Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-02-12 | Page 4 | Compares American and Prussian Railroads

COMPARES AMERICAN AND PRUSSIAN RAILROADS berlin feb ili 11 privy councillors na M bioff and P F schwabach cb whom the prussian government sent to the united states in 1904 to study american railway systems have just published an exhaustive work on their findings which Is attracting much attention in the german press herrs hoff and schwabach make many striking comparisons of the american and prussian railways often to the disadvantage of the former they quote official statistics showing that per million passengers carried the american roads killed six times and wounded twenty nine times as many of them as tho prussian roads the writers found that the average passenger rate in america was cents a 1 mile against cents in prussia while freight rates nominally average cents per ton toa per mile in the united states State iana and cents in prussia this comparison the author affirms is fallo pious because it ignores some z essential facts the american statistics they claim include freight carried for the railways themselves while the prussian statistics show only paid freight on the ho other hand the american statistics include high class goods carried by express companies which class is not included in the prussian figures furthermore they say the american road receive immense sums for carrying the malls mails and the prussian lines almost nothing the original cost of the prussian lines was C G percent higher per mile than that of the american roads it if conditions were equalized at t all points point they figure that the american average for freight would be cents for freight and that of bf prussia per ton per mile