Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-11-03

has steadily increased until IL Is now APP
| preaching $4,000. 900, the earnings for the
year ending June 30th last being but
! $4,000 short OF this amount. The gross
1 income Of these roads since 1879 ~ sN,-
! l67,f34, almost - large sum as Mr. Gould
has been able 70 sequester in the couise OF
lifetime OF toll and saving. In this
time the number Of passengers carried
has been 1858, 6S3.9l3 each one passing the
shining nickel except the dead-heads, OF
whom there are several. | presume these
| figures are correct. as they have been fur
| nished by Mr.. Gould himself. or at least
by Colonel Hahn. who represents him in
his elevated octopus business. And speak
Ing of Colonel Hahn. the general manager,
i am moved TO say that there Is no
man in this CITY who bears enor-
lie has upon his shoulders the
| transportation of half q million people a
/ day. Naturally the oversight Of all the
trains incident to this enormous traiic car
ries strain with il but when meet Col
oncl Hahn in the Astor House occasionally
he Is as frightened. clipper. and rs good
Dstured as n schoolboy. He loves good
stories. He Is small. why man. not quite
fftv yet-hIs haIr is just beginning TO
tinge with grav-and when he talks no
! talks TO the point. He speaks in
quick. decisive way. and with the frmness
| which denotes the man OF executive abili-
| ty.=He was developed g8s a raiIroad-man
| 10 Pennsylvanla. He was brought up in
| the old Dutch town of Reading, and he
| still loves its sausage and scrapple. Colo
| uel Ham Il proud of the fact that while
! the " /" roads under his management have
carried millions OF passengers not life
has been lost OF a human being injured "a
the result OF negligence upon the part OF
the corporation.
JAY GOULD AND THE EARTH.
II is an interesting fact that The number
Of passengers carried by the elevated rail
roads In Now York since their establish
ment IS larger than the total population Of
tho earth. The number Of passengers Mr..
Gould has carried in this time according
to the above figures, is 1903. G53, 5l3, and
the total population Of tho earth "a lately
computed. IA li79,729. 800. When one
pauses 70 contemplate the magnih-
cent spectacle ~ every human being
on the face of the earth-AmerIcan,
Aryan, Monaghan, Semitic, Polyne-
sian, IIottentOt Bushman, clothed
and unclothed, passing along in procession
and each dropping a NICKEL INTO Jay
Goulds slot, ono begins 70 realize the
magnitude Of his elevated railroad bonanza
in New York. And think, too, Of the over
shadOwing. none-such nerve OF Mr. Gould.
in hrusaueiy informing each and every one
If these billion and half Of people, male
and female. Christian and heather. that be
OF she is expected 10 step lively ." In ali
things must we yield TO MIR. Jay Gould the
frosted cake.
TIE WORLDS MOST EXTENSIVE RAILROAD.
Tho most expensive piece Of railroad
building III the world Is said to be the new
Broadway surface rOad III this city.
While this Improvement consists in SIM
DIV changing the motive-pOwer from horses
| 10 the cable system. II amounts IN fact %
! the building 81 new road, with tho od-
| diiioual expense Of tearing up the old
tracks and track-bod. IL seems incrcdi-
bic. but | am told that the putting
down of this cable system IN Broad
way Will cost the company $500, 600 mile,
including the cars and power. 1t runs
from the Battery to Central Park, dis
tance Of fvo miles, and for this little
stretch Of road the cost viii be sj.0O0,OOj.
Railroads have been blasted through noun
tains. but at 10 such expense as this. Per
haps not until the rapid-transit tunnels
arc built under New York will such extra
ordinary expense be again incurred IN
railroad building. The expense of
moving the network of pipes I'M
der tho street mas been very consider
able part Of this cost. I his Broadway sur
face road has been an expensive institution
fir IN the start. not including the money
Jake Sharp squandeTed for II on tho
Doodle Board 81 Aldermen and elsewhere.
At the same time II has been "a gold-mns
TO the corporation owning 1t. or TINS
3 900 900 Improvement would never have
been undertaken.