St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24

learning that he could find lying around
loose in the public schools. when he made
an onslaught on the state university. He
succeeded in keeping himself busy in this
establishment until he was 81, when he
graduated with high honors, and went out
into the world loaded to the scalp
lock with logarithms and ideas
of syntaX and prosody He
had a natural bent for railroad business.
according to the record in the family Bible,
and he came to st. Paul in 80, and took a
position in the auditors office of the Omaha
road. A little later he took clerkship in
the general Office where he remained I'M
til 'S3, when he was appointed contract
ing freight agent. the position he now holds.
1t will be seen by the above diagram that
Stanley is 81 years old, handsome, a good
dresser, well educated, in good financial
circumstances and possesses a disposition
that would prompt him to get up in the
morning and build fire or to chop half
cord of wood before breakfast, without
dissenting murmer. This part of
this sketch is prepared especially
for that portion of st. Paul's population
who are stalking around for the purpose of
collecting a husband. He is unmarried
and lives the life of coelebs, as though he
was perfectly satisfied with it, and any bait
that is tossed in his direction must be I'M
usually tempting to catch nibble from
him. He walks arm in arm with the best
society that st. Paul can boast of, and
when arrayed in claw hammer coat. open
face vest and dignitied collar. he looks
fit to I'LL the highest position in royal
court He is prominent member OF the
Minnesota club and conspicuous figure in
all leading social events. To sum Stanley
Proudit up in a few words. he is royalty
good fellow and occupies the top seat in the
community in which he lives.
Big Railroad Earnings.
Full reports of the gross earnings from
Jan. 1, 1886. to Sept. So 1856. of seventy
four of the principal roads in the United
States and Canada have been made, and
the figures show remarkable increase III
the earnings of some of the lines. These
roads, during the past nine months of the
year. earned 5000, 466.273, against S191,
347, 020 in the same length of time in 1885.
being a net increase of SIS. 116, 254. OF
these seventy-fOur roads ffty-seven show
an increase and seventeen. or only % pei
cent. of the whole number show decrease.
Some of the most notable examples of in
crease are the following:
Grand Trunk 81, 349, 1872; Canadian Pacific.
81, l36, IA; Milwaukee. Lake Shore u West
ern, S720,443; Chicago & Northwestern
S750,2l6, or adding its Chicago. st. Paul.
Minneapolis Il Omaha lines; 1898 993; Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, $3.50, ST.; Wabash
St. Louis s. Pacific, SSlO,577; Northern Pr
cific $972, 356; Oregon Railway & Navigatio
company, S452, 97l; st. Louis San Francisco
.S3I5557 Texas & Pacific. 1897, Denver
Rio Grande, 1924, 1896; st. Louis, Arkansas \
Texas (N. g., $500, 1853.
In the great majority of cases this gaiI
has been made without addition to tn
mileage. The most remarkable gain is tina
shown by the New York Central & Hud
son River of Sc, DOL 500, but as the earn
ingS of the West Shore which last year did
not belong to this system are now included
the figures are misleading. The heaviest
falling off comes from roads from which il
might almost be least expected. The Hi
nois Central shows decrease on its South
ern division of 1912, 22S although its Illinois
and Iowa divisions both made gain, leav-
ing the net decrease for the whole system
S163, $50. The heaviest decrease is shown
by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
EN-, amounting to S144, 434. This notwith-
standing its extension into Dakota and init
mate connection with the Chicago. Rock
1SldHu O L dClnC. Inc NHiCdSO o. AlCoH
fell behind S45. $50. but probably its de-
crease in operating expenses will
be found to be more than
this. The st. Paul, Minneapolis & Mani
toba loses the trife of S14. 69S. which, it is
claimed, is largely due to the completion of
the Canadian Pacific line, but it is rapidly
pushing out new lines, which will eventu-
ally make the earnings exceed those of any
other year. On the whole these figures
make very favorable showing for the
business done by the representative lines.
The number of roads which report net