Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-15
RAIL, RIVER AND LAKE.

The Railroad Excursion Parties-Changes
of Time on the st. p. g. ID. White Bear
Trains, and ON the st. p. s. o. saltwater
Trains-Personal and Local Rail Notes
Surveyors at Work and twenty-five Miles
to be Built This Year from Duluth
Towards NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Road
Big River Freights- Lake News.
Twelve coach loads of Canadians, bound for
Manitoba, were due here last night.
Elmo lodge is opened to the public to-day
and the excursion season will be inaugurated
next week with grand lakeside concert and
park festival.
Several small parties of Scandinavian immi-
grants arrived by the Chicago trains of yester-
dav, and went north and west on the st. Paul
& Manitoba road
Mr.. II. G. Davis, of the st. Paul & Manitoba
passenger department, left yesterday noon for
| an Eastern trip which will probably take him
| to some of the principal seaports.
Mr.. Charles F. Warren, of Chicago, was ex-
pected to arrive here last evening to take the
place of private secretary to Assistant General
Manager Marvel, of the st. Paul & Manitoba
| railway.
Mr.. J. A. Mcclure, of Omaha, travelling
passenger agent of the Ohio and Mississippi
railroad, arrived in st. Paul yesterday and in
| tends to remain in this vicinity week or two,
on business Of his company.
Mr.. A. j. Cooper, of Milwaukee, agent of
| the Erie & Milwaukee fast freight line, but
| probably more widely known to fame as 'sthe
| bard of the Kinnickinnick," was in st. Paul
Yesterday on business of his line.
Col. Grey, president of the Great Western of
Canada, and companions, after visiting Mime
apolis and taking ride about st. Paul, left
last evening in their special car for Winnipeg.
On the return trip they propose to visit
Northern and Southern Dakota and Western
Iowa.
A large number of mechanics are employed
at finishing the interior of the Union depot,
but the work is great one and can hardly be
completed, even for the first floor, in time to
begin use of the building by the LIST of July.
If is completed by the first of August pref
ty good time will be made.
1t is reported on what is claimed to be good
authority that Mr. C. F. Kindred, of Brainerd,
formerly chief clerk of the Northern Pacific
| land department, and in charge of the branch
| land office at Brainerd, has accepted tender
of prominent position in the land department
of the Canadian Pacific company.
All the occupants of the Chicago, st. Paul
& Omaha company's office building are glad
to see that Fourth street in that vicinity is be-
ing brought to grade. They would be still
| more grateful to the city if 1t would also fill
up or drain the low lots opposite, which are
covered with filthy stagnant water.
Superintendent Towne, with approval of
General Manager Haupt, has appointed Mr.. A.
E. Law to be Northern Pacific tranmaster at
St. Paul, having charge of all train
Paul & Manitoba company, owner of the tracks
on which Northern Pacific trains run into st.
| Paul. His jurisdiction is also extended to
Minneapolis, where he will attend to duties to
| be hereafter assigned to him. Mr.. Law has
been for several years passenger conductor
on the Northern Pacific road, first on the Da-
| kota division, and lately on the Minnesota and
| the Chicago& Northwestern company.
/ Under date of the 10th inst, Mr.. Samuel
Wilkeson, New York, secretary of the North
ern Pacific company, by circular letter informs
| the heads of departments and bureaus that at
| the meeting of directors of the company
| held in New York, June 9th,
Frederick Billings, Esq, resigned
the office of president of the
company, and "Ashbel H. Barney, ESQ.,, was
tltCIcu W III IL dlSO,
sThomas F. Oakes, Esq, was elected vice
| president Of the company and James B. Will
| liams, Esq, was elected second vice presi-
dent" The announcement that the election
of Mr.. Barney is temporary, will doubtless
start newspaper speculation afresh; but as
| the GLOBE understands it the position and pol
| ICY of the company are now SO fixed that
| 1t will make little difference who fills the
Office of president, SO that he be selected from
among the first-class business men and CAPT.
| talists who are interested in the early compile
| ton of the road.
| By a private car which reached here about
| 10 P. NJ Monday arrived railroad party which
was registered at the Metropolitan as follows:
H. B. Hammond, s. s. Sands, Miss Sands,
Miss Beechman, Gordon Norrie, Miss No,rie,
Miss Russell, " H. Norrie, l. Iselin, F. R.
Rives, Jr, Nj. Whitlock and E. Richards, New
York; Chas. Wheeler, Boston; and j. II.
Franklin, New Haven. Mr. Hammond is pre-
sident of the Indianapolis, Decatur & Spring
| field Railway Company, and also president of
the Boston & New York Air Line railroad
company, for which Mr.. Franklin is superin-
tendent. Several gentlemen of the party are
directors in the Milwaukee, Lake Shore &
Western railway company and have just been
| in attendance at the annual meeting. Last
evening the party returned from an afternoon
visit to Minneapolis. They are to leave here
| at $40 this afternoon, to go over the Mime
apolis & st. Louis and Chicago, Burlington &
| Quincy roads to Quincy, from whence they
will take the Wabash road for Indianapolis.
Reduced Grain Rates.