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]