Part 45
Mileage by states, 1907, 1908 and 1909, 307
Mileage of American railways, 1909, 306
Mileage, ratio to area and population, 307
Mileage, 1890 to 1909, 308
Miles built in 1890-1909, by states, 308
Mississippi river, first bridge across, 131
Money for improvements must be earned or borrowed, 50
Municipal bodies unfitted for business enterprises, 256
McCain, C. C., on diminished purchasing power of railway earnings, 165
McPherson, Logan G., on transportation charge and prices, 90
National aid for internal improvements, 19
National Board of Trade opposes changes in I. C. Law, 290
National development and the railways, 112
Nationalization, arguments for, 246
Nationalization, arguments against, 247
Nationalization of the railways, 238
Nationalized railways a field for social experiments, 257
New England, early railways of, 8
Nomenclature, changes in, 293
Ores, relation of freight rates to values, 98
Ownership of American railways, 345
Ownership of the Great Northern, 98
Owners of railways not opposed to nationalization, 238
Pacific Northwest, railways of, 45
Panic of 1837, effect on railways, 117
Passenger cars, number, 1902-1909, 317
Passenger service compared with mail service, 151
Passenger traffic, 1909, 346
Passenger traffic, relation of accidents to, 376
Passenger traffic, statistics concerning, 1888 to 1909, 348
Pay, increase in average daily compensation, 334
Pay of British railway employes, 326
Pay of foreign railway employes, 327
Pay roll, proportion to gross earnings, 1899-1909, 325
Pennsylvania R. R. Co., first report of engineer, 21
Pennsylvania R. R. Co., how located, 24
Pennsylvania R. R. Co. in 1848 and 1909, 44
Pennsylvania R. R. Co. owned by 50,000 people, 218
Petroleum, relation of freight charge to price of, 99
Physical valuation and rate making, 83
Physical valuation, Senator Cummins on, 343
Policy of fairness and liberality needed, 62
Popular hostility to the railroads, 212
Postal cars, increasing cost of, 158
Postal cars, pay for, 157
Postal deficit, cause of, 160
Potatoes, effect of freight charge on price, 92
Poultry, freight rates on, 111
Preference, undue, would increase under nationalization, 255
Pre-railway era in America, 5
Pre-railway era in England, 5
Prices and actual rates, 191
Prices, relative, wholesale, 182
Prices, retail, London and New York, 336
Prices, retail, of principal articles, 1890-1909, 382
Priestley, Neville, on American railways, 78
Private capital, dependence on, 87
Private corporations, railway companies are, 207
Private property, railways are, 75
Problems confronting railways, Daniel Willard on, 66
Problems of construction and operation essentially different, 244
Problems, railroad, of to-day, J. B. Thayer on, 211
Property rights involved in fixing rates, 266
Proportion of pay roll to gross earnings, 1899-1909, 325
Prosperity of the country depends on prosperous railways, 115
Public and the railroads, John C. Spooner on, 205
Public approval and the railroads, E. P. Ripley on, 199
"Public be damned," origin of saying, 200
Public control and private ownership, are they compatible?, 204
Public sentiment rules in the United States, 200
Public service of American railways, 346
Rails, their evolution, 132
Railway mail pay in 1899 reported not excessive, 132
Railways, American, are private property, 75
Railways essential to happiness of American people, 205
Railways, situation of, to-day, Frank Trumbull on, 80
Rates before the era of railways, 5
Rates by I. C. C., groups, 1897-1908, 186
Rates, discussion of how made, 272
Rates in United States must be elastic, 277
Rates made to get the business, 74
Rates measured in money, 1897-1907, 184
Rates must fluctuate to meet conditions, 278
Rates, true principle of making, recognized from the first, 43
Raw materials, how rates are adjusted on, 104
Reasonable rates, right to make, fundamental, 265
Rebates past, 202
Receiverships, railway, since 1876, 384
Reduction in railway mail pay not warranted in 1899, 146
Reductions, no, without the right to advance, 280
Relations of railways to the state, 220
Relative cost of mail, freight and passenger service, 152
Refrigerators, freight rates on, 109
Regulate, how shall government, 233
Regulation, cost of, 174
Regulation, cost of, increase since 1888, 385
Regulation of American railways, 300
Regulation, just, welcomed by the railways, 215
Results, comparative, 1889, 1899 and 1909, 295
Retrospect of four years, 80
Returns from mail, freight and passengers compared, 148
Revolution, highways before and after, 8
Right of railways to fix rates recognized, 262
Ripley, E. P., on the railways and public approval, 199
Risk in railway investments, 46
Roosevelt, President, rejects over-capitalization theory, 107
Safety appliances, 320
Safety in railway operation progressive, 116
Safety of American railways, 368
Seattle, James J. Hill at, 45
Senate committee concerning advance in railway rates, 261
Shareholders, number of railway, 345
Ship subsidy criticised, 51
Shippers protected under existing law, 263
Shoes, effect of freight charge on price of, 93
Signaling, development of railway, 122
Smith, A. H., on progressive safety in railway operation, 116
Socialistic aspect of nationalization of railways, 239
Southern products increase in 25 years, 60
Southern railways and their needs, 58
Southern railways crippled by the civil war, 58
Southern railways, mileage of, 59
Spooner, John C., on railroads and the public, 205
Stage line, first, between New York and Philadelphia, 6
State control or state ownership, 228
State ownership by autocracy, 229
State ownership not favored in America, 223
State ownership widely extended, 222
Standard time, adoption of, 136
Statistics of American railways, 1909, 291
Statistics of foreign railways, 386
Steamboat, when first a commercial success, 13
Sugar beets, relation of freight rate to industry, 97
Sugar, effect of freight charge on price of, 97
Supplies, cost of railway, 171-194
Supreme court gives control of rates to carriers, 263
Surplus of freight cars in 1908-1909, 318
Swiss railway employes, number and pay of, 328
Tacoma, James J. Hill at, 54
Tacoma waking up, 48
Taxes, 1889-1909, 363
Taxes, increase, 1897-1907, 174
Terminals, increased cost of, 47
Thayer, J. B., on railroad problems of to-day, 211
Tobacco, effect of freight charge on price of, 96
Tolls on turnpikes, 17
Tonnage, classified, 189
Tonnage, water, at Duluth leads the world, 53
Tracks, all, mileage of, in the United States, 312
Tracks, all, mileage of, in the United Kingdom, 313
Train despatching, 126
Transportation charge and prices, Logan G. McPherson on, 90
Transportation needs anticipated in America, 59
Trespassers, fatalities to, 139
Trumbull, Frank, on railroad situation of to-day, 80
Turnpikes, capitalization of, 16
Turnpikes, the early American, 10
United Kingdom railways, statistics of, 389
Valuation, physical, 343
Vastness of railway industry, 118
Wages, effect of increase on C. B. & Q., 69
Wages, railway, in the United States and abroad, 76
Wages, railway employes, 1897-1907, 166
Wages, railway, per day, 1897-1907, 167
Wages, railway, 1909, 322
Wages, railway, per day, 1892-1909, 324
Wagon roads into interior of America, 14
Wallace, John F., on needs of Southern railroads, 58
"Watered Stock" discussed by James J. Hill, 46
Watermelons, relation of freight charge to the industry, 101
Wearing apparel, effect of freight charge on price, 94
"What the traffic will bear" misconstrued, 200
Wheat margin between production and consumption, 55
Wheat, the problem of, discussed by James J. Hill, 54
Willard, Daniel, on American railway problems, 65
World railways, mileage of, 1840 to 1909, 392
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