Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-11
RAILWAY MATTERS.
Removal of the Snow Blockade on the
st. Paul s. Omaha Line-New Coaches
More Opera Trains-The Watab Granite
Contract Personals, Etc.

Removal of the Snow BlOckade on Cne
st. Paul g. Omaha Line-New Coaches
More Opera Trains-The Watab Granite
Contract, Personals, Etc.
Major George @. White, of Philadelphia,
arrived Saturday at the Metropolitan. Major
White has been appointed supply agent of
the Northern Pacific company, under Chief
Engineer Anderson, aud will have his office in
st. Paul.
Mr.. F. B. Underwood, superintendent of the
River division of the Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway went to Chicago by train of Saturday,
intending to return on Tuesday.
Seven more coaches filled with Canadians
bound for Manitoba arrived at Chicago last
Saturday evening.
At LIP. NJ. Saturday the big emigrant train
which left here Friday afternoon, was in st.
Vincent and about to proceed to Winnipeg.
About half of the seventy-twO car loads of
emigrants' movables, belonging to the party
of Friday, reached here Saturday, and the rest
were expected last night.
Two handsome new coaches for the North
ern Pacific company arrived here Saturday
morning, from the Barney q Smith shops at
Dayton, o. They are first-class cars in every
respect, with their interiors made pleasant by
an elegant hard maple finish. Six more are
being made at Dayton, and all are to be used
on the st. Paul and Fargo run.
For the three st. Paul opera nights, this
week, the M. & St. P. company will run an
extra train from Minneapolis, leaving there at
Z o'clock, and reaching here at 7:30. For the
Minneapolis nights no extra before the opera
will be needed, as regular train leaves here
at Z, and reaches Minneapolis at 7:3O.
At 1000 A. M. Saturday the st. Paul &
Omaha line was reported again blockaded,
with one to four feet of snow in the cuts, from
st. James to Sibley. Throughout the day,
from Window to Sibley, snow continued fall
ing, accompanied by drifting wind. The
morning train from st. Paul was stopped at
st. James and the morning train from Sioux
City was stopped at Sibley. The line had
been wholly opened only one day. The win
ter still has possessian of the country, and it
begins to look, after SCORE Of experiences
like this, that only the coming of summer
weather will end the blockade.
Saulpaugh & Co., the contractors for the
stone work of the Northern Pacific bridge at
Bismarck. have leased Gurney's. granite quarry
quarrymen to take out the 200, 900 cubic feet
of grallte they expect to use in the piers.
The firm consists of Thomas and George W.
Saulpaugh, V. NJ. Banding and j. A. Cru
baugh.
SUNDAY ITEMS.
Mr. Il. O. Carey and wife, late of Fargo
have taken rooms at the Merchants. Mr.
Carey has accepted employment for the St.
Paul & Manitoba Company in connection with
it's land department and will have his home in
St. Paul.
The St. Paul g. Omaha Line remains block.
AIDED between Window and Sibley. The light
snow storm which set in on Friday night along
that section of the road had amounted yester-
day to fall of five inches and was accom-
panied all day yesterday by light wind just
enough to carry the last snow into the railroad
cuts.
The opera trains on the Milwaukee & st.
Paul short line roads will run this week as
follows: While the opera company is at St.
Paul, Monday, (Aida). Tuesday, (Carmenl and
Wednesday, (Mefistofele) nights, leave Min
neapolis for St. Paul at ZOO PM. and return
after the opera. Thursday, (William Tell) Fri
day, (Faust) Saturday, (ll Trovatore( nights
at Minneapolis, regular train leaves st. Paul
at 7:3O PM, and special will run from Min
neapOls after the opera.