The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-22
COAST SERVICE
TO Be INCREASED
TranscOntinental Roads Will
Add Trains to AccommO-
date Growing Traffic.

The Great Northern has decided to
make some important changes in its
transcOntinental train service, and in
cidentally will rearrange the schedules
Of many of its local trains in Mime
sofa.
On March 1 the company will put
on heW coast train from st. Paul to
Seattle and will add another from
Seattle to ST. Paul, giving a double
daily train service in each direction.
The great increase of passenger traf-
fic over the Great Northern to the
coast has demanded increased service,
and the new trains will be added to
provide accommodations for it.
The new train will leave each day
at 5 o'clock and will run through to
the coast over the Breckenridge divi-
sion and the main line through North
Dakota and westward. In Minnesota
this train will pass Willmar, Brecken-
ridge and Mayville. The present coast
train of the Great Northern, popularity
known as the FLYER" will run over
its present route via st. Cloud and
Fargo. The only change to be made
in this train will be that it will leave
st. Paul at 1890, instead Of 9:25, as at
present. The Flyer, though leaving
here over an hour later, will arrive at
It's Seattle terminal at the same time
it now gets there, making the run in
59h hours.
The new coast train will carry local
mail, but not through mail. The Ana
cOnda sleeper will be attached to the
evening train. This train will arrive
in Seattle at 9 o'clock of the third day.
In time to make connections with all
steamer lines and the day train for
Portland
Important changes will also be made
in the east-bound service. The east
bound Flyer will use the present route,
but its running time will be reduced
six hours, making the run in sixty
hours. 1t will leave Seattle at $50 in
the morning and will arrive in st. Paul
at 1880 in the morning, instead of in
the afternoon.
The new train will leave Seattle at 8
o'clock in the evening, the time the pres
ent train leaves, and will come in over
the Breckenridge division via Nav
vile, Breckenridge and WilImar, and
will arrive at st. Paul at 2:40 every
afternoon. This train will carry the
bound mail from Seattle.
Encouragement Of local schedules
will be made in order to secure con-
nections with the new transcontinentaI
trains. All the new schedules have
not yet been arranged.
BY reducing the running time Of the
east-bound train from Seattle that city
will be given the same service as San
Francisco. The Great Northern will then
have the same transcontinentaI schedule
as the overland routes to San Francisco
via the Southern and Union Pacific sys-
TENS, and by the decrease Of the time
from the coast better connections may be
had with trains from ST. Paul to Chi
cago and Eastward Mail leaving Seat
tie after March / will arrive at New York
and Atlantic seaboard points at the same
time as mail leaving San Francisco. I'm
der the new schedule immediate connec-
lions may be made at ST. Paul and Chi
cago, giving the Northwest as close con-
nection as that enjoyed by other Western
sections Of the country.
The Northern Pacific is also contem-
plating adding to It's transcontinental
service. That company has at present
two daily coast trains in each direction,
one leaving at $3.50 in the morning and