The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-17
BONUS TO Be ASKED
FOR NEW RAILROAD
Another Chattanooga-Atlanta
Line Planned
MAYOR rs INTERVIEWED
Chnttanooga's Executive Favors the
Entrance of Seaboard OF Some
Road But Wants Definite
Proposition

| Chattanooga, Tenn, August 16-tSpec-
ial)-Accordine to widely circulated re-
ports, H. H. Shackleton. president and
principal promoter of the Rome and
Northern railroad. will ask the city or
Chattanooga for a bonus OF $4,000 II ne
builds a connecting link between his road
and the Chattanooga In order to give TINS
city another direct line to Atlanta.
1t is expected that formal PROPOSE
ton regarding the bonus win, be sub
mitted to the city council at its next
meeting, and Mayor Thompson has said
that the railroad moguls will have to
SHOW him. that the project will be car
ried out as proposed, before he will as
sist in the matter.
In a recent interview the mayor said
that he heartily favored the entrance of
he Seaboard Air Line to this city and
third line between Chattanooga and At
lanta, but that he would not encourage
such a proposition until thoroughly salts
fled that the promises of the railroad men
would be carried out.
Mr. Shackleton proposes to build line
from the Rome and Northern to Bronco,
Ca, q station on the Chattanooga South
ern, and the seaboard Air Line 1t Is
claimed, will build a connecting link from
its Atlanta Birmingham line at Rockmart,
to the Rome and Northern.
Newman Erb. who recently secured a
majority of the stock of the Chatta-
nooga Southern. Is now here and Is In
vestigating the condition of the property
and winding up the receivership under
which the system has been operated for
the last three years and 4 half. Mr.. Erb
says that the road will be rebuilt and
equipped with the best and most modern
rolling stock obtainable.
Permission has been obtained from the
the Chattanooga School of Law In the
aldermanic chambers of the city hall.
For many years tho Chattanooga School
of Law has been conducted as a part of
the University of Chattanooga and Its
classes have been in the buildings Of the
university This spring, however. there
was a split between the law school and
the university, ana dS IcSuit tho low
department sought other quarters. For
a time 1t was feared that the school might
have to be given up because of the failure
to secure quarters, but suitable accom-
modations may be obtained in the city
hall, according to those In charge of the
city affairs.
The state of New York will pay the
travelling expenses of exactly 564 civil
war veterans to Chattanooga on the oc-
casion Of the dedication Of the New York
state monument, which commentaries
the deeds of New York troops In the bat
ties around Chattanooga, and which Ii
located on Lookout mountain.
The handsome monument, which is the
central figure of the National park on
Lookout mountain was built at cost OF
about 100000 and is said to be one of the
finest monuments In the country. 1t will
be dedicated on November Is, according to
advices which have just been received
from New York. In addition to the large
number of veterans whose expenses will
be paid by the state, it is expected that
several hundred others and many visitors
will make the trip south. Special rates to
will be offered from all parts
of the north and east.