St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-21
RdiL Notes.

Mr. G.. II. Warren, general passenger agent Of
the St. Paul g. Manitoba road, has returned from
Chicago.
Mr.. T. W. Teasdale, of the Royal route, has
just returned from Sioux City, where he has been
looking after his Nebraska excursion parties.
Three car loads of French emigrants from Can
ada arrived on the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul road yesterday, and proceeded to points in
Minnesota, Montana and Idaho.
Twenty-Five passengers arrived on last nights
train from Omaha and Kansas City and fifteen
from Des Moines The first are going to the
Pacific coast and the last to the Occur dAlene
mines
The Chicago, Rock Island s. Pacific has just is
sued new enligrant movable tariff to points on
the Northern Pacific and the st. Paul & Manitoba
Railroads The new rates are much lower than
those heretofore in force.
E. H. Graves, train dispatcher of the Hastings
and Dakota division of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul road, says that division will be open
Monday next and that there will be chnnge of
time on that day. The Hastings & Dakota divis-
ion has been blocaded for the last three weeks by
the snow.
A meeting of the general superintendent and
general passenger agents of the various Wander
bilt roads will be held probably to-day either at
Buffalo or New York, to arrange time tables for
the coming summer with special view tie facili-
tating the interchange of business between the
various Vanderbilt lines.
The general passenger agents of the east
bound roads from Chicago, have agreed to sell
round trip tickets at one and one-third fair to
delegates to the joint convention eff the state
board of dental examiners at Detroit, Michigan
March 26, 81 and 2S, inclusive. Tickets to be
good from March 25 to 30, inclusive, and will be
sold on railroad orders obtainable through Dr.
Thomas, secretary, Detroit, Mich.
meeting of the business men of Brainerd
was held day or two ago to take steps for rail-
road from Branard to Mile Laos lake. The dis
lance is about 90 miles and a continuation to
Princeton and possibly joining with the proposed
St. Paul, Brainard and Grand Forks
system are also contemplated as parts of the
scheme. The present action is hurried forward
by the discovery that st. Louis syndicate is afte
substantially the same thing.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway,
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern rail-
way and the st. Paul. Minneapolis & ST. Louis
road have issued joint tariff on emigrants NOV
ables from Chicago, Englewood, South Chicago,
Washington Heights, Blue Island, Joliet Senica
and Peoria to all points on the st. Paul & Mani
toba, and Northern Pacific road in Minnesota,
Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and British Columbia taking effect March IT,
1884.
The annual report of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati
& st. Louis railway, shows gross earnings of S4,-
623, 74O, which is an increase of $4OS,S17. The
greatest increase is in freight, amounting to q
little over 10 per cent, the gain in passengers
being only per cent. The earnings per mile
were SEA, 215, an increase of S2,O24. The oper-
ating expenses were $685., 1855, an increase of
S256, 466 over the preceding year. The net earn
ings were $1,536.275 and the total revenue ST.
545, $685. an increase of S141, 199.
The Burlington s. Ohio river road was sold at
public auction by the master in chancery, on the
18th, to H.. S. Hopkins, of St. Louis The
amount of his bid was $4,000. The road was
graded for thirtyfve miles, and all the pilng and
bridge work finished, including nearly four miles
of steel rails. There was expended about $780,
600 in the construction af the road up to the
time Of its collapse. The property is in fair con-