The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-01
COLORED TROOPS co SOUTH
THE RAILROADS WILL BID FOR
THEIR TRANSPORTATION
Maj. Wheeler, Chief eQuartermaster
of the Department of Dakota,
U. S. A., Issues a Request for Pro-
pOtsals-Twenty-F Infantry,
Stationed at Montana, to Be
Taken to Key West.

Maj. D. D. Wheeler, chief quarter
master Of the Department of Dakota,
U. S. A, has requested all the St.
Paul lines to submit to him the lowest
cash rate for the transportation of the
Twenty-fifth infantry, stationed in
Montana. to Key West, Fla.
The Twenty-ifth is divided into six
Missoula, two at Fort Harrison and
two at Fort Assinniboine.
According to instructions received
from Washington the troops
will leave their respective garrisons
about the 10th Of April.
The request for proposals reads as
fellows:
Headquarters DEPARTMENT of Dakota. Of
fee of Chief Quartermaster, st. Paul.
March 80, 1898.
Please furnish me. or before the I'd
day of April, 1888, with the lowest net cash
rate per capita for persons and per lCO lbs.
for baggage and property considering land
grant deduction in each case) for through
transportation from the following posts in
this department to Key West. Fla, of the
persons and property stated below viz:
From Fort Assinnibcine. Mont, ia per-
sons, $4,000 lbs. baggage Fort Missoula,
29O persons 600 lbs. baggage, horses;
Fort Harrison. 100 persons, $4,000 lbs. ba-
gage, 2 horses.
One hundred and fifty pounds baggage to
go free with each person.
passage for officers, and sleeping acconmo-
detion for enlisted men, via the following
seaports, viz: New Orleans, La; Mobile,
Ala. Tampa, Fla.
Palace sleepers and accommodation re-
CURED for eight persons from Assinniboine,
eight from Harrison twenty from Missoula.
Tourist or immigrant sleeperS and S-eep-
ing accommodations required for all enlist
ed men. three men to section.
All cars to run through to the point se=(
lected on the Gulf of Mexico for steamship
IN ha
transferred to the steamship with which
connecting. Steamship to be a passenger
boat, suitably fitted and licensed to carry
passengers.
State time required to assemble trains
complete at starting point and number Of
tourist or immigrant sleepers you will fur
nish at each place if your bid is accepted
Also make separate bids for non-combat-
ants. stating the cash rate for persons. and
net cash rate per 100 pounds for officers
and enlisted mems excess baggage.
State reads you propose to pass over, run
ming time and time of arrival at destina-
ton at seaport, approximately, and name
of vessel, if possible. and date of departure
from seaport and probable date OF arrival
at Key West. Also whether all property
and baggage will go through with troops
on cars and steamer.
including al usual accommodations fur
sons and quantities Of commodities. etc.
herein stated are approximate and are SUBJ
ject to increase or decrease as facts may
warrant. The date of departure Of the
troops from the several points will be about
the 10th of April, $685. D. D. Wheeler.
Forts Missoula and Harrison lie on
the line of the Northern Pacific rail-
way, and no doubt that railway will
secure the contract of transporting the
troops. Fort Missoula is within walk
ing distance of the city of Missoula,
while Fort Harrison is a few miles out
of Helena, on a Northern Pacific spur
The Great Northern road will no
doubt be given the contract to carry
The troops at Fort Assinniboine for As
sinniboine is reached by rail by only
that line -"
On account Of the situation of the
three posts there will be no competition
for securing the contracts. and the only
matters to be arranged are those Of
naming rates.
The lines east of st. Paul will indulge
i'll a lively scramble, however, to Sc
cure a slice of the contracts from the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern.
Representatives from the different
Southern railroads are in the city now
comforting with the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern officials regarding
the line to be used in transporting the
soldier boys through the Southern
states.
J. c.. Beam Jr., Northwestern passen-
ger agent Of the Southern railroad at
Chicago, is here.
The Twenty-f1fth infantry are COL
ored troops.