The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-11
BLOCK IN WAY OF
 NEW TERMINALS
Chattanooga Union Station Is
 Still Only a Dream
FRANCHISE RIGHTS IN WAY
Southern Railway Has Erected Road way Repair Shop-Enrollment in the Public Schools Shows
 Decrease.

Chattanooga, October 10-(Special )-It
 can be definitely stated that neither on
 November l nor on December l, nor on January l. nor on any date near in the future will the s1,0o0.0OO new terminal
 station be thrown open for public use in this city, unless the city council comes across with franchise rights for two more tracks that the terminal company is con- tending for. The tracks needed are for trains Of the Cincinnati Southern, the Ala bama Great Southern and the Memphis division of the Southern railroad. It had been believed that the granting of the franchise to the Central of Georgia some time ago settled the question of opening the station. October 1 was mentioned as the date, but that date has come and gone and the terminal remains closed. Mo- vember 1 has been named as the time, but 1 it cannot be. If it is accomplished by January 1, the general council will have to do something. As matters now stand but one road has facilities for entering this new passenger station. 1t was erected by the Central of Georgia, the Alabama 1 Great Southern, the Cincinnati, New Or leans and Texas Pacific. and the Southern railways. The Southern and Cincinnati. l New Orleans and Texas Pacific own controlling interest in the station, and it l cannot be opened without the vote of the directors of these two roads. They are unwilling to do so until arrangements are made for passenger trains over their roads to enter, and under existing condi- tions no trains running over any but the Central of Georgia can enter.
 The Southern Railway company has just completed the erection of a roadway re- pair shop at Citico, in this city. This shop is unique wherein there is only one other like it on the whole Southern sys- tenn. The other is located at Columbia, S. C. The latter shop has been in course of erection for about four months, and the plan is to enlarge it as the business demands. The Citico shop contains rail saw, shear, pneumatic riveting machine, planer, jumper, two lathes, steam ham mer rail drill, trip hammer, two forges and one steam hammer. These machines will repair frogs, switches, railroad cross
 
 of light mechanical repairing necessary on tl e road. Steel rails can be soldered in the shop at the rate of one every seven seconds, and the shear machine will cut a rail in twain with the ease of a hand shear cutting a piece of cloth
 Enrolment of the public schools of Chattanooga shows some falling off at the beginning of the third week. This enroll ment shows total of 5162 pupils. The total of last year for the entire year was 6119, indicating a falling off of 957 pupils. It Is expected, however. that the enroll ment for this year will pick up consid- erably before the end of the first four weeks, so that comparisons with the totals of last year will not show so much in favor of the latter. The total enrolment of white pupils for this year so far is 326s, and the colored. 1894. The total white enrolment for last year was 3914 and of the colored PTS. showing in comparison with the enrollment of this year so far 673 white and aaA coiored in favor of last year.
 Congressman Washington Garner of Michigan will be the orator of the annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, which will be held in this city this week, October 13 and IA. The oration will be delivered next Thursday in the Auditorium A meeting of the local executive committee was held in the rooms of the chamber of commerce to per ! feet plans for the delivering of the oration and also for the smoker, which will be given at the chamber of commerce to the 1 visiting members next Wednesday night. | The chamber of commerce will be the l headquarters for the Seventeenth Ohio regiment, which will hold a reunion in connection with the Society of the Army 1 of the Cumberland. Among the dis l tinguished visitors who will be present | next week will be Senator Foraker, who was member of Turchins brigade.
 | There Is not at the present time case of smallpox in Hamilton county, prob ably for the first time in the memory of the countys oldest inhabitant. The city was reported entirely rid of it two months l ago, but not until Friday was the county health officer, Dr. Shepherd, able to report l it's entire eradication from the county. The report of Dr. Shepherd made an i'm portant topic of conversation at the last meeting of the present board of health, | and formed At triumph for the con 1 clusion of the boards term of existence. War was declared on the negro chauf- | feur when a portion of the force em- l ployed by the Tennessee Automobile com 1 pany walked out because a touring car l brought into Chattanooga by negro was | washed at the garage. The Chattanooga | Chauffeurs and Mechanicians' association
 was organized several months ago for the purpose of preventing such an invasion, l and it has been the cause of a decrease in the number of negro chauffeurs In l Chattanooga. Recently many private own | CTS have employed negroes to pilot their cars, and the association has found new | grounds for fight.