Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-11
WORKING THROUGH LAST NIGHT
Evidently as Blind to ''Hold the Fort
and Not to DO the Grading.
PROPOSED SUSPENSION OF WORK
Either by INJUNCTION Or by an Actual
War.

Ine GLOBE yesterday morning published an
abstract of articles of incorporation of the
Minneapolis u st. Paul railway company, filed
III tho office of the register of deeds for Ramsey
county the evening previous. Just at this
time the business men and property holders OF
St. Paul are keenly alive to every move made
In railroad matters, as effecting the standing of
our city as the railroad centre OF the North
west Among the several projects of railroad
development, which have received more or less
consideration for the past two or three years,
has been
AN AIR LINE RAILROAD
between the cities of ST. Paul and Minneapolis.
Several efforts have been made for the ergani
cation of an independent corporation for the
construction OF q narrow-gauge road to be OPP
Grated in connection with the street railway
system of the two cities. The st. Paul Sioux
City company haye also considered the matter
of constructing such q line, the idea having
been developed by the company TO the extent
OF making two or three preliminary surveys
It is also known that during the year past the
management of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul company has signifed it's desire to con-
struct and operate such line,
by which saving of some two
three miles could be made be-
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis, as also the
heavy grade of their present line along the
bluff to Mendoza on the other side of the river
and by Fort Smelling to the table land beyond.
This company gave practical evidence of their
desire and intention to construct such line by
surveys the present fall. Indeed not but q
few weeks ago, it was announced apparently
by authority, that this company had fully de-
termined upon putting the project through.
and that active construction operations were
to be inaugurated without delay. While
actual construction operations did not follow
the announcement was expected, the move
ments in that direction made by the company,
and the easily understood advantages that
would result to the company by such construc-
ton, left doubt in the minds of our PEOPLE
that the building Of the line was only cues
ton of time by the St. Paul company and that
the time, even, would not long be delayed.
A NEW AND UNEXPECTED MOVE.
Such being the case, the GLOBE publication
of the abstract Of articles Of incorcor of
the Minneapolis & St. Paul Railway company,
with its headquarters located in Minneapolis.
and with the names of Alex. Mitchell, s. s.
Merrill, j. W. Carey, Charles H. Prior, and
John A. Chandler, all prominent officials of the
Chicago, Milwaukee d st. Paul company, as
incorporators, created general surprise, and led
to very general suspicion that there
Niger somewhere concealed in the
transaction. And when, in short time after
the GLOBE announcement had been read and
streets that Messrs Mitchell, Merrill & Co.
had followed up the filing of their incorpora-
ton articles by putting q force of some seven
ty-five at midnight, the night previous
several hours before any publication of inten-
ton had been made--at work upon their pro-
way secured by the st. Paul & Sioux City com.
pany, the surprise caused by the publication
BECAME A GENUINE SENSATION,
and the suspicion excited thereby rapidly grew
into a feeling of certainty, that movemen
inimical to st. Paul had been inaugurated by
the management of the Chicago, Milwaukee
st. Paul company, and being attempted tc
be bulldozed through by means sometimes re
sorted to by railroad companies, but more gen
orally by midnight robbers and highwaymen.
The more the situation was discussed tn
greater the indignation grew, until the excite
ment was at fever heat, and there were not
few who believed they saw in the move a con
frmation of Bill Kings threat in his st. Pau
publication of Monday, in the following, nov
more than significant paragraph:
But, important as this position which st. Par
holds is, IT IS ONE FROM WHICH SHE CAN 81
EASILY DISLODGED IF MINNEAPOLIS HA
THE SPIRIT AND COURAGE TO MAKE TIL
EFFORT. In a contest of this character, as in wal
the prompt execution of flank movement will quicl
ly dispossess our rival of the temporary advantag
she has recently acquired.
Here, they said, was the flank movement, an
st. Paul must meet it boldly or the schem
would be consummated.
MEssRs CAREY AND PRIoR's STATEMENT.
Thus matters stood when Messrs. Carey an
Prior, two of the incorporators of the new pro
ject, and the former the great legal luminar
Of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul con