The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-25
Picked Up in General Offices.

The Northern Pacific has placed an or
de!, for 100 flat and 500 gondola cars.
The Canadian Pacific is building ;t0
box cars of $4,000 pounds capacity at IT'S
shops in Montreal, Canada.
The Chicago East-bound 3oint passenger
committee elected l.. D. HeuSner CHAIR
man and reelected R. e. Pepper score
tary at its semi-annual meeting IN chi
cagO lately.
Plans are said to have been practically
completed by the Great Northern for the
equipment of from Is to $50 miles OF the
Cascade division for Operat ton by elecIrIc
power generated by water falls on the
Skykomish river.
The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
road will build a greenhouse in oonnec-
ito with its station at Marquette Mich,
from which it's dining cars and parks
along the line will be supplied with flow
ers and plants.
It is believed that the lines of the
Omaha, Kansas City & Eastern, Omaha
&. ST. Louis and Kansas City & Northern,
connecting railways, the foreclosure sale
of which has several times been post
poned, will be purchased and divided be-
tween the Wabash and Burlington COM
panies
The New York, New Haven & Hartford
is running a track clearance" car over
it's line for the purpose of obtaining data
to govern the issuance of special permits
for the transportation of loaded cars that
may exceed slightly the general standard
of clearance.
The reduced rates of l cent a mile to
Buffalo and a fifteen-day all-round trip
single fare tickets, which went into eff
feet on Aug. 20 on Central Passenger
association lines, are bringing largely IN
creased travel to the Pan-American ex-
position.
In two scaIping Offices in St. Louis,
which were raided by the police few
days ago, a large number Of altered,
counterfeited and otherwise irregular
had been washed, some were plugged,
destinations were changed, and one was
a counterfeit altogether,
Samuel J. Clifford. who was the first
telegraph operator on the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern, died at Dunkirk, N.
Y. recently. He dispatched the first train
ever run on the road on Geographic or
ders
Railroad day at the Pan-American OK
position has been changed from Friday,
Sept. 49, to Saturday, Sept. IA, In order
to insure a larger attendance The New
York Central and Lehigh Valley roads
have already announced that work will
be suspended as far as possible in order
to enable employees to attend.
Eight ticket scalpers who were ar
rested iii Buffalo on the charge of deal
ms in railway tickets bearing the forged
signature of Harry F. Smith head of the
the grand jury. The other two, who
were arrested at the same time, were
discharged proof being lacking.
AS an offset to the low freight rates
given to the producers of oil in Texas
the railways have made still further
reductions ir the rate on coal from points
in Tennessee to the gulf region. The
Lcuiville & Nashville has just issued a
new tariff which makes a horizontal rate
of 81 from Birmingham to various points
in Alabama to which the old rates were
$1.05 and SIZE, another rate Of S1.10 In
place of old rates ranging from ST.
to $3.50, and another arte Of $1.25 in place
of former rates running from $1.90 up to
$40
During the past year the Chicago &
Northwestern has erected in replace
ment of wooden structures sixty-two new
steel bridges on masonry, aggregating
2,769 feet in length, and containing 1,2S9
tons of bridge metal. Other wooden
arch and box culyerts and cast iron
pipes.
Sept. 10 is the date of the convention
of the Master Car and Locomotive Paint
ers' association at Buffalo. On this same
day the Travelling Engineers association
will meet in Philadelphia, while the
Southern Railroad commissioners viii
convene in AshevilIe, N. C.
The International Association of Ticket
Agents will meet on Sept. II at Toronto
Ont. while on Sept. 12 Council Bluffs,
Iowa, will be the meeting place of the
American Academy of Railway Sur
geons. The Eastern Maintenance of WAY
association is scheduled to convene at
Rochester, N. Y, Sept. II.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
acres of land north of Harlem, on the
Clay county side of the Missouri river,
near Kansas City, Mo, which will be
used as an addition to the company's
terminal facilities at Kansas City.
The Oregon Short Line has determined