. Efficient railway operation . ning one-third of the total freight-service, togetherwith three-eighths of the passenger-service, was performed by the lines inthe Western District of 139,948 miles, or a little more than half of theentire mileage. The relative service performed in these districts may perhaps be morereadily appreciated by a comparison of the density of traffic per mile ofline, as follows: DiSTBICTS Freight TrafficTon-miles Passenger TrafficPassenger-miles 2,473,764 1,063,094 736,959 264,498 Southern . Western 98,236102,227 United States .... 1,245,158 143,067 Here it will be see
. Efficient railway operation . ning one-third of the total freight-service, togetherwith three-eighths of the passenger-service, was performed by the lines inthe Western District of 139,948 miles, or a little more than half of theentire mileage. The relative service performed in these districts may perhaps be morereadily appreciated by a comparison of the density of traffic per mile ofline, as follows: DiSTBICTS Freight TrafficTon-miles Passenger TrafficPassenger-miles 2,473,764 1,063,094 736,959 264,498 Southern . Western 98,236102,227 United States .... 1,245,158 143,067 Here it will be seen that the density of freight-traffic in the WesternDistrict was less than one-third of that in the Eastern District; that thedensity of passenger-traffic in the Southern District was about three-eighthsof that in the Eastern District; and that in the Eastern District the den-sity of both freight and passenger traffic was double the average density1 Traffic Statistics for 1914 Millions of Ton-milesMillions of Passenger-niiles. 22 EFFICIENT RAILWAY OPERATION of the whole system. These simple facts indicate the wide differencesbetween the several districts as to transportation conditions and also thenecessity for difference of treatment in the regulation of railway affairswithin their respective borders.^ In each of the territorial districts, certain railway systems predominate;as in the New England States, where the New Haven system virtuallycontrolled the traffic situation until its disintegration under judicial pro-cedure. In the remainder of the area included in the Eastern District,the trunk-Une traffic between the Atlantic Coast and the Mississippi Riveris mainly carried by the New York Central, the Erie, the Pennsylvaniaand the Baltimore and Ohio systems, as also the vast traffic with the GreatLakes. The anthracite-coal traffic is participated in by the Philadelphiaand Reading, the Lehigh Valley, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,and the Delaware and Hudson systems. The
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