The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02
NEW TRAINS
 TO BE RUN Improved Service to
 Tuscaloosa. ! CHANGE EFFECTED SUNDAY Other Schedules to Be Greatly
 Changed. With Schedule Changes on Other Rail- roads Capital City Will Have
 saburban Service Second

A week or SO. ago The Advertiser stated in an interview with a local employe of the Mobile and Ohio Rail- road that there was a strong proba- bflity of suburban train being in. augnrated between Tuscaloosa and Montgomery. Yesterday morning Southeastern Passenger Agent Hay of the Mobile and Ohio received a tele- gram stating that at a conference of the officials in St. Louis regarding schedule changes. it had been decided to put in effect Sunday morning a dou- ble daily suburban service between Tuscaloosa and Montgomery.
 The schedule changes will take ef- feet at 12:ol Sunday morning, and the first of the suburban trains will leave Tuscaloosa at a. m. Sunday and ar. rive in Montgomery at il a. m. This will give passengers from Tuscaloosa, and ither points along the line of the Mobile and Ohio going to Mobile. New Orleans or Texas and California, an opportunity of reaching Montgomery fifteen minutes before the departure of the Louisville and Nash vile train No. for Mobile and New Orleans. that train getting out at 1i:i5 6. m.
 Returning a train will leave Mont gonaery at 4:i0 p. ni.. forty-flve min- utes after the arrival of the Western train 33 from Atlanta at S:25 D. m., and get into Tuscaloosa at p. m. This gives Montgomery the most complete suburban. service of any city in the South. and will add greatly to the trade of the local merchants.
 At present the M0bile and Ohio only has two passenger trains a day. one leaving at s:15 6. un,, and one arriving at 6:43 D. m. Both of these trains con- meet with the main line trains of the Mobile and Ohio at Artesia,. and both are really trains to and from St. Louis to Montgomery and Mobile and Montgomery. Under the double daily suburban service, people from Tusca- loosa can leave that city ae o'clock in the morning, spend i've hours in Mont. gomery and set back to their homes by supper time.
 The other changes in the passenger schedules of the M Mobiie and Ohio that take effect Sunday will be that Train 104. now leaving for St, Louis at s:15 a. .m.. will leave Montgomery ten min- utes later. at s:2s m. Train i03. now arriving from St. Louis at 6:f2 D. m. will reach Montgomery at s:25 p. m, fifteen minutes earlier, and local train will be. put on from. Mobile to some point Tn Mississippi.
 With the changes in the passenger schedules of the Seabonrd Air Line that Will take erect sunday, this Will put seven or eight trains under the shed at the station at nearly the same time. and station masters Grant and Johnson and the different employees of the station will have their hands full. Trains Nos. and of the Louisville and Nashville arrive from Mobile and New Orleans at p. m. and 6:30 ?. n1., and train No. , arrives from Cincin- natl at e:43 p. m. The Western train 36 from Selma arrives at 6:25 D. m. and the Atlantic Coast Line train 169 from Jacksonville at s:l5 ?. rn.. the Mobile and Ohio train 1o3 arriving from St. Louis at 6:25 p. m, making six trains at practically the same time.
 The Louisville and Nashville train No. for the North at 6:43 D. rn.. the Western train 36 for New York st e:45 p. m. and the Seaboard train No. "A for Savannah at 6:30 p. m., making nine trains arriving and departing under the shed at the same time.