Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-25


claimed 1t is, it should be accepted and the
money required raised.
Rail Notes.
Mr.. Odell, of the Northern Pacific has
returned.
Mr.. j. j. Hill, president of the st. Paul
d Manitoba road. has returned.
Assistant Superintendent Keefe, of the
st. Paul & Duluth road, has returned.
Thomas Darwin, northwestern passen-
ger agent of the Illinois Central,i is in st.
Paul.
Assistant President Winter, of the Roy
al Route, has gone out on the western
division.
Mr.. Muir, general freight manager of
the Northern Pacific, will not be back till
the 9th of October.
The Royal Route yesterday received
1000 tons of coal at Washburn, the first
that has been shipped to that port.
Assistant Traffic Manager Harder, of the
Canada Pacific railroad, has returned to
Winnipeg from his visit to st. Paul.
Commencing tomorrow. the Goth, the
st. Paul & Manitoba road will discontinue
their Lake Minnetonka trains, except the
through trains on the Breckenridge divi-
sion.
President Smith, of the ST. Paul & Du-
luth road, and President Hinckley. of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore,
have returned from their trip to DEVILS
lake.
The earnings of the st. Paul & Duluth
road for the third week in September,
were $31, 57S.76, against $2S, 851.4S for the
corresponding period in 1882, a gain of
$2,727. %.
The following are the shipments of
wheat over the Northern Pacific road on
Saturday and Monday: Saturday, 159
cars to Duluth. 8 cars to Minneapolis
Monday, LOG to Duluth, to Minneapolis.
1t has been decided in convention at
Chicago to place Florida tourists tickets,
good for SIX months, on sale Oct. Is at the
rate of As cents per mile for the round
trip, and 2.5 cents per mile one way, via
the short line, Chicago.
The general managers and general
freight agents of the roads between the
Missouri river and the Pacific coast have
gone to San Francisco to attend a meet
ing in that city for the purpose of re-or-
ganizing the California freight pool.
The meetings of the general managers
and general freight agents of the roads in
terested in the lumber traffic between Chi
cago, Wisconsin, st. Paul and Mississippi
river points, and Missouri river points,
which is to take final action regarding the
proposed formation of a general lumber
pool, will meet at Commissioner Midgley's
office, Chicago, Oct. 2.
Railroad Offices in st. Paul yesterday re-
ceived a circular from the Texas g. ST..
Louis Railway company, stating that
Magnolia station, Arkansas, seven miles
east of Mcneil, on the Magnolia branch,
has been opened for the transaction of
business. Through freight rates now in
effect between Chicago, st. Louis, Cairo,
New Orleans and Mcneil, will also apply
to Magnolia.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company, in
reckoning time, intends to adopt a system
by which the hours will be numbered from
one to twenty-four. In other words, in
stead of dividing the day by twenty-four
hours into two divisions of twelve hours
each per day and night, according to an
cient universal usage, only one set of nu-
merals will be used for the entire period.
The railroad day will begin and end at
midnight.
The following cattle have been shipped
on the Northern Pacific: T. Belknap
loaded IL cars at Billings Saturday for
Chicago; the Northern Pacific Refrigera-
tor company, loaded at Gustav SO cars;
at Mcclure Sunday % cars were loaded by
Pratt & Ferris, consigned to Wood broth
ers, Chicago. Yesterday 70 cars were
loaded at Beaver aby the Standard Cattle
company and Stephen Beddle.
Railway Age: The celebration of the
completion of the Northern pa
cifc, by appropriate ceremo-
MES when the last spike was driven, was
the greatest railway advertisement of the
age. For every dollar of expense on that
occasion the company will receive one
hundred dollars worth of benefits. Next
year there will be greater tide of immi-
grafton than ever set in towards the lands
adjacent to its line. Such advertising
pays.
Railroad officials in st. Paul were in
formed by circulars yesterday that line
of Pullman palace sleeping cars have been
put on between Cincinnati and Jackson
vile, Florida. Time in transit, thirty five
hours and twenty minutes These cars
will run over the Cincinnati Southern rail-
way to Chattanooga 335 miles, the Western
& Atlanta to Atlanta 1913 miles, Central &
Georgia to Albany 210 miles, Brunswick &
Western to Way Gross Ill miles, Savan-
nah, Florida and West railway to Jackson
Is miles.
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