Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-20

Gen. j. W. Bishop. general manager OF the
st. Paul Sioux City railroad, arrived home
Yesterday noon from New York city, for which
point he left st. Paul on the Sd inst, where he
went with A. b. Wilder, director of the road,
to meet President Drake and Director John Il.
Merriam, to take up and proceed with the ne
rotations for the extension of the st. Paul d
Sioux City system pending ut the time of the
sudden illness and death of the late Horace
Thompson.
OF tho progress and character of these ne
gotiations the people of st. Paul especially
those directly and indirectly interested In this
enterprise,-a pet child of st. Paul-havc been
kept on the qui vive, or to use a vulgarlsm. a
ragged edge, by Madame Rumor. who in the
interim covered by Gen. Bishops absence, has
reported almost every combination per-
tected possible to conceive. First 1t was that
the St. Paul company had absorbed the st. Paul
Il Duluth. Then that it had absorbed the Chi
cage, st. Paul & Minneapolis and North
Wisconsin roads, Then that the Northwest
ern company had stepped in aud secured a
controlling interest in the st. Paul road. Dur-
ing Monday and Tuesday rumor kept all these
several reports changing places with the rap
idity of weather cock in a chopplng wind.
Wednesday, however, reports began to take
different ami more tangible form, settlelng
down upon the statement that the st. Paul ~
Sioux City, Chicago, st. Paul Il Minneapolis,
and North Wisconsin roads lad been ANAL
gamated under one management and with one
predominant interest.
Naturally with all these rumors to whet the
public appetite for something substantial and
reliable upon which to feed, the return of ten.
Bishop from the seat of operations, was mat
IS no, ADprecIat-
ing this GLOBE envoy made it his business to
call upon the General soon after his arrival.
The General was found in his office with an I'm.
mense pile of business looking papers before
him. The envoy was panied to see that he was
looking worn and jaded, and to learn from his
response as he returned the salutation that he
was suffering from a severe cold contracted
during his absence.
Knowing that with the pile of waiting buSl-
ness before him, the fatigue and indisposition,
that short shrift would be most acceptable,
the envoy went at once to the point by stating
briefly the multiplicity of rumors with which
our people had been RECALLED during his abb
seuce, concluding with request that he favor
the public through the GLOBE with the real
situation of affairs, as far as he knew 1t. The
result is in substance as fellows:
Gen. Bishop stated that he left New York
city q week ago Thursday night, mp to which
time the pending negotiations had not been
fully contaminated. general understanding
had, however, been reached by the contracting
parties and he presumed that understanding
had been perfected and decided upon, tn ugh
he had received nothing definite since leaving
that city. The st. Paul interest, he said, which
had conceived and built up the st.
Paul & Sioux City system
to its present commanding position, had
found it necessary in order to carry forward
the work TO its completion, to invite new cap
ital to come in and help bear th' lrcens. In
negotiations to this end, capital. of known
and tried friendship to the St. raul d Sioux
City road, and whose other interests would
make it of Importance to preserve,
foster anddevelop the system of which
the st. Paul road was the fountain head
had been interested. AS said before, he
could not tell precisely what had been done,
but the negotiations, up to the time of his de-
parture pointed to a consolidation or amalga-
nation of the interests of the st. Paul u Sioux
City, the Chicago st. Paul & Minneapolis and
North Wisconsin roads.
OF the details of the management of the
amalgated enterprises, if perfected he sur
missed, he could say nothing further than that
all the negotiations had kept in view and mai u
tanned the primary idea upon which the con-
struction of the st. Paul Il Sioux City had
been entered upon and carried forward, and
that that distinctive idea. under the arrange
ment, if it had been perfected, would be more
SpcCllly CaTrleU through Uudu IL tuc ulstiuCLlSc
st. Paul interest had remained in supreme
control.
In brief, said the General, we have been get
ting friendly aid, and in securing this new
element, no interest in the system represented
by the st. Paul & Sioux City has been elm
mated, but every distinctive feature and every
right of the road, and through it the rights of
the city in which the enterprise found birth,
and from which it has received such hearty
and substantial support, has been protected.
All the extension projects decided upon before
these negotiations were lnaugurated, Will not
only be carried out as orig inally intended, but
Others of equal if not greater Importance to
the st. Paul Il Sioux City road, and to the city
of St. Paul, will be inaugurated and carried
forward to an early completion, the result of
the increased capital secured and ability to do.
The above, III substance, is what the General
had to say to the situation, except that
Messrs. Drake and Merriam would be home in
day or two, when they would undoubtedly be
prepared TO go more into details.
Incidentally Gen. Bishop remarked as the
envoy began to make preparations for closing
the interview, that since leaving New York a
week ago last night he had closed the contract
for seventeen first class new engines, to be de-
ivered within the next three months. He had
also contracted for 100 additional lumber cars,
making 20J of these cars ordered in the last
two months. Also one sleeper, five coaches
of finish as the companys late purchases, while
the company was building at its Sioux City
shops so stock and $50 fat cars. Four thou
sand tons of iron and six thousand tons of
steel rail had been contracted for the road S
southwestern extensions, and would soon begin
to arrive, preparatory to commencing construc-
tion operations as soon as the ground would
permit in the spring.
Reduced Rates tn Attend the Parpell Re-
ceptiOn.
ST.. PAUL, Feb. INSTRUCTED by the COM
mittee Of arrangements, the pleasing duty de-
wolves upon me to extend respectful and cor
dial invitation TO our fellow citizens through
out the State to participate with US on Thurs
day, the 26th of the present month, in giving
to Ohas. s. Parnell ESQ.,, NJ. P, in the capital
of Minnesota a reception worthy Of the man.
of the cause he represents, aud of free people
strong enough and just enough to express their
sympathy for the oppressed, irrespective of
race, cline or creed.
With great courtesy, the officers of the fol-
lowing railroad companies have agreed to issue
excursion tickets from all stations in the State
and return, good for the 26th and 9th.
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad.
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad.
Sioux City & st. Paul railroad.
st. Paul & Duluth railroad.
St. Paul j saltwater railroad.
West Wisconsin railroad, from Eau Claire