San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-19
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked Up at the Depots, Of
fees and Along the Lines.

The Sap shops will close on May
80 on account of Decoration Day.
J. Colbert, a former fireman on
the Sap at this place, is now hostler
at Yoakum.
T. A. Kearns, travelling auditor
of the international and Great
Northern, is in the city.
H. G. Archer, travelling passen-
ger agent for the Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern, is in the city
today.
Charles Semlinger of the South
ern Pacific shops has recovered his
bicycle that was reported lost yes
terday.
Fireman Frank Massey has left
the service OF the Sap, after being
connected with that road the past
four years.
Twelve cars of wool were received
from the west over the Southern
Pacific yesterday for local wool
merchants.
B. B. Tart, formerly hostler on
the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass,
is now switching on the same road
at Houston.
l.. J. Parks, assistant general pas
senger agent for the Southern Pa
cific, with headquarters at Hous-
ton, is in town.
@. w. Bein, general traffic man.
ager of the Southern Pacific, was
at Austin yesterday. He is out on
an inspection tour.
Engineer II. Koepke, of the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass, who is
at present at st. Paul, Mimi, at
tenging a convention, will be back
by June l.
Charles Lindsey, formerly fire.
man on freight, is on passenger
No. 20 between here and Yoakum.
F. q. Brown, formerly on No. 70, is
now on the Kerrville branch.
A half dozen employees of the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
shops are laid off on account of
slack business. The shops also
close every Saturday afternoon.
Charles O'Brien, chief clerk for
Superintendent of Motive Power
George w. Butcher, Of the San An
antonio and Arkansas Pass, received
an attack of illness yesterday after
noon.
Colonel George w. Bracken-
ridges private car, "Fern Ridge"
was turned out of the Sap shops
yesterday entirely overhauled and
is now ready for the ColonePs &C.
cupancy.
Mike Tearney, engineer on the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass be-
tween here and Corpus Christi, has
resumed his run, after laying off
several days on account of his
wife's illness.
The Union Pacific has issued a
neat book with illustrations and
descriptions, entitled "From Sum-
merland to the American Alps" a
copy of which can be had by ap-
plying at the local railroad ticket
offices.
DR.. J. A. Robertson and family,
who have been visiting Superin-
tendent ID. Il. Forbes, OF the South
ern Pacific, and family in this city,
left for there home in Ontario yes
terday. They were accompanied
by Mr.. Forbes as far as New Or
leans.
J.C. Jones, formerly engineer on
the Richmond and Danville at
Washington, d. c., is now running
a freight on the Sap between here
and Yoakum. He has been
dubbed "Whistling JONES'" and is
said to out rival Madam Shaw in
the art of whistling.
The Sap has borrowed a number
of coaches from the Southern Pa
cific to accommodate the large
crowds for the picnics today.
"Mickey" Daley took out an extra
to Leon Springs this morning and
Johnnie Conlon hauled a large
crowd of excursionists to Berg's
mill.
Mr.. Sam Foster, one Of the con-
tractors of the San Antonio and
Gulf Shore road, has just COM
pleted trip over the proposed line.
He has been all the way to Velas-
co, and is very enthusiastic over
the outlook for obtaining deep
water. He says that before ten