The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-04
RAILROAD NOTES.

the Oregon Railway & Navigation COM
pany, whose headquarters are in Port.
land, was in the city yesterday on bus1-
ness.
F. l. Whitney. general passenger agent
of the Great Northern this morning an
nounced the appointment of A. b. c: Den
niston, of Tacoma, as general Western
passenger agent to succeed the late r. G..
Stevens.
The Canadian Pacific is now built to
within forty miles of Port Arthur.
Officers of the Chicago Great Western
road say that when their line to Sioux
City is finished it will be. the shortest
route from Chicago to that city.
Passenger travel to the Northwest dur
ing November broke all records for that
month. 1t was 20 per cent heavier than
a year ago, when it reached high-water
mark.
A new extension of the North Western
from Grand Rapids to Marshf1eld. WIS
has been opened for traffic. 1t is twenty
five miles in length and taps fertile
district.
The Midland Terminal railway has re-
diced the passenger rate between Grip
pie Creek district points and Colorado
Springs from 80 TO so cents, with cor
responding reductions to other points.
The. Lehigh Valley showed tho we gross earn
of $1,24S,935 or 1913 per cent. Net earn
ings amounted to $867.519, as compared
with a deficit of $25S, 754 on account of
the miners strike last year. or a gain
of $1,126,273.
W.. ]. Turner has been appointed a
storekeeper of the Burlington road at
Aurora, vice r. A. Brydole. resigned. H.
e. Maxwell will succeed W j: Turner
at West Burlington. and Fl. c. Maxwell
will succeed II. E. Maxwell at Creston.
Earnings of the Erie railroad for Oc-
tober, like the other anthracite coal
reads. made large gain over last year
Gross earnings We're s3,757, ISL. an increase
of s59S, $685. or 1872 per cent. Net earnings
made even a larger gain. They were
81 us, 4S3. as compared with $7S5.122. or an
increase of 1885,. S61. equal to 42.4 per cent
Kuhn. Loeb & Co. have purchased the
entire issue of $2,125,000 Peoria & Moth
western 31a per cent first mortgage bonds
and $1940,000 similar bonds of the Prince
ton &. Northwestern. Both these lines
have been recently built and are entirely
owned by the Chicago & Northwest
railway These bonds are a legal invest
ment for savings banks of the state of
New York.
Efforts are being made to have the in
terstate commerce commission interfere
in the matter of excess fares between
Chicago and points in the East. These
fares are held to be a gross discrimina-
ton against Chicago in favor of such
places as St. Louis and Cincinnati. They
are proving hurtful to the business inter-
ests of Chicago, and the business men
propose to exert themselves to get rid
of them.
The statement of the output of instru-
ments of the American Telegraph and
Telephone company for the month ended
Nov. 20 shows the gross output as S.
491, increase of ,2SS over same time last
year; instruments returned. 27,510 de-
| crease of 1902; net output, $685. increase
45 1911. From Dec. 1 to Nov. 20 gross out
put, S67,323, increase 312026; returned 352,
173, increase "a, 2f4.
A New York dispatch says: GAN the
Western railroad presidents will meet at
120 Broadway next Thursday morning for
the purpose OF discussing the Northern
ell as to prepare the outlines of a pool
ing bill to be introduced in the coming
session Of congress. 1t is said that the
Interstate commerce commission has been
invited to cooperate with the railroad
presidents, and that one or two members
of the commission Ill be present at the
conference on Thursday.