Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-14
RAILROAD RACKET.

Rumors of Important Changes in the
Management of the st. p. g. M.-Gossip
as to the Possible Successor of Manager
Sargent - Condition of the Blockaded
Roads.
Superintendent A. B. stickney, of the Ca
madam Pacific, having completed the prelimi-
nary arrangements for construction work to
be begun as soon as the working sea.
son opens, has returned to St. Paul for a
short stay at home.
The pending, and about completed arrange
ments for transferring the st. Paul & Duluth
railroad to the St. Paul Il Manitoba interest,
are reported to involve purchase outright on
behalf of the st. Paul & Manitoba company of
one-third of the st. P. & D. stock, with the OBJ.
legation to bear proportionate share of the
cost of placing the road in frst-class condi-
ton, by replacing the present track with new
steel rails, by perfecting the road bed, and by re-
building bridges and trestle work with iron and
store. The purpose of the st. Paul & Mani.
toba company In acquiring an interest in this
Minnesota line to the great lakes is obvious
1t makes the company, for the season of navi-
CATION at least, independent of the eastern
railway lines, and to certain extent gives tia
line of competition with the proposed eastward
extension and eastward connections (via the
south shore of Lake Superior) of the Northern
Pacific.
prominent railway officials. With the rest it
proposes to relieve General Manager Hill, of
the st. Paul & Manitoba railway company, of
some of the onerous duties of detail at
taching to his position as general manager
and chief executive officer Of the company,
by the appointment of an assistant general
manager to aid him in charge Of the opera
ton Of the st. P. & M. railway lines, while
Mr.. Hill is to occupy the position Of chief
the Canadian Pacific. The rumor is passed
for what 1t Is worth, with the adderide that
gossip says that large salary will attach to
the position of assistant general manager of
the st. Paul & Manitoba and that the man to
have the place will be one of the best of
rising railroad men of the country.
In one thing the invention of gossips is at
fault. They are not yet prepared to name or
even hint at the successor to General Man.
a qualifying clause. The impression seems to
be general, perhaps derived from news
paper statements, that the company
will send an officer to st. Paul who will
have full authority as to all affairs of
the company, with details of daily manage
ment left to general manager. The execu.
tive officer is not named, but among those
suggested for the second place is Hon. F. r.
Delano, who, under the present arrangement
Of branch lines in progress and contemplated.
The situation is full of possibilities of gos-
sipy speculation, but those who demand facts
and will be content with nothing else must
wait for the results of the meeting of direc-
tors, to be held in New York next Thursday.
West of st. Paul the weather was favorable
for the work to be done on the blockaded
roads, and on the Sioux City division of the
st. Paul and Omaha line the work was prose.
cuted with the utmost diligence from every
point where crew of shovelers could be en-
listed. But it will take several days Of hard
work, with most favorable weather, to open
the line. On the st. Panl division the line
was partly opened beyond Mankato, bnt the
train from st. Paul this morning will probably
turn back from Mankato. The afternoon
train may 60 through to st. James.
The eastern roads are all right
to Chicago, the last Chicago storm
having made only temporary blockades
this side of that city. Yesterday morning
the noon trains came in on time.
Considerable progress was made yesterday
in opening the temporary blockade on the
Breckenridge division of the st. Paul & Mani.
toba railway. The road was cleared from
Willmar to Morris, and the passenger train
which was stalled west of Morris was brought
into that station. The distractions beyond
Morris are light and will be removed before
noon to-day.
feet, carrying ice three feet thick. The cur
rent ran on top of the ice. The lower river
did not raise. It is the worst time for a
break up and the highest water in the history
of the river Some scores of bridges are gone
along it's course for two hundred miles.