Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04
RAIL NOTES AND NEWS.

North Wisconsin and superior Cit.
Manifestations and Distances on the N
p. Yellowstone Division-St. p. & d. New
Time Table-Personal and Local Items.
Vice President Cakes of the Northern
Pacific company will visit st. Paul the
latter part of this week.
The Chicago, Milwaukee s. St. Pau
company is relaying the tracks in its up
per Ievee yard, which are traversed by
the short line trains, with new stee
rails.
The Union depot time table is defec-
tive. 1t should be frequently revised and
be posted in public places all about the
city.
General Passenger Agent Barnes, OF
the Northern Pacific, and Assistant Gen.
eral Passenger Agent Davis, of the ST.
Paul & Manitoba, returned yesterday
from Chicago.
The Pennsylvania company's limited
express between Chicago and New York
is said to be gaining in favor among bust
ness and pleasure travellers and is re-
garded by railroad men as one Of the
most successful of late new departures
in railroad traffic.
Mr. J. W. Crlppen, of the Erie s. Mil
waukee line, has moved his office from
the Third street first floor of the Fire 6
Marine building, to the Jackson street
first floor, and is, as his friends will be
pleased to read, almost wholly recovered
from his late serious illness.
The passenger department of the North
ern Pacific is getting out handsome
calendar for 1882, and will, this week,
issue a new map, showing all the COM
pleted and projected lines both of the
Northern Pacific Railway company and
the Oregon Navigation and Railway COM
pany.
Vice President Hill and General Mana
ger Marvel, of the St. Paul s. Manitoba
railway, and President Saunders, of the
Northwestern Fuel company, arrived
home yesterday from their visit to some
of the Iowa coal fields. They came back
by way of Chicago, over the River Divis-
ion of the c.. A. & st. p. road.
John Davies, Esq, of Riverton, Iowa,
cester, England, was at the land office of
the St. Paul 6 Sioux City company in
this city yesterday, preparing for his de-
parture for England, where he will act
as agent for that company in selling Min
neseta and Iowa lands to persons intend
ing to emigrate.
Contrary to the report which has been
sent out from Hudson the only change
contemplated at that place by the Chica-
60, st. Paul. & Omaha company, is to
concentrate its freight house business,
now divided between two places at the
point most convenient since the new
tracks have been laid-probably near the
junction of the River Falls track.
The Chicago, St. Paul 81 Omaha COM
pany has nearly completed handsome
depot building at the new station at
Slayton, in Murray county. One con-
Venient as well as ornamental feature of
the building is large bay window, within
which the telegraph operators table is
placed, and from which he can look up
and down the track for miles without
leaving his seat.
C. W. Slayton, Esq, of the st. Paul &
Sioux City land department, who re-
turned yesterday from visit to Heron
Lake, reports that Mr.. J. K. Smith of
that place has started his tow mill and is
turning out two kinds of tow-one for
paper makers and the other for uphol-
sterers. Mr.. Slayton proposes to send
samples to the agents of the land depart
nent in Europe.
The exterior of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul general offices, corner of Third
and jackson streets, were numerously
decorated Yesterday with handsome signs,
telling in golden letters of many promi-
Rent places which can be reached by the
company's lines, extolling the scenic
beauty of the "River Bank route" and
duly setting forth that J. d. Brown, the
assistant general passenger agent, is to be
found within.
Three parties of track-layers begin
work tomorrow on the c., st. p. s. o.
lines in North Wisconsin to- morrow-one
at Cable, to lay towards Superior City,
the second at Chippewa Falls, towards
Cable, and the other at the present end of
the North Wisconsin track, to lay towards
Bayfield,. Each party is TO lay twenty
InlltS OIL lTdCk ILLS luOuIu, WulCu Will
bring the North Wisconsin road to within
about fifteen miles of Ashland, or thirty
five miles from Bayfield,, its terminus,
and will complete two twenty mile Sec
tons of the new line from Superior City
to Chippewa Falls.
Once upon time Mr.. G. K. Barnes,
now of the Northern Pacific, made a
friend of Mr. NJ NJ. Treadwell, now of
-Hawley, Pa, and general agent of the
Pennsylvania Coal company-a fact of
which the former was pleasantly remind
ed by receiving Christmas package for
his son. 1t contained three elegantly
bound ANNALS, richly illustrated poems
by Wallace Burns, entitled ''Yo Semitic %
''The Hudson" and Gland of Burns. p"
The author is personal friend of Mr..
Treadwell, which makes the books, the
more valuable to the latter's st. Paul
friends.
The engineer department of the North
ern Pacific has located stations
en- the new line of the Northern
Pacific up the Yellowstone, distant each
from Glendrve, as follows: Milton, IA so
miles; Fulton, 90 80 miles; Terry, &c. Is
miles; Morgan, 40 80 miles; Tilley, SO. Is
miles; Miles City, 1925 miles; Fort