Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-13

| l46 536; number of tons of freight car
ried one mile per mile of road, 12,73l.
the annual report of the Water
| vile and Oakland Street Railway Co.,
which was also filed Tuesday shows
that the gross earnings from opera
ton during the past year were $2S,-
504.52 against $30,364.03 for the pre-
ceding year, Il decrease of $l,S59.oi;
operating expenses, $20.71357 against
| $40, 007.20, an increase of $166.31; net
earnings from operation, $S,S30.?o
against $10,356.S3 for the preceding
year. a decrease of $2,025.SS; interest
on funded debt, $3.50; interest on
floating debt, $12691; passenger car
earnings. $2S,340,02.
| Other items in the report are as
| follows: Passenger car mileage. 12S,-
4SO; passenger car hours. 1850; fare
passengers carried, 566,S00; car earn
ings per car hour, $2.429; gross earn
ings per car hour SAIL; operating
expenses per car hour, $1.727; operat-'
ing expenses and taxes per car hour,
$17S9 operating expenses per cent.
of gross earnings, 70.17; operating ex-
penses and taxes per cent. of gross
|
employees, including officials. during
the year, 16; aggregate amount of sal
aries and wages paid, $11,141.S7.
The operating expenses are divided
as follows: Maintenance of track and
roadway. $1.310.0S: maintenance Cf
electric line, $170.9S: maintenance OF
buildings and fixtures, $6094; mainte-
nance Of electric plant $456.o9
maintenance of cars, $1.107.27: main
tenance of electric equipment of cars,
81 ,01216; power plant wages $775.05
fuel for power, $5OS73; water Tor
power. $2.375: lubricants and waste
for power plant, $76.51; miscellaneous
supplies and expenses of power plant,
$23956; hired power. $59916; wages of
conductors and motormen, $4,317.52.
wages OF miscellaneous car service
employees, wages of car house en-
ploycS and car service supplies,
$707.92; hired equipment $50; removal
of snow and ice, $370.55; salaries o.
general officers and clerks $2,6S0.65
miscellaneous office expenses $214.75
advertising and attractions, 1914:
miscellaneous general expenses,
$777S4; damages. $513.75; rent of land
and buildings, $S22S: rent of track
and terminals. $500; insurance, ST.
333.04.
A notice which has been filed at the
office of the secretary of State certi
fies that at a legal meeting of the
stockholders of The Rhode Island
Electromobile Co.. held at the COM
pany's principal office in Augusta on
Friday, oct 1. it was voted to change
the name of the corporation to "Riaco
Battery Corporation" and it was also
voted that whereas the capital stock
of the corporation was insufficient for
the purposes for which the corpora
ton was organized the same be in
creased from $75O.OOO to $1,5OO,O00
such increase of $75O0OO to be divided
into $4,000 shares of the par value of
$40 each, so that after such increase
the total capital stock OF the corpora
ton shall be $1.500,000 divided into
$50. 900 shares of the par value of SO
each.
The following corporations have
filed their certificates of organization
at the office of the secretary Of State:
Naica Mining & Smelling Co, Or
|
of conducting a mining business, with
| 81 900 900 capital stock, of which
| nothing is paid in. officers: Presi-
dent, Frederick ?. Miller of Maiden.
Mass; treasurer, Roscoe T. Holt of
| Portland. Certificate filed Oct. II,
| 1909.
c. e. Boothby Co, organized at
| Auburn for the purpose of conducting
| the business of wholesale dealers in
| farm produce. fruit and grocers' sup
plies. with $1,000 capital stock. of
which none is paid in. officers:
| President, Charles f.. Boothby of
LcWiStOn: treasurer Lorenzo r.
| Brown of Auburn Certificate filed
| oct. II, 1909.
The w. r. Manufacturing Co, Or
ganZed at Portland for the purpose
| of manufacturing and dealing in
| clothing. with 100000 capital stock
of which $50 is paid in. Officers:
| President Zcbulon Jackson of Port
| land; treasurer. William Henry OF
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