SUMMARY OF WAGES PAID BY FOURTEEN PRINCIPAL RAILWAY COMPANIES DURING THE YEARS 1899-1908. Railway. The above is taken from Appendix XVII. of the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Departmental Committee appointed It will be noted that a decrease is shown in the case of the London and South Western Railway, not an increase. The average decrease for the whole fourteen railways amounts to nearly one penny-halfpenny in the pound of gross receipts.-R. H. APPENDIX XI Letter from MR. W. R. COOPER TO MR. A. W. GATTIE. "THE ELECTRICIAN,' 1, 2 & 3, SALisbury Court, FLEET STREET, E.C. JULY 5, 1916. A. W. GATTIE, ESQ., II, MONTAGUE GARDENS, ACTON, W. DEAR MR. GATTIE, In reply to your enquiry, there has been an enormous decrease in the cost of printing in recent years, owing chiefly to the use of type-setting machines. Apart from this there has been a decrease in the cost of machining, and the cost of paper has also fallen. Notwithstanding the increased cost of labour, I think that, due to the above causes, the average cost of printing has probably come down something like 50 per cent. during the past half-century. I refer, of course, to prewar prices. Yours truly, W. R. COOPER, Editor. AUTHORITIES QUOTED THE RT. HON. H. H. ASQUITH, M.P., P.C. PROFESSOR W. E. AYRTON, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. MR. MONTAGU Balfour, Director of the New Russia Company. Ironmasters. MR. RICHARD BELL, J.P., Of the Board of Trade. Formerly Secretary to the SIR ALEXANDER BINNIE, Member of Council of Institute of Civil Engineers. Late Chief Engineer to the London County Council. THE RT. HON. CHARLES BOOTH, P.C., F.R.S., Dr. Sc., D.C.L. MAJOR CARDEW, R.E., Late Electrical Expert to Board of Trade. Late Consulting Engineer to the Admiralty. MR. W. R. COOPER, M.A., etc. SIR FRANCIS Dent, General Manager of the South Eastern & Chatham MR. DE SALIS, Of Messrs. Fellows, Morton, Clayton & Co., Ltd., Canal MR. ANDREW L. DRYSDALE, J.P., Land Adviser and Agricultural Expert. MR. E. H. FARR, Late of the London & North Western Railway and other companies. MR. A. W. GATTIE, Chairman of the New Transport Company, Limited. MR. EDGAR HARPER, F.S.A., F.R.S.S., F.S.I., Chief Valuer of Inland Revenue. DR. H. S. HELE-SHAW, F.R.S., LL.D., Dr. Sc., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., Past President of the Institute of Automobile Engineers. MR. JOHN HUNTER, F.I.C., F.C.S., F.R.P.S., Author of "Soil Science," etc., etc. MR. FRANK IMPEY, Secretary of the Waterways Association. MR. F. R. JOHNSON, Of the Great Northern Railway Co. MR. W. B. LObjoit, Market Gardeners & Farmers Association. MR. W. F. MARWOOD, C.B., Chief of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. SIR GUILDFORD MOLESWORTH, K.C.I.E., Consulting Engineer to the Government of India State MR. HENRY MURRAY. SIR CHARLES OWENS, Late General Manager and now a Director of the SIR GEORGE PAISH, F.R.S.S., Editor of The Statist and Governor of the London MR. A. H. PIBell, National Sea Fisheries Protection Association. MR. EDWIN A. PRATT, Author of "Railways and their Rates," and "Railways in War." SIR WILLIAM PREECE, F.R.S., K.C.B., Late Chief Engineer of H.M. Post Office. MR. R. PRICE-WILLIAMS, Late Manager to Sir Henry Bessemer. MR. A. G. SEAMAN, M.I.E.E., Of the British Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing MR. JAMES SWINBURNE, F.R.S., M.I.C.E., Past President of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. MR. L. R. S. TOMALIN, Late Deputy Chairman of the London Chamber of MR. G. J. WARDLE, M.P. MR. J. E. WILLIAMS, Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen. MR. F. W. WEST, London District Goods Superintendent, South Eastern and Chatham Railway. Author of "The Railway Goods-Station." |