Regulation of Railroad Rates.

THE following are the clauses of the act approved June 29, 1905, to amend the act of 1887 and other acts amendatory thereof entitled An Act to Regulate Commerce, which specifically relate to the construction of switches, filing of schedules of rates and fares, prohibition of discriminations and rebates and hearing of complaints and remedial action thereon by the Interstate Commerce Commission. FURNISHING SWITCHES AND TRANSPORTATION.

Any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act, upon application of any lateral, branch line of railroad, or of any shipper tendering interstate traffic for transportation, shall construct, maintain, and operate upon reasonable terms a switch connection with any such lateral, branch line of railroad, or private side track which may be constructed to connect with its railroad, where such connection is reasonably practicable and can be put in with safety and will furnish sufficient business to justify the construction and maintenance of the same; and shall furnish cars for the movement of such traffic to the best of its ability, without discrimination in favor of or against any such shipper. FILING OF SCHEDULES OF RATES.

Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall file with the commission created by this act and print and keep open to public inspection schedules showing all the rates, fares and charges for transportation between different points on its own route and between points on its own route and points on the route of any carrier by railroa i, by pipe line, or by water when a through route and joint rate have been established. If no joint rate over the through route has been establishd, the several carriers in such through route shall file, print and keep open to public inspection as aforesaid, the separately established rates, fares and charges applied to the through transportation. The schedules printed as aforesaid by any such common carrier shall plainly state the places between which property and passengers will be carried, and shall contain the classification of freight in force, and shall also state separately all terminal charges, storage charges, icing charges, and all other charges which the commission may require, all privileges or facilities granted or allowed, and any rules or regulations which in anywise change, affect, or determine any part of the aggregate of such aforesaid rates, fares and charges, or the value of the service rendered to the passenger, shipper, or consignee.

DISCRIMINATION FORBIDDEN.

No carrier, unless otherwise provided by this act, shall engage or participate in the transportation of passengers or property, as defined in this act, unless the rates, fares, and charges upon which the same are transported by said carrier have been filed and published in accordance with the provisions of this act; nor shall any carrier charge or demand or collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for such transportation of passengers or property, or for any service in connection herewith, between the points named in such tariffs than the rates, fares, and charges which are specified in the tariff filed and in effect at the time; nor shall any carrier refund or remit in any manner or by any device any portion of the rates, fares, and charges so specified, nor extend to any shipper or person any privileges or facilities in the transportation of passengers or property, except such as are specified in such tariffs.

REBATES.

Any person, corporation, or company who shall deliver property for interstate transportation to any common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act, or for whom as consignor or consignee, any such carrier shall transport property from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia or foreign country, who shall knowingly by employé, agent, officer, or otherwise, directly or indirectly, by or through any means or device whatsoever, receive or accept from such common carrier any sum of money or any other valuable consideration as a rebate or offset against the regular charges for transportation of such property, as fixed by the schedules of rate provided for in this act, shall in addition to any penalty provided by this act forfeit to the United States a sum of money three times the amount of money so received or accepted, and three times the value of any other consideration so received or accepted, to be ascertained by the trial court; and the Attorney-General of the United States is authorized and directed, whenever he has reasonable grounds to believe that any such person, corporation, or company has knowingly received or accepted from any such common carrier any sum of money or other valuable consideration as a rebate or offset as aforesaid, to institute in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, a civil action to collect the said sum or sums so for eited as aforesaid; and in the trial of said action all such rebates or other considerations so received or accepted for a period of six years prior to the commencement of the action, may be included therein, and the amount recovered shall be three times the total amount of money, or three times the total value of such consideration, so received or accepted, or both, as the case may be. HEARING OF COMPLAINTS.

The commission is authorized and empowered, and it shall be its duty, whenever, after full hearing upon a complaint made as provided in section thirteen of this act, or upon complaint of any common carrier, it shall be of the opinion that any of the rates, or charges whatsoever, demanded, charged, or collected by any common carrier or carriers, subject to the provisions of this act, for the transportation of persons or property as defined in the first section of this act, or that any regulations or practices whatsoever of such carrier or carriers affecting such rates, are unjust and unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential or prejudicial, or otherwise in violation of any of the provisions of this act, to determine and prescribe what will be the just and reasonable rate or rates, charge or charges, to be thereafter observed in such case as the maximum to be charged; and what regulation or practice in respect to such transportation is just, fair, and reasonable to be thereafter followed; and to make an order that the carrier shall cease and desist from such violation, to the extent to which the commission find the same to exist, and shall not thereafter publish, demand, or collect any rate or charge for such transportation in excess of the maximum rate or charge so prescribed. All shall conform to the regulation or pratice so prescribed.

ESTABLISHMENT OF ROUTES AND RATES.

The commission may also, after hearing on a complaint, establish through routes and joint rates as the maximum to be charged, and prescribe the division of such rates as herein before provided, and the terms and conditions under which such through routes shall be operated, when that may be necessary to give effect to any provision of this act, and the carriers complained of have refused or neglected to voluntarily establish such through routes and joint rates, provided no reasonable or satisfactory through route exists, and this provision shall apply when one of the connecting carriers is a water line.

Railroad Statistics.

MILEAGE, ASSETS, LIABILITIES, EARNINGS, EXPENDITURES, AND TRAFFIC OF SURFACE STEAM RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES.

This table was compiled from "Poor's Manual of Railroads of the United States for 1906."

$121,876,014

§ Including, in 1905 and 1904, real estate mortgages, equipment trust obligations, etc., previously included in item "unfunded debt."

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1895-1905.
Gross Earnings. Net Earnings. Interest Paid. Dividends Paid.

YEAR.

Miles
Operated

Capital Stock.

Bonded Debt.

1895. 179,887 $5,231,373,852 $5,712,052,517 $1,105,284,267 $327,505,716 $242,943,243 $83,175,774 1896. 180,891 5.290.730.567 5,426,074,969 1,125,632.025 332,333,756 242,415,494 81,364,854 1897 181.133 5,453,782.046 5.411.058.525 1.132.866.626 338.170,195 231,046,819 82,630,989 1898. 184.194 5.581.522.858 5.635.363.594 1.249,558,724 389,666,474 133,099 94,937,526 1899. 186.280 5.742,181.181 5.644.858,027 1.336,096,379 423.941,689 239,178,913 109,032,252 1900.191,511 5.804.346.250 5.758,592,754 1.501,695.378 483.247.526 244, 447,806 140,343,653 1901.195.886 5.978.796.249 6.035,469,741 1,612,448,826 520.294,727 261.645,714156,887,283 1902. 197,381 6.078,290.596 6.465.290.839 1,720,814.900 560,026,277 263,237,451 178,200,752 1903. 206,876 6,355.207.335 6.722,216.517 1.908,857,826 592.508,512 278,101,828190,674,415 1904. 211.074 6,477.045.374 7.475.840,203 1.977,638.713 639.240.027 275,800,200 211,522,166 1905. 212,624 6,741,956.825 7,821,243,106 2.112,197,770 685,464,488 270,315,290 203,675,622 SUMMARY OF RAILWAY MILEAGE IN THE UNITED STATES. (From Statistical Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission. )

* On basis of 2,970.038 square miles, which covers land surface" only, and excludes Alaska. + On basis of 82 494.575 population for 1905, which is reached by adding to population of the United States in 1900 75,994,575 (which excludes Alaska and persons in the military and naval service stationed abroad), an estimated annual increase of 1,300,000 for each successive year.

Excludes 61. 79 miles in Alaska

Principal Railroad Systems of United States and Canada

WITH A SYNOPSIS OF LAST ANNUAL REPORT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE AS SUBMITTED TO "THE WORLD ALMANAC" BY THE RAILROAD COMPANIES.

SYSTEMS, LOCATION, AND FINANCIAL DATA. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Ry. System. -"Santa Fe."

[Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,

Kansas, Nebraska, Colo-
rado, Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona, California, Okla-
homa. ]

For year ending June 30, 1906.
Total earnings......$78,044,347
Operating expenses 51,035,355

Net earnings......$27,008,992
Other income...

Divisions, Mileage, and Operating
Express.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Ry.,
6,908.98 m.; Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fé Ry., 1,473.46 m.; Southern
Kansas Ry. of Texas, 129.17 m.;
Grand Canyon Ry., 66.89 m.; Santa
Fé, Prescott & Phoenix Ry. 412.89

m.; Pecos System, 370.24 m.; S. F.&
N.W. Ry., 53.62 m. Total mileage,
9,415.25.

1,346,401 EXPRESS CO.-Wells, Fargo & Co.

Total net income.$28,355,393
Total payments...... 25,128,079
Surplus.
$3,227,314

Atlantic Const LineR. R.
[Virginia, North Carolina,

South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, ]
For year ending June 30, 1906.
Total earnings.....$24,868,448
Operating expenses 16,082,329
Net earnings...
$8,786,119
Other income.. 2,565,934
Total net income.$11,352,053
Total payments.... 9,253,740
Surplus..
$2,098,313

Baltimore & Ohio R. R. [New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, 11linois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri. ]

First Div. Districts: Richmond, 130.65
m.; Norfolk, 289.18 m.; Wilming-
ton, 512.35 m.; Charleston, 314.59 m.;
Columbia, 437.46 m.; Fayetteville,
212.13 m. Total mileage, first divi-
sion, 1,896.36.

Second Div. Districts: Savannah,
230.77 m.; Thomasville, 468.85 m.;
Montgomery, 348.42 m. Total mile-
age, second division, 1,048.04.
Third Div. Districts: Jacksonville,
503.66 m. Lakeland, 313.86
Gainesville, 365.70 m.; Terminals
at Jacksonville, 9.87 m. Total
mileage, third division, 1,193.09.
Grand total, 4,137.49 m.
EXPRESS CO.-Southern.

m.;

Lines included in income account, For year ending June 30, 1906. 4,029.93 m.; affiliated lines, 455.78 Total earnings......$77,392,056 m. Total mileage, 4,485.71. Operating expenses 49,515,220 EXPRESS Co.-United States.

Net earnings.....$27,876,836

Other income.

3,466,371

General Officers.

President, E. P. Ripley, Chicago, Ill.; Vice-Presidents, J. W. Kendrick, G. T. Nicholson and W. B. Jansen, Chicago, Ill.; General Manager, J. E. Hurley, Topeka, Kan.; Secretary, E. L. Copeland, Topeka, Kan.; Assistant Secretary, L. C. Deming, New York. General Offices, Chicago, Ill., and Topeka, Kan.; New York Offices, 5 Nassau St., 377 Broadway.

President, T. M. Emerson; 1st Vice-President, Alex, Hamilton, Petersburg, Va.; 2d Vice-President, C. S. Gadsden, Charleston, S. C.; 3d Vice-President, J. R. Kenly: General Manager, W. N. Royall; Secretary, H. L. Borden, New York. General Offices, Wil71, 407, and 1218 Broadway. mington, N. C.; New York Offices,

President, O. G. Murray; 1st VicePresident, George F. Randolph; 2d Vice-President, H. L. Bond; 3d Vice-President, G. L. Potter;4th Vice-President, J. V. McNeal; Secretary, C. W. Woolford; General Manager, T. Fitzgerald Manager Freight Traffic, C. S. Wight; Manager Passenger Traffic, D. B. Martin, General Offices, Baltimore, Md.; New York Offices, 2 Wall Street, 434 Broadway. General Offices B. & O. S. W. Div., Cincinnati, O.; New York Office, 2 Wall Street.

President, F. W. Cram; Vice-
President, A. A. Burleigh, Houl-
ton, Me. General Offices, Bangor,
Me.

The Boston and Albany R. R. is leased
to the New York Central and Hud-
son River R. R.

Second Vice-President, Edgar Van
Etten. General Offices, Boston,
Mess.

SYSTEMS, LOCATION, AND
FINANCIAL DATA.

Boston and Maine Rail-
road.
[New York, Massachusetts,
Vermont, New Hamp-
shire, Maine, Quebec.]
For year ending June 30, 1906.
Total earnings......$39,214,202
Operating expenses 29,353,368
Net earnings... $9,860,834
Other income...... 622,085
Total net income. $10,482,919
Total payments
10,265,645
Surplus..

...

...........

Divisions, Mileage, and Operating
Express.

Western Div. (Boston to Portland),
115.31 m.; Eastern Div. (Boston to
Portland), 108.29 m.; Conway Jct.,
Me., to Intervale Jct., N.H., 73.37
m.; Worcester, Mass., to Portland,
Me., 148.34 m.; Boston, Mass., to
Groveton, N. H., 221.84 m.; Concord,
N. H., to White River Jct., Vt., 69.50
m.; White River Jct., Vt., to Len-
noxville, P. Q., 142.25 m.; N. Cam-
bridge Jct. to Northampton, Mass.,
95.69 m.; Springfield, Mass., to
Keene, N.H., 74 m.; Boston to Rot-
terdam Jct. and Troy, 250.98 m.;
Ashburnham Jct. to Bellows Falls,
$217,274 53.85 m.; other branches, 934.10 m.
Total mileage, 2,287.52.
EXPRESS Co.-American.

Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburgh Railway.
[New York, Pennsylvania.]

For year ending June 30, 1906. Main Line and branches, 347.86 m.;
Total earnings $7,797,247
Operating expenses 4,559,112
Net earnings ..... $3,238,135

Other income..

leased lines, 94.04 m.; trackage
rights, 125.87 m. Total mileage,
567.77.

32,204 EXPRESS Co.-American.

Total net income $3,270,339 Total payments.... 2,153,836 Surplus..

$1,116,503

Canadian Northern Ry. [Manitoba, Saskatchewan,

Assiniboia, Ontario, Min

nesota. ]

For year ending June 30, 1906. Total mileage, 2,492.5.

Total earnings.... $5,903,755 EXPRESS Co.-Canadian Northern;
Operating expenses 3,674,732 Northern; Great Northern.
Net earnings.....$2,229,023
Total payments.... 1,509,448
Surplus
$719,575
Canadian Pacific Ry.
[New Brunswick, Maine,
Vermont, Quebec, Ontario,
Michigan, Manitoba, As-
siniboia, Saskatchewan, Al-
berta, British Columbia. ]
For year ending June 30, 1906.
Total earnings.....$61,669,758
Operating expenses 38,696,445

Net earnings.. ...$22,973,313 Other income...... 1,969,447 Total net income. $24,942,760 Total payments.... 12,778,278 Surplus....... $12,164,482

.......

Central of Georgia Ry.
[Georgia, Alabama, and Ten-
nessee. ]

For year ending June 30, 1906.
Total earnings. $11,396,122

Operating expenses. 8,235,212

Net earnings.. .$3,160,910 Other income...... 274,621 Total net income..$3,435,531

Eastern Div.,1,275.8 m.; Ontario Div.,
851.9 m.;
Atlantic Div., 689.2 m.;
Western Div., 1,262.5 m.; Pacific
Div.,951.7 m.; Lake Superior Div.
981.7 m.; Central Div., 2,764.1 m.
Total mileage, 8,776.9.
Length of Main Line, Montreal to
Vancouver, 2,911.9 m.
Steamship lines: Vancouver, B. C.,
to Japan, China, Honolulu, H. I.,
Australia, Sydney, N. S. W.:
Slocan Lake Line; Upper Lake
Line; Lake Okanagan Line; Co-
lumbia and Kootenay Line; Atlan-
tic Ocean-Liverpool to Montreal.
EXPRESS CO.-Dominion.

Columbus-Andalusia, 138 m.; Griffin-
Chattanooga, 198m.; Macon-Athens,
105 m.; Savannah-Atlanta, 294 m. ;
Birmingham-Macon, 257 m.; Ft.
Valley-Montgomery,194m.; Smith-
ville-Lockhart, 178 m.;
other
branches, 549.4 m. Total mileage,
1.913.4.

Total payments... 2,934,860 EXPRESS CO.-Southern.

Surplus.....

$500,671

Central Railroad of New New York_to Scranton, 191.67 m.:

Jersey.

[New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania.

For year ending June 30, 1906
Total earnings. $23,101,089
Operating expenses 12,779,866
Net earnings. $10,321,223
Other receipts...... 1,151,197
Total net income. $11,472,420
Total payments... 9,186,514
Moe....................... $2,285,906

Newark Br., 10.62 m.; South Br.,
15.78 m.; Perth Amboy Br., 23.56
m.; High Bridge Br., 55.80
sundry branches in New Jersey,
m.;
23.08 m.; sundry branches in Penn-
New Jersey
sylvania, 91.18 m.;
Southern Div., 174.24 m.; Freehold
and Atlantic Highlands Div., 24.47
m.; New York and Long Branch
R. R..38.04 m. Total mileage, 618.44.
EXPRESS Co.-United States. On New
York and Long Branch R. R
Adams; United States.

General Officers.

President, Lucius Tuttle; 2d Vice-
President and General Traffic
Manager, W. F. Berry; 3d Vice-
President and General Manager,
Frank Barr; 4th Vice-President,
W. J. Hobbs; Freight Traffic
Manager, M. T. Donovan; Gen-
eral Superintendent, C. E. Lee.
General Offices, Boston, Mass.

President, Arthur G. Yates, Roch-
ester, N. Y.; Vice President,
Adrian Iselin, Jr., New York;
General Manager, W. T. Noonan;
Secretary, John H. Hocart, New
York. General Offices, Roches-
ter, N. Y.; New York Office, 36
Wall Street.

President, Wm. Mackenzie, To-
ronto, Ont.; Vice-President, D.D.
Mann, Toronto, Ont. ; 3d Vice-
President, D. B. Hanna, Toronto,
Ont.; Manager, E. A. James,
Winnipeg, Man.; Traffic Man-
ager, Geo. H. Shaw, Winnipeg,
Man.; Secretary, W. H. Moore,
Toronto, Ont.

Chairman of the Board, W. C. Van Horne; President, T. G. Shaughnessy; Secretary, Charles Drinkwater; Vice-President, D. McNicoll; 2d Vice-President, Wm. Whyte, Winnipeg, Man.; 3d VicePresident, I. G. Ogden: 4th VicePresident, G. M. Bosworth. General Offices, Montreal, Quebec; New York Offices, 31 Pine Street, 458 Broadway.

President, J. F. Hanson, Macon,
Ga.; 1st Vice-President, A. R.
Lawton; 2d Vice-President, W.
A. Winburn; General Manager,
T. S. Moise; Secretary, C. C.
Williams, Macon, Ga. General
Offices, Savannah, Ga.; New
York Office, 317 Broadway.

President, George F. Baer; Vice-
President, R. W. De Forest;
Vice-President and General
Manager, W. G. Besler; Secre-
tary, G. O. Waterman. General
Offices, 143 Liberty Street, New
York.

Total net income. $9,937,691 Total payments..... 8,511,114 Surplus... .$1,426,577 Chicago and Alton R.R. [Illinois and Missouri.]

For year ending June 30, 1906. Total earnings. $11,586,094

General Officers.

President, Chas. M. Hays, Montreal, Can.; Vice-President, E. H. Fitzhugh; General Manager, G. C. Jones. General Offices, St. Albans, Vt.; New York Offices, 385 Broadway, 82 Wall Street.

President, Geo. W. Stevens; Vice-
President, Decatur Axtell; Secre-
tary, C. E. Wellford; General
General
Manager, C. E. Doyle
Offices, Richmond, Va.; New York
Office, 362 Broadway.

Chicago to East St. Louis, 279.95 m.; Coal City Line, 24.79 m.; Dwight to Washington and Lacon, 80.10 m. President, S. M. Felton, Chicago, Roodhouse to Kansas City,251.17 m.; Ill.; Vice-President, W. D. CorBloomington to Wann, via Jack-nish, New York; Secretary, Alex. sonville, Godfrey, and Upper Alton, 158.19 m.; Mexico to Cedar City, 50.10 m.; Springfield to Grove, 53.56 m.; Barnett to Eldred, 48.80 m. 3,831,362 Total mileage, 946.66. $194,974 EXPRESS Co.-United States.

Operating expenses 7,818,903
$3,767,191
Net earnings.
259,145
Other income..
Total net income..$4,026,336|
Total payments...
Surplus...

Chicago and Eastern
Illinois Railroad.
[Indiana and Illinois.]
For year ending June 30, 1906.
Total earnings.. $9,928,562
Operating expenses. 6,851,288
Net earnings.. $3,077,274,
Other income...... 316,418

Total net income..$3,393,692
Total payments.
3,356,000
Surplus...
$37,692
Chicago and Northwest-
ern Railway. "The
Northwestern Line."
[Michigan, Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Min-
nesota, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Wyoming.]
For year ending June 30, 1906. *
$63,481,577
Total earnings..
Operating expenses 42,216,275

Net earnings.. $21,265,302 Other income... 577,0 0!

Total net income. $21.842,382)

Now part of "Frisco System."

Wisconsin Div., 324.55 m.; Galena
Div., 497.98 m.; Iowa Div., 569.46 m.;
Madison Div., 508.10 m.; Minnesota
and Dakota Div., 1,302.41 m.; Penin-
sula Div., 464.44 m.; Iowa and Min-
nesota Div., 323.11 m.; Northern
Iowa Div., 383.57 m.: Ashland Div.,
902.78 m.; Northern Wisconsin Div..
332.72 m.; Sioux City Div., 416.15 m.;
Nebraska & Wyoming Div.,1,428.31
m. Total mileage, 7,453.58; Chicago,
St. Paul, Minn. & O. Ry., 1,697.57.

Total payments.... 19,525,742 EXPRESS Co.-American.
Surplus...

$2,316,640

Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railway.
Burlington Route."
Min-
[Illinois, Wisconsin,
nesota, Iowa, Missouri, Ne-
braska, Kansas, Colorado,
Wyoming, South Dakota,
Montana.]

For year ending June 30, 1906.
Total earnings... $74,146,670
Operating expenses 51,463,641

Net earnings... $22,683,029 Other income 410,682

Lines in Illinois, 1.679.91 m. ; in Iowa,
1,436.70 m.; in Missouri, 1.401.12 m.;
in Wisconsin, 223.10 m.; in Minne-
sota, 38.45 m.; in Nebraska, 2,631.51
m.; in Montana, 199.90 m.; in
Kansas, 260.44 m.; in Colorado.
429.35 m. in South Dakota, 210.03
m.; in Wyoming, 360.38 m. Lines
east of the Missouri River, 4,449.08
m. ; lines west of the Missouri
River, 4,374.79 m. Total mileage of
Burlington system (less duplicated
mileage), 8,823.87.

Total net income.$23,093,711
Total payments.... 19,186,139 EXPRESS Co. -Adams.
Surplus
$3.907.572

* Exclusive of Chicago, St. Paul, Minn. & O. Ry.

Millar, New York. General Offices, Chicago, Ill.; New York Office, 120 Broadway.