The original cost of construction amounted to $15,000,000. The total number of passengers on promenade, roadway, and railroad during 1883 was 5,332,500. The total number in 1892, the year after the promenade toll was removed, was 41,772,808. The statistics for 1893 show that the traffic was highest in December and lowest in August. The earnings of the Bridge are thus shown:-- From May 23, 1883, to Dec. 1, 1884 $682,755.42 " Dec. 1, 1884, " Dec. 1, 1885 622,680.31 " " 1885, " " 1886 870,207.43 " " 1886, " " 1887 938,281.21 " " 1887, " " 1888 1,012,254.82 " " 1888, " " 1889 1,120,024.16 " " 1889, " " 1890 1,239,493.90 " " 1890, " " 1891 1,176,447.95 " " 1891, " " 1892 1,801,661.48 " " 1892, " " 1893 1,590,140.03 -------------- Total $11,053,946.71 The receipts from all sources for the year ending December 1, 1893, were as follows: City of Brooklyn construction account, $150,000; city of New York construction account, $75,000; receipts from tolls, $1,252,908.04; material sold, labor, etc., $559.91; interest, $2,426.03; rent, real estate, and telegraph wires, $109,246.05. Total, $1,590,140.03. The management of the Bridge was formed under control of a board of twenty trustees, eight being appointed by the Mayor, comptroller, and auditor of Brooklyn, and eight by the Mayor, comptroller, and president of the Board of Aldermen of New York city. Under an act of the Legislature, passed April 4, 1893, on April 12 following, this board was replaced by the present board of trustees, consisting of two persons appointed by the Mayor of the city of Brooklyn, two persons appointed by the Mayor of the city of New York, at a salary of $3000 each, and the mayors and comptrollers of the two cities, members _ex officio_, the appointed trustees to hold office for five years. Supplementing the work of the Bridge are the elevated railroads and the electric or "trolley" system. Six steam railroads run into the city, four running to Coney Island, one to Rockaway Beach, and one, the Long Island Railroad, connecting with the railroad system of Long Island. Sixteen ferries connect the bay and river front with New York. The New York and Brooklyn Ferry Company carried about 16,000,000 passengers in 1893.