*This is the total cost to the Company of road built and purchased; the cash cost is estimated to be $1,046,473.79. The Brooklyn City Railroad Company operates 41 miles of double track, radiating from the Fulton and Hamilton Avenue ferries through the city to its suburbs in various directions. The returns for the year 1875, show that the company owns 1,950 horses. Each working horse travels, upon an average, 16 miles daily, which somewhat exceeds the average daily distance traveled on the New York city lines. The monthly feed bill amounts to about $19,000. During the year 1875 the company lost 334 horses, and the yearly depreciation in the value of the live-stock was about 28 per cent., the average annual depreciation for a term of years being about 25 per cent. The number of men employed is 1,000. 21 The company carried during the year 29,000,000 passengers, at an average cost per passenger of 4 cents, or an aggregate cost of $1,221,592. The gross receipts from passengers were $1,446,537. Mr. Sullivan, the President, states that among the various pavements in use between the rails, upon the ten roads operated by his company, the one which is the easiest upon the horses, and therefore the best, is formed of small cobble stones, laid with only a slight fall from the centre to the sides; and that the horses should always be shod with flat shoes, rather broad at the heel and without calks, and without cutting away any of the frog, so that a portion of the weight shall come upon the frog, whenever the animal treads upon an even surface. It is a rare occurrence for any of the horses to become disabled by contracted feet. THE END. 156, 158 Growth of excavated earth... wine)..... Guidet pavement Macadam, 86 to 96, road, tractive Macneill's, Sir John, formulæ.... Machine brooms.... 25 115, 116 23 101 29 119 to 121 Gutter stones in New York city.. 150 Maintenance and repair of roads H. Maintenance of roads of moderate Hammers for breaking stone..72 to 73 | Maintenance of roads of large Hand-made concrete...... 221 to 223 Haywood, Wm., on street pave- ments. Healthfulness, relative, of street traffic...... .....199, 200 Map of route. ..135 to 136 Mechanical car-starter. 240, 243 |