The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-10
H|X SAYS MONEY
 WILL NOW BE EASY Roosevelt Cloud Vanishes From
 the Horizon SEABOARDHAS BIG PLANS Road Has Extensive Improxemont. Mapped Out and Has SimpIy Been Waiting for Political
 storm To Settle
SEABOARDHAS BIG PLANS

That the Seaboard Air Line will "get busy and will spend large amounts of money now that Theodore Roosevelt is | down and out" and that every indus trial concern depending upon the acts of Wall street would probably do like wise, was the significant statement of Charles H. Hix, vice president and gen. eral manager of the Seaboard Air Line railroad, who was in Birmingham yes- | terday.
 | MT. Hix is regarded not only as A keen student of operating affairs for his | company, but an able financial man and 1 his Judgment as to the outlook is yalu- able as pertaining to the seaboard prop erties He said meeting would be held of the officers in Portsmouth or | New York this month at which time he thought some definite plans for better ment would be made and carried to com | pletion.
 "The political unrest which has been felt for some time is over" said MT. Hix | And there is no interest that is more pleased than the railroads. This. added 10 the Tact that Theodore Roosevelt has been given a knockout blow, will make every industry in this country look up Yes, we will get busy and spend money now, for We feel that Roosevelt Is out of the way and his domination of affairs Is over. He has been the chief cause | or the unrest in the business world for l several months and to him more than tha f,,1 that has been maintained on money and work
 Our line, I firmly believe, will now start some long delayed improvements We have great amount of new work mapped out, which we can start upon We recently gave an order here for 1900 tons of rails and had them stacked TIT waiting for the time to come when the, could be used We will now have serv. ice for this material to perform. We will give another order to the local raj plant after the holidays of about 20. .eot tons.
 T think the sweeping victory of the democrats all over the country is due entirely to the money powers of Wal street having confidence in the demo- crats. For, without the aid of those men, who control a great amount of wealth, the democrats can do little My idea is If the Wall street interests have sufficient faith in the democrats to make them leaders in the Empire state then in the presidential election the Wall street men will also support the democrats. There can be little reason to doubt but that the country Is facing a revival of better times. If the victory of the dem ocrats can be held until the presiden- tiai election America will be in fine shape for great expansion
 ''I am sure Birmingham will be vastly benefited by the results in New York. as well as other places. For capital which has been lying Idle will be in- vested and know of no industrial cen ter where Investments would be safer or where the returns would be greater than In the Birmingham district. The growth of Birmingham, coupled with the magnificent gains shown by the cen sus returns, are sufficient to draw mil lions to the Birmingham district. And believe 1t will. am sure the Seaboard railroad will make every improvement necessary here now that we can see the way clear. The clouds are lifting. We have a great deal to do in this state and this district I see no reason why we should not feel warranted in doing everything which will assist us and also the district
 In speaking of the present work being performed by the Seaboard Mir. Iix said the three tunnels between this city and Atlanta would be completed soon and then train operations on the Seaboard Air Line would be considerably better and faster. He said the work at Roper tunnel, IS miles from Birmingham would be completed possibly by January 1. This tunnel caved in December 12, 1909, and the repairs have cost over $l25,0o
 MT. Hix said the viaduct would be con- structed here, surely, and that every as- sistance would be given Birmingham to grow and grow fast. He left yesterday afternoon with W. l.. Seddon, chief en- gineer. for Florida, on an inspection trip
 New Auto Engine SlSids
 The firemen on the automobile engine at the central station had a very un-