San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-11
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked Up at the Depots, OF
fees and Along the Lines.

tonic and Gulf Shore road will b
named "Brackenridge," in honor {
Colonel George w.
An excursion to Eagle Lake fron
La Grange will be held tomorrow
over the Southern Pacific route
Eight cars have been engaged.
J.J. Ryan has the contract 70
putting up the telegraph line fol
the San Antonio and Gulf Shor,
and will begin work in about sixty
days.
Douglass Cochrane, brakeman OF
the international and Great North
ern, had one Of his fingers mashed
off last Saturday while making a
coupling at Devine.
Complaint is still heard about
small boys playing around the cars
of the Southern Pacific, of which
the LIGHT has made mention sew.
eral times previously.
Milton Everett has returned from
Rockport, having disposed of his
hotel interests there. He will prob
ably engage in the railroad bust
ness again, with the L. & G. n.
A rate of one fare for the round
trip has been made from Texas
points to Milwaukee on account of
the national convention of the
Travellers Protective association.
Work on the extension of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas into
San Marcos is rapidly progressing,
and it is believed that the road
will be pushed right on to San An
tonic.
John H. Maloney, the popular
lineman on the International and
Great Northern, has gone to Pales-
tine to attend the funeral of his
brother, Michael, who died last
Saturday.
General Manager NJ. d. Monser-
rate, of the San Antonio and Aran-
sas Pass, leaves for Waco tomor-
row on an inspection trip, accom-
panied by Purchasing Agent
Thomas B. Palfrey,
There was a meeting of the
board of directors Of the San Anto-
MO and Gulf Shore road this morn
ing in President Davis office.
Nothing of interest to the general
public was transacted.
Rates on grain and products
from points taking Kansas City
rates on the Santa Fe and Frisco
lines to all Texas commercial
points will be reduced five cents
per hundred pounds, effective June
Is.
During the past year 27O,913 new
cross ties were put in on the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass, 117,00O
feet of trestling repaired, on which
was used 1,S96,O00 feet of lumber,
board measure, and $4,000 feet of
piling.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass will on next Monday put on
rate of $3.50 for the round trip from
San Antonio to Houston on account
of the celebration of Emancipation
day. Equally low rates will be put
on at other points along the Sap.
w. III. Abel, southwestern pas
senger agent Of the Chicago and
Alton, and H. C. Archer, south
western passenger agent for the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern,
arrived in the city last night and
left for Houston this afternoon
over the Southern Pacific.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass handled about three hundred
people for the picnic at Comfort
yesterday given under the auspi-
ces of Milan Lndge, A. o. U. W.,
for the benefit Of the widow Of the
late Adolph Vanderstratten. The
affair passed of very orderly.
The excursion from San Antonio
to Eagle Lake yesterday took out
43l people from San Antonio and
along the towns this side of the
lake and IS from Houston and
towns the other side Of the lake.
The day was spent in fishing, boat
ing and general picnic pleasures.
S. Billow, of the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass general offices,
spent yesterday at Cuero, and re-
turned last evening, accompanied
by his wife. He reports crops
looking fine in Dewitt county and
says heavy rains, accompanied by
light hail, fell from Westhoff to
Runge.
Ned Winstead, of the Texas Car
Service association at Houston,
will remain in San Antonio until
the Doth of this month, when he
will leave for Houston, accompan-
led by his wife, to resume duties.