Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-20
OUR OWN RAILROADS.

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s. st. Paul-The Chicago Freight Block
ade Being Raised-Almost Blockade al
Sioux City-Dixon's Call-LOcal and Per-
sonal Notes.-The New Drawing Room
sleepers for the Chicago, st. Paul 6
Omaha Line-Handsome and Perfect
Cars, by Which Travelling is Made Lux
uriously Easy.
H., A. Towne, general superintendent OF
the Northern Pacific, at Brainerd, was In the
city yesterday.
w. H. Riley, travelling passenger agent OF
he Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road,
and w. s. Bersenburg, Western passenger
agent of the Michigan Central road, called
upon st. Paul railroad men yesterday.
1t is reported that the Western Trunk Line
Passenger Agents association did not call any
too soon for Mr.. w. III. Dixon, as one of
the most prominent of railroad companies in
the West was about to tender him the position
of general passenger agent.
Both freight and passenger business are
much larger on the Northern Pacific this year
than ever before, and the call for cars is daily
quite up to the possible supply.
Tourists round trip tickets to Denver, Col,
by way of Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Kansas
City and Pueblo will soon be placed on sale at
the ticket offices of the Chicago st. Paul q
Omaha company. They will be sold low and
will be good for long summer visit in Color
ado.
Tickets for a Lake Superior summer tour,by
way Of Saltwater, Eau Claire and Abbotsford,
to Ashland, and thence back to st. Paul by way
of Bayfield, and Duluth will be on sale in few
days at ticket offices Of the Chicago, st. Paul
& Omaha company.
Col. R. NJ. Newport, land commissioner of
the Northern Pacific, left Miles City for st.
Paul on Wednesday, and will probably arrive
home by Tuesday next.
The Northern Pacific Office building is not
expected to be finished ready for use before
about May 1st of next year. Meantime the
engineer department will have rooms in the
Davidson block, Jackson street.
Mr.. j. Fl. Hanson, representative OF the
Northern Pacific land department, went to
Duluth yesterday to escort westward party
of thirty Englishmen, said to be the nucleus
of large colony to be settled in Dakota or
Montana, on or near the Northern Pacific road.
The Union Pacific is going to build a new
carshop at Omaha of the tremendous proper
tions of $50 by 800 feet.
Speaking of the big movement of freight at
that point the Sioux City Journal of Thursday
says: s"The St.lPaul yards are full, of course,
the rate of fifty per day, and the transfer boat
has been crossing sixty-fve per day until yes
terday. Superintendent Lincoln said yesterday
that he would have sent $50 cars in during the
day if there had been room to receive them. !"
One hundred and fifty loaded cars, bound
for Sioux Falls, are side tracked on the Sioux
Falls branch, but now that the road is re-
paired, will be sent through during the next
few days.
June 1st fine new steamer, the "City of
Milwaukee," will go into the railway transfer
service between Milwaukee and Grand Haven.
The c., NJ. & st. P. company has published
a new through emigrant tariff from interior
points in Wisconsin and Illinois to stations on
the Northern Pacific and on the st. Paul &
Manitoba roads.
Agents of the Milwaukee & st. Paul CON-
pany are now authorized to receive freight for
Bristol, Oak, sixty-nine miles west of Orton-
willie. The Southern Minnesota is also wholly
open, and the Iowa & Dakota road is open to
Mitchell and Running Water.
1t was reported here yesterday that the strike
of yardmen at Chicago was over, and that the
great accumulation of freights was being
cleared away as fast as possible, preference be-
ing given to perishable freights.
The O., M. & st. P. Co. will have in SER
vice this summer, on and after Monday next,
about one hundred refrigerator cars, for which
a time table will be issued this week. Four of
the cars each will be consigned to the H. & D.
and 9. NJ. division and between Chicago and
st. Paul there will be daily service and besides
one run of three cars each way each week.
Nesc Sleepers for the c., st p, M.6O.
The Chicago. st. Paul & Omaha company,
in keeping pace with the increasing
demands upon its passenger service,
has obtained an assignment to it's
use of six new Pullman sleeping cars, which
are believed to combine, with all the estab-
lished good features of the Pullman cars, cer-
tain improvements in finish and details, which
make them the best and most comfortable
sleeping cars in service anywhere. Two of
these cars have been completed and attached
to st. Paul and Chicago trains of the Omaha
company. One more is to be employed be-
tween st. Paul and Chicago, and three are to
be furnished early for service between st. Paul
and Omaha. These six cars will be alike
in details and finish, and a description
of the Dunlap" (probably named for Geo. L.
Dunlap, Chicago) the first of them to reach
st. Paul, will answer for either of the others.
| This car arrived here yesterday and, standing
on the Third street side of the union depot
yesterday afternoon attracted a good deal of
| attention and was visited by many travellers
and railroad men. The car Is properly desig-
mated as pullman drawing-room sleeping g
car" The general features of such cars being
familiar to the travelling public, only the
| special features of this will be noted. The
running gear is especially noticed
by railroad men, who observe that
the bearing OF the car upon the two
six wheeled trucks is equalized at the sides, a
device intended to prevent the car from sway
ing when passing curves. Another notable
| feature is the colarless axle, designed to pre-
vent the heating of boxes and journals. The
springs are forty-two inch, eliptical. The
wheels are forty-two inches in diameter,
whereas ordinary car wheels are only thirty.
three inches. These wheels are known us
paper wheels, their interior being of hard po-
per, held between steel plates and bound by
steel tires. The advantages to be derived
from these large paper wheels are
ease of movement, smooth and nolseless run.
ming, safety, durability and the fact that when
the tire surface is worn away 1t may be new
turned and made as good as new. These are
believed to more than compensate for each
| wheel, costing about eight times as much as
an iron car wheel. Gentlemen who came
through from Chicago on this car yesterday
commended its running gear by saying it was
| the easiest riding car of any in which they
ever had seat.
The car is sixty-five feet long and its exterior
finish is black with gold ornamentation. The
interior finish of wood work is in solid mahOg-
ony, natural color, except that the closets are
| lined with odorous cedar. The metal work is
| finished in gold bronze. The headlining is of
| wood painted in neutral light colors, in panels
| bound with mahogony strips. The upholster,
| Ing is rich and durable, with refreshing haf-
mony of colors-the notable feature being a
cushioned arm rest at the interior as we'll as
the exterior end of the seats. At the front of
i the car ia the pentlemen'S closet
and double wash room. Next comes
| cosy smoking room, fitted up for berths at
night and large enough for whist party and a
| few spectators The ventilation of this room
is from the exterior,'s so that no smell of burn
ing weed can reac1(the rear apartments, from
| which it is wholly separated. The passage
way at rear of the smoking car opens into the