Maine Medical School, Med. Dep. Univ. Louisiana, N. Orleans, La. 1837 Grad Place. Prof. Stu. ded. Lectures commence. uates. 66 1827 Washington, 1825 1838 1833 1830 1835 1850 1818 81 1st Mon. in Nov. 1st October. 40 October 13. 1st Mon. in Oct. 2d Mon. in Nov. 124 2d Mon. in Nov. 188 3d Mon. in Nov. 220 140 Ist Mon. in Oct. 214 1,351 1st Mon. in Nov. 376 202 8 130 8 62 1847 124 Indiana Medical College, Laporte, Ind. 104 Indiana Central Med. College, Indianapolis, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill.' University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Med. Dep. of St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, Mo. 1836 66 1846 13 1st Mon. in Nov. XXIV. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. — NOVEMBER, 1854. 7 103 The President of the United States, ex Officio Presiding Officer. The Vice-President of the United States, ex Officio Second Presiding Officer. RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES. XXV. The following list of Railroads in Massachusetts and the adjacent States, and in New York, is very complete and accurate, being compiled from official returns made near January, 1854. 1. Railroads in Massachusetts. **This includes the Albany and W. Stockbridge Railroad, from Albany to the State line. Length 38.25 miles; cost $ 1,930,895, and leased by the Western Railroad. tt 6.62 miles in New Hampshire. The Woburn Branch, 2 miles long, belongs to the Lowell road; the Medford Branch, 2 miles, the Methuen Branch, 3 miles, and the Great Falls Branch (in New Hampshire), 3 miles, to the Maine; the West Roxbury and Dedham Branch, 5.35 miles, and the Pawtucket Branch, 4.2 miles, to the Providence; the Brookline Branch, 1.6 miles, the Newton Lower Falls Branch, 2.5 miles, the Saxonville Branch, 4 miles, the Millbury Branch, 3.2 miles, and the Milford Branch, 12 miles, to the Worcester; the Marblehead Branch, 3 miles, the Gloucester Branch, 13.5 miles, and the Salisbury Branch, 3.4 miles, to the Eastern; the Fresh Pond and Watertown Branch, 10 miles, and the Lancaster and Sterling Branch, 9 miles of which are completed, to the Fitchburg. The Worcester Branch road is half a mile in length, the Bridgewater Branch, 6.5 miles, the Chicopee Branch, 3 miles, and the Granite (in Quincy) road, 3 miles. Including such of these as have not been before given, the total length of what may be called the Massachusetts roads, is 1,291.65 miles. Besides these, there are roads in process of construction, leading from the main lines in Massachu. setts into other States. During the session of 1846, the Massachusetts Legislature chartered eighteen roads and branches, with an aggregate capital of $ 5,795,000; during the session of 1847, sixteen, with an aggregate capital of $4,822,000; during the session of 1848, nineteen, with an aggregate capital of $7,105,000, and the capital stock of the railroads already in operation was increased, $3,945,000; during the session of 1849, fourteen, with an aggregate capital of $2,470,000, and the capital stock of the railroads in operation was increased $1,150,000; during the session of 1850, three roads or branches, with an aggregate capital of $740,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation was increased $925,000; during the session of 1851, eleven roads or branches, with a capital stock of $3,320,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation was increased $ 1,515,000; during the session of 1852, eleven roads or branches, with a capital stock of $2,145,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation, or chartered, was increased $2,240,000; during the session of 1853, six roads or branches, with a capital stock of $1,535,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation or chartered was increased $650,000; and during the session of 1854, fourteen roads or branches, with a capital stock of $3,410,000, and the capital stock of one road in operation was increased $ 60,000. By the returns on the Massachusetts roads, it appears that there were during the year 74 casualties by which persons were killed, or injured so that they died therefrom, and 38 casualties which did not prove fatal. Of the 74 persons killed, 24 were employees of the road. 26 were persons walking or sleeping on the track, or attempting to cross it while the trains were approaching. Three persons were killed in attempting to get on the cars, after they were in motion. Four passengers fell from the cars while in motion, and one death was suicide. Of the 38 not fatal casualties, 2 befell employees of the roads; 3, persons jumping on or off the cars while in motion. 18 passengers were killed or fatally injured, and 22 were injured, during the year; but all, with one exception, on the Boston and Maine, and Providence and Worcester roads. More than 12,000,000 passengers were carried over the roads during that period. 2. Other Completed Railroads in New England, October, 1854. 25.50 15.00 Vermont, 120.00 5,577,000 495,397 240,000 1,000,000 Bath Branch (from Brunswick), . N. Hampshire, Eastern R. in New Hampshire, Sullivan (B. Falls to Windsor, Vt.), Troy and Rutland (Salem to Eagle Albany Northern (Eagle Bridge to Western Vt. (Rutland to N. Ben- Troy and Boston (North Benning- Rutland and Whitehall (Castleton, Vt., to N. York State line, there 24.00 118.00 12,000,000 Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill, 120 00 4,000,000 1,705.05 3. Principal Lines of Railroad not completed, or in Process of Construction, Name. York and Cumberland, in New England, October, 1854. From Great Falls, N. H., to Portland. Length, about 50 miles. Boston, Concord, and Montreal, From Concord, N. H., via Haverhill, to a point of intersection with some one of the Montreal roads. Length, about 109 miles. Open to Wells River, 93 miles. Concord and Claremont, or Merrimack and Connecticut River, From Concord, N. H., to Claremont, where it intersects the Sullivan road. Length, 50 miles. Open to Bradford, 25 miles. Open from Contoocookville, on the Concord and Claremont road, From Manchester to its junction with the Concord and Clare- * Worked by Concord road. † Worked by Nashua and Lowell road. Great Falls and Conway, Troy and Greenfield, From Great Falls to Conway. Open to Milton, 12.5 miles. From Greenfield. Mass., to Troy, N. Y. Connecticut and Passumpsic River, From Hartford, Vt., up the west bank of the Connecticut, to the Grand Trunk Railway. Length about 114 miles. Open to St. Johnsbury, Vt., 61 miles. Canal, . Naugatuck,. From New Haven to Springfield. Open to Tariffville, 45 miles. Open from Bridgeport, Conn., to Winsted, 62 miles. 4. New York Railroads in Operation throughout their entire Length, September 30, 1853. Buffalo, Corning, &N.Y., 96.75 1,196,619 2,008,760 2,634,314 53,589 157,419 22.00 35.00 687,000 486,722 1,076,321 100,732 82,026 208,760 633,598 92,563 61,779 806,713 207,971 140,025 42,700 Saratoga &Schenectady, 472,190 15,000 Saratoga & Washington, 164,967 160,850 Sackett'sHar. & Ellisb'g, 386,894 Troy and Bennington, 240,252 15,415 Troy and Boston, 27.25 437,830 694,757 1,080,405 78,537 Troy Union,. 450,424 Watertown and Rome, Total, 2.00 3,000 500,000 96.00 1,346,075 748,518 1,957,992 334,901 203,327 127,609 2,224.41 54,696,881 61,451,895 100,963,663|13,174,147 10,044,990 2,494,771| The Albany and Schenectady, the Utica and Schenectady, the Troy and Schenectady, the Utica and Syracuse, the Syracuse and Rochester, the Buffalo and Rochester, the Mohawk Valley, the Syracuse and Utica Direct, and the Buffalo and Lockport Railroads, are included in the New York Central. The following New York roads were in process of construction September 30, 1853, and their condition is thus stated on that date. There were, besides, 455 miles of road in process of construction at that time. |