San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-27
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked Up at the Depots, Of
fees and Along the Lines.

cific from the west the past two
days.
Roadmaster A. p. Blue, of the
Southern Pacific, returned from
Schulenburg yesterday.
William Carpenter, of the South
ern Pacific, made flying business
trip to Marion yesterday.
The General Baggage Agents AS.
ISOLATION of Texas has adopted a
resolution to make uniform
charge on all roads for bicycles and
baby carriages.
The Southern Pacific pay car has
made the trip between Houston
and New Orleans and is now
headed for the west.
Division Superintendent d. T.
Forbes, Resident Engineer E. B.
Cushing and Hank Small, of the
building and bridge department of
the Southern Pacific, are out west
looking over the road.
Conductor Joe Morris and Brake
man AL. Dupree were attending
court at Columbus yesterday and
Jack Howell and Hank Miller had
their run on the Southern Pacific.
A wrecked engine pilot came in
from the east over the Southern
Pacific yesterday, but how and
where it met its fate no one seemed
to know.
Travelling Passenger Agent w.
d. Lawson, of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, arrived in town last
night from trip along the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass. He
picked the winner in the Fitzsim-
mons-Creedon mill.
The Southern Pacific shipped
1854 bales of cotton east last Tues
day, the San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass, 932; the International and
Great Northern, 1872 the Santa Fe,
765; the Missouri Kansas and
Texas, 119; the Houston, East and
West Texas, SO and the Houston
and Texas Central 1859, making a
total of 9,479 bales hauled that
day.
The Cotton Belt is now running
two daily trains in and out of
Fort Worth, instead OF one as for
merly. The new night train runs
through to Memphis and will be
made to run on an average of
thirty-eight miles an hour, reduc-
ing the train time between those
two points several hours.
Work on the new road which is
to he built from Arkansas City,
Kansas, to Eagle Pass, Texas, will
be begun shortly. The engineers
are laying out it's route and work on
the construction is to begin at an
early day. The contractors in
charge of the work say that dirt
will be broken by October l.
The Iron Mountain and Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, are selling
greatly reduced rates to San An
tonic and Southwest Texas from
st. Louis and northern points and
expects to do big business.
Engineer H. D. Murphy, of the
Southern Pacific, made a run to
Del Rio, 10 miles from San An
tonic, in three hours and twenty
eight minutes last Saturday night.
1t was special, occupied by DR..
Mcdaniel, Of this city, who had
been summoned to attend a
wealthy stOckman named Rose,
suffering from typhoid fever. He
arrived in time to save the man
and was well rewarded, as was also
Mr.. Murphy.
The Southern Pacific east-bound
passenger train that should nave
left at 9 o'clock last night, was not
able to pull out until 3 o'clock this
morning. The cause was the de-
railment of three freight cars at
the SaladO, east of the city.
What is said to be the fastest
time ever made by Southern rail-
road was accomplished recently by
a special train on the Seaboard Air
line, from Portsmouth to Raleigh,
n. G. The distance is $50 miles
and the run was made in three
hours and fifteen minutes. The
train was occupied by theatrical
company.
The International and Great
Northern hauled a number of col
ored people of San Antonio and
other points in Texas last Tuesday,
who are en- route to Boston, Mass,
the attend the national conven-
ton of the G. 0. L. f.
"The Hustler" and his company