St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-12
TRANSPORTATION NOTES.

Mr.. Hiland's successor has not vet been
appointed, and win not be probably until the
18th.
Mr.. Boyden, general northwestern freight
agent Of the Milwaukee & St Paul, is ex.
pected home to-day.
The passenger rates are very much dis
turbed all through the east The wes'
Shore road is selling tickets from New York
to Buffalo at 50 so.
5. n. Hardwick, general travelling agent Of
the East Tennessee. Virginia & Georgis
road, the Florida Short Hue, with headquar,
tiers at Chicago, is In st. Paul.
The Northern Pacific road has established
an agency at Wallace, VI. T., on the Rocky
Mountain division, 1924 miles west Of St
Paul. and Z. NJ Dimiek has been appointed
agent thereat.
The FIST circular received in 81. Paul
signed by J. II. HiIand, in his new position
OF arbitrator, reached the Northern Pacihc
road yesterday. The document is simply q
joint passenger tariff, dated the 9th inst,
fixing the rates from Chicago 10 Council
Bluffs at $3.50.
1t is alleged that the Chicago & Northwes-
tern railway Is considering the project tn
transfer its terminus from Council Bluffs 20
Omaha by crossing the river at Blair over the
Sioux City & Pacific bridge, thirty miles
north of Omaha. II is positively ascertained
that the management has made ovrrtures 10
Mr.. Joseph Barker To secure centrally located
property IN Omaha for the erection Of head
quarters.
All the seal locks thus far used by the
railroads have proven more or less defective.
Mr. j. NJ Edgar, of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe, has now invented a new seal lock
which, tits said. cannot be broken aud re-
opended, and is said n be a perfect protec-
ton by those who have used It. II is very
simple and only costs about five cents per
lock, and the price Of the seals Is but one
fourth OF what is charged for those now in
use.
A. ]. Field, from Bismarck. was in St.
Paul yesterday, having in charge two car
loads Of material for the Dakota exhibit at
the New Orleans Worlds fair. In one Of the
cars the Northern Pacific Elevator companv
have model of an elevator by which they
propose to show the practical work aud also
the loading OF grain from an elevator
The cars are loaded with fine samples OF grain.
mounted elk, deer, buffalo and other animals.
and quite a collection Of Indian relics and
curiosities.
Mr.. Frank B. Clarke, the general traffic
manager Of the Chicago. St Paul & Omaha.
returned yesterday from Chicago, where he
has been attending the meetings OF the
transcontineutal lines held for the purpose
Of adjusting the rates for Montana and Idaho
points both junction aud local, and on the Mis-
sissippi as far down as St. Louis, and in Wis
consin and Illinois. Mr.. Clarke was seen
yesterday, but he said he could not add any
thing to what had already been said in the
papers.
The travelling passenger agents OF the
Northern Pacific, mentioned yesterday
in the GLOBE, held meeting
and talked over the business Of the
year and the prospects OF the coming year.
Another meeting will be held to-day. Mr.
Geo. ID. Teller seems 10 be a character
among his brethren. He comes from New
York aud claims 10 have seen the FIRST work
done on the Baltimore 81 Ohio road, the first
road in the United States, on the 4th day Of
July, 1928. He remembers the first English
locomotive that was brought over here. II
came in sail vessel, and was quite differ
ent from the locomotive Of the present day
An English engineer was sent over with il
to run it.
Minnesota Is now suffering from having
too much wheat. All the warehouses along
the st. Paul & Manitoba road are full to over
flowing. The Northern Pacific, the Milwau
kee & st. Paul, the st. Paul 81 Omaha and
the Minneapolis IL St Louis roads are all in
the same fix, while the elevator capacity at
Duluth is now limited to 1,250, 900 bushels
When that is exhausted, which will be the
case in a few days, then the question will be
asked, ''what shall be done with the wheat?''
The ST. Paul 81 Manitoba road has found
itself so fearfully overloaded with wheat that
yesterday it issued orders to all agents not to
load any more wheat. 1t has on track al the
present time 900 car loads Of wheat, or 54O,-
600 bushels, which is more than enough to
fill oue-third of the storage left at Duluth. a
very moderate estimate of the wheat
in the elevators along the different lines of
the roads places the amount at 10000. 900
bushels. This amount Of wheat is that only
in the country elevators leading into
Minneapolis and St. Paul. II does not in
clude the wheat now In store at Minneapolis,
st. Paul, the Minnesota Transfer and al
Duluth. The great problem still remains az
to what shall be done with the surplus
wheatl