The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-02
RAILROAD NOTES.

The New York Central and Lake Shore,
at big expense, will install an independent
ing. from New York to Chicago. 1t will
include q trunk line direct wire which
will follow the West Shore tracks from
through the principal cities as far as
Buffalo. West of Buffalo the line will
follow the Lake Shore and terminate.at the
Lake Shore station in Chicago 1t Is ex-
pected that the line will be in operation
In a month.
The fifteenth annual report of the Bur
hngton's relief department. shows re-
paid, $ss7fs8; baIance in treasury, ss4i,9
SIG. Since June 1, 1898, the benefits paid
on account of sickness amounted to
$1,937, 4O4.. The death benefit has been
reduced 20 per cent and the disability
benefit increased. The total amount Of
death benefits carried by members on
Dec. 81 was around SIS, 900, 900.
General Manager Nudge, of the Santa
Fe, says in regard to the proposed strike
of the machinists on that system: 1.-THE
grievance of the machinists has nothing
have asked us hereafter when men were
employed that union men be given the
preference. This we refused to do. If
the machiniSts go out, and I think they
VIII, we shall fill their places at once.
Burlington improvements in Iowa dur
ing the past two years and those which
viii be made this year will cost fully
SIC, 100000. The Burlington goes through
of the cuts and fills are unequaled in the
world. The system has already been
double tracked from Chicago to Red Oak.
and this work will have been extended to
Omaha by next fall
Employees of the Erie are seeking a re-
adjustment of wages. Last year increases
averaging 6 per cent were made in all
departments; The agreement was. to last
MIR y41I1
other advance and their first committee,
representing the locomotive drivers, has
called on General Manager Stewart, be-
fore whom the matter was placed
The Northern Pacific will soon issue a
work of considerable historical signif
canoe In a twO-volume account of the
Lewis and Clarke exploration under the
title ''The Trail of Lewis and Clarke,
pared by DIN D. Wheeler, author Of the
Northern Pacifics wonderland" books.
Owing to the severe losses incurred dur
Ing the winter On account of the I'M
severe weather conditions, the Grand
Trunk railway has decided on policy of
retrenchment as result of which
large number of men In the shops all over
the system will be laid off.
The annual meeting Of the Pere Mar
quette Railway company will be held
Wednesday, May 4. at Detroit The year
ly financial statement and report now in
L.
1908 viii show net earnings Of So, 467, O48,
against $2,444,S41 in 1902.
The Lake Shore will devote consider
able money during the coming summer to
the eQuipp1ng Of the road with automatic
block signals. The engineering depart
ment has completed the plans for the
equipment Of the road from Dunkirk, N.
Y, to Erie, Pa.
r. L. Tresler, who was appointed to
succeed w. l.. wallace as assistant city
ticket agent of the Rock Island, assumed
his new duties yesterday. Mr.. Wallace
will leave Sund9y for Cedar Rapids Iowa.
to take up his work as travelling passen-
ger agent.
1t is alleged that the agreement recently
entered into by the Western railroads not
to grant return passes to live stock ship
pers is being openly Violated by some Of
the roads. The roads which have ad-
hered to the agreement threaten to make
trouble.
Announcement is expected soon Of the
opening Of the Rock Islands new st.
Louis Memphis line and the new Chicago
ST. Louis double tracked line. The for
mer is known as the st. Louis, Memphis
& Southeastern and will be water grade
route.
Floods in Eastern Montana are still
passenger trains on the Northern Pacific
are delayed at Glendive, Terry Flats,
west of Glendive, being under three feet
of water.
That part Of the Central Pacific railroad
running from Reno, New, to Sacramento,
agement of w. H. Bancroft as part Of the
Oregon Short Line.
Subscribers to the $50, 900, 900 loan ne
gotiated by the Pennsylvania through
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. few weeks ago paid
their subscriptions In full yesterday.