San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-21
RAILROAD NOTES.

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giving grand ball just after Lent
Pete Taltey, formerly an en-
ploye in the Southern Pacific shops
in this city, has accepted posi-
tion with the Denison and North
ern.
The City brewery shipped two
new delivery wagons over the
Southern Pacific yesterday, one to
Seguin and one to Gonzales.
The Texas Car Service associa.
ton will meet Monday.
The surveying corps Of the Aran-
sas Northwestern is now in Con
zales. 1t is believed that the Katy
will be tapped at Smithville and
the line built to the coast.
John Harrington, formerly an
engineer on the Gulf Shore, is in
the city from the Indian Territory,
on few days visit.
Mike Daily, an engineer on the
Arkansas Pass, is on the sick list.
Ed. Edmunds, a fireman on the
Gulf Shore, returned to work to-
day after short illness.
Mike Davis, formerly an engin-
eer on the Gulf Shore, has accepted
a position as engineer in the new
brick and tile plant near Elmen.
dorf.
S. Honeysuckle, an engineer on
the Southern Pacific, is enjoying
thirty days lay of.
Two trains of livestock passed
through here over the international
yesterday for the Territory.
w. G. Walter is in the city, &C
companied by his wife, en- route to
Liverpool, Eng, to accept posi-
ton as general European agent OF
the Mexican Central.
The grass on the park at the In
ternational depot is beginning to
sprout. This will be one of the
beauty spots Of the Alamo City.
Chief Dispatcher Joe Schneider
has Scotch TERROR which he has
named Paderewski.
The employees of the Internal
ional freight office are organizing a
baseball team and expect to tackle
the Arkansas Pass nine.
The international is laying steel
on the Georgetown branch and ex-
poets to have it all down in ten
days.
Mr.. c. X. Dunlap, general freight
and passenger agent of the Mexican
International, was in the city yes
terday, accompanied by his wife.
Operator r. c. Irvine, of the
Southern Pacific, returned yester-
day from Glidden, where he re.
lieved the night operator.
Colonel E. X. Bixby, of the Van
dalia line, is in town.
Commercial Agent Charles
Fahey, OF the Southern Pacific, has
returned from trip to Austin.
General Freight and Passenger
Agent E. j. Martin, OF the Arkansas
Pass, has returned from Austin.
Mr.. W. H. Cundey, travelling pas
senger agent for the Denver and
Rio Grande, is in the city, booming
Cripple Creek.
E. A. Hirshfield, OF the Fort
Worth and Denver, is in town.
The Katy announces reduced
rates to San Antonio for the Ep-
worth League meeting and also for
the Knights Templar conclave
next month.
The Katy will run a special Ep-
worth League train to San Anto-
MO, leaving Sherman on the morn
ing Of April IA and arriving here at
6 p. M, Of the same day.
On April 26 the Katy will sell
round-trip tickets to San Antonio
at one and one.third fare for the
Saengerfest and the Sons OF Herr
mann celebration.
Charles Young, chief clerk for
Superintendent Gregory; George
Hickey, chief clerk for General Su-
perintendent Calvin, and Conductor
Frank King, all OF the Internal
ional, passed through from Pales-
tine this morning en- route to Pear
sail on hunting trip.
The Southern Pacific will shortly
inaugurate the "gate system" on
it's passenger trains, and the COM
pany's rolling stock Is now being
equipped with gate platforms. The
system proposes the collection OF
tickets by the gatekeepers who
will accompany every train and
to whom tickets must be exhibited
before boarding.
]. w. Tate, commercial agent Of
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