Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-08

Compilations Of railroad gross earnings
made by a Wall street news agency show
the following results compared with the
corresponding periods last year: For the
third week of August the gross earnings
Of thirty eight railroads aggregated $685.
131. an increase OF 1866. 1872, or 4.52 per cent.
For the fourth week of August the gross
earnings Of twsnty-eight railroads aggre ,
gated SAB O93 .O62, an Increase of $2.503.42e,
or 6.16 per cent. From July 10 to August II
the gross earnings of twenty-eight rail-
roads aggregated 1885, an increase OF
1855. 7so. or 8.04 per cent. The gross and
net returns for the month Of July were as
follows: Gross earnings. $S7. 721. TAB: In
crease T.458, 1872. Operating expenses. $780,
OOs. 800: increase. 81, 481 .671. Net earnings,
s27.717. s4s: increase. s1.s74.5H. The gross
expenses increased 81 .074, 521. The gross
earnings increased 028 per cent. operating
expenses Increased 1905 per cent and net
earnings increased 1857 per cent.
Reporting on new equipment orders for
the week the Railroad Gazette says:
The following companies have ordered
cars from the American Car and Foundry
Company, Kansas City: Southern Railway
Company. 1000 box cars: the Mexican Cen
trail Railway Company. 40 steel tank cars.
and the Southern Company, 20 passenger
cars. The Southern Company has also Or
dered five passenger cars from the Pullman
Company and four from the st. Louis Car
Company. The Chicago. st. Paul, Mime
apolis and Omaha has ordered 800 cars. The
Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis Rail-
way Company, 1t Is reported, will build 100
box cars. The Merchants Dispatch Trans
portation Company will build $50 refrigera-
tor cars. The New York. New Haven and
Hartford, 1t Is reported has ordered 200 box
cars. The Pennsylvania lines have placed
large orders for cars.
The Charleston Mining and Manufacturing
Company has ordered thirty fat cars Tho
Boston and Maine has ordered seven pas
senger cars.
The Elgin and Belvedere Electric Railway
Company is in the market for eight cars
The California and Northwestern Railroad
Company has ordered ten freight cars The
Mexican Central Railway Company has or
dered twenty passenger coaches. The fol-
lowing companies have ordered locomotives
from the American Locomotive Company
the Hooking Valley Railway Company nine
locomotives. the Midland Steel Company
two locomotives. the Delaware. Lackawan-
ia and Western Railway Company five pas
senger locomotives. and the Cuba Company
has ordered six ten-wheel locomotives. The
Midland Valley Railroad Company has Or
dered four locomotives, the Western Mary
land Railroad Company has ordered two
locomotives. and the Illinois Northern Rail-
road Company has ordered two four-wheel
saddle-tank locomotives
Baltimore dispatches say that with the dec
laration of the increased dividends on the
common stock OF the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road from to per cent, 1t would appear
that there Is to be no cessation of the policy
OF reconstruction betterment and improve
ment generally, that has characterized the
company since the rehabilitation of the road
was decided upon. 1t Is now made public
that at recent meeting Of the directors
authorization was given for further expend-
lures on the system approximating 1900
GOO.
The authorizations Of like nature ordered
at previous meetings and completion of the
total work in progress stands for combined
expenditures OF almost SIC. OOO, 600. The large
order given recently for new locomotives
and cars amounting to $14 1000. 900 Is not in
cluded In these figures.
At the office OF Messrs ]. p. Morgan &
Co. yesterday Sir Chengtung LANG Cheng,
Chinese minister to the United States, made
the first payment on the So, 75O, 600 which
his government has agreed to give to re-
imburse the stockholders In the Canton
Hankow railway.
Three months from yesterday the final
payment will be made. and then the con-
cession and the thirty miles Of railway built
will revert to the Chinese.