The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
RAILROAD. NOTES.

Ihe Ann Arbor Railroad & Steamship
me Yesterday secured control of the car
i redry MIanlstee, one of the largest and
putt: 1t will run between ManitOwoc and
FRANKFORT. Mich, carrying both freight
ana passengers. The Manistee was orig
tnaiIy pu1lt for the Manistee, Marquette
d Northern Railroad company II has aco
commodations for $50 pa ssengers and thir-
~ cars of freight
The Wabash yesterday filed with the
answer to the complaint of the o1 ra+t ila
RalSers association, of Texas and the
ROAD AYERS that its rates and charges for
hue b.y,o transportation of live stock always
nave peen reasonable. just and not in
VOCATION OF the interstate commerce law
An expenditure of $40, 900, 900 for i'm
proFements during the present year has
p GreI a1T ssi by the New York Cen
Iat Inns VIII go into double tracking
sldiIlgs, some extensions of single tracks
ana new branch lines amounting TO about
oUO mics 400 new steel bridges built and
many block signals. -'--N
1t has been semi-officialIv announced
tIlat CharIeS Russell, until recentlv sllner-
lntendent of the Rocky Mountain division
OF the Northern Pacific. has been made
superintendent of the Illinois division of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. His
headquarters will be at Fort Madison
Iowa. oi
through a traffic arrangement the
at Milwaukee with the Milwaukee. Iud-
ington & Manistee TRANSPORTATION com
pany's steamers for Eastern Michigan CIT
discontinued.
Z. T. McHugh has been appointed spe-
clai agent of the Monon route. with head
quarters at Bloomington, Ind. He has
special charge of the movement of the
companys extensive stone traffic from
the quarries between StinesvilIe and Dark
Hollow. '-A D''- IL
F. r. Bolles, for some time agent of
me Lne Nlllwaukee road at Green Bay, Wis,
mas been appointed travelling freight agent
OF the road, with headquarters at Mil
Waukee, succeeding II. E. Stewart who
agent. -"-
The Grand Trunk railway system has
resumed its service between Milwaukee,
and Detroit via the Crosby Transports
ton company's steamers from Milwaukee
daily except Sunday
1t was officially announced by President
Loree yesterday that the Baltimore e.
ONO railroad management had authorized
the ordering of 100 or $50 new locomotives
to accommodate the increased transpor-
tation demands
The directors of the Northern Pacific
raliroad have declared the regular quar-
terly dividend of ~ per cent PAYABLE
May 1. In February the dividend ma ii
was " per cent regular and half of one
per cent extra.
, The annual meeting of the st. Paul
Union Depot company will be held in this
CITY May IL. The most important business
on hand is the election of a president to
succeed the late W. A. Scott, who died
in February. 49,
Owing to the requests of many colonists
VINO are coming to California to live the
southern Pacific and its connections have
decided to make a low tariff on house,
mold goods in small lots shipped from
the East yin
Orders have been placed by the Wabash
with the American Car & Foundry com
pany for 1900 steel coal cars to be manu-
factured In the Madison shops The or
der calls for delivery in the early part Of
Two employees of the Lake Shore re-
fused to be measured for uniforms nv tha
companys official tailor and are now com
PEELED to seek employment elsewhere.
Lake Shores reduction in the switch
ing rate at Toledo threatens to cause a.
fight between that road and the Terminal
company.
The Great Northern yesterday an
nounced the resumption of its summer
service to Lake Minnetonka
The Detroit and Cleveland Navigation
company has resumed its service between
st. Ignace and Buffalo.
Oil burning engines are soon to be put
IN service on the Seligman- WinsloW diyi-
sion of the Santa Fe.
Burlington's telegraph department is
soon to be removed from ST. Joseph to
| st. Louis. "