The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-09-27
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{ BRIEF NEWS OF RAILROADS. !

GREAT NORTHERN ORDERS
MUCH NEW EUIPMENT.

MUCH NEW EUIPMENT.
Vast expenditures are being made hY
the Great Northern in the improve
ment of it's passenger service. Con-
signments of sleeping cars and day
coaches will arrive within the next
few days, which will make the com
pany's passenger trains as elegant and
handsome as any in the country, says
the Great Falls Tribune. Be -ide5,
new passenger engines are coming in,
SO that several of the trains operated
between st. Paul and the coast and
elsewhere will be completely new
from headlight to taillight.
The order consists of 120 new cars.
They are dark brown in color on the
outside. the same as the Pullman type,
and the interior is fitted in the latest
style of adornments and trimmings.
NOT the slightest detail has been ov-
srlooked to make the cars as safe
and comfortable as possible.
The new equipment includes 26 IL
section sleeping cars. There are also
35 new day coaches and 81 DINING,
mail and baggage cars.
The delivery of the first lot is ex-
pected Ey the officials this week, with
the delivery complete in 80 days. a
large l.ortion of these cars will be as
signed to the transcontinenta1 trains,
Oriental Limited and Fast Mall
IN the line of power for passenger
trains the Great Northren has already
got this summer SO passenger engines.
These passenger engines represent part
of $50 engines received this summer,
as follows: 100 Prairie, Is Mallet
compound, 10 switch and Is passenger.
The company is SO eminently salts
fled with the monster Mallet engines,
which are. really two engines in one,
that it is getting many Of this type.
1t got five Mallets last summer, which
thena were the biggest engines in the
world. Forty more have been ordered
for delivery this fall. Besides these
/ engines, orders have been placed for
delivery this fall for freight consos.da-
tions and 10 switch engines.
Ro5t. Rathbone has resumed his run
after week OFF.
Dick Murphy is pulling passenger
between Havre and Glasgow.
The Montana Central received S X
new cabooses from st. Paul, Monday.
| T. S. Clement is again on the High
line run, having taken the run once
made by Bud Ownes.
Bill Sipple is holding down Bert
! Lloyd's place as conductors between
this place. and Glasgow.
The Great Northern are expecting
a large number Of sWitchmen and
brakemen from st. Paul, this week.
Harry Spooner has relieved j. A.
Meyers on 8 and 4. Mr.. Meyers will
go to Butte ard Great Falls On vaca
ton.
Pete Janison has taken Mike Tier
ney's run as conductor on 'Skidoo.' =
Mr.. Tierney will take lay-off of a
bout twenty days.
E. Harris has been promoted from
the left side of his engine to the
right, consequently to engineer be
,. tween here and Glasgow
Larry Ling the popular expressman
of the Great Northern, this week bag
+ ged two hundred and eighty ducks be-
5 tween Yantic and Chinook.-That is
/ he said he did-We dida't see one OF
the ducks.
The Montana Central was delayee
, six hours yeserday on account OF hay-
ing struck a cow the other sice OF
Great Falls. The engine only was put
| in the ditch.
The first hearing OF the Montana
Railroad commission to be held il
Northern Montana was the one held
, yesterday at Fort Benton. The meet
:, ling was called by Chairman B. L
Stanton in order to give hearing to
the complaints regarding the ia lure c
the Montana Central to run dayl:ga
trainh between this city and Benton.
!, Four thousand dollars worth o1
e bullion was stolen from the tanks OF