Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-22
ST. Pamls Ne,c Eastern Zine.

The finest day passenger train ever
brought into Minnesota arrived in TIE St.
Paul & Manitoba yard yes
terday afternoon. being the first
train of the Wisconsin & Minnesota line,
brought here to begin the regular runs OF
that line on Monday next. The train, be-
sides locomotive and tender, consists of four
new and elegant cars-ene combination ex-
press, mall and baggage car. enc second
class passenger car, and the other two first
class passenger cars. These cars are fin
ished in natural wood colors, the second
class in native woods and the first class IN
mahogany. The windows are large; the
double arch gives large air space and good
ventilation; the seats are of most comfort
able pattern;the lighting of the cars is by CEN
ter chandeliers; the interior decorations are
rich but in very good taste, and all the fur
nishings and appliances seem to be the best
to be had. Attached to this fine train was
the company's business Car, bringing Mr..
James Barber, the general passenger agent
of the line, who comes to make such prelim-
mary arrangements for his company here as
the time will allow.
The Wisconsin & Minnesota company, or
ganlzed to connect the system OF roads cen
trail and its branches and leased roads, is of
fcered the same as is the Wisconsin Central
company, viz: G. L. Colby, president; E. H.
Abbott, vice president; F. n. Furney, gen
eral manager; James Barber, general pas
senger and ticket agent; and L. II. Malone,
general freight agent. Their road from 40
botsford, on the Wisconsin Central main
line, to Eau Claire, on the st. Paul & Omaha
line, has been but lately finished and will be
placed in full operation for the first time to-
morrow.
The completion of this road, in opening
to St. Paul the entire system of the Wiscon-
sin Central company, opens to our city large
possibilities of commercial extension and
adds greatly to its facilities of communica-
ton with markets both of supply and de-
mand. The Wisconsin Central company
is the lessee of the Milwaukee & Northern
railroad, and its entire mileage is as follows:
Miles
Milwaukee to Menasha. ..................1U 2
Hilbert to Green Bay. .................... q
MenashR TO Appleton. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ..... 5
Stevens Hoint to Ashland ................ $50
Stevens Point to Portage. Observation-Disclosures. 20
Abbotsford to Eau Claire. ................. Ga
And Trackage leased from Eau Claire to st.
Paul. ...............~. ..................S 81
.
This covers the major part of northern
and central Wisconsin, region rich In tim
Der and mineral resources and manufactur-
ing faculties. A large part of the country
buys its -four an l other food supplies, and
being by this new line broaght nearer to
st. Paul in time and trackage than it is to
Milwaukee, there would seem to be prom
ising opening for our wholesale merchants.
The Fox river improvement region, directly
on this line, having the best water power
east of Minneapolis, in part
already occupied by extensive mills
and manufactures will now be
enabled to come into this market to buy
wheat, and the extensive lumber regions of
central Wisconsin may now contribute to
the rapidly increasing lumber trade for
which this city is the collecting and dis
tributing point. Add to all this that the
new line, by its direct connection with Green
Bay and Milwaukee, adds to our facilities of
transportation to and from the East, and it
must be acknowledged that no railroad
opening of late years has been SO full of
promise of benefits to st. Paul, and all the
country connected with it in interest.
The new passenger trains of this line
leaving here each week day at 6:15 A. NJ. and
arriving each week day at 9:15 P. NJ, are, as
built especially for the line and the finest in
the country, in appearance and appoint
ments, and in combination of Improvements
in building. Their run, by daylight. will take
the passenger through new region abound
ing in scenery worth travelling to see, ant
the country traversed by them is, from Eau
Claire to Green Bay and from Portage Il
Ashland, one that has been till now as
sealed book to st. Paul. We will now pro
coed to become familiar with it and to know
its people, and beginning is to be made il
that way Tuesday of next week when tn
millers of Green Bay, Appleton, Menash
and whereabouts, are coming to st. Paul t
look at the city and get acquainted with on
business men.
The l.. q N. Consolidation -SttocIed.
NASHVILLE, Nov. 20.-The proposed bi