APPENDIX.
Exhibit A.
[Form 2601.]
There are on file in the Post Office Department one hundred and two separate statements showing, for the month of November as to each mail route on the Burlington system, the space occupied and used for mail and for express and for passengers.
In order to make a comparison it was, of course, necessary to reduce each item of space used in each car to a common basis of feet, and the following table shows what are the actual facilities furnished in passenger trains for the three classes of traffic reduced to linear car-foot space:
Car Foot Mileage.
| Mail. | Passengers. | Express. |
| 62,246,130 | 428,164,920 | 39,525,540 |
| (11.75%) | (80.8%) | (7.45%) |
[Form 2602.]
Station Facilities Furnished for the Mails and Express and the Value of Other Items of Service Rendered.
Mail Expense.
| Monthly Cost of Handling Mail at Stations, labor, etc. | $14,241.67 |
| Monthly rental value of mail rooms in stations | 1,008.61 |
| Monthly rental value of tracks occupied by mail cars for advance distribution | 157.69 |
| Cost of lighting and heating mail cars for advance distribution | 114.25 |
| Value of 309,827 miles of free transportation to post office employees, not including postal clerks in charge of mail | 6,196.54 |
| Switching mail cars for advance distribution | 2,795.80 |
| Total for November | $24,514.56 |
The foregoing does not include the rental value of space furnished by the railroad company to the Government for handling mails and mail trucks on station platforms, and for storing the mails on platforms at large terminals. This is a large item, but statistics of such space used were not called for. At Chicago Station platform space to the amount of over 6,500 square feet is devoted exclusively to mails handled by the Burlington and Pennsylvania.
In addition to the foregoing, the Burlington Company transported on its trains during November postal clerks in charge of mail for the Government a distance of 3,109,747 miles in the aggregate.
If the Government had paid their fare at two cents per mile the amount paid would have been $62,174.94.
These items of station facilities and other service rendered to the Government for the mails amounted to $86,689 for November, or at the rate of more than one million dollars annually.
Express Expense.
| Rental value of space in station buildings used for express, for which no rent is paid | $488.68 |
| Rental value of tracks used for advance loading of express | 191.11 |
| Value of 42,298 miles of free transportation to Express Company officials and employees at two cents per mile. | 885.96 |
| $1,565.75 |
In addition to the foregoing, the agents and employees of the railroad company in the month of November rendered service at stations in handling express and in other ways for the Express Company to the amount of $10,274, but the Express Company paid to the same persons $14,538 in commissions.
The Express Company also shared in the salaries paid to certain baggage men and other joint train employees in November to the amount of $7,480, in addition to the payment of commissions, as aforesaid.
All the items of expense to the railroad company on account of the express in the way of space furnished and free transportation to employees, and services of station agents, amount to $11,840, while the cash payments by the Express Company to the railroad Company indirectly, through payments in commissions to station agents and the salaries of baggage men amounts to $22,018, a pecuniary gain or income from express of $10,178 per month, or at the rate of $124,136 annually, compared with a large outgo annually on account of the mails as shown in the foregoing items.
[Form 2603.]
Revenues and Expenses and Train and Car Mileage.
Revenues.
| Receipts in November from all passenger traffic (not including Mail and Express) | $1,859,839 |
| Receipts from Express | 187,825 |
| Receipts from Mails | 194,435 |
| Total | $2,242,099 |
Expenses.
| Total Operating Expenses of the road for November | $5,452,830 |
| Passenger Operating Expenses, and one-twelfth of the taxes and one-twelfth of the interest on the funded debt | $2,365,521 |
The passenger operating expenses are distributed as follows:
| Transportation Expense | $454,208 | |
| Fuel passenger engines | $132,709 | |
| Salaries passenger engineers | 100,511 | |
| Salaries passenger trainmen | 87,557 | |
| Train supplies, etc. | 55,664 | |
| Injuries to persons | 19,904 | |
| Station employees | 17,160 | |
| Joint yards and terminals | 15,610 | |
| Miscellaneous | 25,093 | |
| Maintenance of Equipment | $107,626 | |
| Repairs, passenger cars | $67,650 | |
| Depreciation, passenger cars | 39,639 | |
| Miscellaneous | 337 | |
| Traffic Expense | $48,971 | |
| Advertising | $17,249 | |
| Outside agencies | 16,673 | |
| Superintendence | 10,272 | |
| Miscellaneous | 4,777 | |
| Maintenance of Way, etc. | $12,970 | |
| Buildings and grounds | $7,053 | |
| Joint tracks, etc. | 4,440 | |
| Miscellaneous | 1,477 | |
| General Expense | $13,580 | |
| Salaries, clerks, etc. | $8,994 | |
| Insurance | 2,478 | |
| Legal expense | 1,153 | |
| Miscellaneous | 955 | |
| Total | $637,355 |
Proportion of Non-Assignable Expenses.
| Operating Expenses | $1,278,016 | |
| Taxes and Interest | 450,150 | |
| $1,728,166 | ||
| Total | $2,365,521 |
Exhibit A shows that the entire space in all cars run on passenger trains on the Burlington in November was divided as follows:
| Passengers occupied | 80.8 % of the space. |
| 11.75% of the space. | |
| Express | 7.45% of the space. |
If each of these three classes of traffic had contributed earnings and paid expenses in proportion to the space occupied by it, the result in comparative profit or loss to the company would have been as follows:
Comparative Profit and Loss.
| Earnings. | Expenses. | Profit. | Loss. | |
| Passengers | $1,859,839 | $1,911,341 | $51,502 | |
| 194,435 | 277,949 | 83,514 | ||
| Express | 187,825 | 176,231 | $11,594 | |
| $2,242,099 | $2,365,521 |
If the Government had paid to the Burlington Company for carrying the mails 11.75% of the actual cost of doing the work, and a proportion of the taxes and interest on the funded debt, it would, for November, have paid $83,514 more than was paid, indicating that for the year the Government is paying $1,002,168 less than the actual fair cost of the service it is receiving.
[Form 2605.]
Statement of Mail Cars and Apartment Cars.
Postal Cars.
| Kind of Car | Number Owned | Original Average Cost | Present Average Value |
| 60 feet or more in length | 49 | $5,176.00 | $4,669.84 |
| 50 to 59 feet in length | 10 | 4,116.00 | 2,595.70 |
| Less than 50 feet in length | 17 | 2,555.00 | 2,094.41 |
| Total | 76 | $4,451.00 | $3,820.84 |
Apartment Cars.
| Kind of Car | Number Owned | Original Average Cost | Present Average Value |
| Cars with mail apartments 30 feet or more in length | 27 | $3,888.00 | $2,112.78 |
| Cars with mail apartments 25 to 29 feet in length | 21 | 3,660.00 | 2,004.95 |
| Cars with mail apartments 20 to 24 feet in length | 22 | 3,292.00 | 1,810.50 |
| Cars with mail apartments less than 20 feet in length | 31 | 3,106.00 | 1,729.35 |
| Total | 104 | $3,460.00 | $1,901.71 |