Show o a A RAILROAD ON A BIG SCALE The Tho Pennsylvania Is a wonderful i Iralli ralli system The company has Issued ti pamphlet on the expenditures I and receipts of the road We Ve alto pardonable pride In the tho achievements I or of the Union Pacific and Southern under the management i f I Harriman but those thoe roads while ex paneling rapid rapidly I have havo still much to gain before the they equal the big Ig east eastern eastern ern line For FOl instance there thoro was spent for fOI improvements alone In great greater er Pitts Pittsburg burg and anel vicinity since Janu January ar ary 1 1902 an aggregate of Some Idea of the business that thatis is done hy by this s system tem can he be realized when it Is learned that Its gross rev rov revenue In 1907 1107 aggregated of which 2164 was earned h hIts by Its linos east of Pittsburg and Erie Eric and by rho ho lines west of those clUes cities The Tho total number or of tons of freight handled for that year I was and traG rho number or of passengers carried was almost double the entire population o othe of the United States The Tho onla system owns locomotives passenger cars and owns or 01 leases freight ears cars Between its own divisions the tho Penn sylvania has a dally dall interchange of cars cus and a dally doUer to lo local local cal Industries of making a total toll tollof of cars dan daily throughout the year In 19 1907 the Interchange In the Pittsburg district between the Penn divisions and yards alone amounted led to 10 cars an Increase of over oer 1906 |