San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-23
ECHOES FROM WEST END.
More X. r."
HDQR's DAILY LIGHT,
WEST END, Oct. %, 1891.

WEST END, Oct. 70, 1891.
My handwriting yesterday, on the
subject of r. r., must have been
bad, or your composition helped to dis
tort some of it's meaning. I wrote it
on a cannon-Dall schedule and here
after will take my stumpy faber on
local freight train and write on an up
hill grade to get there surer if slower.
1t should have read, that people
along the Arkansas Pass ought to as
sist to prevent it's absorption by the
5. p. / said that both receivers lived
here, that If 1t ever had to be alb
sorbed, Ia calamity it ought to be not
by the s. p. but the L. & GIN.
in whose TANKS it had not
so deeply pushed its fangs.
To resume the subject, let me furnish
little quotation. "The building OF
the proposed Llano extension of the
Arkansas Pass would secure to San
Antonio for all time the trade of
rich country, that is yearly growing
richer" Correct. But you may "cod
die" the assurance that 1T never will
be built If the reorganization commit
tee land Mr.. Olcott d Co. do seem toy
represent the Southern Pacific com
pany, which by the purchase of the
Northwestern narrow guage, to be
made into broad guage extension of
the H. & T. e., is already ON the way
to Llano, to the perpetual loss of San
Antonio.
How many taxpayers are yearly pay.
ing q part of their money for r. r.
bonds, and do not know that their
money goes to a road absorbed by the
s. p. that was never built. Let that
gigantic octopus get one of its arms
around Texas enterprise, then the
plain result is death. The 3. A. p.
would soon cease to be noted for its
liberality; county judge or commits.
sioner in a county through which iti
would have to make show of being
kept up, might still get an annual
complimentary, in order to remind
them that the road is poor and
does not pay and must be taxed
no more than pauper; but the
Texas veterans would pay cents per
mile, to and fro, to their yearly gath.
erings. The 3. p. Ia the best road In
the south, Its line from ocean to ocean,
or from the gulf to the Golden Gate,
cannot be eXcelled, but God pity the
road that falls in Its clutches that
once attempted to make an independ-
emit living. 1t is that same Southern
Pacific that now asks o Texas court
to say that daily train means one in
As hours; il does not deny that if it
starts train at II o'clock noon from
Lavacca to Victoria on q Monday it
does not start the next one till 12l
O'Clock noon on the following Wednes-
day and still have complied with q
Texas law to run daily train. How
would the people along the Arkansas
Pass like such an easy and accomo
dating service? There will be weeping
and crashing of teeth, by the people
of San Antonio if Mr.. Huntington
swallows up their own local road, for
it will be that same Mr.. Huntington,
whe unblushingly tells q committee
Of congress, that he gives one of his
friends $4,000 to feast and cham
psign mem bers, in order to brighten
up their inteliects. Suppose the
reorganization committee does get
your claim for so instead Of 100 cents
on the dollar, can it not devote
its profit of 80 cents toward q
crushing out process which
it is to be hoped may never happen
as long as Texas claimant remains
unsatisfied. Better, far better it
would be to work it under two local
receivers than have it absorbed by q
corporation that pays four vice presi-
dents annually $4,000, not one of
whom would spend nickel here.
Gen. Russ has q number of men
and teams at work on the borders of
the upper or larger lake. 1t will soon
increase Its attractive looks.
SruETn