Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-22
Rail Notes.

Rail Notes.
The train on the st. Paul & Manitoba
line was three hours late yesterday.
Superintendent Whitman of the Chicago,
st. Paul & Omaha road, has returned.
Manager Baldwin, general manager of
of the Pennsylvania road, went east last
night.
Mr.. Mohler, superintendentIof freight Of
the st. Paul & Manitoba road, returned
yesterday.
The Northern Pacific road yesterday de-
livered sixty cars of wheat at Duluth and
one at Minneapolis.
Gen. Haupt and Mr.. W. P. Clough, of
the Northern Pacific road, are back from
the Willard expedition.
One car load of the Willard party that
arrived yesterday morning. left on the
three roads for Chicago last night.
Mr.. J. T. Pond, chief clerk to Mr..
Barnes, of the Northern Pacific road, has
returned from the spike driving ex-
petition.
Yesterday w. A. Carter loaded sixteen
cars of cattle at Billings; Holt & Martin
loaded one at the same place, and Capt.
Belknap loaded ten.
President Smith, of the st. Paul &
Duluth road, President Hinckly, of the
Pennsylvania road, and Mr.. Bruno Beaupre,
are at DEVILS Lake.
Travel between st. Paul and Portland
still continues to hold up strong. Last
night forty-seven through passengers left
ST. Paul for Portland.
The Pioneer association, of Oregon, will
leave Portland, Ore, for trip through the
eastern states by the Northern Pacific Oct.
2, and will arrive here about Oct. Z.
The gross earnings of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway company's sys-
tenn for the second week in September we're
$515,O00; for the corresponding week of
1882, $436,000; increase, $4,000.
Mr.. NJ. R. Starring has been appointed
general baggage agent of the roads and
leased lines of the st. Louis, Keokuk &
Northwestern and Chicago, Burlington &
Kansas City railways, with headquarters at
Keokuk, vice w. F. Allen, resigned.
Gen. Haupt, of the Northern Pacific.
applied to the Chicago, Milwaukee & st,
Paul road yesterday for seven palace cars
for the transportation to Chicago of MI.
Willard and his party. who will be here
Sunday night or Monday morning.
Yesterday the following consignments of
cattle wero received at the Minnesota
transfer: Twenty cars of cattle consigned
to A. L. Sample, Chicago; sixteen cars cat
tie consigned to Stodard & Howard, of
Chicago; and seventeen cars cattle con-
signed to the same as the last.
Mr.. Geo. K. Barnes, passenger agent of
the Northern Pacific, and Mr.. G. s. Fee,
assistant freight agent returned
they have been for the past week
attending the convention of passenger
agents. Mr.. Barnes says there was no
business of any special Importance before
the convention, still it was, in his opinion,
wise for the agents to meet and talk over
matters, and consult generally upon the
affairs of the different roads represented.
Such gatherings cannot fail always of be-
ing useful to the road, however, uninter-
esting they may be to the public.
The Central Pacific Raj lroad company,
operating the Southern Pacific railroads
of California, Arizona and New Mexico,
and their connecting lines, has issued a
circular guaranteeing certain rates of
freight on fruit and vegetables from San
Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, San Jose,
Marysville, Stockton and Los Angeles TO
Omaha, st. Louis, New Orleans, Chicago,
st. Paul and other cities. This is the
frat time the road has mentioned st. Paul
in its circulars in this connection. This
shows that the city of St. Paul has in
creased rapidly in Importance as ship
ping point.
The Northwestern Traffic association,
comprised of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul road, the Chicago, st. Paul &
Omaha, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
the Minneapolis &c st. Louis railway, the
Chicago & Northwestern, the Chicago,
Rock Island & Peoria road, in connection
with the St. Paul & Manitoba road, has
issued a circular giving notice that
the rates named in northwestern traffic
association, No. 8, dated June LIST,
1883, on freight transported be-
tween Chicago, Milwaukee and com
mon points, and all stations on
the Canadian Pacific railway in Manitoba
and the northwestern territories, VIII h
would expire by Limitation September
30th. have been extended, and will remain
in force until October 30 1888