The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-17
REVENUE RECEIPTS.
Those for the Month OF June Show Nc
Improvement


Improvement
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE seventh
statistical report of the interstate
commerce commission for the year
ending June 80, 1894, has just been
submitted. In the introduction es-
pecial attention is called to the pc
culiar conditions affecting the opera
ton of railways during the year.
First, the report covers the last four
months of the Columbian exposition
during which time there was an in
creased passenger traffic. Second, 1t
covers a period of widespread and I'M
precedented business depression. Third,
on June so, 1894, 1872 roads operating
upward of AZ, 00o miles of line and rep
resenting about onefourth of the total
railway capitalization, were in the
hands of receivers. The effect of these
conditions is apparent in nearly all
of the figures presented.
The total railway mileage in the
United States on June 30, 1894, was
176, 7Oe, an increase during the year of
2,247 miles. The increase during the
previous year was 1897 The per-
centage of increase during 1894 was
less than for any preceding year for
which reports have been made to the
commission, and it is not probable the
year ending June 80, 1895, will show
much Improvement. The number of
roads abandoned was sixteen. The
total mileage of all tracks was 233, 533
miles.
The total number of railway corpo-
rations on June 80, 1894, was 1924, an
increase during the year of twenty
two. The number of roads not in OPP
Grafton was seventy-seven. The move
ment of the consolidation during the
year on the basis of mileage involved
has been greatest in four years pre-
vious. Fifteen roads, representing
1,734 miles, have been merged % roads
representing 2 ,352 miles, have been re
organized, and II roads, represensing
1880 miles, have been consolidated.
A classification of railwaya on the basis
of operated mileage shows that A
roads, each with a mileage of over
1000 miles, operate 100, SAT miles of
line, or Sc. 80 per cent of the total mile
age of the country. Ninety roads OPP
crate 1890 per cent of the entire mile
age.
During the year 1879 locomotives
and so, 1886 cars were fitted with train
brakes, and l 1877 locomotives and 3D.
1856 cars were fitted with automatic
couplers. Seventy-four and eighty-one
hundredths per cent of the total equip
ment is still without train brakes and
72.77 per cent without automatic
couplers.
The total number of railway en-
ployes June 80, 1894, was 779, sos, de-
crease as compared with the number
on June 80, 1898, of SO, 994, or 1876 per
cent This is a smaller number en-
ployed than in any year since 1890.
This decrease is due, the report states,
to the heavy falling off in traffic and
the endeavor of the railways to econo-
mize. A new feature in this report is
a table giving a comparative statement
of the average daily compensation of
the various classes of railway employees
for 1892, 1898, and 1894.
The total amount of reported rail
way capital on June 80, 1894, was $1U,-
! 796, 473, 813, or 500, 95 l per mile of line
This is an increase in the amount of
/ outstanding capital during the year of
1927, 2,S, 4O3. The amount of capital
stock was 81, S24 ,O75, $50, of which
81, 1903, 584, 166 was common stock and
$3.50, 491, 493 was preferred stock. The
/ funded debt was S., $50, 5s3, Ol9. The
amount of current liabilities was
$6O5, S15, 1875. The amount of railway
/ securities held by the railways as an
/ investment was 81, 544, 05e, 67O, de-
crease during the year of $1s, $685. 500.
/ The amount of stock paying no divi-
!
cent OF the total amount. The total
amount of dividends was S95, SIS, 976, or
/ an average rate on the dividend paying
stock of 5. Al per cent. The amount of
bonds paying no interest was $3.50, 573,-
! 7S9. The amount of miscellaneous
obligations paying no interest was
! $53, 426, 1854, and the amount of income
! bonds paying no interest was $21O, 1877
554. The number of passengers car
ried was 81 ,O37, 361, 197, an increase over
the previous year of 20, l27 ,5o7, and
was occasioned by the Worlds fair
travel. There was large decrease in
freight traffic, the mum Der of tons car
ried being 636,1S6, $50, as against 745,-
119, 4s2 in 1898, a decrease of LOG, 922,-
929 tons
The gross earnings of the railways
! for the year were $1O3, 561, 1917, a de-
crease as compared with the previous
year of $147, 800, OFT. Passenger rev.
enue decreased SIG, 142, 25s, and the
revenue from freight traffic decreased
1929, 562, 94e. The amount of operating
expenses was 1871, Ala, 1922, a decrease
of 500, sos, GIT. The net earnings were
S341, 947, AIS, a decrease of $50, Ss3, 100
as compared with the previous year.
During the year 1923 railway en-
ployes were killed, 23, 421 were injured,
as compared with 9,727 killed and 3D.
729 injured in 1898. The number of
passengers killed was 224, an increase
of 25, and the number injured was
2,O24, a decrease of 1875. To show the
ratio of casualty it may be stated that
one employe was killed out of every
42S in service.
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