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Uniform accounting-Continued.
Municipal government, relation to..
Municipal monopolies, necessity for..
Municipal ownership, relation to.
Necessity of

Opposition to, sources of
Prigress, relation to
Public morals, effect on
Public polly, relation to.
Taxation, relation to.
Union Pacine Railroad:
Bond issue.

Reorganization ..

Southern Pacific, community of interests with

United Fruit Company:

New Orleans....

United Gas Company of Philadelphia:

Consolidated Gas Company of New York, relation to
Interests of

United Mine Workers of America:

Demand of anthracite operators. 1901.
Membership in anthracite coal field.........
United States:

Area

Coal mines.

Freight classification, division of .
Population per snare mile

Postal service

Schiff, 776
Schiff, 769
Woodlock, 462;

Wheeler, 746; Stubbs, 764: Griffith, 85

Bryant, 397

Extent of ...

Number of stations in

Trade relations with Canada.

Page.
Foote, 110
Foote, 113
Foote, 109, 110
Foote, 103-123
Foote, 106
. Foote. 109
Foote. 105
Foote, 109, 121.12
Foote, 105, 109

Number of post-offices

Telegraph service and development compared with Great Britain.

Community of interests with Pennsylvania system
Fast freight lines of

Trafic

Valuation of railroads (see Cost of construction; Capitalization).
Vanderbilt Railroad System:

Vessels see also Water transportation):

Merchants and Miners' Transportation Co., inspection of

Vienna:

Telephone system; service; rates.....
Virginia:

Capitalization of street railways in.........

Wages:

Agreements of employers and employees regarding.
Anthracite coal miners....

Clark. 207
Howes. 715.717
Langley, 0
Clark. 27
Clark.
Parsons. 586

Parsons. 185, 886, 887
Clark, 228, 229
Parsons, 6
Howes, 713.715, 716, 717, 718

Hayne, 414, 415, 421-425

Woodlock. p. 464
Wheeler. 753

United States Courts:

No jurisdiction over larceny on State waters.
United States Steel Corporation:

Carnegie. Andrew, relation to formation of
Pacific coast, results of formation of ............
United States Telegraph Company, absorption by Western Union

Telegraph Company...

Bemis. 37
Bemis. 57

McLeod, 576
Saward. 520

Old Dominion Steamship Company's employees.....
Comparison of, in different countries.
Influences affecting...

Labor organizations, advantage in maintaining

Effect on

Lake Seamen's Union. influence by.

Longshoremen, Great Lakes

Uniform.

Michigan Alkali Company.

Coastwise transportation...

Merchants and Miners' Transportation Company's employees

Roberts, 272

Woodlock. p. 462
Nicholson, 724
Nicholson.72*

Hayne, 417, 41×

Bethell. 790-791

Bemis. 89

Fuller. 10
Childs, 499:

Saward, 515, 519; McLeod, 567, 574; Stearns, 593, 584
Penje. 412

Hayne. 415-417
Guillauden. 448. 449
Parsons. 138
Fuller, 71

Fuller. 11

Penje. 401
Penje, 401

Barter, 310, 311

Barter. 315
Bacon, 72. S

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Telephone employees, Amsterdam

Girls, wages of

Ticket brokerage, effect on
Wall Street, meaning of term
Wanamaker, John:

Views on telegraph

Favors postal telegraph...

War Department, alleged discrimination in letting contracts for supplies.

Cotton, effect on rates from Memphis..

Differentials in favor of ....

Operation by small municipalities.
Results of

Private ownership in American cities
Capitalization of private ownership
Study of question in America.

Waybills:

War-revenue tax, evaded by Western Union Telegraph Company.
Washington, D. C., waterworks...
Washington (State), telegraph service
Water power, California, development in.

Water transportation (see also Coastwise transportation; Lake navigation;
Ocean transportation; River transportation):

Davant, 6, 7
Griffith, 855
Guillaudeu, 448

Economies of steamship and railway companies compared...

Passenger rates, Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Co. Hayne, 419, 420
Railways, effect of development, beneficial.
Anderson, 639, 641, 642
Rate cutting due to
Griswold, 614

Watering stock (see Capitalization):
Waterworks:

Defined...

Necessity of uniformity.

Wealth:

Municipal ownership compared with private.. Foote, 111, 112, 119; Parsons, 146

Cost of..

Bemis, 88
Foote, 120
Bemis, 97

Bemis, 97
Bemis, 88
Bemis, 96, 97

Fuller, 71

Fuller, 11
Penje, 412
Penje, 401-409

Clark, 217, 223, 224; Roberts, 270, 271
Chandler, 200
Chandler, 205
Chandler, 206
Chandler, 200
Chandler, 205
Chandler, 200

Bethell, 795, 796
Parsons, 883
Fuller, 71

Schiff, 776

American sources of

Concentration of, effect on opportunities for advancement

Consolidation, effect on

Western classification:

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Defined

Diffusion of, as affected by Government ownership.

Increasing

Material, relation to civilization.

Western cities:

Competition with Eastern cities for Southern trade

Competition with New York..

Western States:

Page.

Bryant, 395-397
Bemis, 95
Fuller, 71

Fuller, 11

Character

Committee, advances made by
Territory of

Parsons, 888
Hitchcock, 891

Alkali products, freight rates on

Classification disadvantages of lack of uniformity

Wheeler, 756
Roberts, 272

Foote, 113
Clark, 208
Wheeler, 752

Nicholson, 729
Nicholson, 728, 729

Schiff, 777
Anderson, 649

Schiff, 777
Parsons, 123
Parsons, 157, 158

Schiff, 777
Parsons, 123

Markham, 439
Langley, 859

Stubbs, 763
Langley, 860
Langley, 860

Bacon, 80
Bacon, 80

Western Union Telegraph Company:
Absorption of other companies
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, relation to
Assets

Associated Press, relation to.
Bell Telephone Company, relation to
Capitalization.

Excessive

Cost of maintenance
Discriminations denied

Distances, misrepresentations of

Dividends

Employees

Clark, 217, 219, 226, 227

Clark, 213, 221; Randall, 243, 244; Roberts, 267, 272
Parsons, 185, 186, 889, 890; Randall, 242, 243
Clark, 215, 216, 221
Clark, 228; Randall, 257
Parsons, 187; Roberts, 271
Clark, 216, 226; Roberts, 270

Clark, 217
Roberts, 269
Parsons, 188, 189
Hitchcock, 89
Clark, 217
Clark. 231

Clark, 216; Roberts, 370

Clark, 207
Parsons, 191.888
Roberts, 266

Clark, 228, 229

International Ocean Telegraph Co., relations to
Inventions, policy toward new

Randall, 243
Clark, 228-229
Parsons, 189, 190, 888;

Clark, 229; Randall, 249-251, 253; Roberts, 270; Hitchcock, 891, 893
Investigations of, by several States
Parsons. 185.186
Labor organizations-established iron-clad oath
Roberts, 269
Policy toward.
Parsons, 190, 191; Clark, 223; Roberts, 269, 271
Messages, statistics
Clark. 216
Randall, 246, 247
Randall, 244
Parsons. 191

Newspapers, tyranny toward

Policy in business

Politics, connection with.

Postal Telegraph Company, relation to

Profits....

Clark, 229
Roberts, 270
Parsons, 190, 191

Clark, 223
Parsons. 190.191

Clark, 226
Roberts, 269

Clark. 207
Clark.
Roberts, 272

Black list established by
Efficiency
Policy toward
Wages of

Enterprise of, illustrated

Expenses

Excessive

Railroads, relation to

Service, inefficiency..
Stockholders.

Extent of system.

Distribution of franks..

Government ownership, admission of, in respect to
United States Government, relations to

Growth

Strikes

System, method of division.
Terminals, value.

War-revenue tax evaded by

West Virginia:

Coal mines..

Street railways, capitalization of
White Star Line, loss of steamers.
Whole-cargo business defined.
Wicker, C. M., testimony of....
Wine, California, condition of industry
Wisconsin:

Page

Clark. 220, 221; Roberts, 272
Bethell, 812
Clark, 213, 226
Randall, 247,248

Lumber interests

Street railways, capitalization of

World markets, effect of competition of, on freight rates.
Wyandotte, Mich., freight rates on alkali products from
Wyoming:

Auditing of public accounts.

Counties of, on cash basis

Expenses in

Public indebtedness
State examiner..

Howes, 715–717

Bemis. 89

Howe, 704
Howes, 701

Parsons, 126, 127
Wheeler, 753

Howes. 718
Bemis. 88.89
Thomas, 551,552
Bacon, 72-76, 80, 81

Bemis, 93; Foote, 104, 111

Foote, 108
Foote, 107

Foote, 107, 108
Foote, 104-111
Foote, 108

Taxation, reduction of.

Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railway, its relation to Illinois Central

Railway.

Zurich telephone service

Markham, 441
Bethell, 789

INDEX OF REPORT ON RAILWAY REGULATION.

Accidents:

Investigation of Canada.

New South Wales
United States

Report of England
United States.
Advisory councils:
Advantages
Prussia

Switzerland

Various countries

Anti-scalping laws (see Ticket brokerage).
Articles of association:

Term defined..

Japan

United States, contents of
Significance of

Austria, general statement

Automatic couplers, United States..

Baggage, Canada

Banking, affiliation with railroading, early charters, United States...
Bells, United States

Bills of lading, United States.

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United States, early charters.
Issue of stocks and bonds
State regulation

Cattle guards. United States

Civil service examination system, railway employees, New South Wales
Classification of freight:

Canada..

Prussia.

Switzerland

Classification of railways:

Advantages.
Foreign

France

Prussia

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France.

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Railroads not subject to laws of
Water, influence recognized, Canada
Connection facilities, United States.
Constitutional provisions

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