. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . y other,still recosrnizes the fact that faithful and efficient nieu are an essen-tial factor in the prosecution of that art. People desire to dealwith a personality, and therefore wish to see the personnel of therailroad service fostered and perfected. STATISTICAL RAILWAY STUDIES/ By FLETCHER W. HEWES. Railway Mileage of the World—Railway Mileage of the United States—Annual Mile-age and Increase—Mileage Compared with Area—Geographical Location of Rail-ways— Centres of Mileage and of Population — Railway Systems
. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . y other,still recosrnizes the fact that faithful and efficient nieu are an essen-tial factor in the prosecution of that art. People desire to dealwith a personality, and therefore wish to see the personnel of therailroad service fostered and perfected. STATISTICAL RAILWAY STUDIES/ By FLETCHER W. HEWES. Railway Mileage of the World—Railway Mileage of the United States—Annual Mile-age and Increase—Mileage Compared with Area—Geographical Location of Rail-ways— Centres of Mileage and of Population — Railway Systems—Trunk LinesCompared : By Mileage ; Largest Receipts ; Largest Net Results—Freight Traffic—Reduction of Freight Rates—Wheat Rates—The Freight Haul—Empty FreightTrains—Freight Profits—Passenger Traffic—Passenger Rates—Passenger Travel—Passenger Profits—General Considerations—Dividends—Net Earnings per Mileand Railway Building—Ratios of Increase—Construction and Maintenance—Em-ployees and their Wages—Rolling Stock—Capital LTHOUGH the United States was the secondnation to open a line of railway, it operates to-daynearly half the mileage of the world, and It hasso many miles of double, triple, and quadrupletrack that, were the data of trackage available,such a comparison would undoubtedly show it to more thanequal all the rest of the world combined. Below is given a chart comparing the mileage of the principalrailway countries. The list contains all countries having a mile-age of over ten thousand kilometers. Italy. Australia Caiuula- British India AustriaHungarj- Russla France Groat Gertnaiiy Unitod States 23,000 Kilomotors Principal Railway Countries, 1887. 125,000 150,000 200,000 , )00 The most prominent fact is impressed by the very long linerepresenting the mileage of the United States. A second impres- * Data drawn from Poors Manual of Railroads. 1889, and the Statistical Abstract of the UnitedSta
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