San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-27
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
Dispatchers' Convention Adjourned
Other Railroad News.

Other Railroad News.
IT, annual convention Of the
International Train Dispatchers'
association, which has been in SEES
sion at the Salt Lake City, has adj
iourned. The association now has
a membership of nearly l2OO, OF
which l24 We're added last year.
About one third of the members
was present at the convention.
The delegate from San Antonio
was Sidney X. Buchanan of the
Southern Pacific. He is accom-
panied by his wife, and Miss Rose
Buchanan, sister of J. E. Buchanan,
second trick dispatcher on the
Southern Pacific. Mr.. j. H.
Douglass, the chief dis
patcher of the Southern Pacific,
San Antonio division, was elected
a member on the executive COM
mittee for the ensuing year. The
other officers elected are: A. F.
Vic Roy of Denver, Col, president;
Z. \. Smith, of Boston, Mass, vice
president; f. E. Winters, of Blue
fields, w. Va, Charles O'Heare of
st. Thomas, Ont, and J. II. Doug
lass, of San Antonio, members of
the executive committee; j. F.
Mackie, editor. The platform of
the association is "UncOmpromis-
ing Loyalty" Chicago was chosen
as the next meeting place, which
will he on the second Tuesday in
June, 1894,
LOCOMOTIVE PUFFS.
C. D. Sales, who has relieved Dis
patcher J. J. Kearns, while the lat
ter took a leave of absence, will re-
main in the city a few days, after
which he expects to leave for Colo
RADIO.
John T. McQueeney, superin-
tendent of the Houston division of
the Southern Pacific, left for HOus-
ton on the 9 o'clock train last
night.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass will on next Sunday run an
excursion to ROckpOrt, and tickets
are now on sale, good to return I'M
til July ). Owing to the extreme
ly low rate, which is only 50 for
the round trip, large number of
San AntOnians will no doubt take
a trip to the coast. Milton Everett
will be pleased to see San AntO-
mans, and will provide for them
in royal way.
Hank Small, who has just re-
turned from trip west, left again
yesterday morning for the west, to
make an inspection of the build
ings and bridges of the Southern
Pacific. He expects to return We'd
nesday.
w. T. Palfry, lost car agent for
the Southern Pacific, with head
quarters at Houston, spent Sunday
in San Antonio, and has left for
home. He will leave for Chicago
on July l, to visit the Worlds fair.
Four carloads of New York
steamer freight arrived at the Sun
set freight house yesterday, and
were unloaded, to be distributed
among local merchants.
Transfer Shipping Clerk Ludlow
of the San Antonio & Arkansas Pass
has been let out on account of dull
business.
Lee Earnest, until yesterday gen
eral claim agent on the Southern
Pacific, has accepted a position as
general live stock agent of the
San Antonio d Arkansas Pass, and
resumed his new duties today.
The City brewery yesterday
shipped one carload of beer to
Marion and one carload to Weimar
over the Southern Pacific.
Two large ten-wheel engines, No.
1898 and No. 1899, passed through
the city over the Southern Pacific
Sunday night, to be used by the
Central Pacific on the mountain
division at San Francisco and Sac
ramento, Cal.
Miss Mabel Dunn, daughter of
William Dunn, foreman of the
wrecking, derrick of the Southern
Pacific, has returned from a trip to
Schulenburg, where she has been
visiting friends and relatives.
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