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Rh ally covers several items, and it is estimated that the number of freight transactions in a year is 44,000,000,—141,000 for each working day, or nearly 5875 for every hour of the day. Is it to be wondered at that some shipments go astray or that some freight is damaged?

The unusual character of the railroad business of New England is apparent when the returns for the New Haven road are compared with those for the entire United States. Considering all the railroads of the country as one system, two tons of freight are transported for every passenger. On the New Haven road alone, the ratio of freight to passenger business is reversed. That road transports only one third of a ton to one passenger. The passenger density of the New Haven road is more than six times as great as that on all the railroads of the country considered as a system. These figures show the marked preponderance of passenger business in New England. Through the Boston South Station alone 105,000 people pass daily. The passengers passing through Rh