San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-29
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked up at the Depots and
Along the Lines.


| Ellen \ at Louisville, Ky.
Michael Field, conductor on the
Houston division of the Southern
Pacific, is back from the Worlds
fair, accompanied 10y his wife.
Thomas Reilly, the popular gen.
eral foreman of the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass, expects to leave
for Chicago in few days to visi
the fair.
Hank Small, superintendent of
buildings and bridges on the South
ern Pacific, returned to the city to-
day from a trip between Del Rio
and San Antonio.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass and the other roads running
into the city will offer reduced
rates for the fall meeting of the
San Antonio Jockey club.
Samuel Thompson, brakeman on
the Houston division of the South
ern Pacific. has returned from a
trip 10 the Chicago exposition, and
will resume his run on the lst.
Robert H. Innes, general super
intendent on the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass, has returned from
Galveston, where he attended the
meeting of the Texas Car Service
association.
w. J. Mellor, foreman of the
bridge gang af Langtry, arrived
in the city from Chicago yester-
day, accompanied by his wife.
They had been visiting the fair
and were en- route home.
Edward Lyons, the efficient chief
clerk for Dave Forbes, returned
from a pleasant visit to the Esqui-
mauX village and other points of
interest at the big fair in the White
city, over the Southern Pacific YES
terday afternoon.
The general passenger agents of
Texas lines will hold their regular
quarterly meeting at Dallas, on
October 10. At the same time and
place the rate clerks of Texas roads
will meet to revise the Texas rate
sheet, effective Nov. LIST.
A railway wreck occurred near
Hazel Patch, Ky, on the Louis
vile and Nashville yesterday af-
ternOOn, in which three railrOaders
were killed and one injured inter-
nally and will die. The wreck was
caused by the negligence of a pass
enger engineer.
f. j. Martin, the general passen-
ger and freight agent of the San
Antonio and ArGnsas Pass, is still
out on the road. He is taking a
trip over the entire line making
a careful inspection of the general
condition of the road. He will
probably be back the middle Of
next week.
J. Schackel, acting rOadmaster
on the Southern Pacific during Mr..
Blues absence at the Worlds fair,
and the popular clerk of the road
masters Office, John F. Ryan, ar
rived in the city today from trip
along the road east of here, where
they have been taking an inven-
tory Of the road. Mr.. Blue is ex-
pected in the city tomorrow.
c. B. Hice, of the car department
of the International and Great
Northern railway and warm
friend OF General George w. Russ,
is prominently spoken of as a can
didate for alderman of ward 3, to
succeed Mr.. Russ. Mr.. Hice was
in the race for alderman of that
ward at the last election, but with
drew in favor of General Russ.
Captain William Scott, the we'll
known railroad contractor Of Mon
terey, Mexico, was in the city yes
terday from Chicago, where he
had attended the fair. He left for
Waelder in the afternoon, where
his wife is now located for the
benefit OF her health, and will re-
turn to this city, accompanied by
her, in a few days. Remaining
here short while, they will leave
for their home in Monterey,