St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-22
RUMBLE OF THE RAILS.
A Brief Review Of the Earnings Of Eighty.
Five Railroads For Last
Month.
A Very Satisfactory Increase Shown in the
Business of Lines North
and South.
Charley Howard. Popular Milwau-
kee Conductor, bout to Be-
come an Honorable.
A. l.. Hopkins Chances for Becom-
ing a Railroad Manager--
Railroad Pointers.

The New York Financial Record has
compiled the railroad earnings for the
month of November. and very good
showing is made. The compilation i'll
cludeS reports from eighty-tive roads and
| the aggregate shows all increase over the
earnings for the same month last year of
more than 50. 600. 900, which is equivalent
| TO nearly Z per cent. Of the roads that
have made statements but twenty three of
them show losses. and these are not by any
| means large.
1t is noticeable that many of the roads
| that in the past were considered bankrupt
and worthless property, have. according to
| this years reports, greatly improved and
are in prosperous condition. Among the
cases OF this kind noticeable is the Cairo, Vim
cennes d Chicago. which shows an increase
of nearly 40 per cent, or S16. 104. The
Denver 81 Rio Grande road shows gain Of
500, 900, and the st. Louis Arkansas q
Texas Is per cent. The Denver d. Rio
Grande road is rapidly coming to the from t
as a fist class institution and it is now
doing a good. healthy business, both i'll its
freight and passenger departments The
latter department is especially prosperous,
which is probably due to the picturesque
ness of the route which runs through the
most charming portions Of the Rocky
mountain range between Denver and
Pueblo, and the tendency people show for
visiting the mountains in the summer
season.
The pool las seemed to have wonder
fully beneficial effect on the business Of the
trunk lines The Grand Trunks increase
is $3.50 3S, or about ID per cent. The Gin
cinnati, Washington a. Baltimore line comes
to the front with gain of % per cent; the
Ohio & Mississippi nearly IA per cent, and
the New York Central % per cent. In the
earnings of the latter this year. those of
the West Shore are included. The Chicago
u Atlantic road shows all increase Of more
thar so per cent.
Many of the Southern roads are picking
up. The Mobile & Ohio has a small in
crease, while the Louisville & Nashville
shows an increase of Is per cent, and most
of the roads operated by the Cincinnati,
New Orleans Il Texas Pacific have gains,
that of the Alabama Great Southern being
over 80 per cent. The Vicksburg It Mer-
dan and Shreveport roads. however. do not
make satisfactory showing. The Norfolk
d Western makes pretty gain of STA, 600,
which is equal to more than 80 per cent.
The showing made by the Northwestern
roads is generally satisfactory, though some
of the lines have suffered through the COM
petition that has grown up. The Chicago
IL Northwestern road claims gain of about
500, 900, While The Milwaukee & st. Paul
mas dropped off about the same amount.
The st. Paul 81 Omaha, Wisconsin Cen
trail. Central Iowa, Minnesota d. North
western and the Milwaukee & Northern
lines have all gained good round per-
centages. The Manitoba and the c. dar
Rapids have small falling off. The Nil
waukee. Lake Shore Il Western has q salts
factory increase OF 45 per cent, which is
attributed to the growth of its local traffic.
The Canadian Pacific comes out with a
heavy increase, due principally to its in
crease in mileage and partly to the i'm
proved condition of business over last year.
The Northern Pacific shows an increase of
$50, 900. which is considered flatterng.
The conclusion TO which these figures
lead the reader is that the railways have
shared in the prosperity which has pre-
vailed generally in all branch es of business.
In some sections theremay have been dis
turbing elements which affected business
injurOusly, but on the whole the cOmpa-
MES have every reason for entire satIsfac-
ton.