Atlantic City & Shore Railroad Payment Voucher to Central Passenger Railway 1910
$ 6.86
Description
Atlantic City & Shore Railroad Payment Voucher to Central Passenger Railway 1910. Dated April 14, 1910, and executed in Philadelphia, the voucher is signed by Secretary Wm. Campbell and an Assistant Treasurer. The physical condition of the item is consistent with its age, showing light toning, a central vertical fold, and a perforated edge from original separation. This document is an original accounting voucher and payment authorization issued in March 1910 by the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad Company to the Central Passenger Railway Company in the amount of $104.80. Dated April 14, 1910, and executed in Philadelphia, the voucher is signed by Secretary Wm. Campbell and an Assistant Treasurer. It accounts for a settled financial obligation involving trackage rights: a 3% rental fee on fares collected by the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad for operating its cars over the Central Passenger Railway’s tracks within Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the latter half of March 1910. Accompanying the voucher is a calculation sheet that records the transaction in detail, showing gross passenger earnings of $723.47 derived from 67,601 rides at a fare of 1.05 cents per passenger, from which a prior credit of $618.67 is deducted to determine the net amount due. The financial instrument consists of a voucher slip numbered 2688 and an attached negotiable check numbered 6731, drawn on H. F. Bachman & Co., Bankers of Philadelphia. The document bears a purple fiscal control stamp restricting payment to no more than one hundred thirty dollars. On the verso is a pre-printed chart of accounts for the railroad, which itemizes expense categories such as Way and Structures and General and Miscellaneous; this chart remains unused in this instance. As an artifact of railroad accounting, the voucher sheds light on the contractual and financial relationships between interurban and local street railway companies in the Jersey Shore area during the early 20th century. The physical condition of the item is consistent with its age, showing light toning, a central vertical fold, and a perforated edge from original separation. All manuscript entries, corporate stamps, and signatures from the period are present and legible.
