The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-06
NET EARNINGS OF THE TROLLEY LINES INCREASE HALF MILLION IN
 SINGLE YEAR, BUT SERVICE WORSE.
HOW TROLLEY ROADS OF CONNECTICUT
 EARNED MILLIONS FOR THEIR OWNERS

day. given to the public furnishes the key to the mis- eraby inadequate trolley service in this city and throughout the state This report shows @ that While the companies carried almost 5000,0O0 fare passen gers of the number carried in 19O8 yet they used to do the work 697 fewer men, and employed, in the average, only 4535 men altogether
 Other clues to the skinning process to which the travelling public is subjected found in the state ment of gross and net income.
 The gross income increased since 1908 by but $292,000. But the net income increased $552O0O.
 More than two cents of every five cents received in fares was net income
 Of the total gross income, more than 40 per cent. net income.
 The list of killed and injured speak eloquently of conditions which the patient Connecticut public, rob- bed by it's servants, brow-beaten by it's cor porations, and sandbagged by the state have now borne for many years
 The report of the railroad commissioners shows that there 951 miles of trolley track in Connecti cut, including switches and turn outs There 754 miles of first main track Then there 157 miles of second main track A
 Most of this mileage is either owned controlled by the New Haven Railroad and operated by the Con- necticut company
 The Connecticut Railway and Lighting company represents 161 miles of single main track It is leased for 999 years by the railroad The rental in 1914 will be $1 900 per annum, than the entire cost of running the city of Bridgeport is at the present time.
 The capital stock outstanding of the trolley roads not owned controlled by the railroad is $4,370O00. The bonded indebtedness is $36O5,OOO The above bonds and stock represent 168 miles of single track with all equipment.
 The bonds of the Connecticut Railway and Light ing company $13465OOO and it's stock $17 100000, total capitalization of more than $3O000,000 This capitalization represents but 161 miles of single track This capitalization also represents small gas and electric light plants operated by the railroad through the Connecticut company.
 Some 424 miles of single main trolley track are owned by the railroad. This ownership practically obscures hides the capitalization upon which the public is required to pay interest and dividends It is, however, enormously great.
 The gross earnings of all trolley companies in Connecticut for the year were $7,610,OOO. The net earnings for the year $3,1OO000 increase of $552, 900 over 1908
 In every five cent fare taken in there was profit of more than two cents.
 The gross earnings increased but 1000 over 1908
 But the net earnings increased $552,OOO
 The number of fare passengers carried was 143386,515
 This was increase over 1908 of 4,855 O0O.
 Yet the number of employees who did the work de- creased 697.
 The total average number employed was but 4535.
 Thirty-nin persons were killed by the operation of the lines.
 The number injured but not killed were ,437.
 In eight years the number of annually killed has increased three times and the number injured by trol- ley lines has increased six fold. COOLEY SUCCEEDS AUTO=PATROL WAGOl