Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-16
RAIL AND RIVER NOTES.,

Eastward Bound Passengers-New APP
parliamentary Large Drove of Cattle
from Fort Benton-The Libbie Conger
and Gem City for st. Louis To-Morrow-
g Personals and Local Notes. @ .'.-
The new coal docks at Duluth are SO
far advanced that coal is being delivered
there.
President Smith, of the St. Paul &
Duluth company, returned from Duluth
yesterday.
Mr.. ]. G. Callahan has been appointed
purchasing agent of the St. Paul & ,Du-
Iuth company.
Mr.. ]. M. Hannaford, general freight
agent of the. Northern Pacific, returned
from the Northwest yesterday ieaaai
II. G. Fahnestock, Esq, and party,
from New York, arrived here yesterday
on their return from an excursion trip to
ern. Pacific eassy has a. aaiieia
The position to which rumor consigns
Major Smith, late of the St. Paul & Du
luth, is that of general manager of the
Minneapolis 81 st. Louis road in place of
Mr.. Hudson. i's'+
8. S. Merrill, general manager, and
George Odds, general freight agent, of
the G. M. & st. P. railway, were in St..
Paul yesterday afternoon, attending to
routine business. ,hstuia9qs r6 2
Mr. j. H. Hanson, formerly connected
with the Northern Pacific land depart
ment, is to enter the service of the st.
Paul s. Manitoba land department., begin
ming Monday next. 81 rag
General Superintendent Hatch, and
Assistant President Winter, of the c.,
St. P. & o. railway, left yesterday for a
general tour of inspection over the roads
of their company west Of st. Paul
All the general passenger agents will
be away next week in attendance on the
national convention at the Southern hote
/ in st. Louis, and most of them will &C
| from there ON ten days excursion into
| Colorado ul
The Glendive excursion party, which
left here Monday evening, began it,
homeward journey yesterday morning
and spent good part of the day in view.
ing the chad lands" of the Little Mis-.
souri, So far the party has been favored
with pleasant weather. -. ~
The Lake Minnetonka Navigation com.
pany's programme for the fall season il
to give daily excursion, passengers fol
for which should take the St. Paul
Manitoba train leaving st. Paul at 500 a
m, and will be returned on the train ar
irving here at sos p. M
Mr.. Monroe, the efficient general agen
of the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha com
pany, at Omaha, left for his post yester
day afternoon, after visit to the lumber
men along the North Wisconsin road
made for the sake of preparing himself
to answer the inquiries Of lumber buyers
who visit him at his Omaha office.
Railroad men are anticipating larg,
travel the coming season to Florida anl
the Gulf States, and expect that most O.
the travellers will want to visit the inter
national cotton exposition which is to bs
held in Oglethorpe Park in Atlanta from
! Oct. 5 to Dec. 81. 1t is possible tina
special rates may be made to Atlanta fO1
October or November.
| According to the Associated Press re-
ports from New York, the annual meet
1 ing of the Northern Pacific company has
completed the agreements made ,wher
Mr.. Willard and his associates came int
the company, and this fact endorses thu
assurances given in st. Paul, as to thu
policy and purposes of the company, by
Mr.. Willard and Mr.. Cakes. n1 80 a
Messrs. Floweree & Clark arrived here
yesterday to arrange for the care anc
transportation of 1900 head of Montana
cattle. The cattle are arriving at Bis
marck, having been driven from For
Benton on the north side of the Missouri
river, where they have had good grazing
all the way, and are to be shipped from
Bismarck to Chicago over the Northern
Pacific and connecting roads.
The Northern Pacific Railroad compa
ny has concluded contracts for eighty
seven locomotives, to be delivered mex
| veal, and is negotiating large contracts fol
! freight and passenger cars. 1t is proba
BILE that large number of the freight
cars will be built at the new car works il
Saltwater. The company has not only
to anticipate great increase of business
from the new settlements along its pres
ent lines, but also to prepare for opera
ting several hundred miles of new road
The east bound trains continue to b.
crowded with passengers, the rush o
homeward bound summer tourists being
now succeeded by rush of Minnesotianl
who are taking advantage of the Gu
rates on the eastern trunk lines for visit.
10 the east The Omaha company had tt
| take off a sleeper from the incoming
train yesterday at East st. Paul and at
tach it to the outgoing train to accom-.
modate passengers who took stand ur
ride from the Union depot till they me-
the other train. b !. 7ui <. srssr
nos Mdking 1t Warm for Tanderbilt.
| The Grand Trunk railroad, which has vainly
endeavored to force recognition from the Van
derbilt roads by its cheap Boston and Buffalo
rates, has taken step to-day which will, il
seems, necessarily bring the Vanderbilt lines
| to time They have established a round triI