San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-23
GENERAL BAGGAGE AGENTS.
They Wound up Their Meeting
Railroad News.

Railroad News.
The meeting of the general bag
gage agents of Texas lines held in
this city last Saturday, which adj
journed in the afternoon at five
o'clock for the Battle Of Flowers,
was resumed at the Maverick hotel
yesterday morning. The meeting
was called to order at nine o'clock
and Dan Driscoll of the Gulf, Colo
RADIO and Santa Fe at Galveston
took the chair. w. j. Taylor of
the International and Great North
ern at Palestine, acted as Sec
rotary. The most important
business to come up was to har-
monte all differences existing be-
tween the baggage departments
of the various lines in Texas.
Steps were taken in that direction
and the handling of details of the
baggage reports were earnestly dis
cussed. With the exception of a
few lively tits, without which a
meeting would not be a success,
the baggage agents arrived at an
agreement on every point taken
up. New officers were elect
ed in the persons of w. j..
Taylor, general baggage agent
of the International and Great
Northern at Palestine, who was
chosen president of the association,
and HI. w. Funk, of the Fort Worth
and Denver City, at Denver, who
was selected as secretary, thus CIV
ing one office to Denver and one to
Texas.
Among the baggage men at the
meeting was Mr.. F. NJ. Sloat, Of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Texas,
with headquarters at Dallas, who
arrived too late for publication in
the LIGHT of Saturday.
They expressed themselves sur
prised at the splendor of the Battle
Of Flowers, and said it was the
greatest event of that kind they
ever saw.
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.
The Arkansas Pass railway has
offered the public schools of this
city round trip rate of 80 cents
for children and 60 cents for adults,
for grand union picnic day at
Leon Springs to be nominated
whenever the schools may STE fit.
The Railway company also offers
to refund 10 cents on each fare col
lected, to be donated to the library
fund of each school.
Thomas G. Purdy, second vice.
president of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, with headquarters at
st. Louis, and Traffic Manager d.
Miller, of the same road, arrived in
the city from the west over the
Southern Pacific last Saturday af-
ternoon and witnessed the Battle
of Flowers. They left for the east
the same day.
General Freight and Passenger
Agent f. j. Martin, of the San An
tonic and Arkansas Pass arrived at
Houston from st. Louis this morn
ing to attend railroad meeting.
Mr.. Martin has been to New York
and st. Louis and will return to
San Antonio with Mr.. Monserrate
Mrs. G. w. Billow, mother Of the
secretary of Mr.. Monserrate, Of the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass, ar
rived here from Houston last Sat-
urday and saw the Battle of Flow
ers. She will spend week or ten
days with her son.
Ixyinns SEo+n IN
Agent Thomas B. Palfrey, of the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass,
who is out on a bridal trip with
his wife, is expected in San Anto-
Mo next Thursday.
James O'Neil, a section hand on
the Southern Pacific, died at the
Santa Rosa hospital yesterday,
from the effects of injuries received
by being run over by hand car
last Saturday.
H. G. Archer, southwestern pas
senger agent of the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi and Baltimore and Ohio
southwestern, with headquarters
at Dallas, is in San Antonio today.
Sol. West, the we'll known local
stockman, is making a shipment
of corn to Beeville over the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass, for the
purpose of feeding stock ponies.
The Grand Lodge of the Switch
mems Mutual Aid association of
North America will hold its eighth
annual convention at Evansville,
Ind, on next May IA.
General Manager, NJ. D. Monser-
rate, of the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass left for Houston last
night to attend a railroad meeting
there today.