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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ancesnot absolutely correct, due to the practice of thecompanies of reporting track operated instead of trackowned and leased, thus duplicating the latter. In 1900and 1901, however, the reports for the franchise tax assess-ment required more accurate returns, so that the figures forthese years are correct. Where one line is operated in twoboroughs it is included in the one containing the mosttrackage. The greatest increase shown in any one yearwas 130 miles, in 1896, due largely to the building of theNassau lines in Brooklyn, now part of the BrooklynHeights system. During the past thirty years the totaltrack mileage has averaged about 50 per cent increase foreach decade. The population included in the district now covered byNew York City increased, as shown by Table II., from i,-140,219 in i860 to 3-370,181 in 1900. During the sametime, as shown by Table III., the annual number of pas-sengers carried increased from 50,830,173 to 1,124,432,660. October 5, 1901.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.
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376 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIIL No. 14. It is interesting to note that since 1870, while the popu-lation increased about one-third for each decade, the totalnumber of passengers nearly doubled during each similar incomplete in the earlier years, the figures have been ap-proximated. Passengers in all cases include transferpassengers. Table III.Passengers Carried Per Year, t i86018701880,18901891,1892, 18931894,1895,1896.1897.1898.1899.190019 Ji. Surface Lines Manhattan Brooklyn BroDX Queens Total 38,45511 i,ou7148 615217,819226,248232,846233.3242,159285,926 343.539385,097429.22954.29S533.L19255<J,6io, 242 ,498,107887 245607 ,301667 .558.503830886,052114,435 12,374,93136,537,17575,208,691107,222,538115,261,992123,303,283137,715,699142,535,644153 420,479172,115,126200,185,819217,410,612216,704,139243 214,554271,588,153 1,038,014 1,792.9953,394.7263,560,3703,73,9306,510,1269.538,1758,774.25210,562,49612,049,13723-327,66422,010,42027,4 9,58936,514,321 1,052,3802 976,1853,346,196

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