San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-15

terey Vs. 500 to winner,
Correspondence solicited from
clubs.) Four p. M, 5-mile pony
race, $50 to first, $40 to sec
ond, and S. to third, four or more
to start. Entrance fee So.
4:45 p. m, t-mile race $50 to first,
$40 to second, So to third, four or
more to start. Entrance fee S..
$3.50 p. M, horse race, free
for-sll, { of a mile, catch
weights; purse $500 OF which
$75 goes to second and $25 to third.
Entrances to close on the 1st of
July. Races to continue on 5, and
7th of July. Fred. Burgdorfer,
Manager.
Thus it will be seen that they
have offered liberal premiums and
they expect a large crowd as the
railroads will sell tickets at re.
duced rates.
AN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER.
In about two weeks from now
Mr.. Leonard Meyer, Of this city will
issue Monterey Mercury" Mr..
Meyer is an old newspaper man as
he has been connected editorially
with some Of the leading papers in
the United States.
BASE BALL GAME.
Last Sunday the Monterey and
the Porfirio Diaz clubs played a
close game at the Monterey Ath-
letic club grounds in this city. At
the close of the 9th inning it wa a
tie and 9. They then played an
other inning to decide the game
and 1t closed in favor of the Mon
tereys, by one. 1t is expected that
the same clubs will play again on
the 4th Of July.
DOWN AND OUT.
Last Saturday Mr.. VIM. Mac
kenzie, traffic manager of the Mon
terey and Mexican Gulf railway,
G. w. West, chief clerk, Miss May
Henderson and Miss Farmer, stem
ographers and type-writers, Mr.. R.
Metcslf, rate clerk, and Mr.. G. Boul-
ton, chief clerk in the auditors Of
flee, were requested to resign and
let out. Mr.. Jose Maria Trevinio,
cashier and treasurer, was appoint.
ed traffic manager, and took charge
OF the office. This morning Mr.. G.
w. West was reappointed chief
clerk to the traffic manager.
The city is full of rumors as to
why those changes were made, but
as they are all curbstone talk and
in the absence of report from
headquarters your correspondent
attaches no Importance to them.
CITY DOTS.
There are a number of the ex.
cursionists still in the city on
pleasure bent. All OF them are 80
we'll pleased with Monterey and
her scenery that they will remain
here until their tickets expire.
Some have made application for
extension Of time.
Sir Walter Scott, of whom I
made mention in my last letter
turned upo.k.
Since l saw him last, he took a
trip into the country and returned
this afternoon. Would not be sur
prised II Sir Walter did not locate
here. l don't see how he can do
otherwise for he can't 90 ten
steps but what he runs up against
old friends, including children and
grand child ; renthat is, he has been
Godfather for hundreds OF them
when he lived here. AS your cor
met him here in March
1873, and received many cOurtesie
at his hands and his family on
that occasion, l know that he has
many friends here and they would
be glad to see him locate here. He
will know this week. l regret that
L cannot give personal OF all who
are here this week; If 1 would at
tempt to do so it would fill six
columns Of the LIGHT. AS YOUR
correspondent has been confined
to his room for over three
week by sickness, he could not
do justice to them if he tried to.
But l can't overlook one party who
came here from Texas. He is a
prominent merchant and he
brought a package OF American
postal cards with him and sat up
all night writing to his friends and
correspondents on them, and when
he came down stairs in the morn
ing he hanAnd thnnn To tho ho4a1