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INDEX

Adamson Bill, object and effect of, 235-239.

Aliens, value of, in railroad work, 74 ff.

American Railway Association, cooperation of, with government, 211.

Arbitration, compulsory, 240, 258; in wage disputes, 57 ff.

Architectural problems in relation to increase of passenger traffic, 107 ff.

Atlantic coast, service of railroads in defense of, 192.

Automobile: effect of the, on railroad traffic, 134 ff.; as a freight feeder of the railroad, 158; operated on railroad tracks, 151.

Branch-lines and their relation to automobile competition, 142; opportunities neglected by railroads, 152, 156.

Canals, advantages of, to railroads, 176.

Capital, 4; relation of, to earnings, 17;

Conductor, efficiency of the present-day, 45.

Cooperation of public vital to railroads, 179.

Cost of living, how influenced by railroads, 6.

Droege, John A., 211, 214.

Efficiency, 12, 15; relation of, to economy, 13.

Eight-hour day legislation, 220, 236, 257.

Electricity as motive power, 105, 125, 129; advantages of, 113 ff.; in Boston, 114; in Chicago, 117; in Philadelphia, 119; to freight traffic, 131; to railroad systems as a whole, 129, 132; to suburban systems, 121; transformation of gravity pull into motive energy, 131.

Elliott, Howard, 179.

Embargoes: cause of, 9; effect of, 15, 159; motor truck, value of, in case of, 160.

Emerson, Harrington, 99.

Employees, number of, in interests allied to railroads, 5; number of, on steam railroads, 5.

Engineer, efficiency of the present-day, 33 ff.

Engineering problems in relation to increase of passenger traffic, 109.

Excess-fare trains, 222, 226; pending inauguration of, on western railroads, 227.

Extensions, difficulty of raising funds for, 26, n.

Freight and passenger traffic, economic difference between, 232.

Freight feeder for railroad, automobile and motor truck recommended as, 158, 162.

Freight gateways as housing places of affiliated industries, 166.

Freight terminals, development of, 169.

Full-Crew Bill, the, 219; legislation regarding, 247.

German railroads, efficiency of, 188.

Government ownership, 259.

Grade crossings, extent of removal of, 20-21.

Grain, cost of transportation of, 8.

Grand Central Station, the, 107, 110.

Gray, Carl R., 179, 211.

Harriman, E. H., 179.

Harrison, Fairfax, 211.

Hill, James J., 19, 21, 179.

Hine, Major Charles, 212.

Holden, Hale, 179.

Hustis, James H., 179.

Interstate Commerce Commission, effectiveness of, 253; enlargement of powers of, 258.

Labor, bonus payments, 97 ff.; brotherhoods, affiliation of labor with, 90; improvement in quality of, 31; relations of organized, with the railroads, 30, 56; unorganized labor, interests and responsibilities of, 62 ff.; wage adjustments between railroads and employees, 56 ff.; wages of, 92 ff.

Labor question, the, 3, 4.

Legislation, conflict of state, 245 ff.

Liquor, opposition of railroads to its use by employees, 31.

Locomotives, number ordered per year, 24, n.

Markham, Charles H., 179, 211.

Mellen, Charles S., 196.

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