Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-18
RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

mense Land Grant of the Canadian Pa
cifc-Missouri and Yellowstone Boats
Levee Notes at st. Paul-PersonaI, Etc.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul company's Rive
Division train from Chicago, due at 1:30 yes
erday, was an hour late in coming in.
A passenger train on the I. & M. division o.
the Milwaukee & st. Paul road ran over an(
killed school girl near Blooming Prairie 6
few days ago.
Mr.. George F. Lee, Milwaukee, Northwest
ern passenger agent of the Chicago, Rock Isl
and & Pacific, was in st. Paul yesterday, on
business of his road.
A gentleman prominent in church and Sun
day school work was arranging yesterday for
an excursion over the st. Paul & Duluth road
to Green Lake, in ChisagO county.
The Northern Pacific management has re-
jected all bids for stone and brick work on the
new machine shop and round house at Brain
erd, and the company will be its own contrac-
tor.
A strong force of track layers is at work
this season, taking up the iron and laying
steel rails on the Dakota division of the North
ern Pacific. About 113 miles OF the division
| Will De relald tnls year.
The office of the commissioner OF emigra-
tion, in the st. Paul & Manitoba building, is
adorned with an oil painting of the steamship
Servia, painted by one of the best marine art
lists and presented by the Cunard company.
General Manager Haupt, of the Northern
Pacific, accompanied by Vice President Will
liams, Chief Engineer Anderson and General
| Superintendent Towne, left Bismarck yester-
| day for the end of the track on the Missouri
| division.
The passenger department of the Northern
Pacific is arranging to place on sale at all sta
| tions, July to inclusive, round trip excur-
sion tickets between all stations, good to the
5th inclusive, which will be sold at 69per cent.
| of regular rates.
| A Bismarck dispatch of yesterday to General
Agent Hannaford says: The steamer Dakota
left at daylight this morning with 723 tons of
| freight and seventy-three passengers. The
Josephine leaves tomorrow night for Fort
Custer, and the Big Horn leaves Sunday for
Miles City. The river is falling fast
The annual sangerfest of Illinois is to be
held at Chicago June 29th and 30th and July
| 1st and I'd, and the annual Wisconsin saenger-
| fest is to be held at Madison July 7th, Sth and
! 9th. The railroads will sell round trip tickets
| for these occasions at one and one-flfth single
| fare. The Chicago tickets will be sold June
| 9th to July 1st inclusive and be good for re-
turn till July 9th inclusive. The Madison
tickets will be good for the return to July
18th inclusive.
The amount of building going on in the
country which buys at St. Paul may be
imagined, but not estimated, from the fact
that Bohn & Co., at their wholesale place of
business, Sixth and Wacouta streets, this city,
in the ten business days, ending Thursday
evening, received and entered orders Tor ~ ,OOO
doors. One order came from Washington,
D. c., and another from New Mexico, but the
most of course came from this city and cities
and villages throughout the Northwest.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis company is
laying out branch road which it proposes to-
build to Redwood Falls on the upper Mime
sofa and perhaps farther west. The branch
line is to leave the main line at Hopkins Sta
ton, with southwesterly course, striking
Excelsior at the foot of Lake Mlnnetonka,
crossing the Hastings and Dakota near Nor
wood, and running through Arlington, In the
| western part of Sibley county, it first strikes
| the Minnesota river six miles north of Fort
Ridgely, and from there they propose running
west to Redwood Falls.
A manufactured special from Milwaukee
has been published which states that passen-
ger time between Chicago and st. Paul is to be
Shortened. The statement is incorrect. Some
time ago the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha COM
pany proposed to shorten the time OF night
| trains from st. Paul to Chicago so as to
bring them into Chicago at P. M, or in
| time to connect with the fast Eastern trains
which leave that city at 8 P. NJ, but the other
| companies interested would not agree to it
and the proposition was abandoned. As to the
trains from Chicago to st. Paul there is moth
| ing of importance to be gained by shortening
| the time and neither company has consid
cred It.
| Mr.. c. F. Kindred, who was few days ago
appointed land commissioner of the Canadian
| Pacific railroad, was in st. Paul yesterday on
his way to Ottawa, to obtain the records,
| maps, etc., with which to found his land de-
partment. When encountered by the GLOBE
representative heIprotested that he had noInews
to give and nothing to say except that he
would be located at Winnipeg, should
| 90 there Immediately on his return from Otta-
wa. and that on behalf of the Canadian Pacific
company he would have not less than 5,000,-
600 acres of land to sell. Being asked if he
considered the lands desirable and the climate
| favorable, he replied that he understood the
most of the agricultural lands to be similar in
soil, drainage, ETC., to the wheat region Of
northern Minnesota and Northern Dakota,
while there was little difference in climatic
Conditions along the Canadian Pacific grant
from those of Northern Dakota unless it
should prove true as reported that the winter
| avera pe of temperature is higher the nearer
the Pacific is approached. With regard to the
policy of his company with reference to its
| lands he was not yet prepared to speak as to
details, but he would say that it would be
liberal and calculated to induce early settle
ment of the country They would necessarily
be in competitiont in that respect with other
railroads, especially the Northern Pacific,
but he had no doubt abont
the Canadian Pacific grant proving the most
attractive. It is the largest of all, and the
company has extraordinary privileges as to
selection of the very best lands.
The reference to the Northern Pacific sug-
gested remark as to the suits instituted by
that company against Mr.. Kindred, which he
attributed M to personal feeling on the part OF
persons he did not name. He did not feel
troubled over the suits, he said, but from his
tone and manner the reporter was of opinion
that he rather enjoyed the prospect of directing
a lively competition with the Northern Pacific
Trunk Lines Decide to Maintain Rates.
NEW YORK, June 17.--At meeting of the
presidents of the New York Central & Hudson
River, Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania & New
York, and Lake Erie & Western railroad com
panies held to-day in Commissioner Fink's Of
flee, it was resolved that they would not coun
tenanee or in any way participate in any time
contracts on east or west bound traffic, and
that the commissioner notify all parties in in
terest, and take such steps as may be necessary
to enforce such resolution. Second, that the
presidents of each of the companies here rep
resented will give the same instructions to al
lines and representatives thereof connected
with them respectively; and, third, that the
commissioner communicate with the members
of the executive committees of Western lines
requesting them to adopt such measures as
may be necessary to maintain tariff rates.
Trouble Bettceen the Trunk Lines
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE Post says: Many