San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-02
AMONG THE RAILWAYS.
Arrival and Departure of the "Lim-
ited"-olher News.

/ UTsU W SeU Ou WeTe bWO ''nOUOS,
who came in on the pilot. The
train left Houston yesterday al
6:25 in the evening, instead of in
the morning, as stated in yester.
days LIGHT, and made the run to
San Antonio in seven hours and
/ five minutes.
1t was met at the depot by re-
porter for the LIGHT, who was
taken through the cars and shown
one of the finest trains that
ever pulled into San Antonio.
1t is scheduled to arrive at
Ell Paso at 1850 this evening, at
Los Angeles, $40 tomorrow even.
ing and at San Francisco III 40
Sunday morning. 1t will leave
Frisco for the west next Thursday
morning at 1890 and is due in
San Antonio the following Sunday
at 2 80 a. m.
Superintendent John II. McQuee-
ney, of the Houston division and
General Master Mechanic j. j.
Ryan came in on the same train
from Houston.
Engine No. 751 with Hugh Har-
rington at the throttle and COnduc.
tor Thomas o. Davidson in charge
pulled her in. She was pulled out
by engine No. 622 with Engineer
Frank Parker, Conductor James
Burns and Brakeman George
Lowther in charge.
The run from New Orleans to
San Francisco is to be made in sew
enty seven hours or three, and a
quarter days, which is considered
the greatest speed ever attained
for the mountainous country
traversed.
j. F. Dougherty has charge of
dining car "Castle Crags" and
treated the reporter very cOur-
teously. He was in San Antonio
last spring with the railway ticket
agents excursion.
BETWEEN STATIONS.
Jesse Bird and Frank King, pas
senger conductors on the Interna-
tional and Great Northern, have
changed runs.
J. Shumrall, foreman on the
Southern Pacific at Hilda Station,
is in the city on a visit.
The new iron bridge over the
Rio Grande at Ell Paso is being
painted.
ID X. Colburn and Hank Small,
of the building and bridge depart
meDt of the Southern Pacific, came
in from Ell Paso yesterday. Mr..
Colburn went through to Houston.
J. B. Bonner, superintendent Of
telegraph Of the Southern Pacific,
left for headquarters at New Or.
leans yesterday, after spending sew
eral days days in San Antonio.
Two Mexican cotton pickers were
brought in from Eagle Lake on
Southern Pacific passenger No. Is |
yesterday, suffering from typhoid
malaria. They were taken to the
city hospital.
A street railroad war near Savan.
nah, Ga, has resulted In a reduc-
ton of fares to one cent. One day
last week $4,000 people were car
ried by the street cars Of that city.
w. II. Wester, formerly cashier
OF the international and Great
Northern at Taylor, has been ap-
pointed station accountant and
assumed his new duties yester-
day.
Mrs. Thomas Barrett, wife OF the
chief clerk of the Interna.
tional and Great Northern freight |
office, is seriously ill.
The Southern Paci fic shipped
600 bales Of cotton west yesterday.
The cotton receipts at Houston
the past month were 4l5, l65 bales, |
exceeding the Septem Der receipts
POI, 055 and nearly doubling the
receipts Of the same period last
year.
A. Pfeuffer, agent for the Mexi-
can National at SaltillO, Mex, has
resigned and H. F. Christian has
been appointed to succeed him.
Volrey Adams, Of the Interna-
tional and Great Northern freight
office was seriously injured while
at work at the cotton compress
last Wednesday. He strained
himself and burst a blood vessel.
He had three hemorrhages We'd
nesday night.
j. McEvoy, a switchman on the
Southern Pacific at Houston broke
leg last Wednesday by falling off
a box car. The injured limb was
reset and the man sent to San An
tonic and taken to the Santa Rosa