The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-18
TO SPEND A MILLION
NINE TRAINS ARE ORDERED FOR
GREAT NORTHERN
SYSTEM
WILL DOUBLE TRAIN SERVICE
c. E. stone Says That Road Expects
to Place 10000 Settlers in
Washington, Resulting
From Low Rates.

According to an interview given out by
c. E. Stone, assistant general passenger
agent of the Great Northern road, in
Spokane, Wash, recently, it is evident
that the Great Northern intends to
make a strong bid for immigrant bust
ness this coming spring. In speaking
of the plans of the road, Mr.. Stone
said:
From information We have received
from the thirty-four representatives of
the Great Northern now distributed
throughout the Central states we have
every reason to believe that the special
low one way rates which will go into
effect March l, will be the means of
bringing the heaviest immigration to
Washington and oregon ever known.
The men sent out by our immigration
bureau are working among the farmers
of the East. Each man is provided with
Stereopticon views of the towns and cit
les and the agricultural and horticultural
resources of the North Pacific states, to-
gether with literature bearing on these
resources and issued by the general pas
senger department. Lectures are deliv
cred at schoolhouses and town halls, and
our men are thus enabled to come in
direct contact with the prospective home
seeker.
LAS q result of this work the general
office at st. Paul is receiving hundreds
of letters daily from the farmers, who
ask for information relative to the CHI
mate and resources Of the various local.
ties of the West, thus evidencing thai
their intrest has been thoroughly
aroused. We expect to locate fully 80 600
people in Washington as the result OF
the low rates. The interests of Spokane
and Eastern Washington have been taken
care of this time by the differential in
rates. Hereafter there will be no in
ducement for prospective settlers to go
through to the coast because he could do
so for the same rate. Now, if he wants
TO go to the coast he will have to pay
more for mis- ticket, or pay local fare
after reaching Spokane.
Eyes, the double daily transcontinental
passenger service on the Great Northern
has practically been decided upon. While
1t is hoped that the management can
see its way clear to inaugurating the
double service March /, the beginning of
the expected movement to the Dakotas,
Montana and the Pacific states, nothing
has been definitely decided as yet
1.-THE double service will be inaugurated
not later than June 1, however, as on
that date we expect to place in service an
entirely new equipment for the Great
Northern Flyer trains, Nos. 8 and 4. This
equipment which will consist of nine
complete trains, is now in course of con-
struction at the car works of Barney &
Smith company, of Dayton, Ohio.
Each train will consist of eleven
coaches, besides the engine and tender,
as follows: Mail car, express car, bag
gage car second-class day coach, two
frst-class day coaches, a tourist sleeper
a dining car, two frst-class standard
sleepers and observation buffet library
car. The new trains will be the finest
that money can buy, and their total cost
represents an outlay of $1,000,O00
The large increase in lhe passenger
business during the past six months has
warranted this expenditure. The equip
ment now in use on trains Nos S ana 4
will be used in equipping the extra
transcontinental trains, thus giving the
Great Northern two through vestibule
trains between st. Paul and the Pacific
coast. 1t will require sixteen trains u.
complete the double transcontinental
service.
THE new equipment win be the finest
in America, and will be maintained as
such. 1t was especially for this reason
that the ninth complete train was order
ed. Heretofore the equipment was
ordered piecemeal, and as result the
similarity of no two coaches of train
could be maintained. 1t is an expert
mental fact that coaches running through
different atmospheres and different local
tiles take on colorings peculiar to those
districts, and as result we get train
composed of coaches having all Sorts of
colors, from hillside green to the color
Of a Newfoundland dog In the new
equipment when the coach of any of the
eight trains needs repairing the whole
train will be run into the shop, and it
will come out brand new, with every
coach similar throughout.