The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-21
PORTLAND RAILRoRD COMPANY
Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Portland Railroad
| Company was held at Lancaster Hall at D.
NJ. yesterday, President Norton in the char
| The annual reports were read as follows:
DIRECTORS REPORT.
We have six new one-horse cars costing $3.50
each, total cost So 300. OF this amount VT
have paid from the earnings of the road the
past year 50 600, and other expenses made nee
essary by placing these cars on the roal will
m AXE the amount expended by tine company
above our ordinary ex0-nses In 1873, as near as
We can estimate, $4,000. We have built over
the past year one of our old cars, but tue cost
nearly rea, hes sum sufficient to build new
| one. We have another IN the shop under re-
PAIR, which will require less outlay. The re-
naming old two-end cars can be repaired suffi
! clently TO use when extra cars are required
without much OUTLAY. We are also repairing
two one horse-cars, the expenses Of which will
not probably exceed $780,
We have bsen Very fortunate as regards acct
dents the past year, having paid out very
small amount.
We cannot anticipate much, if any, increase
OF travel on the road the present year, AMI the
directors feel confident that the only way to
pursue to enable the company to declare a rea-
sOnabla dividend at the expiration of the pres.
ent year, Will be to practice the most rigid
economy in every department of our running
expenses. The cost of all the necessares of
life has been SO greatly reduced the past year
thai, IN the opinion Of the directors, the month
ly pay roll can be materially lessenej without
doing injustice to those we employ.
WeadO not anticipate any extraordinary ex-
penses the present year, and we trust the d.
rectors you elect will by strict economy be en-
sbed to pay you satisfactory dividend at the
close OF the year.
SUPERINTENDENT REPORT.
During the past year your cars have run g.
S264 trips, making total of 244 2134 miles.
carrying 855,99S passengers. OF these 226,O29
we're carried on the Spring street, 316 365 on
the Congress street, and 313 604 on the Deering
line, being 20,6S3 passengers less than last
year.
We have done the usual amount of repairing
on the track 10 the city and on the Deeriug
line, using about 500 new sleepers on the lat
ter; have put in new curve at the corner of
Portland and Green Streets one at the corner
OF Spring and High Streets, and one at the Car
house, the total cost being $2l7OS We have
laid the rail for the Hill turnout, using tons
1920 pounds iron and ,964 feet of Lumbar also
$50 yards paving the total cost being 1904 SO
We have put in 156 yards of paving 10 front of
paved Preble street the entire length of the
tracA, also the Green street curve with new
stone, the same costing $40
We have built five new Monitor top cars for
Congress, and one for the Dsering line, the
same costing about $4,000. We have made over
q" oiu shAoipuos WuiCu We uhu VI uAuu, lQGO
sleigh Oar for the Congress street line, at cost
OF about $3.50. We have put new fare box-s
into all the sleigh cars at cost of $157 25. We
have bnllt two new sheJs in Deerlng to
house old cars, and repaired old track aud LAID
new track in Car houses which, together with
the sheds, Cost 1892 We have put new Ellis
under the car house on Spring street and i'm
proved 1t generally, at cost of ST.: also put
new tnrn-table into the car house, the cost be-
ing $75.
10 years past it has cost from $1,000 to $1,000
per year TO keep our stock of horses up to the
standard required to do eur work, but this year
owing to the necessity of having large horses
for one horse cars, We have carried the best of
our old horses to Deering, and brought the
poorest from that stable 10 here and traded for
large ones. therefore it has Gust more than for
merly. We have bought seven new ones for
which we paid $3.50, aud have exchanged %
old ones for new, paying $1250 ference, and
have sold 4, for which We received $lS5 We
have So now on hand in good condiuou. We
have made l6 new harnesses for single horse
Cars which we now have on hand.
We had on hand j au. LIST, 1879, tons hay,
IL tons straw. ana 700 bushels of oats also 1900
sleeD-rs and tons new IRON for track.
There has been but three accidents on the
road for the year. The hill tow horse ran
away and ran into carriage at a damage of
3D. A boy 10 our employ had his foot run over
by Car Jammlng it badly. We paid his doc
tors Dill also his wages while he was SICK. The
=" = was a boy who was trying to steal ride.
~: t eoli I'm the Car and the wheel went over
us ioo'' pu' 10 --nde no claim for damage.
rMoN LEACH, Supt,