Proceedings of the National Convention of the American Cheap Transportation Association

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the National Convention of the American Cheap Transportation Association: Name Now Changed to "the American Board of Transportation and Commerce," Held at Association Hall, Richmond, Va;, Commencing on the 1st December, 1874 At 10 A. M. the Convention was called to order by the President of the Association, Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, who said: Gentlemen of the Convention: - At the threshold of our proceedings, and before entering upon the work of organization, we are asked to listen to words of welcome and congratulation from the Honorable Mayor of this city, and I therefore take great pleasure in introducing the Hon. Mr. Keiley, Mayor of Richmond. [Great applause.] Mayor Keiley, Of Kichmond. Mr. President and Gentlemen: - It falls to my fortunate lot to bid you, on behalf of the municipal authorities of Richmond, a most cordial welcome to our city, and to express on their behalf and that of our people at large a sincere wish that the great purposes you have in view may receive at this Convention an impulse and impetus commensurate with their priceless value. You have convened from many quarters of our common country for the purpose, as I understand it, of seeking a practical solution of that great and most important problem how best and cheapest to bind together, by great highways of traffic, the far-sundered borders of our imperial domain, that the plow-share may touch the cleaving keel, and the fruitful furrow of the prairie farm may be merged in the closing furrow of the sea. Great and benificent as is this design, important in the last degree as it undoubtedly is to the more material ends you have in view, its value in that marketable sense which finds its measure in the statistics of political economy is not its only, perhaps not its greatest, worth. 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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