San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-02
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked Up Around the Depots
and Ticket Offices.

and Ticket Offices.
The Southern Pacific pay car left for
the west this morning.
S. J. Williams, livestock agent OF the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, is In town.
Gus Small was yesterday appointed car
INSPECTOR of the Sap to succeed w. Zlm-
hermann.
Robert LYONS. formerly store kee per of
the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass, has
returned from trip to Mexico.
The San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
nav car arrived from Kerrville yes terday
morning, having squared up with all the
boys along the entire road.
A w. Mechanic, who has been in the
service of the San Antonio and Arkansas
pass as locomotive engineer the past five
five years, has resigned his position.
w, d. Van Cleave, road foreman of en-
pines on the San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass. came in from Yoakum last night,
and will leave for Waco in day or two.
Jack Neufer, the popular engineer on
the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass, mas
resigned and his successor is John
ny Laird. Jack says he is going to Mexl-
CO.
ID. S. Hassett has been appointed gen.
eraI foreman of the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass shops, effective yesterday.
Mr.. Hassett was formerly machinist for
the Sap.
Snecial car, 'Fern Ridge" Colonel
George W. Disadvantages private car, is
being revarnished and generally over
hauled in the Sap shops and will be out
In week.
MD. RYAN, switchman on the South
ern Pacific, has been granted sixty
DAYS leave of absence and Will visit his
old home in Nashville, Tenn. He says
he is going to get married.
Superintendent Of Motive Power and
Machinery G.. W. Butcher, of the Sap,
who has been in Houston the past four or
five DAYS, visiting his wife's sister, who
has been seriously i'll, has returned, she
having recovered.
Engineer H. Koeppig, running be-
tween here and Yoakum on the San An
tonic and Arkansas Pass, has been grant.
ed leave of absence and is visiting
friends and relatives in the north. He is
being relieved by John Conlon.
A Southern Pacific man limited to the
rumbler for the LIGHT yesterday that
there'l be q dead railroad reporter in
town il he keeps up his rank prognostl,,
cations in the way of appointments. And
he didn't mean the LIGHT reporter either.
Mr.. George w. Butcher, superintendent
of motive power and machinery OF the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass, is having
all the passenger coaches of that road. In
need of repairs, thoroughly overhauled
and put in first-clasS order. The work Is
being done by B. Duncan.
Michael Tearney, one of the most pop
nlar engineers of the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass, is the father OF a new girl.
He was on the road when telegram
reached him breaking the news, and the
hn oAa time pDnlnU tn
San Antonio 10 rejoice over the event Oh,
he did the right thing u his friends.
The San Antonio and Arkansas Pass is
now well fixed in case of fire. But recent
ly the general offices have been provided
with stand pipes and regulation hre hose
and now city water mains have been put
in the yards at the depots and shops; All
the buildings are provided with reputation
fire hose and hose reel, made by the
Sap boys, is out at the shops ready Tor
use at any moment.
General Manager J. A. Robertson, of
the Monterey and Mexican Gulf, arrived
in San Antonio over the International
and Great Northern yesterday morning,
from Washington, d. c. He is accom-
panied by his wife, Mr.. and Mrs. K.
johnson. of st. Louis, Mo-, and Mr..
Fred. G. Burgdorfer. They. spent
Monterey, Mr.. RObertSon's headquarters,
over the Southern Pacific this morning.
The party is travelling in Mr.. Robertson's
private car, Sierra Mojada."
Yesterday afternoon a horse OF j. c..
Williams, foreman of the car depart
ment of the Southern Pacific, attached
to a buggy containing Mrs. Williams and
Mr.. William Carr, ST., father of the
popular brakeman of the Southern Pa
cific, became frightened on Crosby street,
and ran away. The buggy was upset aud
smashed up and the occupants thrown
out. Mr.. Carr was injured about the
head and body, but Mrs. Williams for
tunately escaped injury. They were both