Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-11
RAILROAD NOTES.

A. P. Farrer, superintendent of machinery
at Brainerd, is in St. Paul.
Charles E. Baker, the Sioux City road land
ageut at Chicago, is in st. Paul.
P. B. Groat, emigration agent of the North
ern Pacific, is visiting about town.
The Grand Trunk road started another emil
graut train for Manitoba yesterday, which will
arrive Sunday.
M. Stimson, superintendent OF the St. Paul
& Duluth road, has gone to Chicago, and will
be back Sunday.
The Oil City s. Chicago railroad company
was chartered at Harrisburg, Pa, yesterday,
j. W. Jones, president.
D. A. Christy, of Duluth, agent OF the Lake
Superior Transit company, is in St. Paul keep
ing company with Ben Franklin.
Mr.. Brown, passenger and ticket agent for
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road, was
occupying his new quarters yesterday.
The st. Paul & Omaha road will run an ex-
cursion train from River Falls to Saltwater
Monday night for the Hess opera troupe en-
tertainment.
The electric wires are being put into the
Union depot building, and unless something
unusual occurs the building will be lighted
with electricity tonight.
The Manitoba train last night consisted of
seventeen coaches, three of which were sleep
ers, and still all those who have their faces set
for Manitoba can hardly be accommodated.
The general passenger agents of all roads
running east of st. Louis have formally de-
termined to maintain the rates to all eastern
points which were recently verbally agreed to.
On the 18th inst. the St. Paul & Omaha
road will make reduction of five cents per
100 pounds on -four, bran and grain from
Saltwater, Hudson, Northwestern Junctio n,
Roberts, Hammond and Baldwin to Chicago
and Milwaukee.
The land sales of the Northern Pacific for
February are as follows. On the Minnesota
division 1,676 acres; Dakot, division, $500
acres and ninety-three town lots. In all Z 1856
parcels. Missouri division $50 acres and four
lots. Yellowstone division eleven town lois.
The total receipts from land sales was some
thing over $4,000.
The secretary of the Union depot company
called upon Railroad Commissioner Baker yes
terday and informed him that the company
accepted his ruling that it's gross earnings
were taxable as other railroad corporations,
and the returns for the last half of 1881 will
soon be made, upon basis agreed upon with
the commissioner, as covering the require
ments of the law.
Superintendent Spencer, of the st. Paul &
Sioux City line, is considering the matter Of
some better way than transfer boat for
crossing cars over the Missouri river at Sioux
City. The representative of the Sioux City
Journal interviewed Mr.. Spencer few days
ago on the subject, and found he favored q
pontoOn bridge. He thinks, however, that
there may be some difficulty in maintaining a
pontoon bridge there, on account OF the swift
ness OF the current.
HOW THEY HANDLE MIGRANTS.
Those two special trains Of emigrants from
Toronto over the st. Paul & Omaha line ar
rived yesterday, and were handled at the Union
depot and sent on their way to Manitoba
in very short order. The first train to
arrive consisted Of seven coaches
and three cars of baggage. The
people on this train wish their baggage
changed cars here from the Omaha line to the
Manitoba line. So complete and perfect are
the arrangements at this depot for handling
freight and passengers that the people and all
the baggage were transferred from one road to
the other, and the people furnished with a
good breakfast in forty five minutes. That is
to say, in forty-five minutes after the train
arrived with them over the Omaha road they
were changed to the cars of another road, and
were on their way to Manitoba.
THAT R1FLED MAIL BAG.
There is a little surprise about that mail bag
<Iot4 ho e. r1Irfh
road does not carry the mail. Last season
when the road put on the late train the road,
though it had no contract with the govern
nent to carry the mail, consented to allow the
bag to be placed on the train for the purpose of
ducters and train men received their instruc-
tons in regard to it. But it is well known
that the train was put on temporarily, and
that at the end of the summer season it was
to be withdrawn. It was SO withdrawn when
the season closed, and from that time to this
not one word has been said to the railroad
company about the transporting of the
pouch this season. It seems, however, that
the government assumed that the road would
carry it this year as it did last year. Accord
ingly the pouch was taken down to the train
and put on!one of the cars. This gives the mat
ter quite another appearance.
IMPORTANT ORDER JUST ISSUED.
The following ordsr has just been issued
from the ticket and passenger department OF
the c., M. & St. P. road:
Conductors are reminded that all late issues
of thousand mile tickets have space on the
inside of back cover for the holders signature,
and it is absolutely necessary for the protec-
tion of the companys interests that these
tickets should be properly signed, and means
of Identification and security against fraud
thereby established. When tickets are pre-
sented to you unsigned, and yoa think the
holder to be the party named on the ticket,po-
liteiy request them to get off at the first sta
tion and sign their names in ink. If you have
reason to think that the ticket was not issued
for their use, decline to accept it for passage
until they have identified themselves to
your satisfaction, after which have
them also get off and sign. Tick
cts presented by parties other than those in
whose names they are issued, are forfeited to
the company, and should be taken up, and
forwarded to the undersigned. Refer the hold
ers to him for redress.
Agents selling these tickets will use every
means in their power to have them properly
signed before presentation On train. If pur
chased by party that is to use them, have
them signed by ink in your presence. If that
is not practicable inform the purchaser of the
rule on the subject.
A growing carelessness about these tickets
on the part of both agents and conductors,
has been noticed lately. 1t must be stopped,
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