Our country and its resources; . tio of compensationpaid employees to gross earnings is13 per cent. The ratio of compen-sation of employees to the operatingexpenses is <il per cent and thetotal ratio Of all expenses and taxes to gross earnings is 7.» per cent. Nowcompare with the table on page 158. ACCIDENTS The American people have becomeso accustomed to frightful railroad accidents thai they have accepted largely without question the state-ments too often made that no rail- roads are so unsafe as those of theUnited States. In the year 1915,325 railroad companies operated161,948 miles of l
Our country and its resources; . tio of compensationpaid employees to gross earnings is13 per cent. The ratio of compen-sation of employees to the operatingexpenses is <il per cent and thetotal ratio Of all expenses and taxes to gross earnings is 7.» per cent. Nowcompare with the table on page 158. ACCIDENTS The American people have becomeso accustomed to frightful railroad accidents thai they have accepted largely without question the state-ments too often made that no rail- roads are so unsafe as those of theUnited States. In the year 1915,325 railroad companies operated161,948 miles of line, according tothe Bureau of Railway News andStatistics, with absolutely no fatal-ities to passengers in train mileage is very nearly that ofEurope excluding England. To car-ry 18,083,050,000 passengers a mileand kill none of them is a realrecord. In 1S91 the United States miles of road, carried 531, passengers and killed 110of them. In 1915, roads operatinga greater mileage, with 40 per cent. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL CAR RAILROADS OF THE UNITED STATES 157 more tra Sic and double the freighttraffic, killed none. Three com-panies have a flawless record fortwelve years, 23 for eleven years, :;.»for ten years, 48 for nine years, <;.!for eight years, 77 for seven years,87 for six years, 107 for five years,136 for four years, 178 for threeyears, 232 for two years, and 11companies in 1915, 23 in 1914, and15 in 1913 killed only one passengereach. Ou all roads and in all ways,there were 19G passengers killed and10,279 injured in 1915. Employeeson duty were killed to the numberof and 38,060 were hundred and fifteen employeesnot on duty were killed and 840 in-jured, and trespassers, persons nottrespassers but not connected withor traveling upon railways and rail-road industrial (accidents not in-volving train operation made up the balance of the grand total of 8,621persons killed and 162,040 you want to know exactly what
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