Expenses and charges upon income accrued during the year: salaries and maintenance of organization, 3,000 00 Turner's Falls Branch, ASSETS. DR. $3,288,328 01 261,233 64 Improvements by Fitchburg R.R. Co. since January 1, 1874, . 48,720 46 145,300 63 2,507,005 94 $6,250,588 68 $8,955 50 269 53 9,225 03 $6,259,813 71 CR. $3,193,000 00 1,000,000 00 DESCRIPTION OF RAILROAD OWNED. (See also tabulated description in preceding appendix to report.) CORPORATE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE COMPANY. VERMONT & MASSACHUSETTS RAILROAD COMPANY, NAMES AND BUSINESS ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS. Charles E. Ware, President, Fitchburg, Mass. Franklin N. Poor, Treasurer, Boston, Mass. B. D. Locke, Clerk of Corporation, Arlington, Mass. NAMES AND RESIDENCE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Francis Goodhue, Brattleboro, Vt. Edward L. Davis, Worcester, Mass. Alvah Crocker, Fitchburg, Mass. F. Richardson, Lowell, Mass. T. Crocker, Fitchburg, Mass. Charles A. Welch, Cohasset, Mass. George Charles E. Ware, Fitchburg, Mass. Charles We hereby certify that the statements contained in the foregoing return are full, just and true. EDMUND D. CODMAN, RODNEY WALLACE, CHARLES T. CROCKER, CHARLES LOWELL, Directors of the Fitchburg Railroad. Treasurer of the Fitchburg Railroad. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. SUFFOLK, SS. BOSTON, Sept. 17, 1900. Then personally appeared the abovenamed Edmund D. Codman and D. A. Gleason, and severally made oath that the foregoing certificate by them subscribed is, to the best of their knowledge and belief, true. Before me, FRED'K A. CARR, Justice of the Peace. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. SUFFOLK, Ss. SEPT. 22, 1900. Then personally appeared the above-named Rodney Wallace, Charles T. Crocker, Joseph B. Russell, Moses Williams, B. N. Bullock and Charles Lowell, and severally made oath that the foregoing certificate by them subscribed is, to the best of their knowledge and belief, true. Before me, CHAS. E. WARE, Justice of the Peace. CORPORATE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE COMPANY. WARE RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY, NAMES AND BUSINESS ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS. James A. Rumrill, President, Boston, Mass. Frank H. Ratcliffe, Treasurer, Boston, Mass. Edgar W. Long, Clerk of Corporation, Boston, Mass. NAMES AND RESIDENCE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS. James A Rumrill, Springfield, Mass. Henry B. Chapin, Boston, Mass. Charles S. Sargent, Brookline, Mass. Charles E. Stevens, Ware, Mass. Frederick H. Gillett, Springfield, Mass. Chester W. Bliss, Springfield, Mass. Frank H. Ratcliffe, Newton Centre, Mass. We hereby certify that the statements contained in the foregoing return are full, just and true. CHARLES S. SARGENT, HENRY B. CHAPIN, FRANK H. RATCLIFFE, Directors. FRANK H. RATCLIFFE, Treasurer. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. SUFFOLK, 88. AUG. 7, 1900. Then personally appeared the above-named Charles S. Sargent, Henry B. Chapin and Frank H. Ratcliffe, and severally made oath that the foregoing certificate by them subscribed is, to the best of their knowledge and belief, true. Before me, GEO. P. FURBER, Justice of the Peace. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. HAMPDEN, SS. AUG. 10, 1900. Then personally appeared Chester W. Bliss, and made oath that the foregoing certificate by him subscribed is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, true. Before me, E. DUDLEY CHAPIN, Justice of the Peace. |