San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-31
THEY WANT THE ROAD.
The Meeting Well Attended Last
Night-Railroad News.

NlShI-INdlllOtA 1NO"Ss
About twelve hundred people
were present at the railroad mass
meeting, held in the Thirty-seventh
District courtroom last night to
hear a proposition of Captain Will
liam Davis relative to building the
proposed San Antonio and Gulf
Shore road between San Antonio
and Galveston via VelascO. This
would be about fifty miles shorter
to Galveston from San Antonio
than any line at present. The
speakers were Mayor George Pas
chal, Captain William Davis,
Judge w. w. King and Alderman
Jack Daugherty. They all favor
the building of the new road.
A WINTER JOURNEY.
C. G.. Hughes, general superin-
tendent of the Fremont, ElkhOrn
and Missouri Valley road, with
headquarters at Omaha, Neb., ar
rived in San Antonio over the
Southern Pacific from San An
gelo, Cal, yesterday noon. He
travels in his special private car
containing all modern improve
ments. He is accompanied by his
wife and child and nurse, and
Mrs. Dundy, wife of Judge Dundy,
of omaha, and HI. S. Manville, one
of the leading stockmen of Tilden,
Neb. The party left for Houston
this morning and from there will
go to Kansas City, Mo. They are
down here to keep out of the cold.
OPEN SWITCHES AND SIDE TRACKS.
A force of men is engaged in tear
ing up the track of the Pan-Ameri-
can road at Victoria, Texas, as re-
suit of the failure of the citizens of
Victoria to give bond in an injunc
ton suit to restrain the Gulf, Beau
mont and Kansas City road from
utilizing the rails of the Pan
American road.
f. b. Cushing, chief engineer on
the Southern Pacific, with head
quarters at Houston, passed
through here Monday, en- route to
w dihllS Cul-OI htdl IClC
a surveying gang is at work.
There will be another bull fight
at Nuevo Laredo next Sunday and
the International and Great North
ern will run excursions to that
place on next Saturday and Sunday
at $3.50 for the round trip.
Ed Baxter, the sold reliable" en-
gineer on the Southern Pacific,
has purchased Elmer Ford's flyer
"Restless," whose time is said to
be 1925. The price paid is said to
be $3.50.
NJ. ID. MOnserrate, general man.
ager of the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass, left Cuero this
morning. accompanied by his wife.
They will return tomorrow morn
ing.
The meeting of passenger agents
and the Texas Rate Sheet men was
called to order this morning.
Nothing of interest to the public
is being transacted.
John Howard. "Of and For
Texas" formerly Of the"Big Four"
well known in railway circles, is in
the city from Houston, meeting
old friends.
Division superintendent Dave
Forbes, of the Southern Pacific, is
expected to return today from a
brief inspection tour over the
West End.
Captain James Beaumont, the
live stock hustler for the Southern
Pacific, with headquarters at Vic
toria, is here on business.
Ed. Champaign, formerly con-
ductOr on the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass, is here from Yoa-
KUN.
A number of employees who laid
off the past two days in observ-
ance Of payday, resumed duties to-
day.
The Southern Pacific pay car
was at Del Rio yesterday and left
for the west this morning.
y. u. Plckens, relief agent on the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass, is
in town.
Burglars Well Rewarded.
Burglars entered the residence of
Mrs. +. A. Stevens at No. 100 Rusk
street early yesterday morning.
They chose as their entrance the
room of Oliver Stevens, one of the
sons, who is employed in the train
service of the Southern Pacific.
They took divers pants, which
were on chair and,contained be-