San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-22
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked Up at the Depots, Of
fees and Along the Lines.

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fees and Along the Lines.
!. Eight cars of wool were received
by the Southern Pacific yesterday
for wool merchants.
E. A. Hirshfield, travelling pas
senger agent for the Union Pacific,
with headquarters at Fort Worth,
is in the city.
F. G. Proctor, attorney for the
Victoria division Of the Southern
Pacific, with headquarters at Vic
toria, is in the city.
G.. l.. Filler, commercial freight
agent for the international and
Great Northern at Palestine, ar
rived in town last night.
Major w. G. Lewis, of the live
stock department of the Santa Fe,
arrived in town this morning after
being on the road several days.
Air-brake Instructor Cox, of the
Southern Pacific left for FL Paso
yesterday to instruct the employees
on that end the use of air. brakes.
CD. Hart, of this city, is visit
ing his daughter, Mrs. A. P. King,
wife of the agent of the Monterey
and Mexican Gulf, at Victoria,
Mex.
1t is learned from an authentic
source that Uriah Lott has placed
an order for l25 miles of steel rails
for his road from Little Rock to
Hot Springs, Ark.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass will put on summer excur-
sion rate from San Antonio to
Rockport at So for the round trip,
beginning June l.
The railroad meeting to be held
at Pleasanton tomorrow for the
construction of the San Antonio
and Brownsville road, promises to
be well attended.
James P. Maloney, the popular
commercial freight agent for the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, has
just struck town after an extended
business trip over his territory.
E. J. Coward, private secretary
to Auditor j. w. Terry of the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass,
swooned away yesterday, and was
slightly injured about the fore
head, caused by the fall.
Mrs. d. T. Forbes, wife of the
superintendent of the San Antonio
division, Southern Pacific, has re-
turned from New Orleans, having
accompanied DR.. j. A. Robertson
and family to that point.
A carload of natives of South
Africa passed through here over
the Southern Pacific this morning
en- route to the Mid winter fair at
San Francisco. They attracted con-
siderable attention. Their cos
tunes were of the Adam and Eve
style.
III. s. Spangler, travelling auditor
for the Southern Pacific, who has
been in the city the past two days,
left for the east this afternoon at
2:20 o'clock. Travelling Auditor w.
B. Carriere, of the same road, is
still here, and leaves for the west
tomorrow morning.
At a recent meeting of the stock
holders of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas held at Parsons, Kans.,
over 100000 shares of stock were
represented. 1t was the annual
meeting for the election of officers
for the ensuing year. The former
officers were all reelected.
The San Antonio and Gulf Shore
Railway company now has seven
ty-fve teams at work about four
miles east of the city and by June
l there will be one hundred at
work. President Davis will then
invite the people to come out and
learn how to build a railroad.
There is one class OF violatorssof
law that will be dealt with un-
mercifully if caught. Reference
is made to those that modest rail-
way trains. Only a few nights ago
Freight Conductor Thad Adam, Of
the Southern Pacific, narrowly es-
capped being hit by bullet fired
into his car.
Owing to the high revenue for
the use of the eros stown track
from the Southern Pacific to the
Lone Star brewery the latter has
abandoned the use of the
track. The cars are no long
er run to the brewery
yards as formerly, to be
loaded, but are loaded and unload
ed at the depot, the beer being de-
lived to that place by wagons.