San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-19
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked Up at the Depots, Of
fees and Along the Lines.

There are at present about 4, 90 bales
of cotton at the compress to be pressed.
Since the opening of the cotton season
1900 bales were turned out at the local
compress, being 10000 more than the to-
tai number turned out last season.
The San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
train which left San Antonio for Karnes
City yesterday morning had fourteen hot
boxes on the way.
Three cars OF crockery arrived over
the Southern Pacific from Liverpool,
Eng, yesterday for Wagner & Chabot.
Conductor Charles M. Heard, OF the
Southern Pacific, will spend Christmas at
FlatOnia.
William Pryor, agent for the Southern
Pacific at Luling, is to be appointed gem
eral freight and passenger agent OF the
San Antonio and Gulf Shore.
Conductor w. E Booth, of the South
ern Pacific, will spend the holidays at
Richmond
Samuel l.. Ham, land and tax agent of
the Southern Pacific, is 10 Houston, &C
companied by his daughter and N. w.
Hunter.
Assistant General Passenger Agent l..
J. Parks. of the Southern Pacific. has
sufficiently recovered TO be able TO travel
and is tack in Houston.
lu6 UOJtS lOT d JULIUS Vi Sof.UU euu-
scrbied by citizens of San Antonio for the
San Antonio and Gulf Shore rail,o DAD will
be turned over to The company by the
trustees In a few days, the road having
complied with its contract.
1t is contemplated to change the time
card on the San Antonio AMI Arapsas
Pass so as to connect with the Cotton
Belt at Waco and also connect with the
Southern Pacific at Flatonia. This. IL is
Lo1g ncha hn fi,nn tor
ably and prove Of great convenience to
passengers.
A trip was made along the San Antonio
and Gulf Shore yesterday as far a La
yerna. The party consisted of Judge w.
w. King, MeSsrS. Ferdinand Hertf. Paul
Meerscheidt, j. F. Quinn, of New Braun
fels, and Ex-Governor John Ireland.
Jack Davis acted as conductor, Mike
Davis as engineer and Bob Tendick fired
her.
The through sleeper between San Anto-
MO and Memphis is Of great convenience
and is meeting with general approval by
all who have occasion TO travel in it over
the International and Great Northern.
There will be a change in the time ia
BILE Of the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass,
effective tomorrow. A train will leave
Kerrvlle at $3.50 a. m, arriving in San An
tonic at 10. so. 1t will leave San Antonio
lOT h6lINIllb db D. I'D " III diIlNlnS az lbN
destination at S:l5. The Sunday train
will leave here al s a. M, and arrive at
Kerrville at 10 80, and leave Kerrville at
4:10 o. m and arrive here at Z p. IN. No
other changes will be made.
G. A. BenScoter assistant general pas
senger agent OF the Southern railway,
western SYSTEM, headquarters at Knox
vile, Tenn, arrived in San Antonio this
morning. to assist Mr.. Means in advertiS
ing the great national highway between
the east and west"
J. E. Galbraith, general freight and
passenger agent of the International and
Great Northern, came in from Palestine
this morning.
Mrs. w. l.. Wright, wife Of the new
commercial freight agent OF the Miss ouri.
Kansas and Texas. arrived in San Anto-
MO from Denison this morning, accom-
panied by her child. and will locate here
for the future. Mr.. Wright and family
will for the present make their home in
the Mackey block.
w. III. Gleason, commercial freight
agent of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe, came in this morning from Houston.
James M. Means, travelling passenger
agent OF the Piedmont AIR line, head
quarters at Houston, came in this morn
ing in the interest Of his line.
General Manager Julius Kruttschnitt,
Of the Southern Pacific, returned from
the west in his private car this morning,
and left for Houston at noon.
James J. Corbett and party will arrive
in San Antonio over the Internati)n al
and Great Northern from Waco this
evening at $3.50 o'clock in special car.
C. Koran, of the firm of c. Koran & Co.,
railroad supply merchants, Of this city,
will be married at 7:30 tonight to Miss
Minnie O'Connell, one of San Antonio's
fairesL daughters, at St. Patrick's church
on Government hill, by Father Rhatigan.
A SENSIBLE XMAS PRESENT.
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