New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1917, Page 11

TITAL MILEAGE 45T LSS Over 976,803,602 Passengers Car- ried-by: Railroads During Year Washington, Dec. 28.—Something of ‘the magnitude’ of the task to be assumed by the government in taking over the railroads of the country is spown by the-last available annual reports to the Interstate Commerce ission, which give tke par val- fi of the total amount of railroad dipital outstanding as $21,127,959,- @78. This amount includes capital | BSeurities held by the railroad com- es as well as by the public. The amount “ of outstanding stuck jus ‘reported is $8,994,894,721, and ‘funded, debt $12,133,06¢,357. tal. operating revenues for the ar 1915 were $2.956,198,202, of ich $2,087,925,660 was from freight $646,476,045 from passengers. g: number of passengers carried " 976,393,602, and tho tons of freight mioved 1,803,018,177, / .The total rallroad mileage of the 'gpmpenies reporting was 391,451 thiles,/ with 65,099 ‘locomotives and 07,977 cars of all kinds in service. T ber of cars reported did not 2 -Pprivately owned cars of com- ?!*l firms or ‘corporations. £ THe government is now engaged on physical Vvaluation of the property | the mallroads, which by common ng among financiers was ten in the belief that it would & basls for settlement of the jta of mecurity holders in- case gov- ownership should become ef- + It was. the belief in financial st night that the President's ifider tight be' the first step -in what jay eventually become outright gov- Smment ‘ownership, even thouzh it 28 & war measure and follows ‘Jrevedent set by the British gov- Bt ‘So0R after the bdeginning of roads at least the average of the net \earnings for the last three years wuy thought to be fair to railroad invesi- ors. During that time the net earn- 'ings of most of -the railroads of the | ' NEW.BRITAIN DAILY MORGAN SUPERINTENDING. REBUILDING OF HOMES IN FRANCE | country have been steadily decrems-—{- - ing. This was said to have been owing to the great increase in operating ex- penses, caused by the increase in wagees granted to the operating em- ployes at the behest of the President last year and to the increased prices of materials. ' The net earnings of many of the roads, it was said, have shown a constant reduction, even though the operating revenues have materially increased. Little unfavorable financial ‘effect from the President's order was feared last night, as it was satd the most unfavorable situation possible had al- ready been discounted. Railroad stocks, it was said, have in many in- stances reached the low watér mark of a generation during the last few ‘weeks, One leading banker, who ‘is inter- ested heavily in rallroads, said gov- ernment control of the railroads was the biggest businegs problem éver un- dertak\en. He expressed satistaction that a man with the experience of Mr. McAdoo h&d been chosen to put the president’s order into effect. Confidence was expressed that cen- tralized control of the railroads would relieve the present freight congestion and permit a free movement of ne- cessities to all parts of the country, as well as facilitate movements of troops and their supplies. It was explained that the new control would undoubt- edly eliminate much needless dupli- cation of equipment by . competing lines and also would enable the move- ment of passengers and freight to be routed to the best advantage. | It was the understanding here that no change in the operating person- nel of the railroads was contemplated and that the practical rayroad officials now in charge of each rallroad would continue in their present places. It also was asserted that the gov- ernment would be able to keep a firm hand on the labor situation, as each employe will be practically in the gov- ernment war service. The number of employes on the larger rallroads of the country was given as 1,109,342 in the last reports. It was said the ad- dition of employes of the smaller rail- roads operating entirely within any one state and the increase since the figures were compiled would un- doubtedly raise the total number of employes at the present to well above 1,500,000 y following table show the mileage of the principal railroad sys- fms of the United States, the total earnings of each system and the according to the last available early reports: Mileage 11,353 B2 ¥ a of New Jersey. Bastern Illineis. Northwestern . fhicaga, Burlington & Quincy (@hicago Great Western JIndisnapolis & ville ), Milwaukee & St. Paul ! - Rock Tsland & Pacific. Cineinsati, Hamilton & Dayton. _Ginclnpati, Chi, & St. L. Gh hica ware, Lackawanna & Western. ‘Denver & Rio Grande. Detroit & Mackinac. .. ¢ Toledo &.Ironton. Bouth Shore & Atlantic. o & Southwestern reolonial ... « . tional & Great Northern ‘City Southern : Maine Central...... dianapolis & St Louis & neapoMs, St. P. & Sault Ste, M. ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Orleans, Mobile & Chicago 5 New York Central. v 4 MNew York, Chicago & St. Louls. ... : “York, New Haven & Hartford déw York, Ontario & Western. . ... Norfolk' Southern Nortolk & Western. fe Marquette ‘Philadelphia & Reading nd Pegageene Antonio & A;-hnm Pass. W Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake oard Aire Line. uthern Pacific. hern Raflway. ane, Portland & s,,,uu.. Louis Southwestern.” Total Operating Earnings, Expenses, Last Last Annual Annual Report $ 83,730,960 22,197,008 63,935,507 2,386,007 36,197,958 8,648,789 8,843,067 21,129,895 3,444,718 31,789,179 11,601,793 12,680,319 61,953,329 60,441,367 10,716,498 5,111,639 69,120,957 52,308,871 9,004,362 39,195,229 5,557,783 1,441,148 14,813,625 29,511,905 14,739,410 793,735 Report $133,762,392 34,445,110 91,815,797 3,775,805 52,075,427 11,971,018 12,567,618 33,462,928 4,812,357 48,239,012 16,325,287 16,698,404 91,313,865 91,125,060 15,067,345 7,694,723 105,646,483 72,189,276 9,725,972 43,478,001 7,682,148 1,516,758 3,787,519 4,698 2,329 335 909 981 2,576 382 436 603 1,028 2/194 724 307 895 573 2 2 2 2 2,242,930 1,843,662 4,149,902 43,914,076 4,953,577 51,173,727 11,348,756 7,329,224 6,361,722 4,607,785 33,092,977 9,126,922 39,431,789 8,192,577 6,803,595 19,081,068 25,794,344 43,284,082 7,933,656 9,439,032 1,320,685 132,949,170 9,904,099 44,128,623 6,202,922 2,978,877 32,181,845 37,105,048 2,752,955 142,736,560 14,530,424 33,389,650 2,638,096 3,404,593 6,678,176 14,928,534 97,443,625 46,041,162 2,622,054 8,406,789 34,971,036 13,815,975 3,628,892 58,582,770 3,376,851 15,993,370 4,787,891 5,960,228 5,662,004 §1,262,478 7,411,536 69,077,342 11,300,176 9,420,291 10,583,630 6,941,284 47,383,569 13,555,780 51,608,015 12,001,672 10,111,975 25,010,064 32,485,507 64,378,302 10,982,149 13,678,838 1,771,472 209,303,753 14,378,316 65,379,263 2,942,351 3,875,875 67,304,586 63,171,652 4,319,697 196,628,170 21,210,053 57,298,392 3,875,097 3,862,745 11,244,355 21,280,462 152,694,238 69,997,675 4,971,800 12,224,449 48,403,390 19,156,856 5,643,365 104,717,005 5,820,405 23,608,572 7,466,004 9,184,516 351 Miss Anne Morgan, head of the American Fund for French Wounded Reconstruction unit, is personally su- perintending the rebuildng of ruined Peasant homes in the Aisne district. Here she i3 shown giving directions to INCOME TAX ARMY READY TO MARCH Forty Collectors to Leave Central Of- fice in Few Days—One Coming Hecre. Hartford, Dec. 28.—It will take a small army of men to take the income ; tax returns of persons subject to the | new law. H Collector of Internal Revenue | James J. Walsh today announced that 40--officers will start from his head- | quarters on January 1 and oh Jan- | uary 2 every one of them will be ' on the job in the city or town as- signed him, to meet the people and help them make out their income tax returns. The officer assigned to New Britain is due to arrive January 2 and will remain until March 2, both dates inclusive. He will have his of- fice in the Post Office where he may be found every day of the dates stated. “It will be well for every unmar- ried person whose net income for 1917 18 $1,000 or over, and every married person living with wife or husband whose net income for 1917 is $2,000 : or ovef, to call on the Income tax man and learn whether or not they have ! any tax to pay.” Collector Walsh said | today “The person subject to tax who ' doean’t make return in time pre- scribed is going to regret it. The gov- ernment will get after all income tax slackers. i “There’s hardly a business man, merchant or professional man who won't have to make return of income. Farmers, as a class, will have to pay the tax. The safe thing to do is for every person who Had a total income of $1,000 or $2,000, as the case may be, and who is not suré about what deductions the law allows him, to play it safe by calling on the income tax ' man. | “The men. in the field will have forms for everybody and persons who .expect to call on him need not trouble themselves to write to the collector’s office for forms.” MILLS—HOSFORD Pretty Wedding Takes Place at Whitc Oak Home A pretty home wedding took place ' in White Oak yesterday afternoon when Miss Bertha E. Hosford became the bride of Irwin- L. Mills of Can- ton Center. The decorations were in kéeping ' with the Christmas season, and the ceremony, performed by Rev. | Henty W. Maier, took place under an arch of evergreen. Only the im- mediate families were present. The bride wore a dress of white batiste trimmmed with lace and car- ried a bouquet of b#de roses. She is the daughtér of Mr. and Mrs. Orrin M. Hosford. The groom is the brother of Lewis S. Mills of Plain- | ville. Shortly after the ceremony the bride and groom left on their wed- ding trip. Upon their return they will make their home in Canton Center. 7 THE I W, W. Thousands of Sabotage Books Are Confiscated by Federal Agents, Chicago, Déc. 28.—Some of the re- | sults of the recent raid on headquar- ters of the 1. W. W. here were made kxnown by federal officials today. Among the tons of literature seized were 50,000 copies of “Sabotage” a book by Elizabeth Gurley Fiyna of New York, now under indictment for | conspiracy against the government. Thousands of copies of another book called “Sabotage” by Emil Pouget, were seized. Vast quantities of ! stickers inscribed ‘‘don’t be a sol- dier—be a man,” new L. W. W. song | books and plates from which they were printed were aiso taken. | I | the soldier workmen who have been placed under her orders by the French military authorities. In addi- tion to rebuilding homes, the unit sup- plies to the refugees all household ne- cessities as well as clothing and farm implements. . CATCHER M’CARTY’S SHOULDER GOOD AGAIN | i Catcher Lew McCarty of the New York Giants has returned to his home in Catawissa, Pa., after spending the time since the world series hunting in Vermont. ! He is still suffering from the shoul- der hurt in the second game of the world series. Ligaments were torn, and did not heal as expected. However, a man' who is able shoot from an injured shoulder should not be kicking, and maybe McCarty is not as badly off as he makes out. NO TIME WASTED IN McGOWAN'’S OFFICE | The office of Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, chief of the bureau of sup- plies and accounts in the navy depart- ment, is unique in that the only chair in it is the one occypied by the ad- miral himself. No long-winded con- versations are possible in that office. No visitor ever sees a scrap of paper on his desk, for his work is finished one thing at @ time. Business men from all parts of the country. have studied his bureau as an example of efficiency. = Outside o6f business hours Admira]l McGowan . is pointed out as the most popular bachelor in Wash. | ington. . *HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, AN DRY G000} GRAND CLEAN-UP SALE OF WOMEN'S and | AT LESS THAN COST BEFORE TAKING INVENTORY Our Knit Goods Department offers big values in Swéaters, Scarfs Vests and Infants’ Wear. Misses’ heavy wool Scarfs and Caps, worth $1.98. - To close out at A Children’s Wool Caps, worth 59¢. To close out at Extraordinary Values in Coat Sweaters . Women’s high grade Tailored Suits, made to sell at $19.98 to $22.98. To close out at ..... A lot of all wool Serge Dresses, worth up to $1298. Tocloseoutat ......... ......... (This is less than you can buy the serge for) 100 dozen Children’s heavy weight fast black Hose, all sizes, 6 to 91;. Best: 25¢ Hose in the market. » l 90 ; ; Extra Specialat ...................¢ a pair Men’s $1.50 Lamb’s Down Fleece Lined Underwear. To close out at 9 8° Extraordinary Specials 100 Fine Pictures. Neat Frames. 39c and 59c value. To close out at 1 9c 10 only. Model A Phonographs. Has a good sound box. Made well and has ‘[ a good motor. $5.00 value SR : ; $2 50 e ToCleanupat ................. . | \ One Cent a Word Each Day Pays for a Classified Adv. in : the Herald. Yon Get Resuits That's What You Want DAME FASHION SAYS " WOODEN BEDS - The up-to-date home must have bedroom furniture in the Period styles, and to bg in complete harmony with the rest of the room, the bed also must be of wood. Though the handsome brass bed stilllingers in the hearts of a great many tasteful women, a large number of them find the beautiful designs of the wodd beds and the lovely woods themselves irresistible.. g There is no article of furniture in which the rare beauties of walnut'and ma hogany of good quality show to such advantage as in the bed. ~ The wide pang 1s% affrd splendid opportunity for effectively using fine markings in the wood, ‘a#id the modern hand-rubbed finish gives to it a velvety sheen which is unequaléd”in its loveliness. o To those who have a lingering qualm about the all-wood bed, it is ‘g ; news to learn-that the important, though invisible part-joints, side-rails, etiare,” if so desired, made in metal, and only the exposed parts of wood. B e We solicit your inspectjon of our éxtensive showing of Wooden Be