LIST OF WITNESSES. Adams, Alton D., electrical engineer, Boston, Mass.. Adams, Charles Francis, former chairman Massachusetts railroad commission, Boston, Mass Page. 275-285 824-830 Adams, Henry C., statistician Interstate Commerce Commission, Ann 373-387 636-652 72-85 Anderson, George H., secretary Chamber of Commerce, Pittsburg, Pa Barter, Henry C., secretary-treasurer International Longshoremen's Bemis, Prof. Edward Webster, of the Bureau of Economic Research, 306-317 86-103 777-816 Bethell, U. N., general manager New York Telephone Company, New Bryant, John W., secretary Steamboat Captains and Owners' Exchange, 387-400 Chandler, Albert B., chairman of the board of directors Postal Telegraph Company, New York. 193-206 Childs, James E., general manager New York, Ontario and Western 496-508 Clark, Thomas F., vice-president Western Union Telegraph Company, 206-241 Davant, James S., commissioner of the Memphis Freight Bureau, Memphis, Tenn.... 5-8 Dunlap, Samuel C., general manager Cornelia and Tellulah Falls Railroad, Gainesville, Ga. 1-4 Fitzpatrick, Val, third vice-grand masier Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, United States and Canada, Columbus, Ohio. 830-841 Fleming, Henry S., secretary-treasurer Anthracite Coal Operators' Association, New York City. 535-542 Foote, Allen Ripley, editor Public Policy, Chicago. 103-123 Fuller, H. R., national representative of National Brotherhood of Railroad Employees, Fifty-sixth Congress, Beaverfalls, Pa Griffith, Charles D., representative Denver Chamber of Commerce. Greene, Thomas L., vice-president Audit Company of New York, New 8-72 467-495 848-858 611-626 Guillaudeu, William Leggett, president Old Dominion Steamship Company, New York City.. 442-451 Haddock, John C., independent anthracite coal operator, New York City. 521-534 Hall, Edward J., vice-president and general manager of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company 817-824 Harris, Joseph S., former president Reading Company, Reading Terminal, Philadelphia, Pa 596-611 Hayne, Daniel H., general solicitor Merchants and Miners' Transportation Company, Baltimore, Md. 413-425 Hitchcock, Romyn, civil engineer, New York City 890-896 Howes, Osborne, secretary Boston Board of Fire Underwriters, Boston, 700-718 Jackson, James F., of the Massachusetts State Board of Railroad Commissioners, Fall River. 841-848 Langley, James Mcrton, representing the Merchants' Association of New York, New York City 859-883 McLeod, Archibald A., former president of the Reading Railroad, New Markham, M. C., assistant traffic manager Illinois Central Railroad and Penje, William, secretary Lake Seamen's Union, Chicago, Ill Rice, Isaac Leopold, president Consolidated Rubber Tire Company, Ripley, Prof. William Z., professor of economics, Massachusetts Insti- Lindenberger, F. T., chairman committee on hostile legislation Ameri- Parsons, Prof. Frank, president National Public Ownership League, 317-360 652-686 561-576 425-442 718-731 123-193, 883-890 400-412 241-265 732-743 285-306 266-274 Saward, Frederick E., editor The Coal Trade Journal, New York City.. 508-520 769-777 576-596 Stubbs, J. C., third vice-president of the Southern Pacific Company, San 757-769 Talcott, T. M. R., assistant to the president Seaboard Air Line, Richmond, Va. Teisberg, A. K., secretary State Railroad and Warehouse Commission of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn. 626-636 360-373 Thomas, E. B., president Erie Railroad Company, New York City. 548-560 Walter, Alfred, president Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, South Bethlehem, Pa 543-548 743-757 Wheeler, William R., representing Pacific Coast Jobbers' Association, Wilson, Edward P., secretary various Ohio commercial organizations, 687-700 Woodlock, Thomas F., railroad editor Wall Street Journal, New York City 451-467 INDEX OF TESTIMONY. (References give names of witnesses and pages of testimony-not in digest. For Accidents (see also Employers' liability; Relief department; Safety appli ances): Appliances, defective, as cause Comparison of railways, in different countries. Audit and examination, difference between Page. Fuller, 41 Accounts of corporations: Balance sheets, proper items to be published, discussed Parsons, 153 Fuller, 41 Greene, 481 Greene, 492, 493 Greene, 493 Greene, 479–482. 483, 489-494 Accounts of public and quasi public corporations (see also Uniform public accounting) auditing, in England. Accounts, public: Examination of, in Wyoming Public regulation, importance of Bemis, 93 Bemis, 93; Foote, 104 Bemis, 91 Uniform system of, for public and quasi public corporations advo- advantage of requirement by Interstate Commerce Commis- Age limit, Railroad employees, injustice of Greene, 480 Barter, 309-317 Griffith, 856 Agreements of railroads (see also Community of interest; Pooling): Railways, extent and advantage of system Transcontinental freight rates, nature of Wheeler, 749; Stubbs, 764 Agreements between telegraph companies, effect on rates Alabama, telegraph service in Alabama Great Southern Junction Railway Co., relation to South- American Merchant Marine. (See Merchant Marine, American.) Relative cost of building Page. Howes, 705, 707, 708 Howes, 705 American Telegraph Company absorbed by Western Union Telegraph Company Roberts, 272 American Telephone and Telegraph Company. (See also Telephones.) General system described.. Wages paid Bethell, 783, 784 Western Union Telegraph Company, relations to Lindenberger, 320-325 American Union Telegraph Company, absorption of, by Western Union Clark, 220-221; Roberts, 272 Allotment of tonnage between railroads discussed.. Bethell, 793-795 Bethell, 794-796 Woodlock, p. 451; Desire of railroads to increase their proportions. Result of gradual development, not of agreement Stearns, 590 Harris, 602 Thomas, 550, 554 Harris, 601, 602 Greene, 469, 470; Childs, 501, 502; Saward. 510, 512; Cars, discrimination in supply of, discussed Central Railroad of New Jersey, purchase by Reading Company Children, employment at mines... Woodlock, 451, 453; Greene. 468; Reading's purchases forced by competition Coke, competition of Colorado, deposits in Haddock, p. 523 Saward, 519; Griffith, 857 Combination and community of interest among railroads- Absolute ownership not sought Attempted, 1893 Consolidation, desirability of. Legal difficulties encountered by Control of future supply... Anthracite Coal-Continued. Page. Woodlock, 452; Greene, 468-471; Saward, 517, 519; Haddock, 534; Wal- Competition not destroyed by Childs, 502 Haddock, 530-531; Stearns. 586, 587; Harris, 609; Rice, 738 Proportion of railroads and traffic controlled by. Stearns, 586, 587 Childs, 502, 504; Saward, 512, 513, 516; Walter, 545 Conditions of mining in different regions Increase Greene, 472, 474; Saward, 515; Fleming, 540; McLeod, 565, 566, 567,570; Harris, 602, 606, 607 Delaware and Hudson Railroad, relation to other companies Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroad. Electricity, competition of... Erie Railroad, combination with other companies. Haddock, 528 Harris, 608 Woodlock, 451, Greene, 470 Thomas, 552, 553 Greene, 475; Haddock, 521; Thomas, 552, 553; McLeod, 572; Stearns, 589 New England Ton rates. per mile Percentage of tide water price, chiefly determined by Relation to prices. Reasonableness discussed Greene, 470 McLeod, 561, 562 Haddock, 523, 532, 534; Thomas, 549 Various points Western shipments.. Gas and other products, competition of. Childs, 496 Stearns, 583 McLeod, 570 Independent operators, discrimination against, in supply of cars, dis- cussed Haddock, 524-526, 532; Fleming, 536, 537; Different positions of different classes of operators. Number decreasing Haddock, 521, 522, 527, 532 |