San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-12
The Daily Eight.
FRIDAY, APRIL y, 1898
AMONG THE RAILWAYS.
New Time Card on the Sunset Next
Week-Other News.


superintendent McQueeney and
Forbes of the 5 uthern Pacific left
for Houston last night to assist in
arranging new time card to go
into effect next Wednesday. The
change will be made on account OF
the abandonment of the Sunset
limited, which made its last trip
west this morning. The last trip
east will be made Sunday. During
the past winter the limited has
done excellent business and it will
no doubt be put on again next fall.
1t is taken of for the summer on
account of so many attractions in
the north and east, which parts
are mostly visited by the travelling
public in the hot months.
NEW BRIDGES.
Superin tendent Forbes, of the
Southern Pacific, returned from
the west yeste rday. lie says work
is now in progress in raising the
track at the Leona at Uvalde and
also at Seco. The track is being
raised eight feet at Leona and seven
feet at Seco. AS soon as this is
completed Hank Small will put a
force of men to work on the new
iron bridges to replace the present
wooden ones, which were tempora.
rily erected right after the heavy
floods of last year washed the for
mer structures away. Work has
Just been completed on good iron
bridge three miles west OF Lozier.
Work on the Leona and Seco
b, idg IS is expected to begin next
week.
ALONG THE RAILS.
J. E. Galbraith, general freight
agent on the international and
Great Northern, arrived in the city
last night.
Excursion Agent A. B. lillian, of
sive preparations for the big excur-
sion to Cibolo next Sunday and a
good time is promised everyone
who attends.
Dave Ellison, popular conduc-
tor on the Santa Fe at Temple,
spent yesterday in the city visiting
his old friend j. S. Wheeler aud
meeting other old friends. He left
for Houston last night.
T. p. Cook, OF Dallas, and G. II.
Bristol, Of st. Louis, superinten-
dents of the Western Union Tele-
graph company, returned from
Corpus Christi yesterday after
noon, where they inspected the
line.
The automatic gates for the
Burleson and Sherman streets
crossings of the Southern Pacific
have arrived. Hank Small took
final measurement yesterday after.
noon aud work in erecting the
gates will begin in a day or two.
General Manager B. F. Yoakum
OF the Santa Fe arrived over the
Southern Pacific from Galveston,
in his private car yesterday after.
noon. The car has just been turn
ed out Of the shops and is a
"beaut."
Staacke Bros. shipped two buck
boards to Cindad Porfirio Daz,
Mex, over the Southern Pacific
yesterday for the COahuila Durango
Development company.
The Sunset and the Sap antici-
pate exceedingly heavy business
for the Confederate Veterans re-
union, which takes place at Hous-
ton Nav 20 to II, and are already
preparing to handle the crowds.
Charles Griesenbeck, the popu.
lar cotton clerk Of the Sunset
freight house, has returned from
New Orleans with new artificial
limb, and is back at work.
a large water pump arrived over
the Southern Pacific from the east
yesterday for H. Schultze, OF San
Antonio.
The total earnings Of Floresville
station on the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass railway for the year
ending March 81, 1894, was 1881.
IS. For the year ending March 81,
1898, it was SS.S42.33. Number of
bales OF cotton shipped for the
year ending March 81, 1894, was =
OH; for the year ending March 81,
1873, S,OS4.