When that master mechanic returned to his shop interests, his vision had been broadened, and he was more alert to protect the company’s interests when riding over the road. The sponsors for the new system deny that this may lead to the neglect of an official’s own special responsibility. They point to the superintendent as a balance wheel to maintain proper equilibrium. Over two years’ experience has led the high officials of the Harriman lines to lay some stress upon urging the assistant superintendents forward rather than holding them back. The tendency has been to settle back in former grooves. As long as no harm is done, those who avail themselves of their new opportunities are becoming more valuable assets both for themselves and for the company.
When a division is reorganized, the persons concerned are assembled to listen to a lecture by Major Hine. To their great astonishment, he usually leaves town the same evening. He takes the position that the system which depends for its success upon the presence of any individual is a system which the company has no business to adopt. He says, “We have pushed you off the bank. Now swim ashore.” They all do. On the next visit of his grand rounds, the instructor often finds his pupils beating him at his own game. Dropping in one day at the headquarters of a large division on the coast, he found the senior assistant superintendent and the old master mechanic in frequent conference. The senior assistant tossed a letter over the desk, and asked, “Did Jim here need to write this letter?” “It looks good to me,” said the instructor; “what is the matter with it?” “You told us,” said the interlocutor, “that one record in this office is enough. I handled a letter this morning from the mechanical assistant telling the foreman to repair this outfit car. Now I get another letter this afternoon about the same thing.” “You are dead right,” said the major; “you fellows will soon have me worked out of a job.”
The old master mechanic caught the spirit of the occasion and said: “Yes, Jack, you caught that one, but there were two just like it this morning that you didn’t catch. Next time I won’t have to dictate them.”
There then is efficiency through organization—the playing of trumps in the developing science of railroading. Other railroads have been watching the reorganization plan upon the Harriman system with critical eyes, and can find nothing but success in its workings. It is paving its own way, and shouldering itself abreast of a railroad generation that figures not in lines of from five hundred to a thousand miles each, but giant systems of grouped lines that may easily stretch their steel cobwebs for fifteen thousand miles—over whole sovereign States, from ocean to ocean—properties whose management calls for a degree of skill not yet demanded in the very greatest of our industrial or manufacturing corporations.
The old order changeth and giveth way to the new.
INDEX
Acworth, the English economist, [330], [331].
Adams, Alvin, [371], [372].
Adams, Maude, [293], [294].
Adams Express Company, [371-373].
Adams & Company, [372].
Ade, George, [303].
Advertising, railroad, [276];
bill for newspaper, [288];
open territory, [356].
Agricultural schools maintained by the railroads, [360], [361], [363].
Air-brake, [42], [125], [134], [249], [250].
Albany, bridge at, [14].
Albany & Syracuse Railroad, [371].
Algomah Central, [417].
Algomah, ferry, [415].
Alleghany Portage Railroad, [11], [12], [48], [149].
Allen, Horatio, [5], [6], [7], [8], [119].
Altoona shops of Pennsylvania Railroad, [12], [61], [154], [394], [395-398].
American bridge-builders do work of world, [74].
American Express Company, [372], [373].
American Locomotive Company, [126], [127].
“American Notes,” Dickens, quoted, [11].
Anchor Line, the, see [Erie & Western Transportation Company].
Ann Arbor railway, [416].
Arabian, locomotive, [120].
Armstrong, Col. G. B., [377].
Ashtabula, Ohio, bridge disaster, [61].
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, [2], [32], [126], [127], [358], [386], [429].
Atlantic City, [367], [368].
Atlantic City Railroad, [127].
Atlantic Coast Line, [127].
Atlantic type of locomotive, [127].
Baggage, handling of, [93];
duties of baggagemen, [251], [252];
use of baggage-car, [322], [323].
Baldwin, Matthias, [122], [123].
Baltimore, railroad connections of, [10], [11], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19];
tunnels in, [49];
stations in, [96], [436].
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, [2], [9], [15-23], [41], [49], [58-60], [64], [65], [77], [96], [120], [126], [132], [139], [144], [376], [377], [394], [421], [427], [436].
Baltimore & Potomac R. R., [20].
Bangs, Col. George S., [377], [378].
“Bends,” cause and treatment of, [68], [70].
Bergen Tunnel, [318].
Bessemer, Sir Henry, [61].
Best Friend of Charleston, locomotive, [8], [120].
Big Muddy River, Illinois Central’s bridge over, [78].
Big Four, [27], [418].
Binghampton, N. Y., [81].
Black Diamond Express (Lehigh Valley Railroad), [286].
Black River Road, [217].
Blair, Postmaster General Montgomery, [377].
Blizzards, fighting of, [268-275].
Boards of directors of railroads, [156-158].
Bollman, —, designer of bridges, [61], [63].
Bonds, railroad, [36], [37].
Boston Elevated Railway, [428].
Boston, in 1831, [9];
railroad connections of, [10];
Josiah Perham’s excursions to, [29];
stations in, [88], [95-99], [313], [319], [320], [384];
suburban traffic of, [98], [99], [319].
“Boston Special” (New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad), [384].
Boston & Albany Railroad, [60], [77], [98], [106], [136], [370].
Boston & Lowell Railroad, [9], [10], [96], [98].
Boston & Maine Railroad, [1], [98], [319], [320], [333], [384], [437].
Boston & Providence Railroad, [95], [370].
Boston & Worcester line, [10], [124], [370].
Brakeman, duties of, [248-250].
Brandeis, Louis, [451], [452].
Brandywine Viaduct, [77].
Brennan, Louis, [442], [443].
Bridge-builders, personality and nationality of, [72-74].
Bridges—
at Albany, across Hudson, [14].
first across Mississippi, [28].
building of, [42], [56-79].
at Trenton, across Delaware, [57], [77].
at Springfield, across Connecticut River, [57].
of timber, [57-60], [62-64].
at Waterford, across Hudson River, [57].
Permanent Bridge, across Schuylkill River, [58].
of stone, [58], [59], [76], [77].
Starucca Viaduct, [58].
Thomas Viaduct, [58], [59], [76].
of iron, [60], [61].
of Rider design, [60].
B. & O. Monongahela River, [60].
Ashtabula, [61].
of steel, [61], [62], [76], [77].
at Portage, over Genesee River, [62].
forms of, [62-64].
through span, [64].
deck span, [64].
over Susquehanna River, between Havre-de-Grace and Aiken, [64], [65].
at Cincinnati, over Ohio River, [65].
suspension, [65].
cantilever, [65], [66].
over Kentucky River, [66].
Minnehaha, at St. Paul, [66].
over Niagara River, [66].
over Frazer River, [66].
at Poughkeepsie, [66].
personality of builders of, [72-74].
over Pend Oreille River, [73].
on line of Rio Grande & Western, [74].
replacing of, [75], [76].
Roebling’s, at Niagara Falls, [75].
at Steubenville, Ohio, [75], [76].
over Hackensack River, [76], [206], [207].
of concrete, [76-79].
Brandywine Viaduct, [77].
Pennsylvania, over Susquehanna River, [77].
New Brunswick, over Raritan River, [77].
over Florida Keys, [78].
at Slateford, Pa., [78].
over Big Muddy River, [78].
at Washington, D. C., [78].
Moodna Valley, steel trestle over, [143].
at Towanda, Pa., [144].
first steel bridge in America, [144].
across the Delaware, [367].
Brilliant cut-off (Pennsylvania Railroad), [148], [149].
Britton, H. M., [269].
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, [88], [96], [97], [154], [320], [440].
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, its care for employees, [427], [428].
Brooks plant, Dunkirk, [127].
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, [423].
Brown, George, [16].
Brown, W. C., [167], [168], [362].
“Brown system,” see [Demerit plan].
Bryant, Gridley, [6], [132].
Buffalo & Attica Railroad, [27].
Buffet sleepers, [307], [309].
Burlington, see [Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R.]
Burr, Theodore, [57], [63].
Burwick, J. M., [420].
Cab, use of, [123].
Caissons, their use in tunnel-construction, [52].
in bridge-building, [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71], [77].
Calvert Station, Baltimore, [96].
Camden Station, Baltimore, [96], [436].
Camden & Amboy Railroad, [10], [121].
Campbell, Henry R., [122].
Canadian Pacific Railway, [2], [32], [141], [142], [406], [414], [417].
Canals, [4], [5], [9], [13], [34], [35].
Car-ferries, [416], [417].
Car-inspectors, duties of, [402], [403].
Cars, storage of, [89];
cleaning of, [90];
construction of, [132];
platforms and vestibules of, [134], [135], [308];
use of steel for, [135];
“foreign cars,” [389].
Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, [17].
Carter, C. F., quoted, [24].
Cascade Tunnel, [436], [437], [441].
Cassatt, A. J., [160], [166].
Cathedral Mountain, the spiral tunnel under, [142].
Cattle, shipping of, on railroads, [328], [329].
Central Pacific Railroad, [30], [31], [32], [45], [357].
Central Railroad of New Jersey, [2], [313], [412].
Central Vermont, [333].
Charleston & Hamburg Railroad, [8], [123].
Cheney, Benjamin F., [372].
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, [2], [10], [16], [18].
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, [2], [127].
Chicago City Railway Company, [177].
Chicago Fast Mail, [189].
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, [3], [32], [300], [313], [356], [358].
Chicago-Montreal flyer, [414].
Chicago, railroad connections of, [27];
Northwestern station at, [88], [101], [106], [321];
La Salle Station at, [101].
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, [3], [28], [364], [386].
Chicago & Alton Railroad, [144], [300-304].
Chicago & Northwestern Railway, [3], [27], [28], [313], [356], [386].
Chicago & St. Louis Express (West Shore Railroad), [265-267].
Chief clerk, duties of, [220].
Civil War, railroad building during period of, [19], [20];
might have been averted by railroad development, [35].
Claim-agents, [174-179].
Cleveland stations in, [96], [418], [419].
Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad, [418].
Coal, handling of, [13];
as a freight business, [108], [109], [126], [339], [342];
substituted for wood as a fuel, [124];
mining of, [340].
Collinwood, Ohio, the Lake Shore’s plant at, [394].
Columbia & Philadelphia Railroad, [12], [122], [401].
Commuter, the, [311];
his use of rapid transit, [313-324], [327], [384].
Competition among railroads, [355].
Complaints of public in regard to railroad service, [290], [291].
Conductor, duties of, [250], [251].
Consolidation, locomotive, [124], [125].
Construction work of railroads, [454].
Cooper, Peter, [17-19], [120].
Coöperation of railroads, [328].
Cornell University, agricultural school at, [360].
“Corridor trains,” [134].
Cowan, John F., [22].
Crede, the English railroad town, [393].
Crédit mobilier, [31].
Crescent City, the, [299].
Crocker brothers, [30].
Crossings, railroad, [42].
Cumberland, on the National Highway, [16], [19], [394].
Cumberland Valley Railroad, [299].
Daly, C. F., [284].
Daniels, George H., [277].
Davis, Phineas, [120-122].
Davis, W. A., [377].
Davis & Gartner Co., [120].
Decapod, locomotive, [126].
Dee, River, bridge, [60].
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, [2], [44], [78], [88], [102], [145], [313], [315], [317], [385], [412].
Delaware & Hudson Railroad, [1], [5], [119], [126].
Delmonico, the, [304], [305].
Demerit plan, [211], [212].
Depew (New York), shops of the New York Central at, [394].
Detroit River tunnel, [54], [55], [413], [436], [441].
Devereux, John H., [418].
De Witt Clinton, locomotive, [13], [120].
Dexter, Judge, [29].
Dickens’s “American Notes,” quoted, [11].
Dining-cars, conveniences of, [134], [304-307].
Division superintendent, duties of, [187-189], [202-219], [272-275].
Dorsey, John M., [314].
Dresden, Germany, train-sheds in, [103].
Duluth & Iron Range Railroad, [420].
Eagle Pass, [40].
Edison, Thomas A., [432].
Efficiency in railroad service, [449-464].
Eighteen-hour trains, between New York and Chicago, [298].
Electricity, its use in tunnel-construction, [51], [52].
in bridge-building, [70].
substituted for steam, [104], [105], [137], [432-441].
used for lighting, [303], [315-321].
Elevated and subway lines, [440].
El Gobernador, locomotive, [126].
Elkhart, Indiana, railroad shops of the Lake Shore Railroad at, [394].
Embankment, construction of, [44];
largest, [45].
Emigration bureaus, [356], [358].
Empire State Express (New York Central), [285], [286].
Employees, protection of, [176-179], [422], [423].
“Engine sheds,” [390].
Engine wheels, first turning of, in America, [7].
Engineer, duties of, [90], [247], [248].
Engines in yards and roundhouses, [89], [90].
English roundhouse principle, [89].
Enterprise line, the, [405].
Erie Canal, New York State, [4], [13], [14], [15].
Erie, Pa., transfer of passengers at, [14].
Erie Railroad,