Download or read book The Importance of Competition Between Railways Classic Reprint written by Edward Dudley Kenna and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Importance of Competition Between Railways F one will trace the course of a public pol icy that has failed he can usually find the forks at which the wrong turn was taken; therefore, when a public policy becomes in effective, change should be preceded by a search for the causes of failure. To com prehend the conditions which required the Government to commandeer the railways in December, 1917, it is necessary to go back to the beginning of our railways. In that beginning when the railed way was an experiment our Governments, State and Federal, were eager and Willing that private capital should incur all the hazards of its development; and, when its utility was demonstrated, these Governments, being poor, induced investors to build the railways conformably to a public policy under which such investors, incorporated, were not only to build, and, to own, but, also to operatethe railways. Inconsistently, these privately owned and operated railways were declared to be highways. This incongruous arrange ment sprang from the assumption that the rail thoroughfares were to be a substitute for the common highways, which experience had shown might be owned by private corpora tions. Therefore, early railway legislation developed on the general lines prescribed for turnpikes and toll-roads, ignoring that it is not feasible for every person who may own a locomotive and a car to use a rail way in common with other like users. The seriousness of this mistake - which was soon corrected in practice - lies in the erroneous public view of the railway it induced without correcting: the public failed to see that the State was creating a private monopoly. The owners, of course, realized that every one was to have the right to ship and travel over their railways, and the public were aware that they must pay for the exercise of such right; but where men must use a thing controlled by a private monopoly, such as water, light, or a public highway, an nu ending struggle between owners and usersis inevitable. This affords, perhaps, a strong, yet not necessarily a controlling argument, in favor of ownership by the State of all public utilities. However, the need for rail ways grew so fast that their builders were everywhere welcomed as benefactors, and he, who prior to 1870 would have assaulted the basis of their credit would have been re garded as a public enemy. But when almost every town had its railway and earlier needs were satisfied and forgotten, the owners be came as unpopular as absentee landlords. \vhy this happened and to what extent the owners themselves were responsible for the change is not pertinent to the subject we are discussing, which is a study of causes, not an inquiry into the responsibility for their oc currence. 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 Importance of Competition Between Railways written by Edward Dudley Kenna and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Co Operation Versus Competition written by Will Hartwell Lyford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Co-Operation Versus Competition: Between Motor Truck and Railroad Transportation We are accustomed to think of the transportation of goods as divided into four general classes: parcel post, express, less-than carload or package freight (commonly called 1. C. And car-load freight. The essential difference between car-load and l. C. L. Freight is that car-load freight is loaded and unloaded on an industry track or a team-track by the trader, or by some one employed by him, while I. C. L. Freight is loaded and unloaded and passed through a station, at the expense of the railway. Consequently, car-load rates are substantially less per ton than 1. C. L rates, for carrying the same goods. Whether the government. The express company or the railroad company undertakes to transport the goods. The railway actually performs the entire transportation service, except the movement between the premises of the traders and the stations of the railway companies. Such movement is called collection and delivery. Parcel post Is not collected. But is delivered by the government. Express is collected and delivered by the express company. Freight is collected and delivered, not by the railway company, but by the trader or by the owner of trucks or teams, whom we will call the trucker. 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 Combination Not Competition of Railroads Classic Reprint written by Blewett Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Combination, Not Competition of Railroads It may be remarked at the outset that the idea that the earnings of the strong lines must be kept down at all events, is far from com forting to people who have invested their money in the railroad business, and most discouraging to those who are invited to invest new money in it. In one of the recent Treasury Decisions, Honorable David A. Gates had occasion to remark that unless a public utility like a rail road company earned eight per cent. Upon its investment, its stock could not be kept at par - a conclusion which was reached from an examination of many income tax schedules. In an investigation made in connection with the Fifteen Per Cent. Rate Case, the Illinois Central Railroad Company discovered that in the unusually pros perons year ending June 30, 1916, it had in fact received a return on its investment in road and equipment of only The opin ion oi the Interstate Commerce Commission in this case shows that, taking the railroads of the country as a whole, the return for this same most prosperous year for the carriers in the Eastern Dis trict was Southern District and the Western District The net operating income for 1916 is the largest which the railroads have ever had, and was more than but it was less than 6% upon the Value of the railroad property devoted to_2. 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 Competition of Steam Vs Electric Parallels Classic Reprint written by Charles Henry Davis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-25 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Competition of Steam Vs. Electric Parallels As an example of how a steam railroad could adopt the methods of the trolleys, together with some natural advantages the former now have over the latter, we call attention to Ansonla, Derby and Birmingham, a center of to people situated about 10 to 12 miles from New Haven, Connecticut, with a population of to The New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad connects the two centres which have their own local electric street railways; when the steam railroad owns the systems of street rall ways in both towns. Their cars will pick up passengers at either centre, will pass on to the present steam tracks on the right-of-way of the New Haven and Derby Railroad (new York, New Haven 8: Hartford Railroad Company). Run at high speed without stops to the other centre, pass on to the local street railway tracks tnere and distribute its passengers where they desire, all for one fare. Such a system operated by electric motors would be a financial suc cess, where a line like the third-rail between Hartford and New Britain is a failure in the true sense. Many other similar examples might be given, but this indicates 'the future electrical development of our steam railroads to enable their benefiting from the enormous increase in trafilc that is possible to induce by adopting the oper ative methods of our present trolley roads and approaching them in'location, with the added advantage of their own right-of-way between centres of population where higher speeds can be main tained than is now possible on street railways. 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 Railway Pools Their Equity and Public Value written by George Roberts Blanchard and published by New York : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1897 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Select Committee on Foreign Railway Competition Classic Reprint written by Cape of Good Hope South Africa and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee on Foreign Railway Competition The Chairman stated that he, personally, had seen the General Manager of Railways, who had agreed to attend this Committee at am. To-day. 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 Railway Co Operation written by Charles S. Langstroth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railway Co-Operation: An Investigation of Railway Traffic Associations and a Discussion of the Degree and Form of Co-Operation That Should Be Granted Competing Railways in the United States The two essays constituting this monograph on Railway Co-operation were written in competition for a prize Open annually to a limited number of students in the senior class of the Wharton School of Finance and Economy of the University of Pennsylvania. This prize was established in 1896 by Mr. Henry C. Terry, of Philadelphia, in honor of his son, Willis Terry, who died suddenly two months after graduating from the Wharton School. 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 State Purchase of Railways Classic Reprint written by Charles Waring and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from State Purchase of Railways The revival of trade, which has come at last, may Probable relax for a time the strain in the relations between 555113121 the railways and industry. But the conv1ction, tmde° gradually growing into an article of economical faith, that minimum rates of carriage alone will suffice for successful industrial competition with the foreigner, will re-kindle the war upon rates, which will only cease With their reform. There is a disposition to ignore or minimise the dissatisfaction with railway manage ment. Mr. Grierson, in his very able and almost judicial exposition of English and Foreign Railway rates, treats the opposition as sectional and selfish in the main, and he appeals from the clamorous to the silent interests. It is time the appeal should be answered if the silent interests have any position to defend. Silence is assumed to give consent, and judgment will go by default in the absence of a com plete defence. 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 Railway Review Vol 36 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Railway Review, Vol. 36: May 30, 1896 Tee political economy club of the University of Chicago were favored on Thursday evening of the current week with an address by the Hon. Martin A. Knapp, of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Knapp outlined in an entertaining as well as convincing way how the development of railroad transportation had revolutionized the industrial economics of the country, and that while competi tion, so long as it was modified and circumscribed by the cost of transportation over long distances, could not injure and might in some degree stimulate trade, the possibilities of present methods, by which dis tance was annihilated, had altogether changed the situation, and made competition very often a menace to, if not the death oi, trade. Inasmuch as it is hoped to publish this address in full in the near future no extended review will now be made. 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 Railroad Problem written by Walter Wesley Davis and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Facts Concerning Canadian Railway Competition Submitted to the Committee on Interstate Commerce of the United States Senate February 26 1890 Classic Reprint written by Alonzo C. Raymond and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Facts Concerning Canadian Railway Competition, Submitted to the Committee on Interstate Commerce of the United States Senate, February 26, 1890 The alleged reasons for further legislative restriction or regulation of Canadian railroads group themselves as follows. 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 Strategy of Great Railroads Classic Reprint written by Frank H. Spearman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Strategy of Great Railroads Busied with its transportation concerns, the house saw the earliest alignment of those political movements in the United States that resulted in the most stupendous civil con ict Of modern times. They stuck to their ferryboats and their junk rails when Beecher was the pulpit and Greeley and Bennett and Raymond were the press Of this country. While still active in their busi ness they have seen the rise of every existing political party, and they may easily survive the Obsequies of the last Of them as they stand to-day. In the stage-coach and the canal mule they met and overcame the threatening competition Of fifty years ago; and their forces would face to-morrow with equal steadiness a billion-dollar invasion of their railroad territory. They alone, in all the railroad World Of to-day, go back, owners and managers in unbroken succession, Of the tele phone, the cable, and the telegraph. Nor in all that time have they ever wrecked a railroad or maintained a poor one. 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 American Geographical Society of N York and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railroads: Statements and Reflections Thereon: Particularly With Reference to the Proposed Railroad Without a Tunnel, and the Competition for the Line Between London and Brighton Of the three propositions before the Committee of the House of Commons, viz. Sir John Rennie's, Mr. Stephenson's, and Mr. Cundy's, it is irrefragable that the first is inferior to the other two, on account of the great length of its tunnels, and the dangerous steepness of its inclined planes. Including Shoreham, it is 55 9 miles in length, and has no fewer than five tunnels delightful specimens of Tartarus, by way of preparing visitors for the Elysium of Brighton. It presents, besides, 22 undulating inclined planes, of which 6 rise 20 feet per mile, for the distance of 22 miles and 23 chains, and require the power of 1 7 lbs. Per ton to work them 15 miles per hour, or 89 minutes. Another of these planes is 1 mile 60 chains, with a rise of 47 feet per mile, and will require a station engine and a power of 29 lbs. Per ton, to work it 9 miles per hour, or 18% minutes: the whole together making 24 miles 3 chains, or 107% minutes. The remaining 31 miles 37 chains may he travelled at the average of 30 miles an hour, or 634; minutes. 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 Proceedings of the Convention of the Northern Lines of Railway written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Convention of the Northern Lines of Railway: Held at Boston; In December, 1850, and January, 1851 The undersigned herewith present a Report of the Proceedings of the Railroad Convention, held in this city, in December and January last. 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 Politico railway Problems and Theorists written by George Roberts Blanchard and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Science of Railways Vol 7 Classic Reprint written by Marshall M. Kirkman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Science of Railways, Vol. 7 There is no feature connected with the Opera tion Of railroads Of greater importance to the owner, whether it be the State or private parties, than the enforcement Of carefully considered and scientific methods in connection with the expendi tures Of these great properties. This is nowhere so fully appreciated perhaps as in America, for in no other country are expenditures so patiently scrutinized or so intelligently regulated. 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.
