The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-21
VISION OF THE
CT & A. ROAD AT
LAST REALIZED
Noted Capitalists of East Asso.
ciated in Rehabilitation of
Alabama Property.
TO BE LINKED WITH
BIG LINES OF COUNTRY
Road Taps Muscle Shoals and
Other Valuable Territories
and Has Good Terminals.

1 With the Incorporation of the Mus
| Gle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensa-
cola railway. letters patent for which
Ihave been applied for, the Gulf, Flor
ida and Alabama railroad goes out of
existence, and the new company takes
| its place.
! John T. Steele, Hubert c. Vaudeville
land Harold B. Thosne, who have ap-
piled to Governor Cary A. Hardee for
a charter, are men well known here,
and will have associated with them in
the direetorate of the new company a
number of eastern capitalists as we'll
as Pensacola business men.
Mr.. Steele, who has acted in the
capacity of receiver for the c. f. &
4. railroad for number OF years, is
q banker of Buffalo, n. Y. and has
wide business connections in the east
Mr.. Vaudeville, who is an attorney of
| Elmira, n. Y, is also vice president
| of the Owens Glass company Of To-
ledo, Ohio. known the country over
for its glass bottle trade, which is the
largest OF it's kind in the world Mr.
Thorne is connected with the Metro
poiitan Trust company of New York;
City having been on its official board
,, fof plumber sof years. ~Another east
| ern capitalist interested in the new
orga anization is G. stacey Rogers of
New York, who for nine years was
director of the company which built
the famous "AIcAdoo tunnel under
the Hudson river, and was also for
number Of years president of the Sur
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Company Directors.
For the present the directors of the
company comprise Nessrs. Steele,
Mandeville and Thorn, with Mr.. Steele
acting both as president and treasur-
er; Mr. Mandeville as Vice-president,
and Roscoe C. Greenaway as secre-
tary. Mr.. Greenaway is now general
manager of the G. T & A.
Mr.. Steele, who was in Pensacola
about ten days ago, is now in the east,
as are the other directors, but it is un-
derstood that they will arrive IN the
city at an early date, at which time
the company will be completely re-
iorganized.
Vision Is Realized.
The rehabilitation of the G. +. & A
and the injection of new blood and
new money into it's arteries has been
a vision that Pensacola business men
have held steadily before them for
number &C years. The road has had
a somewhat stormy existence, never
having reached that point of develop
ment which had been hoped for, owing
not only to lack of capital for the pro-
| oP
of the fact that the signing of the ar
mistice put an end to certain plans
which had been considered in rela-
ton to the property by the war de-
partment.
Link With Big Roads.
The G. f. & A. which now extends
for 143 miles into Alabama, connects
with the Louisville & Nashville at At
more and the Southern railway at
Kimbrough, Ala. It is the intention of
the promoters OF the Muscle Shoals,
Birmingham and Pensacola railroad |
to extend the property in such way
as to link 1t up with the great rail-
roads of the country, ard make ii an
|outlet for the Muscle Shoals property.
in the event that that property is de-
tSaopI0 1iotiS AAAO t11fCS hAisSA4 1iVG
seem probable.
Tap Valuable District.
In speaking of thsi development
recently, business men interested in
the road declared that it would make
no difference whether Henry Ford or
some other large interests secured the |
Muscle Shoals plant, the probability
was that the railroad would be an ar
terry which would reach from that val
liable property and distribute its. pro-
ducts through this harbor. TO the
countries south cf "a.
The railroad Will have trackage
through Escarnbta county. Fla; Bald |
win county, Ala; Escanlbia county,
Ala: Monroe, Wilcox. alzrengo, Perry, |
Hall County. Tlscalooss. Fsyette. i
walker, Winston. Franklin and Col
Der counties. Alabama, making a total |
mileage in Florida OF ALL miles OF
main track and 1913 miles OF side |
track, and total mileage in Alabama |
'of 3oa-4f miles Of main track, and 20 |
miles of side-track, besides its con-
Inectien With the United States Naval |
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