The Railway Library and Statistics (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Railway Library and Statistics The issue of the Railway Library for 1911 follows the general scheme of its predecessors in bringing between boards selections from the noteworthy papers and addresses of the year relating to railway subjects. In order to preserve a just appreciation of what American railways have meant to the social, industrial and political life of thus continent, it has been deemed well to present extracts from the experiences of Charles Butler, financier and philanthropist, in making a journey from the East to Chicago in 1833. As a companion picture to this, a brief review of British railways by S. M. Phillp is reprinted from the Railway and Travel Monthly. The contrast between the conditions confronting and inspiring the railway builders of the two countries eighty years ago cannot be overlooked in any study of the railway problems of to-day. In Great Britain, the traffic of a congested civilization awaited transportation; in the United States, transportation was needed to reclaim almost unpeopled territories for the uses of civilization. There the railway displaced other common carriers; here it was the "pioneers of peoples yet to be." Following these retrospects of four score years ago, it has been deemed timely to reprint the first report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, written by Judge Thomas M. Cooley, its first chairman. This remarkable ex-position of the Act to Regulate Commerce, even more than the Act itself, may be said to have indicated the lines along which railway regulation on this continent was to proceed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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