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Railway Library, The 1910 Second Series A collection of noteworthy addresses
The Railway Library 1910 Second Series A collection of noteworthy addresses and papers, mostly delivered or published during the year named 456 Pages EX-Library Book Binding edge and front cover loose.
75th anniversary of the first German Railway, needs of the railways, railway accounts and statistics, automatic signals on German Rys, prevention of railway accidents, The Pennsylvanias New York Station, Edward H Harriman, railway mail pay primer, much more.
INTRODUCTION
THE reception accorded to the initial volume of The Railway Library for 1909 is the best warrant for the publication of its successor along the same lines. The object of the series, as it may now be safely called, is to preserve in more permanent and accessible form information of current interest regarding the railway problems liable to be lost in the exhaustless stream of newspaper, periodical and pamphlet publicity-in the headlines today, scattered in yesterday's wastebaskets tomorrow.
Following the precedent of 1909, the Library of 1910 opens with a retrospect of American railways condensed from the sketch of the rise and progress of the Railways of the United States written by Mr. Henry V. Poor, for volume one of Poor's Manual for 1868-1869. Mr. Poor was then looking back over the first half of the history of railways on this continent. Looking forward, optimist though he was, his imagination did not quite comprehend the c amazing development of the second period of two score 4:1 years just ended.
Supplementing Mr. Poor's sketch, in a way, is a brief account of the 75th anniversary of the first railway in Germany. Singular to relate, this railway was never extended beyond its projected three and three-quarter miles from Nurnberg to Furth, and is still an independently operated railway.
With these for an historical background, the remaining papers of this issue seek to present the varied aspects of the railway situation in the United States today as reflected in the utterances of men closely identified with what they are writing or talking about.
Easily of first importance in the railway history of 1910 is the finding of ex-Judge Otis, special Master in Chancery in the Minnesota Rate Case, adopted and confirmed by Judge Sanborn in April, 1911. If sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States the priciples of this decision should go far to emancipating the railways from the multiplying vexations of rival regulation by Federal and State authority. It looks as if they might do for the railways what it took four years of civil war to do for the federal government-establish for them the necessary truth that the whole is greater than a part. When states are convinced that interference with railway rates and fares inevitably means interference with interstate commerce, the railways will begin to see daylight amid the labyrinths of state legislation calculated to contract their efficiency and usefulness as common carriers.
The question of efficiency in railway management is discussed from several angles by different writers-that from the employes' point of view voices a protest that no humane system can ignore or silence.
For the reason that it gives the latest data available for the railways of the United States, and also of the world, the annual report of the Bureau of Railway News and Statistics for the year ending June 30, 1910, is included in The Railway Library.
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