Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
RAIL, LAKE AID RIVER.

Personal and Local Rail Items-A Test of
the Speed of an American Locomotive
six Miles in Five Minutes, Thirteen and 8
Half Seconds-Arrival of the Steamer
Quebec at Duluth River and Lake SUI
perior Notes.
The Chicago, Omaha & st. Paul company's
new locomotives will not arrive in time to
put on additional trains before the LIST of
June.
Mr.. Merrill, general manager of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee g. st. Paul company, will
be Ga years old this month, yet he works and
travels like strong man in his prime.
Since Thursday noon he has travelled from
Milwaukee to st. Paul. thence to Ortonville,
then via Pennington to Yankton, transacting
business all along the route, and by this time
is probably back in Milwaukee. The boys
say that when the old man dies he'll want
his body hauled to the cemetery at not less
than twenty miles an hour.
Land Commissioner Powers, of the North
ern Pacific, is expected home to-day from
Bismarck, D. T.
President Stephen and Vice President
Angus were at the St. Paul & Manitoba
headquarters yesterday.
Nothing more was heard from the Big
Stone country yesterday. An Ortonville
paper says that two extensions of the Has
tings & Dakota are to be made, one west
ward and the other by the east shore of the
lake and northward to Fargo. That might
be good thing for Ortonville, but the state
ment needs confirmation.
The Omaha express yesterday was COM
posed of seven cars, including two drawing
cars, the st. Paul and Sioux City, and the
business car Of the consolidated.
Gen. j. III. Bishop, general manager of the
Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha, went west yes
terday afternoon in the business car of the
company, to look after matters connected
with the extensions in southwestern Dakota.
He will return Tuesday next.
Among the passengers by the Omaha ex-
press, yesterday afternoon, was Edward w.
Ruff, late secretary, etc., of the st. Paul,
Saltwater & Taylors Falls railroad company.
Mr.. Ruff has been connected with Manager
Stickney in that organization for eight
years past, during which time he gained a
most enviable reputation as a reliable,
prompt, competent and courteous official,
and the respect and confidence of his fellow
officials and the business public generally,
all of whom regret that the recent consolida
lions vacated the position he SO long and
creditably filed. Mr.. Ruff goes to Denver,
Col.
A project has been aired in the State Sen
ate of New York for allowing railway
track to be laid along the tow paths of the
Erie canal. The avowed object is to pro-
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is believed that the real purpose is to obtain
basis of operations designed to bring the
canal wholly under control of the railway
companies.
Commissioner Fisk asserts emphatically
that there is no intention to further reduce
east-bound rates. On the contrary there is
general desire among the trunk line mana
gers to maintain the present rates through
the summer. But the railroads are losing
the grain carryings-all shipments at this
time being made by water-and the mana
gers won't stand that long.
test of speed was made Tuesday last,
with one coach, on the -ballasted track
of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
railway, about twenty-five miles east of Chi
cago. SThe engine was built at the Fort
Wayne shop. It has 17x24 inch cylinder,
with fve-feet driving whe els, and is one of
the standard passenger engines owned by the
company. Eight miles we're run, the first
two being used for reaching high speed, and
the next six miles were then run as follows:
First, 50 seconds: second, So; third, IS;
fourth, So; fifth, 81; sixth, 5119-an average
of a little less than Is miles per hour. This
test disproves the oft-repeated assertion that
a speed of 60 miles per hour has never been
exceeded by an American engine. The en-
gineer was VIM. jackson.
new time table for the st. Paul & Man
itoba road is advertised this morning. It
changes the time of departure of through
trains, and adds one to the number of daily
trains to and from Minneapolis.