Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-29
RAIL AND RIVER.

The Bismarck Bridge = To Be Finished
Within a Year = McMiIlan's Day-Two
Boats To-Day-Personals, Etc.
The "Gem City," of the Saints line, will
leave on Wednesday next, November 2, at 10
a. m.
Mr.. Il. Brown, ticket agent at the Union
depot, has gone to Chicago to be absent till
Monday.
Mr.. Peter Harvey, travelling passenger agent
of the Baltimore & Ohio road, has taken up
his residence in st. Paul.
Mr.. Daniel Quinlan, travelling passenger
agent OF the Union Pacific, is again in st. Paul
for few days, on business.
The Pullman palace car company took
charge of the sleeping car service on the
Northern Pacific Thursday.
R. L. Belknap, Esq.,, New York city, treas
urer of the Northern Pacific company, is Wis
iting the company's operative headquarters in
st. Paul.
The one question most often asked of Of
ficers and attendants at the Union depot is,
"Where's your telegraph ofice?" It isn't
there, yet.
Each of the eastern trunk lines and most of
the important western lines have now station
ed passenger agents in st. Paul. In this all
the fast freight lines had preceded them.
The freight agents after their convention in
Chicago Wednesday, went to the Joliet, Ill.
prison, on invitation of the Chicago & Alton
road and the prison warden. Among those
named in the Chicago papers as guests of the
occasion, were T. A. Mathews and F. B. Clarke
of this city.
Conductor Mcmillan, whose train overlook
freight on the Milwaukee & st. Paul short
line to Minneapolis Thursday and spoiled a
caboose, has had only two accidents in his
experience as conductor. The first was on
the 9th of October, last year, near Fort SMELL
ing, when his train collided with locomotive
and the only person injured was the fireman OF
McMillan's train. The second was on the 27th
of October, this year, when as above stated
his train ran into freight train, and on this
occasion also the fireman was the only person
injured. Small bets are offered even that Nc.
will have to fire for his train on the 9th of
October next year.
George R. Morrison, Esq engineer in charge
of bridge construction on the Northern Pa
ciic, visited the company's headquarters in
bulS ClIy ycStcru;iy anu ldSG evening ltIG OH Ills
return to Bismarck. While here he stated the
condition at the Bismarck crossing of the
Missouri, as follows: The foundations for
one pier are finished; those of another will be
completed in November; and the two Others
are we'll under way. When these foundations
are done full half the work of building .:he
bridge Will be done, and the progress made is
enough to warrant the prediction that by the
first of November next year the bridge will
be finished and in use for the
regular passage of trains. The
dyke, for narrowing the channel,
which has been a great work, CONSUMING g
over one thousand carloads of stone, is prac-
tically finished, the connection remaining to
be made with the shore being matter of lit
tie difficulty. The object of the dyke is to
confine the river to channel of about one
thousand feet, which is little more than the
width of the river at Fort Lincoln. It's con-
struction was determined upon the theory that
the volume of the Missouri is not enough to
maintain wider channel permanently, and
that it was therefore necessary to confine the
river to prevent the formation of bars and
the cutting out of new channels not provided
for by the BRIDGES location. In the
construction of this bridge, as all other rail-
road work this year, some delay has been
caused by the impossibility of procuring man.
ufactured materials promptly