San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-02-20
LIN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked up at Depots, Offices
and Along the Lines.

by the International and Great
Northern Railway employees at
Landa's park, New Braunfels, are
being made, and the date has been
fixed, being May 8. A track will be
run into the park and a race course
will be constructed. Some fine
horse racing will be on the pro-
gramme.
A Raymond-Whit eXcur-
sion consisting of six coaches ar
rived in the city over the South
ern Pacific from the east at 4 80
o'clock this morning and left for
California this noon. The eXcur-
sionists spent the forenoon taking
in the beautiful sights of the
famous Alamo City.
w. H. Fields, treasurer of the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass,
and Charles Burkett, chief clerk
for Auditor J. w. Terry, spent Sun
day shooting quail at Marcelina,
below Floresville. They returned
yesterday with about five dozen
birds. Rain is badly needed in that
vicinity.
A conference of prominent Off.
Gals of the Southern Pacific is be-
ing held in New Orleans, for the
purpose of appointing a successor
to General Passenger Agent w. G.
Watson, whose resignation will be
effective March l.
William Murray, general south
ern passenger agent of the Illinois
Central, with headquarters at New
Orleans, was in the city yesterday.
He left for Austin last night and
will leave Austin for New Orleans
today.
Frank Brady, a popular engineer
on the Cotton Belt, at Pine Bluff,
Ark, is in the city, accompanied
by his wife and sister. He is suffer
ing from lung trouble, and is here
for the benefit of his health.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass will sell round trip tickets
from San Antonio to ROckpOrt for
$3.50 next Saturday and Sunday
on account of the free oyster roast
at Rockport next Monday.
The cylinder head was blown
out of switch engine No.6l7, of the
Southern Pacific, in the yards last
night, and traffic was delayed for
about one hour. The engine is now
in the shops for repairs.
Will Walsh and Tom COnrOy,
boiler-makers in the Chicago and
Northwestern shops at Chicago,
passed through San Antonio last
night, en- route to Mexico, in search
of employment.
"The Still Alarm" company az
rived in the city over the Inter-
national and Great Northern from
Austin this morning and Will APP
pear at the Grand Opera house to-
night.
j. p. Mallory, com mercial freight
agent for the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, returned from a brief bust
ness trip to North Texas last night.
He reports business picking up.
The annual report of the South
ern Pacific railroad company for
the year ending December 81 shows
gross earnings of $4S,O49, $40 a de-
crease of$922,64S.
J. J. Ryan, general master me-
ehanic of the Southern Pacific, with
headquarters at Houston, arrived
in the city yesterday on brief
business visit.
w. F. Jones, the popular con-
tracing freight agent Of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fee, has return
ed from an extended trip to Cen
trail Texas.
Homer Eads has returned from
a trip along the Texas and Pacific,
where he solicited freight business
for the Iron Mountain and Missouri
Pacific.
Charles Wade, fireman on the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass at
Yoakum, is in the city for treat
ment for his eyes.
Joseph Mcmillan, commercial
and local ticket agent of the South
ern Pacific, returned from Houston
this morning.
Tom Smith, a fireman on the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass, is
in the city from Yoakum, on a
brief visit.
The citizens of Boswell, n. NJ,
have offered a bonus Of $4,000 for
the extension of the Pecos Valley
road.
A Handsome Stable.
The City Brewing association