Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ninety-seven won the fall class race which was yesterday rowed over a one mile course between the Harvard Bridge and the Longwood Railroad Bridge. The start was made under the Harvard Bridge about five o'clock. Ninety-five showed from the start that she was not capable of the pace which '96 and '97 set and immediately fell behind, finishing some four lengths behind both the other crews...
There will be an exhibition of lantern slides in Boylston 9 at 7.30 tonight. Either a set of views along the route of the Great Northern Railroad or a selected set of World's Fair slides will be shown. The public are cordially invited...
...Government ownership is practicable. - (a) Has endorsement of practical railroad men: Lewis, p. 190 - (b) Fair trials in foreign countries have shown its practicability: Lalor III, 502. - (1) Experience of Belgium and Germany: Wm. Larrabee, The Railroad Question, p. 409. - (2) No fair trial in France and Italy: Quar. Jour. Econ., I, 453 (July 1887). - (c) Extension of service would bring about civil service reform...
...JAMES and V. H. MAY.Best general references: Hadley's Railroad Transportation; The Railroad and the State in Methods of Social Reform; Compendium of Transportation Theories; Hudson's Railways and the Republic; Kirkwood, Railway Rates and Government Control; Acworth, Railways and the Traders...
...functions of a Railroad are to give, - (a) Satisfactory transportation to the public, i.e. - (1) Cheap rates. - (2) Efficient service. - (3) No discrimination. - (b) Fair return on capital invested: J. D. Potts in Railway Review June 4, 1892; Hadley in Scribner's Magazine...