The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-19
THE NEW SLEEPERS.
Through Pullmans to st. Paul
Begin on Friday.
SEATTLE & MONTANA FORCES.
They Advance Norfhwards and Begin
Grading-First Wheat Arrives
Many southerners Coming.

About forty car loads OF grading outfit
for the Seattle & Montana railroad arrived
yesterday from the East and were sent to
the front. Two contractors also went up
to their sections to put men to work.
Operations have begun at Mount Vernon,
Marysville, Stanwood, Muckilteo and
other points between Seattle and Muckilteo.
Between 800 and 500 men are at work, and
more are going to the camps at the rate OF
twenty-five day. This will continue I'M
ill 1900 men are spread along the line.
The injunctions against pile-driving on the
Seattle water front have not stopped work,
as the San Francisco Bridge Company SIM
ply pass by the grounds to which the in
functions apply, and goes on with its work.
The piles have been driven from Pike
street nearly to Johnson's mill. and when
that point is reached the pile-driver will go
around and continue work above it. Shep-
ard, Henry & Co., the contractors. say
they will have all the track laid by January
1. unless the rainy season proves worse
than they anticipate.
The improved sIeeping-car service on the
Northern Pacific railroad from Seattle to
the East will go into effect on Friday, as
will be seen by the following telegram from
c. s. Fee, general passenger agent, to Gen.
erel Agent /. A. Nadeau:
The local sleeping-car between Portland and
st. Paul, on train No. 2. will be discontinued
after August u. The car leaving Portland on
No Q, August %, win be cut off at Tacoma and
sent to Seattle TO be put into service between
that point and St Paul. On and after the I'D
there will be but the one through Portland
Chicago car on train No. from Portland. The
local car will be attached to this same train at
Puyallup. Please notify all interested.
This means that the sleeper now running
between Portland and st. Paul will be
taken off and run from Seattle to st. Paul,
instead of letting passengers to and from
Seattle be transferred to and from the
through sleeper at Spokane. Under this
arrangement the Portland passengers will
have to take berths in the Chicago sleeper
and transfer on the way.
#. w. Parker. travelling passenger agent
of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy rail-
road, returned yesterday from trip to
New York, Chicago and st. Louis and left
last evening for Portland. He says that
he had q large number OF inquiries about
Seattle in the East and anticipates great
immigration, particularly from the South.
Col. ]. c. Haines, attorney for the Ore
gon Improvement Company, has returned
from Olympia, where he secured right-of-
wav for the Port Townsend Southern
railroad from Olympia to Union City.
The only section where right-of-way has
not yet been secured is that between
Union City and Quilcene.
Mr.. D. E. Brown, the general passenger
agent of the Canadian Pacific at vancou-
yer; Mr.. Robert Kerr, the coast pas senger
and freight agent at Winnipeg, and Mr..
w. D. Taylor. the roads agent at San
Francisco. left the Rainier for Victoria
yesterday.
The new dynamo will be in position at
the power-house of the Seattle electric rail-
way and ready for operation today. There
has been some difficulty about the work.
IS the present machinery has to be kept
running.
One car of wheat arrived from Athena
Or, on Saturday morning making seventy
five tons in all. The whole shipment
was transferred by the Terminal road to
the grain warehouse.
The bridge of the Fairhaven & Southern
railroad company. across Whatcom creek,
at Whatcom, was turned over to the COM
pany by the San Francisco Bridge Com.
pany yesterday.
The right-of-way on the Belt line is being
rapidly secured and Henry & Balch are
following up closely with $50 to 400 men.
who clear the route and proceed with grad
ing.
The San Francisco Bridge Company will
formally turn over the Terminal railroad to
she company today. 1t is now laying side
tracks at the grain warehouse.
The demand for tickets for the Labor
day picnic at Renton is so great that the
Oregon improvement Company has had
1900 more printed.
T. j. Miner, of the Great Northern, has
Just returned to the city from trip TO
Mount Vernon, Stanwood and that
vicinity.
c. G. Gilman, of Marshalltown, Iowa, a
Union Pacific man, is at the Snoquaimie.
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