Daily globe., 1883-05-02
Rat Notes.

Col Dick Flournoy, ofthe Omaha line,
has gone to the Wisconsin pineries.
Charles Gardner, commissioner of the
Minnesota pool at Chicago; is in the city.
Recruits to the number of ITO, will de-
part from Fort Smelling to Fort Keogh
this morning.
John P. Harrison, southwestern agent of
he Minneapolis & st. Louis road, at Des
Moines Ia,is in the city. He returns home
to-day.
Charles Howard, formerly agent of the
Northwestern road at Council Bluffs, now
travelling freight agent of the Omaha line,
is in the city.
President James Smith, of the st. Paul
& Duluth road, accompa MED by his fami-
ly, arrived in Den yer yesterday en- route
to Salt Lake City.
The Office of George L. Carman, pool
commissioner of the Northwestern Traffic
Lakeside building, corner of Adams and
Clark streets, Chicago.
General Haupt, general manager of the
Northern Pacific, is at Gallatin, NJ. T. He
will remain west until joined by President
Willard, when both gentlemen will return
to St. Paul, arriving here some day next
week.
An agent of the Missouri Paci fic having
been appointed at Aida, Ks, George Olds,
traffic manager of that corporation, ad-
dresses shippers advising them thai freight
may be received at ST. Louis t0r Alda
without prepayment.
A special meeting of the Western Asso-
citation of Passenger and Ticket Agents
will be held at No. 346 Broadway, New
York city, two weeks from to-day, to take
the place of the regular meeting appoint
ed at Cleveland, o., next Wednesday.
A party of emigrants 157 in number
fromttheIpeninusula of Michigan arrived in
the city at $40 last evening by the Omaha
road in charge of G. F. Julian of the Mani
toba line, and left at once for Stephen and
Warren Dakota, by the Dakota short line
train.
About two hundred men and a large
number of teams are employed in laying
track between Salt Lake and Ogden, on
the Denver and Rio Grande, and the road
is being completed at the rate of over
mile per day. The grading is nearly COM
pleted.
An important work before the southern
railways is the change OF. their gauge to stan
dard width. Most of them realize that the
sooner this is done the better it will be for
them, though some have rested quietly in
the assumption that things were we'll
enough as they were.
George W. Kerr, who has for more than
tod P,,rI
Rabids & Northern Railroad as its south
ern passenger agent in st. Louis, will
hereafter be identified with the same COM
pany as its city ticket and passenger
agent at Minneapolis.
Tomorrow. j. G. Boyden, general
freight agent IN this city of the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul road, will remove
his Office to the second floor of the Prince
block, corner of Third and jackson streets,
in the Office lately occupied by j. H. Drake,
land Commissioner of the st. Paul and
Sioux city road.
1t is rumored that the Southwest System
will be extended into the Northwest by
continuing the main line of the Missouri
Pacific through Nebraska and Dakota. 1t
is also reported that the Central Branch
of the Union Pacific, now operated by the
Missouri Pacific, will be acquired in some
way and extended to Denver.
The following is the programme of the
Missouri Press association: Leave Car
thage, Mo-, Wednesday, May 8, at mid
night; May 10, breakfast at Kansas City,
dine at Saint 10, supper at Council Blugs;
May II, breakfast at Kasota Junction and
arrive at st. Paul by 10 a. M; May ~ will
be devoted to visiting st. Paul and Min
neapolis; May 13, the association will pass
at Lake Minnetonka; May II, it will visit
White Bear lake and Saltwater, returning
home May Is. In consequence of the
inability of the association to secure &C
commodations at the hotels portion of
the visitors will stop at the Sherman
house, and the remainder remain on board
the train. The latter will be composed of
two sleepers, one passenger and one bag
gage car, and is furnished by the Omaha
line.