San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-01

THE RAILROADS.
Movement of Wheels---Electric Can s
and Beer Shipped--Per-

and Beer Shipped--Per-
sonal, Etc.
Conductor Page, of the north end of
the l. & G. N, is on the sick list.
Roadmaster Thomas, of 1. & G. n,
went up to Taylor yesterday.
Division SUPPLEMENTARY cQueeny,
of the Southern Pacific, went east yes
terday.
L. B. Murray, formerly engineer on
the Southern Pacific, has returned
and is again knight of the lever on
the great Sunset line.
Engine 673 of the Southern Pacific
was turned out of the shops today
with new fire boxes and as bright as
a pin.
The Arkansas Pass has opened new
station four and half miles north
west of the city. It is named
Florine, from the charming daughter
of Gov. Ross.
The Arkansas Pass has announced a
one fare rate from any point to the
encampment, with maximum of S..
Tickets sold from July 9Th to 10th,
good to return until the 18th.
The Arkansas Pass have made a rate
of one fare from any point to any
other point on account of the Fourth
of July Tickets sold July 3rd and
4th, return allowed July 9Th.
Ten carloads of hogs from Kansas
City to the City of Mexico passed
through the city over the l. 4 g. N.
last night. They were tram sferred to
the Southern Pacific for shipment via
| Eagle Pass.
No-trou ble-to-answ
LUpton, who presides at the Sou thern
Pacific city ticket offices, smilingIy
comes up with the statement that
the Seuthern Pacific during the last
! month has done a larger business
than has been reached for years.
The work of construction on the
| Q -oposed Pan-Americal railroad
1 will be commenced simu ltaneously
| at Corpus CHRISTI and Brownsville,
| on the Fourth of July. The occasion
will be gala day for both towns
| speeches will be made at Browns
| Vile by Col. Ropes, and at Corpus
| by Col. PeytOn.
Twenty-Five open freight cars, con-
tanning q number of elegant electric
! street cars, securely boxed up, for
| the City of Mexico, arrived at the
| L. and G. n. depot yesterday. They
were all light wheelers aad of splep-
did c. nstruction from the st. Louis
| car works, and will be the first
| electric cars to be operated in the
Mexican capital.
Eight car loads of beer from the
local breweries were shipped out over
the various railroads to differ ent
points in the state, which is reported
to be an unusual shipment. The
Lene Star brewery does the greater
part Of this shipping, owning ten
refrigerator ears of it's own, which
are continually in use, and an ad-
ditional ten are needed to keep up
| with the orders.
Col. J. NJ. Eddy, receiver of the I &
G. n. accompanied by the Hon Judge
McCord, of the Seventh Judicial
district and Mr. J. E. GalbraIth, Gen.
eral Traffic Manager of the same
road. arrived yesterday in the colo
nists, private car. Mr.. Gal
braith stopped over here, bat Col.
Eddy and the rest of the party were
transferred to the Arkansas Pass and
went OH a pleasure jaunt to Rockp port.
On account of the lecture of the Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage. who gives a de.
scriptive talk on Palestine" tomor-
r)w at the Georgetown Ckatauqua.
The I. & G. \. have decided to put
on special train to Georgetown to
accommodate the crowd who are ex-
pected to attend from this place, and
a special rate Of $3.50 has been made
for the occasion. The train leaves the
depot a. m. tomorrow, and will be
in Georgetown in time for the lecture
which takes place at II a. m. Col. Il.
r. Bonner, one of the receivers of IL 9
1. & G.. n. is booked for lecture on
"a Layman's Duty" in the after
noon.
Made n Clean HanI