San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-14
Ratified OFF THE RAILS.
Talked by Telegraph, Told by Train
Men and Taken In Transit.

Men and Taken In Transit.
The /. & G. n. shipped solid train OF
wool for Boston, yesterday.
Two trains Of stock, for Chicago, went
over the 1. & q. n. last night.
Sixteen cars of stock went over the
Southern Pacific for Chicago, yesterday.
Mr.. Eugene Hernandez, formerly with
L. Wolfs0n, has accepted a position with
the Sunset freight Office force.
Tourists sleepers on the Southern Pa
citic, from the west, now run to Lafayette
instead OF stopping at Houston.
President Lott and party of officials
OF the s. A. p, went over the road to the
coast yesterday afternoon.
The Southern Pacific is placing an iron
railing along the walls of its passenger
depot, especially about the waiting
rooms.
Col. E. II. Ropes and N. Gussett have
been reelected president and treasurer,
respectively, of the Corpus Christi and
South American road.
Mr.. J. B. Bonner, for some years con-
nected with the New Orleans general offi-
ceS, has temporarily exchanged positions
with Mr.. J. w. Walker, an operator in the
Sunset office, this city.
Mr.. j. II. Allen, formerly Of the l. & G..
N. freight office force, has returned from
lengthy visit to Mexico, in which coun-
try he was United States consul under
the Cleveland regime.
Assistant Yard Master Tom Garyen has
been summoned before the Grand jury to
give them pointers as to how slick
room mate worked him for his single Sun
day suit.
The Southern Pacific yesterday, COM
pressed and shipped l025 sacks Of wool to
Dover, N. III. This company congresses
its wool, three sacks into one bag, thus
placing about IT'S sacks in car, in which
but Is of them, when not compressed,
could be crowded.
The Southern Pacific, with its usual
good judgment, fearing that their track
in the Rio Grande valley would be swept
some two years ago moved their main
line from the river bottom to the mesa
lands, entailing the construction of about
twenty-one miles of entire new track.
The wisdom of such change is now pro-
ven by the fact that the Rio Grande at
its present stage entirely submerges the
old grade.
The gravel pits at the Cibolo, and Gid |
den, on the Southern Pacific, are being in |
worked for gravel. which goes
down in train load lots, to the Louisiana
in portions of country swamped by the |
recent breaks in the leyees. A large
quantity of gravel is being taken from
the pits on the Victoria division of the |
road, and the Houston and Texas Central |
is transferring to the road, between forty |
and fifty cars of gravel every day.
Conductor J. K. Lyons, one of the best
known conductors on the s. p.
road, who takes the passenger
run between San Antonio and Houston, |
died at his Groom at 219 Losoyo street, |
after but short illness, being taken with |
of the bowels. Conductor |
Lyons had just returned from Seguin, |
where, with Supt. McQueeney he had |
been attending court, and was about to |
take up his regular work, making one or |
two trips, when he fell i'll and died late |
yesterday afternoon. The deceased has |
brother in Cora, Pa, who has been noti-
fled of the sad occurrence.
Yesterday, the first of the lot of AZ new |
cars recently built by the Ensign Car |
Works for the Southern Pacific company,
ment of whiskey. These cars, which are
to be used in the fruit trade on the
New Orleans end of the line, are "a feet
in length, inside measurement, weighing
10000 lbs. They have capacity of $4,000
pounds and are built with all of
the modern conVenlenceS in re-
gard to loading and ventilating. They
are marked Morgan Line and Texas, and
have the latest stamp of the Sunset COM
pany, which is circle within circle,
the words Southern Pacific COMPANY"
being between the two circumference.
In the smaller circle is the setting sun
the track of the road leading to the set
ting sun and growing narrower and more
vague as it approaches the great ball of
fire sinking behind the horizon of the far