Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-28
RAILROAD NOTES.

Barlow Cumberland, general manager of the
Colllngwood line of steamers, is in st. Paul.
Mr.: Charles E. Baker, the land agent of the
Sioux City road, with headquarters in Chicago
is in st. Paul.
Mr.. Thomas Pugh and Mr.. Edward Paul
of Liverpool, are in st. Paul, and were yester.
day consulting with Mr.. J. II. Drake in re.
gard to land in Minnesota. Mr.. Paul is the
largest grain importer in the United Kingdom
of Great Britain. Two years ago he was over
here and bought 5000 acres near Heron Lake.
He has now arrived in this locality with view
to improve the farm. He has with him q
farmer from England, and has ordered the
lumber required for buildings, fencing, etc,
and proposes to show us that farming in
Minnesota will pay big.
R. M. Newport, of the Northern Pacific,
has returned to st. Paul While in New York
he closed the sale with eastern parties for
sixty thousand acres of land in Dakota on
settle on it this fall. Mr.. Newport says
there is going to be an immense
immigration to the northwest this coming
season. The Northern Pacific receives over
one hundred letters every day inquiring about
land. He says there never was such universal
talk about coming to the northwest as there
is at the present time. He is negotiating two
large land sales of land located In Montana
and Dakota.
The Rush City Post takes occasion to slur
the officers of the st, Paul & Duluth road,
and brazenly announces that the GLOBE
"rarely publishes an item about that road"
Now Mr.. Simson has become superintendent,
and this, too, in the face of the fact that
scarcely an issue of the GLOBE has been pub
lished since Mr. Smson took his position
without something beng said about that
road. For the benefit of the Post 1t may
be stated that the earnings of the
road for January, 1881, were S39,9l5.46,
while for January, 1882 the earnings were re
S65, 5y2, 30, showing an increase of $685. 50
for the month. The taking up of pass be-
cause it has been abused is calculated to warp
the judgment.
The st. Paul & Omaha road brought to St.
Paul yesterday a very elegant dining car,
which attracted very general attention, and
the Union depot hundreds Of people visited it
carefully inspected its beauties. Its exterior
looks like a Sleeper. The inside is worked out
in cherry, mahogany and black walnut, in a
very neat and graceful manner, while the cell
ing is beautifully frescoed. There are ten
tables on each side, and each table will accom-
date four persons On the side of the car at
the head of each table is an alcove, in which
there are shelves for all the small
and necessary articles of the
table, like pepper boxes, etc. This
furnishes SO much more room for the table.
The tables yesterday were all spread with fine
table linen, napkins, etc., ready for use. The
sides and ceiling of the car are decorated with
beautiful paintings of fish, game, etc. At one
end is the kitchen, which is furnished with a
range, ice boxes, pantries, broilers and every
thing that is needed to prepare sumptuous
meal. Nothing that human ingenuity can
invent has been omitted. The kitchen
is wonder, and really is the
most surprising thing on the car. These din
ing cars will run between Chicago and Elroy,
SO that one leaving here in the evening can
dine on them. The car is brought here by
Mr.. l. Fl. Shattuck, who inaugurated the in
PRODUCTION of them on the Great Western and
other roads. He is accompanied by Mr.. Rob-
ert Hare, formerly general passenger agent of
the st. Paul & Duluth road, but now general
travelling passenger agent of the Chicago
Northwestern, at Chicago. These two gentle
men are exceedingly accommodating, and
were very patient indeed yesterday in showing
people around the car and explaining things
to them. The car will 90 to Minneapolis
this forenoon to remain a short time, and,
returning, will leave st. Paul at 1915 with
few invited guests for Saltwater, and will
return to st. Paul during the afternoon.