Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-28
THROTTLE & PADDLE.

Thieves-The Sale of Liquor to Other
Than Passengers on the Northern Pacific
Dining Cars PrOhibited-Arrival of the
MinneapOlis-Notes and Notices.
H. G. Davis, assistant general passenger
agent of the Manitoba, has gone to
Milwaukee.
The Wisconsin Central railway officials
are contemplating the construction of
line to Appleton.
R. B. Drake, conductor on the LIE high
Valley road, is prospecting along the line
of the Northern Pacific.
S. H. Mills, southeastern passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific, Cincinnati,
was il the city yesterday.
Seventy-fve dinners we're served passen-
gers on Thursdays train of the Northern
Pacific road. The train was made up of
nine coaches.
The Missouri editorial association will
visit st. Paul on the 18th proximo. They
will come by the Omaha branch of the
Royal route.
A special came in on the River road
yesterday made up of six coaches of pass
engers and five car loads of emigrants
movables bound for Manitoba.
An acre of wood, more or less, burning
fercely this side of Augusta, delayed the
Omaha line train due in this city at 2:25
yesterday afternoon three hours.
A. S. Dowdall, ticket agent of the Mani
toba line at Moorhead, and Joseph Walker,
similarly employed by the same line at
Grand Forks, were in the city yesterday.
Vice President Cakes of the Northern
Pacific will arrive here this morning at an
hour when reporters will be so delightfully."-
occupied as to prevent their seeking an
interview.
The Northern Pacific expects to reach
Helena and Missoula about the 1st of July.
After this there will be but $50 miles to
connect with the western division running
to the coast.
The train arriving in this city at 6:15
yesterday morning via the Milwaukee e.
St. Paul road was made up of twenty
coaches, and required the services of two
locomotives.
A batch of emigrauts which came by the
Thingvalla line steamer ''Geyser" are daily
expected to arrive in this city, whence they
will proceed to the Red river valley by the
Manitoba line.
The Canada Southern Freight line has
issued circular announcing that it will
contract waybill freight from Chicago and
Buffalo to Brockville, Ottawa and Montreal
at Philadelphia rates.
The appointments of F. Chandler as
general ticket agent, and II. G. Townsend
general passenger agent, of the Wabash,
st. Louis & Pacific road, with headquarters
at st. Louis, have been promulgated.
President James Smith of the st. Paul &
Duluth road, accompanied by his son and
three daughters, departed for Salt Lake
City in a special yesterday afternoon
They go by way of Omaha, Cheyenne and
Ogden.
F. W. Cusack, formerly of the Hamilton
& Northwestern road, has been appointed
general agent for Manitoba of the Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha line, and
the Northwestern road, with headqua rters
in Winnipeg.
Reports from Hallock, Stephens and
other points on the Manitoba line, are
filled with glad tidings and great Joy. The
weather is superb, seeding progressing
satisfactorily, and the waters, which for a
time threatened to devastate the country
are subsiding.
The general managers of the roads
forming the California pool, and which
compromises all the lines between the
Missouri river and the eastern terminus
of the Central Pacific, will meet in Salt
Lake City, May 8, for the purpose of re-
organizing the pool.
For more than eight years Miss Annie
Goandter has been switch tender at Mil
waukee. She is employed by the Chicago,
Milwaukee d. st. Paul Railroad company
and has charge of seven important switch
es. She receives $40 month and is sup
posed to be the only woman switch-tender
in this country.
The magic pen of G. K. Barnes, general
passenger agent of the Northern Pacific,
has brought forth 'The Yellowstone Ma
tional park" work comprehending forty
pages OF intensely interesting reading, in
terspersed with numerous pictures of scenes
along the route of the Northern Pacific.
This valuable acquisition to the library and
reading room is III the hands of the binder.
The general manager of the Northern
Pacific has issued orders limiting the sale
of liquor on the dining cars of that road to
passengers only. The officers and employ
es in that branch of the service are thereby
prevented from obtaining the cheerful
cocktail, the inspiriting gin fz, the bracing
whiskey sour. in the future, though having
money in their respective purses with
which to effect an exchange.
The railroad commission of the New
York legislature, in its report which has
Just been made, shows that of the $4,000
600 capitalization of the elevated roads
more than $250O0,00O is water. On the
greater part of this watered stock the
roads have been paying dividends and in
terest. Yet in the face of this outrageous
rascality, ''the board cannot intelIigentIy
answer the question whether a reduction
of fares at the present time would enable
the roads to earn 10 per cent. on the CAPT.
ia. actually expended.
On Wednesday, Passenger Agent Barnes
of the Northern Pacific received Informal
ton from Itaska that round trip tickets
Nos. 81, SO and 80 between Itaska and
Billings had mysteriously disappeared
without leaving any clue to guide pursuit
the Hl vubo