Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — Speed of a Gull’s Flight. [ARTICLE]

Speed of a Gull’s Flight.

A gull can fly at the rate of 100 miles an hour.

The gross earnings of the Chicago Great Western Railway Company for the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1808, -were $5,386,043 70 Operating expenses were.. 3,777,372 70 Net $1,608,671 00 The amount required to pay taxes, fixed charges and full dividends on tho 4 per cent debenture stock is 1,306.230 42 Excess...., $242,484 67 This excess is equal to a little more than 2 per cent on the preferred stock. The operating expenses include, besides other extraordinary expenses, the entire cost of 226 freight cars which were purchased during the year to make good all the cars which have been destroyed and gone out of service from any cause since the organization of the eompauy. The largest local crop in the history of the company is about ready for the harvest;