San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-07
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
WORLDS FAIR TRAVEL DIsAP-
POINTING.
Bright Budget of Railroad News
Gathered from Various Sources
oy the LIGHT Rumbler.

Today the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe will take off the dinner
car service in connection with the
vestibuled limited trains, known
as No. and No. 6. This is done
because these trains, General
Manager b. f. Yoakum claims,
are not paying and the travel does
not justify running them at pre-
sent. "The Worlds Fair travel
has been disappointing, not only
to this road, but to every road run
ming into Chicago" says Mr.. Yoa-
kun. "These trains were put
on as an experiment, and after
running them for three months
they have proved not to
be profitable and for that reason
will be taken off. All traffic is
light and is getting lighter. Not
one in hundred of the people
who, under more favorable condi-
tions, would have travelled this
summer, have travelled anywhere"
The Santa Fe will instead run a
fast though vestibule train with
some changes in the time card.
HOPEFUL OF IMPROVEMENT.
Speaking of the general outlook
for railroads, Mr.. Ioakum says:
"The outlook is good from COM
mercial and producing standpoint,
but general stagnation and the
| abnormally low price of wheat has
prevented the mOvingOf the i'm
mense crops throughout Kansas,
Texas, the territory, Missouri, and
| other sections. The railroads are
today operating on light business
| with immense crops stored in the
| big grainaries along their lines,
which cannot be moved because
| the general stagnation in business
| prevents securing the money nee
essary to move them. The cOmpa-
MES are hopeful, however, and all
look for good business in a short
while. We, like all other roads,
are reducing our force wherever it
is possible, but we look for better
times soon, and | not only intend
to put all our men back but to add
new ones in thirty days or so. l
am very hopeful of an improve
ment and think it is not far Off"
REDUCED RATES.
The international and Great
| Northern has announced a rate OF
a fare and One-third for round-trip,
on the certificate plan, for the fol-
lowing meetings: TO San Antonio,
Order of Chosen Friends, August
10; to Corsicana, Friendship,Baptist
| association, August 10; to Mount
Pleasant, Tex, cOlOred Methodist
district conference, August l6; to
Athens, Tex, cOlOred Baptist assO-
citation, August 81; Baptist Young
Peoples union, August p.
COUPLING PINS.
J. w. Boyd, travelling car ac-
countant for the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, arrived in the city this
morning on an extended trip over
the road.
Major John c. Andrews, the gen.
eral southern passenger agent of
the Shenandoah Valley route, ar
rived in the city from Galveston
last night. He left at 30 this af-
ternoon for his home in New Or
leans.
John VI. Knight, city ticket
agent for the Southern Pacific, eX-
poets to leave for Chicago next
Saturday to join his family.
w. II. Gleason, Of the Santa Fe,
is out of town.
w. P. Smith, the popular fore
man in the railroad shops at San
derson, has been granted a leave
of absence, and is spending the
time in the city. He is the guest of
Engineer J. II. Hoffman and wife,
on Avenue f.
NJ. d. Monserrate, of the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass, has re-
turned from trip over the road.
"The Sap comes in on time like
the rest Of the old stagers," says the
Galveston News.
A Coal Thief Jailed.