The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-07-16
SHOPS RECEIVED
LAST SHORT PAY
FROM CAR TODAY
August Roll Will Show Thou
sands of Dollars Increase
For Paducah.
Many Employees Got Fatter
Envelopes This Time.
NEWS OF ILLINOIS CENTRAL
NEWS OF ILLINOIS CENTRAL

Illinois Central employees received
their June salaries from the window
of the pay car. which arrived at 10
o'clock from Mounds. This will be
the last short" pay day the men will
have and next months pay roll will
be 500 900 in excess of the amount
paid out today. This Increase will be
caused by the increase in working
The pay roll was larger this month
than last, however. although the ma
chinists worked on a four-day week
schedule. the car repairers were given
an hour on the day and increased
force June /. Times were also better
with trainmen and the increase in the
payroll of this department was notice
able.
Two Small Wrecks.
Two small wrecks occurred in the
Yards OF the Illinois Central this
morning, but nothing serious resulted
from either. Engines s55 and $50
side swiped near the cinder pits at
the shops and the fuel tenders of both
engines were forced from the tracks.
No one was hurt. but workmen from
the round house experienced incon-
yience in righting the two engines,
because of the position near the pits.
In the south yards a box car was
side swiped by freight train and de-
rallied. A crew went out from the
car repairing department and brought
the car in TO the repair tracks. where
the damages will be repaired.
All Roads Did Well. ~
Washington. July IA net In
come Of s449,46l,1 Ss, available for
dividends or surplus, 1898 ,9O5, 1873
passengers carried and 1876. 336,659
tons of freight hauled, track mileage
Of 327,975. employees numbering l.
'G72,O74. equipment including 55,3SS
locomotives. 43.97S passenger cars
and 1,991y557 freight cars. and 1884,
S55 persons killed or injured is the
showing made by the railroads of the
United States in the interstate com
merce commissions report for the
year ending June 80, 1907.
In these figures. neither cars used
in the company's service or CONNER
rial private cars are included. The
mileage of tracks OF all kinds increas-
ed 1882 over the previous year.
Railroads owning 2,2s1 miles were
reorganlzed, merged or consolidated.
There were twenty-nine roads in re-
ceivership.
Nearly all locomotives and cars in
the passenger service had train brakes
and all but So passenger locomotives
carried automatic couplers. only a
little over per cent. of the passen-
ger cars lacked automatic couplers
aud of 1.s9l.557 freight cars, SOL
Ss1 had train brakes while 1.972.S04
Of them had automatic couplers.
The number of employees averaged
735 per hundred miles of line. a sub
stantial Increase.
The total wages and salaries paid
was si,O72.3s6,527.
The passenger traffic exceeded the
previous year by almost 76,0O0,0OO
persons.
The freight traffic increased al
most les 900. 900 tons, OF 69.71S tons
per mile.
The passenger revenue per mile
averaged 2.014 cents. and both pas
senger and freight trains earning per
train mile showed an Increase.
The gross earnings from the opera
ton OF 227,454 miles of line for
which substantially complete returns
were rendered. were s2,5S9, los, SIS,
being over $263, 100000 greater than
the previous year. Operating expenses
were s1.74S,515,S14. or considerably
over s211 .0OO,0O0 increase.