Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20
OUR RAILROADS.

Rumored Alliance of the c., II. I. & p
and c., st. P. S o. In Dakota-First o
| Electric Railroads in Ireland and in Min
nesota - Another Bloodless Collision =
Changes of Time To-Dsy-Manitoba I'm
| micrants-Northern Pacific Trains Dali!
to Fargo.
The Utah Northern railway extension.of The
the Union Pacific is now open to Silver Bow
Montana, about fifty miles from Helena.
| Mr.. E. II. Smith, of Chicago, northern pas
senger agent of the Missouri Pacific railway
is in st. Paul for few days on business of hi
company.
With the beginning of this week, lake navi
| CATION having closed, the Northern Pacific
company will discontinue running a sleeper
from Duluth to Fargo.
The pioneer railway depot of Chicago, erect
ed by the Old Colony Chicago Union com
pany on the corner of Kinzie and Canal streets
| IN 1S47, has been demolished.
General Manager Haupt and Mr.. Cross
superintendent Of transportation of the North
ern Pacific, accompanied by Mr.. W. F. Footner
superintendent of the N. P. express, returned
from Brainerd and the west last evening.
D. R. Taylor, superintendent of the Missouri
division of the Northern Pacific railroad, in a
telegram dated Friday evening. stated that he
would yesterday lay winter track on the ice
over the Missouri, between Mandan and Bis
marck, Jack Frost having already built a safe
winter bridge there.
While the double track switch on the st.
Paul s. Manitoba short line, between st. Paul
and Minneapolis, is being moved to-day from
Como avenue to College Place, two of the To-
cal trains will necessarily be suspended. These
are the trains leaving st. Paul for Minneapo-
lis at $50 a. m. and leaving Minneapolis for
St. Paul at 1915 a. N.
A railroad to be operated by electricity is
being built in ireland, and it is also stated that
the Northern Pacific company has contracted
with the inventor, Edison, for an electric rail
way from st. Paul to Watab, Edison and his
hackers taking all the risk. If the statement
is true Ireland and Minnesota will be first to
have electric railways in use.
The Northern Pacific company, influenced by
its increasing passenger traffic between st.
Paul and Fargo has converted its st. Paul and
Fargo night train into daily, so that here
after there Will be no suspension Sundays.
The train leaves here daily at 7:30 D. m. and
leaves Fargo daily at s p. m. The travel to
and from Moorhead and Fargo by the North
ern Pacific is said to have more than doubled
since last year.
About, or "a little before daylight yesterday
morning, a freight train of the St. Paul
| Duluth road, stopping for water at Spirit
| Lake, near Duluth, was run into by follow
/ inrr Nor nj flo c;rb& Tba
boose and two or three freight cars of the st.
Paul & Duluth train were ditched and the
| Northern Pacific engine was damaged. None
| of the train men were hurt. Both trains were
going towards Duluth.
A special train of three coaches of passen-
gers, one carload OF freight and eight carloads
of stock, came in from the east yesterday moor
over the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha road
| The train came from Ottawa, and the Canadian
Immigrant party on board was in charge O
Mr.. Taylor of the Grand Trunk. A change O
cars was quickly made here and the who'll
outfit was sent on to Winnipeg over the st
Paul & Manitoba road.
The time card going into effect to-day OF
| the St. Paul and Minneapolis short line of tn,
st. Paul s. Manitoba railway, gives train time
as follows: Leave st. Paul-6:25,7, 7:35, $40
$50 and 1890 a. H., aud 1905, 2:15, 3, AS
$40, 7:30 and Sis p. m. Leave Minneapolis
7:55, 9:15, 10:45 and 11:45 a. m, IL NJ, and 2
3:15, 4:30, $40, and z p. m. Sunday train:
leave St. Paul at 6:25 and $50 a. m, and 1906
5, $3.50, 5:45 and SIS p. m; and leave Mime
| apolis at 1915 a. m, II M, and 3:15, 6:20 an6
z p. m. The running time each way is 8;
minutes.
Western Insurance Revielc: We are in
clined to infer that the railway future of the
| Northwest will be "bg thing" The i'm
| posing system of the Southwest may be very
respecably rivalled by the other. The profit
of big traffic in the summer may easily COM
pensate for the cost of a big snow in the win
ter. In considering, also, the value of re-
turn traffic westward, let it be remembered
that it is an established law that the people in
a cold climate are greater consumers of all
sorts of merchandise than those of the South.
It is rumored in railroad circles that the B.,
c., R. & N. branch, being built to Worthing.
ton, is being constructed to carry out a union
of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and Chi
cago, st. Paul & Omaha companies, for ex-
tensive building operations in Dakota. The
terms and objects of the union are said to be
as follows: The two companies will have joint
use of track from Worthlngton TO Salem, and
will together build and operate railroad lines
in Dakota, from Salem to the Black Hills,
Jamestown and Bismarck, with spurs or short
branches wherever needed to gain and hold
traffic. The B., c., R. & N. is supposed to be
the construction company for the Rock Island
company, aud the latter is supposed to be
ready to expend good deal of cash in disput-
ing possession of Dakota with the Milwaukee
s. St. Paul company. But the Chicago s.
Northwestern company is also in Dakota,
and it is, at least on the east, closely allied
with the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha COM