Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-08
RAIL AND RIVER.

Between st. Paul and MinneapOlis--Al
Accommodation to Pennington and Far
ibault--Heavy Freight on the River
Sale of the Steamer Mary Barnes.
Mr.. c. K. Barnes, general passenge
agent of the Northern Pacific, left Las
evening to meet Mrs. Barnes at New
York, and accompany her to St. Paul
During the summer the Dakota divis
ion Of the Northern Pacific will be re-
aid with steel for l25 miles, from Fargo
west, The old rails will be mostly
sent to rolling mill, for re-rolling
but the least worn of them will be used
for laying new sidings along the improv-
ed main line.
Beginning Monday morning, tae con-
ductors of ST. Paul s. Manitoba trains
will collect ten cents. fare from all I'M
ticketed persons riding on the company's
cars between st. Anthony Junction or
East Minneapolis and the company's sta
ton in West Minneapolis. Heretofore
the school girls and BOYS were welcome
to their rides back and forth, and even
solid citizens were not grudged the favor,
but lately the company;s paying passen-
gers have begun to complain that they
are crowded and annoyed by the rush Of
Minneapolitans!fO for free rides. Hence the
new order, which ought to work for the
good of the street railway company.
A party of about four hundred emmi-
grants left Chicago yesterday morning by
the milwaukee g. St. Paul road and will
arrive here to-day.
Mr.. ?. Brennan, staunCh Democrat
and leading citizen of Owatonna, was in
the city yesterday, on his return home
from completing his contract on the
branch of the ST. Paul s. Manitoba rail-
road from Fargo, D. T. to point north
of Grand Forks, Mr.. Brennan has now
contracts for some two hundred miles of
road-bed this season, for which he is get
ting his forces in order to commence
work.
The agents of the Milwaukee road be-
tween Pennington and Farlbault inclu-
sive have been ordered to sell tickets to
Chicago and the East, by the way of ST..
Paul, at the same rates as via McGregor,
and to secure sleeping car berths by tele-
graph for parties desiring them. This
arrangement will no doubt be appreciated
by the people Of that section as they can
now come by St. Paul twice a day and
connect with the elegant trains of the
River division for Chicago than which
there are no finer in the country.
Beginning tomorrow the III. & st. p.
and St. P. & NJ. companies will sell COM
mutation tickets good for fifty-four rides
between ST. Paul and Minneapolis, in ell
Their direction, at $40 each, which is at the
rate of eighteen and half cents per sim
gle trip. But the tickets must be used
up within month after date of sale.
From tomorrow the st. Paul g Duluth
company will have on sale at it's way
stations round trip tickets for Duluth,
Saltwater, Minneapolis and St. Paul at
twenty-five per cent. less than single trip
prices.
Two thousand Swedes, it is said, will
come from the old country this summer
to settle in Northern Dakota.
The Lake Michigan s. Lake Superior
Transit company will start its first boat
of the season from Chicago for Duluth
tomorrow.
Major Allen has advertised for sealed
proposals, to be opened June LIST, for
dredging Duluth harbor, for building a
breakwater at Grand Marais, Lake Su-
perior, and for shore protection of the
Chippewa river.
Mr.. J. M. Hannaford, general freight
agent of the Northern Pacific, has gone
to Bismarck, intending to return on Tues
day.
The Northern Pacific contractors will
have two thousand men at work this
week, placing the last forty miles of the
Missouri division in order for early ex-
tension of the track to Glencoe, on the
Yellowstone.
An attractive red and green hanger has
been issued to advertise the all rail route
from Minnesota to Arizona, by way of the
st. Paul & Omaha short line, the Sioux
City 81 Pacific. Atchison, Topeka g. Santa
Fe and other railways, through and way
tickets being for sale at the St. Paul &
Omaha ticket offices in st. Paul and other
principal cities Besides the seven prin-
cipal cities of the Missouri valley
this route is direct to Santa Fc, Tucson
and intermediate points.