The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-29

Total number of employees, including
 officers, 24.4H.
 Total compensation of the same. Ill.,
 SIS. .2574s.
 Number employed In maintenance of
 way and structures. 5.674
 Amount paid for their services. s2.- | 76S. .76s.S2.
 Twenty million nine hundred and
 hfty-one thousand three hundred dol-
 lars of the stock of leased lines have
 been exchanged for sl4,667,9OO of the
 stock of the New York. New Haven and
 Hartford company. There are l3l,574
 shares of the leased lines still remain
 ing to be exchanged.
 As the New York, New Haven and
 Hartford Railroad company added 621. .25
 miles to the number previously operat-
 ed by 1t, the commissioners say that no
 satisfactory comparison Is practicable between the results of operating the
 past year and those of previous years,
 except in percentages based on miles
 operated and miles run. The operating expenses, notwithstanding the retrench-
 ments of the year, were 71S6 per cent.
 of the gross earnings, or 1.72 per cent.
 more than the previous year, showing
 that the greater part of the expenditure
 for the operation and maintenance of
 our railroads have to, be kept up
 whether earnings are more or less.
 In fact, the expenditure for mainte
 nance Of way and structures was per
 cent. more than the preceding year:
 very satisfactory evidence that the re-
 auctions made had not been in this de-
 partment, excellence in which is SO es- sential to tbe safety of the travelling public -r
 The net earnings per mile operated were $67ISS less than the preceding year, but were s.4 cents more per mile run, showing that there was a percep- tible saving made by reducing the num- Der Of trains. ;''@'f
 The only operating company which paid any dividends was the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and seven incorporating companies paid divi- dends out of rentals received from it. The large. suburban business, of the Old Colony system redused the, e,average length of each messengers ride by 2.31 miles, and the average amount re- ceived from each. passenger by 4.73 cents. Tt -j sg
 A portion of the report always looked at with interest is that in regard to accidents. especially those to employees; and this year it has particular inter- est from the fact of the comparatively small number of accidents to this class. the total number reported as injured having been 194, as against 504 the previous year. The reduction is so great that the commissioners say it would seem as though there had been a failure to report, except for the fact that the per cent. of reductions is nearly the same on the principal roads, having been 4S per cent of the pre- vious year on the New York and New England, and 45 per cent. on the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the New London Northern, though on the Philadelphia, Reading and New England 1t was only 2 per cent. The commissioners attribute this pleasing condition in part to the reduction of l trains, but more particularly to the relief which the lighter freight traffic has given from the exhausting demand on the time and strength of the em- ployes always attending rush of business The percentage of employees injured in coupling or uncoupling was 4, or 1 per cent. more than last year. Automatic couplers do not yet seem to l have accomplished the immunity from accidents of this character which was hoped for. More trespassers than ever were injured, amounting to 175, prob ably owing to the largely increased number of the unemployed who make | the railroads their highways On the ! other hand, the number injured at high | way crossings was only 22, or less | than the previous year and 26 less than | the year before; a fact the. commits sioners attributed to the elimination of l the most travelled and dangerous cross | ings. There were only 12 passengers who received injuries in any way, the injuries in two cases proving fatal, and in all but two of the remainder | having been received through careless ness on the part of the passenger.
 The number of highway crossings during: the year was 27. one on the old Connecticut y Western, in and the others on the New York, New Haven and Hartford system. The commissioners note with much satis- faction the final decision of the supreme court of the United States sustaining the law under which therorder' for the ,li,,,ina+inr If the Main street crossing of the New York and New England railroad in Bristol was made, with alls the proceedings by the commission ers under it. and the decision or our ,wn supreme court sustaining those and give the full decision n stre at,pendix to their report.