Category: History - American
While the prosperity of a country depends largely upon its productiveness, the importance of proper facilities for the expeditious transportation and ready exchange of its various products can scarcely be overrated. The free circulation of commercial commodities is as essentia...
The railroad in America is still in its infancy, both as regards extent of mileage and methods of operation. In 1860 the United States had in round numbers 30,000 miles of road;...
10. CHAPTER X.Railroad questions have become of such general interest that their discussion has become a prominent factor of magazine literature. It is a significant fact that these contribut...
9. CHAPTER X.The cause of the railroad manager has never been without time-servers. Not to speak of those newspaper editors who, for some consideration or another, defend every policy and ev...
5. CHAPTER V.As has already been shown, railroad enterprise met with comparatively little opposition in the United States, for, as compared with the interests certain to be benefited by the...
4. CHAPTER IV.From time immemorial efforts have been made by designing men to control either commerce or its avenues, the highways on the land and on the sea, by a power which law, custom, in...
2. CHAPTER II.In making inquiry into those inventions and improvements which were the precursors of the modern railroad, we meet early the desire to render the movement of wagons easier by a...
1. CHAPTER I.While the prosperity of a country depends largely upon its productiveness, the importance of proper facilities for the expeditious transportation and ready exchange of its vario...
6. CHAPTER VI.The complaint is frequently heard from railroad men that our freight rates are too low, and in support of it the statement is usually made that the greater part of the railroad...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The question might be asked how the railroad companies for many years in succession have been able to prevent State control and pursue a policy so detrimental to the best intere...
13. CHAPTER XII.The Constitution of the United States was adopted nearly fifty years before the locomotive made its appearance. Had the steam railroad been in existence in 1787 and been as impo...
14. CHAPTER XIII.Railroad managers frequently make the assertion that the average freight rates charged in the United States are lower than those usually charged in European countries and that t...
12. chapter I. of the acts of the extra session of the Fifth GeneralAssembly, regranting to the various railroad companies the lands granted to the State by Congress for railroad purposes, provides that "railroad companies accepting the provisio...
7. CHAPTER VII.It is the favorite argument of railroad men, and the writer must confess that he himself formerly believed, that if all legal restraints were removed from railroad business, the...
3. CHAPTER III.In no country in the world has the growth of railroads been so rapid as in the United States. With a population less than one-fifth as large as that of Europe this country has a...
11. CHAPTER XI.The first survey for a railroad in the State of Iowa was made in the fall of 1852. The proposed road had its initial point at Davenport and followed a westerly course. It was pr...