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Show room curs over r6,:!7 milt's of railroad in tlii country. Tlio company has about .f.Ml.OOtl.OOO invested in ears'. TIhi Northern Pacilie has opened its new linn between Ccntralia ami Monto-sano. Monto-sano. Wash., to freight tralllo only, Jt will ho thirty days lu'forn passenger trains are run over it, possibly sixty. Transfer passenger agents say that the northwestern travel this year is almost al-most unprecedented in extcut, vast numbers from the middle states, mostly from Michigan, emigrating to point iu Oregon ami Washington. That there was a need of a change in management in tho I'nion Pacilie road is evidenced in the fact that tho net earnings for lt') were $l,4;?,rl3 less than in issn, while the operating expenses ex-penses increased irT,H27,210. Otto Kaas, trawding passenger agent of the Santa l'e at Denver, will he sent to the company's ollleo at rhilailelphia, says a railroad rumor, lie has the rep. utation of heing the most successful j travoliug agent iu tho west. iSOIELlI The Great Northern Management Will Build the Manitoba Through to tho Facifio Coast. HILL VS. GOULD IN THE RING. National Demurrage Collections Santa Fa Agent Sunt to Philadelphia Holoomb's Stenographer- After much delay the old Manitoba road is to be built through to the l'aeilie l'a-eilie coast. The money is to cume from London, Presideut .lames .1. Hill of the Great Northern having arrived in New York with tho news. Of all railroad men Jay Gould heard this intelligence with dismay. Then it was that the memory of the deal that James J. Hill and Charles Francis Adams had made in the pas! seemed to dcliantly laugh in the wizard's face. Tho main stem of the Great Northern railroad when completed will end at or near Seattle, Wash. The Oregon railway rail-way brauch of the 1,'uiou l'aeilie ends at Portland, Or. Seattle and Portland are about 130 miles apart, Mr. Hill made a contract w ith Mr. Adams by which the railroad was to be built between be-tween these two cities jointly by the I'nion Pacilie and the Great Northern, each road paying half the expenses. This liltle strip of road would give Mr. Hill's company connection with the Pacific coast with Mr. Adams, and open up for tho (ireat Northern big prospects pros-pects of California business. But the j new lino would bo a direct parallel to the Northern Pacific, which connects Seattle and Portland. At tho last named point steamship lines center, running to and from Asiatic ports and to and from San Francisco. By Mr. Adams' contract the Great Northern was assisted down into Northern Pacific territory. Messrs. Gould. Dillon and Villard appear ap-pear to bo united iu the idea that this contract should never have been made, ami Mr. Adams' way of running railroads rail-roads has been roundly denounced. The Northern Pacitie interest w ants the "Wizard" to break tho contract aud let the Great Northern build its ow n extensions. ex-tensions. But right hero comes a hitch. It is that of the present tight mainly hinging upon the ' Wizard" iu breaking the St. Paul and Rock Island coutracts for the use of tho Union Pacilie bridge at Omaha, incurring a risk of the enmity of two big roads at a time when he most wanted harmony. The Great Northern enjoys tho moral endorsement of the Chicago, Burlington iV Quincy railroad, which intends to use it as its western outlet. Mr. Gould does not want to otfend the Burlington. To the Golden Gate. "Mr. fJould," said Mr. Mauvel, As they sat round the hearth, "The Atchison. Topelta & Santa Fa Is the longest road on earth." Said Mr. Gould to Mauvel, "Keep you r eye on me ; Lest I nilKht tie your Nellie Bly To the tail of my U. P." 'Mr. Gould." said ilr. Man vet, You'll never see that day; You'll never see the great U. P. Absorb the Santa Fe." "At least, the day Is ill-itant, As vou ni l understand. When you feel thenars of the empty cars On your "Ureat Overland." "'Tls the press that plays the public And so from coast to coast, Where one will stand for the Overland, There's two for tno 'Holy Ghost.'" "Mr. Perkins," said Mr. MolTat, "I'll tell you what I'll d i; j I'll give tiie hand of the liio Grande To the (,'rt-at C. B. & Q." j "Mr. Moffat," said Mr. Perkins, As o'er the trade they whirled, 'Voitrlitlte line win then make mine The scenic route of tie) world." "Mr. Moffat," e6d Mr. Palmer, "i live me your other hand ; I think I'll shake t'm S;;iit v Kalo And tlirt with the Hio Grande." Said Huntington to Palmer, "The scenic route Is tt:et: Now all Join hands with the Rio Cirando And dance to tho Uolden Oate." Western Hallway. Santa Fe, Holy Ghost. lemurrag-e Collection. The report of E. E. Hill, secretary of the National association of car service managers, is just out. It shows tho results re-sults of different car service and demurrage de-murrage associations for the quarter ending January SI, 1S01. There were l,fS)5, 507 cars handled by the twenty-seven associations in operation opera-tion during November, December and January, against l,70it,3l;) for tho previous pre-vious quarter ending October 31. The average detention per car was 1.72 days, against 1.74 days for tho quarter ending October 81, JrtHO. The total number of cars handled by mouths was: November .V.l,!)5ij, December 572,2118. January 5",;s IIS. In number of cars handled, Chicago takes the lead with a total of 2'.'K.!7i. The lowest average detentionwasl.lt days at Cincinnati. Colorado and Denver is the eighteenth lowest, showing an averago detention of 1.0!) days. One singular coincident in tho report is that the averago detention deten-tion for all associations for the quarter is the same as the average for January, viz., 1.72 days, while the average for the other two months are 1.07 and 1.7G days. Hilrnt John Lalor. Assistant General Manager Holcomb of trv Union Pacilie is on a tour of inspection in-spection and is accompanied by Chief Engineer Sneed and Joe Hill of his oilice. lie left Thursday morning via the Rio Grande for 'Trinidad, from which point he will go to Fort Worth via the Union Pacitie. John Lalor, his able chief stenographer, accompanies him on his trip. John is tho most silent man in the employ of the Union Pacific. If it was raiuing pitchforks and he was slanding where they were falling thickest, he would reply, if asked if he thought it was going to r:tin. that Ids office had not been advised ot that fact. Complete Hospital Services. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas has one of the most complete hospital services ser-vices of any road in the west or southwest. south-west. It is maintained by an assessment ou tho wages of all the employes and is entirely free. The tax is 5c a month on salaries under $50 and 50c a month on salaries over that sum. Net only is treatment furnished free, but medicine is sent to the sick on any division on application. The employes willingly make the contributions and feel a jos't pride in the maintenance of the hospital service. Railroad Notes. Tho Pullman Palace Car company now operates 2050 sleeping and drawing |