Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
RAIL NOTES AND NEWS.

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The G Punch-Examined for Promotion
Red River Land sales-Land Commits.
sioner Marble and Vice President Cakes
Eastern Order for Cars to be Made at
saltwater Staff Reception at Gen.
Haupt's Rssidence-Personal and Local
Notes.
Superintendent Sewall of the st. Paul & Du-
luth, returned from Duluth last night.
T. W. Teasdale, general passenger agent of
the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha, returned
from Wisconsin yesterday.
Hon. John A. Chandler, general agent at st.
Paul Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul,
is confined to his residence by severe attack
OF rheumatism.
The land department of the Northern Pa
cifc is hardening. The agent at Helena has
long been Stone and now the chief commits
sioner is Marble.
Mr.. Green, superintendent of telegraph SER
vice for the Northern Pacific, has in his Office
an electric clock with bell signal, connected
with the college observatory at Mortified.
The manager of the new car works at Still
water, yesterday accepted an order from an
Eastern railroad company, for one thousand
flat cars, to be delivered early next spring.
The Duluth and Winnipeg contractors have
grubbed and cleared the right of way for two
miles out of Duluth, and propose to put a
large force of graders at work the first of
next month.
Hon. Edgar NJ. Marble, land commissioner
of the Northern Pacific, will arrive here from
the East Tuesday morning, and Tuesday or
Wednesday will join Vice President Cakes and
party at Brainerd.
circular from the st. Paul union depot
announces that on and after the 18th inst,
passengers going from the depot to departing
trains will be requested to show their tickets
at the platform gates, and tickets will be
punched by the gate keepers with 6 punch.
The regulation will serve to keep passengers
from taking the wrong trains and will COM
pei them to buy tickets at the depot.
The St. Paul & Manitoba land department
sold yesterday to four young men Of Cannon
Falls, Goodhue county, each a section of
lard. The four sections are between Fishers
Landing and Grand Forks, north of Red Lake
river, and are said to be very desirable prop
erty. The purchasers are Charles Smith,
David Valentine, W. I. RumleY and William
Grosvenor. They intend to break a consi3era-
BILE part of their purchases next season.
Vlcs President Cakes, of the Northern
Pacific company, arrived in st. Paul from
New York yesterday morning, accompanied
by Messrs. Sydney Horbeck and Burbank
Roberts, OF New Yark city. Mr o K 5 will
remain here over to-day, and to-inor." morn
ing, accom- panied by his New York friends,
General Manager Hanft and other general
officers of the company, will leave for Duluth.
from whence they will go to Winnipeg and TO
Fort Keogh. On his return, the latter part of
this week, Mr.. Cakes will stop in st. Paul a
day or more.
very pleasant and somewhat remarkable
social event occurred at the residence of Gen.
Herman Haupt, corner of Oak and Walnut
streets, Friday evening. The General and
lady evidently on his part, with view which
might we'll be commended to the attention of
other heads of such working forces, gave
reception to staff officers of the company
stationed here, and their wives, and the hosts
proved most pleasant and accomplished en-
tertainers. As many were invited as the resi-
dence would accommodate and the rest are TO
be invited to a second reception to be given at
an early day.
At superintendent Spencer's Office, in the
c., st. P. q 0. building, yesterday afternoon,
board of examiners, consisting of two SUI
perintendents, master mechanics, ETC., was IN
session, to examine candidates for appoint
ments as engineers, conductors, etc. num-
Der of employees of the company, selected for
the examination, were in attendance, one by
one, and as they were bright-looking crowd
of (mostly) young men, it is probable nearly
all of them proved to be we'll qualified for the
places for which they are candidates. The
names of those who did pass will be privately
listed, so that whenever one Of them is needed
his superintendent can telegraph him an order
to take train or engine. Meantime they re-
tain their places in the company-s service,
and as the examiners do not reveal their con-
illusions Except as they may appear in future
appointments it is no harm to man to try
for promotion. This examination illustrates
the methodical systems which are being
adopted by our great railroad companies-in
which they are leading the civil service re-
formers, rather than following them; for it is
the aim of the best organized railroad compa-
MES to hold out to their employees the utm ost
possibilities of deserved promotion.