The age-herald., 1900-07-16


 the year. including ssO.114 other payments from net income, was $111, ,s9. .936. leaving as the surplus from the operations of the year $5S,O54,S77. the corresponding surplus for the year ending June 30, 1898, being $44,- 07s, ,557. tta
 The deductions from income, $l41 200, ,2S9 already mentioned, comprise the following items: Salaries and maintenance of organ-t ization, $595, ,192; interest accrued on funded debt, $251, 15S, ,0S7; interest on current liabli- ties, S1O2,S47; rents paid for lease of road, s94, 4O6, 737; taxes, $46s37. .6S2; permanent im- proyements charged to income account, s13,070O45; other deductions, $2S,5297
 In the consideration of the foregoing fig- ures pertaining to income and expenditure 1t should be held in mind that annual re- ports of two kinds are made to the com mission by railway companies. Operating reports are filed by such companies maintain full operating accounts, and financial reports by such companies as have leased their property to others for opera ton, their own income, apart from that de- rived from investments. being the annual fixed or contingent rental paid by their lessees, from which they make their own disbursements. From this fact certain items of income and expenditure are neces- sarily duplicated in comprehensive sum- maries which compiled from reports of both classes. These conditions are fully explained by the statistician in his report, which clearly indicates the extent to which applications on the side of income and of expenditure exist. As a matter of interest the report contains also an income account of the railways of the United States con sidered as system. The figures contained In this account are such as would be pre- sented were the railways owned by the government-operations tariffs and ex- penses remaining the same. They elimin- ate intercorporate payments by making use, where necessary, of balance accounts.
 Large and Powerful Engines
 The Chicago & Eastern. Illinois Railroad has just put into service number of new passenger locomotives built by the Pitts burg Locomotive Works upon specified tions furnished by the railroad company. These engines are the largest and most powerful passenger engines yet constructed and were built to pull the New Orleans & Florida Special, the Nashville Limited and the Texas Train, new through train be- tween Chicago and Fort Worth Texas, the rapidly increasing business demanding the handling of extra sleeping cars and coaches on nearly every train, and making powerful and speedy motive power a neces- sity.
 In working order engine and tender weigh 300,000 pounds Weight of engine, 165,000 pounds. Weight of engine on driv- ing wheels, 127,00O pounds. Driving wheel base, 14 feet inches Total wheel base, 25 feet inches. Length, engine and ten der, 65 feet over all. Has ten wheels, six drivers feet 6 inches in diameter; all wheels flanged Driving wheel centers are made of cast steel and drivers fitted with Midvale steel tires 3 inches thick. Cylinders are 20 inches in diameter, 26 inch stroke Boiler, 64 inches in diameter, ex- tended wagon top, contains 296 tubes ? inches in diameter, IA feet 71a inches long. Steam pressure, POO pounds per square inch. Extreme height of engine, 15 feet, width, 9 feet 10 inches. Fire box inside, 10 feet 6 inches long, feet inches wide Engine truck, four wheeled swinging center, wheels steel tired and 36 inches in diam eter. Cab is built of steel plate and en- zine is supplied with very powerful New York air brakes of the most modern pat tern. It Is also equipped with air sand CT and a Cook & Strong bell ringer, the power being either compressed air or steam, a 1,2O0 candle power electric head light, and in addition, electric lights in the cab and under the boiler and foot boards. The tender has steel tired wheels 36 inches in diameter, steel truck frames and has coal capacity of F tons, and a tank capacity of 5000 gallons of water. Tank is also made sloping, by which innovation the coal is always in the forward part of the tender and nearer the fire box of the engine.