The appropriation for special facilities for the year ending June 30, 1889, was $295,987.53. The uses to which the appropriation referred to is put are explained in the following table. -----------------------+--------------------------+------+----------- Termini. | Railroad Company. |Miles.| Pay. -----------------------+--------------------------+------+----------- New York to |New York, New Haven | | Springfield | & Hartford |136 | $17,647.06 4.35 A.M. train |New York Central & | | | Hudson River |144 | 25,000.00 Philadelphia to |Philadelphia, Wilmington | | Bay View | & Baltimore | 91.80| 20,000.00 Bay View to Quantico |Baltimore & Potomac | 79.80| 21,900.00 Quantico to Richmond |Richmond, Fredericksburg | | | & Potomac | 81.50| 17,419.26 Richmond to Petersburg |Richmond & Petersburg | 23.39| 4,268.67 Petersburg to Weldon |Petersburg | 64 | 11,680.00 Weldon to Wilmington |Wilmington & Weldon |162.07| 29,541.27 Wilmington to Florence |Wilmington, Columbia | | | & Augusta |110 | 20,075.00 Florence to Charleston | | | Junction |Northeastern | 95 | 17,337.50 Charleston Junction | | | to Savannah |Charleston & Savannah |108 | 19,710.00 Savannah to |Savannah, Florida | | Jacksonville | & Western |171.50| 31,309.70 Baltimore to | | | Hagerstown |Western Maryland | 86.60| 15,804.50 Jacksonville to Tampa |Jacksonville, Tampa & Key | | | West & South Florida |242.57| 43,962.42 -----------------------+--------------------------+------+----------- Total |$295,655.38 ---------------------------------------------------------+----------- A careful perusal of this table develops the fact that the greater portion of this money is expended south of Philadelphia, the railroad companies in that section not having sufficient weight of mails to warrant fast trains without some additional compensation. It will also be noted that with the exception of the sum of $25,000 for a special train to Poughkeepsie, which leaves New York City at 4.35 in the morning, the New York Central receives no compensation except that earned by them as common carriers of so many pounds of freight-mail matter carried, being paid for in accordance with its weight. It will also be observed that the Pennsylvania Railroad, on its trunk line, is not even so fortunate as its great rival.