Daily globe., 1883-08-07
RAIL AND RIVER.

the Northern Pacific, left for chicago last
night.
j. T. Odell, assistant general manager of
the Northern Pacific road, has gone to
Mandan.
One hundred emigrants that came over
on the Pennsylvania left Chicago Monday
night for st. Paul.
The grading has progressed so far on
the road from Rush City to Grantsburg
that they will commence tomorrow to lay
the iron.
Mr.. II, G. Davis, assistant general pas
senger agent of the st. Paul Manitoba
road has gone out of town on business for
the road.
B. G. Butler, freight transportation
agent of the Chicago. Milwaukee & st.
Panl road, with headquarters at Milwau-
kee, is in st. Paul.
h. I. larger, passenger and ticket agent
226 Michigan street, Buffalo, will have
charge of the business as travelling agent
east of Sandusky, Ohio.
John Bastable. travelling agent, is trans
ferred from Kansas City. Mo-, to LaFay-
cite, Ind. His teraitory covers the line of
the road and west thereof.
Gen. W. is. Alexander, general traffic
manager of the st. Paul & Manitoba road,
has returned from New York, and other
points of interest in the east.
The ticket agents at the union depot re-
port that travel is increasing. and that for
the last three or four days it has been
gradually swelling, till now it has come to
be very large indeed.
The following circular dated at Lafay-
cite, Indiana on July 81, has been received:
The resignation of M. G.. Baker and D.
P. Anderson as travelling agents, takes eff
feet this date.
Helena Independent Aug. 2: There was
many one who stayed up all of Thursday
night in order to be in time to file upon
the recently released railroad lands in
southern Montana before anybody else.
By 10 o'clock in the morning 221 filings
had been made.
| The st. Paul & Manitoba road brought
down the first shipment of furs of the sea-
son yesterday to the Minnesota transfer.
They were shipped from the Hudson Bay
trading post and were consigned to
the Hudson Bay company of London, Eng
land. The shipment filled two cars.
W. E. Peak, travelling freight agent of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road,
with headquarters at Mankato, and G. E.
Pingree, travelling freight agent of the
same road with headquarters at Far1bault.
are in town. They report the crops in the
south part of the state as looking better
| than ever.
Mail service on the Northern Pacific
route has been ordered by the postofice
department to be extended from Living
ston to Helena, commencing August Is
From that date postal cars and agents will
run through to Helena, which for some
months will remain the terminus for rail-
way mail service from the east.
The Richmond & Danville railroad has
been bought up by syndicate of New
York capitalists, whose purpose is to COM
bine in traffic system including the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railway,
| Chesapeake & York line of steamers ply
ing between West Point on the Chesapeake
& Baltimore, and the Clyde line between
New York and Philadelphia.
! The Hamilton, Ont, Times has the fol-
lowing item: "Mr. W. G. VanHorne, gen.
eral manager of the Canadian Pacific, has
| appointed a new assistant general mana
ger. The gentleman who has secured the
| appointment is Mr.. A. Piers, formerly
private secretary to Mr.. Broughton when
he was general manager of the Great
Western railway. Mr.. Piers is railway
man of acknowledged ability, and his ele-
vation will be hailed with pleasure by his
many friends. He will travel with Mr..
Van.Horne aygreat deal of the time, but
his headquarters Will be at Montreal, and
he will confne his attention mainly to the
eastern division of the Canadian Pacific
railroad.
| Manitoba Free Press: Ex-Mayor Car
ney, of Emerson, who is on a visit to the
city, reports construction on the Emerson
Loop line as progressing very rapidly
The grading will be completed by August
Is. The distance from the G. P. R, depot
at Emerson to the junction with the South
western branch of the same road at Buffalo
Lake is twenty-five miles. Major Bowles,
contractor for the masonry of the bridge
across the Red river at Emerson, says he
will have the pivot pier completed in ten
days. Messrs. Dean &Westbrook, contrac-
tors for the superstructure, state that the
iron work is now on the way and expected
to arrive next week. They expect to have
the bridge ready for traffic by September
20. 1t is believed the entire loop line
will be ready for operation by the first Of
October.
The ST. Paul & Manitoba railway author
tiles have built new station on their mair
line at st. Vincent, to obviate RAINING
down the spur to Red river, distance OF
nearly three miles, with express trains
bound for Winnipeg. The Q. S. govern
ment have also built the new custom house
convenient to the depot. It is now about
ready for use. The object of cutting of
this spur and others on the line of the St
Paul, is to endeavor to make faster time
between that city and Winnipeg. The
competition created by the recently open.
ed G. P. R. through line by the lakes, is
likely to lead to one of the two express
trains running between st. Paul and Win.
nipeg being made sort of Flying Dutch.
man, and calling only at leading stations
making the entire distance in thirteen
hours, instead of twenty-three as at pres.
4 ent.