The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-01
The western Maryland Railroad.
large Increase Of Net Earnings and a
Good Outlook for Business.
Lton, az BaItimore SUI.

From, the baltimore San.
The annual report of President Hood and
the board of directors of the Western Mary
land Railroad Company, for the year ended
September go, 1888, has been completed. 1t
shows that the gross earnings have been as
follows: From passengers, $3.50, 740. o.; freight
and express. $34S. 1896. 40: milk and marketing,
$29, $50. 80; mails, $40, 1913. "a; miscellaneous
sources, So, 643.62. Total, 1854, 164.21. The
operating expenses, including rental of Hill
len Station and cost of operating the Balti
more and Cumberland Valley Railroad, were
1898. 9S9.23. The net earnings were $751;,
174.9S. Expenditures in betterments were
So, 447.70.
The distribution Of expenses was as fol-
( lows: Observation-Disclosures of transportation
department, S247 ,019.O8; expenses of machi-
merry department, $50, 97l 50; expenses ofroad
department, S6S, 667.25; general expenses,
So, 331.31, Total, 1899, 989. %. Better
ments-Expenses of transportation depart
ment, $500; expenses of machinery depart
ment (new machinery and equipment), S48,-
/ 1858; expenses of road department, S31,
932. 43; general expenses, S3,00730. Total,
So, 447.70.
The earnings as compared with 1882 were
as follows Increase from passengers, S32,
$685. SO; increase from freight and express,
! SIS, $50. A; increase from milk and marketing,
| 81, 1886. 81; increase from mails, 81 443.68 in
| crease from miscellaneous sources, 81, O85.S7.
/ Total increase of earnings. $114, 015.55.
The expenses as compared with 1882 were
as follows: For observation-disclosures in ex-
! penses of transportation department, S34,
| 229. OF; increase in expenses of machinery de-
partment, $40, 078.20; decrease in expenses
of road department, $11 ,234.60; increase in
general expenses, 81, 1851. Total increase,
| S35, 1854. For betterments- Decrease in
expenses of transportation department, ST.
! AZ; decrease in expenses of road depart
ment, $25, 7S9. 10; increase in expenses of
machinery department, 50, 58S. 90; increase in
general expenses, SO, 007. 80. Total decrease,
$22, 063.79.
There were moved during the year $50, GAG
passengers and 307, 139 tons of freight, the
train performance being equivalent to the
movement of 16, 20l $50 passengers and r.
876, I'll tons of freight distance of one mile,
which, compared with 1882, shows an increase
of 2, 799, 1872 passengers and 3, 704, 439 tons of
freight carried one mile.
The average rates of transportation re-
ceived during the year were one and sixty
hundredths cents per passenger per mile, and
two and sixty-two- hundredths cents per ton
per mile, which, compared with the rates of
1882, shows decrease in the passenger rate
of ine-hundredths of a cent per passenger
per mile, and in freight decrease of twenty
six hundredths of cent per ton per mile.
The passengers were classified as follows:
Full fare, 277, 763; two-thirds fare CLERGY
mem, 4,245; half fare (children), 9,615; com
mutation and mileage, 1873, 94l, and excur-
sionists, 239, 382. Total, $50, 946.
The mileage performed by locomotives dur
ing the year was 843, 537 miles, or ,067
miles in excess of 1882. The consumption of
coal was 1884 tons, or 81 610 pounds per
mile run.
The report further says that the enlarge
ment of depot and yard facilities at Hillen
Station was completed April l, and the addi-
tional facilities thus provided have enabled
the company to accommodate a much larger
business than would otherwise have been pos
sible, and still there is now ample provision
for much greater expansion. Neither could
the business have been increased to the ex-
tent has without the improvement loan made
by the city of Baltimore to the company, as
the portion so far applied has nearly doubled
the equipment, has extended the steel track
to the Blue Ridge, and has substituted the
most approved type of iron for several of the
most important wooden bridges.
As the company is now paying interest
upon this and upon both of the Hillen Station
loans, while its ability to do so is daily in
creasing, the wisdom of extending this aid
will not be questioned by any who understand
the true interests of the city.
The company is now paying interest upon
SO, 021, 572 of its Indebtedness, and unless the
making of provision for business that must
soon be derived from new sources should re-
quire expenditures of net revenue, otherwise
available, it will at an early day be able to
assume the payment of interest upon a still
larger sum.