New-York tribune., 1907-01-17
RAILROADS OF STATE.
Years StatiStics-One Passenger
Killed to Each 6,47O,6S5 Carried.

The twentyfourth annual report of the New
York State Board Of Railroad Commissioners. just
transmitted TO the Legislature shows the gross
earnings of the steam railroads CT the state the
year ended June 80 1906. to be 1878. .4SO47O 90.
against $3iS S132SS IS the previous year and s204,
252.s15 IL ten years ago; operating expenses for
the year. S262 63S So against S24, ,922 01s 4S
the preceding year; net earnings for the year,
s116.S0SS3 4s against s1OO S91215 O2 in the year
previous.
During the year the steam railroads paid in in
terest s47 49, in taxes s1S 6Se oi5 45: in div
dends. s34.S6S314 75 The total capital stock OF
the companies s9SS SSS 49O SO, as against $685.
4s9,99S SO the previous year. The percentage of
dividends to capital stock was 371, as against S51
the year previous. During the year the steam
railroad mileage was increased 2916 miles Only
three steam railroads in the In the hands
of receivers.
The steam roads employ 244.742 persons and paid
In salaries and wages $151,37426S Sc The percent
age of wages to gross earnings 40 per cent.
The assets of steam railroads s2.4O9,4O1556 Is
and liabilities s2.315 41S.6SO AZ The number OF
miles of road is S.274.34. with 9.l25 locomotives
1O527 passenger baggage, etc, and 3O7312 freight
cars. The number of passengers carried in this
state was o5,57975; tons of freight in this state
16O,029.609. The percentage of operating expenses
to gross earnings 1927; ten years ago it was
CSI2.
On the steam roads $50 killed and 2.1O5 in
jured during the year. against 903 killed and 1851
injured the preceding year. These include passen-
gers. employees and others. Twenty-three passen-
gers were killed and 342 injured against Is killed
and 265 injured in the previous year. Five
killed in collision u while getting off trains,
while track and found track One hun
dred and eightysx injured in collisions 20
In derailments. and 81 getting off moving
trains. One passenger killed for each 647O.6S5
carried, and injured for each S66,265 carried
Three hundred and fifty-seven employees were
killed and 1424 injured. against 1856 killed and
1874 injured the year previous. of the killed. a
fell trains, IS getting trains. IL striking
low bridges and tunnels II in coupling or un-
coupling cars, 1872 in walking being tracks.
13 In derailments and so In collisions Persons
other than passengers or employees killed were
57s and injured 352. Two hundred and seventy
nine killed track. one hundred and six
persons killed and Sc injured at grade cross
ings Of railroads OF these Al killed and II
injured at crossings protected by gates and flag
The grade crossing appropriations since the state
has participated in the expense of elimination, be
ginning in 1898. amount to s1O67,6o6 92 With this
amount ia grade crossings have been eliminated.
The commission calls attention to the fact that
Massachusetts has appropriated in all sl0OO0O00 in
sixteen years, and remarks that this state should
be as forward as Massachusetts in this work
The board suggests amendment to the rail-
road law that where steam railroad crosses
another at grade 1t may order crossings other than
grade and apportion the expense between the
companies; also where street surface road
crosses a steam road in a highway be changed
from grade the street railroad should share,
to be deducted from the other proportions as now
provided At present there 6,793 crossings OF
steam railroads without protection, 1910 protected
by gates etc, and 1.644 over under grade. The
crossings Of street surface roads with steam roads
number 454. of which So unprotected, the bal
ance protected or over under grade.
The board recommends amending the statute
compelling all passenger to be lighted by gas
electricity within a limited period also that all
out-of-date passenger coaches be replaced as soon
practicable and that steel passenger should
be quickly installed railroads whose financial
condition permits The proportion now in use is
II per cent Mention is made OF the agitation FOR
general two-cent fares in the state and the prob
ability OF legislation this subject.
The locomotive boiler inspector reports 22Oo in
spections under the law. and 4 great improve
ment in the and attention given to the safety
OF boilers. The board recommends legislation with
regard to the protection OF electrical trans
mission lines carried ground The ventilation
OF sleeping IS given a subject requiring
greater attention.
The assets of the street surface roads S7I3
4oSs u; liabilities s761s s1l 81 gross earnings
miles Of road 6Bperated are The Increase if
m9ass roppss from P m? in @ to sA o the as
Total cars IN operation. 1887. of which 1860 are
motor cars to be equipped with power brakes Is
recommended TO the Legislature.
salaries and wages Amounting to S2S Ss2 l5S The
The tota passengers St were ransfcrs
as 4I5 s2s; tons OF freight Ls03,lS2 In 1899 the
ried In Manhattan and The Bronx were $50 291 .15l
an average Of i.726s4l a day. The Manhattan Rail
way carried 257,796,74 passengers; and the subway
15 s19,s32 in the year In Brooklyn the total was was
tenage Of a" operating expenses Of all Street Surface
roads 10 gross earnings was Dob IN le9' 1t
In the year 317 persons were killed and 2.0l4
injured on street surface roads. against 2i0
killed and 929 injured In the previous year, The
York Sixty-three OF these killed passengers
GERS and = empoves killed or the killed passen-
gers As caused by getting off cars in notion
poyes OF the passengers injured 8l5 caused
by getting off cars in motion and 44O by rear-end
On the situation in greater New York the board
reasserts that had its recommendations oeen , car
is made TO the recommend nda relieving the
Brookiyn Bridge condition made in February 1905.
by means Of 9n LOOP n4 on TO h reen 6bl M
tracking the Second avenue and Third avenue ele-
If is the Judgment of the board that relief
only be furnished n the near future through the
carrying out OF the different recommendations made
by It. which are again submitted and emphasized
namely: ~,
y The constrTction of some form Of loops for
face cars the New York terminus of the Will
The elevation of the surface tracks. over Sands
The connection of the Fulton and Washington
street tracks near Tillary street in the Bor-
o~s1, Tshe "a extension of FIatbush avenue Brooklyn.
The extension of the police traffic regulations
The Immediate construction and utilization of
tracks through Livingston street in the Borough or
The third tracking of the Second and Third ave-
nue. lines OF the Manhattan Railway.
The board again repeats the suggestion that work
on the Manhattan Bridge should be aScelerate11 ,i 1
The operation and management or al SUBWAY way
lines is under the direction OF the New YORK CITY
Rapid Transit Commission.
limitation of the powers of the board and con.