The Railroad Problem Part 17

Embargoes: cause of, 9; effect of, 15, 159; motor truck, value of, in case of, 160.

Emerson, Harrington, 99.

Employees, number of, in interests allied to railroads, 5; number of, on steam railroads, 5.

Engineer, efficiency of the present-day, 33 ff.

Engineering problems in relation to increase of pa.s.senger traffic, 109.

Excess-fare trains, 222, 226; pending inauguration of, on western railroads, 227.

Extensions, difficulty of raising funds for, 26, n.

Freight and pa.s.senger traffic, economic difference between, 232.

Freight cars, number and condition of, in use, 24; number needed per year, 22, n.

_See also_ Railroads.

Freight feeder for railroad, automobile and motor truck recommended as, 158, 162.

Freight gateways as housing places of affiliated industries, 166.

Freight terminals, development of, 169.

Full-Crew Bill, the, 219; legislation regarding, 247.

German railroads, efficiency of, 188.

Government owners.h.i.+p, 259.

Grade crossings, extent of removal of, 20-21.

Grain, cost of transportation of, 8.

Grand Central Station, the, 107, 110.

Gray, Carl R., 179, 211.

Harriman, E. H., 179.

Harrison, Fairfax, 211.

Hill, James J., 19, 21, 179.

Hine, Major Charles, 212.

Holden, Hale, 179.

Hustis, James H., 179.

Interstate Commerce Commission, effectiveness of, 253; enlargement of powers of, 258.

Labor, bonus payments, 97 ff.; brotherhoods, affiliation of labor with, 90; improvement in quality of, 31; relations of organized, with the railroads, 30, 56; unorganized labor, interests and responsibilities of, 62 ff.; wage adjustments between railroads and employees, 56 ff.; wages of, 92 ff.

Labor question, the, 3, 4.

Legislation, conflict of state, 245 ff.

Liquor, opposition of railroads to its use by employees, 31.

Locomotives, number ordered per year, 24, n.

Markham, Charles H., 179, 211.

Mellen, Charles S., 196.

Military Reserve Corps among railroad men, 212.

Negro, value of the, in railroad work, 73.

Nonunion labor, employment of, 238.

Noonan, William T., 179.

Operation, what it involves, 18.

_See also_ Railroads.

Pacific coast, service of railroads in defense of, 200.

Panic of 1907, effect of, 26.

Pa.s.senger and freight traffic, economic difference between, 232.

Pa.s.senger-mile, statistics of, 17; unit of traffic, 17.

Pa.s.senger rates, increases in, 220; prospects for future increase in, 229, 233.

_See also_ Railroads.

Pa.s.senger service, state of, 25, n.