[24] Chron. 41:393, 1885.
[25] Cullom Committee Report, vol. 1, Appendix, pp. 237, and 240 ff.
[26] Chron. 45:692, 1887.
[27] The amount of issue was £2,400,000 ($11,678,400) at 4½ per cent, maturing April 1, 1933, and placed through Brown, Shipley & Co. of London. Chron. 36:426, 1883.
[28] Chron. 40:453, 1885.
[29] Chron. 41:555, 1885.
[30] Chron. 43:190, 1886.
[31] The Staten Island Rapid Transit possessed an extensive water front on Staten Island, besides franchises for two ferries from Staten Island to the Battery, New York City. Some trouble was experienced in securing permission to bridge the Kill von Kull between Staten Island and the New Jersey mainland. Congress passed an act permitting construction, New Jersey protested, and the courts upheld the authority of Congress. Stockton v. Baltimore & New York Railroad Co., 32 Fed. Rep. 9.
[32] R. R. Gaz. 19:170, 1887; Ibid. 19:490, 1887. For an account of the Richmond & West Point Terminal Railway & Warehouse Company see the chapter on the [Southern Railway].
[33] R. R. Gaz. 18:49, 1886. Interview with Mr. Albert Fink. A passenger rate war between the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio took place early in 1886, and resulted in the indirect cutting by the former of the pool rate which it had agreed to maintain. Chron. 42:73, 1886.