Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-13
RAIL AND RIVER

HALL AND klVEk
Consolidation Of the Two Principal Barge
Lines-Big Water This Fall and Lots Of
Steamboat Business-Large Local Trade
and Homeward Exodus of Summer Wis
itors-Green Bay and Appleton Train
Departure Of the Glendive Excursion
The Passenger Agents Convention-Prof.
saroni's Steam Making Apparatus.
y H. G. Davis, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the st. Paul & Manitoba
railway, has gone to Chicago, to be alb
sent few days.
h General Superintendent Hatch and
Assistant President Winter of the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Omaha railway left yes
terday noon for Chicago, to be absent two
days. ~ ,,.,
George Hazard, when he's ousted
from the Fire & Marine building by the
changes to be made there will set up his
ticket Office at the corner of Third and
Sibley streets or on Sibley street opposite
the Union depot.
There were one hundred and fifty pas
sengers from Saltwater on one of the
trains which came over yesterday fore
noon, and the noon Chicago train on the
same road was delayed, it is said, by the
number of way passengers to be taken on.
The regular Chicago train of the st.
Paul & Omaha company leaving here at
the usual hour last evening was followed
by a second section conveying homeward
way passengers, most of whom came up
to see the tWenty-mile race and the big
balloon.
Small packages of wheat from the Red
River valley, neatly put up in small
sacks, suitably inscribed, are being sent
by the st. Paul g. Manitoba company to
its agents and correspondents in all the
commercial cities of the world, for ex-
hlbits of the No hard wheat of the Red
River of the North.
Alfred Meyers and brother yesterday
shipped train load of stock from Keith
station on the Missouri division of the
| Northern Pacific railroad, and will start
another stock train from the same station
to-day. The cattle are said to be in eX-
cellent condition, after few weeks graz
| ing in the vicinity of Keith.
Invitations were received here yester-
day to the convention of general passen-
ger and ticket agents to be held at St.
Louis on the 10th inst. Also tenders of
| the Inequalities of the Wabash, st. Louis
& Pacific line, accompanied by quite
tempting bills of fare, and invitations to
grand Colorado excursion Immediately
after the convention.
The c., st. P. s. o. company's passen-
GOV 4 ov,o 1T wont hoe orro rrad fo boror ;tu
fair excursion tickets for return trips un-
til Wednesday night, and has procured
from the G. & N. w. company's depart
ment an extension to include the 18th, so
that they will be good to Chicago or in
termediate points for the train leaving
here Wednesday evening.
| The Glendive excursion party, IN
charge Of Mr.. Barnes, general passenger
agent of the Northern Pacific, left here
last evening with the regular Bismarck
train 1t numbered fifty-two persons,
occupying two sleeping cars, and could
yesterday have been increased by twenty
or thirty if another sleeper could have
been spared from the regular service OF
the road.
| The Wisconsin Central company hav-
| ing decided to withdraw its passenger
trains between Eau Claire and St. Paul,
the c., st. p. s. O. company will take the
run and extend it to Black River Falls.
The train. to be known as the Green Bay
and Appleton train, will leave here at G
a. m. and arrive at 9:15 p. M, and both
ways will connect with Wisconsin Cen
| trail trains at Eau Claire and Green Bay
and Minnesota trains at Mcmillan.
Prof. Saroni's system of using naptha
with superheated steam for making
steam, since it's successful tests at Chi
of great interest to railroad and steam
boat men. If the further tests to be made
shall, as expected, prove that it is not
much more expensive than wood or coal,
land theinventor believes it can be dem
onstrated that it will be cheaper) a great
revolution will soon be brought about in
locomotive and marine engine service.
The less weight and bulk OF the naptha,
as compared with coal or wood, will
made its use imperative on long lines of
railway and for lake and ocean steam
vessels. Prof. Saroni's system is to draw
the naptha from its reservoir by steam
suction into coil or net work of iron
! pipes in which it is mixed with super
heated steam, with which it is discharged
through fine perforationS on the upper
side Of the pipes. A match will light
the fire and the turning of stop-cock
will instantly increase, diminish or stop
it. The fire IS under the most perfect
control and there is absolutely no danger
of its being communicated to the naptha
reservoir The next test, to be made un-
| der the auspices of the Northern Pacific
company at Brainerd, will be with new
engine, drawing train of cars of its
full capacity, and fitted with the Saroni
apparatus |and sufficient reservoir of
| naptha for long run.
A Booming Big Rirer.
Steamboatmen look at the swelling
river and rejoice 1t has been many
yea rs since the upper Mississippi, at this
season of the year, was so much Of a
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