Corporate Genealogy
The Pennsylvania Railroad

INVESTMENTS IN OTHER COMPANIES

The investments of the Pennsylvania Railroad in other companies on date of valuation are stated in its records at a total book value of $377,725,146.31, of which $391,242.10 is carried on the general balance sheet in the account for other unadjusted debits and $19,198,503.52 is carried on the general balance sheet in the account for loans and bills receivable. A statement of the several investments recorded as of date of valuation with their respective par and book values follows:

Par value Book value
Stocks:
      Affiliated carrier corporations--
      Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic 682,607.00 349,549.23
Barnegat Railroad 50,000.00 1.00
Belvidere Delaware 244,600.00 227,700.00
Camden and Atlantic 600.00 240.00
Cherry Tree and Dixonville 250,000.00 250,000.00
Connecting Railway 3,825,350.00 3,825,350.00
Cornwall and Lebanon 800,000.00 1,837,500.00
Cumberland Valley 5,319,400.00 6,467,027.47
Delaware River Railroad 1,300,000.00 1,300,000.00
Erie & Western Transportation Company 2,999,650.00 2,994,450.00
Franklin & Parker's Landing Railroad Company 35,000.00 28,000.00
Freehold & Jameburg Agricultural 37,800.00 22,051.00
Harrison and East Newark 25,000.00 30,424.94
Johnsonburg Railroad 150,000.00 1.00
Lewisburg and Tyrone 1,110,450.00 1.00
Lewisburg Centre and Spruce Creek 221,350.00 1.00
Long Island Railroad 33,905,450.00 29,506,133.91
Milford & Bay Shore 1,012.50 1,012.50
Monongahela Railway 1,676,500.00 714,000.00
New York Bay Railroad 6,000,000.00 2,000,000.00
New York Connecting Railroad 1,500,000.00 1,524,909.55
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk 2,492,750.00 7,478,250.00
Northern Central 13,068,130.00 14,846,147.57
Pennsylvania and Atlantic 1,107,850.00 5.00
Pennsylvania & Newark 390,000.00 190,000.00
Pennsylvania Company 80,000,000.00 75,496,106.10
Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company 15,000,000.00 1.00
Perth Amboy & Elizabethport 7,450.00 1.00
Perth Amboy and Woodbridge 198,400.00 198,712.71
Philadephia and Beach Haven 200,000.00 1.00
Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company 896,450.00 996,745.20
Philadelphia and Trenton 600.00 1,250.00
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington 26,436,950.00 22,927,534.81
Panhandle 450,000.00 321,812.50
The Rocky Hill Railroad and Transportation Company 250.00 1.00
Roxborough Railroad 70,000.00 1.00
Susquehanna, Bloomsburg and Berwick 1,000,000.00 500,340.00
Tipton Railroad 43,250.00 1.00
West Jersey and Seashore 6,793,250.00 6,904,117.81
Wilkes-Barre Connecting Railroad 91,300.00 91,300.00
York, Hanover and Frederick    525,000.00    125,031.98
Total    208,906,399.50    182,155,412.28
Affiliated noncarrier corporations--
Arcade Real Estate Company 1,237,500.00 1,237,500.00
Blair Gap Water Supply Company 1,211,600.00 556,614.54
Blandburg Water Company 5,000.00 13,500.00
Center Turnpike Company 4,150.00 1.00
Citizens Water Company of Scottdale 391,000.00 162,997.78
Clearview Water Supply Company 343,900.00 164,669.21
Dauphin Consolidated Water Supply Company 478,850.00 265,311.73
Dunbar Water Supply Company 40,300.00 23,253.63
Duquesne Warehouse Company 10,000.00 10,000.00
Enola Realty Company 225,000.00 1.00
Enola Sewerage Company 25,000.00 1.00
Greenmount Water Supply Company 35,000.00 16,280.89
High Ridge Water Supply Company 1,477,300.00 691,122.68
Katherine Water Company 4,300.00 2,270.65
Kingston Realty Company 5,000.00 5,000.00
Manor Real Estate & Trust Company 2,000,000.00 2,000,000.00
Mineral Railroad & Mining Company 100,002.00 1.00
Mountain Water Supply Company 1,467,900.00 712,870.79
Nekoda Water Supply Company 30,000.00 13,748.47
New Jersey Warehouse & Guaranty Company 25,000.00 1.00
Octoraro Water Company 545,700.00 207,411.43
Pennsylvania Canal Company 3,517,150.00 1.00
Pennsylvania Terminal Real Estate Company 3,000,000.00 3,000,000.00
Pittsburgh Joint Stock Yards Company 1,000,000.00 973,110.43
Richmond-Washington Company 445,000.00 445,000.00
Shamokin Dam Water Company 5,000.00 4,704.08
South River Water Company 19,100.00 9,144.38
Stuyvesant Real Estate Company 500,000.00 500,000.00
Summit Water Supply Company 1,788,500.00 839,466.63
Susquehanna Coal Company 2,136,800.00 716,700.00
Tipton Water Company 346,500.00 159,561.62
Trenton Delaware Bridge Company 100,000.00 100,000.00
Trout Run Water Supply Company 20,000.00 9,045.38
Winslow Water Company     1,500.00      823.55
Total    22,542,052.00    12,840,113.87
Other stocks--
American Manganese Manufacturing Company 193.00 193.00
Altoona Mechanics' Library Association 3,750.00 1.00
1st-2nd National Bank at Pittsburgh 114,500.00 143,125.00
Lancaster Avenue Improvement Company 10,800.00 1.00
J. Langdon & Company Incorporated 45,900.00 1.00
The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Company 209,400.00 46,201.00
Leonard & Company, Incorporated 400.00 400.00
Lykens Valley Rail-Road and Coal Company 11,460.00 9,345.00
Merchants Warehouse Company 154,500.00 168,310.06
McAllister Lighterage Line, Incorporated 600,000.00 600,000.00
The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company 5,312,500.00 8,012,303.12
Norfolk and Western Railway Company 44,895,400.00 38,260,641.18
Philadelphia, Bala & Bryn Mawr Turnpike Company 8,750.00 1.00
Philadelphia Bourse 7,925.00 1,051.00
Ross Club, Williamsport, Pa. 200.00 200.00
Southern Pacific Company 17,143,800.00 17,001,367.97
The Stewartstown Railroad Company 9,500.00 8,550.00
Union Sheet and Tin Plate Company 600.00 599.57
The United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company   1,350,000.00   1,800,000.00
Total   69,879,578.00   66,052,290.90
Grand total, stocks 301,328,029.50 261,047,817.05
Bonds:
Affiliated carrier corporations--
Belvidere Delaware 300,000.00 118,844.45
Cherry Tree and Dixonville 605,000.00 605,000.00
Columbus, Kinkorn and Springfield 3,600.00 1.00
Freehold & Jamesburg Agricultural 97,000.00 97,000.00
Johnsonburg Railroad 150,000.00 1.00
Long Island Railroad 1,832,580.00 1,775,455.88
Monongahela Railway 1,013,000.00 997,358.02
New York Bay Railroad 960,000.00 960,000.00
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk 82,000.00 75,082.50
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington 63,150.00 63,150.00
Western New York and Pennsylvania 239,258.47 239,258.47
Wilkes-Barre Connecting Railroad 1,085,000.00 1,085,000.00
York, Hanover and Frederick   150,000.00         1.00
Total   6,580,588.47   6,016,152.32
Affiliated noncarrier companies--
Citizens Water Company of Scottdale 185,000.00 180,800.00
Manor Real Estate & Trust Company 52,800.00 52,800.00
Pennsylvania Canal Company 384,000.00 1.00
Stuyvesant Real Estate Company    252,000.00    252,000.00
Total    873,800.00    485,601.00
Other bonds--
Albro-Clem Elevator Company 5,950.00 5,950.00
H. Baker and Company 5.23 5.23
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 150,000.00 148,500.00
Joseph Billington 5,000.00 5,000.00
William Burstein 1,500.00 1,500.00
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad Company 1,000.00 1,000.00
E. M. Harris 8,000.00 8,000.00
Independent Brick Company 1,500.00 1,500.00
International Mercantile Marine Company 174,000.00 173,992.12
Iron Car Equipment Company 10,858.19 1.00
Keystone Brick Company 20,000.00 20,000.00
The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Company 34,000.00 34,000.00
McCloskey Varnish Company 8,343.20 8,343.20
New York City 10,000.00 10,275.00
E. W. Reynolds 19,000.00 19,000.00
F. Seitters and Sons 12,000.00 12,000.00
Susquehanna Collieries Company 8,506,000.00 7,209,204.38
Trimble Brothers 7,400.00 7,400.00
United States Liberty Loan 3,770,000.00 3,770,000.00
Union Sheet and Tin Plate Company      100.00      100.00
Total     12,744,656.62     11,435,770.93
Grand total bonds 20,199,045.09 17,937,524.25
Stocks and bonds (cost inseparable), affiliated carrier corporations,
Western New York and Pennsylvania     28,893,295.46      2,000,035.80
Notes:
Affiliated carrier corporations--
Maryland, Delaware & Virginia 14,000.00 1.00
Pennsylvania & Newark 289,722.84 289,722.84
Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company  83,600,576.95  56,200,575.95
Total  83,904,299.79  56,490,299.79
Affliated noncarrier corporations--
Manor Real Estate & Trust Company 1,200,000.00 1,200,000.00
Pennsylvania Terminal Real Estate Company 1,000,000.00 1,000,000.00
Shamokin Dam Water Company        464.87        464.87
Total  2,200,464.87  2,200,464.87
Other notes--
Leonard & Company, Incorporated 408.57 408.57
New York State Steel Company   591.33   591.33
Total        999.90        999.90
Grand total notes 86,105,764.56 86,691,764.56
Advances:
Affiliated carrier corporations--
Baltimore and Sparrows Point 2,411.07 2,411.07
Belvidere Delaware 148,278.48 148,278.48
Cherry Tree and Dixonville 2,620.81 2,620.81
Connecting Railway 1,159,754.60 1,159,754.60
Cornwall and Lebanon 5,350.53 5,350.53
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia 20,130.76 20,130.76
Delaware Railroad 200,639.12 200,639.12
Delaware River Railroad 1,154.94 1,154.94
Elmira and Lake Ontario 76,330.20 76,330.20
Freehold & Jamesburg Agricultural 15,151.68 15,151.68
Harrison and East Newark 245.48 245.48
Johnsonburg Railroad 2,576.92 2,576.92
Lykens Valley Rail-Road and Coal Company 58,719.03 58,719.03
New York Bay Railroad 2,241,406.74 2,241,406.74
New York Connecting Railroad 225,000.00 225,000.00
Northern Central 5,074,222.96 5,074,222.96
Pennsylvania and Atlantic 338,721.73 338,721.73
Pennsylvania & Newark 214,383.82 214,383.82
Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company 437,224.07 437,224.07
Perth Amboy and Woodbridge 1,196.08 1,196.08
Philadelphia and Beach Haven 1,044.09 1,044.09
Philadelphia and Trenton 249,065.26 249,065.26
Pihiladelphia, Baltimore and Washington 3,699,902.21 3,699,902.21
Rosslyn Connecting Railroad Company 94.14 94.14
Union Railroad Company of Baltimore 15,864.66 15,864.66
Western New York and Pennsylvania 3,051,978.16 3,051,978.16
Wilkes-Barre Connecting Railroad Company 49,828.55 49,828.55
York, Hanover and Frederick     18,846.88     18,846.88
Total   17,312,143.77   17,312,143.77
Affiliated noncarrier corporations--
Manor Real Estate & Trust Company 814,967.45 814,967.45
Stuyvesant Real Estate Company    425,269.52    425,269.52
Total   1,240,236.97   1,240,236.97
Other advances, New York and Long Branch    297,109.39    297,109.39
Grand total advances 18,849,480.13 18,849,480.13
Loans and bills receivable:
Affiliated carrier corporations--
Pennsylvania Company 5,514,603.84 5,514,603.84
Pennsylvania Railroad - Western Lines 4,000,000.00 4,000,000.00
Long Island Railroad 1,764,307.65 1,764,307.65
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington 7,227,773.46 7,227,773.46
West Jersey and Seashore       510,000.00       510,000.00
Total  19,016,684.95  19,016,684.95
Affiliated noncarrier corporations, Pennsylvania Terminal Real Estate Company      115,000.00      115,000.00
Other loans and bills receivable--
McAllister Lighterage Line, Incorporated 14,350.00 14,350.00
Notes of other companies        52,468.57        52,468.57
Total        66,818.57        66,818.57
Grand total loans and bills receivable 19,198,503.52 19,198,503.52
Other investments, memberships in various exchanges, etc. 12.00 12.00

In addition, the investments of the Pennsylvania Railroad in other companies on date of valuation, held in sinking and other special funds, are stated in its records at a total par value of $32,789,584.56 and a recorded book value of $31,417,819.45. A statement of the investments held in the several funds at date of valuation, with their respective par values and book values, follows.

                  Par value Book value
Sinking fund, mortgages of sundry individuals and corporations 2,578,634.56 2.578.634.56
Trust fund of 1878:
Stocks--
Affiliated carrier corporations--
Camden and Burlington 55,050.00 56,120.36
Cleveland and Pittsburg 4,155,950.00 3,849,384.50
Columbus and Xenia 519,050.00 519,050.00
Connecting Railway 291,300.00 291,300.00
Erie and Pittsburg 948,600.00 1,397,063.69
Little Miami Railroad 2,017,000.00 2,017,000.00
Lykens Valley Rail-Road and Coal Company 4,600.00 3,450.00
Massillon and Cleveland 93,550.00 101,215.00
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago 2,876,700.00 2,688,462.93
The Rocky Hill Railroad and Transportation Company 2,750.00 2,831.22
Nonaffiliated carrier corporations--
Elmira and Williamsport 31,350.00 30,128.75
The United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company      52,100.00     110,852.00
Total    11,048,000.00    11,066,858.45
Bonds--
Affiliated carrier corporations--
Cleveland & Marietta 14,000.00 14,886.90
Columbia and Port Deposit 225,000.00 225,000.00
Grand Rapids & Indiana 560,000.00 548,660.00
Long Island Railroad 994,500.00 867,345.05
New York Bay Railroad 3,156,000.00 3,015,121.56
Pennsylvania Company 4,122,000.00 3,829,180.14
Affiliated noncarrier corporations--
Pennsylvania Canal Company 2,382,450.00 1,979,946.54
Susquehanna Collieries Company 809,000.00 768,500.00
Nonaffiliated carrier corporations--
New York and Long Branch 3,000.00 2,940.00
The United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company        2,000.00        1,980.00
Total   12,267,950.00   11,253,610.19
Insurance fund:
Stocks, nonaffiliated carrier corporations, Norfolk and Western Railway Company      590,000.00      590,000.00
Bonds--
Affiliated carrier corporations--
Chartiers Railway 55,000.00 49,500.00
Chicago Union Station Company 160,000.00 159,600.00
Columbia and Port Deposit 650,000.00 617,500.00
Connecting Railway 100,000.00 90,000.00
Freehold & Jamesburg Agricultural 200,000.00 190,000.00
Grand Rapids & Indiana 500,000.00 453,000.00
New York Bay Railroad 575,000.00 546,250.00
Northern Central 105,000.00 105,000.00
Pennsylvania Company 545,000.00 510,950.00
Philadelphia and Baltimore Central 275,000.00 261,250.00
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore 200,000.00 190,000.00
Panhandle 150,000.00 141,000.00
Pittsburg, Youngstown & Ashtabula 250,000.00 250,000.00
West Jersey and Seashore 100,000.00 95,000.00
Nonaffiliated carrier corporations--
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 350,000.00 312,666.25
Central Pacific Railway Company 150,000.00 123,000.00
Illinois Central Railroad Company, et al. 250,000.00 247,500.00
Norfolk Terminal Railway Company 50,000.00 47,500.00
The United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company 800,000.00 760,000.00
Nonaffiliated noncarrier corporations--
Maryland Steel Company 180,000.00 162,000.00
New York City 360,000.00 342,000.00
Reading Company (and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company) 200,000.00 180,000.00
United States of America    100,000.00     95,000.00
Total    6,305,000.00    5,928,716.25
Total insurance fund    6,895,000.00    6,518,716.25
Total in all funds 32,789,584.56 31,417,819.45

The amounts carried on the general balance sheet in the accounts for sinking funds and insurance and other funds exceed the above total book value by $2,684,669.44 which difference represents funds not invested in securities.

In addition, the Pennsylvania Railroad acquired $5,700,000 par value of bonds issued by county and municipal governments in aid of construction and for which it issued its capital stock of an equal par value. The Pennsylvania Railroad also acquired $259,200 par value of municipal and county bonds for recorded consideration of $291,383.38 cash and $11,500 other considerations. It disposed of the entire $5,959,200 par value of county and municipal bonds for $6,030,874.83 cash and $25,052.50 other considerations.

Of the securities traded in by the Pennsylvania Railroad which resulted in losses or gains, the principal losses or gains were as follows:

The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company preferred stock.-- The Pennsylvania Railroad acquired $27,480,000 par value of this stock in 1900 and 1901, for recorded considerations of cash $20,059,796.55 and other securities of recorded value of $3,799,278.03. It disposed of $1,000,000 par value for $851,880 cash, $19,273,600 par value for other securities of recorded value of $15,887,400 and $7,206,400 par value was charged to Kuhn Loeb & Co. in open account at $6,583,949.80, resulting in a loss of $535,844.78.

The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company common stock.-- The Pennsylvania Railroad acquired $40,399,200 par value of this stock in 1901, for recorded considerations of cash $36,466,116.32 and other securities of recorded value of $2,266,264. It disposed of $8,065,000 par value for other securitiesof recorded value of $8,227,612.78 and $32,334,200 par value was charged to Kuhn Loeb & Co. in open account at $38,697,215, resulting in a gain of $8,192,447.46.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company common stock.-- The Pennsylvania Railroad acquired $15,630,000 par value of this stock in 1900, for recorded considerations of cash $5,569,260.30. It disposed of $5,500,000 par value for other securities of recorded value of $1,826,400 and $10,130,000 par value for $5,571,500 cash, resulting in a gain of $1,828,639.70.


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