The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-09
POINTS TOR, R.
ECONOMY BY US.
Salaries Cut, Mileage Saved,
Says MCAdOO in report.
IN CONTROL SEVEN MONTHS
Director General Says Railroads Can
Meet Demands if Draft Does Not
Take Men.

Washington. Sept 9.-ln report
10 the president, Director General
McAdoo tells the story of the work
nf The United States railroad admin
istration during the first seven
months of its existence.
The American transportation sys-
tenn is briefly described as including
Il steam railway mileage GALL tracks,
of 391. oh miles, owned or controlled
by 1908 companies, employing l,lO0,-
Sl4 persons. Their property also
comprised various boat and steamship
lines engaged in cOastWise tranSpor-
tatiun and navigating an inland wat
erway> system. which included some
tifty-seveu canals. 305I miles in
length. aS we'll as many thousand
miles of navigable rivers. lakes. bays,
sounds and inlets.
The report concludes with refer
rnce ia Mr.. McAdoo'S declaration of
policy. issued last June. in which he
announced that he hoped Ito human
iZe the railroads and negative the
idea that corporations had no souls y
Mr.. McAdoo's view of the future is
optimistic. He says that there Is
good ground for believing that sub
stantial progress has been made lin
accelerating the movement Of traffic
and employing the available equip
ment more intensively." and that he
is confident that the railroads will
shortly he in q condition to meet
any demands that may be made upon
them if the needed motive power al
ready ordered can he secured and the
skilled labor necessary Is not with
drawn from the railroads for military
and other purposes. These, he says,
are very serious phases of the rail
WAY problem.
Elaborate traffic statistics are adj
duced in support of his claim with
regard 10 the intensified employment
nf equipment. These statistics show
that both the carload and the train
load have been substantially increas-
ed and that by ''rerouting" the dis
rance that freight must he hauled
between many important centers has
been greatly shortened. In one In
stance 500 miles have been tins saw
ed ana in many other cases the say
ing runs from 100 To 800 miles.
As one example of the economy
hat has thus been made possible he
mentions the fact that recently dur
ing period of about sixty days some
in, toi n
western territory so as to effect Il
saving In the mileage travelled by each
car of the 1876 miles, equal to total
Of 1,754.S05 car-miles.
The report calls attention 10 the
crippled condition of the railroads
when T-Mere-taken- over a. "a re-
suit of the freight congestion and
blockadeS. and explains the measures
Of relief thai We're successfully APP
piled to corrcst these conditions be-
fore any permanrn, organization was
effected or congress had passed en-
abilng legislation providing for the
revolving fund of S.Ot.0o1000. which
did not become Il law until March 81.
1918.
The organiZa ion which has been
Snice created is described III length.
There is Il central administration n
Washington. of which Mr.. McAdoo is
the head.
Under the central organization are
seven regional directors having
charge of an equal number of region
al districts into which the railroad
mileage OF the country has been di-
vided