Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Under private ownership and management public interest is made subservient to private interest. - (a) Railroads carried on for private ends alone. - (1) Paralleling: R. T. Ely, Problems of Today. - (2) Speculation: Hadley, Railroad Transportation, ch. 3. - (b) Neglectful of public welfare. - (1) Poor service. - (2) Accidents. - (3) Discriminations: Hudson. The Railways and the Republic, ch. 2, 3, 4. - (4) "Skinning the Road." - (c) Source of corruption in politics: - T.V. Powderly, Arena...
...best means for the government to protect the public must be (1) swift; the strike was doing irreparable damage to innocent people: Forum, Sept. 1894, pp. 5-13. (2) If possible, peaceable. (b) The injunctions were the only means both swift and peaceable. (c) The increasing magnitude of railroad strikes demanded a vigorous legal precedent which should check violence and protect the public: Forum, Sept...
...railroad locomotive experiment and testing station is to be added to the Sibley College curriculum at Cornell, and will be built and in running order by next fall...
...about 500 inhabitants called Ancon. In 1748 the name Lancon was printed on a map of Peru made in France. This was probably a corruption of La Ancon. Ever since this time there have been frequent references to the city in books and on maps. In 1868 the Lima railroad was built through Ancon, and the town at once became of some prominence. Explorations of the old settlement at once began, and have been continued ever since. Even now new graves and interesting relics are constantly being discovered...
...game with Oberlin Monday the University of Michigan baseball team was insulted throughout the game by the Oberlin students and on the way to the railroad station a general row ensued in which a number of students were injured...