Previous Year. MILEAGE, TRAFFIC, ETC.-Concluded. 2,380,944 Number of season ticket passengers. 25,586,971 Number of local passengers, including season. 2,885,819 27,770,85 949,03 Through freight mileage, tons through freight carried 171,942,772 one mile.... 201,162,719 152 tons. Average weight of passenger trains, exclusive of ....... 5 Average number of cars in passenger trains . DESCRIPTION OF ROAD. ..... ...... Length of main line of road from Boston, Mass, to 115.50 Portland, Me..... 152 tons. 5 233 tons. 23 9,769 115.50 2.7 Total length of branches owned by company in N. H., 2.75 5.75 Total length of branches owned by company in Mass., 297.426 Aggregate length of track, computed as single track, DESCRIPTION of ROAD-Concluded. Roads and Branches belonging to other Companies, operated by this Company under Lease or Contract. Previous Year 118.840 Eastern R. R. of Massachusetts and branches, length, 94 480 Worcester, Nashua & Rochester R. R.. 16 08 Eastern R. R. in New Hampshire 50 760 Portland, Saco & Portsmouth R. R.. 72 860 Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway R. R 12 03 Wolfborough R R 1.780Chelsea Beach R. R. 2 240 Newburyport City R. R. 26 979 Newburyport R R.... .... ... 58.180 Total length of above roads in Maine 118.840 94 480 16 080 30.760 72.860 12 030 3 340 1.970 10.880 9.259 26.979 8.730 4 450 29.000 22.390 4.500 98.090 14 500 13.160 15.500 10.500 29.590 98.770 110 300 172.320 Northern, Concord & Claremont R. R. 1,026.GOS Total length of above roads in other States, specifying 450.750 New Hampshire. each.. Massachusetts.. Vermont. Canada 36.750 172 320 1,086.028 58.180 1,027.848 450.-20 429 979 110.300 36.750 428 >08 110.300 36 750 1,208.788 Total miles of road operated by this company.. 23, Number of telegraph officers in same... GENERAL INFORMATION. PLEASE FURNISH THE FOLLOWING GENERAL INFORMATION IN REGARD TO YOUR ROAD. 46 11-12 58 243 ..... 811 ..... 765 Length of heaviest engine and tender, from center of forward truck-wheel Average weight of 4-wheel platform cars..... of engine to center of rear wheel of tender, feet Total length of heaviest engine and tender over all, feet Number of locomotives equipped with train brake...... Kind of brake, Westinghouse Automatic. Kind of brake, Westinghouse Automatic. Number of cars equipped with train brake. Number of passenger cars with Miller platform and buffer...... Number of miles of road operated by your Company not furnished with telegraph facilities, specifying location of same: From Bradford to Georgetown, number of miles. 6.50 Are charges for the transportation of company's supplies included in the earnings as reported for your road? No. BRIDGE BUILT WITHIN THE YEAR IN MAINE Salmon Falls, one 115 feet span in Maine, balance in New Hampshire; double track, iron; I span deck plate, girder, 36'9"; 1 span deck plate, girder, 68' 1"; 3 spans ivited, trusses, deck, 115' 11" each; finished in 1888. Previous Year. 21 Number of spans of bridges, of 25 feet and upwards, 25 Number of stone bridges, aggregate length, feet, 217, 13 *Number of crossings at which gates or flaginen aro 5 maintained.... *Number of crossings at which there are neither elec15 tric signals, gates nor flagmen. *Number of railroad crossings at grade, specifying each Eastern Division at North Berwick. *In Maine, on miles road owned. B7874 18 17 14 13 7 11 7 .... company 7,000,000 00 $7,000,000 00 Capital stock issued, number of shares, amount paid in, 7,000,000 00 Total amount paid in as per books of the company Total number of stockholders.......... DEBT. Funded debt, as follows: .... 3,892 $519,500 00 1,500,000 00 Bonds due January 1, 1893, rate of interest, 7 per cent. Interest accrued on same during year, $105,000 00 2,000,000 00 Bonds due January 1, 1884, rate of interest,7 per cent, Interest accrued on same during year, $140,000 00 1,000,000 00 Bonds due February 2,1905, rate of interest,4 per cent, Interest accrued on same during year, $10,000 00 Improvement bonds due Feb. 1, 1907, rate of interest. 4 per cent 500,000 00 $7,000,000 00 7,000,000 00 1,500,000 00 2,000,000 00 1,000,000 00 500,000 00 673,000 00 Interest accrued on same during year, $20,000 00 Improvement bonds due Feb. 1, 1937, rate of interest, 4 per cent.... 1,484,000 00 Interest accrued on same during year, $51,941 22 5,673,000 00 Total amount of funded debt... Passengers, Employees, Others...... 6,484,000 00 Killed. Injured. Killed. Injured Killed. Injured Killed. Injured. *Reckoning twelve passengers per week for time of each season ticket. +Rates as per tariff. STATEMENT OF EACH ACCIDENT IN MAINE. October 26 1888-At Portland, Nathan D. Fickett, a trespasser walking on the Portland bridge, was struck by a passing train, receiving inju ies from which he soon afterwards died. December 25 1888-At Cape Elizabeth, Richard Dodge, a boy of ten years, a trespasser, attempting to climb into a freight car, fell under the wheels when it started, receiving injuries from which he soon afterwards died. January 8 1889-At Arundel, Charles Boeu, a trespasser, stealing a ride on top of a freight car, was knocked off by an overhead bridge, and falling under the wheels was cut to pieces. February 21 1889-At Conway Junction, John F. Willey, a brakeman, stepped off a moving engine and falling under the wheels was run over and killed. May 30 1889-At Portland, William McDonald, a trespasser, walking on the tracks near the transfer station bridge, was struck by a passing train, from the effects of which he soon afterwards died. July 21 1889-At Old Orchard, James Sellars, while walking upon the platform, fell off, and was struck by the cars, and was slightly cut upon the head. Ho was intoxicated. July 27 1889—At Portland, Henry B. Johnson, an employe, while coupling cars, was caught and had his arm jammed. August 5 1889-At Old Orchard, Annie Whitehouse attempted to get on the cars after they had started, and falling upon the platform, hurt her side slightly. August 23 1889-At Old Orchard, W. F. Fernald jumped from a moving train, cutting his face slightly. September 2 1839-At Portland, John Lucy, an employe, was thrown from the platform of a baggage car by a sudden lurch of the train, and fatally injured September 17 1889-At State street crossing, Portland, Charles L Robinson, and his son, while driving too close to the track, had his carriago struck by a car and overturned, slightly injuring both of them. NAME AND RESIDENCE OF OFFICERS. President-George C. Lord, Newton, Mass. General Manager-James T. Furber, Lawrence. Superintendents—Wm. Merritt, Western Division, Boston, Mass. D. W Sanborn' Eastern Div., Somerville, Mass. John W. Sanborn, Northern Div, Wolfboro' Jo., N. H. George W. Hurlburt, W. N. & P. Division, Worcester, Mass. W. F. Simons, Southern Division, Somerville, Mass. H. E. Fulsom, Passumpsic Division, Lyndonville, Vt. George E. Todd, Northern R. R. Division, Concord, N. H. General Passenger and Ticket Agent-D. J Flanders, Malden, Mass. General Freight Agent-W. F. Berry, Winchester, Mass. Treasurer-Amos Blanchard, Andover, Mass. General Auditor-Wm. J. Hobbs, Malden, Mass. Clerk of Corporation-Chauncey P. Judd, Reading, Mass. Name and Residence of Directors Last Elected-George C. Lord, Newton, Mass. Amos Paul, South Newmarket, N. H Wm S. Stevens, Dover, N H. Jos S. Ricker, Deering, Me. Richard Alney, Boston, Mass. Samuel C. Lawrence, Medford, Mass. Frank Jones, Portsmouth, N. H. Wm. T. Hart, Boston, Mass. Proper Address of the Company-Boston & Maine Railroad, Boston, Mass. |