San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-08
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked Up at the Depots, Of
fees and Along the Lines.


repairs.
The Southern Pacific handled
nine cars of wool from the west
yesterday for local merchants.
One carload OF whiskey was re-
ceived over the Southern Pacific
from the east yesterday for a local
firm.
Major w. c. Lewis, of the live
stock department Of the Santa Fe,
is out hustling business for his
road.
The railway ticket brokers of
America will convene at Washing
ton, d. c., tomorrow, for their fif-
tenth annual session.
A local carriage repository ship
ped fine buggy to Luling over
the Southern Pacific today, con-
signed to DR.. ]. w. Nixon.
Owing to the slack of business at
Burlington, Texas, the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass ticket office at
that point has been closed.
Twenty cars of live stock passed
through here over the Interna-
tional and Great Northern yester-
day from Pearsall en- route north.
P. J. Ryan, of the Pullman Pal
ace Car company, has returned
from Monterey, Mex, where he at
tended the "Cinco de Mayo" cele-
bration.
Most Of the horses that were here
forthe races have left. Seven car
loads where shipped over the In
ternational and Great Northern
yesterday.
Edward Vernon, founder and
first general editor Of the Trave-
ers Official Railway Guide, recent
ly died at East Orange, n. j., of
heart failure.
The sixth annual meeting of the
Association of American Railway
Accounting Officers will be held at
Washington, D. c., commencing
Wednesday, May 30.
Bro. John Wolfe, OF st. Mary's
college, has arranged with the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass for
picnic of that institution, to be
given at Leon Springs next Thurs
day.
Five trains of California steam
er freight and two Sunset spe-
Gals handled by the Southern Pa
cific yesterday, demonstrates the
heavy freight business now going
on over that road.
P. w. Clement, Of Cuero, has
been, appointed cashier at Cuero
station for the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass. Mr.. Clement was
formerly storekeeper of the South
ern Pacific shops at Cuero.
George w. Lyons, a member Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, died of consumption in
this city yesterday. His remains
were forwarded today to Indiana,
accompanied by his father.
Work in cutting the grade of the
San Antonio and Gulf Shore road
was begun this morning at the
depot grounds. About 800 men are
at work. The surveying gang is at
work about eight miles out east.
William Mail, assistant to Presi-
dent G. P. Huntington of the South
ern Pacific, at New York, arrived
in San Antonio from San Francisco
this morning in his private car.
He leaves for the east tomorrow
morning.
w. H. Gleason, the popular COM
mercial agent of the Santa Fe, is
in the city. He says that effective
May 81, the forty-five cent scale of
rates on flour, grain and hay from
Kansas and Missouri to Texas COM
mon points will be restored on the
Santa Fe,
Beginning June l, the San Anto-
Mo and Arkansas Pass will put on
excursion rates to Rockport and
Corpus Christi and to Boerne and
Kerrville. These cheap rates will
no doubt be taken advantage of by
many San Antonians and northern
health-seekers this summer.
J. f. Blackburn, local locomo-
tive engineer, challenges the
"strong man" who gave an exhibi,
ton at San Pedro springs the past
two Sundays, in iron bending, etc
Blackburn says he will lift weights
against the "strong man." or will
meet him in the prize ring. The
challenge is open to all iron bend
ers in the United States.
Buck Hfce's fourth annual ex
! cursion to New Braunfels takes
place next Sunday. Train leaves