The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-11-10
WORK OF THE YEAR
STATISTICAL REPORT AS TIC
couNTRY's RAILWAYS.
Total Mileage Shows Enormous In
crease-Large Additions to Loco
motives and Cars In the serv-
lce-The Salary List.

lce-The Salary List.
An abstract based on summaries In
cluded In the eighteenth annual sta
tistical report Of the Interstate COM
merce commission for the year ending
June 30, 1905. has been issued by the
commission giving the mileage and
capitalization of railroads and treat
fng of equipment, employees, capital
ization of railway property, public
service Of railways, earnings and ex-
penses and railway accidents.
The report shows that the total
single track railway mileage June 30,
1905, was 21S,101.04 miles, an increase
Of 4,196.70 over the previous year. The
aggregate length of mileage, including
tracks of all kinds, was 306, 796.74
miles. These figures show increase
of 9,723.40 miles in the aggregate
length of track of all kinds, of which
35.4S per cent. was extension of yard
track and sidings. The report repre-
sents 2,167 corporations.
On June 80, 1905, 4S,357 locomotives
were in service, an increase of 1,614.
OF this number 27,S69 were freight en-
gines. Cars of all classes in service
numbered 1,S42,S71, an increase OF
44,310. This census does not include
cars of private corporations. OF this
number 1914 400 were freight cars
and 70,749 were in company serv-
ice.
or the total of locomotives and cars
in service, 1,641,395 we're fitted with
train brakes, an increase of 1898.
or the total, 1871, 800 were fitted with
automatic couplers, an increase OF
4S,660. Passenger service stock was
nearly all equipped with train brakes,
and all but SO locomotives had auto
matte couplers. Nearly all of the
freight locomotives had train brakes
and automatic couplers, and large
proportion of the cars in the service
were equipped with train brakes and
automatic couplers.
The immensely Of the wage propo-
sition in the railway service is shown
by the fact that an average of 637 en-
ployes were on the rolls for every 100
miles of line, a total of 1,3s2,196,
which Is an increase Of SCOTS. OF the
total, 54,S17 were engine.len, 1882
firemen, 41,061 conductors, 111,405
other trainmen, and 45,532 switch
tenders. The total salaries paid was
$3.50. 944.6s0.
On June 30, 1905. the par value Of
the amount Of railway capital out
standing was $3,S05,258,121, or a cap
italization of $65,s26 per mile for the
railways in the United States.
The number Of passengers carried
by the railways in the year was 1885,
1874, 667, an increase Of 23,414,9S5. The
passenger mileage was 23,S00, 149, 436.
the increase being 1,876,935,900 pas
senger miles.
The number OF tons Of freight re-
ported as carried was 1,427,731, 905,
which exceeds the tonnage of 1904 by
117,S32.740 tons.
THE gross earnings from the opera
ton of 216,973.61 miles Of line were
2,OS2, 4S2 ,406, being SLOT ,30S,315 great
err than for the year 1904. Their oper-
ating expenses were $1,390,602,152, or
$51, 705,S99 more than in 1904.
Operating expences averaged $6,409
per mile of line, an increase of $1O1
per mile in comparison with the year
1904.
The net earnings Of the railways
amounted to $691, SS0,254. This amount
exceeds the corresponding one for the
previous year by 55,602,416.
The total number of casualties to
persons on the railways for the year
was 95,711, Of which 9,703 represented
persons killed and 86,00S injured. Cas-
ualties occurred among three general
classes of railway employees as fol-
lows: Trainmen, 1890 killed and 49,
853 injured; switch tenders, crossing
There were 341 passengers killed and
tend ers and watchmen, 1856 killed, 8S3
injured; other employees, 1926 killeA
36,097 injured.
The number of passengers killed In
1905 was 537 and the number injured
10,457. In the previous year AL pas
sengers were killed and Gill injured.
There we're BAL passengers killed and
6,053 injured because Of collisions and
derailments. The total number of per-
sons other than employees and passen-
gers killed was 5,S05; injured, 8,71S.
These figures include the casualties to
persons trespassing, Of whom 1895
were killed and 5,251 were injured.
The total number of casualties to per-
sons other than employees from being
struck by trains, locomotives or cars
was 1860 killed and 4,163 injured. One
trainman was killed for every 1873 en-
ployed, and 1 was injured for every 8
employed.