Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-19

RAILROAD RETURNs.--The f'iiowing is an
abstract of the annaal fct0rns made to the rail-
road commissioners of the several railroadscen.
terirg or running through Worcester, The sta.
tisties are for the year ending October /. ISL
Boston and Ajbcps Rtfh5dd Capital stock
authorized, S27, 325,O0O; paid in, $1,000, 100;
debt, 81 ,f2t 500, cost Of construction, S19052
i5si idngth Of road 201 50 miles; total length
of track, 35l.5l; miles operated by company,
26S.2S; number of locomotives, 1870, passenger
cars, 1888; freight cars, 1900; miles run BY pas
senger cars, ,11g, G37; passengers carried, 4,744
900; passengers carried one mile 9S, 634 OBS
tons OF lreight carried, 2,609,332 freight carried
one mile, 227 .151 ,039; number Of employees of
the road, APP; expenditures charged ia capital
account 81 ,405S91: maintenance Of way, ST.
515,tG6 miles of steel rail track 62.S; total
operating EXPENSES; Sh,90T $50; total earn
iugs, 81 ,962 ,3l2i total earnings per mile, S29,
tot net income, 2,lj49S3; surplus, 81 ,3F1 1855
PfOrideHcc and Worcester RdihOdd,-Capital
stock authorized S3,000,0O9; paid in S3,000,C00;
debt 1925, 600; cost of construction 81 ,6j6,506
length of road l3li miles total length of track
1881; miles operated by company 1921; num-
her of locomotives %; passenger cars "a;
freight ears SSl; miles run by passenger cars
20S ,420; passengers carried 1898, S9i ; passen-
gers carried mile II, S5S, 1lS tons of freight
carried 1926; freight carried che mile ID $780,
zoo, nuilBSt tt GitDlbNtc VI lDG lOdu 800, TX
penditures charged capital account StOi.74O;
maintenance of way S1S5.7O0; miles of steel
rail track 6 traffic expenses per mile S7591
total operating expenses 1923 l66; total operating
expenses per mile 1888; total earnings 1929,
219; total earnings per mile S1I, 536; net in
come S205,Si3i surplus SS1 1872.
Worcester and NdSbUa-Captal stock au
thofzed $4,000 600; paid in 81 ,425, 400; debt
5000 900; cost Of construction 1872, 74S; length
of road 1860; total length OF track 1914; miles
operated by company 1853; number of loco
motives 10; passenger cars II; freight cars
30l: miles run by passenger cars 90 ,472 num-
Der Of passengers carried 356,26l; passengers
one mile 1886 235; tons of freight carried
32S 372 freight carried one mile IL 500 03S TONS
number of employees of the road 295; CXpend-
lures OF the road charged capital account $685.
0i3; maintenance of way SSO,340; traffic eX-
penses per mile S5261; total operating expenses
$685., 697; total earnings Sj69,l64; net income
1881 ,067; surplus S1Sl OBS
The figures for the Norwich and Worcester
road are rather uninteli@ible from being in
cuded in those for that abominable swindle, the
Boston, Hartford and Erie, whose returns give
% locomotives, 80 passenger cars, 32S, 1921 miles
run by passenger cars, 2,43S,37S passengers car
ried, II ,005,979 passengers carried one mile,
2941 III tons of freight carried, S,023 ,S66 tons of
freight carried one mile, 515 employees OF the
road, S125,07S for maintenance of way, total
earnings Sab, AIS, and net income S135,394.
The old Ftchburg road, from Boston to
Fitcbburg 50 miles, returns S4,OO0,0O0 capital
stock, all paid in, So, 100000 cost of cOnstruc-
ton, IA miles total length of track, 1872 miles
operated by the company, 36 locomotives, As
passenger cars, GAG freight ears, 334, 1873 miles
run by passenger cars, 1929 passengers car
ricd, y, 705 ,034 passengers carried one mile, 675
employees, $3.50 600 expenditures charged to cap
ifal account 1926 1863 for maintenance of way,
1920 traffic expenses per mile total operating
expenses 81 ,010,653, or S10,S29 per mile of
road total earnings 81 ,327,341, or S14,223 per
mile, net Income S3l6,737, surplus S80S,4SS.
The Vermont and Massachusetts, from Fitch
burg to Greenfield and Brattleboro, returns
50 $4,000 capital stock paid in, 1893 1872 debt,
So, 242 1893 cost of construction; 3d. length of
road; 50 ID miles total length of track: IS
miles operated by company; 10 locomotives;
81 passenger cars, PA freight cars 1875, 1888 miles
run by passenger cars; 344 $40 passengers car
red; passengers carried one mile sop ,527;
freight carried 800 tons; freight carried one mile
40 1883 tons; expenditure charged to capital ac-
account S13O ,423; traffic expenses per mile
S21S3; total operating expenses of the road
S399,372, or S453S per mile; total earnings
S562 ,28S, or S5l11 per mile; net income S162,-
500.
Cheshire railroad, from Fitchburg to Bellows
Falls Vt, capital stock paid in So 035,925; cost
of construction S2,337 ,102; length of road $685.
total len1th Of track 64.47; miles operated by
company IS -; passenger cars 81; locomotives
%; freight cars 400 miles run by passenger
cars 122 ,570 passengers carried 147 PA; pas
sengers one mile 5,S54,640 freight carried
370,S40 tons; freight carried one mile
20,6S5722 tons; number of employees of
road All maintenance of way S13I 1888; traffic
expenses per mile $6189; total operating eX-
penscs $3.50 1866 or S9439 per mile of road; total
earnings S7S7, S15, or So 2S7 per mile; net in
come S157 $40; surplus SIP ia.
Boston, Cliniou & Fitchburg, ttrom Ftchburg
to framingham,) capital stock authorized So
$4,000, of which 50 ,223 900 is paid iu debt ST.,
56S,5OO; cot of construction S2,469,96O; length |
Of road 1918; total length of track, 59i miles; |
operated by company, SSl locomotives 80; pas
senger cars 43; freight cars 593; miles run by |
passenger cars 3j7 ,140: passengers carried 1, ;
1882; passengers carried one mile 23,520,0S0;
freight carried 54S I93 tons; freight carried one
mile 15,I53, S2I tons; number of employees of
road 1856; maintenance Of way S249, S67 traffic |
expenses per mile 81 ,l49; total operating ex-
penses 1858 ,S43, or S12.3SS per mile OF road to-
tal earnings 81 ,206, 10S, Or S15,66l per mile of
road; net income 1852 ,26i; surplus S3O8, 21O.
The Boston and Albany road has nearly fonr
times the capital stock and general facilities of
any other of the New England railroads, the
Boston and Maine with 81 600 900, Old Colony
and Newport with Sc 800, 600, and Eastern with
Sc 100 600 capital stock coming next, while the
former has S27 1925 geo; and the amount of bus
mess done, with the length of road OPP Grated, is
in corresponding ratio. For instance while the
Boston and Albany carried last year 1909 1892 |
tons of freight, the corresponding figures of the
highest in amount of the other roads was Boston
and Providence, $50 ,565 tons; Boston, Clinton
and Fitchburg, 5iS,793; Boston and Maine,
4S6, 444; Providence and Worcester, ASP .266;
Old Colony and Newport, 3s5,157; Cheshire,
S7O,s4O; Eastern, 1866; Connecticut River,
1872 ,542, and Worcester aud Nashua, 3zS, 572. In
number of passengers carried the difference in
roads named is less marked, that of the Eastern
being 4,610 ,277, nearly as many as the Boston
and Albany; Boston and Maine, 1878, 5S7; Old |
Colony aud Newport, 1882, 1850; Boston aud
Providence, 2,642,908; the Fitehburg and Bos.
ton and Providence and Worcester coming |
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