MILES RUN. The number of miles run were 23,989,115. Gross earnings per mile run, $0.2260, operating expenses, $0.1408, and net earnings, $0.0852. The number of miles run were 1,238,555 more than for the previous year, and the gross and net earnings per mile run slightly increased and the operating expenses slightly reduced. PASSENGERS CARRIED. The number of fare passengers carried was 102,894,160, the largest number ever reported, an increase of 9,782,758 over the number carried last year, compared with 64,403,149 carried by the steam railroads. This is an increase of 1011⁄2 per cent. over the number of passengers carried last year. The number of fare passengers per mile of main track operated was 136,136, and the number per mile run 4.29. EMPLOYEES. The number of employees was 3,607, averaging about 4.78 per mile of road operated. was ACCIDENTS. The number of persons injured in the operation of the street railways during the past year was 465 compared with 383 for the previous year, an increase of 82, of which number 28 were killed, five more than last year. Of this number injured 285 were passengers, 75 more than the previous year, of whom five of the number injured are reported as "the result of their own misconduct or carelessness." The number of employees injured 24, two of whom were killed. One of the number killed and eleven of those injured were reported as " resulting from causes beyond their own control," and the same number both killed and injured as the "result of their own misconduct or "Others," which includes all those killed or injured who are not passengers or employees, were 156 injured, of whom 21 were killed. Of the number killed, two were reported as " resulting from causes beyond their own control," and 19 from "misconduct or carelessness." Of the number injured carelessness." 12 were reported as resulting from "causes beyond their own control," and 123 from "misconduct or carelessness." This report was prepared for publication on or about January 1, 1906, but its printing has been seriously delayed by reason of the labor agitation among the compositors. APPENDIX. APPEAL OF THE CITY OF WATERBURY FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, New Haven, June Term, 1905. Argued June 14th - Decided July 14th, 1905. BALDWIN, J. On an application by the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company (see General Statutes, §3823) the selectmen of Waterbury approved the location of its railway on a highway in that town, subject to certain conditions and modifications. These were that it should (1) remove from the highway the abutments of a through steam railroad bridge over the highway, owned by another company; (2) erect and maintain an electric light under the bridge; (3) build a new, broad, iron bridge to replace a narrow wooden one over a stream crossing the highway; and (4) lay its tracks in conformity with certain grades and lines. The company thereupon appealed to the board of railroad commissioners (General Statutes, §3832) "from certain portions of said decision, direction, and order of the selectmen," specifying as such portions the conditions marked above as 1, 2, and 3. Pending this appeal, the town and city of Waterbury were consolidated, and the functions of the town in regard to highways passed to the city. The company then asked the city to approve another and temporary location of its tracks under the existing railroad bridge; and the city approved it, on condition that the company should, within a certain time, remove or by legal proceedings compel the removal by the steam railroad company of the bridge abutments; pay half the cost of a new bridge over the stream; and do certain other things. The railroad commissioners, after due hearing, ordered that the tracks should be laid on the lines approved by the city, and at the grade approved by the selectmen, but held that they had no |