San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-15
RAILROAD RUMBLINGs.
Heavy Freight Over the Southern
Pacifc-Oeher News.

Heavy Freight Over the Southern
Pacifc-oeher News.
Freight traffic over the Southern
Pacific was again very heavy yes
terday. The Alamo brewery ship
ped carload of beer to HondoCity
yesterday and a carload Of City
beer was shipped to Luling.
In the past two days ninety cars
of steamer freight passed through
here from New York en- route to
San Francisco, Cal.
Five large boilers arrived over
that road yesterday from New
York for the Alamo Iron Works.
The Lone Star brewery is in re-
ceipt of a large amount of heavy
machinery, which arrived in the
city yesterday over the Southern
Pacific, via. the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass. The machinery is
to be used in the new improve
ments now being made at the
brewery. Work has commenced
on charging the plant.
Five cars of McAllister coal
passed through here yesterday from
the Indian Territory en- route to
Spotford.
The Southern Pacific is constant
ly transferring double decked cattle
cars to STANDARD for. the shipment
of sheep to Chicago markets. Two
thousand head will be shipped to
the Worlds fair city from Stan
dart.
NO WASH-OUTS.
An afternoon paper reported
wash-outs along the roads yester-
day, and the report is emphatically
denied by railroad men. They
stated that the tracks were in a
threatening condition, as the Rum
bier stated yesterday in the LIGHT,
but that no washouts took place.
The roads are now in splendid
shape, and trains are running
as smoothly as ever.
LOWER RATES TO CHICAGO.
Captain John NJ. Knight is in re-
ceipt of a circular from l.. j. Parks,
general passenger agent for the
Southern Pacific, at Houston, stat
ing that round trip tickets to be
sold on the 10Th and 18th Of this
month will be $4S.75 to Chicago
and return, and to st. Louis and
return, tickets will be $3.50, in
stead of 1890 and $3.50, as pre-
viOusly announced.
THROUGH TRAIN TO CHICAGO.
w. d. Lawson, travelling passen-
ger agent for the Missouri, Kansas,
and Texas, is in the city from
Houston, advertising the new train
that will be run from Houston to
Chicago, without change, begin
ming next Sunday A sleeper from
San Antonio will be attached to
the train daily at Smithville, about
fifty miles east of here. The entire
train will be lighted by gas, MAX
ing it the first and only train
lighted by gas in Texas. The
finest reclining chair cars will also
be used on the whole train.
COUPLING PINS.
Train Dispatcher j. NJ. Booth
and wife left yesterday morning
for the north, to spend while in
Salt Lake City and Chicago, Mr..
Both having been granted sixty
days leave of absence.
Jack Bollons, the popular pas
senger conductor running west on
the Sunset, has been granted a
leave of absence for sixty days, and
has left for the Worlds fair, accom-
panied by his wife, where they will
spend the vacation. Mr.. Bollons'
place is being filled by James
Burns, who has sufficiently recov-
cred from his recent illness.
Superintendent P. H. Innes, of
the Sap, arrived in the city yester-
day from Waco, where he had
been to look over the road and
gain acquaintance Of it's condition
in that territory.
Charles F. Sliger, who was run
ming an engine on the Sunset be-
tween San Antonio and Houston,
in 1913, and was on the west end the
following, is in the city, from Peru,
South America, where he is now
railroading. He will leave in few
days for Chicago, and from there
he will go to Jamaica.
A RAIL OADER's SAD MISFORTUNE.
Charles Griesenbeck, who was
formerly in the amnlnv of Ilarnux