Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-29
RAILWAY RUMBLE,
HEARD ABOUT THE STREETS OF 81.
PAUL YESTERDAY.

Tho Snow Bound Rails...The Manitoba
Company First to Resume Construction
1.-The Big Farms on the Breekinridgs
Extension-.-R of Local and En-
igrant Rates by the Omaha Line Com
pany-.-Increase Of Freights on the North
Wisconsln-.-A Passenger Train to be at
Last Supplied for That Road--stickney'
Laugh.
The Browns Valley branch of the st. p. NJ.
& NJ. railway is still closed between Graesviie
and Browns Valley.
The c., NJ. & st. P. agencies are now receir-
ing freight for Montevideo, on the q. & D.
division.
Ths 9. N. division is still closed west Of
Fairmont. The blockade on the ]. & D. divis-
on has not been raised.
Yesterday afternoon there remained i've
miles of track TO be cleared on the Sioux City
division of the Omaha line, this side of Worth
ington, and it was thought 1t wonld be cleared
away in time to allow the passenger train
which leaves st. Paul this afternoon to 60
through to Worthington. Beyond Worthing.
ton there are several snow covered seotio MS,
dU CdCn VI WulCu etiOuk CI0Wo VI
shovelers are working and making such
progress that it was last night hoped the after
noon train of Wednesday may be sent through
to Sioux City.
One wrong figure In the GLOBE OF yesterday
added eight hundred to the number OF colon.
lists taken west by the Northern Pacific eatur.
day. The number intended to bs stated was
one hundred and ninety-fve.
The St. Paul q Manitoba company Is frst
OF northern companies to resume construction
operations this spring, track.laying having
been begun on its Fargo aud Grand Forks
branch week ago yesterday. During the
week about fifteen miles of track was laid from
Fargo north, leaving six or seven miles to be
laid this week to complete the connection at
Hillsboro with the track laid from Fargo south
last season. As soon as the snow Is OF the
grass, graders will be put at work on the ex-
tension north of Grand Forks towards Penn
blna.
A temporary depot for the st. P. & NJ. rail-
way Is being built at Fargo.
The many friends of Mr.. A. o. Echelson arg
pleased to learn that he is to have an important
work for the Northern Pacific this season-in
of Washington Territory.
The St. P. d NJ. company sent out yesterday
aparty of thirty men from Erie, Pa, with ten
or eleven car loads OF stock and q general
farming outfit, going to Williams station on
the Breckinridge extension, to open and oper-
ate the large farm near there owned by Capt.
Leech, of Erie. Another Erie party of about
dozen persona went out last evening On the
Northern Pacific, for Fargo. to open another
large farm about twelve miles southwest from
Fargo.
The Breckinridge extension, ,one of the Dakota
branches of the St. P. & VI. railway, has
not been interrupted by snow during the win
ter, but has been operated according to the
needs of local traffic, by only two or three
trains weekly. This month there has been a
notable increase of the traffic, especially at
Durbin, the temporary end of ths track, aud
at Dwight Station. The latter is quite a
fourishing place and likely to advance con-
siderably this season from being toe center OF
operations of the Dwight farming company,
which owns about $4,000 acres of land In
Richlanl and Traile counties, mostly near
Dwight, and which is taking large number
composed of Hon. J. W. Dwight, N. G., of
Dryden, Hon. T. G.. Platt, United States Sena-
tor, of Owego, and several other wealthy
New York gentlemen of prominence in politi.
cal and business affairs. Financially and in
the personal influence of its members, this
company Is probably the strongest of any
which has invested largely In Dakota lands.
q Omaha Line company will reduce local rates
on its North Wisconsin and Nebraska divisions
from five to four cents per mile, giving 1t a
uniform four cent rate on all its roads. AS
soon as the tickets are received from the
printer, say about April 18th, the company will
further place round fare tickets on sale at all
stations, to and from every station on any of
its roads, at rates considerably under the
single trip rates. 1t has also made a con-
siderable reduction on second class or emil
granttickets, to and from Chicago and Coun-
cir Bluffs.
Freighting business on the North Wisconsin
railway has increased 80 as to require two
freight trains daily and third talked of
as needed to meet the increasing requirements
traffic has forced the management to arrange
for putting on at an early day, what the pa
irons of the road have long asked for and de-
served-a passenger train, run at hours and in
time to accommodate the people who have to
travel over the road. Heretofore the pas
senger business of the road has been done by
a train, sometimes ironically called an accom-
modation train-which ran between stations
at moderate freight speed, stopped at every
station to load and unload way freight and
for the engine to do the switching of the sta.
tion; and which was never on time at either
terminus. AS a consequence people have trav-
eled by it as little as possible. The promised
new departure will increase the intercourse be-
tween St. Paul and the farmers, lumbermen
uuu ucICIlduIc VI tudt pdlb Vi WleSouoiu uc-
pendent upon this road.
"These Blank Blank Syndicate Fetters."
Winnipeg Times.
Mr.. stickney, of the Syndicate" on re-
cent trip to Winnipeg, went into the baggage
car to enjoy quiet smoke. There was in the
van an easy chair, in which was reclining the
baggage man. Mr.. stlckney preempted the
softest trunk he could find, but as, a few min
utes later, the baggage man rose and went to
another part of the car to attend to his duties,
he very sensibly took possession Of the vacated
chair. After a while the baggage man re-
turned, and Mr.. stickney at once arose and
apologizing asked him to resume his chair.
The baggage man, equally polite,
tdenti.y Y he did not recognize, to keep the
chair, but the latter conslderately declining,
the former still SO persistently urged him to
do so that Mr.. Stickney at last rather unwll.
lingly acceded, and as he sank back In Its
comfortable folds he murmered, "You are
very kind-very kind, indeed" "Not at ALL"
was the ready response, ''not at all. You see
there's so many of these blank. .blanked syudi
cate fellars around nowadays, that we have
to be polite to everybody" The baggageman
still wonders why his visitor should have
smiled so audibly. he couldn't see anything
particularly funny in his remark.