The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-01
NEWS OF RAILROADS
GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT
WHITNEY, OF THE G. n, Is
SUES A FOLDER
SCHEDULES OF THE FAST MAIL
And Other Trains That Are to Be
Put Into Service ON That Road
Tuesday-says the Flyer Prom
ises to BE of Immense and Per-
manent Advantage to the Great
Northwest.

General Passenger Agent F. I. Whit
ney. Of the Great Northern, yesterday.
ISSUED folder containing complete in
formation and time schedules of the
new fast mail and other trains which
are TO be put In service on that road
1uesuay MI. Whitney, in his intro
uuction to the train schedule, says:
Anong other weighty questions which con-
Ironted the United States at the onenine of
the year 1899. the Importance of more rapid
transit OIL the mail service between the At
Iantic ana Pacific, growing out of our new
POSSESSIONS IN the far East, became at once
apparent TO the postal authorities The uues-
ZION TO De determined was the route which
G MJula ensure the prompt, safe and accurate
eenary OK the mail, The demands of the
6 ,,o. Ior this service cannot always be
i, SATISFACTORILY. It requires a solvent well
DulIt, well equipped, well managed railway.
LIZA nms last Tune required makes necessary a
perIect road bed, the heaviest steel rails. To-
t uomotiyes OF advanced and powerful type.
VII Vii framed and experienced employees, in
teaisent modern management
me Great Northern Flyer, shortens tho
III LINE between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
, ny ABOUT ten hours-equal to four hundred
miIes' eas Is ma an hours at forty
history of the Northwest and is calculated
~ pe OF immense and permanent ADVANTAGE
stan 81 tne many ambitious towns and growing
states ge OF the great northern empire.
me important Improvement in mail and
pas service that is to be made by East
e 81 Tallways on Jan. 1, 1899, will be extended
" al the territory between the Great Lakes
railway. oe"s Nofeherh
~, ne company will on Tuesday Jan. 2 1899
pue On Iast train, leaving ST. Paul and Min
n as'a. every morning Immediately after the
s a.lIVad OF the fast passenger and mail trains
III ., oli lineage: This train will take the place
Train ,ne NJ NUMBER OF the present Pacific Coast
t.oG p. M, minneapolis at p. m. daily. The
!tlain, Doth East and West-bound will be
anoWn as the Great Northern FLYER the
, nane ne1ng typical of Its speed and direct.
nrssan ~ Will De considerably lighter than at
carry mail and baggage cars. dav Goa coaob ma,i
Iamliy tourist sleepers. and paiaca SIesnire,,
and dining cars. Neo 'ieepins
rms train will land passengers and deliver
Fails 'he s evening Of the second day at Great
morning of the third day into SnoSa,na t the
Aootenaf and Palouse countries. and t ti,e
eVSnlns OF that day into Seattle. ~
assengers from Chicago to Montana w;,,
nave put two nights, and Pacific coast pas-
conos, Out three nights on the road. Close
connections will be made at st. Paul and Mir
neapolis with arriving morning trains nYnr
a. roads from the east and south: at Grand
vlks WITH daily trains from Duluth ord
we MesI superior; at Spokane with daily trains
i T9 roTtland and the Kootenai country: at
isb So ~ WIN trains for Vancouver and Brit
t nnd Coiumoia points; at Seattle with railroad
ana steamship lines for Tacoma ana Caiisnr.
MIA points. anu oaiiior-
Inc Great Northern railway has also ar.
ranged Tor daily evening train out Of the
ps ~iH o LIES, 70 be known as the 'sMontana-
havre, Mont. making local stops. and con- NJ
necting at Havre for Southern Montana
poinIs, spokane, and the Kootenai country
VI 'idno, seattle and the Pacific coast.