San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-28


San Antonio and Gulf Shore Railway
company, said to reporter Of the LIGHT
this morning regarding the report from
Galveston that the Gulf Shore road has
received blow by the Galveston and
Western franchise being declared for
feited:"1 would like to haveyou state that
we are in no way connected with the
Galveston and Western and that we have
no intentions Of going to Galveston. Our
charter calls for the west bank of the
BraZos river, at or near VelaSco, so the
fact that the Galveston and Western has
lost Its franchise bv having its tracks
torn up does not affect US. The Calves
ton and Western was offered to me
for S256,000 which offer /
declined for the following reasons: st is
only thirteen and tenth mites long
and narrow guage. The rails are of diff
ferent sizes and weigh from thirty five up
to sixty pounds. It's commercial values
deem only worth its weight in old rails
or scraps. Should we go to Galveston it
will not be by way Of the Galveston and
Western, as by that route we would have
to putin expenses of bridge three miles
long, across the Caranchua reef. There
would be no necessity for us to go to all
this expense to obtain deep water, as ]
have just received letter from Mr.. Geo.
Angle, general manager of the VelaSco
Dock and Channel company, stating that
the last rise of the BraZos has given Is
feet of water on The bar and TN 1t another
rise equal to the last will give 20 feet"
Captain Davis informed the reporter
that by June one hundred additional
teams would be put TO work on the road,
ALONG THE RAILS.
General Manager NJ. d. Monserrate Of
will
leave for Corpus Christi and Rockport to-
night on an inspection tour, accompanied
by Purchasing Agent Thomas Il. Pafrey,
Superintendent of Roadway and Build
ings w. Berry, Superintendent Of Trans
portation r. II. lines and Superintendent
of Motive Power and Machinery George
W. Butcher. They will be absent until
next Wednesday.
Henry A. Hollingsworth, for several
years firemen on the Southern Pacific.
died at the Santa Rosa hospital yesterday
from the effects of bullet wound and al
so an attack of typhoid fever. The fun
eral will take place this afternoon at 4:30
o'clock from the residence of Frank Fuller
at No. l,2l5 Avenue ID, under the aus
pieeS of the Brotherhood of Railway Fire
men, of which order he was a prominent
member.
Pow" Woodbridge, chief rate clerk in
the general passenger department of the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass, has re-
turned from Hot Springs, Ark, where he
attended tourist rate meeting. He says
rates have been arranged from Texas TO
tourists points effective on or about June
3rd.
A young man giving his name asJ.
Pierce Wright has been arrested, charged
with conspiring to rob railway train.
He Is accused Of having been 10 eonspira-
cy with J. ID. May to rob the San Anto-
MO and Arkansas Pass train when Fire
man Frank Martin was killed.
Jas. Turner. railroad machinist. and
formerly on the Southern Pacific, was bit
by poisonous spider on the cheek last
Saturday. His face swelled like balloon
and one of his eyes was entirely closed.
he went TO a physician, who treated him,
and he is all right again.
CASTOR MeSier, general passenger agent
OF the Texas and Pacific, with headQuar-
tiers at Dallas, arrived in San Antonio
this morning, accompanied by his sister,
and Mrs. w. j. Alden. They are en- route
to Rockport.
A report from Mexico states that Mexi-
can employees on the Mexican Central
have struck because a distinction was
made between Americans and MeXicanS
in the matter of pay and hours of work.
The Railroad Employees of America are
in session in New York City, and there
are over six hundred representatives from
every state in the Union, and from Mexi-
co and Canada, present.
Z. ]. Coward, of Auditor Terry's Office
of the Sap, has resumed duties, after be-
ing laid up several days, from injuries re
ceived in fall occaSioned by fainting
spell.
A mass meeting will be held at LAYER
mia next Friday regarding the San Anto-
MO and Gulf Shore road. President Davis
and Mr.. J. G.. Fry will be in attendance
Work in getting the San Antonio and
Gulf Shore road in readiness for operation |
is progressing with the rapidity of an |
electric fan in motion.
General Freight and Passenger Agent |
E. j. Martin. Of the Sap, will leave for st. |
Louis tonight.