Daily globe., 1881-01-30
RAILWAY RATTLE.
A Winter Days Budget of Local and Per-
sonal News and Gossip The Great COnti-
mental Double Track Project Myth
Evolved From Some News Makers I'm

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agination.
S. N. Demmond, general travelling
agent of the Pennsylvania company, Chi
cago, was visiting the railway offices Of
St. Paul yesterday.
General passenger agents here are con
sidering the necessity of their attending
the meeting of the Western Association
of g. P. A. at the Grand hotel, Cincin-
natl, February 9th. Among the questions
proposed to be discussed at the meeting
are several regarding the issue of passes
or mileage tickets in exchange for adver-
tising in newspapers.
Mr.. J B. Power, land commissioner OF
the n. P, is expected home from the
East tomorrow.
The Eastern roads have announced a
special round trip rate, Chicago to Wash
lngton and return, tickets good for eight
days, covering Inauguration day, March
4th. The rate is $25, being $3.50 less
than regular rates The ST. Paul and
Chicago roads will probably make SIM
liar reduction for the same occasion.
The railway competition lnaugura ted
at New York by the Baltimore & Ohio
is at the present time very favorable to
immigrants. Friday the emigrant rate
from New York to st. Paul was only $l2,
and from any steamship port in Europe
to ST. Paul only s42. Still better, the
companies have made it point to give
the immigrant personally the benefit of
the reduction by not allowing it to be
taken by immigrant contractors or
agents.
General Manager Sargent has received
from N P Langford, Esq, formerly su-
perintendent of the National yellow
stone) park, a set Of large Photographic
views, finely taken, of the hot springs
and spouting geysers, petrifcations, Yel-
lowstone falls and other curiosities Of that
wonderland, which the extension of the
Northern Pacific will open to the sum-
mer tourists of 1882.
General Manager Bishop and General
Superintendent Winter, of the St Paul
& Omaha line, returned from the West
late Friday night.
In outside railway circles it is still be-
lieved that J. H. Page, assistant general
passenger agent of the Milwaukee & St.
Paul company, will succeed Mr.. Sanhorn
as general passenger agent of the North
ern Pacific, while Mr.. julie M Hannaford,
assistant general freight and passenger
agent, will be designated as general
freight agent.
General Agent Hair, of the st. Paul Sc
Duluth, is in receipt of a circular letter
from steamship agency in San Francis
CO, asking him to have printed and placed
on sale at the offices of his company round
trip tickets to Yokohama. and stating
that the steamship company had reduced
its round trip rate to 1926. AS the round
trip from Duluth, for instance, would
cost somewhere about 5000, and only 50
would be coming to his company, Mr.
Hair has concluded not to add Y Yokohama
to his stock of printed coupon tickets.
The Sioux City train left that city for
St. Paul yesterday morning about five
hours late, having waited for delayed
Omaha train But the road was clear
and other trains moving close up to regu-
lar time.
The Hastings s. Dakota road is open to
Glencoe, but fast closed beyond that point
The Southern Minnesota at the west
ern end and the Winona g st. Peter ex-
tension are badly showed under, and may
have to be abandoned until the weather
turns warm enough to fasten down the
snow. On the Winona s. st. Peter there
is a great amount of west-bound freight
blockaded
The operation OF the Northern Pacific
and St. Paul 6 Manitoba railroads have
so far not been interrupted by the winter
Snow. But the ides of March may bring
them trouble, for then the winds do blow
up north, and the snow may be deeper
than now.