The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-09
Earnings Increase More Than
Double Under HERMAN.
~ ON PENSION ROLL.
But 425 Lives Lost in Ten
Years. Time.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
i'm Railroad Circles.

] An unusually interesting QOcum6QL Is
the annual report of the Union Pacific
Railroad company, and its auxiliary
companies, for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1906, and which has just been
issued in folio form. 1t is about as
| complete a report as to details that has
been issued by any railroad company
and. shows among other things that
the receipts for the year were the larg-
est N the history of the companies since
their reorganization in 1885, or when
Edward H. Hartman undertook the
management of the properties.
In this report are statistics of the
combined operations of the affairs of
the Union Pacific Railroad company
and it's auxiliaries, the Oregon Short
| Line company and the Oregon Railroad
| & Navigation company. And the report
shows some really startling figures as
to the way the business of the COM
pany has expanded since 1885, when Mr..
Hartman assumed control. On June 80.
1898, the miles of road in operation were
5,325.6S, and on June 3d. 1906 the miles
of road in operation were 5,40Ss5as, not
much of an increase. in, fact, only Lie
per cent. But in 1898 the gross trans
portation receipts We're only So, 631.-
1906, while in 1906 they more than
doubled this figure, reaching a total of
$67, 2S1, 542.60. This is an increase for
the eight years of 1061S per cent.
The receipts over operating expenses
in 1906 they were $50, 81, 1924, an in
crease of $17,266, 1928, or an increase of
1929 per cent. Eafs5sQt- HatT-7 ID
The report tells of the many extern
sions which the Union sPaUiffc andI its /
allied lines have under Nay, andLfhe
cost of these lines under construction,
of other lines projaetedss and of the adj
ditional equipment needed for them will
involve an outlay Of about $50, 900, 900.
Under this category mention is made
of Topeka & Northwestern railroad
xxrI7f ah wi - 6Rui1 - 1fv,1
from Menoken to Marysville, a distance
of about 20 miles. This line has been
IN operation from Menoken to Onaga
since February 5, 1906 and the report
states that it will probably be compile
ted to Marysville during the early part
of this year.
Under the pension system put into eff
feet by the companies on January 1, I
1903, there are. carried on the pension
rolls n employees. And the payment of
pensions to them during the year end |
s fag June 80 1906 amounted to sfs'-
In telling of the betterments and adj
dfttons to the system the report sta ties /
that on the Union Pacific proper the I
installa ton of electric block signals be-
tween Council Bluffs and Ogden aand5
also between Kansas City and Topeka, |
the distance aggregating about 1.070
miles, is progressing, and, will probably |
be completed within the present month. |
Interlocking crossing plants are in the I
process of erection at various junctf6n |
ty and dispatch to the movement of
trains. Extensive additions to the pres I
ent shop facilities are being made at /
Omaha.
ment of Mr.. Hartman, as president
of the Southern Pacific company; of the
relief afforded bynthe Southern Pacific
and the Union Pacific as WE'LL as to the
residents of San Francisco while, they
were wal1owing in the throes subse-
quent to the earthquake and fire which
devastated the city, In this particular I
report Mr.. Hartman Tsaysiur .s,-.s64.s.,fs
Had 1t not been for the, work of the
Southern Pacific company, 1.-The loss Of
life would have been much greater. The
lives, although the lives OF over a halt
million persons We're endangered.
1.-The officers and employees of the
company deserve the highest commen-
vice, which afforded the means to bring
food and the necessary supplies to the
city and to carry from the city people
who found it necessary to go to other
places for refuge. The perfect disci-
pline maintained by the working staff
of the company reflects most highly on
efficient service rendered -contributed [
largely to the feeling of courage and
confidence with which the people of
San Francisco faced this calamity.
Mr.. Hartman states that although
the expense of free service which the
Southern Pacific and the Union Pa
cific rendered to the people of the
stricken city and the loss incurred by
both lines by the interruption in the
regular movement of traffic, he author
lied an additional expeT diture of $780,
900 in cash for relief work.
One of the interesting features of the
report is the map showing the routes of
the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
systems with their allied, or auxiliary
lines. This map also shows the lines of
other railroads operating in the same
territory, and it shows the lines of the
roads just as they run, with all their
kinks and turns. This map, showing
roads, just as they run, is an idea of
Mr.. Hartman. The ordinary and usual
railroad map, such as are seen the the
running in almost straight lines or In I
curves from point to point
with little or any consideration for
the location of places as they would
Hartman map has each city, town and '
hamlet in the various states in its cor (
rect geographical position and shows all
the twists and turns that the railroads
make to reach them. 9s
Will Urge Law for Lower Rates.
Bloomington. Ill, Jan 9.-The Mill
tary Tract Press association of central
in which 200 newspapers are !
has adopted resolutions
calling up the legislature to pass a law :
fixing the rate for passengers at :
cents per mile and to reduce freight Z
basis. 1t is pointed out in the resoIu- l
tons that other states are enjoying |
the 2-cent rate and lower freight rates
and there is no good reason why Illi- 6
nois with greater wealth and popuIa- ]
Lion should not be equally dealt with. {
Land agents who have been riding !
upon passes issued by the railroads t
when they accompany parties of land |
to the southwest have not I
given up hope of securing free trans
under the new law. At a
meeting of the central Illinois agents
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