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Special attention is invited to the following data pertaining to the railway service: 
The total number of passengers carried was.............. 97,019,389 
Rassenger caramiles: were. (ni sc. (4... sn 52 se nape les 13,668,249 
Passenger earnings per car mile were.................... .3949 
The Electric Light and Power Department has contributed 57.6% of the total net 
earnings of the company. The increase in gross earnings from electric light and power 
during 1920, over 1919, was substantially equivalent to the entire net earnings from 
this source five years ago. But it must be remembered that the average cost of steam 
coal delivered during 1914 at the plant was $4.50 per ton, whereas during 1920 it was 
$15.18 per ton; and that the wages of common labor in the same period increased to the 
unprecedented extent of over 240 %. 
The Gas Department also advanced in relative importance. The most interesting 
fact in the 1920 operation of this department is the reduction in operating expense 
relative to the output and the notable improvement in operating ratio during a year 
when the price of coal and gas-oil and the rates of wages, which constitute the principal 
elements of expense in the manufacture and distribution of gas, were higher than ever 
before. 
The new 2,310,000-gallon steel tank purchased from the Sinclair Oil Company was 
completed and in readiness for use when the oil shipment was due. A platform scale of 
20 tons capacity was installed, and a new 14-foot diameter Hinman drum type station 
meter has been contracted for. This meter, together with the new drum ordered for the 
existing 14-foot meter, will more than double the meter capacity at the gas works. The 
business of this department is steadily increasing and the manufacturing capacity must 
be enlarged during the coming year. 
The project for the improvement of the harbor frontage of the gas works property, 
etc., referred to in our last year’s report, was approved and authorized by the president 
of the Republic of Cuba, and preparations are being made to construct a reinforced 
concrete wharf, 341 feet long, in conjunction with a similar wharf that the Havana 
Central Railroad Co. is to build in line with it, and adjoining it at the westerly end. 
The continuous construction of cars prevented the remodeling of the railway shops 
which must be reorganized and extended. Thirty-two new passenger cars were finished 
and eighteen more were nearly completed at the end of the year; while nine passenger 
cars were reconstructed, making approximately one new car per week. It has become 
apparent that the increase of passengers relative to car miles is too large. Accordingly, 
designs for an improved passenger car are now being worked out. The outstanding 
features thereof are an increased capacity, less dead weight and a decrease in time required 
for construction. It is expected that early in 1921 one of the new cars will be ready 
for trial. 
Your power plant has continued to operate reliably and economically. . The total 
net output was 76,764,351 k.w.h., and 73,874 tons of coal were consumed, equal to 2.156 
Ibs. per k.w.h. 
None the less, the necessity of adding to the electric generating capacity in the 
Consolidated Power Plant referred to in our report for 1919 was made more evident by 
the increase of 18.7% in output over 1919. 
In May, 1920, contracts were made with the Westinghouse Electrical International 
Company to furnish two 25,000-k.w. turbine generator units and auxiliaries, and it is 
expected that one of the units will be shipped about August, 1921, the other about 
April, 1922. 
Your present power plant was started in 1914, but all of the three generating units 
were not ready till the end of that year. The output of 1920 was 82% more than in 
1915, and if the increase of output in 1921 equals that of 1920, the end of that year 
will find the generators now in service with about all they can properly do. So it is 
hoped that by then the first of the two new units will be ready for service. 
It is with great sorrow that your board of directors is called upon to record the 
death, on April 25, 1920, of Mr. David T. Davis, first vice-president, general counsel, 
