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account at close account at commencement account now stands amount of floating amount of receipts Balance of construction Balance of rolling Boston R. R. Capital Stock actually Charles Gorman construction account Ending September 30 engineer Expended fare per mile floating debt freight train freight yard grade-crossings guarded James Healey Jonathan Chace leased LIST OF OFFICERS Narragansett Pier Number built Number of employees Number of grade-crossings Number of passenger Number of persons Number of regular Number of stopping paid in common paid in preferred passenger cars heated passenger trains equipped passengers injured Pawtucket persons walking Providence & Worcester RAILROAD COMPANY rate of fare repairs on rolling Rhode Island Rhode Island Hospital rolling stock account September 30 signal station buildings steamboat train Stock actually paid struck switcher Total amount Total net earnings Total number Total receipts Total running expenses Total surplus trains per day Valley Falls Wickford Woonsocket Worcester Division Worcester R. R.
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Page 83 - Average rate of fare per mile for season ticket passengers, reckoning one round trip per day to each ticket No season ticket.
Page 43 - Freight trains having work to do on any other track may cross over if no passenger train is due, provided no approaching freight train is in sight ; and also provided that a flagman has been sent with danger signals, as provided in rule No. 99, not less than in the direction of the expected train.
Page 54 - Mass. NAME AND RESIDENCE OF DIRECTORS LAST ELECTED. Charles F. Choate, Southborough, Mass. 'Frederick L. Ames, North Easton, Mass. Thomas J. Borden, Fall River, Mass. John S. Brayton, Fall River, Mass.
Page 74 - Number of ties laid 57,928 Number of new stations built during the year, RI Central. ... 3 Number of new bridges built during the year 1 Cost of new bridges built during the year Number of regular stopping places in this State, where no station houses are built 2 WORK PROPOSED FOR THE NEXT YEAR.
Page 33 - ... not find that there was any negligence on the part of the...
Page 43 - Rule 97.] 100. Freight trains having work to do on any other track may cross over if no passenger train is due. provided no approaching freight train is in sight; and also provided that a flagman has beeu sent with danger signals, as provided in Rule No.
Page 27 - ... was presented to the board of aldermen and referred .to the committee on streets, where it died.
Page 8 - In 1885 a statute quite similar, naming the same date, July 1, 1886, was enacted in Michigan. Besides these of some years ago, we have quite recently a New York statute, approved June 16, 1889, which provides that after November 1, 1892, it shall be unlawful for railroads to run any of their own cars in that State unless equipped with automatic couplers. It may be said of the earlier statutes that their greatest usefulness was probably in showing the railroad companies that public sentiment was earnest...
Page 3 - To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island: In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 78 of the General Laws, I have the honor to submit to you this, the...
Page 38 - Freight trains will in all cases wait for passenger trains and be kept entirely out of their way; never leaving a station on the time of a passenger train, unless...