Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-13
RAIL, RIVER AND LAKE


Six Grand Harvest-Time Excursions From
the Eastern States and Canadas to the
Wheat Fields of Dakota, Minnesota and
Winuipeg-A Car that Jumped Over q
Telegraph Line-Big Wheat and Oats
st p. & M. Crop Reports-Burial of
Engineer Tryder-Personals and1Other
Railway Notes-Lots of Passengers on
the River-Boats Due this Week, ETC.,
Etc.
Thirty-seven immigrants went out on the
st. Paul & Manitoba road yesterday, to settle
at Ada, Alexandra, etc.
Division Superintendent Wicks Of the Pull
man Car company was in st. Paul yesterday
on business of his company, which now runs
five lines out of st. Paul.
Judge Chandler, general agent of the Mil
waukee & st. Paul company, is expected home
from the Hot Springs of Arkansas to-day,
much improved in health.
Henry T. Simpson is the name of the newly
appointed assistant superintendent and train
dispatcher of the st. Paul & Duluth road.
His name was incorrectly given yesterday
Messrs. Willard and Haupt and their party
were at Morris last night. Their visit to
Morris was probably in connection with some
exploration of the route on which the Little
Falls and Dakota railroad is to be built.
G. F. Kindred, land commissioner of the
Canadian Pacific, returning from Canada,
where he arranged for procuring plats and
records for opening his department at Winni-
peg, is at the Metropolitan, accompanied by
Mrs. Kindred.
Isaiah Tryder, the engineer who was killed
at Hudson Sunday, was buried yesterday from
the First Baptist church of this city, Rev. L.
c. Barnes officiating, in Oakland cemetery.
The funeral was attended by considerable
number of railroad men.
The water was considerably lowered in Will
low river pond at Hudson yesterday and Su-
perintendents Hatch and Spencer, who we're
there yesterday, were of the opinion that the two
engines, which were drove into the pond Sun
day could not be taken out to-day.
DR.. Warsabo, of Coldwater, Mich, agent of
the emigration bureau of the st. Paul & Man.
itoba company, accompanied by party of
representative Bohemian gentlemen, left here
last night for Stephen,i in the Red River valley,
to secure the location for settlement of Po.
landers from Bohemia.
F. R. Sterrett, accompanied by an assistant
engineer of the st. Paul & Manitoba road,
went north last night to locate five grain
houses or elevators he is to build this season.
One of them will be built at Kittson station.
in Polk county, but the other stations are to
be determined during the trip.
Sleeping car fare on the Minneapolis & st.
LOUIS company's line to st. Louis, whish has
been s. for the trip, (the sleeping cars running
through without transfer) has been reduced to
$3. A new time schedule of this line, which
is to go into effect next Sunday, will reduce
the through time by three or four hours.
The st. Louis trains of the Milwaukee & st.
Paul company's new riverside line, make the
run from st. Paul to St. Louis in rs hours 30
minutes, and from st. Louis to st. Paul in Is
hours 10 minutes. This time can be reduced
to twenty hours, and probably will be, when
ever the travelling public, or rail connections
at either end shall demand faster running.
It lis now promised that the passenger trains
on the new Chicago line which the M. & st.
LIB, C. R. & N. and c., R. /. & P. compa
MES have united to form, although the line is
about ITO miles longer, will run through in
the same time and make the same connections
at each terminus as are made by the Chicago
trains of The M. & st. p, and c., st. P. & U.
companies. But if the Rock Island and its as
sociates make their line successful compet-
itor the time on the other lines may be easily
reduced four or five hours.
Col. Cal. Uline, of the st. Paul & Manitoba
Land department, returned yesterday from
a northern trip, bringing samples of the
wheat and oats growing on the farm of II.
w. Donaldson, in Kennedy township, K1ttson
county. The grain stands four feet high, and
is of good color. The oats are nicely headed
and the wheat heads are five inches long.
Mr.. Donaldson has $500 acres in grain this
year, and will have 5000 acres to seed next
spring. He is now breaking two sections in
the southeast part of the township, on which
his breaking teams travel eighteen miles day.
The headquarters building of the Chicago,
St. Paul & Omaha was planned to include
basement dining ROOM Eitchen, elc., SO that
the officers and all employees in the building
might take their noenday meals there, at ex-
pense of the company, which it was ca1cula-
ted would be recompensed in the saving of
time, in relieving its employees from fatigue
of long walks to their noon meals and in keep
ing working force in each office without a
noon vacation. The first dinner was served
yesterday, and the boys say it was substan-
tial, good meal, nicely served.
gentleman who witnessed the collision at
Hudson Sunday of a number of runaway
freight cars with two engines says that the
caboose, when it it struck the forward engine
seemed to split in two its whole length and
was then buried under the next freight car,
which was crushed like an egg shell. The
second freight car, he says, was run upon
the wreck and then propelled, bodily itseemed
through the air, clear over the telegraph wires
into the pond, while the first engine was driy-
en- back upon the second and both engines,
with half dozen or more cars broke through
the trestle work and sank IN the pond.
Crop reports of yesterday from all telegraph
stations on the st. Paul s. Manitoba lines
confirms reports as to good crop prospects.
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