Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-20

oeAuiHS lueiT energies. 10 increase
the paying tonnage in train; to in
crease the paying of passeng ger
per train. or what is the
same thing with the passenger
service, increase the number of
miles of travel per passenger. This
is the invitation for the investment
of money in reducing grades, straight
ening curves, facilitating continuous
transit, strengthening the bridges,
more powerful engines and larger
cars. This investment last year was
enormous, the increased capitalization
of railroads amounting to $215,, 400, S67,
and represents the cost Of
2,99S miles of main track.
252 miles of second track.
SO miles of third track.
1,646 miles of sidings.
469 locomotives.
250 passenger cars.
46,6S4 freight cars.
2,S03 service cars.
OF course there were large expend
lures on roadway and structures to
produce greater efficiency. A mere
repetition of figures, however, is I'M
serviceable without showing their rela-
tons to one another. The capital in
creased as above stated, 1891 per cent,
but as a reward to the enterprise OF
the arrangements and to the nerve OF
the financiers behind them the gross
earnings increased 1924, 497 and the
net $27,2SS,774, or 1857 per cent, on
the increased capitalization. The in
crease in capitalization in 1898 ovel
1897 was 1888, 545,957, and the increased
net earnings for that year amounted
to $50, 1857 1886, or more than 90 per cent
On the increased investment.
This army, like those of Napoleon,
requires three things: First, money
But how different the return from the
investment! Such expenditures for this
army mean extension, development,
progress and resulting affluence.
These expenditures in many cases in
volve almost complete reconstruction
of track and CT structures and absolute
replacement of equipments. Hitherto
the railways effected savings in dell
years by abstaining from making re-
pairs and by reducing wages. The
first of these is now recognized as alb
solute waste; the latter impracticable.
1t has only recently been learned, and
at great cost, but it is known that en-
terprise and progress are the two
economists, and to make two blades CT
grass grow where one grew before, CT,
applied to transportation, to increase
the paying weight of the train is the
test CT wisdom and economy of man
agement.
The management of railway, like
its trains, must be kept moving. A
dead center" is as abhorrent in tn g
management as in the mechanism of
railway and as disastrous. Ina
soul of the science of transportation
is motion.
The industrial army of million souls
Is not without it's mufIled drum-beat,
It's Luz ndSs It's ANNNAoCt al IL .
There were 2,210 soldiers of this peace
full army killed by accident when on
duty last year and 34,299 injured. Out
Cf every 155 trainmen employed ore
was killed and out of every IL one
was injured.
Most Of those killed were from fall
ing from trains and engines; most of
those injured were from coupling and
uncoupling cars. The second cause it
is hoped to eliminate through the enor-
nous expenditures the railways have
already made and are yet making in
fitting their equipments with applian-
ces for automatic coupling. 1t is mex
! plicable how there can have been SO
many accidents from coupling and I'M
coupling equipment when the fact Is
considered that of the total equipmen
of all classes on the railways of the
United States, amounting to 1,412,619
there are 1,137,719 fitted with auto
matte couplers and S0S,074 fitted with
train breaks. This source of disaster
SO impressed itself upon the manage
ments OF railways that even before the
Act of 1893 demanding such appliances
the railways had already equipped q
per cent. of their rolling stock with
automatic couplers and 20 per cent
with train breaks.
How well this army cared for its
noncom batants is shown by the fact
that only one passenger in 2,159,O0C
was killed and but one passenger in
| $4,000 injured.
Thisis the epitome of one years cam
paign OF an army Of this Republic
whose movements and influence have
made more history. conquered more
domain and what is more to the point
held and deyeloped it-more widely
extended civilization and made our
country greater and more glorious and
| glorifed than any army of war has
done or could have done.
It has no romance. 1.-THE romance
is in the results" in the evolution OF