St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-07
Rail Notes.

Mr.. jerome, northwestern passenger agent
Of the Chicago 81 Atlantic road, with head
quarters at Chicago, is in st. Paul.
S. W. Snow, general passenger and travel
ing agent of the Chicago & Atlantic road,
with headquarters at Chicago is in the city.
]. A. Quinlan, travelling passenger agent
of the Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy road,
The West Shore road is to put on fast
train each way between Niagara Falls and
New York commencing about the first or
middle of April.
Judge Chandler, who went down to Chi
cago few days ago to attend a meeting in
regard to freight rates, etc., returned yester-
day, and we regret to be compelled to state
that he is seriously afflicted with rheumatism.
The Northern Pacific road has issued cir
cular to its agents and all connecting lines
giving notice that the Palouse branch is
closed till further notice. Freight for sta
tons should be billed to Cheney, the most
convenient point for the consignee.
Vanderbilt still continues to be thorn in
the flesh to all railroad agents shipping east
from Chicago. When business is a little
dull, and other roads are doing but little the
Vanderbilt freight houses are piled full of
freight. The other roads want to know why
that is so?
The New York, Lake Erie & Western rail
way gives notice requesting that no further
shipments be routed via that line until
further notice when destined to points in
New England which cannot be reached via
Binghamton, as it cannot at present forward
freight via Newburg.
At meeting of the stockholders of tho
Jerseyville branch of the Wabash, St. Louis
& Pacific Railway company, held at Jersey
vile, Ill. Tuesday, the following gentlemen
were elected directors: Capt. r. s. Hays,
James F. Howe and Col. Robert Andrews of
St. Louis, and Col. William H. Fulkerson
and Morris R. Locke, of Jerseyville, Ill.
The engineers of the Chicago & North
Wisconsin railroad are surveying for eros
sing over Galena river near its mouth. 1t is
now settled that the road from Savanna to
East Dubuque will not run through Galena.
Arrangements have been made, however, BY
the Chicago & North Wisconsin company
with the Chicago 81 Northwestern, by which
the former is to run into Gaena from the
cutoff over the latter's road.
The emigrants over the Northern Pacific
road to the Pacific slope are multiplying and
increasing day by day. On Wednesday
night the train that left the Union depot on
the Northern Pacific road took out twelve
cars full of people, many of them men emil
grants, and the one that left last night took
out an equal number of full coaches The
emigrants on the train last night numbered
not less than 200, and were made up of a
party of forty from Iowa, and a large party
going to Victoria, and a number of people
from this vicinity.
The State Railroad commission of Tennessee
has been sued again. Bills were filed in the
United States circuit court by attorneys of
the Knoxville & Ohio and the Memphis &
Charleston railroads, branches of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
asking that the commissioners be enioined
from reviewing the tariff rates of these roads,
bringing suit against them, or in any other
way interfering with their management.
Notice was served On the commissioners,
but the time for the hearing of the case has
not been set.
The Chicago, Pekin & Southwestern rail
road will be known as the Chicago, St. Louis
& Western Railway company, with Mr.. Fran
els E. Hinckley as general and traffic mana
ger. The general offices of the company have
been removed from Joliet to Chicago. and
will be in the First National Bank building,
corner of Dearborn and Munroe streets. Mr..
Albert H. Crocker, late receiver of the Chi
cago, Pekin & Southwestern railroad, has
been appointed superintendent of the Chi
cago St. Louis & Western with office at
streator, III. Mr.. James Mahoney, late with
the Milwaukee & st. Paul, has been appoint
ed general freight agent; Mr.. B. T. Lewis,
ticket agent: and H. P. Radley, auditor