The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-29
NEW HAVEN'S < BUSINESS OF PRODUCING
 TRANSPORTATION

spread out over many miles of terri tory. with hundreds of offices as the i the foci of it's Activities and with it's machinery, not concentrated, but dis 1 tributed and operating over a large i expanse of country.
 Think of. the parts of this plant as being united and their operation di- rected and co-ordinated by a system of tn ousands of miles of telephone and telegraph wires Think of the task of directing by such means the 1 labor and intelligence of nearly 36,- 900 persons, as widely dispersed as the machinery.
 Imagine the problem of operating under such conditions the machinery of this plant-its cars, locomotives and repair shops-so that it may work as smoothly and Tremendously as the ordinaty manufacturing estab- l Hshment.l And think of the task of trying to satisfy more than 800, daily purchasers of the product of such a nt-transportation,
 To visualize such an industrial or sanitation Is to visualize a railroad system like that of the New York. New Haven and Hartford, including the Central New England. The physical contour of the trans-a portation plant is made up largely of its rails, ties. bridges, roadbed, sta l lions, engines and cars. The rails of the New Haven system represent 500, 969 tons of steel.
 This amount of. steel would make p United States pattleships like the Ne vada.
 It represents 10000 more tons of battIeships.
 like the Queensboro Bridge in New | York.
 mace working five years. five months and twenty-five days to produce the iron necessary for this quantity of steel rail.
 Ut would take a 1.50o ton rail mill I4oo days to roll this amount of rail. 1 The rails of this railroad would stretch 9,8O7 miles, 39 per cent. of
 the distance around the earth at the I Equator.
 In this railroad are approximately LA, 900, ,000 ties. P It would take 45.80O acres of tim 1 Der land of the average found in Con I lnecticut4 0 years to produce this
 amount of lumber. These ties would stretch 20,783 rnles, or 83 per cent. of the distance I around the earth at the Equator.
 There are approximately 2,S5o ties I under every mile Of main track and ] 2s6O0 Under every mile of side track.
 To fasten the rails of this railroad ! to the ties requires 16,250 tons of spikes.
 This railroad system has 2.223
 bridges. of which 1924 are of steel. I These bridges, placed end to end, would end 31 miles. l This railroad system has 1,3oo cir I cult miles of telephone lines. I It has 6.675 miles of telegraph u wires
 I It has 1908 telephones. Il It, has $50 telegraph offices. The daily average of telephone calls aneWered by its switchboard operators is 10000. ]. The New Haven railroad system has l sS7,241 freight cars. Il It has 2.435 passenger ears It has 1,2s2 steam locomotives. 4 It has 103selectric locomotives \ Its freight cars on an average trav- ;, eI SIS, ,685 miles a day. 28,o7O miles an hour.
 Its passengers cars travel 229. .546
 miles in a day, 9,564 nailesin an hour. s Its locomotives travel 91,e66 miles in day, 3.794 miles in an hour.
 To supply it's locomotives with coal
 for a year costs $5. .688.755.
 To supply it's locomotives with wa ter for a Year costs s337.O67. oiled for a year costs $89, 9,573.
 This railroad has 538 miles of track z electrified. It has 1.o7s miles of electric feed ( wires.
 It has 1.aoo steel bridges support = - | se This railroad system has e64 sta tions.
 It has 771 station agents. To keep it's rails, ties and roadbed l in proper condition requires 4.661 : men.
 To patrol it's lines and watch it' : property of, all kinds in four States requires 931 Watchmen. y To mann it's lowers and operate it g. signals requires 523 men. lI To operate its repair shops requires si7,511 men. e To perform its clerical work re y auires 4, ,628 mensand women. r It has 1, 1,326s engineers. r It has 1922 firemen.
 It has HOO conductors. 3 It has 2.531 brakemen. >, To handle passengers baggage i
 employs 649 baggagemen. l. To operate it's track switches it hal 125 switchmen. It employs altogether approximate
 It pays out in wages annually $50. r 540,217.
 On it's dining cars 1t serves an aver
 age of 1.S00 meals a, day and feed e upwards of 450,oo0 people a year. : It sells an average of 271,ooo ticket Il a day.
 e It makes out in a day an average O d. Is, 500 freight way bills. representa- ). 35, 600 freight bills, or 45,00o separat y freight items.
 s It furnishes transportation, rough - ly speaking, to about 100000 person # 3. day. y total 22, were made defendants or in r terested parties before the court of in e qlliry Investigating the t'cribbing' < scandal at Annapolis.