. The street railway review . Company, succeeded in operat-ing his cars even with the snow drifts piled as high as the car roofs. were $; interest, $30,000; dividends, $24,000. The amount ex-pended for real estate and improvements was $24,921. This roadhas miles of track. The gross receipts of the Washington & Great Falls Electric Rail-way Company for the year were $47,764. Operating expenses were$22,713; expended lor conslructirin and e(|uipmcnt, $8,972; for rightof way and real estate, $576. The excess of earnings over expendi-tures is $8,695, which is a better showing than made by
. The street railway review . Company, succeeded in operat-ing his cars even with the snow drifts piled as high as the car roofs. were $; interest, $30,000; dividends, $24,000. The amount ex-pended for real estate and improvements was $24,921. This roadhas miles of track. The gross receipts of the Washington & Great Falls Electric Rail-way Company for the year were $47,764. Operating expenses were$22,713; expended lor conslructirin and e(|uipmcnt, $8,972; for rightof way and real estate, $576. The excess of earnings over expendi-tures is $8,695, which is a better showing than made by any of theother suburban roads of Washington. This road is 7 miles longand carried 998,854 passengers. The City & Suburban Railway Company (a consolidation of theI-^ckington & Soldiers Home Railway Company and the Maryland& Washington Railway Company) has 31 miles of track, and theearnings of the property for the year were $82,551, and the totaldeficit, $58,621. The Anacostia & Potomac River Railway Com-. SCENliS AT I!UT/.T(1WN. PA. STREET RAILWAYS OF WASHINGTON CITY. From the annual reports of the street railways operaling in theDistrict of Columbia we extract the following data as to theiroperation during i8g8: The gross passenger earnings of the Capital Traction Companywere $932,170, and the total gross earnings $933,177. Operatingexpenses were $537,991 and dividends, interest and taxes, $411,107;the surplus for the year was $44,079. During the early part of theyear, tliat is. until a few weeks after the opening of the undergroundsystem, the receipts of this company were small, and the fact thatso good a showing has been made is cause for congratulation. Theexpense of installing the electrical underground system was largerthan was estimated by the company, owing to the final decision toput the system on the Seventh street line. The total cost of theimprovement was $1,296, Bonds for $1,000,000 were author-ized. The insurance on the burned out power-house was $250,000.
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