Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-03
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L--~-- =--4S three hours, making probably the biggest hole in my days work.
 ''The next largest draft upon my time is made by newspaper men. They strag- gle in at all times of the day, and see them as soon as can. Each one stays probably ten minutes, but as there arc perhaps ten of them every day that means no minutes. They come to me for rail. road news from all over the country, and I am usually glad to tell them all I know, Every Wednesday at noon the executive council, of which Gm chairman, con. yenes in this room to consider contracts, large expenditures, the issue of bonds and other important matters. Then there are all sorts of other conferences sometimes n freight or passenger claim, which our attorney says can be settled at once rather than go through our claims department. The claimants arc here, so in they troop, and the matter Is settled then and there.
 After that the chief engineer may want to see me about a new bridge or ex. tension of tracks. Then, If there's any time left, see tho miscellaneous visitors, who come from all classes and conditions, and that ends my days work as far as the New York Central Is concerned"
 Taking the New York Central as an army the Grand Central station might be called general headquarters. In this busy, desk laden hive ,000 clerks arc employed. and hero the road is run on paper.
 How Time Tables Are Made.
 In the traffic department, for example. time tables are made, n most ingenious bit of work. One side of a rnom is covered with n mammoth chart. The chart Is ruled horizontally with heavy and light lines two, five or ten minutes apart, and perpendicularly with lines representing the distances between stations, the whole resembling mosquito netting with uneven meshcs. Now a new time table is to be made. An expert comes along with q box of common brass pins and several spools of ordinary coarse thread. Tho threads are various colOrs-rrd for freight trains, blue for passenger trains, black for trains of other roads running on same tracks, and so on. For illustration, if n table for train from New York to Buff falo Is to be made, n pin is driven in at New York, the thrcad tied on and carried from pin to pin, representing the different stations across the board all the1yay to Buffalo. All trains for long or short dis tances arc arranged in the same way. By the time 100 trains are thus tabled the chart looks like a great spider web held down with pins. This represents days of patient work, but all that remains now is to transfer the table to paper, and the tlnc taDle Is rcauy TOT the printer.
 Showing For 1893.
 Just at this critical period of railroad ''boycotts, ." ''tieups" and sympathetic strikes glance nt the general railroad statistics for 1893 is interesting in the ex- treme. Nearly Sl,250, 900, 900 was paid into the exchequers of the l, 500 railroads As railroads derive only n small income from sources other than passengers and freight, this Sl, 250 000, 900 was derived from carrying about 594, 900, 900 passen gers and 746, 900, UO0 tons of freight. Ac- cording to this, if every passenger carried by our railroads last year had been a diff fercnt person, they would have carried more than half tho entire population of the world.
 To equip the plants of all these railroads capitalists have invested SlO, 500. 00o, 900. For this outlay they received less than $2OO, 900, 900 in dividends, or less than l per cent, notwithstanding that sI,25O,