Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-01
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE RAILS.

Personal Mention-The Milwaukee b st.
Paul Still Gathers Them In-Condition of
the wheeling Eastern Trains Badly De-
layed.
Mr.. Harry c. Ives, secretary to the general
manager of the st. Paul & Manitoba railway,
left Sunday evening for Washington and the
northern seaboard cities, to be absent about
two weeks.
Mr.. A. B. stickney's appointment on the
Canadian Pacific, is that of general superinten.
dent. The new company has certainly made a
good choice for their at present most i'm
portant executive Office.
Mr.. F. G. Butterfeld, having been appointed
master mechanic of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way, left here for Winnipeg Sunday night.
Mr.. Butterfeld was for fourteen years in the
employ of the st. Paul & Sioux City company,
and it's successor, and most of the time as
master mechanic, In charge Of the shops at
Sioux City. He is one Of the best mechanics
in the country, and an excellent manager.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul COM
pany has taken in two more roads, the stock
holders of the Sioux City & Dakota and the
Dubuque & Southwestern companies having
last week respectively ratified the sales of their
roads to the c., NJ & st. P. company. The
s. C. & D. company's roads, 181 miles in all,
are from Sioux City to Yankton and from
Elk Point to Sioux Falls. The D. g. 8. W.
two miles west of Dubuque, to Cedar Rapids,
a distance of fifty-seven miles. The c., NJ. &
st. P. company will, it is said, extend the
latter road to Council Bluffs, distance of 270
miles, giving it direct line from Chicago
and Milwaukee to Council Bluffs. The s. c.
g. D. road and branch will also be extended to
connection with the c., NJ. & st. P. COM
pany's other roads in Dakota.
Our railroad men are somewhat secretive
as to the condition Of their roads at
this time. But they are forced to
that if Wizard had made a success of the Ice
boat he started to build in old times the craft
might now come into use on some of the prai-
rie roads in preference to locomotives and pass
enger cars. Meeting yesterday traveller who
had been reported showed in at southwestern
village, the reporter asked him how he got
out. "Crawled out" he answered;"1 did for
fact; had to make my way for fifteen miles over
ice-covered snow. In some places 1t was
impossible; had to climb up on hands and
knees and then slide down the other side. !"
"Did you see anything of the railroad grade or
stalled trains along thereg, s.Not much; there
might have been snowplows, locomotives and
passenger trains out of sight under the snow
drifts crawled over, but didn't see any"
Mail and passenger trains on the Eastern and
Southern roads were behind hand badly yester-
day on account of storm damages to the roads
in Wisconsin and Iowa Saturday and Sunday,
but last evening it was stated there would be
no delays to-day. The St. Paul & Manitoba
lines were both open but trains were delayed
and are likely to run little behind until
warm weather improves the condition of
tracks. On the Northern Pacific, Dakota di-
vision, trains were moving yesterday on time,
but some delays occurred on the Minnesota
division because Of the track being heavy.
The St. Paul & Sioux City division of the
Omaha line was again opened through to St.
James yesterday afternoon; but the Sioux City
division remained badly blocked, the snow
drifts being hard oil through, and ice-covered,
30 that they can only be removed slowly by
hand labor. At all western and northern
points the weather was reported calm, clear
and cold.
By way of gossip from Chicago railroad
circles it is learned that the retirement of Mr..
E. W. Winter from the general superintend-
ency of the Chicago, st. Paul 81 Omaha line,
to which position MajorsC. F. Hatch, late of
the NJ. & st. L. road, succeeds to-day, is to be
accounted for by Pres ident H. II. Porter de-
string to take an extended European trip. Ac-
cording to the gossip aforesaid In recognizing
the Omaha line companies into one company
Mr.. Porter will be president, with Mr.. Win
ter as vice president and chief executive off,
Ger, and while Mr.. Porter is away Mr.. Winter
will be acting president of the company.