San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-31
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked Up at the Depots, o.
fees and Along the Lines.


Frisco line at Dallas, is in town.
Ed. Van Week, conductor on,the
Eagle Pass branch of the Southern
Pacific, is in town.
Sap engine No. 8, Johnny Laird's
pride, is in the shops waiting for a
new driving wheel,
Dave Irwin, a popular switch
man on the Southern Pacific, is ill
with typhoid fever.
The Sap supply department is
being moved from the general Of
flee building to the round house.
Engineer jeff Stephenson, of the
Southern Pacific, is laying off and
is being relieved by Engineer Par
sons.
The local office of the Santa Fe
haze received new coat of paint
and looms up like pair o blues on
a stack o. whites.
John Lothringer, of the Sap
shops,is to be married to charm
ing belle of San Antonio on June
III, so it is rumored.
The boys of the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass have contributed
literally for the sufferers of the
drouth-stricken district Of Texas.
Mike Ryan, switchman on the
Southern Pacific, has returned
from a visit to Nashville, Tenn,
and will assume duties tomorrow.
Passenger engine No. rs, of the
Sap, is in the shops for repairs. 1t
will be out in a few days and Engi-
neer Mccarthy will again be hap
py.
1t is rumored that H. G. Camp,
claim agent for the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass, will accept an
agency along the line at an early
date.
Captain Thomas F. Winthrop, of
the Sap claim department, who
delivered the Grafton at the ceme-
terry yesterday, is laying off today
on account of slight attack Of ILL
ness.
F. NJ. Jolly, western passenger
agent of the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia railway system,
with headquarters Of Dallas, is in
town, jollying up business for his
road.
Jim O'Toole, fireman of the out
side engine on the Southern Pacific,
will leave for Monterey, Mexico,
next Friday to attend the bull
fights. He will be relieved by Bob
Doane.
Warren L. Rohr, western passen-
ger agent for the Norfolk and
Western, with headquarters at
Chattanooga, Tenn, is in San An
tonic today, looking after his roads
interests. -;w.,-.--'sassss ss@ssasssssss
G. A. Fisher, draughtsman for
the Mexican International at Gin
dad Parfirio Diaz, Mex, who has
been called to San Antonio on ac-
count of the death of his brother,
William, aged twenty-four years,
will leave tomorrow morning to re-
sumo duties.
George Cook, engineer on the
Southern Pacific, and Miss Laura
Longley, were married at the Gen.
trail Baptist church last night by
Rev. Dodson. They are the re-
cipients of many handsome pres
ents and heartily congratulations
with which to launch upon the
ship of matrimony.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass anticipates heavy passenger
business next Sunday to Boerne on
account of the Mission Athletic
club picnic. Two trains will be
run, one leaving here at $3.50 a. m.
and another at 80 p. M, and
tickets for the round trip will be
only seventy-five cents.
Several engineers of the San An
tonic and Arkansas Pass will change
their runs tomorrow. F. G.. Brun,
now on the Kerrville run, will have
the Yoakum run; j. w. Wilder,
who now has the Corpus Christi
run, will run to Kerrville and Jas.
Covert, hostler at Yoakum, will go
to firing between here and Corpus
Christi.
Sidney &. Miller, the New York
capitalist and railroad builder, has
arrived at Corpus Christi. A meet
ing was held last evening and Mr..
Miller stated that he would begin
a survey of the road today and
that within. thirty days work in