San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-26
Ratified OFF THE RAILS.


leans market passed over the s. 2.
road.
The 1. & G. N. freight office force
had their photo In group, taken last
| week.
J. M. Jones, the well known travel
| ing passenger agent of the Queen
City road spent his Sunday here.
Manager Robertson of the Monterey
and Mexican Gulf road, passed
through here last week en- route to
New Orleans.
An unusually large number of extra
| trains passed over the 5. z. road lasG
week, there being not less than fif-
teen on one day alone.
The merchants of Galveston are
anxlously looking for reduction OF
80 per cent in their freight rates by
February lst.
Right OF Way Agent n. w. Hunter,
| of the Southern Pacific road, was in
town Sunday.
The Southern Pacific pay car will
| arrive here in o day or two, and the
boys are beginning to prick their ears
| to catch the falling footsteps as the
ghost walks.
M. A. Raney, an Iowa editor, is APP
pointed assistant general passenger
| agent of the Corpus Christi and South
American railroad.
The rumor that Gould had secured
| control of the Santa Fe road and that
it and the NJ. X. & T. would be cou-
solidated, is denied by President
MARVEL, of the Santa Fe.
The Chicago and Erie tie-up Is still
| on, the striking conductors and dis
| patchers having thus far rejected the
PROPOSITIONS made by the officers OF
the road, for q settlement.
A large stock train for New Orleans
was made up here last Friday and
was shipped via the International and
Great Northern road.
Division Superintendent A. D.
Wilder, of the Oakland division on
the Southern Pacific, was in the city
last week, en- route to Mexico.
Mr.. T. NJ. Orr. general agent of the
I. & G.. y. road at this point, returned
last Saturday from Omaha, Neb.,
where he had gone for the funeral OF
the late Col. Eddy.
The Katy is putting in three long
switches in its yards at Denison to
keep up with the increased business
which IL Is doing at that place.
A blessing in tine shape of home
for disabled railroad men has been Sc
tablished in Chicago. and has already
received a number eliminates.
The "Sco" line has been kind
enough to give it's employees the al
ternative of withdrawing from the
Order of Railway Photographers, or
losing their jobs.
WI. B. Allen, formerly with the
/. & G. n. freight Office at houston,
has accepted the position as billing
clerk i'll the local Office of this road
a position vacated by MIR. j. d. Sad
dler.
The report of the recent election OF
Mr.. j. Waldo, traffic manager of the
M. X. & T., as vice-president and gen.
eral manager of the road, is received
by his numerous friends with much
satisfaction.
Train Master Carr, Of the Interna-
tional and Great Northern line, has
resigned to take position with the
Vicksburg and Meridian line at
VicksDurg, Miss.
The management of the company
that is TO build the Waco, Lampasas
and Llano railroad, states that it has
already spent fully S35, 900 in prelim.
mary work, and further work will be
pushed in earnest.
Mr.. J. d. Saddler, the bill clerk at
the 1. & G. n. freight office has
severed his connection with that road
and has gone to Dallas where he has
accepted the position of rate clerk in
the general freight Office of the Texas
and Pacific.
Rate clerk w. s. Bait, of the /. &
G.. n. has been absent from his desk,
the past few days, being busted az
home searching the records for q
name for the new twelve pound boy
that has put in his appearance in the
Bait homestead.
The receipts of the Mexican Vera
Cruz)railway, during the second week
of the current year were $40, 1873 40
against $40, 800, AZ in the correspond
ing period of the year, 1890. Other
Mexican roads thus far this year,
show equally good advances.
There appears trouble in sherman
between the M. *. & Il. and the III.
& 7. c. roads. The Sherman Register
takes up the cudgel for the Katy and
advises the good people of the place
! to patronize the NJ. X. d I. in prefer
ence to the Fl. & II, c., in as much as
the Katy has done more for the town
than the latter.
The following official figures are
taken from the annual business state
ment rendered by the /. & G.. n. road
showing the tonnage of the road at
al, ,,oiS,t 20 he 6Q7 600 AoI ponnds