St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-07

Net earnings. Observation-Disclosures. 816,357
Dehclency.... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $625,362
Total miles owned, 51215; total miles
operated, 523; capital stock, common, $685.
600, 900; capital stock, preferred, 1872, 00O,-
600; funded debt, first mortgage bonds,
SIS, 900, 900; secured mortgage bonds, ST.
GAG, 600; equipment bonds, $40, 046, 900;
total funded debt, S36, 092, 900.
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
CLEVELAND, May 6.-The fifteenth an
nual report of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad, for the year ending Dec.
81, 1884, was submitted this morn
ing. The following is synopsis of the re-
port, which occupies nearly fifty pages of a
pamphlet. The total number of miles the
road operated was 1,34035. The capital
stock of the company is $50, 900, 900; the
funded debt is now $40, 1872, 900. This is an
increase OF $3, $50, 900, caused by the sale
of So, 500, 600 of the consolidated second
mortgage bonds (for 81, 900, OOO), less the
regular annual amount of $3.50, 600 for the
sinking fund. Earnings:
From freight. $9,358, lis As ST., ,O93 80
From passengers Abb 29 II 4,73O, OSS At
From mails..... $3.50 95 6S3, 1867 ~
From express. 337, 45S IL 364,1n %
From other s'crs Psi, 1898 30 247,435 So
Total. S14, 843, 583 SO SIS, 513, 656 Al
Oper'ing 'penses. S9,l33,521 Is $11, 1858 81
Net earnings. 5,71OO62 "a 7.5ll 1902 rs
Decrease in gross earnings. 80. So, orr AZ
The meeting of the stockholders was pre-
sided over by Senator Henry B. Payne.
The lease of the jamestown branch and the
Mahoning coal road was ratified. The with
drawal of 81. 500, 900 of per cent bonds of
the Mahoning road and the issue of like
amount of per cent. bonds was ordered,
which will be guaranteed by the Lake Shore
road; $50, 800, 900 of the Lake Shore cap
ital stock being voted, nearly all of which
was by the Vanderbilt interest. The fol-
lowing directors were elected: William K.
Vanderbilt ard Samuel F. Barger of New
York; Jeptha III. Wade, Cleveland, and
Charles NJ. Reed of Erie, Penn. There
was shown by the report of the directors
that there was deficiency during the year
of S4S3, 932. 4S.
Order Early.
A New York electrotyper has prepared
5000 copies of the following: ''The earn
ings of this company this year will be ample
to meet all fixed charges"
The price per plate has been put at such
a low figure that every railroad president
can afford to buy one, and where news
papers won't insert 'em in the reading mat
ter free of cost, they can be placed as first
page ''ad'' for .abOut so cents each inser-
ton. 1t will be observed that the language
is classical and the meaning as sound as a
bullet, while the word ''fiXed" can be so
twisted around that hondholders eau be
beaten out of dividends as easy as rolling
off a log. Send in your orders early.
Got His Foot Crushed.
James Dalton, an engineer on the Du-
buque division of the Milwaukee, road, once
had singular experience while in the per-
Torrance of his duties which resulted seri-
ously to him. 1t was one or two miles out
ON the north side of Bellevue that wreck
was reported, and on assistance being tele
graphed for at Dubuque Dalton was sent
with his engine and wrecking crew in a
baggage car. The engine appeared to
draw hard, and after going about three
miles Dalton got out to inspect the machine
and see what the trouble was. He looked
for five OF ten minutes without finding any
thing out of place and started on again.
But it pulled as hard as ever and speed of
more than fifteen miles per hour could not
be, attained. 1t was annoying, but the rea-
son could not be accounted for until another
inspection was made, which resulted in the
discovery of coat wound tightly around
the shaft of one of the drive wheels.
Dalton was hot and bracing himself with
one foot upon the track, he gave jerk at
the coat and just then the engine started
up, two wheels running over his left foot.
1t appears that the lever had not taken
hold when pushed back and the jar to the
locomotive when he pulled on the coat
started it with the above result The foot
had to be amputated and an artificial one
put in its place.
How the Missouri Pacific Was Sold.
New York Herald.