Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-23
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Bartlett line west of Larimore has
been opened to public travel.
G. w. Slayton has gone down into Iowa.
Mat Hayden of the Merchants dispatch,
Winnipeg, is in town.
j. M. Whitman, general superintendent
of the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha line,
went west to inspect the western divisions
of that road yesterday.
1t is announced that the Atlantic & Pa
ci6c railroad will be completed and
through trains running between Kansas
City and San Francisco over the new route
June l.
A great variety of land hunters left
Thursday for DEVILS Lake from Pepin
county, Wis; Florence and Norway, Mich. !;
Minneapolis, Cannon Falls and Byron,
Minn.; and Yermilion, D. T.
The Northern Pacific is completed to
Bozeman, 1,060 miles west of st. Paul.
This leaves a gap of 270 miles to get the
road through to the Pacific. A stage is to
be put on soon to run between the two un-
completed ends of the road.
The leading and more enterprising peo-
pie of Grafton, Walsh county, D. T., are
taking active measures to promote emigra-
tion to that section and have published
very attractive map showing st. Paul with
the railroad system, with Grafton as the
center.
The Royal Route are now receiving for
their Chicago line new outfit of day
coaches built at the Pullman car shops,
kol
rooms for the ladies, stationary wash
stands and all conveniences, all of which
makes the route popular with the travelling
public.
For some time there has been a syste-
matte effort to bear the stock of the Pitts
burg & Western Railroad company whose
headquarters are in Pittsburg, and the
price has been run down from $19 to $8.
This is all attributed to Jay Gould and it
is asserted that all this time his men have
been buying up big blocks of the stock.
Quite a delegation of Scandinavians
from st. Paul and Minneapolis will leave
| tonight, for Warren, in the Red river val
ley, where they will participate in an en-
tertainment, the proceeds of which will go
to the Swedish Lutheran church. Herman
Stockenstrom, editor in chief of the
Sk0faren, st. Paul, will be the leading
| speaker.
| The Chicago & Northwestern road has
taken new twist on the conductors and
the latter are very indignant. They claim
that they are as honest and as truthful as
men ordinarily are. Five of them on the
Northwestern road have at last been
brought to the point where they will stand
the impositions placed on them no longer
and have resigned. The cause of this mu-
tiny is the issuance of an order some time
ago that conductors should give passen-
gers receipt in all cases where money
was paid on the train. Every conductor
is now supplied with blank recei book
in which he registers the amount of cash
received from each passenger. This re-
ceipt is torn off and handed to the paying
| passenger, while the conductor again reg
| listers the amount received on the stub of
the book left after the receipt has been torn
| of. Both the receipt and the stub are
consecutively numbered, rendering the de-
| struction of the record of any transaction
! easily detected. The conductor is required
to turn his book of stubs into the counting
| department when used up, where 1t is crit
ically examined. The receipt which is
| given the passenger is as follows:
CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Passengers will please see that the amount
paid is correctly filled in as above. This is of
no value except as memorandum for this trip
and train. W. A. THRALL, General Ticket
! Agent.
One of the conductors says: "It is like
wearing a bell punch around ones neck.
1t is badge of degradation,a and every time
conductor takes out his book and writes
receipt for cash fare he feels deuced
small and mean, for he knows that his act
proclaims that the company which en-
ploys him cannot trust him, and has there
| fore set trap for him.