Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-26
ON THE RAIL.
The Rock Island Road Competing for st.
Paul Business--The Journey of the Duke
of sutherland Yesterday--The st. Paul 4

The Rock Island Road Competing for St.
Paul Business--The Journey of the Duke
of Sutherland Yesterday--The st. Paul 3
Omaha Getting Into New Quarters.
Mr.. B. @. Meddaugh, northwestern travel
ing agent of the Canada Southern road, called
at the St. Paul railroad offices yesterday.
Mr.. A. H. Bode, general traffic manager of
the Minneapolis & st. Louis read, was in st.
Paul Yesterday on business of his company.
Mr.. II. c. Davis, assistant general passenger
agent of the 81. Paul & Manitoba road has
gone to Milwaukee on business of the COM
panV
b The Pennsylvania railroad company, when It
shall have acquired the Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore railroad, will have
under Its direct control very nearly 1000 miles
of track.
Trains on the Iowa & Dakota division of
the Milwaukee & St. Paul will run next week
to Mitchell and Running Water, but 1t will
take two weeks more to restore the railway to
Yankton.
Beginning next week, the Milwaukee &
St. Paul company will run a new passenger
line between St. Paul and st. Louis, via Du
buque, between which latter point and St.
Paul, the trains will be run on the River
division.
A railroad engineer saying that the usual
life of locomotive was only thirty years, a
passenger remarked that such atOugh-looking
thing ought to live longer than that. swell, y
responded the engineer, sperhaps 1t would II
it didn't smoke SO much"
1t is noted as remarkable fact that the first
train through over the Southern Pacific road
and the Atchson, Topeka & Santa Fe reached
Kansas City exactly on time. For train IN
ming so long distance and over SO much new
road this was an unusual achievement.
CIR. Peddle has just commenced his twenty
ninth year as master mechanic of the Terre
Haute & Indianapolis road. When Mr.. Pebble
began ON the road there was one passenger
and one freight train each way. Now there are
five passenger and fourteen freight trains run
over the road each way every twenty-four
hours.
COL D. Fl. Goodwin, who was thirty-five
years ago chief engineer of the Little Schuyl-
kill road, and who planned the Mahony tunnel
and other transportation lines in the Schuy'-
kill coal region, is reported to be dying in the
poor-house at Silver Cliff, Col. He went to
Colorado over twenty years ago and was for q
time successful in mining, but has lately been
very unfortunate.
Major Geo.H H. Smith, general superintendent,
and James Smith, Jr., attorney Of the st. Paul &
Duluth road, with A. H. Hudson, gen.
eral manager, and w. D. Wash
burn, president of the Minneapolis & st
Louis road, visited Taylors Falls yesterday, to
iui ther arrange for terminal fac. lties, and the
running of trains on the Taylors Falls branch,
of which the two companies are joint lessees.
Mr.. s. s. Merrill, general manager of the
Milwaukee & St. Paul, has been constrained
for the twentieth time to declare that he has
no knowledge of any preparations for console
dating the NJ & St. P. and Northern Pacific,
and to assert that, like other sensible men who
are watching railway developments, he consi-
ders the idea of consolidating these
two companies to be about as pre-
posterous as the other favorite
notion of the hard-up railroad reporter, that
of consolidating the M. & st. P. and North
western companies.