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It is said that money can do most 
anything, but it has failed to release 
the Matteawan prisoner who strives 
for liberty. 
Diminishing Railway Returns. 
Confidence in the ability of a rail- 
- way company properly to continue 
its operations and adequately to 
~ maintain and extend its facilities de- 
pends in greatest measure upon its 
net operating revenue. This is what 
is left of the receipts from traffic con- 
stituting the total operating revenue, 
after the operating expenses have 
been met. As the mileage of the 
railways tend to increase year by 
year, an accurate measure is ob- 
tained of the operating trevenues, 
operating expenses, and net operat- 
ing revenue by ascertaining what 
they have amounted to for each 
mile. It may be, for example, as 
was the case in March, that while in 
the aggregate net operating revenue 
has increased, it has decreased when 
measured per mile of line. 
Monthly summaries of the reven- 
ues and expenses of the steam rail- 
ways of the U. S. have been com- 
piled by the Bureau of Railways 
Eeonomies from the reports filed 
month by month by the railways 
with the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission, for the twenty-two months 
from July, 1910 to April, 1912, the 
latest month for which returns are 
available. Net operating revenue 
per mile of line for the railways as 
a whole in comparison with the cor- 
responding months of the previous 
year decreased in eighteen of these 
months, and increased in but four. 
The decrease per mile of line per 
month was as great in amount as 
$53, and as great in ratio as 15 per 
cent. The greatest increase for any 
one of the four months showing in- 
ereases was $31, or 14.1 per cent. 
This was in February, 1912, and was 
exceptional as this month contained 
one more day than February, 1911. 
The highest average net operating 
revenue per mile of line for any one 
month of this period was $409, the 
lowest $203. 
Seven of the ten months from 
July, 1911 to April, 1912, show de- 
creases in net operating revenue 
per mile of line as compared with 
the corresponding months of the fis- 
eal year ending June 30, 1911; and 
eleven of the months of the fiscal 
year which ended June 30, 1911, 
showed decreases in comparison 
with the respective corresponding 
months of the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1910. It is therefore evi- 
dent that the trend of railway net 
revenue has been downward for the 
past two years. 
The summary for April, 1912, 
shows that net operating revenue 
was less than for April, 1911, by 
$6,026,440, equivalent per mile of 
line to $33, or 11.4 per cent. This 
net operating revenue, which in the 
aggregate amounted to $56,362,945, 
averaged $8.57 for each mile of line 
for each day in April, less by $1.11 
than for each day of April of last 
year. This is the gross income per 
mile of line per day before anything 
has been taken out for taxes, rent- 
als, interest on bonds, appropria- 
tions for betterments or dividends. 
Taxes for April amounted to $44 
per mile of line, an increase of 9.4 
per cent. 
Motor Boat Muffling Now Being 
Enforced. 
At last the efforts of Governor 
Foss and the State police to have 
the muffling law enforced have be- 
eun to bear fruit. Officer Grady of 
the State police, accompanied by 
City Marshal Lehan of Salem, a 
Salem reserve officer, and a repre- 
sentative of the Motor Boat Muffling 
association, spent the greater part of 
Friday night and Saturday morn- 
ing and Sunday afternoon on the 
waters of the harbors of Salem and 
Beverly overhauling the boats which 
were guilty of the most serious vio- 
lations of the muftling law. The 
names and addresses of the owners 
of a number were taken, and a 
warning given them as to the neces- 
sity of equipping their boats at once 
with a muffler sufficient to comply 
with the law. It is not known 
whether these offenders will be sum- 
moned into court, as the local and 
state police are keeping their plans 
to themselves, but it is assured that 
further excursions will be made in 
the different harbors along the 
coast, and the campaign continued 
until the shores of Massachusetts 
are rid of this great and unnecessary 
disturbance. 
Complaints are coming in by 
every mail to the officers of the 
Motor Boat Muffling association, of 
which Ellerton James of Nahant is 
the president, Stoughton Bell of 
Cambridge, secretary and _ general 
counsel, and Robert W. Hill of 
Salem, associate counsel, and the 
association is determined to co-oper- 
ate with the state and local police to 
the fullest extent of its funds in the 
confident belief that the public will 
welcome a proper enforcement of 
this law. 
New England Resorter 
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The July Issue now on All Newstands 
The GazeTre, Worcester’s leading evening paper, says of the 
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struck a pace that was amazing, yet we find the same 
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somewhat increased, and it must be prized most highly 
by those who spend any considerable portion of their 
time at the shore or among the mountains. 
W orces- 
ter readers will take a deal of interest in the full page 
half-tone showing Mrs. Lucius J. Knowlesand her two 
children, and dwellers in other localities will regard 
with equal zest the faces of their respective fellow re- 
sorters by sea or height. 
The frontispiece represents 
that famous old watermill, with overshot wheel, of 
New London, Conn. 
“On the Road to Restland’’ is 
a fine bit of imaginationwith a practical ending, while 
‘‘Little Pastime Journeys’ 
seeker of just such information. 
’ will prove valuable to the 
Mary Emery Smith 
manages to include a deal of very entertaining gossip 
in ‘‘Behind Quaint Doorways.’’ 
‘“Vermont and the 
Three Magicians,’’ will turn many a tourist toward the 
Green Mountains. 
Illustrations are all superb and the 
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