Download or read book American Railways Under Government Operation and the Financial Outlook written by Charles E. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book American Railroads written by William James Cunningham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Railroads: Government Control and Reconstruction Policies Up to the middle of the decade 1900 to 1910, the steady growth in traffic and the economies from improved Operating methods, enabled the rail roads to absorb the burden of higher wages and other costs, and to move the traffic at lower rates per ton-mile. The net income was sufficient to pay a reasonable rate of return on securities and to attract new capital when needed. New lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book American Railroad Economics written by Aaron Morton Sakolski and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Railroad Economics: A Text-Book for Investors and Students In no other country and at no previous time have railroad operations received as much attention as at present in the United States, and it is doubtful whether these matters have ever been more fla grantly misinterpreted. The economic importance of American railroads and the participation of the people as individual investors in their rapid growth and development creates a demand for the proper understanding of railroad activities and operating results. Government regulation under the Inter state Commerce Act has promoted and assisted this demand. The publications of the Federal and State commissions are now as important sources of statistical, information as the reports issued by the individual railroad companies. These published sta tistical returns are in many ways useful to the rail road manager, to the investor and to the public. The expensiveness of compilation and the liability to abuse and misinterpretation render necessary the utmost wariness and care in analyzing such data. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Government and the Railroads Classic Reprint written by Otto H. Kahn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Government and the Railroads With the enactment of the Hepburn Bill, during President Roosevelt's second administration, began the modern era of railroad regulation and rate control by commissions. It was a measure of radical inno vation and far - reaching importance, and it ought to have been given a fair test in practical operation for a sufficient length of time. Instead, President Taft, in 1909, felt called upon to propose a new and drastic measure of railroad legislation. He embodied his recommendations on the subject in a bill which was duly introduced in Congress. It was far from being a perfect piece of legislation. The odor of politics was not absent from it. It was considered by the railroads, and in business circles generally, as um called for, unwise, and as unduly burdensome and restrictive in various important respects. But at least it was a consistent and carefully matured meas ure. It was the formal and official expression of the views of the Taft Administration, the second import ant measure put forward by it. It offered the first real test of the capacity for leadership and fighting edge of the President and his Cabinet, and they failed in it lamentably. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book American Railways as Investments Classic Reprint written by Robert Giffen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Railways as Investments The discrepancy between the magnitude of such interests, and so much unconscious ignorance on the part of a shrewd and enquiring people, curious especially in matters of finance, and in none so much as railway finance, is the apology for the following Tract. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Government Ownership of Railways written by Anthony Van Wagenen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Government Ownership of Railways: Considered as the Next Great Step in American Progress I want to convince you of the truth of four significant contentions which I make. First: that government ownership is all but an accomplished fact in the world at the pre sent time. Second: that all the governments which have tried the system of nationalization of railways were never so active as now in the matter of bringing about complete govern ment ownership by extending the present system by purchase and construction. Third: that the sentiment in favor of government ownership among the people of this country, and of the world for that matter, is more general and deeply seated than it is commonly understood to be. And fourth: when govern ment ownership comes in this country it is likely to appear very suddenly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book American Railways as Investments written by Carl Snyder and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Railways as Investments: A Detailed and Comparative Analysis of All the Leading Railways, From the Investor's Point, of View; With an Introductory Chapter on the Methods of Estimating Railway Values The aim Of this work is to provide the general investor, the banker and the investment broker with the means whereby he may judge intelligently and readily, so far as the accessible facts will permit, Of the value Of the securities Of the different railroads passed under review. The volume covers the Operations Of nearly miles Of road or about 90% of the total for the country. More especial attention, and detail, has naturally been given to the more important lines and systems, on the theory that they present greater opportunities for safe investment, greater stabil ity, wider fluctuations in value and therefore larger Opportuni ties for profit, with less liability to suffer from the minor accidents Of trade reverses, manipulation or bad management. At the end Of each analysis or review, conclusions and opinions are offered, but only for what they are worth; that is to say, all the material facts upon which these conclusions are based have been given in full. The details, the figures, the tables are there; the investor may therefore judge for himself as to the validity Of the conclusions reached. The inductions offered are suggestions and nothing more. The aim has been to provide the broadest possible basis of judgment, to Offer the largest perspective, to cut out tha which is evanescent, not to look at last year's results or this year's conditions merely, but to consider what has been done through a series Of years, and under varying conditions. Only in this wise is it possible to frame any intelligent Opinion of the future. Tendencies do not rapidly change. Established roads do not suddenly become great earners; they do not as a rule radically change their policies, save under a radical change Of ownership. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book American Railways Classic Reprint written by Edwin A. Pratt and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Railways The greater part of the matter contained in the following pages appeared in a series of thirteen articles published in The Times between January 5 and June 5, 1903, under the heading of "American Railways," the facts given having been collected during a four months' tour of the United States, made in the winter of 1902-3, and representing a total of about 9000 miles of railway travelling on the American continent. For the purposes of the present work, however, I have considerably expanded a number of the original articles, and have added several fresh ones - such as "On the Cars," "In the Rockies," "A Mining Camp Railway in Colorado," and "The Santa Fe Trail" - together with sections given in Chapter XIX., "Miscellaneous," under the headings: "The Capture of the Small Shareholder," "The Suburban Traffic Problem at Chicago," "Luggage and Parcels," "The Policy of Combination," "Ton-Mileage Statistics," and "Promotions of Staff in Railway Service." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book Railroads written by William Zebina Ripley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railroads: Finance and Organization The foregoingstaternent affords one explanation for the quite abounding account of the shortcomings Of our American railroad financiering within these covers. The stream of the text, especially in certain chapters, flows across a somewhat dreary landscape. But facts are facts. It takes too much time, besides missing the main point, to call a spade an instru ment Of husbandry. But there is another warrant for entire frankness. Outspoken and rigorous analysis Of wrongdoing has a scientific as well as a moral side. Pathology is as well recognized a department of medicine as therapeutics. The laws of health can be worked out only in a fulness Of knowledge as to the nature of disease. And until the cause and the com pleted course of disease are thoroughly understood, the prac titioner is well - nigh helpless to effect a cure. Yet the student of medicine, because his attention for a time is fixed upon phys ical disorders, does not lose faith in the curative possibilities Of his art. Neither does he conclude that all men are bodily unsound, because his clinic reveals so much human defective ness. Just so would we conclude our study with the affirmation that never in our history, and probably nowhere else in the world, has the standard Of probity, the quickened sense of responsibility, both public and private, among American rail road men, been more pronounced than it is at the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Drift Toward Government Ownership of Railways Classic Reprint written by Benjamin L. Winchell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Drift Toward Government Ownership of Railways There is an unmistakable drift toward government ownership of rail ways in the United States. This ten deney is probably most apparent to those closely identified with railway affairs; but it is also evident to many who are interested in the railway busi ness chiefly, or only, as observers and students of economic, industrial, and political problems. In the first place, there has been for some years a rather unsteady but cer tain increase in the number of socialists in the country; and those who thus fa vor public ownership and management of all of the means of both production and distribution must be counted in with those others who favor public acquisition of the principal means of distribution. There has also been an increase in the number of those who advocate public ownership of all public utilities, of which steam railways are the largest. Finally, there has been a mighty growth in the number who favor very stringent regulation of railways, and who have succeeded in getting this policy adopted. The last-named class, which is much the largest, may finally turn the scale for public ownership. For its members now expect much from regulation lower rates, better service, smaller railway dividends, complete elimination of traffic discriminations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Letter to the Railroad Securities Commission written by William Henry Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letter to the Railroad Securities Commission: In Reply to Their Request for Information and Opinions Upon Questions Pertaining to the Issuance of Stocks and Bonds of American Railways The original Cost of material in place on any one railway, must be a definite sum although it is Seldom ascertainable with accuracy. While the aggregate cost may increase or decrease as ma terial is added or withdrawn, the original cost of any quantity or unit of material in place is per manent. It does not follow, however, that the original cost of material in place represents the cost to the present Owners of the property. They may have purchased the property from another company, and paid either more or less than the cost of material in place. The price paid in such a case is the resultant of many con ditions, including the necessities of the seller and the respective estimates Of the value tothemselves of the property made by both parties to the transaction; but the original cost can never be one of the controlling conditions. There are few existing railway companies (and these only the smaller ones) that do not' rep resent reorganizations following receiverships, or to a large extent the purchases Of properties of other companies and their subsequent merger or consolidation with the purchasing company; In view of these facts it is plain that there is no fixed necessary or common relation between the cost of material in place and the cost of the property to the present holders thereof. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Railways and the Government Address by Howard Elliott at the Annual Dinner of the Railway Business Association December 11 1913 Classic Reprin written by Howard Elliott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Railways and the Government: Address by Howard Elliott at the Annual Dinner of the Railway Business Association, December 11, 1913 Out of which the railways earned in 1910, 306, or were distributed in wages and salaries; in 1911, out of or and in 1912, out of 917967, or 439770. And each year this wage distribution has been taking a larger proportion of the railway dollar. Between 1910 and 1911 there was an increase of in the payroll and only in the operating revenues. Between 1911 and 1912, the increase in the payroll was and in operating revenues There are no very complete statistics of the amount of material purchased by the railways, but it is very large, many hundreds of millions of dollars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Railroad Operating Costs Arranged to Include the Operations of 1911 Vol 2 written by Suffern and Son and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railroad Operating Costs, Arranged to Include the Operations of 1911, Vol. 2: A Continuation of Studies in Operating Costs of the Leading American Railroads Such a criticism is eminently just and under it the authors of this compilation must lie for some time, as it is manifestly impossible to complete in a short time such extensive studies covering so many comparisons of various items of costs and to include in these comparisons even all the larger roads. Nevertheless, the work is progressive and is progressing. In presenting this, the second volume, the authors feel that they can claim that they have advanced somewhat along the paths marked out. The text is recrystallized from a portion of the original material, strengthened and amplified by a great store of new matter, the result of close study since the first edition was prepared; also the arrangement of matter has been materially changed in several respects. The highly important classification of Maintenance of Equipment is treated of in four chapters instead of in one, as in the first volume. The three additional chapters on Freight Car Maintenance, Locomotive Maintenance and Passenger Car Maintenance embody the results of very careful research, and it is believed that the information thus presented will be of high value, especially as the charts illustrating Locomotive performance for the four years 1908-1911 (inclusive) cover thirty-sub leading roads, many of which were not mentioned in the first volume. Five charts reflecting Passenger Car performance on forty leading roads are shown in place of two charts of fourteen roads in the first volume. In the chapter of Maintenance of Way and Structures, a new and important unit of cost determination has been introduced, viz., the Locomotive Tractive Mile, which is believed to be a far more logical unit than that which has been employed previously. The eighth chapter on Fuel Costs is entirely new. The text contains much of what is believed to be wholly original information with respect to locomotive performance under a great variety of conditions and according to various types of structure and classifications. It is not known that such records have been produced before and the information therein presented is at once important and progressive. Those who are interested in the conservation of our natural resources will be pleased to observe in what manner and to what degree better locomotive performance will serve to reduce coal consumption, while the facts adduced will be of interest to the builders of locomotives and superheating devices. This chapter is illustrated by eleven charts wholly original in their character and subject matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Present Financial Situation of the American Railroads written by William Henry Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Present Financial Situation of the American Railroads: Considered With Reference to Senator Cummins' Speech in the Senate of the United States on April 13, 1914 In other words, it is recognized and must be the basic principle of further discussion, that for the sake of the general welfare of the United States, disregarding the possibly selfish or personal interests Of railway employes, railway creditors, railway owners and railway managers, it is necessary that the railway revenues should continuously supply sufficient funds to meet all expenses of operation, including liberal wages and adequate repairs and renewals, to pay all taxes, and to afford a fair and attractive return to investors, the latter safeguarded by a marginal surplus large enough to justify confidence that it will not fail on account of any merely temporary industrial depression. Nothing less would satisfy Senator Cummins' statement of this guiding principle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Few Reasons in Favor of the Restoration of the Original Policy of the General Government in Relation to Railroads Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Few Reasons in Favor of the Restoration of the Original Policy of the General Government, in Relation to Railroads A few thoughts upon the justice and policy of returning to the policy stablished by the United States Government, in relation to railroads, luring the last year of General Jackson' 8 first term of service, may not it this time be thought inopportune. The Presidential election has been held, and its agitations, so unfriend y to a calm survey of a subject like this, will not be revived for some rears at any rate not during the present. Neither the owners of railroads, nor the owners of rail mills, during be present lull in the political atmosphere, can now combine, with Presi lential candidates, to procure a sinister result by sinister political means. K fair examination can now, if ever, be had. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The American Railway Reports Vol 4 written by John A. Mallory and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Railway Reports, Vol. 4: A Collection of All Reported Decisions Relating Railways Entemd uccordlngto act of Congas, in the you 1875. 0 Br john A. Mallory, In the once of the Librarian of Congress. At Washington. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.