. The Street railway journal . ,306 .354 December . 119,370 144,000 124,630 55,ooo 23,405 Total . $1,519 520 $1,620,933 $101,413 $424,506 $53i,ioi $106,595 * Decrease. f Increase for first 21 days in December was$18,021. Note.—Figures in italics are estimated. five motor cars. A power station will be erected at once,to be equipped with two 425 k. w. units. The presidentand general manager of the company is Thomas H. Mc-Lean, who was formerly general manager of the CitizensRailway Company, of Indianapolis, and before that of the Broadway and Twenty-third Street lines in New YorkCity. The
. The Street railway journal . ,306 .354 December . 119,370 144,000 124,630 55,ooo 23,405 Total . $1,519 520 $1,620,933 $101,413 $424,506 $53i,ioi $106,595 * Decrease. f Increase for first 21 days in December was$18,021. Note.—Figures in italics are estimated. five motor cars. A power station will be erected at once,to be equipped with two 425 k. w. units. The presidentand general manager of the company is Thomas H. Mc-Lean, who was formerly general manager of the CitizensRailway Company, of Indianapolis, and before that of the Broadway and Twenty-third Street lines in New YorkCity. The accompanying financial statement will give anidea of the growth of the companys business during thisperiod. The figures are given in Mexican currency. In the statement given the company has derived nobenefit from the present low prices of grain and stores, asthe contracts for those used in 1897 were made in 1896when the prices of fodder were higher. The cost of op-eration will, however, be proportionately reduced in FIG. 1.—VIEW IN MAIN CAR HOUSE, MEXICO, SHOWINGFIRST-CLASS PASSENGER CARS From 1889 to 1895 inclusive, the company paid in divi-dends the sum of $2,057,410. In 1896 the companyearned 6 per cent on the capitalization of $6,000,000. The conditions of operation in the City of Mexico arein some respects quite different from those of any Ameri-can city. Both first and second class cars are run. Oneof the former is shown in Fig. 1. It is one of thirty pur-chased from the West End Railway Company, of Boston,at the time that company gave up the use of horses, and140 first class cars are owned by the company. Of secondclass cars the company has 120. The rates of fare per-mitted by the concessions of the company are 2 centsper kilometre for first class cars and 1 cent per kilometrefor second class cars. First class cars are operated onlyon the lines exclusively within the city limits. Thesecond class cars are run on the lines extending from the 1
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