The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-08-26 00:00:00

Egret eintatq &puss.

DOW mural. &MU fr 16:b. IMI4.

RAILWAY PROFIT&

Railway die-ideals are likely in time to berme
is accurate barometer of the national condition. 1
We are not sure they might not be regarded es each
at the pressed moment. It is certain that the amount
firrresponda with other Indications ; sad, although
there may be exceptional cironmeanoes here and
there, we shall End there is • does cennection 'esteem
dividends mei the general prosperity of the o >entry.
It is reckoned that, taking the various use together.
they pay this year 19i. in the E as compared with
last a•s000. There would seem to have beim dim's•
lobed activity in trafE4 as in all depirtments of
Importations were lees, and probably exports
IMO not maintained at the former standard. The
trade through iut the country was sluggish, if not
depressed, and &though there Is so exoeptlocual in.
fiasco this year in the °heck to going abroad, and the
tioaa•quait lacrimal of traffic at home, it Is Pretty
certain that tv.ith in oouverence of goofs audio travel.
flag deaf there has been less movement than when
trade was brisk or advancing by leaps and bolted'.
Faith in railway fluent:cos, however, is not likely to be
shaker' by one or two years' ualavortroble indications.
N dlting shod of • general collapse should affect the
profits of railways VI soy great extent. duch an
undertaking as the Menohester Canal might paralyse
• single limb in • large company like the L lea and
North Weston, but it would be a loco/ disturbance
merely, and it may be expected that • check here and
there would be oAnpeceatel by increased activity
afforded in some other router. There it, perhaps, no
eaterprime more at the mercy of geared influences
than the railway. It coon it ounapal people
to move ale.int for either business or pleasure. 11• If
OM it insure by any energy of It. own an Inovocid
quantity of heavy traffic. L canacit even oontrol the
three dogma of pseesorers. It vain are Hist-dais
estriag•i axle t 4 *coal the comforts of • private
room; in vain is the looney of wooed-dam oo nart•
menu augmented. People of all milks pr.( ato pay
• penny • mile, even dints& sometimes 0,0 have to
put up with uric Jogenial oompenion• It is certain
that if ra/lways bestowed the greatest amount of

attention on the co vet 02(110f4lis of thew onstontere, it
Li not ta &et or the moood claw that would be
privileged. We are of opinion that • great mistake is
made in aim respect, that. inward of being huddled
Schroder like 'hap, *heap travellers dowry* at least
the space which regulation thoughtfully allots- Hot
this Le only oos of the few disadvategei of our rail-
way system. Takiog ou• oonaklieralon with another
there le not • great deal to find fault with. Of
positive failure there has been little, if any, foe in
those oases where original subscription' were sacrinoed,
there were compensating advantages in saving of
carriages and locreaved local 0311•11111412,041). Ls we said
just cow, It would take a greet deal to destroy public
egad Joao' in railway inveatmeati, and there could not
have been a bitter tilt of inherent vitality than the
trying vicissitudes of the past few year& The reason
of =stained prosperity La almost as inyiteri 'es in the
case of railways am to that of bank.. Prosperity
aka however, and at wds solid ground for encourage •
mat. If • cloptio•on unexampled in length and
woozily be• ben successfully encountered, what. might
Dot be hoped for when proiperiiy again ate In !