San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-03

Aard[y pay the men TOR 'tne- nardshlps tncy
endure in pursuing their business. Most of
the individual owners of routes are engaged
to deliver supplies TO restaurants and saloons
in the early morning. and, in fact, up to
noon, after their own work is DONE
1t was after 3oclock when Tom ANNOUNCED
that he was approaching the upper END u his
route, at Eighth avenue and Fifty-third
street. That locality was perfectly quiet at
that hour, the only noise being the rumble OF
the wagon and the rattle of cans, save when
an occasional elevated train, a street car or
cab went by. AS the mare turned into
Fifty-third street she pricled up her ears,
whisked her tail and started of on lively
trOt. Tom hitched the reins to hook in the
top of the front of the cover, allowing them
20 hang limp over the animals back. The
lantern was then hung ON another hook and
Tom was ready for business As the marc
approached a certain house she swerved to-
ward the sidewalk and slackened her pace
Tom, with three cans in either hand,
leaped from the wagon while it was
still in motion, and, rushing into an
area under the front steps of
house, exchanged full can for an empty
one. This no repeated in five other houses,
along. When Tom had returned with the
six empty cans, and had placed his foot on
the step to leap into the wagon, the marc
was off again with rush. A block farther
on she slowed up on the opposite side of the
street and Tom, with more full cans, leaped
down again. This was repeated time after
time, the animal exhibiting as unerring
knowledge of the places where the milk was
l. l.g+ i,
tity desired at each
SERVING THE CUSTOMERS.
In every case the man brought back empty
cans corresponding precisely in dimensions
with the full ones he had taken from the
wagon. Occasionally he grumbled at find
ing notes attached to the empty cans request
ing all additional quantity of milk for that
day only. These demands were satisfied out
of an extra can carried for that purpose. To
fill them caused some inconvenience for it
necessitated additional trips from wagon to
house, and the mare rather diSliked being
dictated to IN regard TO longer stops than
Usual As the wagon went along Tom said
that he began serving a new family the day
before on u street where he had had no other
customers, and he wanted his visitor to no
tice how unerringly the mare would follow
the new route. She did it rs correctly a. If
her owner had beld the reins, which he never
once touched. Corners were turned as faith.
fully by the careful and intelligent animal,
and other vehicles were passed as safely as
the most cautious driver or pedestrian could
have wished. At one point near a corner the
mare stopped, and Tom explained that he
had dozen or more customers in that local
ity, and that the haste" always waited for
him right there.
From this time on the streets seemed de-
serted save by an occasional staggering in
ebriate or by other milk wagons. The horses
looked cold and bare in the gray light of
morning. Then, a little later Oh, men with
dinner pals came trudging along the side
walks, and poorly dressed boys and girls on
their way to work. The sun was shining
brightly and artificial light was gone when
the reporters house was reached. lie dis
mounted, benumbed with cold, but feeling
that lie had seen the town as only the toiIerS
from midnight to dawn ever see the great
city.-New York Times.