama delegates, which was given out yesterday is as follows: Over the Queen and Crescent to Chattanooga, over the Southern Railway to Bristol, N and w. railway to Norfolk steamer to Wash
 ington and over the Pennsylvania rail-
 way to Atlantic City. It is stated con tidentally in the letters to the members
 that the destination will be reached in time to sec the Sunday crowds The train bearing the delegations from Louisiana and Mississippi will arrive in Birmingham at 6:25 o'clock on the morn- | ing of September G. and will take on the Pullman containing the local delegates. If sufficient number of delegates and their friends make the trip a special train with diner and baggage cars will | be made up here.
 Two very attractive rate sheets have been issued by the Rock Island Frisco
 lines, and reached the local officials for | distribution yesterday. One of the rates
 Is the Homeseekers' Excursions to the
 west and the southwest. The other is | the one-way colonlsts tickets to California | and points in the Northwest. The west | ern traffic has been increasing for sev eral weeks, and now that the attractive ! rates are being put on, it Is certain that 1 a large number of Birmingham and Ala 1 bama people will take advantage of them. | John Ellis, chairman of the board of l trustees of the odd Fellows Home has | been notified that Crate of cents mile, | plus 25 cents has been granted by the | Louisville and Nashville railway from all | points north of Thorsby to Cullman, for l September 2. The occasion of the rate is | the laying of the cornerstone of the Odd Fellows Home at Culman. It is ex-