San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-22
ECHOES FROM WEST END.
Word for the Arkansas Pass from
New Source.



New Source.
WEST END, Oct. %, 1891.
Your evening colleague under the
heading us it SOL asks will the S.
A. p. become part of the Southern
Pacific system" and mentions that it
is said the seven day manager, Mr..
d. B. Robins son, had found matters SO
unsatisfactory, and because of his
having been the general manager of
the Atlantic division of the Southern
Pacific and the appointment of Mr..
Geo. l.. Sands as general superintend-
ent, cit is openly asserted that ere
long the s. A. =. road will become
part of the s. P" Now it is to be
hoped that these surmIses are
all wrong, no matter how bad
the previous manag ement of the
Arkansas Pass may have been, it
was not and is not the fault of the
present administration under orders
of the court, the receivers of both
lines in San Antonio, they have been
con servative in the retention of SUBJ
ordinates; San Antonio has the head
quarters Of the road, Yoakum has
division officers, and take it all
around it is native and to the manor
born. 1t is of public notoriety that
the Arkansas Pass grants more favors
to its patrons and is more public
spirited than any road, whose strong
head is on the Pacific slope, whose
active limbs are in New Orleans and
whose heads are at Houston. Let
the b. p. absorb it, and California &
Louisiana control it destinies, change
after change will take place; head
quarters will be at once removed.
That the Southern Pacific is the best
equipped road here cannot be gain
said; it is well managed and 1t is q
pleasure to run over its we'll kept
road ted on its main lines; still is it to
the advantage to all that part of Texas
through which the Arkansas Pass road
now runs to assist in its absorption
by the Southern Pacific. Parties
need but to read Attorney General
Culberson's answer in the suit of the
Lavaca branch road against the r. r.
Commission 10 see what would be-
come of San Antonio's own enterprise
If Mr.. Huntington controls it, and it
no longer annoys the G. II. x >. A. or
the II. & Il. g. r. r. Happily the
danger is not near. Mr.. Robinson
was a high official in New Mexico,
but never was the predecessor of Mr.
Kruttschnitt, in justice to whom IL
ought to be stated that do not think
he has fallen heir to that dislike of
Texas which so steadily and increas-
ingly characteriZes A. G. Hutchin-
son. who was reared and born in
the belief that Texas had no right to
use any Mallory or other line, for pas
sengers or freights, as lorg as
Morgan plank floats, or
truck runs upon a track.
The Louisiana employees under Mr.
Hutchinson call him "Old Sea- Gull. !"
His element is Oh the water and ii is
to be hoped all schemes TO get control
of the Arkansas Pass will come to-
water. If ever, but l hope not, the.
autonomy of the S A. T. has to be-
disturbed, let it be by the I. & G. NJ.
in whose TANKS it has so deeply putt
it's fangs.
Col. II. B. Andrews took out his ilf-
struments for measuring heights to-
day in the West End Town company's
office and found it to be il 0 feet high
or than his starting point at San An
tonic.
West End Is enjoying the finest
weather in the state. How js it in
your narrow streets in the city?