Table of Contents.

RAILWAY POOLS, THEIR EQUITY AND PUBLIC VALUE. By

GEORGE R. BLANCHARD, Commissioner of the Joint Traffic Associa-

tion. (Republished from the New York Mail and Express)......

I.-Governmental and Railway Tariffs.

II. --Competitions Compared.

III.-The Interstate Commerce Act.

IV.

What Railway Pooling Is.

V. Railway Claims to Legislative Relief.

VI. Indorsements of Pooling.

VII. Foreign Railway Rates and Pooling.

THE TRANS-MISSOURI DECISION. By GEORGE R. BLANCHARD.

(Republished from the Forum of June, 1897).....

THE POOLING OF RAILWAY EARNINGS. By ALDACE F.

WALKER, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Atchison, To-

peka & Santa Fe Railway Company. (Republished from the Rail-

way Magazine of March, 1897)...

Page.

THE INDUSTRY OF THE RAIL By E. B. THOMAS, President of

the Erie Railroad. (Republished from the Washington Post of

May 10, 1897).....

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THE PEOPLE AND THEIR RAILWAYS. By E. T. JEFFERY,

President of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. (An address de-

livered before the Annual Convention of State Railway Commis-

sioners, at St. Louis, May 11, 1897).....

AN ADDRESS TO RAILWAY MEN. By E. T. JEFFERY. (Deliv-

ered before the D. & R. G. Department of the Railroad Y. M. C. A.,

at Denver, Colo., March 16, 1897).....

RAILWAYS AND THE PUBLIC. By T. B. BLACKSTONE, President

of the Chicago & Alton Railroad. (Being extracts from remarks

appended to the thirty-third and thirty-fourth annual reports to the

stockholders of the Chicago & Alton Railroad).

RAILWAYS AND THEIR REVENUES. By C. P. HUNTINGTON,

President of the Southern Pacific Company. (Being extracts from

the eleventh and twelfth annual reports to the stockholders of the

Southern Pacific Company).

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RAILWAYS-A RETROSPECT. By M. E. INGALLS, President of the

C. C. C. & St. L. and C. & O. Rys. (An address delivered before

the St. Louis Railway Club)......

RAILWAY RATES AND EARNINGS IN KANSAS. By E. P. RIP-

LEY, President of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. (A

memorial of the A. T. & S. F. Ry. Co. to the Legislature of the

State of Kansas, 1897)...

RATE REDUCTIONS IN KANSAS.—

144

152

I.-A letter by E. P. Ripley addressed to the Board of Railroad

Commissioners of the State of Kansas, May 28, 1897......... 162

II. A letter by W. H. Truesdale, Vice-President of the Chicago

Rock Island & Pacific Ry., addressed to the same board..... 168

BY JAMES

ON TWO-CENTS-PER-MILE PASSENGER RATES.

CHARLTON, General Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago & Alton

Railroad. (Being an address delivered before the Senate and

House Committees on Railroads of the Illinois Legislature, at

Springfield, Ill., March 31, 1897)......

THE RAILWAYS OF ILLINOIS. By DWIGHT C. MORGAN, En-

gineer of the Illinois State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Com-

missioners, with diagrams. (Republished from The Railway Age

of June 4, 1897)..

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AN ARGUMENT ON THE TWO-CENT-FARE BILL. By W. C.

BROWN, General Manager of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Rail-

road. (Delivered before a joint session of the Legislature of Mis-

souri, at Jefferson City, Mo., on January 31, 1893)...

PASSENGER FARES IN IOWA. By W. W. AINSWORTH, Secretary

of the Iowa State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners.

(Republished from the Iowa Capital of February 6, 1897)........ 224

THE RAILWAYS OF GEORGIA. By FRANK WELDON.

I. Railway Rates Keep on Falling. (Republished from the At-

lanta Constitution of April 11, 1897)......

II.-Wages and Rates Fall Together. (From the Atlanta Con-

stitution of May 9, 1897)...

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240

III. Railway Rates and Capital. (From the Atlanta Constitu-

tion of May 16, 1897)...........

247

ARE AMERICAN RAILWAY RATES TOO HIGH? By H. T.

NEWCOMB, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. (Republished

from the Engineering Magazine of June, 1896)......

THE RAILWAY PROBLEM. By LLOYD BRYCE. (Republished

from the North American Review for March, 1897).....

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266

THE PLIGHT OF THE RAILWAYS. By ROBERT P. PORTER.

(Republished from the New York Sun of January 21, 1897.)..

BUSINESS INTERESTS AND THE POOLING BILL. By ROB-

ERT P. PORTER. (Republished from the New York Commercial

Advertiser of February 4, 1897).....

THE SCALPING OF RAILROAD TICKETS. BY GEORGE H.

DANIELS, General Passenger and Ticket Agent of the New York Cen-

tral & Hudson River Railroad. (Being an argument delivered be-

fore joint committees of the New York State Legislature, at Albany,

March 10, 1897)....

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293

THE LIMITATIONS OF GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION OF

THE RAILROADS. By JOSEPH NIMMO, JR. (Republished from

the New York Independent)...

305

THE TRANS-MISSOURI DECISION.-

I. Opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the Trans-

Missouri Freight Association case..

II.--Opinion of the dissenting Justices in the same case..

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366

THE RATE-MAKING POWER OF THE INTERSTATE COM-

MERCE COMMISSION. (Being the full text of the opinion of

the U. S. Supreme Court in the case of the Interstate Commerce

Commission [appellant] vs. the C. N.-O. & T. P. Ry. Co. et al.).. 398