Expenditures of the Russo-Japanese war / by Gotaro Ogawa.

EFFECTS ON COMMUNICATIONS

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PASSENGERS AND FARES, 1901-1905
Number of Passengers Fares
Year State Total Average per
S.Private.for state passenger
railways ra ilways
railways state railway
Yen Sen
I90................ 32,527,339 79,136,954 10,887,870 30.4
1902............... 32,689,916 78,121,456 11,880,530 36.0
1903................ 35,006,753 79,861,798 13,040,252 37.2
1904.............. 30,026,355 75,225,481 1,240,251 41.3
1905............... 32,026,355 82,648,439 14,097,661 44.5
capped condition of railways. Unnecessary travel was
avoided and trains were used as little as possible; nevertheless, the fares per passenger suddenly increased because the
troops transported were included in the number of passengers.
The effects of the war upon railway traffic will be seen more
clearly if we limit our observation to the state-owned Tokaido,
Nippon, and Sanyo lines, which were most frequently used for
military purposes.
NUMBER OF PASSENGERS, 1901-1905
Year Tokaido lines Nippon lines Sanyo lines
1901....................... 24,367,712 16,339,421 7,457,o00
1902...................... 23,573,716 15,551,565 7,370,264
1903....................... 24,015,154 14,378,355 8,132,783
I904...................... I19,001,062 13,081,635 8,716,325
I905..................... 20,582,846 I4,23I,020 12,464,864
A marked decrease in the number of passengers took place
in all lines except the Sanyo. As compared with the previous
year, the decrease was about 5,000,000 for the Tokaido lines
and some 1,200,000 for the Nippon lines. The decrease of
ordinary passengers was all the more remarkable when we
consider that the figures cited were inclusive of troops transported, and it is worthy of notice that this tendency did not
abate even in I905. That the troops formed a comparatively
large portion of the passenger traffic may be demonstrated by
the subjoined table: