Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-28
RAILWAY NOTES.

Gilmore station-The New Iowa Line st. p
3 d. superintendency-T The Effort to
Abolish Ticket Commissions-P
of L. #. Kimball-Local and Personal.
Assistant President Winter and Gen
eral Superintendent Hatch, of the c.,
st. P. & O., have gone to Sioux City, to
return Thursday next.
Annual and time passes of the st. Paul
& Duluth road, limited to December 3lst.
have been extended to January 18th. On
the Northern Pacific all trip passes ex-
pire with the year.
Col ]. B. Fish, chief engineer of the
Little Falls 6 Dakota road was in the
city yesterday. He reports construction
work being rapidly prosecuted on the
section under contract.
A new time schedule which will go in
to effect on the St. Paul division of the
g., St. P. & o. road next Sunday will not
materially change the running of pas
senger trains but entirely revises the
freight service.
The mileage of the c., St. P, M. 6 o
railway is as follows: Eastern division
and branches, $50 miles; Northern divis-
ion, 14O miles; St. Paul division and
branches, 166 miles; Sioux City division
and branches, 31S miles; Nebraska divis-
ion and branches, 1S9 miles. Total, 1908
The appointment of Mr.. Sawall's sue
cessor, as general superintendent of the
st. Paul 6 Duluth road, awaits the ar
rival of General Manager Merrill of the
Milwaukee & st. Paul road, who is one of
the Duluth company's executive commit
tee. He is expected here Thursday or
Friday. 1t is to be hoped the appoint
ment will be such as to indicate pretty
plainly that the present owners of the
road intend to rebuild and improve it.
The c., B. s. G. railroads Christmas
publication is little nicely Illuminated
phamphlet with colored pictures of Bur-
lington and the interiors of dining, smok-
ing, parlor, sleeping and state room cars
in use on that route. The letter press in
cludes the dining car bill of fare and
special descriptions of the elegant &C.
commodations afforded passengers. And,
by the way, among the passengers pic
tured in the cars will be recognized the
portraits of number of notable men and
women.
A circular of date the 25th inst, signed
by W. S. Alexander, general freight
agent, and A, Marvel, general manager,
announces the appointment of Mr.. L. F.
Kimball to be assistant general freight
agent of the st. Paul 6 Manitoba rail-
way with headquarters at St. Paul from
January l, 1882. Mr.. Kimball's promo
ton is in the line of carrying out the
policy some time ago announced by the
company CT giving preference 10 faithful
employees whenever an appointment or
promotion was to be made.
A large force of men is employed at
Gilmore on the state line south of Blue
Earth City, where the Chicago & North
western company's new line from Des
MONIES meets the Blue Earth branch of
the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha road, in
grading and track laying, and preparing
to build ten-stall engine house, freight
house, passenger depot, water tank, etc.
But though these preparations for bust
ness are being hurried forward, it is not
contemplated that the new route will be
open for business for some weeks yet, and
the through passenger train to Des Moines
may not be put on before spring.
Mr.. W. H. Dixon, who was chairman
of the recent convention of general pas
senger agents at Chicago, held to con-
slider the question of ticket commissioners,
has sent out circular covering an agree
ment which has been signed by the gen.
eral passenger agents of twen-
ty-seven prominent western roads.
The agreement is designed to abolish
commissions to agents Of other roads for
sale of tickets and to so regulate the
placing of tickets for sale so as to pre-
vent invasions of territory. The circu-
lar calls for further signatures to the
agreement, which is to 60 into effect Feb
ruary next.