The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-11

y. l.. Hoar city ticket agent OF the
oregon Railway & Navigation Company
at Tacoma, was In Seattle yesterday.
The Great Northern has notified lumber
ana single men that a number of eyupty
cars of all descriptions are now available
Tor Eastern shipment.
Judge Thomas Burke, general counsel
for the Great Northern. left Yesterday for
New York city to meet Mrs. Burke. who
is returning from Europe.
The scenery and chairs OF the Third
Avenue theater which Receiver Charles
~. Baker is shipping TO Portland. were
being loaded yesterday afternoon into
Northern Pacific freight cars
The railroads entering this city have
made rate for the state meeting OF odd
Fellows I'm Seattle May 81. The session
viii continue five DAYS. and 900 delegates
are expected. The fare is one and one
NTH regular rate
The Northern Pacific Offices YESTERDAY
announced a cancellation Of the $50 car
load rate on horses hitherto given the
Spokane Falls & Northern Nelson e. Fort
sheppard Columbia & Red Mountain and
the Red Mountain railways.
Fred Allen. general freight and passen
ger agent OF the Seattle & International
has announced that a special train will
be run to the university on the dsy Of
the commencement exercises. The train
will he run for the ccorumodation OF the
large crowd that is expected TO attend
The approaching trial OF the Hardie
compressed air motor on the Manhattan
elevated railway in New York will be
watched with a great deal 81 interest by
engineers and railway men throughout the
country At Rome. y. Y. where il nas
been In experimental service for some
weeks a. has been hauling ten Loaded
freight cars without trouble. and giving
entire satisfactien
The recent action % the hoard OF arbi-
traitors Of the Joint Traffic Association.
fixing the normal time Of trains bet wstr,
New York and Chicago at tWerty-eighf
hours and ordering excess charges 20 bc
than normal time. has stirred tTp more
contention among the Eastern roads than
anything the arbitration hoard has Done
for some time past
A new press for me San Francisco Ex-
aminer was shipped from New York the
other aay 10 san Francisco. by way Of
the Baltimore & Ohio. the Chicago A
Northwestern and Jx1zou Pacific The
Baltimore & Ohio took y RON New York
fsS destination IN the rsnarkshle zine Of
ten DAYS from New York. The distance he
ing 81 miles Ten years ago the average
sine for such shipments was thirty dave
It is reported that The Burlington raa-
way Will soon commence work on rs Iong
projected extension to the Pacific esasr
TIE road IL Is said, - 10 not extend from
the Billings terminus % the Burlington.
bsss 70 De built westward from A point
sossth ~ sheridan. passing near the heaA-
waters OF the Llstle Powder river. skirt
ing the southern line % Yellowstone park.
thence IN a ro1erably direct line 70 Fnsse
Idaho and across she Snake fnto Oregon.
whaencs tao bTaurnee viii Dc run % the
coast one @c1th Of the ltDe OF the Oregon
Railway a Nayigasten Com pany 20 Port
Lard and me other north through WISH
inSzov. To Puget sound The report comes
from Kansas City. and ere nses!hoct %
IN. Burlington building west WAS pub
fb-zss.xa In the Post xencer at the fixrss
az Ge<s- 4ry1u.s receza Visit East