4.25 miles. Number of horses Length of main line of road from Flatbush avenue to DOINGS OF THE YEAR IN TRANSPORTATION. Number of passengers (all classes) carried in cars... The rate of fare for passengers charged, as follows: For through passengers For way passengers.. The average time consumed by passenger cars in passing over the road .... 1,522,759 EXPENSES OF MAINTAINING THE ROAD, OR REAL ESTATE OF THE CORPORATION. Repairs of road-bed and railway, including iron, and repairs of buildings and fixtures. $6,546 40 Taxes on real estate... 298 48 Total cost of maintaining road and real estate... $6,844 88 EXPENSES OF OPERATING THE ROAD, AND FOR REPAIRS. Officers, clerks, agents and office expenses... $2,312 40 Conductors, drivers and engineers on dummy cars. 24,136 10 Watchmen, starters, switchmen, roadmen, etc.. 3,338 38 Repairs of cars.. Repairs of harness, including material and labor. Horses .. Stable expenses.. Feed, grain, hay, etc., including expenses of grinding, Fuel, gas and lights.. Oil and waste. Water tax Damages to persons and property, including medical attendance. Law expenses Rents, including use of other roads, ferries, etc. Insurance. Advertising and printing. Car licenses.. Contingencies. Total expense of operating road and repairs........ $2,428 88 570 00 3,038 32 325 00 6,837 74 17,803 95 529 80 329 87 234 04 155 50 548 56 3,168 18 914 37 478 65 320 00 563 51 $68,033 25 The following is a statement of the date of each accident, the place where it occurred, the cause, and the extent of the injuries inflicted upon each person, and the name of such person. 1875. April 23. As car No. 10, driven by A. Rector, was going down on his 5.51 P. M. trip, between Park and Flushing avenues, ran over a child, 24 years old, named Mary Ellen McMahon, and killed instantly; the jury exonerated the driver from all blame. June 11. As car No. 22, driven by J. E. Murphy, coming up on his 5.12 P. M. trip, Wythe avenue, between Keep and Rodney streets, ran over a child, 24 years old, named Samuel Levi, and was killed instantly; jury exonerated the driver from all blame. June 30. As car No. 14, driven by William Galloway, on his 7.20 P. M. trip, on Wythe avenue, between Wilson and Ross streets, ran over a child, 2 years and 7 months old, named Joseph Adam Wirth, and killed it instantly; jury exonerated the driver from all blame. August 15. As car No. 12, driven by D. Skidmore, on his 5.57 trip down through Second street, between South Fourth and Fifth streets, his horse knocked down a child, 2 years and 4 months old, named Edward Phillips; the child was picked up from under the car, and the only injury received was from the horse stepping on the child's arm and injuring it slightly. Communications intended for this company should be addressed, Franklin avenue and Warren street, Brooklyn, Kings county, N. Y. The undersigned have caused the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this company, from the books and records, and have examined them as far as practicable, and believe them to be correct. (Signed) SAMUEL PARKHILL, Secretary. ROBERT SQUIRES, Treasurer. (No. 40.) GREENPOINT, PROSPECT PARK AND GREENWOOD. BROOKLYN, January 7, 1876. D. M. GREENE, Esq., Deputy State Engineer and Surveyor: SIR. There has been no change in the management of the Greenpoint, Prospect Park and Greenwood Railroad Company, nor any work commenced since last report. Respectfully yours, CHARLES C. TALBOT. STATE City of Brooklyn, 88. CHARLES C. TALBOT, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that the above statement is true. HARFORD B. KIRK, President, and HENRY SPRATLEY, acting Superintendent of operations of the Harlem Bridge, Morrisania and Fordham Railroad Company, being severally sworn, each for himself deposes and says, that the statements in the annexed report, which has been signed by each of them, at the end thereof, are true and correct, according to the best of his knowledge, information and belief. (Signed) Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 21st day of December, 1875. HARFORD B. KIRK. ERNEST HALL, Notary Public. STOCK AND DEBTS. Capital stock..... $300,000 00 Amount of stock subscribed. Amount paid in, as by last report.. Total amount now paid in of capital stock.. Funded debt, as by last report Total amount now of funded debt. Total amount now of funded and floating debt.. COST OF ROAD AND EQUIPMENT. Number of horses.. Length of main line of road, from Fordham to Harlem Bridge..... Length of branch line to West Farms, about DOINGS OF THE YEAR IN TRANSPORTATION. Number of passengers (all classes) carried in cars.... 1,181,094 The rate of fare for passengers charged, as follows: The average time consumed by passenger cars in passing over the road.. 45 minutes. |