San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-26
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Talked by Telegraph. Told by Train
Men and Taken In Transit.
The Sunset pay car will do the act,
Saturday.
Wiley Marshal, of the /. & G. N.
freight force is i'll.
Travelling Passenger Agent Bosrd-
man, of the q. B. & @. was In to IN to-
day.
w. d. Lawson. the travelling pas
senger agent of NJ. K. & T., lis in
town.
Work on a rapid transit line from
Dallas to Fort Worth, is to begin
shortly.
Commercial Agent J. P. Maloney,
of the NJ. X. & T., Of Waco, was in
town yesterday.
Two engines are undergoing thor
ough rehauling, at the s. P. shops,
aud will be put on the track shortly.
General Superintendent A. N. Lett
maker, of the Austin and North
western road, was IN town yester.
day.
The Sunset shops have been put In
first class condition, everything being
neatly cleaned, polished and re-.
hauled.
Capt. A. George Rose, travelling
auditor of the Pullman Palace Car
company. for the United States, came
in from Houston, last evening.
There is q general belief that the
Denver and Rio Grande will soon
build through Texas to the Rio
Grande river, passing through Crock
EFT county.
Supt. lines, of the San Antonio
division, went west over the line yes
terday, to inspect the placing Of
pumps for the company's large water
tank at Del Rio.
It Is talked, upon good authority.
that Shreveport, La, 10 to have an
expensive union depot for the Texas
Pacific, and Vlcksburg, Shreveport
and Pacific roads.
The 8. P. has made q cents per
mile round trip fare for the annual
festivities at Profirio DIas, from Fan
Antonio and points west of here. The
festivities began to day.
General Manager Robertson, of the
n. Il M. g., went to Galveston In his
special car last night. The Corsair
company also had special coach and
extra baggage car, making quite .
train.
The Pacific Express messenger. r.
z. Keithey, who WAS Injured by fall
ing under . moving express coach,
had his foot amputated at the Santa
Rosa hospital yesterday. He Is re-
ported improving
Tom Shannon, the bill clerk..::of the
Sunset, 10 the man who cut out the
green country youth, Belsohe, OF
Trenton, Mo In the marriage Of Miss
Ada Bins. The news hit the freight
of{ice force like . cyclone.
A largo Grafton excursion consist.
| ing of six or seven vestibule coaches,
came over the I. & g. N. this after.
noon. aud leaves over the Southern
Pacific for Mexico 1T 40 pm. There
are some $50 people in the party.
| "Tho San Franciscan who wished K
90 to the MArdi Gras had 10 pay the
full round.trip rate OF $02, to which
he would have to add the cost Of Q
sleeping car berth, $l6, and the other
extra expenses forced upon him by
the Southern Pacific Compsny's
methods. II he concluded to buy q
. single trip ticket he had to pay $67,
the regular rate. No reduction OF
any kind was made. None is ever
made, and the only extra inducement
ever offered to excursionists to New
Orleans at Mardi Gras time by the
the southern Pac flc Company was
the stale old story that they could be
carried through to New Orleans In q
special Car by themselves. Even that
offer was not made this time.
Comment is unnecessary. The
tale carries its own moral"
The following Ia the kick which the
San Francisco Report has coming
against the Southern Pacific:
"Excursion tickets from st. Paul and
Minneapolis to New Orleans and back
from the Mardi Gras festivities were
sold for $34 25-just 25 cents more
than the cost of 8 single trip Tue
tickets were on sale for five days and
are good for the return trip until Feb
IS. The result of making this special
rate was that the line which adver.
tised 1.-THE Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railway-carries hundreds
of passengers, who, otherwise would
not have thought Of going to New Or.
leans. It is an instance of the en-.
ligh tened railway management which
Is forced upon the Iowa lines of road
las the great group between Chicago
and Omaha IL knOwD) by competition,
and of which and Of which another
instance IL that Of the February rate
sheet OF the lines shows twenty-six