Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-15
THE RAILROADS.

hour late.
Manager Marvel and Assistant Ives, of
the Manitoba, will return this evening
from their tour of inspection.
Eighty laborers left for Livingston last
evening to commence work on the Nation
al park branch OF the Northern Pacific.
j. M. Taylor, general Canadian agent
Of the Milwaukee & St. Paul, at Toronto,
was in the city yesterday. He left for Du-
luth last evening.
The gentlemen from St Paul who went
to Chicago last week to attend the meeting
of railroad agents in that city on Wednes-
day, have returned home.
S.R. AinsIie, superintendent of the yell
lowstone division, and D. R. Taylor, of the
Missouri division of the Northern Pacific,
departed for home yesterday.
E. Q. Devereaux, late OF Topeka, KS,
pissed through the city yesterday en- route
10 River Landing near Bismarck, where he
will act as agent for the Northern Pacific.
There are no washouts of any descrip-
tion on the Manitoba line. 1t took TWEEN
ty-four passenger coaches and five sleep
ers to acconmoda the travel over that
road yesterday.
The appointment of A. D. Edgar as
general agent of the Northern Pacific road
at Chicago, vice A. L. Stokes promoted
and transferred to Portland, Oregon, has
been officially promulgated.
The earnings and the securities of the
st. Paul continue to go up together. Mr.
Merrill, swinging in his hammock in the
balmy breezes Of southern California,
must read the telegraphic account Of
these facts with great deal of complae
cency.
The 7:45 train yesterday morning on the
Northern Pacific was five hours late, COM
ing in by way of the Fergus Falls division
road. A disabled engine did the business.
The 2:25 train yesterday afternoon on the
river road was forty-fve minutes late, due
TO heavy travel.
A washout three hundred feet in length
on the Northern Pacific road beyond the
bridge at Mandan occurred about 5 o'clock
Friday afternoon. By 1 o'clock yesterday
morning the break had been filled in, and
everything was in frst-class order. No
definitions occurred TO trains east or west,
and as the river has fallen, ell danger of
delay is past.
The Grantsburg branch of therSt. Paul
d Duluth railway is all graded and ties
distributed and the piers for the bridge
over the st. Croix river constructed. The
branch is to be completed by Sept. 1. As
the graded road, right Of way and ties are
donated by Grantsburg people, the prop
erty will be acquired with but little outlay
on the part of the St. Paul d Duluth com
pany.
The cost of the Central Pacific raiIroa d.
including right of way, depots, buildings,
wharves, docks, etc, to December 81, 1882,
was SI38,553, 1929. The cost of equip
ment, Including shops, machinery, real
estate, river steamers, material, fuel, ETC.,
was S16,G65, POSSE. Of this last amount
there is over $4,000,000 of material and
fuel on hand, which is necessary on ac-
count of being SO far removed from bases
of supplies.
Thursday morning the Kansas City, st.
Joseph and Council Bluffs railway entered
into the Kansas City agreement and 800
forfeit was placed in the hands of the
secretary, Mr.. w. n. McDearmon, of the
Wabash. An arrangement was reached by
which that road and the Missouri Pacific
were placed on an equal footing so far as
business from Kansas City to Omaha and
intermediate points is concerned, both
roads being left without restraint in this
particular. This action probably settles
the st. Paul war permanently.
Charles S. Fee mas been relieved from
duty as claim agent of the Northern
Pacific, that of chief clerk requiring the
general manager requiring his entire
time. The vacancy thus created has been
filed by the appointment of D. K. Ford,
who will have charge of all matters relat-
ing to claims against the company out
side of the freight department. Mr.. Ford
is to be congratulated upon his we'll de-
served promotion, but not more so than
the public whom it has ever been his
pleasure to serve. In addition to the pos
session of excep tional abilities as a rail
road man, Mr.. Ford will bring to the dis
charge of his duties the characteristics of
genial gentleman, and by his efforts in
connection with his new position, contrib
ute to confirm the popularity of the road,
of which he is most valuably ettache.
The question is frequently asked by men
who daily read of the ''Nickel Plate,' what
road is meant? Where does it run? Where
does it terminate, and with what other
road does it compete? The "Nickel Plate''
is the new road, the construction of which
was commenced some time N 1881, and
runs from Buffalo to Chicago, being parallel
much of the way with the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern, and with which it will
come in direct competition. 1t will be re-
membered that the Erie road connects with
the Michigan Southern at Dunkirk, Pa,
ninety miles west of Buffalo; and that
there are several competing roads from
Buffalo eastward. Hence the Nickel Plate
has ample connections eastward and will
become a formidable rival of the Lake
Shore which has hitherto been the grand
highway south of the lakes to Chicago.
The latest is, that the Wisconsin Central
has been purchased by the Willard syndi-
cate, and not by the Northern Pacific, to
afford the latter road an outlet to the East
from the Pacific coast. Notwithstanding
the report of the sale of the Wisconsin
Central IS denied, railroad men insist that
it is true. They argue that to render the
Northern Pacific a through trans-conti-
mental route, it must have terminus at
some points other than those established