RAILROAD COMMISSIONS-Continued.

Railroad Commission of Texas-Austin. Ison. John H. Roemer, Chairman; David Harlowe, Allison Mayfield, Chairman; Earle B. Mayfield, W. D. Williams; E. R. McLean, Secretary.

Vermont Public Service CommissionBrattleboro. Robert C. Bacon, Chairman; Wm. R. Warner, Park H. Pollard; Neil D. Clausson, Clerk.

Halford Erickson; Lewis E. Gettle, Secretary. Manitoba Public Utilities CommissionWinnipeg, Canada, H. A. Robson, Commissioner; A. W. Smith, Secretary. New Brunswick Public Utilities Commission-St. John, N. B. Geo. O, Dickson Otty, State Corporation Commission of Vir- Chairman; A. B. Connell, Felix Michaud, Fred P. ginia-Richmond. Robert R. Prentis, Chairman; Robinson, Clerk, P. O. Box 647, Fredericton, Nova Scotia Board of Commissioners of William F. Rhea, J. R. Wingfield; R. T. Wilson, Public Utilities-Halifax, N. S. John U. Ross, Clerk. Public Service Commission of Washing-Chairman; R. T. Maclireith, Vice-Chairman; tou-Olympia. Charles A. Reynolds, Chairman; Parker R. Colpitt; Laura B. Taylor, Secretary, Arthur A. Lewis, Frank R. Spinuing; J. H. Brown, Secretary. West Virginia Public Service CommisLee Ott, Chairman; Howard sion-Charleston. N. Ogden, C. H. Bronson, W. C. Kilmer; R. B. Bernheim, Secretary.

The Ontario Railway and Municipal Board-Toronto, Ont. D. M. McIntyre, Chairman; A. B. Ingram, Vice-Chairman; H. N. Kittson, Cominissioner; H.C. Small, Secretary. Quebec Public Utilities Commission-Quebec, Canada, F. W. Hibbard, President; Sir George Railroad Commission of Wisconsin-Mad-Garneau, F.C. Laberge; M. Jos. Ahern, Secretary.

RAILROAD STATISTICS.

(From Report of Interstate Commerce Commission for fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, and made from the annual reports of carriers having gross operating revenues of $100,000 or more for the year.)

On June 30, 1913, the roads covered by this report represented 244,418.49 miles (single track) of line operated, including 11,162.97 miles used The aggregate mileage of under trackage rights. railway tracks of all kinds covered by these roads was 369,579.80 miles, an increase of 8,628, 36 miles over corresponding returns for 1912.

Of the total number (63,378) of locomotives, 14,396 were classified as passenger,37,924 freight, 9,834 switching, and 1,224 unclassified.

The total number of cars of all classes was 2,445,508 (or 76,566 more than on June 30, 1912), as follows: Passenger service, 51,700; freight, 2,273,564; companies' service, 120,244.

Expenditures for additions and betterments and for new lines and extensions during fiscal year 1913, $680,084,873.

Credits-Property retired or converted, $79,495,571; adjustments, 85,058,790; difference between record value of grantor and purchase price of grantee in case of roads sold, merged, $203.consolidated, etc., $118,470,872: total, 025,233; net increase during year, $477,059,640. Passengers carried, 1,033,679,680; passenger mileage, 34,575,872,980; tons of freight moved, 2,058,035, 487; ton mileage, 301,398.752.108.

Traffic earnings - Passengers, $695,987.817; freight, $2,198,930,565 and including revenue from miscellaneous sources, making total operat

Investment in road and equipment-The figures include returns for investment in road and equip-ing revenues $3.125,135,798. ment, shown by the operating roads, as well as by their subsidiary non-operating roads (leased, operated under contract, etc).

Investment to June 30, 1912, $15,874,579.626; investment to June 30, 1913, $16.351,639,266; increase 1913 over 1912, $477,059,640.

Operating expenses-Maintenance of way and structures, $421,232,395; maintenance of equip ment, $511,561,363; traffic expenses, $62,850,113; transportation expenses, $1,096,252,745; general expenses, $78,072,308; total operating expenses, $2,169,968,924.

CAPITALIZATION OF RAILWAY PROPERTY.

On June 30, 1913, according to the annual reports submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission by roads having gross operating revenues of $100,000 or more, together with returns made in reports filed in behalf of their non-operating subsidiary lines, the par value of the amount of railway capital outstanding was $19,796,125, 712. This amount includes capital beld by the railway comOf the total amount of such capital outstanding there panies concerned, as well as by the public. existed as stock $8,610,611,327, of which $7,231,515,045 was common and $1,379,096,282 was preferred; the remaining part, $11,185,514,385, representing funded debt, consisted of mortgage bonds, $8,186,366,426; collateral trust bonds, $1,189,636, 796; plain bonds, debentures, and notes, $1,107,076,783; income bonds, $250, 290,655; miscellaneous funded obligations, $82,858,275, and equipment trust obligations, $369,285,450.

Of the total capital stock outstanding for the roads under consideration, $2,836,023,744, or 32.94 per cent., paid no dividends. The amount of dividends declared during the year (by both operating and non-operating companies represented in this statement) was $368,606,327, being equivalent to 6.38 per cent, on dividend-paying stock. The average rate of dividends paid on all stocks outstanding pertaining to the roads under consideration was 4.28 per cent. No interest was paid on $1,128,776,748, or 10.44 per cent., of the total amount of funded debt outstanding (other than equipment trust obligations).

PASSENGER RAILWAY RATES IN EUROPE. Most of the railroads are owned PASSENGER rates differ considerably in the different countries. and operated by the state, but in some countries there are both state and private roads, and in The following are approximate passenger rates, England the railroads are all private corporations. reduced to cents per mile, in the various European countries;

Class I. Class II. Class III.

Cents.

Cents.

Germany, (state).......

2.74

Belgium, (state).

2.92

1.98

1.17

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OWNERSHIP. Netherlands, (state)... (private)..

Cents.

Class I. Class II. ClassTIL.
Cents.
Cents.

3.30

2.48

1.66

3.32

France, (state)........

3.16

2.36

1,54

Italy, (state).

1.62

(private)...

3.49

2.34

1.54

United Kingdom. (priv.) 4.70

3.18

1.78

In Italy the rate per mile is higher than on any other state-owned road, though a differential tariff offers some advantages that tend to reduce the price and to make the long-distance journeys as cheap as in other countries.

Principal Railroad Systems of United States and Canada

WITH A SYNOPSIS OF LAST ANNUAL REPORT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE AS SUBMITTED TO "THE WORLD ALMANAC" BY THE RAILROAD COMPANIES.

Main Line, Boston, Mass., to Albany,
N. Y..200 m.; Ware River Br., 49 m.
Athol Br.. 45 m.; Pittsfield and
North Adams Br., 19 m.; Hudson
and Chatham Br., 17 m.; Milford
Br., 12 m.; Webster Br., 11 m.;[
other branches, 39 m. Total mile-
age, 892.

Total net income. $4,928,016
Total payments... 5.448.735 EXPRESS CO.-American.
Deficit............

$520,719

General Officers.

President, E. P. Ripley, Chicago
Ill.; Vice-Presidents, W.B.Storey,
Chicago, Ill.; Edward Chambers,
Chicago, IL.; W. E. Hodges,
Chicago, IL; General Managers,
C. W. Kouns, Topeka, Kan.; A.
G. Wells, Los Angeles, Cal.; F.
C. Fox, Amarillo, Tex.; W. A.
Drake, Prescott, Ariz.; Freight
Traffic Manager, F. B. Houghton,
Chicago, Ill.; Passenger Traffic
Manager, W. J. Black, Chicago,
Ill.; Secretary, E. L. Copeland,
Topeka, Kan.; Assistant Secre-
tary, L. C. Deming, New York.
General Offices, Chicago, Ill.; To-
peka, Kan.; Los Angeles, Cal.;
New York Offices, 5 Nassau St.,
377 Broadway.

President, John R. Kenly; 1st
Vice-President, Alex. Hamilton,
Petersburg, Va.; 2d Vice-Presi-
dent, C. S. Gadsden, Charleston,
S. C., 3d Vice-President,

; 4th Vice-President, R. A. Brand: General Manager, W. N. Royall; Secretary, H. L. Borden, New York, General Offices, Wilmington, N. C.: New York Offices, 71, 407, and 1218 Broadway.

President, Daniel Willard; 1st Vice-
President, George F. Randolph;
2d Vice-President, George M.
Shriver; 3d Vice-President,
A. W. Thompson; 4th Vice-Presi-
dent, J. V. McNeal; Secretary,
C. W. Woolford; General Freight
Traffic Manager, C. S. Wight;
Manager Passenger Traffic, O. P.
McCarty: General Manager, C.
W. Galloway. General Offices,
Baltimore, Md.; New York
Offices, 2 Wall Street, 377 Broad-
way, 17 State St.

President, Percy R. Todd; General
Manager, J. B. Stewart, General
Offices, Bangor, Me.

Vice-President, H.M. Biscoe. General Offices, Boston, Mass.

196 Principal Railroad Systems of United States & Canada.

SYSTEMS, LOCATION, AND
FINANCIAL DATA.

Boston and Maine Railroad.

(New York, Massachusetts,
New Hamp-
Vermont,

shire, Maine, Quebec.]
For year ending June 30, 1914.
Total earnings......$47,600,145
Operating expenses 38,296,678

$9,303,467 1,516,009 Total net income. $10,819,476 Total payments... 12,864,218 $2,044,742 Deficit.............

Net earnings..... Other income.

Divisions, Mileage, and Operating

Express.

Main Lines (Boston to Portland, via
Dover), 115.52 m.; (Boston to Port-
land. via Portsmouth), 108.74 m.;
Jewett, Me., to Intervale, N. H.,73.37
m.; Worcester, Mass., to Portland,
Me., 150.78 m.; Boston, Mass., to
Groveton, N. H.,221.84 m.; Concord,
N. H., to White River Jct., Vt., 69.50
m.; White River Jct., Vt., to Sher-
brooke, P. Q., 145.20 m.; N. Cam-
Mass.,
bridge to Northampton,
95.69 m.; Springfield, Mass., to
Brattleboro, Vt., 59.65 m.; Boston to
Rotterdam Jct. and Troy, 253.01 m.;
Ashburnham Jct. to Bellows Falls,
53.85 m.; branches, 950,33 m. Total
mileage, 2,301.90.
EXPRESS CO's-American; National.

General Officers.

President, James H. Hustis; Vice-
President, W. J. Hobbs; General
Manager, B. R. Pollock; Freight
Trafic Manager, A. S. Crane;
General Superintendent, J. D.
Tyter. General Offices, Boston,
Mass.

President, Wm. T. Noonan; Vice-
Presidents, Adrian Iselin, Jr.,
New York, and W. Emlen Roose
velt, New York; General Man-
ager, T. F. Brennan; Secretary,
Gen-
Ernest Iselin, New York.
eral Offices, Rochester, N. Y.;
New York Office, 36 Wall Street.

[Manitoba,

Saskatchewan,

Alberta,

Ontario,

Min

nesota. ]

For year ending June 30, 1913.

Total earnings..

$24,277,479

Total mileage, 4,670.

Operating expenses 17,503,611 EXPRESS CO.-Canadian Northern.

Net earnings. $6,773,868 Premium received.

250,000

Total net income.$7,023,868 Total payments.... 6,179,138

$844,730

Surplus...........
Canadian Pacific Ry.
Maine,
[New Brunswick,
Quebec, Ontario, Michigan,
Manitoba, Assiniboia,
Saskatchewan, Alberta,
British Columbia. ]

For year ending June 30, 1914.
Total earnings....$119,754,042
Operating expenses 81,701,934
Net earnings..

$38,052,108

Atlantic Div., 771.6 m.; Eastern Div.,
1,582.8 m.; Ontario Div., 1,509.3 m.
Lake Superior Div., 1,113.2 m.;
Manitoba Div., 2,465 m.; Saskat-
chewan Div., 2,146.7 m.; Alberta
Div., 2,453.6 m.; British Columbia
Total mileage,
Div., 1,279.3 m.
13,322.1.

Other income...... 31,353,442 Length of Main Line, Montreal to
Vancouver, 2,903 miles.

Total net income. 69,405,550 EXPRESS Co's-Dominion; Western.
Total payments.... 56,997,416

$12,408,134 Central of Georgia Ry. [Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. ]

Surplus........

For year ending June 30, 1914. $14,326,575 Total earnings.

Operating expenses. 10,785,764

Net earnings.....

.$3,540,811

Other income......

841,591

4,191,360
$191.042

Total net income..$4.382.402 To al payments....

Surplus.....

Central Railroad of New
Jersey.

[New York, New Jersey.
Pennsylvania.

For year ending June 30, 1914.
$29,251,092
Total earnings
Operating expenses 19,741,844
$9.509,248
Net earnings....
3,087,771
Other income......
Total net income. $12,597,019
6,873,085
Total payments...
Surplus....... 85,723,934

Columbus-Andalusia, 138 m. ; Griffin-
Chattanooga, 198m.; Macon-Athens,
105 m.; Savannah-Atlanta, 294 m.;
Birmingham-Macon, 257 m.; Ft.)
Valley-Montgomery,194m.; Smith-
m.; other
ville-Lockhart, 176
branches, 562 m. Total mileage,
1.924.
EXPRESS Co.-Southern.

New York to Scranton, 191.65 m.;
Newark Br., 10.62 m.; South Br.
15.78 m.; Perth Amboy Br., 23.12
m.; High Bridge Br., 55.80 m.;
sundry branches in New Jersey,
23.46 m.; sundry branches in Penn-
New Jersey
sylvania, 119.13 m.;
Southern Div., 175.86 m.; Freehold
and Atlantic Highlands Div., 24.47
m.; New York and Long Branch
R. R.,38.04 m. Total mileage, 677.93.
EXPRESS CO'S-American. On New
York and Long Branch R. R.,
Adams; American.

President, Wm. Mackenzie, To-
ronto, Ont.; Vice-President, D.D.
Mann, Toronto, Ont.; 3d Vice-
President, D. B. Hanna, Toronto,
Ont.; General Traffic Manager,
Geo. H. Shaw, Toronto, Ont.

President, Thomas G. Shaughnessy;
McNicoll,
Vice-Presidents, D.
George Bury, Winnipeg, Man.:
I. G. Ogden, G. M. Bosworth;
Secretary, W. R. Baker. General
Offices, Montreal, Quebec; New
York Offices, 64 Wall Street, 458
Broadway.

President, W. A. Winburn; VicePresident, A. R. Lawton; General Manager, T. S. Moise; Secre tary, Chas. F. Groves, General Offices, Savannah, Ga.; New York Offices, 501 Fifth Avenue and 291 Broadway.

President and General Manager,
William G. Besler; Vice-Presi
deut, R. W. de Forest; Vice
President and Freight Traffic
Manager, Tilghman B. Koons;
Secretary, G. Ö. Waterman. Gen-
eral Offices 143 Liberty Street,
New York.

.-com

Central Vermont Ry.
[Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Vermont, Quebec.]

For year ending June 30, 1914.
Total earnings..

Operating expenses. 3,946,073

Divisions, Mileage, and Operating
Express.

Total net income. $755,473 Total payments..... 1,014,730 $259,257

Deficit.............
Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.
Virginia,
[Virginia, West
Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois. ]

For year ending June 30, 1914.
$36,690,021
Total earnings.

Exclusive of Chicago, St. Paul, Minn. and Omaha Ry.

President, Hale Holden; Vice-
Presidents, H. E. Byram, C. G.
Burnham, T. S. Howland, and
W. W. Baldwin; Assistant Sec-
retary, H. W. Weiss, Chicago,
Ill.; Passenger Traffic Manager,
P. S. Eustis; Freight Traffic
Manager, G. H. Crosby. General
Offices, Chicago, Ill.; New York
Offices, 32 Nassau Street, 299 and
1184 Broadway.
General Offices of lines west of the
Missouri River at Omaha, Neb

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All of the railroad and property of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway Company was deeded to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, December 24, 1912.