Webster & Dudley Street Railway, extension of time for maintaining a crossing of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in Webster, 243. Westborough & Worcester Street Railway, grade crossing of Grafton and Upton Railroad in Grafton, 247. West End Street Railway, transfer of proceeds of bonds, 202. issue of bonds, 202. approval of locations of, and use of electric power by, in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, etc., 265-271, 273-275, 277. crossings of Boston & Maine Railroad, 236. crossing of United States railroad tracks on Arsenal Street, Watertown, 237. petition for exemption from vestibules on cars, 284. Westfield, additional train service at, 100. West Roxbury & Roslindale Street Railway consolidated with Brockton Street Railway, 169. issue of stock, 173. revoked, in part, 175. sale of new shares at auction, 206. approval of locations of, and use of electric power by, in Boston, 271. West Somerville, train accommodation at, 99. Wheat, receipts of, in Boston, for the last ten years, 35. Whistling of locomotives as crossing signal prohibited at certain places, 133. Worcester & Clinton Street Railway consolidated with Leominster & Clinton, 161. Worcester & Webster Street Railway, joint use of track with Webster & Dudley Street Railway, 258. Workingmen's trains, 47. Woronoco Street Railway, increase of stock, 217. Yarmouth, petition for relocation of station in, 102. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Board of Railroad Commissioners respectfully submits its Thirty-second Annual Report. MASSACHUSETTS RAILROAD CORPORATIONS. Forty-six railroad corporations (the same number as in the last report), whose roads are located wholly or in part within the limits of this State, have made the annual returns required by law for the year ending June 30, 1900. Of the forty-six corporations making returns as above, only eleven were engaged in actual railroad operation. A portion of these eleven companies also operated under lease or contract the roads of the other thirty-five companies. Four of the eleven operating companies - the Boston & Albany, Boston & Maine, Fitchburg, and New York, New Haven & Hartfordoperated over 97 per cent of the railroad mileage, and conducted nearly 99 per cent of the entire passenger and freight traffic, covered by this report. RAILROAD MILEAGE. There was a net increase the last year of .390 of a mile in the length of railroad line located in this State resulting from the extension of the Boston & Providence Railroad in the city of Boston to the tracks of the Terminal Company. An addition of 4.130 miles of second main track, 3.090 miles of third main track, 3.560 miles of fourth main track, and 43.090 miles of side track was also made to the existing roads within the State. There are now in Massachusetts 2,108.900 miles of main and branch railroad line. There are besides 937.407 miles of second, third and fourth main track, and 1,370.047 miles of side track-making the total length of railroad track within the |