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Excerpt from Twenty-First Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners: January, 1890 Street railways, car mileage on, 70. Number of passengers on, 70. Greater than on steam roads, 70. Per round trip (see Tables). Number of trips on, 70. Of employees on, 70. Abstract of accidents on (see Tables). Electric, 50 dangers of, 51. Reports on petitions for increase of stock of, etc., 75. Summary of returns of 1888 and 1889, 234. For seven years, 236. Superintendents, Association of American Railroad, information concerning heating cars by steam received by, 114. Surplus or deficit of railroad companies (see Tables). Switches, recommendations relative to, 22. Tables, statistical, from railroad returns, 196 - 236: from street railway returns, 170 - 193. Taxes (see Abstract of returns) Track of railroads, length of, 58 (see also Tables). Cost of repairs of, per train mile, 65. Traffic expenses, statistics of, 62. Per train mile, 65. Train accidents, 152, 156. Train brakes for freight cars, 8 - 11. National legislation concerning, recommended, 8. Requisites for efficiency of, 9, 10. Train mile, expenses per, 65. Earnings per, 66. Earnings and expenses per, statistics of (see Tables). Standard, average cost of, 65. Train mileage, 61 (see Abstract of returns). Trains, cost of 1unning, 65. Transp01tat1on earnings and expenses, statistics of (see Tables). Trespassers, accidents to, in Massachusetts, 35, vigorous measures should be taken to prevent, 35. Union passenger station on north side of Boston, 42. United States, statistics of train accidents in, 156. Uxbridge, petition for better station accommodation on Providence Worcester Rail road, 96. Value of property of street railway companies, how ascertained, 46. Ventilation of passenger cars, 6. Wages (see Salaries). Wakefield, petition for better accommodations at G1eenwood station in, 98. Waste, cost of, per train mile, 65. Way, permanent, cost of maintaining, per train mile, 65. L of street railways, cost of, 70. Repairs on, cost per mile operated (see Tables). West End Street Railway authorized to increase capital stock, 75 - 79. Petition for reduction of fares on, between Upham's Corner to Back Bay, etc. 101. Fatal accident on, 106. Westinghouse, H. H. L, etter from, relative to brake -power, 144. Whately, station to be established at, on New Haven Northampton Railroad, 92. Whistling of locomotives, petitions for prohibition of, 108. Willard, Luke P., and others, petition for reduction of fares on West End Street Railway between Upham's Corner and Back Bay and depots, 101. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
