Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-25
Rail NOTES AND NEW

oi zine on the Chicago, st. PsuI g. Oma.
ma, Northern Division Only Ten Cents
Diffsrence-The ST. Paul Duluth su-
perinteDdent, Etc
Mr.. ID. Brown, union depot ticket agent,
taxes MS Christmas dinner at Woodstock, Ills.
The railroad offices will be open Monday,
but with all hands that can be spared for the
day excused from duty
George II. Hazard sent out his Christmas
cards yesterday, advertising his Albert Lea
route, and then entertained some of his friends
at his Como home.
The Northern Pacific passenger department
has, SO far, issued half-fare permits to about
200 clergymen. Most of them are to married
men, and include their wives.
Mr.. II. Hiland, assistant traffic manager
OF the C.,St. P. & o. road, was yesterday pre-
sented bp the clerks of his department with a
pretty and usefdl desk ornament, double ink
stand made of black onyx.
8. B. Gault, agent of the PENNSYLVANIA com.
panY, has gone to Omaha for his Christmas
dinner. ]. c. Boyden, Chicago, Milwaukee 81
st. Paul agent, has gone to Cleveland for the
holidays. And it was little lonesome about
Judge Chandeliers headquarters yesterday.
The passenger department of the c., St P.
& o. company has issued really useful Office
calendar for 1882 1t includes rates of post.
age, condensed calendars for three years. a
numbering of the days of the year and plain
figured monthly calendar, besides good advice
and information about travelling.
The appointment of general superintendent
of the st. Paul & Duluth road awaits the ar
rival of General Manager Merrill, of the c.,
M. & st. r. roads, who is one of the Duluth
company's executive company. There are in
dications that a proposal is pending to recall
Major Geo. A. Smith to the superintency.
Mr.. j. c. Terry, Jr., foreman of the c., st.
P. & o. freight house, was made very happy
yesterday by an evidence of the esteem in
which he is held by the employees at the
freight house, in the presentation to him ON
their behalf of a valuable gold watch and
chain. There were no speeches on the ooea-
sion, but the acts were eloquent.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul traffic
department has just issued freight tariff
sheet, taking effect tomorrow, which applies
between St. Paul, Minneapolis or Minnesota
Transfer and points in Minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota on the Hastings & Dakota, Iowa &
Minnesota, Southern Minnesota, Iowa & Da-
kota and Sioux City 81 Dakota divisions. 1t
is complete in ali details and will afford mer-
chants AID commission dealers all information
needed.
The difference between the st. Paul & Mani
toba management and the recalcitrant boiler
makers was considerably reduced Yesterday.
The men, who have hitherto demanded $500
a day, yesterday offered to resume work at
$500 day, but were assured by General Man
ages Marvel that the company will ouly pay
what it paid before they quit and has all along
offered to pay-S2.9O day. This, as hereto
fore stated, the company is Informed is fifteen
to twenty five cents day more than is paid In
other boiler shops in this city.
The new time tables taking effect to-day on
the Eastern division of the c., st. P, NJ. & o.
road, does not, as mentioned the other day,
discontinue the local train between Hudson
and River Falls, which has left Hudson at 2:15
p. m. and River Falls at $40 D. m. The other
RiveriFals train leaves Saltwater at $50 D. IN.
and arrives in saltwater at sos q. MI
The Black River Falls train is discontinued be-
tween st. Paul and Hudson and between Eau
Claire and Black River Falls, but runs on the
same time as heretofore between Hudson and
Eau Claire, connecting at Hudson each way
with the North Wisconsin train which takes
the vacated time between st. Paul and Hud-
son. The North Wisconsin train will now
leave st. Paul at 610 a. m, New Richmond at
SAP, and Cumberland at 11:2S, arriving in
Cable at 4:20 p. M. The return train will
leave Cable at 11:3O a. m, Cumberland at 4:2O
p. m. and New Richmond at D. M, and will
arrive in st. Paul at 9:9Op. m.
Mr. J. NJ. Hannaford, general passenger
agent of the Northern Pacific, having gone to
his boyhood home in Vermont to spend the
holidays, the clerks of his Office took advant-
age of his absence by sending to his home in
this city, for his Christmas present hand
some and durable easy chair-just the thing
in which gentleman may read and smoke or
rest and mediate, for it is adjustable to any
condition of mind or body. Mr.. G. K.
Barnes, general passenger agent of the same
company, was much pleased when he heard Of
the surpris In store for Hannaford on his re-
turn home and INDUCED in a variety of pleas
ant suggestions as to the excuses the boys
might make for choosing an easy chair for
Mr.. Hannaford's Christmas present. These
were very much enjoyed about the Office, for
the youny men who overheard them had pro-
vided Mr.. Barnes also with an elegant easy
chair, which he found awaiting him in his
favorite place at home when he arrived there
last evening. And SO, as the boys said, or
meant to say, Merry Christmas to both and
may it be long before their easy chairs will
change from luxury to necessity.
THE sHoRT-LINE BRIDGE AT MINNEAPOLIS.
The contract for building the stone bridge
at Minneapolis for the st. Paul & Manitoba
short line has been let to barrow, Haviland 81
Co., of PainsvilIe, O.. This bridge or viaduct
will be one of the notable structures of the
world. 1t will consist of sixteen 50 feet spans
and four 100-feet spans, and including the
shore pieces will have total length Of 1900
feet 1t will support two railway tracks at
height of over sixty feet above the water, and
will run diagonally across the river from be-
low St. Anthony Falls, and lie connected with
the main land lines on the east side near the
suspension bridge by an iron trestle bridge
through the mill pond on the east side
of the Minneapolis Eastern tracks. Engineers
and other experts who have examined the
drawings and specifications, give great credit
to Co.. g. G. Smith, chief engineer of the road,
saying that his plans in general are admirable
and in detail perfect.
The contractors have had large contracts
this year on the new New York, Chicago 81
st Louis line, and have probably laid cOnsid-
erably more stone during this year than they
will have to lay in making the Minneapolis
bridge, though no one recent work in stone
can be compared to this they have now under
taken. They have near at hand all the requis-
lite machinery and tools, and will begin the
work without delay and push it to completion
as rapidly as possible, expecting to finish 1t
some time next winter. About one thousand
men will be employed on the lob, and the local