The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-19
SOUTHERN IS BEHIND NEW EXPRESS LINE
Southeastern Will Handle All Business of Southern and
 M. & 0. March l

Washington, January 1s.-(Special.)- Express business over the lines of the Southern Railway system and the Mobile and Ohio railroad will be handled by the Southeastern Express company beginning March l. it was announced from head quarters of the Southern here today.
 The Southeastern is a new company re- gently organized under the laws of Ala bama for the purpose of conducting an express business in the sountheaStern states. It will have a capital of Sl@0'oV. owned by southern business men; Will have headquarters in Atlanta, and Will be managed by men who have spent thelr lives in the express service of the south. John B. Hockaday. formerly vice presi- dent and general manager of the oiu Southern Express company will become president of the Southeastern, succeeding Capt Charles A. Lyerly of ChattanooS~. The decision of the Southern and the Mobile and Ohio to contract with the Southe eastern for the handling of express over their lines is stated by officers oi the Southern to be based on the firm con lyiction tha: the south should have an express company of it's own, engaged primarily in handling business originating or terminating in the south and operated for the specific purpose of affording the shipping interests of the south an express service in Keeping with their needs and responsive to their wishes.
 The new company will establish offices at all points reached by the Southern and Mobile and Ohio, and will open an active campaign of solicitation for eS-- press business of all kinds both through I and local over the Southern and the Mo- bile and Ohio. It will operate on prac- tically 1o000 miles of railway, sreachlng Washington, Richmond and Norfolk on
 the east; Cincinnati, Louisville. and
 Evansville on the Ohio river; St Louis,
 Memphis, Greenville, Miss, and New
 Orleans on the Mississippi; the ports or Charleston Savannah. Brunswick. Jack i sonville and Mobile, and the majority or
 the important interior cities of the south including Alexandria, Lynchburg ana iDanvile, Va Winston-Salem. Charlotte Greensboro, Durham, Raleigh and Ashe- ville N. C., Columbia. Greenville ana ISpartanburg, s. C., Atlanta, Macon, Au- gusta, Athens and Columbus, Ga, Bir- mingbam. Montgomery Selma Anniston
 and Gadsden, Ala. Knoxville. Chatta- lnooga Jackson and Bristol, Tenn, Me ridian, Hattiesburg and Laurel, MISS. l Lexington and Danville, Ky, East et
 Louis and Cairo, Ills. It will reach Bal timore by the boats of the Chesapeake Steamship company connecting with 'he Southern at Richmond and Norfolk
 ] MT. Hockaday, who will direct the oper- ation of the Southeastern, has had over 4 years of experience in express servlce III the south, knows the southern people ana lis thoroughly familiar with the peculiar conditions surrounding the handling ol express traffic in the southeastern terri
 tory. He is native of North Carolina T was located in Savannah for 10 years
 as superintendent of the Florida division
 of the Southern Express company anc
 as general superintendent; was m At' llanta 10 years, first as general manager of the eastern district and then as vic' president and general manager He is
 well known in all important cities o the south and is intimately acquainted
 with the problems of express service II
 each of them and throughout the terri
 tory generally.