. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the effect ofincreasing to some extent the number oflailway accidents classified as train acci-dents solely because the damage to prop-erty exceeded the reported minimum fig-ure of $150. In spite of this fact it i<gratifying to note that the number ofaccidents resulting in casualties to per-sons is below the average of several pre-ceding reports, the list of persons injuredin the nine months ending , being reported as amounting to52,095 ; killed, 7,196; while during the samep
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the effect ofincreasing to some extent the number oflailway accidents classified as train acci-dents solely because the damage to prop-erty exceeded the reported minimum fig-ure of $150. In spite of this fact it i<gratifying to note that the number ofaccidents resulting in casualties to per-sons is below the average of several pre-ceding reports, the list of persons injuredin the nine months ending , being reported as amounting to52,095 ; killed, 7,196; while during the sameperiod in 1918 the number of persons werereported as ; killed. half the number of the outstan4ing sharesof stock of these railways, and that nearlythe same number, variety and value ofholdings had been maintained for severalyears preceding. The slight variations ascompared with previous records of sta-tistics are presented with microscopicexactness, but in the matter of amountsof interest on the investments the Bureauis as silent as the Sphinx. For Testing and WashingLocomotive Boilers. Railway Stockholders. The Bureau of Railway Economics hasissued Bulletin, Miscellaneous Series, , showing the number of railway stock-holders on December 31. 1917, the dateon which the railway system of the UnitedStates passed into the hands of the Gov-ernment for war operation. The statisticsare interesting as showing iiow many per-sons owned the railways and wasthe amount of their holdings at the perisdreferred to. The approximate amount otrailway stock in the hands of the generalpublic at that time was $6,377,551, stock was in the hands of 636,20**holders, the average amcnint of holdingsbeing $10,024. The fact that corporations,estates and similar holders are enterecbut once, and that their holdings , though indirectly, to manyothers, greatly increases the numberthough not enumerated. Districts arc classified in the Bulletin,Inil the chief outst
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