San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-01
RAILROAD RUMBLINGs.
Direct Cause of the Delay of a Train
Other News.

o'clock Wednesday night. This
caused the NJ. X. & 7. sleeper and
coach to miss connection with the
regular train of the Southern Pa
ciffc at Luling, and the arrival in
San Antonio of the former train
was delayed two hours and forty
minutes, the train being due here
at 9 O'clock in the morning.
The |. & G. y. put out an eXcur-
sion to Austin today. The train
left San AntRnio at so o'clock
this morning Md will return to
this city tonight. y large number
of San Antonians and teachers
were on the train. The Austin
board of trade has extended a spe-
cial invitation and will entertain
the visitors and give free
boat excursion up the lake.
Robert NJ, known under the
sobriquet of Grip" WOrthingtOn,
among the railroad lads, conductor
on the San Antonio division, has
resumed work, after lay-Off of
fifteen days, on account of illness.
TODAY, who relieved rip" will
visit relatives in BOerne, and on
his return take out new crew. -"
Two large compound ten-wheel
engines passed through the city
from the east over the Southern
Pacific yesterday morning on No.
a. They were taken to California
to be used on the mountain di-
vision of the Central Pacific, be-
tween San Francisco and Sacra-
mentO.
Col. Warner, conductor on the
San Antonio division, has been
granted a leave of absence for six
ty days, and will take trip to
Chicago to visit relatives, friends
of the big show. G. H. Harris is
in charge during Mr.. Warmers alb
sence.
COLONEL Thomas Kingsley, gem
eral travelling passenger agent Of
the l.. d n, is in the city from
Dallas. He is here for several days.
The Colonel is generally known as
"Truthful TOm," he being cOnsid-
cred the most truthful man on the
road.
G. S. Barlow, brakeman on the
Houston division, has taken a
lay-off of thirty days and will
visit relative in st. Paul, and also
take in the Worlds fair, while up
there. George Getz will relieve
Mr.. Barlow.
DR.. J. Baldwin, of the Texas
State university, at Austin, has
been appointed general lecturer of
the normal schools located along
the lines of the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass.
Martin Flynn, brakeman on the
east line, of the Southern Pacific,
has been called home to Toronto,
Can, to the bedside of his dying
father. He is relieved by brake
man Reams,
Mr.. George F. LuptOn, of ''nO
trouble to answer questions" fame,
accompanied the eXcursiOnists to
Corpus Christi and Rockport to
provide for the comfort of the eX-
cursiOnistS.
f. J. Martin, the general freight
and passenger agent OF the Sap,
who has been in Chicago for the
past two weeks, is expected in the
city next week, about Monday or
Tuesday.
O. A. Cross, formerly brakeman
on the Southern Pacific HOussOn
division, has left for San Luis
Potosi, Mex, where he will run a
freight out of that place.
Sixty-one cars of New York
steamer freight passed through the
city over the Southern Pacific this
morning en- route to San Francisco,
Cal.
John c. Lewis, general passenger
agent for the Iron Mountain, was
in the city from Austin yesterday.
He left last evening for home.
w. Reinhardt, general travelling
passenger agent for the Southern
Pacific, was in the city from Hous-
ton yesterday.
Piper & Feltmann made ship
ment of 100 sacks of wool to New
York over the Southern Pacific yes
terday.
S. H. Waugh, superintendent of
the motive power of the Sap, was
in the city from Yoakum yester-
day.
The NJ. X. & T. left Denison
Thursday three hours late and ar
rived in San Antonio on time.