Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...force of workmen are erecting the stands and the work is being pushed as much as possible. If it is found that the seats cannot be completed by working by daylight, electric lights will be put up and the work will be carried on during the night. The Pennsylvania Railroad has put in ample sidings for the special trains that will be run in to Princeton on that day. The team has been steadily at work and very noticeable improvement has been made. Suter is being tried at quarter and is doing good work. He will in all probability play...
...view of the great crowds expected at the Harvard-Princeton game and the small railroad facilities afforded at Princeton, the Pennsylvania railroad started on Monday to build extra sidings, which when finished will, together with the main track and the siding south of the station, make room for about 70 cars and 7 engines. The new sidings are being built at the curve west of the Brokaw Field and are to be three in number, two east and one west of the main track. About 80 laborers are at work, and it is expected that the improvements will be completed...
...held at Princeton, yesterday, by the managers of the Harvard and Princeton football teams, to prepare for the coming match. There will be four grand stands which will seat 10,000. No admission tickets will be sold beyond this number. This is done because of the lack of railroad facilities and the poor accommodations for handling a larger crowd at Princeton. Applications for seats will have to be made by blanks, which will be distributed among the Princeton and Harvard clubs within a few days. No applications for seats will be received after 12 noon, Monday, Oct. 28. Arrangements...
...Statutes at Large, Vol. XXIV; Congressional Record, XVIII, pp. 479, 524; Report of Senate Select Comm. on Inter-State Commerce,- Index under "Pooling"; J. F. Hudson, "Railways and the Republic," 194-250; J. Steven Jeans, "Trusts, Pools and Corners," ch. xiv, p. 140; Rorer, "InterState Corporation Law," 289; Redfield, Railroad Pooling in Law of Corporations...
...pooling would be a special danger.- (i) The anomalous combination of corporations which could be brought together by legalized pooling would have more power over commerce than the Congress of the United States.- (ii) From this unrestrained control of business interests dangerous abuses would spring.- (e) It took a railroad pool to perpetrate the Standard Oil Monopoly.- (f) Why should not permanent pooling combinations maintain in the same way discrimination over any and every important industry...