San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-25
RAILROAD ITEMS.
Leave of ADsence-Slight Wrecks
and Deiays-The Railway

Leave of Absence-SIight Wrecks
and Deiays-The Railway
Literateur.
Roadmaster Thomas, of the I. IL G.
n, went up the line yesterday.
Conductor w. l.. Wilder, of the In.
ternatiOnal and Great Northern, has
obtained au extensive leave of alb
sence, which he proposes to utilize in
visit to Central America and the
Panama Canal.
The Louisiana legislature has pass
ed law, which goes into effect on
September l, reducing the railroad
mile, instead of five cents, as formerly.
This makes reduction of $l.65 in the
fare from San An toniO to New Or
leans.
Sunday morning two cattle cars ran
off the l. q @. n. track and delayed
the north bound passenger train for an
hour and q half. The cause of the
accident was the track of the
West End street railway, which
is three inches higher than that
of the railroad. The track was
badly damaged for a distance of
800 feet. Many of the steel rails
were bent and twisted and large
number of ties were broken. A large
force Of men were put to work and
soon made the necessary repairs. By
8 coincidence, the Inbound train,
due at 1885, was also an hour and
half late, having been delayed at
about the same time at Taylor by an
engine off the track.
No one can ride from San Antonio
to Taylor over the 1. & G. n. and fail
to see the vast improvement that has
taken place in the road bed, and the
improvement that is still going on.
Every bridge trestle is being rebuilt
and the iron bridges are being also
renewed. The track is in a splendid
condition, due to the eXertions of
Roadmaster Thomas. The ties are all
new and the depot buildings along
the line are keeping pace with the
road improvement.
The composition Of railroad litera-
ture Is profession of itself, and the
productions of this profession are
Therefore unique. The railroad press
agent Utilities every branch of litera-
ture In the grand work of attracting
the tourist and his shekels to his
line. History and poetry are his;
sublime word paintin and far fetch
ing rhetoric also contribute, and the
whole set off by alluring pictures of
cool retreats and grand scenery, and
other attractive places, generally
gotten up in most artistic style,
He allows the train dispatcher to fix
up time table for his road that will
give the Traveller the shortest service
and employs the geographer to con-
vince the public that his line is the
only direct one to any point to which
they may desire to go.
The railroad press agent never fails
to find and write up any spot that
might attract the lovers of the pic
turesque and seekers after health,
and after painting them in glowing
words, and depicting their beauties
in impossible colOrs he turns the
result of his labors over to
the travelling passenger agent of
his road who places them in the reach
Of the public, leaving them at every
railroad Office where every person
who comes to buy ticket may see
them aud be attracted the way it is
desired he should 60.
To close observer there is much of
value to be found in the result of the
press agents labors. A half years
collection by the LIGHT reporter en-
braces descriptions of every place of
interest in the United States, with
many historical and geographical
facts of interest, and a valuable map
of the railroad system of this
entire country and Mexico is
the result OF his collections,
and which includes many maps
of important cities, and pictorial rep
resentation of noted places, that
would become very interesting to
antiquaries thirty years hence, and
the reporter is saving his collection
with the hope that In 1929 he can dis
nose of IL at a handsoma fiuura