Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-05
THE RAILROADS.

gus Railroad News-Local and Personal
Paragraphs.
Sells Bros circus was conveyed by
special train last night from Mankato to
Sioux City.
General Manager Hill, of the St. Paul
& Manitoba, arrived home from the East
yesterday morning.
Mr.. H. s. James, secretary to the gen.
eral manager of the c., St. P. d O., was
yesterday confined to his home by i'll
health.
Six coach loads of immigrants, direct
from Castle Garden via the lakes and
Northern Pacific, arrived at Fargo Friday
evening.
The Minnesota Turner's went to st.
Louis by the M. s. St. L. train of Friday,
and should have reached St. Louis at
5:15 yesterday afternoon.
At last reports from the special train
carrying Haverly's minstrel troupe to
Omaha, the arrival in that city was likely
to be too late for giving Saturday night
performance.
Samples of grain and grasses were re-
ceived at the Northern Pacific land de-
partment yesterday, from Frazee City,
Becker county, which measured as fol-
lows: Wheat, 25 inches high; oats, 10
inches high timothy, "A inches high, and
clover, inches high.
Private letters to railroad men here say
that Miles City was filed to OVERLOOKING
" the first three boats which arrived
there, and hundreds of people are living
in tents. Most of these people have gone
in advance of the railroad to secure
lands near to its line.
A time schedule of the ST. Paul
s. Manitoba road, going into eff
feet this morning, provides for
Lake Minnetonka trains to leave ST. Paul
as follows: Sundays, at 6:20A. NJ, II M.
and $40 P. M. Weekdays, at 500 A. NJ,
u NJ, AS P. NJ. and $40 NJ
A reckless special correspondent att
Chicago has sent back to st. Paul, with
Chicago embellishments, the Fargo fc-
ton that the late general manager of the
Northern Pacific, Mr.. H Sargent, is to be
returned to.cOntrOl of the company's bust
ness. The Fargo report was simply fic-
ton. The Chicago embellishments are
brutal and would not be published in a
carefully edited paper.
The Northern Pacific freight business,
with It's large transportation Of construc-
ton materials, is giving employment to
all its rolling stock, and makes felt the
need OF much more. The company is
said to have under contract for delivery
this season 700 fat cars, 900 box cars,
40e stock cars, and 81 locomotives.
But the car shops and locomotive works
of the country are all rushed with work,
and the management is only hopeful that
a goodly portion of these cars and engines
will be delivered in time to assist in the
full movement of freights.
The construction department of the
Northern Pacific has advertised for pro-
posals for furnishing the stone and
doing the stone and brick work for erect
ing at Brainerd machine shop, 40 by
244 feet, with engine and boiler room and
chimney one hundred feet high, and q
locomotive round house 316 feet in diane
ter. Both buildings are to have brick
walls On stone foundations and iron roof.
The machine shop is to be built this sea-
son, but the round house, planned for
forty-four stalls, may be postponed to
next spring
The Minneapolis Tribune publishes a
special dated at Chippewa Falls, saying
that C. l.. Colby and others of the Wis
consin Central company have OF
ganized the Chippewa Falls and Min
neapolis railroad company, and that the
road from Chippewa Falls to MINI apo
lis is to be built as promptly as men and
money can do the work. 1t is added that
the W. G. company is not satisfied W it'll
its arrangement for running into ST. Paul or
with the delaysof the ST. Paul & Manitoba
company in furnishing track for eastern
trains to run into Minneapolis The
whole dispatch is at variance with the
late report Of G. L. Colby, agent, to the
trustees of the Wisconsin Central, and
exhibits lack of knowledge of the con-
dition and purpose of the Wisconsin Sc
Minnesota railroad, by which the Wis
consin Central extended its business to st.
Paul.
The annual meeting of the St. Paul &
Sioux City Railroad company, the west
ern wing Of the Chicago, St. Paul s.
Omaha line, was held at the new railroad
building, corner of Fourth and Rosabel
streets, yesterday morning. A majority
OF TIE STOCK was represented anu tHe 1Oi-
lowing directors were elected: H. H.
Porter, Chicago; E. F. Drake and J. L.
Merriam, St. Paul; August Kountze, New
York; c. II. Bigelow; H. Wilder and J.Q
Adams, St. Paul; George l. Seney, r.
P. Flower, H. r. Bishop, and j. M.
Fiske, New ork; r. r.. Cable, Rock Is
land; -Phlletus Sawyer, Oshkosh; and
BENZ. Brewster, and David Dows, of New
York. The only change in the directory
from last year is the election of r. r. Ca
BILE in place of r. G. Cable. The direct
ors, Immediately after adjournment of
the stockholders, meeting, reelected the
officers of last year, as follows: Presi-
dent, II. FL. Porter; vice president, E. F.
Drake; treasurer, R. P. Flower; assist
ant treasurer, r. Edgerton; secretary,
G. A. Hamilton; Executive committee,
H. H Porter, e. F. Drake, r. p Flower,
II. r. Bishop, Benz. Brewster, David
Bows and P. Sawyer. In the
afternoon nearly the same parties held at
Hudson the annual meeting of the Chi
cago, St. Paul G. Minneapolis company,
which is the eastern wing of the c., st.
p, M. & 0. line. Alter this meeting the
Chicago and New York gentlemen re-
turned to St. Paul to spend
the Sabbath. 1t is stated that at
the two meetings only routine business