Daily globe., 1883-06-29
RAIL AND RIVER.
Col. Flournay will be back to-day.

Eight or ten car loads of people went
out to White Bear yesterday to picnic.
Mr.H. c. Davis, assistant general pas
senger agent IF the st. Paul & Manitoba
road has returned.
The Royal route Will sell excursion tick
cts for July the Third and Fourth, good to
return until the 9Th of July for one fare
over all parts of the road.
F. D. Underwood, of the Southern Min
nesota, who has been in st. Paul for some
days, has gone to La Crosse.
Mr.. ]. B. Power, of the land department,
has returned from Dakota. He reports
the crops in satisfactory condition.
Supt. Whitman, Of the Chicago, ST. Paul
& Omaha road, is out on the western
division of that road looking after things,
General Manager Marvel, of the ST.
Paul 81 Manitoba road, and several friends,
left Winnipeg yesterday morning for St.
Paul.
A corps of surveyors is at work in the
northwestern part of Shelby county, Hi
nois, surveying the route of the proposed
Continental railway.
The CALIFORNIA, Colorado & Utah fast
freight express of the Burlington will here
after be run on regular scedule of thirty
hours from Chicago to the Missouri river.
Mr. D. F. Danforth has been appoint
ed agent of the Traders Fast Freight line
operating over the Nickel-Plate q Erie
railways and their connections, with head
quarters at Kansas City.
The Northern Pacific has large gang
of men at work on its Dakota divishion,
in the neighborhood of jamestown.
When this work is completed the road will
be enabled to half as many more cars in
a train than they now do.
This is the season for excursions. The
Northern Pacific is full of them. One
started out yesterday from Wahpeton to
Battle Lake. To-day one leaves Fergus Falls
for Cattle Lake, and another Will start to-
morrow from Moorehead to Detroit Lake.
All these are Sunday school picnics.
W. L. Mead, the we'll known conductor
on the Eastern division of the Royal
Route, has very pretty run to his credit.
The report reads: Left Lake Elmo at 5:25
Il. m, and registered at Elroy at II As.
The distance is 158 miles, and in the run
of six hours and twenty minutes was in
cluded twenty stops at stations and e
stop of twenty minutes for dinner.
| The first through ticket on the Northern
Pacific road from st. Paul to San Francis
co was sold yesterday to Mr.. Charles Ran
som, of Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr.. Ransom
| goes out for the purpose of leisurely look
1TO q fry II q will or rIrr h<
through to San Francisco, but will stop at
the park for a short time, and at other
points along the route as he shall desire to
look at. The price paid is $13O He will
have trip of 1854 miles in length. That
is 2,054 miles to Portland, from Portland
to San Francisco by steamer 500.
For long time the 'Royal Route that
is the Chicago, st. Paul 6 Omaha road
has been running dining cars on one train
of its road. From the first the public
ook very kindly to the idea of being ac-
commodated in this way, and the dining
cars on the Royal Route became one OF
the most popular institutions in the land,
and all travellers went into ecstacies over
the splendor OF the tables and the man.
ner of serving them. So popular did
these become that a general public
demanded that these dining cars should be
introduced on all passenger trains on that
road that the managers of it have decided
to comply with this universal demand, anG
On and after the 9th of July, the dining
car will constitute portion Of each pas
senger train. Mr.. TeasdaIe and all are
getting ready for the change as fast a
possible.
Mr.. Geo. K. Barnes, the general passen
ger and ticket ageEt OF the Northern Pa
cifc has just got out new folder suited t.
this season of the year, when trade i
about to come with a rush This folde
is peculiarly useful and valuable to III,
emigrant, and consists of large ma
showing the country through which tn
great Northern Pacific passes, and also
large amount of information as to th
land, the price of same, how to get them
explanation Of tree claims, and homestea
} claims. In connection with this folder Nj
Barnes has issued manual, giving lis
of stations on the Northern Pacific roa
: and bras ches, the agents name population
. distances, freight rates and other valuabl
information for the traveller and emigrant
l Both of these are very useful as they fur
nish just what everybody that is travelling
wants to know.