Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-01
RIVER AND RAIL.

AransI0r O0lays-Sn0rtoned limo to Dem
ver-Big Freight Moyement-A MALI
ciOusly Displaced swftch-Prairie Fires
Out West and Flooded Pumpkin Fields
on the Minuesora-Wells' New Camp
City and Libbis Conger for st Louis
To Morrow.
Walt. Wyand, travelling passenger agent of
the Michigan Central, returned from north
ern trip.
John Willoughby, travelling passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania railroad, returned
yesterday from Chicago.
Mr. Martin, ticket agent of OF the Cana
dian Pacific, Eastern Division, at Pembroke,
Ont, is visiting St. Paul.
The last new thing in railway advertising is
in the Wabash company's latest time table
-Saxe's "Rhyme of the Rail-" artistically
illustrated.
Mr. Charles 8. Fee, chief clerk in the gen
eral managers Office of the Northern Pacific,
returned Sunday from his vacation visit to
Cincinnati.
Mr.: H. o. Cary finished last evening his
work for the emigration bureau of the st. Paul
& Manitoba railroad, and to-day takes charge
of the NordueSten.
Mr.. BeIknap, OF New York, treasurer of the
Northern Pacific company, remained in st.
Paul yesterday, contemplating trip over the
road to the Yellowstone.
Mr.. Lewis L. Haupt. (brother Of the general
manager of the Northern Paclfic) and family,
left hera last evening for pleasure tour over
the Northern Pacific into tho Yellowstone
valley.
Eastern freight lines which ship west by
way of Buffalo and Duluth have announced
that they will stop receiving freight for Du-
lnth and points beyond, at the seaboard after
Nov. 80.
The freight agents, located in st. Paul, were
all at bone again yesterday, and all pronounce
The Chicago meeting to have been a success,
and the visit to the penitentiary at Joliet a
very pleasant affair.
A. s. Dowdal bade good bye to his associ-
ates IN the Northern Pacific general Offices
last evening, and to * the night train for
Moorhead, where he will to-day enter upon
his duties as agent of the st. Paul & Manitoba
road.
The Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha company
sent five freight trains west Sunday and five
more yesterday, and will send west four to FIVE
daily all this week. On the eastern division
the same company is moving fourteen to
eighteen freight trains each way daily.
A railroad man who returned from the
West yesterday tells of having fought prairie
fire at Schuyler, Nebraska, Saturday, and Of
seeing yesterday, at LIE Sueur, farmer out in
the flood in ba'teau, gathering in his float
ing pumpkins, from the vines whereon they
grew.
Shippers Of coarse grain complain of DANA
ging delays in moving cars to and from eleva
Tor A, and want to know who will cure the
evil. One dealer asserts that his firm has
lost thousands of dollars the last month by
inability to fill orders because of the transfer
delays.
A malclously displaced switch at Moore
Lake, Sunday night, sent an engine and one
car of Minneapolis & st. Louis freight train
off the track, delaying other freight and pas
senger trains, but fortunately doing less dtm-
age than was evidently intended by the wretch
who moved the switch.
Hon. James Smith, Jr., president OF the st.
Paul q Duluth company returned from Duluth
yesterday with the party of legislators he took
TO that city Saturday, to show them the new
growth of that port. The legislators return
with far greater estimation of The importance
of Duluth than they ever had before.
Geo. A. Wells, railway timber inspector,
left for the north last night, mainly to try
new camp utensil which he calls the Northern
Pacific camp stove. 1t is in pc, table shape,
weighs only l2H pounds and yet includes a
good stove, baking oven, three boilers and
stew dishes, frying pan and gridlron.
Mr.. F. E. Rice, an old employc of the Pull
man palace car company, arrived here yester
day, to take up his residence in st. Paul as as
sistant superintendent for the company in the
St. Paul district. Mr.. Wadsworlh, who has
heretofore had charge of the business, remains
here as receiving cashier of the company.
The Union Pacific compsny's time table by
the Juesburg Cutoff, just issued, provides
for twenty-four hour runs between Council
B uffs and Denver, gain of six and half
hours over the time heretofore by Chsyenne,
and reducing the time between st. Paul ami
Denver 10 foriy-two hours, which is four hours
less than Chicago and Denver time over the
new route.