The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-13
CHANGES ARE NOTED.
SEVERAL OF THEM WE'RE ON THE
 sEABOARD
The Western With Its show and Oth- CT Business win Be Rushed
 During the Coming Week

The changes on the Seaboard Air Line mentioned by The Advertiser last week will take effect Thursday morn ing. Monday morning O. c. Humph- reys lsiched the city from Savannah. MT. Humphreys succeeds W. A. Full wiler as commercial agent In Mont gomery. MT. Fuiwiler having been transferred to Oklahoma City. J. S. Lambert, chief clerk in the office of the commercial agent in Montgomery will take charge of his office in Sa- yarnah tomorrow.
 Assistant Ticket Agent Pitts of the local union ticket office left Monday morning for New orleans where he has been promoted to the position of chief ticket agent in the Louisville and Nashville station at that place. c. w. Powell. of Columbus who succeeds Mir. Pitts in the local ticket office has not arrived yet but Is looked for at any time.
 R. L. Rodgers. secretary to Freight Traffic Manager Echols of the West ern succeeds J. w. Kirkland as quota tion clerk in the local freight office of the Western. MT. Kirkland having ac- cepted a position in the office of the State Railroad Commission. L. D.. Halls succeeding Mir. Rodgers.
 c. q. Stroughmenger who has foi the past year or 50 Deen III CnaTBe or the lunch counter of the Crescent News Company at the union station Monday morning was put in charge of the din- ing hall of that company. Mr. Swei- Rart who has had charge of the dining hall since the Crescent News Company took charge of the business at the union station has resigned to go into business for himself. D. R. Hill, of Mobile will succeed MT. Stroughmen- ger in carge of the lunch counter.
 Rush Business.
 The Western Railroad will have its hands full tonight, three special trains in addition to their regular traffic having to be handled over the road The "1ol Ranch Show" train will leave Atlanta tonight for differ ent points between Atlanta and Mont gomery. The oyster shucker business begins today. sixteen cars of them be- Ing delivered by the Southern to the Western in Atlanta sometime tonight. The Western will bring them to Mont gomery in one and possibly two trains, running as the second section of train 37 due here at 9;55 p. m. This is the beginning of the oyster shuckers busi- ness. These people. most of them Italians, make annual flights from Ball. timore to the Gulf Coast, the Western and Louisville and Nashville handling several thousand of them every fall. Friday the Western gets the John Rob- inson show at Opelika. that show leaving Montgomery at an early hour this morning over the South and North division of the Louisville and Nash vile for Clanton. From Clanton the show goes to Caiera. From Calera the show takes the Louisville and Nash vile to Sylacauga, working it's way to Opelika over the Central where the Western takes 1t towards Atlanta.
 Notes and Personals.
 Master of Trains Mizell was at his office in the union station building yesterday for the first time in a week. He has been attending to the transpor- tation of the John Robinson show from Flomaton to Montgomery.
 General Passenger Agent Joe Billups of the Western spent Monday in Mont gomery looking after the final ar engagements for the operation of the shuttle train service. He left Monday night for Atlanta and next week will spend the entire week seeing that everything works smoothly during the fair
 Travelling Freight Agent Will Am crime of the Western left Monday night for Birmingham where he will work up business for his road when the Birmingham fair is over.