AND INLAND WATER TRANSPORTATION BY EMORY R. JOHNSON, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMERCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MEMBER OF THE ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION, 1899 TO 1904 PREFACE THE discussion of transportation by water naturally divides itself into two parts, transportation upon the ocean and upon inland waterways. Ocean transportation exceeds the traffic of inland waterways in volume and importance, and, for economic and political reasons, merits more detailed consideration. Accordingly, about fourfifths of this volume is taken up with Book I, devoted to ocean transportation. Inland waterways and their traffic are dealt with in Book II. The volume, as a whole, is a treatise on the economics of transportation by water and is intended to be a complement to the author's work on "American Railway Transportation," the first edition of which appeared in 1903. The author is under special obligations to his colleague, Dr. J. Russell Smith, of the University of Pennsylvania, whose valuable monograph on "The Organization of Ocean Commerce" and whose unpublished notes have been of assistance in writing several chapters. The author is also indebted to Mr. Frank L. Neall, of the firm of Peter Wright and Sons, Philadelphia, for preparing the tables of port charges and furnishing the freight shipping papers that are reproduced. Much of the information contained |