Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-03
RIVER AND RAIL.

The St. Paul g. Manitoba Shops-New Sta
ton Buildings-Freight Train Wreck
storms-Hazzard's Excursion-A Model
Little Boat = Encouraging Report of
River Improvement at Pine Bend-Next
Boats for st. Louis.
President W. D. Washburn and General
Manager c. 81. Hudson, Of the Minneapolis &
St. Louis road, were in st. Paul yesterday, on
business.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul company is
river bank at Mankato, for its branch line
from the Southern Minnesota road. g
A Bismarck dispatch of yesterday to the
Northern Pacific offices says the Key West
was expected to arrive there to night and the
Dakota left for up river at noon yesterday.
The trains due at noon yesterday from Chi
cago and Omaha were late several hours-the
latter because of its track being blOckaded by
freight train wreck.
During the dark hours of yesterday morn
Ing eleven freight cars were run off the track
about one mile west of Henderson and were
pretty badly wrecked. They were got out of
the way during the forenoon.
The very heavy rain storm which occurred
here yesterday morning, according to railroad
reports, exteEdedsover the southern half OF
Minnesota, and into Wisconsin, Iowa and Da-
kota as far as our railroad lines extend.
Hazards excursion to Minnetonka Thurs.
day evening fully demonstrated that Mime
tonka is not too far away from St. Paul for
an evening excursion trip. There were five
ear loads OF excursionists. They left here at
645 p. m, had sail of two and half hours
on the lake, visited Hotel St. Louis, Lake
Park and Fair View, had ten pieces of choice
music from the band accompanying them, and
arrived home at II p. III.
St. Paul 6 Manitoba Local Improvements.
Mention was made yesterday that the
st.. Paul & Manitoba Railway COM
pany had contracted for large
amount of stone to be furnished and
laid by Michael O'Brien, contractor, in con-
struction of new shops at st. Paul. 1t ap-
pears that Mr.. O'Brlen is to deliver and lay
this fall about Is, 600 perch of stone and that
IN all his contract, to be completed next
spring,!will amount to between $4,000 and 49,
90 perch. The buildings to be constructed
will all be of stone with iron roofs, will cost
| about $125 200, and will occupy part of the
ground which the company has secured along
side of its right of way between Rice street
and the present shops near Mississippi street.
These grounds are about sixty rods wide by
one hundred and twenty rods long and will be
about one fourth occupied by the shops now
contracted for. The first of the new build
ings, to be constructed this fall will be forty
stall round house-240 feet IN diameter. The
ether buildings all below Park avenue will be
I stone house ~ by 100 feet between the main
tracks and shop tracks; machine shop,
i12 by 270 feet, two car shops, 100 by $50 and
80 by 200 feet, building for boiler, forge
and blacksmith shops, 60 by 270 feet, and
GAL sheds, transfer tables, tank house, etc +,
will complete the improvements at present
contemplated. The immediate purpose of the
new buildings is not 60 much for enlargement
Of the shops capacity Except by improved
facilities for wOrk) as to provide for evacua-
ion of the old shops, which lave to be taken
,way because the new short line, of four
tracks, must run through the center of the
grounds they occupy. For the present. als,,
he shop plans contemplate little more than
he ordinary repairs of rolling stock, but the
ew shops are located ST. as to admit of their
,epg doubled in size by extensions to the
uuth or towards the cry and the much lar
ger space owned by the company is calculated
FOR the building OF IN py other and larger
Iops, whenever the time comes
70. carrying out the compaDy's ultimate
purpose of building it's own cars and con-
structing its own machinery. The new shops
will probably give employment to about three
hundred men, but the greatest gain is ex-
pected from improved facilities and working
machinery. $3.50
The short line track to Minneapolis will
necessarily unite upon these shop improve
ments. Meantime, however, the grading is
mostly completed, about mile of the track
has been laid above Como avenue and spur
track has been laid on the short line from the
University switch to the new Pilsbury A mill
in East Minneapolis. In connection with the
short line, splendid iron bridge is to be built
at Minneapolis and large body of valuable
city property has been acquired for depot pur-
poses. The preparations for all these great
improvements have been delayed but they will
now be pushed to completion.
The extension of the new lines of the St.
Paul d ManItoba company and the increase of
places. A passenger house is being built at
Fargo; station house is about to be built at
Argyle; material is being sent forward for
round house at Fergus Falls; station house
is being built at Kennedy, and another at
Beardsley; and station house will soon be
erected at Larimore, the new station at the
junction of the Pembina and Grand Forks
branches. The railway is having big devel-
opment, and the company will have to put up
good many houses at new stations before
winter sets in.