Show Elevated Railroad Bonanza If railroads are expensive to build in New York city they are also profitable as the reports of the elevated railroads show The gross earnings of these roa ds the first year they wero operated in New York were about 3500000 and this annual income has steadily increased until it is now approaching 10000OJO the earnings for the year ending Juno 30 last being but 540000 short of this amount The gross income of these roads since 1879 is 592107434 almost as largo a sum as Mr Gould has been abla to sequester in the course of a lifetime of toil and saving In this time the number of passengers carried has been 1568652913 each one passing the shining nickel except the deadheads of whom there are several I presume these figures are correct as they have been furnished by Mr Gould himself oat o-at least by Colonel Hain who represents repre-sents him in his elevated octopus business ness And speaking of Colonel Hain the general manager I am moved to say that there is no man in this city who bears enormous responsibility so graciously He has upon his shoulders the transportation of a half a million people a day Naturally the oversight of all tho trains incident to this enormous traffic carries a strain with it but when I meet Col Hain In the Astor house occasionally he is as bright eyed chipper and as good natured as a schoolboy He loves good stories He is a small wiry man not quite 50 yethis hair is just beginning be-ginning to tinee with grayand when he t talks he talks to the point He speaks in a quick decisive way and with a firmness which denotes the man executive ability He was developed as a railroad man in L Pennsylvania He was brought up in the I old Dutch town of Reading and he still I loves its sausage and scrapple Colonel I Hairs is proud of the fact that while the I L roads under his management hayo carried car-ried millions of passengers not a life ha I been lost or a human being injured as the result of negligence upon the part of the I corporation |