Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said that first the terms "railroad" and "stocks" need to be carefully defined. A railroad may be considered a property of the nature of a "going concern" as the law books put it. All the paraphanalia of a railroad the locomotives, cars, etc.- are useless except when in motion. There are two general types of railroads-the eastern and the western, the old and the new. The eastern railroad was built for the purpose of carrying traffic already waiting to be moved, while the western railroad was built for the purpose of creating traffic. The differences in the purposes...
...people are no longer neighbors to each other; poverty, want and crime segregate to the lower and more unhealthy portions of the city and it becomes necessary in order to relieve distress to establish relief societies. These societies simply give alms to the people who apply for them and concern themselves very little in any other means of helping the poor. In the last report of the New York society for the relief of the poor, the opinion is strongly hinted that the charitable work done by that body in the last fifty years has done more harm than good...