The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-18

panies toward some of the legal ques-
tons affecting street railways. In the
matter of the crossing of the tracks
and land of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad company by
the Fair Haven and Westville street
railroad, it has been the contention of
the former that the construction of an
electric road in the highway was an
additional servitude upon the soil, but
by becoming an owner of street rail-
ways it is possible that it's interest
will be antagonistic to such claim"
RAILROAD FINANCES.
From the usual financial statements
of the steam railroads the following
summary is given:
Total capital stock of COM
panies reporting ...,.... 500 ,00S, 1863 IS
Total funded debt .......... 44,261,3 1872 rs
Total current liabilities. 13,OS7,S 67 Al
Total miles of single track,
including sidings and.
age rights ............... ALTO 10
Total miles of single track,
excluding sidings and
trackage rights ....... 3,o59 II
Total miles of road oper-
ated .............. ........ 2,S44 So
Gross earnings ......... $35, 206, ITO Il
Earnings from passengers. 15,430, 1884 SO
Earnings from freight 49,. 6,402,141 25
Miscellaneous earnings 80. 1878, 634 So
Number Of passengers car
ried 800. ............ 1913, 1872
Tons of freight carried. 14,469,612
Operating expenses. $24 ,091 1898 56
The operating expenses
are 68.4S per cent. of the
gross earnings.
Net earnings ............... 11,114,217 Is
Amount of dividends paid. 4743,256 Is
Amount of taxes paid. 49,. 1,S07,710 So
Taxes paid state of Con-
nec1cut.. ...... -. T3l,OI0 10
Miles run by passenger
trains ...,. ....s... 1884 ,236
Miles run by freight trains 7,519,5e1
Miles run by all other
trains ......... ..... 5,s7O,745
Expended for maintenance
of way and structures. $3,S4S, 1873 Is
Expended for maintenance
of equipment .......... 1885,, 1898 IS
Expended for new equip
ment ......... .......... sss,74o 2s
Charges to capital account
for permanent improve
ments .... ....... 4,060,642 SO
Number of new ties laid. 1854
Number of new ties laid. 1858 429
Tons of new steel rails
laid .......... ........ 14,4S5 ss
Total number of employees,
including officers ......... 26,411
Total compensation of
same ............ .........$ SIS, 351 ,624 so
Number employed in main
tenance of way and
structures ........ 1850. 6,53S
Amount paid for their SER
vices .............. ........ $2,795,929 II
Number Of highway cross
ings at grade ............ 1,051
Number of highway cross
ings eliminated during
year ,........... .......... 81
The number of passengers injured in
the past year (ending July 1 lasD was
rs. double that of the preceding year, in
which year the casualties were very
small. Three persons were fatally in
jured, but in each case it was owing to
the carelessness of the passenger and
was no fault of the railroad company.
Of the % other passengers injured, IA
also suffered through their own neglect,
while s were injured without any con-
tributory negligence.
with the revival of business the
number of accidents has materially in
creased and that in a greater porpor-
ton than the increase in the number
of employees. The whole number of en-
ployes. wherever located, other than
general officers, is 26,23S, while last
year it was "a, 407, showing an increase
OF only 7.87 per cent. while the acct
dents to employees in this state has
increased from 1914 reported last wear to
271 reported this year or 39.69 per cent,
and, as the accidents to trainmen. who
would be the ones most affected bv the
increase. of traffic, were 6S.O3 per cent.
more than the preceding wear. it gives
support to the idea that irrespeatiye of
other causes, the increase in business
| directly attended with increase in acct
dents to those handling If. The nercen-
tage Of fatal injuries to emnloves was
a trifie less than last wear or II NJ ner
cent. instead of 11.85 per cent. the nre-
ceding year. the total number killed or
fatally injured being 70
"Of the total number iniured 2o5 were
classified as trainmen. 1S or one mora
| than last year being killed or diving or
| their ini,1ries. 10 oc eu,;+ob,,or a.,