Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-23
TRANSPORTATION TOPICS.


cursion-The Duluth s. Iron RanGe-1he
Greensburg Branch of the st. Paul " D"-
luth-PersOna1-RiVer Notes.
George Drew, travelling agent of the
Northern Pacific, Toronto, is in the city.
w. S. Alexander, of the Manitoba road,
will return from Winnipeg this morning.
Trains to st. Paul were unusually light
yesterday and brought but very few emf
grants.
VIII. Dixon, of the Chicago, Milwaukee
q st. Paul road, has gone north, where he
will remain until Monday.
Willard, Rufus Hatch and large party
of prominent eastern men will visit the
Yellowstone park in August.
J.T. OdelI, superintendent of transpor-
tation of the Northern Pacific, is out on
the road His return is indefinite as to
time.
Twenty-seven car loads of Iowa stock
left Minnesota transfer for Billings last
night. They are consigned to j. Kurtz,
and departed via the Northern Pacific.
Col. FIournoy, of the Omaha line, went
up to Minneapolis yesterday, for purposes.
he said, in the pursuit of which he was
confident he would encounter no opposi-
ton.
The Duluth & Iron Range road will COM
mence work on Monday. John S. Wolf &
Co. are the contractors. Meanwhile the
road is preparing pictured pamphlet of
its attractions.
A commission is reported to have left
Minneapolis last night, to locate the land
Office at DEVILS lake. Rumor further has
it that the location will be made near
Grand Harbor, on the north shore of the
lake.
A. L. Haight, agent of Barnum's collos-
sal, is in the city arranging for transpor-
tation and settling dates for the show. It's
route will be Eau Claire, Saltwater, st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Faribault, appear
ing in this city October 3.
President Smith and Superintendent
Breed have returned from tour of inspec-
ton over the Grantsburg branch. The
grading from st. Croix river to Grants
burg is completed and the road will be
ready for the rolling stock by the middle
of August.
The Omaha line has received nine new
palace coaches, respondent in gilt, bronze
and copal, and so elegant in their construc
ton and finish as to evoke the heartiest
admiration. They were built at the Pull
man works, near Chicago, furnished with
paper wheels and cost $500 each.
The commissioners of the Chicago expo
sition of railroad appliances, have organ
lied bureau of information regarding
the accommodations needed for visitors to
the exposition. The Bureau" has been
opened in the exposition building and is
stocked with measures to protect visitors
from deception and extortion."
T. w. Teasdale, of the Royal Route, has
devised an illuminated handful setting
forth the advantages of the line he repre-
sents, which is represented to be too
sweet for any kind of use. He will pre-
serve it to be copy righted to prevent en-
Vious railroad designers, from the heathen-
ish practice of adopting it as their own.
H. G. Davis, assistant general passenger
agent of the Manitoba road, is again miss
ing from his accustomed haunts. It is
stated by dame rumor, that he has gone
over into Wisconsin to scrape up an &C
quaintance with the youu.s III in. who wants
to be passenger agent and with passen-
geragents stand, that was recently added
to his domestic circle.
The Northern Pacific has been COM
pleted to Townsend, within thirty five
miles of Helena, to which point it will be
finished by June 10 at the latest. Trains
now leave Livingston for Townsend ~ s
a. m. and arrive at s p. m. The Western
division will reach Missoula about the
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be shortened to little over 100 miles, and
this gap is expected to be closed in August,
at which time the Northern Pacific will be-
come through route from St. Paul to
Portland, 1911 miles.
The game of bluff which Sidney Dillon
is playing suggests an outcome of the re-
letions between the Union Pacific and the
government, which is not altogether i'm
probable. From 1894 to 1898, the whole
burden of Indebtedness resting on the
Union and Central Pacific companies falls
due. The bonds issued by the government
to help build the Union Pacific reach S35,-
1882, now amounting with unpaid in
terest to $84,77S,754. The Central Pacific
debt on the same account aggregates $780,
1861 It will be impossible for either
road to pay this enormous debt. If they
fail the government has the right to fore
close.
Charles E. Foster, prominent railrcaa
official of Massachusetts, attached to the
Fitchburg Railroad company, having
distanced all competitors in his race for
the heart and hand of one of the fairest
ladies of Boston, has come West, not 10
grow up with the country, however, but to
bask in the sunshine of this soft Italian
cline, to visit the thousand and one dis
tinguished historical points of interest
about st. Paul, and enjoy season of
leisure. He is the guest of
j. M. Hannaford, general freight agent
of the Northern Pacific, also his brother
in-law, and that his fund of experience
will be largely augmented, and his cup of
happiness filled to overflow under that
gentleman's membership, even the most
critical VIII admit.
Railroads to San Francisco have issued
joint circular giving the form of ticket
and certificate required for the excursion
of knights TemplarIto the trenniai conclave
which will be held in San Francisco
next August. The ticket contains a CON
tract in which the purchaser accepts con-