. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . st. The firedoor blew open and broke the hostlersleg in six places, so that it had to beamputated. Several other persons suffered employes were required for general ad-ministration, or 18 per 100 miles of line;261,866 for maintenance of way and struc-tures, or 142 per 100 miles of line; maintenance of equipment, or 93 per100 miles of line, and 398,907 for conduct-ing transportation, or 216 per 100 miles ofline. This statement does not include9,754 unclassified employes. The report contains a c
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . st. The firedoor blew open and broke the hostlersleg in six places, so that it had to beamputated. Several other persons suffered employes were required for general ad-ministration, or 18 per 100 miles of line;261,866 for maintenance of way and struc-tures, or 142 per 100 miles of line; maintenance of equipment, or 93 per100 miles of line, and 398,907 for conduct-ing transportation, or 216 per 100 miles ofline. This statement does not include9,754 unclassified employes. The report contains a comparative state-ment of the average daily compensation ofthe different classes of employes for theseven years, 1892 to 1898. There is alsogiven in the report a summary whichshows the total amount of compensationreported as paid to the railway employesof the country during the four fiscal yearsending June 30, 1895 to 1898. This sum-mary shows that the aggregate amount ofwages and salaries paid during the yearending June 30, 1898, to more than 99per cent, of the persons on the pay Volls. A C.\SE or INTERNAL DISTURBANCE. injuries, and the bell-ringer was blownthrough a summer kitchen. The sandbox hasnt been found yet. Number of Railway Employes. The number of persons employed bythe railways of the United States, as re-ported on June 30, 1898, was 874,558,which is equivalent to 474 employes per100 miles of line. As compared with thenumber of employes for the previous year,there was an increase of 51,082. Thenumber of employes on June 30, 1898, was956 in excess of the number on June , and 89,524 in excess of the numberon June 30, 1895. The employes of rail-ways, as reported to the Commission, aredivided into eighteen classes. It thus ap-pears that on June 30, 1898, there were inthe employ of the railways 37,939 engine-men, 38,925 firemen, conductorsand 66,968 other trainmen. There were47,124 switchmen, flagmen and distribution of employes conforming tothe f
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