. The street railway review . ommissioners, reveal the following facts:Number of passengers carried, including transfers. 65, Number of transfers 18,112,910 Passenger car mileage ,321 Average number of employes during year 21687 .Aggregate amount of salaries and wages $1,494, Gross passenger earnings $2,490, Significant as these figures are, we will not yet properly ap-preciate and comprehend them until we compare them with thestatistics of some other well-known corporation. For this com-parison I have chosen the New York Central & Hudson RiverR. R., that vast four-tra
. The street railway review . ommissioners, reveal the following facts:Number of passengers carried, including transfers. 65, Number of transfers 18,112,910 Passenger car mileage ,321 Average number of employes during year 21687 .Aggregate amount of salaries and wages $1,494, Gross passenger earnings $2,490, Significant as these figures are, we will not yet properly ap-preciate and comprehend them until we compare them with thestatistics of some other well-known corporation. For this com-parison I have chosen the New York Central & Hudson RiverR. R., that vast four-track system, so often called AmericasGreatest Railroad. The same book of statistics covering thesame period of time, the year ending June 30, 1900, shows:Number of passengers carried, through and local. Passenger train mileage, through and local 16,820,180 Passenger earnings $18,564, so that it appears that the number of passengers carried by ourcompanies exceeded the number carried by the Nc\v York Central. EMPLOYES ROOMS, INTERN.\TION.\L TK.^CTION CO., BUFFALt ness, and believed that if this spirit was shown the employes wouldbe unwilling to demand from those whose capital has created theinstitution and is risked upon its results, concessions not neces-sary for the fair treatment of labor. Another letter was read from Mr. Porter Norton, who, in be-half of his wife, presented the association with three pictureswhich will add to the attractiveness of the club rooms. Mrs. Nor-tons father, the late S. V. R. Watson, built the original railwaysin Buffalo and was president of the railway companies up to thetime of his death, and Mrs. Norton thought it appropriate, there-fore, that the first organization for the benefit of street railwayemployes in Buffalo should receive recognition from Mr. Wat-sons family. Following the reading of both of these letters reso-lutions of thanks were unanimously adopted by the associationexpressing its gratitude to Mr. Stetson and Mrs. N
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