The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-10
NEWS OF RAILROADS
OALAHA's FAST MAIL TRAIN Has
THE SPEED OF THE
WIND =
FROM ST. PAUL. TO CHICAGO
A sample Ride to Elroy and Return
Where the advantages Come
I'm to a Busy NIanA-Report Con-
meets MIR. PIough,s Name With the
Vacancy In the general Man
agershtp OF the. 500.

The Omaha railway company Is very
proud Of its new fast train and mail
service and on Sunday evening the
passenger officials gave to a number of
newspaper representatives an oppor-
tunfty to judge of it's excellence. Cen
eral Passenger Agent Teasdale and c..
j. Gray, OF the passenger department.
chaperoned the party, who We're ac-
commodated in a. private car The car
was attached to the train which leaves
this city at 6:55 p m. The train pulled
out exactly on time and Immediately
started ON it's race to Chicago. No
stop was made until the party reached
Eau Claire, where a hot box caused a
delay of a few minutes. While there
the party had a chance to inspect the
locomotive and the handsome new rail-
road station which the company has
just erected at that place. 1t is one
of the handsomest and most comforta.
bic railroad depots in the Northwest.
The party boarded the train again
about o'clock and continued the Jour-
ney.
East-bound the fast mall leaves st.
Paul daily at 6:55, and arrives at Chi
cago next morning att. West-bound
the time Is even quicker. the train
leaving Chicago at 10 a. M, arriving
at st. Paul at 8. and Minneapolis. at
$3.50. or ten hours from Chicago to st.
Paul Of course there are no through
cars on either train between st. Paul
and Chicago, but all the passenger has
to do going East is to step from the
chair car leaving st. Paul to a chair
car or sleeper leaving Eau Claire from
Duluth at 1910 p. m. West-bound the
traveller can leave Chicago on the
through Duluth sleeping car and step
a of lot Il
in the morning or he can sit up until
he reaches Madison at midnight, when
he can board through sleeper from
Milwaukee to st. Paul, and obviate the
change at Eau Claire. In any event
the traveller whose time is precious can
save one hour and thirty-five minutes
going East and two Shours and thirty
minutes coming west over the present
schedules.
A man can get into Chicago in the
morning now before breakfast, have
a long day and evening and three and
a half hours longer than by leaving at
$50 and still arrive in st. Paul at a.
m. Engine No. 277,5 one of the Oma-
has big monsters, pulled the train
down to Elroy and No. 27S, a full
brother to 277, brought it back These
engines were made to go, and they do.
Leaving Elroy at $40 in the morning,
a mile minute clip. and there were
spots that were covered at seventy
miles an hour. A piece of track twen-
ty-s1x miles long, more or. less up
grade, was covered in twenty -four
minutes. and another ten-mile strip
In nine minutes this. of course, taking
out some compulsory stops, such as
railroad crossings, etc. A day or two
ago the train made up twenty seven
minutes from. Elroy 10 Chicago, 205'
miles
The train started from Elroy an hour
and forty minutes after the limited,
but arrived here only ten minutes be-
hind the limited. twas a great race
and the newspaper nlen On the rear
train travelled at .ass fstster gait than
they ever did before
The through fast mail from Chicago
runs to Duluth and mades a great rec
ord, leaving Duluth at p. m. arriv-
ing Chicago at 7 and covering AIS
miles. Leaving Chicago at 10 pm, it ar
riyes Duluth at 1920 am. This through
train gets New York mail in Duluth.
as early for business almost as in Chi.
cago and Minneapolis and is a great
boon to the Zenith city. 1t comprises
a sleeper, chair car, a coach and a.
baggage, mail and express car. Be-
tween Minneapolis and Eau Claire the
annex train" as it might be called,
has a chair car, a coach and baggage,
mail and express car.
Of course, if a traveller Is ready to
leave Chicago at $50 p. M, he can
leave on the Northwestern Limited and
get to ST. Paul at 7:45, and you can
leave st. Paul at $40 and arrive Chi
cago at $50 a. m.