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Railway Library and Statistics 1912 Hard Cover Noteworthy addresses and papers
The Railway Library and Statistics 1912
Hard Cover Writing inside front cover, first page, stamp on title page
470 pages Indexed
Copyright 1913
A collection of Noteworthy addresses and papers, mostly delivered or published during the year names. EVOLUTION OF GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL photos - 4 pages of photos
Statistics. Canada's most successful railway year
English Railway Servants
Average pay of German Railway Servants
Are we ready for industrial co-operation
Workings of French State Railways
Australian Railways
Railway Nationalization
They 5000 trespassers are killed yearly
Report on Collision at Coring NY
Safety First
Minesota rate cases
Need of greater railway facilities
Adequate servoice and facilities obligatory
As others see us
James J Hill's great adventure
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FOLLOWING the general scheme of its predecessors, this, the fourth issue of the Railway Library, brings between boards selections from the noteworthy addresses and papers of the year 1912 relating to railway subjects. It opens with a brief excerpt from the special American Railway Edition of the London Times, which refers to the splendid spirit and faith that projected and built the railways of America out into the boundless wastes of a sparsely peopled continent. This is followed by the valedictory of James J. Hill, whose "Life Adventure" spans the period from the days when railways preceded settlers to our own times, when their problem is one of providing adequate transportation for an industrial nation of nearly 100,000,000 souls.
Railway rates and railway valuation naturally occupy a prominent and significant place in this issue of the Library, and so the opinion of Justice Hughes in the Minnesota rate case, although not delivered until June, 1913, finds it appropriate setting amid the railway literature of the preceding year. It is given in extenso, the only omission being the legal citations, which are generally more distracting than illuminating to the lay mind. This opinion should be studied in connection with the findings of fact by Judge Otis and the decision of Judge Sanborn in the case under review, given in the Railway Library for 1910. Although no new legal principle is enunciated, delimitation of state and national authority is set forth afresh with exhaustive perspicacity. The decision of the lower court and the finding of the Master are overruled on the question of valuation.
The railways can bide their time until Congress or the Interstate Commerce Commission puts the federal quietus on state interference with interstate rates ; but the existence of a "railway value" for lands needed for railway purposes will not down at the bidding of courts or college professors. The railway service and facilities which Judge Prouty, in another paper, says are "obligatory" wait upon the "railway value" at every terminal. It is the salt with which condemnation juries season so highly their awards for property taken for public use, whether in rural meadows or crowded city lots, whether measured by the acre or the square foot. It is this "railway value" that James J. Hill has in his mind's eye when he estimates the present and future needs of the railways for greater terminal facilities in terms of billions. It is no more speculative than Galileo's assertion of the Copernican theory.
The illustrated article on the New York Central's new station in New York illustrates how enormous is the cost for modern terminals. for passenger traffic alone ; whereas convenient terminals for freight are the more essential.
The problem of safety in railway operation and service receives attention in several articles. Railway nationalization is discussed in the abstract and in the concrete examples of Australia and France. The remuneration and hours of railway employes in Germany and the United Kingdom are exhaustively treated, and the various angles of compulsory arbitration are set forth in an animated discussion in the "Societd'Etudes Legislatives," Paris.
The latest information available respecting the railways of the United States in detail and of the world in general is furnished in the concluding chapter of the Railway Library.
The index at the end of the volume fairly reflects the comprehensive nature of this issue.
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