Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-25
BULLS AND BEARS

NEW YORK. August ACCUMULATION OF
railroad earnings made by a Wall street
news agency show the following results,
compared with the corresponding periods
last year:
For the first week of August the gross re-
turns Of thirty-six railroads aggregated
7.I53.5S0. an increase Of 36OO. or 7.S5
per cent For the second week OF August
the gross earnings Of twenty mine railroads
amounted to 81. 252, 253. an increase Of $3.50.
49,. or SEQ per cent. The gross and net
returns Of six railroads for the month Of
July were as follows:
Gross earnings SO, 531; increase
$sJOS12.
$67s.042.
Net earnings. 1861 1855: increase. $172,-
$50.
The gross earnings increased $50 per
cent; operating expenses increased 1881
per cent. and net earnings increased 4.S9
per cent"
Reporting on new railroad-equipment
business OF the week the Railroad Gazette
says:
''The following companies have ordered
cars: The Japenese government, 1t Is re-
ported. 1000 steel gOndola cars from the
American Car and Foundry Company and
the Western Steel Car and Foundry Com
pany: the Missouri. Oklahoma and Gulf
pounds capacity: the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad Company has placed an
order for 80 fiat cars of $4,000 capacity: the
Nashville Chattonooga and ST. Louis Rail
road Company will build 100 coal and 100
box cars: the South Side Coal and Railroad
Company of Arkansas. on the completion of
Its line. will be in the market for 800 coal
cars. so box cars, passenger cars and 3
cabooSes. The Florida East Coast Com
pany Is In the market for 10 coaches. d
baggage and express cars, and l sleeping
car; the Orange and Northwestern Com
pany has ordered 50 logging cars Of 900
pounds capacity; the Havana Central Rail-
way Company is In the market for several
hundred cars: the Rhaetische- Balm. a mar
row guage railroad in Engadine, Switzer-
land. is In the market for g. cars OF yari-
GUS sorts; the Atlanta and West Point Rail-
road Company has ordered 43 vestibule pas
senger cars for November delivery.
The American Locomotive Company has
received an order from the Bangor and
AroOstook Railroad Company for FIVE sim
pie ten-wheel freight locomotives for deliv-
cry in spring of 1906: the Japanese govern
ment has ordered $50 narrow-gauge loco
motives; the Rhaetische-Bahn Is reported
as being In the market for thirteen loco
motives; the Hartman lines have ordered
seventy-two simple consolidation, thirty
one simple Atlantic ten simple Pacific and
twenty-three switching locomotives; the
Louisiana and Arkansas railroad Company
Is in the market for four simple ten-wheel
freight locomotives for August and Septem-
Der delivery. The Michigan Central Rail-
way Company is in the market for a num-
Der Of locomotives.
Philadelphia advices say that all records
for locomotive construction at the Baldwin
Locomotive Works will be broken during
the year LOS. and that 1t Is virtually as
sured that the year win close with a record
of 2.1OO locomotives. an average Of forty
two a week. or seven a day for every work.
ing day in the year.
Announcement that the sugar rate war
between the Illinois Central chiefly and the
western lines had been settled was prema-
ture. There Is said to be likelihood of
meeting here next Tuesday to discuss this
matter. the chief bone Of contention being
the Illinois Centrars assertion of the right to
fix lower rate from New Orleans to st.
Paul and Minneapolis. the other roads In
sisting that this differential was not fair
when compared with the rates from St.
Paul and Minneapolis to New York.