Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-24
). RAIL AND RIVER,

Col. Vic Flo1rnoy,of the Omaha line, has
gone East by the Royal route.
SAN Boyd, of the Minneapolis q St.
Louis road, was in the city yesterday.
g.. Barnes, general passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific, VIII return this
morning from Chicago.
j. u. Hannaford, of the Northern
Pacific, and j. F. Lincoln, of the Omaha
line, are on the sick list.
George f. Lee, Northwestern passenger
agent of the Rock Island & Pacific road,
Chicago, was in this city yesterday.
Another dining car for the Northern
Pacific and one for the Omaha line came
in yesterday over the Albert Lea route.
Assistant General Manager Kimball and
Hon. Chas. Francis Adams, director of the
q. P. R. R., arrived at Omaha last evening
on a special train from Topeka.
William Harder, traffic manager of the
Canadian Pacific, passed through the city
en- route to Chicago. He will return on
Thursday accompanied by his family.
Marquis de Mores has purchased flock
taken to little Missouri valley, by the
NortherR Pacific. in the sweet bye and bye.
Three passenger coaches and fourteen
cars filled with emigrants' moeables came
in over the Minneapolis & st. Louis road
yesterday, and left last night for Manitoba
Morgan's Louisiana & Texas railroad
Will soon pass into the hands of the South
n - /. Al
be managed in accordance with the die
tates of a wise and liberal policy.
General Anderson, chief engineer of the
Northern Pacific, left for the West yester
day morning in his private car the mon
tane,' accompanied by the government
. commission, which is on tour Of inspec
ton.
a special train on the Duluth & st. Pau
road will leave the city at II o'clock thi
morning for Forest Lake, bearing thithel
the remains of Frank Winter, the wei
known engineer, who died Saturday, 70
interment.
The train to BozemRn yesterday morn
ing via the Northern Pacific was composed
of twelve coaches of superb finish, includ
ing the dining and sleeping cars, and wa
universally conceded to be the handsomes
train that has left st. Paul this season.
Charles A. Lamb, of the National Tub,
works, Chicago, obtained special train K
Duluth by the Duluth & st. Paul road Sun
day night, to be in attendance at tn
opening of bids for gas mains in that cit,
yesterday. He will return this morning.
s'Deer Park and Oakland" recent pro
duction of j. G. Pangborn, of the Balti
more & Ohio road. has been received. l
purports to be philosophical, puetical
pictorial, piscatorial and practical expo
sition of the beauties of these resorts, /
exquisitely illustrated and credit to tn
anthor as also to the printer and binder.
Some of the Omaha newspapers hav
kindly undertaken the task of reorgani2
ing the local Offices of the consolidate
Wabash Missouri Pacific lines, but hav
seemingly neglected to inform the genera
managers of their work At least none o
the attaches of the road here have as We
received official notice of the changes re
ported.
The Chicago & Northwestern railwa
company issued orders some time 2 % &
the agents at the stations upon It's r3aG .
receive no movable property o. emitr,5:l.
for transportation to Dakota, owing 10 Ii
crowded condition of the lines west {
Winolla. The order was only IN force fe
days, or until the lines were relieved c
{. their crowded state, and noW,agents at a
!. stations are authorjzed,to receive ell por
able matter for transfer.
/ Reports from the Red river valley col
tinue to be highly encouraging. Seedir
commenced there yesterday. News W
yesterday received by Agent Johnson,
the Manitoba line, that a large number
miners from Houghton, Hancock, Cal
met and other copper mining centers
Michigan and Wisconsin, would reno
to the Northwest RS soon as la
navigation was resumed. They will cor
by st. Paul, where they will take the Ma
itoba road.
The Northwestern roads show the large
gains in their March earnings of any roa
in the country. The percentage of
crease of the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Ma
itoba is about 30 per cent, of the Chical
Milwaukee & ST. Paul nearly 80 per Gel
of the Chicago Il Northwestern almost
per cent. of the Iowa lines of the Illint
Central nearly the same, and of the
Paul & Duluth 3315 per cent. Of thu
gains those of The Chicago, Milwaukee
st. Paul are particularly noticeable,
enormous increases are necessary, IN
case of roads having an extensive milea
to show any large percentage. In Mar
1882, this system earned 81 100000, in i
month If parr1ed over go 600 000