San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-08
RAILROAD RUMBLINGs.
Fast Time by the Exposition Flyer
Other Railroad New.

Fast Time by the Exposition Flyer
Other Railroad New.
The New York Central and Lake
Shore have introduced into their
F, schedule an Exposition Flyer
that makes the run between the
Worlds Fair City and New York
in less than twenty hours, a dis
lance of nine hundred and eighty
miles. The train is drawn by
powerful and speedy locomotives
and the produce of splendid me-
chanical skill. The run from
Buffalo, n. Y, to Dunkirk, a dis
lance of forty miles, is made in
forty-three minutes, and from Dun
kirk to Erie, a distance of forty
eight miles, in forty-seven minutes.
CannOn-balls and lightning ex-
presses are now back numbers
since the Inauguration of this an
nihilator of time. About one year
ago the Chicago and Alton adopt
ed fast trains and shortened the
time considerably between Chicago
and st. Louis. Since then other
roads have been making the neces-
! sary preparations to reduce time
between some of the principal
American cities.
WILL VISIT CHICAGO.
The following prominent San
Antonians will leave for the
Chicago Worlds Fair on the "Katy
Flyer" tonight: Messrs Charles
Hummel, Jr., and wife, G. A. Duer-
Ter and wife, r. j. Myers, A. Sartor,
Gus Giesecke and Captain Charles
Schreiner and wife of Kerrville.
ALONG THE RAILS.
One coach of Chinese passed
through the city yesterday from
Cuba, en- route to California.
Three cars of New York steamer
freight arrived at the Sunset this
morning for local merchants.
The Crystal and Southern Ice
factories each shipped one carload
to Houston over the Sunset yester-
day.
A carload of rails have arrived
over the Southern Pacific for the
San Antonio Street Railway COM
pany.
One carload of Pecos sand stone
arrived over the Southern Pacific
yesterday, to be used on the new
county courthouse.
T. a. Kearns, travelling auditor
for the International and Great
Northern, arrived in the city last
night from Palestine.
Patrick Simpson, conductor on
the Southern Pacific at Cunning
ham, is in the city visiting rela-
tives and friends, having been
granted brief leave of absence.
j. III. O'Neill, travelling passenger
agent of the Fort Worth and
Denver, with headquarters at Fort
Worth, arrived in the city last
night. He leaves for home tonight.
Hank Small returned from FL
Paso yesterday afternoon, where
he has been to inspect the bridges
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cific. He goes out again next
| week.
Photographers are employed by
railroad companies to do service
as spoilers. Snapshots are taken
of employees if found violating the
company's rules and used as evil
dence to cause their dismissal.
Another large locomotive, No.
1920, passed through the city from
the east yesterday, to be used on
the Southern Pacific in California.
These new engines are monsters
and they pass through the city
daily for California.
E. Gwin, general operator on the
Southern Pacific work train at
Cunningham, about % miles east
of Houston, is in the city, on his
way to his old home in Selma,
Ala. Mr.. Gwin says that the cat
tie and crop prospects in the vicin-
ity of Cunningham are fine-prob-
ably better than in any other part
of the state.
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