Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-05-10
Croxt6n Quits A. B. & A.
For Better Position
Passenger Traffic Manager Ac-
quires Interest in Alabama Coal
Mines; Is General Sales Agent

{ATLANTA; Ga, May 10 w. w.
Croxton, passenger traffic manager
of the Atlanta,g Birmingham and At
lantic Railway with headquarters in
Atlanta has rendered his resignation
effective May 18th.
This announcement, made officially
in Atlanta Monday, will be received
with unusual interest in railroad circles
throughout Georgia and the South,
wheer Mr.. Croxton is so we'll and fav-
orably known
Mr.. Croxton has been engaged in
railroad work for nearly a quarter of
a century, and for the last ten years
has been in chage of the passenger
traffic of the A. B. & A.
He leaves his present position, much
to the regret of the A. B. & A. Off
Gals and the railroad colony in At
lanta to accept a more lucrative po-
sition with the Garnsey Coal Co., of
Alabama. He will make his home in
Birmingham, where he becomes sales
agent of the company in which he has
acquired an interest. The mines of
the company, which are located at
Garnsey, Ala, are now turning out
more than thousand tons day,
with plans on foot to increase its out
put. 1t is stated that Mr.. Croxton has
also formed connections with other
large coal companies.
Few, If any, railroad men are better
knewn in Georgia and the South than
Mr.. Croxtop. Prior to his connection
with the & A, he served as
chairman Of {tbe standing committee
for the South of the agricultural sec
ton of the Railroad Administration,
during the greater part of federal con-
troll
Mr., Croxton was born in King Viii
liam County, Va, on August Is, 1880.
He was educated in the public schools
of Richmond, Va. and began railroad
work in 1900 as a stenographer in the
local freight office of the Southern at
Richmond.
In 1901 he was promoted to division
freight agent at Columbia, S. c, but
he returned to Richmond in 1902 as
chief clerk in the office of the divi-
SION passenger agent and few months
later he became secretory to the gen
eral passenger agent at Washington,
ID. c.
On February l, 1904, he was ap-
pointed passenger agent of the South
ern and Chesapeake Steamship Com
pany at Norfolk, Va He was pro-
NOTED to travelling passenger agent
OF the Southern at New York on Oc-
tober, 1, 1905 and on April l, 1907 was
transferred to Norfolk, Va, in the same
capacity, again serving nj addition the
Chesapeake Steamship Company. La
ter he Occupied that position at Balti-
more. Md
He went to the Norfolk Southern
in 1909 as assistant general passenger
agent at Norfolk, Va, On October /,
1910, he gas promoted to general pas
senger agent in charge of passenger
traffic and agricultural development
serviie.
He accepted the same duties with
the A. B. & A. in 1918 and continued
i'll tlSN position during the early days
of federal control. but together with
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Allan
tic, he also served the Atlanta and
West Point, the Western of Alabama,
the Georgia and the Charleston and
Western Carolina. He was then ap-
pointed chairman of the committee
named above and when the roads were
released from federal control returned
to the A. B. & A.