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The river traffic ol" the monarchy during live years was as follows : -=
Year
Danube Steam Navigation Company
Austr. North-West Steam Navigation Company (Elbe)
Number of
Passen- gers (including military)
3,271,352 3,151,414 3,168,008 2,812,318 3,256,450
Goods and Luggage shipped, in metre- centners
Head of
Living Animals shipped
Number of
Goods carried, in metre- centners
Steam- boats
Tow- boats
Steam- boats
Tow- boats
1892 1893
1894 1895 1896
189 187 183 186 179
766 770
787 827 854
18,303,740 21,785,290 20,301,750 19.631,340 22,405,190
41 42 44
45 46
160 157 155 151 148
5,882,172 5,462,964 7,268,500 6,403,829 8,837,390
The following are railway statistics of Austria in 1897 : State lines, 4,594 miles ; companies' lines worked by the State, 933 miles ; companies' lines worked by companies, 5,844 miles ; total, 10,438 miles.
The following table shows the length in miles and the total cost of construction in thousands of pounds sterling of the Austrian and mixed (partly Hungarian) railways : —
— 1890
1893
1894
10,097 217,069
1895
1896 1
1
^^"S^" (Mixed . . 3,420 r'«c+ /Austrian. . 135,757 ' "^^ IMixed . . j 113,0;0
8,773
1,648
171,791
76,117
10,244 219.029
10,438 1 221,893 '
The following table shows the traffic on the Austrian railways : —
1 — 1 1894 1895
1896 '
Passengers (in 1,000's) . 102,898 106,443 Goods carried (in 1,000 tons) 92,865 93,879 Receipts (in 1,000 florins) . 243,208 247,633 Working expenses (1,000 fls.)' 136,227 1 145,842
105,201 100,000 263,955 153,896
There were, in 1897, 5,754 post offices in Austria. The work of the Post Office in 1896 and 1897 was as follows : —
1897 Number 809,770,210 113,036,520
Letters and post-cards Samples and printed packets Newspapers
Receipts (posts and telegraphs) Expenses ....
1896
Number
740,904,060
104,816,660
87,592,600
Florins 44,373,724 41,742,829
95,533,400
Florins 44,650,851 40,705,717
