St. Louis Southwestern Ry.: Main [Missouri, Kansas, Arkan- For year ending June 30. 1914. Net earnings.....$11,652,969 749,911 Total net income. $12,402,880 Total payments... 15,231,022 Deficit............ $2,828,142 Sunset Central Lines. [Louisiana, Texas.] Texas and Pacific Ry. Net earnings...... $4,414,678 Other income.. 110,324 Total net income..$4,525,002 Toledo and Ohio Central For year ending Dec. 31, 1913. m.; Paris & Great Northern R. R., 16.94 m. Total mileage, 4,758.52. EXPRESS CO's-Southern operates between Kansas City and Birmingham; Wells Fargo & Co. balance of line. Morgan's La, and Texas R. R., and Eastern Div., 511 m.; Rio Grande Div., 620 m.; Louisiana Div., 356 m.; Port Allen Br., 102 m.; La Fourche Br., 28 m.; Texarkana Dist., 70 m.; Avoyelles Br., 93 m.; Natchitoches Br., 89 m. ; Napoleon ville Br.,16 m. Total mileage,1,885. EXPRESS Co.-Wells Fargo & Co. Toledo to Bremen, 172.91 m.; New Surplus... 205,966 $441,227 Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad. [Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mis souri.] For year ending June 30, 1913. Total earnings... $4,335,167 Central System. Operating expenses. 2 900,257 Toledo, Ohio, to St. Louis, Mo., 450.72 m. General Officers. President, F. H. Britton, St. Louis,. Receivers, James W. Lusk, W. E. D. Levy; Freight Traffic President, W. B. Scott; Vice-Presi dent and General Manager, W. G. Van Vleck; Secretary, G. R. Cottingham. General Offices, Houston, Tex.; New York Offices, 165 and 366 Broadway. President, George J. Gould; VicePresidents, E.F. Kearney, Kingdon Gould, and O. B. Huntsman; Secretary, C. W. Veitch, New York. General Offices, 165 Broad-way, New York, aud Dallas, Tex. President, A. H. Smith, New York;: President. W. L. Ross; Vice-Presi- City, Utah, 921 m.; Tesla Br., 13 m. Net earnings. .81,103,682 Boca & Loyalton R. R., 45.2 m. 20,158 EXPRESS CO. -Globe. Vice-President and General Manager, Raymond Du Puy; Secretary, James Clarke, New York. General Offices, Norfolk, Va.; New York Office, 55 Wall Street. Receiver, E. B. Pryor; General President, B. F. Bush, St. Louis, Total net income..$1,13,840 This road is part of Denver & Rio Francisco, Cal.; New York Offices, Total payments..... 798,698 Surplus............ $325,142 Wheeling and Lake [Ohio, ] Grande R. R. System. Toledo Div., 212 m.; Cleveland Div., Surplus.......................... $469,981 165 and 1246 Broadway. Receiver, W. M. Duncan; Pres- RAILWAY EMPLOYEES IN THE UNITED STATES. COMPARATIVE SUMMARY OF EMPLOYEES AND AVERAGE DAILY COMPENSATION. (From latest available Statistical Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission.) 2 5,476 2 5,492 4 9,392 4 8,022 76,329 82 69,959 Switchtenders, watchmen. 38.773 15 Tel. operators, despatchers....... 42,548 12,056 Total...... Emplo's-acc't float'g equip't. All other emplo's and labor's. 230,138 Does not include returns for switching and terminal companies. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, (From a Report Issued by Interstate Commerce Commission for Years Ended June 30, 1913 and 1912.) ITEM. Killed. Injured. Killed Injured. Killed. Injured. Killed. Injured. 88,277 16 37.379 16 36,519 153,104 64 136,733 64.691 27 57,077 68,321 28 60,349 48.682 20 43,608 136,938 57 114,760 48.237 69.867 195,110 41.859 320,762 44,698 19 1.70 1.74 1.69 39,115 17 2. 47 2.44 2.33 Total accidents involving train operation. 10,550 86,688 10,185 77,175 Indu-trial accidents to employés not involv :༄།། །༔།། :ཨོཾ།ཨོཾ།ཟྭ ཨོཾ།༴།། :2།ཆོ།3 མ། 659 128 Grand total. 10,964 200,308 10,585 169,538 422 5,406 550 4.662 The yearly tables show for the year ended June 30, 1911, the total number of casualties 160,555 (10,396 killed and 150,159 injured). Of this number, 430 killed and 79,237 injured were railroad employés, on railroad premises, by accidents in which the movement of cars or engines is not inVolved: 5.284 persons were killed and 5,614 injured while trespassing on the property of the railroads, principally while walking on the tracks or stealing rides on trains. The number of passengers carried during the year ended June 30, 1913, was 1,033.679,680: 1912, 994,158,591; 1911, 987,710,997. The passenger mileage or the number of passengers carried one mile in 1913 was 34,575,872,980; in 1912, 33,034,995,806. PULLING POWER OF A CENTIPEDE LOCOMOTIVE. The Erie Railroad conducted a test at Binghamton, N. Y., on July 24, 1914, of the pulling power of the new Centipede locomotive, which weighs 410 tons and has twenty-four driving wheels. The officials in charge kept adding car after car of coal to the train until it consisted of 250 fully loaded steel cars with a total weight of 21,000 tons. The locomotive pulled this train forty miles at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. RAILWAY MILEAGE IN THE UNITED STATES.* (From Statistical Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission for year ended June 30, 1912.) Total mileage in each State as follows: Alabama 5,303, Alaska (see foot note), Arizona 2,156, Arkansas 5,271, California 8, 105, Colorado 5,737, Connecticut 1,001, Delaware 334, District of Columbia 35, Florida 4,808 Georgia 7,250, Hawaii (see foot note), Idaho 2,556, Illinois 11,976,Indiana 7,444, Jowa 9,890, Kansas 9,137, Kentucky 3,609, Louisiana 5.686, Maine 2,252, Maryland 1,434, Massachusetts 2,114, Michigan 8,921, Minnesota, 8,986, Mississippi 4, 425, Missouri 8,125, Montana 4,358, Nebraska 6,135, Nevada 2,336, New Hampshire 1,245, New Jersey 2,305, New Mexico 3,046, New York 8,500, North Carolina 5,172, North Dakota 4,509, Ohio 9,122, Oklahoma 6,160, Oregon 2,685, Pennsylvania 11,460, Rhode Island 203, South Carolina 3,553, South Dakota 4,208, Tennessee 3,978, Texas 15,322, Utah 2,029, Vermont 1,074, Virginia 4,601, Washington 5,178, West Virginia 3,795, Wisconsin 7,588, Wyoming 1,678. Grand total mileage in U.S. in 1906, 224,363; In 1907, 229,951; in 1908, 233,467; in 1909, 236,834; in 1910, 240, 293; in 1911, 243,979; in 1912, 246,816. Does not include mileage of switching and terminal companies. Mileage in Alaska, 462 miles; in Hawaii, 193 miles. RAILWAYS OF AMERICA "GROUPED" BY CAPITALISTS. The great railroad systems of the United States have been reduced to a few groups" by means of consolidation and reconsolidation. The following is a list of these groups, which comprise threequarters of all the railroad lines of the country: In December, 1912, the U. S. Supreme Court held that ownership by the Oregon Short Line Railroad on behalf of the Union Pacific Railroad (controlled by the Harriman interests) of $126,650,000 of Southern Pacific Co. stock was in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust law act, and Oregon Short Line has disposed of its interest in the Southern Pacific, which system is now an independent line. † October 1, 1914, companys old $40,000,000 one-year notes to a syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan & Co. OPERATIONS OF BRITISH RAILWAYS. (Report of U. S. Vice-Consul-General, London.) GOVERNMENT returns show that during 1913 the railways of the United Kingdom carried 1,228,316,000 passengers and 371,571,000 tons of freight. The passengers were divided into classes as follows: First, 26,025,000; second, 12,088 000; third, 933,498,000, and workmen, 256,705,000. The number of season-ticket holders is estimated to have been about 595,000. The length of the lines, reduced to single track, was 55,438 miles. The gross receipts of the companies were $677.674,724, of which $277,044,978 was derived from passenger traffic, $324,191,630 from freight traffic, and $76.438, 115 from other sources, mainly subsidiary businesses. The gross expenditure was $424,563,193, of which $383,494,799 was devoted to operating expenses, leaving a net income of $253,111,531. The gross revenue and trading profit of the minor businesses are a matter of much interest and they are also shown: Sir Edgar Speyer, presiding at a meeting September 19, 1914, of the underground electric railways in London, said 900,000,000 passengers had been carried without a single fatality since the opening of the tube and the electrification of the district railway THE WORLD'S PRINCIPAL RAILROAD TERMINALS. RAILWAY MILEAGE OF THE WORLD. (From "Archly für Eisenbahnwesen," May-June, 1912, published by Prussian Ministry of Public Works, Berlin.) 37,995 34,623 Canada 27,570 22,046 United States 23,350 Newfoundland. 30,686 5,510 Mexico.. 37,008 21,659 Central America. 24,725 241,199 1,718 666 15,260 1,598 3,031 5,287 2,685 Lesser Antilles. 336 318 1,984 UNITED STATES STEAMBOAT INSPECTION SERVICE. THE Steamboat Inspection Service, by act of Congress approved February 14, 1903, was transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Commerce The transfer went into effect July 1, 1903. The Supervising Inspector-General of the Steamboat Inspection Service, George Uhler, reported to the Secretary of Commerce for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1914: Number of annual certificates of inspection issued to domestic steam, motor, sail vessels, and barges, 7,385; number of certificates issued to foreign steamers, 545; total number of annual certificates of inspec tion issued to domestic and foreign, 7,930. Decrease in number of certificates to domestic vessels from previous year, 130; increase in number of certificates to foreign vessels over previous year, 95; decrease in number of certificates of all kinds of vessels from previous year, 35. Gross tonnage of domestic vessels, all kinds, inspected, 5,596,504; gross tonnage of foreign steamers inspected, 4,374,006. Increase in gross tonnage of foreign steam vessels inspected over previous year, 946,692. Decrease in tonnage of all kinds domestic vessels inspected from previous year, 48,174, Number of officers' licenses issued, 18.871. Decrease in number of officers' licenses issued from previous year, 7,611. Number of new life-preservers inspected, 175, 332, of which number 1,210 were rejected. Decrease in number of new life-preservers inspected from previous year, 58,351. Decrease in number of life-preservers rejected from previous year, 2,079. Number of marine boiler plates inspected at the mills by assistant inspectors, 3, 159. Number of accidents resulting in loss of life, 232. Increase in number of lives lost from previous year, 146. (During the year 318,094,347 passengers were carried on vessels that are required by law to report the number of passengers carried. Dividing this number by 105, the total number of passengers lost, shows that 3,029, 469 passengers were carried for each lost.) |