St. Louis Southwestern St. Louis Southwestern Ry.: Railway System "Cotton Belt Route." [Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas.] For year ending June 30, 1907. Net earnings...... $3,357,033 Other income..... Total net income.. 83,564,681 Total payments.... 1.852,138 Surplus............ $1,712,543 Main Line, 425.8 m. Stuttgart Br. 34.6 m. Louis Southwestern Ry. of Teras: Eastern Div., 511 m.; Rio Grande Total payments..... 3,551,459 EXPRESS CO.-Pacific. General Officers. President, George J. Gould; Vice- Surplus.... $1,564,243 Toledo and Ohio Central Ray, and Kana wha Michigan Ry: Toledo to Bremen, 172.91 m.: New Lexington to Corning, 12.33 m.; Total For year ending June 30, 1906. Toledo, O., to St. Louis, Mo., 450.72 m. Total net income. $1,088,510 Total payments..... Surplus..... 617,375 471,135 Chairman of Board, Decatur Axtell, Richmond, Va.; President, N. Monsarrat, Columbus, O.; 1st Vice-President T. & O. C. Ry. Chas. G. Hickox, Cleveland, O.; 1st Vice-President K. & M. Ry. R. W. Hickox, Cleveland, O.; 2d Vice-President and Secretary, J. M. Ferris, General Offices, Toledo, O. Chairman of the Board, W. A. President, E. H. Harriman, New Kanawha and Michigan Ry.-Total earnings, $2,377,661; operating expenses, $1,861,966; net earnings, $515,695; pay menis, 8683.487; deficit, 117,799. Railway Employes in the United States. COMPARATIVE SUMMARY OF EMPLOYES AND AVERAGE DAILY COMPENSATION, Railway Accidents in the United States. (From Statistical Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission.) 176,348 81 159,472 75 38.217 311,185 143 18 37,609 18 289,044 136 45,532 21 46,262 22 31,963 15 30,425 14 4 120,724 59 52,993 26 56,041 27 39,741 19 104,885 51 44,819 22 56,407 27 154,635 75 37,101 18 300,714 147 1.36 1.32 1.33 49.961 24 1.80 1.79 1.77 30,984 15 8,753 7,495 3 7,949 4 178,965 82 160,565 76 168,430 82 684 1,382,196 637 1,296,121| 611 1,312,537 639 1.69 1.71 1.69 4.12 4.12 4.10 2.42 2.38 2.35 3 51 3.50 3.50 2.55 2.31 2.27 2.69 2.65 2.61 2.28 2.25 2.26 1.92 1.92 1.91 1.80 1.79 1.78 2.13 2.19 2.15 2.10 2.17 2.17 1.83 1.83 1.82 The total number of passengers carried in 1906 was 797,946,116, as against 738,834,667 in 1905, 715.419,682 in 1904, 1694,891,535 in 1903, 649,878,505 in 1902, 607,278,121 in 1901, 576,831,251 in 1900, 523,176,508 in 1899, 501,066,681 in 1898, and 489,445,198 in 1897. Two hundred and fifty-one persons were killed and 34, 289 injured in handling traffic, tools, machinery, supplies, etc., and in getting on or off locomotives or cars at rest and from other causes. Railroad Clubs. Canadian R’y Club.-James Powell, Secretary, Box 7. St. Lambert, Montreal, Que. Richmond R. R. Club.-F. O. Robinson, Sec'y, Room 16. 8th & Main Streets, Richmond, Va. 434 Railroad Speed. NOTABLE FAST RUNS OF PASSENGER TRAINS FOR LONG DISTANCES, Dis INCLUSIVE Miles tance, Time, Miles. H. M. Hour. per Alpine. N. Y.-Geneva Junc., N. Y... 43.96 0.33 Burlington-Chicago.. 20th Century Ltd.," on L. Shore Kendallville-Toledo.. Atlantic Coast Line. Sept., 1895. Sept., 1895. April, 1897. Aug., 1897. May, 1900. Burlington Route... Mar., 1902. Burlington Route.. Aug., 1902. Mar., 1903. May, 1903. July, 1903. Great Western (England). April, 1904 Michigan Central. July, 1904. Great Western (England) Nov.,1904. Pennsylvania.. June, 1905. Pennsylvania June, 1905. Lake Shore & Mich. Southern.. June, 1905. Jacksonville-Savannah. 20th Century Ltd.," on L. Shore Toledo-Elkhart... June, 1905. Pennsylvania... New York Central July, 190. Pennsylvania Oct., 1905. Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & C... *Including stops. Excluding stops. London-Plymouth... Niagara Falls-Windsor..... Paddington-Bristol...... Crestline-Fort Wayne.. FASTEST RECORDED RUNS FOR SHORT DISTANCES. Miles M. S. Miles. Hour. 112.5 5.1 3.00 102 2.4 1.20 108 Run from Fleming to Jacksonville. 5 2.30 120 7.29 4.00 109,35 3.73 2.00 111.90 4.8 2.30 115.20 105 Egg Harbor - Brigantine Junction. The fastest time on record for a distance of over 440 miles was made by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern R.R. from Buffalo to Chicago, in June, 1905, noted 'above. The fastest long-distance run less than 440 miles was on the New York Central R. R. September 11, 1895, from New York to Buffalo, 436 1-2 miles, in 407 minutes actual time. Average speed, 64 1-3 miles an hour, with two stops and 28 slow-ups, and on January 1, 1903, from Albany to Buffalo, 302 miles, in 295 minutes. Among the fastest regular trains in the United States, for a shorter distance, are believed to be the New York Central " Empire State Express," between New York and Albany, 143 miles in 160 minutes, and the "Congressional Limited," on the Pennsylvania Railroad, which makes the run from Jersey City to Washington in 4 hours, 46 minutes, a distance of 227 miles. On August 15, 1898, on P. & R. and C. R. R. of N. J., "Royal Blue Line," between Elizabeth, N. J., and Jenkintown, a distance of 69 miles, in 61 minutes, including 2 "slow-ups," some of the miles being traversed in 38 seconds. The quickest run between Jersey City and Washington, 231 miles, was made on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, March 2, 1897 (by a special train, bearing Vice-President-elect Hobart and party), in 4 hours 8 minutes, making the running time, including "slow-ups" for taking water, changing engines, etc., 60 niles an hour. This beat the time of the "Aunt Jack" train, made by the Madison Square Theatre Company March 10, 1890, which was 4 hours 18 minutes, each way, going and returning. The fastest long-distance foreign trains, including all stops, are, according to the "Railroad Gazette," as follows: Of long-distance runs in France one is made on the Northern Railway of France by the Paris-Calais express, which runs 185 Other notable long-distance fast runs February 14-15, 1897-Pennsylvania Railroad and C., B. and Q, Jersey City to The Jarrett and Palmer special theatrical train, Jersey City to Oakland (San Francisco), 3,311 miles, June, 1876, 83 hours In October, 1905, the "Harriman Special" made the run from Oakland to Jersey City (2,239 miles) in 73 hours, 12 minutes, or 44.30 miles per hour. In May, 1906, the "Harriman Special" made the run from Oakland, Cal., to New York City in 71 hours, 27 minutes. The "Scott Special" left Los Angeles, Cal., July 9, 1905, and arrived in Chicago (2,415.5 miles), July 11, having made the run in 44 hours 54 minutes, maintaining an average speed while in motion of 51 miles an hour. On November 15, 1907, at Clayton, N. J., in a trial test on Pennsylvania R. R. between steam and electric locomotives, the steam engine made 93.6 miles an hour on a specially, built seven-mile curved track, while the electric locomotive made but 90 miles an hour. Europe America 175,000 $20,100,000,000 2,700,000,000 1,145,000,000 $1,800,000,000 $1,040,000,000 250,000 15,800,000,000 700,000,000 1,250,000,000 1,800,000,000 1,300,000.000 Africa. Asia 12,500 760,000,000 Australia... 15,000 760,000,000| 65,000,000 120,000,000 55,000,000 Total 490,000 $38,920,000,000 3, 746,000,000 2,461,500,000 $3,840,000,000 $2,427,500,000 These estimates are for 1900. Cost of roads and equipments in 1906 was estimated at $43,000,000,000, or an average of $76,000 per mile. RAILROAD MILEACE OF THE WORLD. Following statistics are of date Jan. 1, 1906: Total mileage, 562,780, made up as follows: 285.957 miles in America, 192,521 miles in Europe, 50,593 miles in Asia, 16,538 miles in Africa. and 17,441 miles in Australasia. Of the mileage of European railroads Germany stands first (34,669), followed in their order by Russia (32,743), France (28.430), Austria- Hungary (24.261), the United Kingdom (22,847), Italy (10,070), Spain (9,190), Sweden (7,677) and Norway (2,931). Railway Mileage in the United States. (From Statistical Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission. ) NUMBER OF STOCKHOLDERS IN PRINCIPAL RAILWAY COMPANIES. The Interstate Commerce Commission, in response to an order by the Senate, compiled in 1905, the first official statement showing the number of stockholders in each railway company reporting to the Commission. The number of companies was 1,220 and among the companies showing more than 1.000 stockholders were these: Anong important companies reporting less than 1,000 holders are the Atlantic Coast Line, 883; Mobile and Ohio, 798; Maine Central, 779; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, 603; Central Verment. 531; Michigan Central, 308. (No subsequent data on this subject available at time ALMANAC was printed.) P., G. & N. 1,035 Wheeling & Lake Erie.. 1,004 |