| Page | | Abuses, old, reformed, | 214 | | Accidents, decrease in 1909, | 371 | | Accidents, effect of freight traffic on, | 378 | | Accidents, fatalities in, since 1888, | 375 | | Accidents on British railways, | 379 | | Accidents on European railways, | 382 | | Accidents, overwork seldom cause of, | 381 | | Accidents, train, causes of, | 379 | | Acworth, W. M., on relations of railroads to the state, | 220 | | Acworth, W. M., testimony before Senate committee, | 283 | | Additional lines, little room for, | 47 | | Advances in railway rates, concerning, | 261 | | African Cape government railroads, | 231 | | Agricultural implements, freight rates on, | 108 | | Agricultural products and freight rates, | 183 | | Air brakes, introduction of, | 119 | | Allegheny Mountains, elevations, | 31 | | American railways by states, 1835 to 1909, | 391 | | Area, number of miles to, in 1869, | 134 | | Australian railways under government ownership, | 221, 232 | | Automatic couplers, | 120 | | Automatic mechanical stop, | 320 | | Automatic signaling, | 124 | | Bacon, Lord, on the necessity of easy transportation, | 5 | | Bananas, relation of freight rate to price, | 97 | | Beaulieu, Leroy, on American railways, | 79 | | Belgian railroads owned by the state, | 220 | | Bills, multitude of, affecting railways, | 68 | | Block signaling, evolution of, | 123 | | Block signals, miles protected by, 1908, 1909, | 320 | | Brewer, Judge, on the right to change rates, | 266 | | British railway commission discussed, | 248 | | British railways, slow growth of, | 243 | | British railways, statistics of, | 389 | | Brown, W. C., on the freight rate situation, | 107 | | Business suit, freight rates on a, | 110 | | Butter, freight rates on, | 111 | | Butter, price of, little affected by freight charge, | 91 | | Canada railways, statistics of, | 388 | | Canals, beginnings of American, | 10 | | Canal construction, revival of, | 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, | [A] with placement at the end of that Chapter. Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. The Table of Contents has been expanded to include the seventeen sections under the 'Statistics' chapter at page 291. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example: employes, employees; pay roll, pay-roll; reconnoissance; asperse. Pg 15, 'would built' replaced by 'would build'.
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