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GENERAL INDEX 



Railroads — Continued. 



Porto Rlcan II 298 



Postal service, and IV 249 



Power of, vast Ill 54 



Preferential rate law IV 323 



Prime importance of IV 255-6 



Problem, (A. B. Stickney) IV 298 



Problems, early American and 



European IV 237 



Prosperity, depends on popular. . .IV 263 



Publicity, need of IV 225 



Rates, control of (C. A. Prouty). . .IV 348 



Are made, how IV 262 



Constantly increased IV 324 



For staples, need of low IV 225 



Increasing cheapness of IV 241 



Unjust IV 350 



Rebate injunction of 1904 Ill 212 



Rebates IV 334 



Railway regulation, (R. M. La 



FoUette) IV 294 



Regulation, need of IV 310 



Reorganization of, continual IV 367 



Revenues, distribution of IV 231 



Roadmaster, duties of IV 378 



Rochester, and gro^vth of IV 209 



Rocky mountain grades of IV 277 



Russian, and American machin- 

 ery VII 202 



Extension of IV 207 



Safety of travel IV 231 



St. Paul, Minneapolis and Mani- 

 toba IV 287 



Santa Fe built IV 278 



Albuquerque branch of IV 284 



Ownersliip of Ill 333 



Route of IV 283 



Section foreman, duties of IV 379 



Service, American and foreign. . . .IV 213 

 Share holding in different states, 



average Ill 339 



Shops, organization of IV 382 



Siberian, trans, and American 



steel IV 201 



Six great groups of, the IV 329 



Social and economic effects IV 244 



Southern Pacific and Texas 



Pacific, opening of the IV 276 



Route of IV 282 



Speed, American, and other train 



facilities IV 214 



Standard oil. and Ill 53 IV 349 



Manipulated by Ill 173-5 



State, commission proposed IV 313 



States, new and Ill 373 



Were first to control IV 298 



Station agents, duties of IV 380 



Stock and share holders, tables 



of Ill 334 



Average holdings of Ill 336 



Stockholders, number of, increas- 

 ing Ill 337 



Railroads — Continued. 



Suburban homes, and IV 245 



Supreme court on IV 318 



Taxing laws IV 223 



Telegraph lines and IV 481 



Tickets, how handled IV 374 



Threaten industries IV 331 



Time saved by IV 210 



How multiplied IV 245 



Trade unions and VIII 209 



Traffic. British and American IV 240 



Canal and river traffic, statistics 



of IV 239 



Manager, duties of the IV 376 



Increased, rates liigher IV 325 



Train crews, duties of IV 380 



Dispatcher, duties of IV 378 



Transcontinental lines IV 270 



Distances, table of IV 288 



Capital and debt of IV 290 



First needs for IV 274 



First, proposed IV 274 



Routes, earliest IV 274 



Surveys, first IV 274 



Trai;sportation companies, pow- 

 ers of IV 296 



Department, organization of . ...IV 377 



Problem in N. Y IV 452 



Trust breeders, as Ill 53 



Trusts, grew like Ill 83 



Rebates the cause of IV 351 



Union and Central Pacific mili- 

 tary Ill 371 



Vice and IV 245 



Wages IV 327 



Wall street, power of Ill 57 



Watered stock, profits on IV 354 



Western commerce, and Ill 363 



Topography of IV 278 



Who owns the, (Solomon Hueb- 



ner) Ill 330 



Willcox. John B., and IV 234 



Wisconsin commission, causes of ...IV 309 



Earnings in IV 308 



Law of 1903 defeated IV 307 



Law regtilating IV 301 



Rates IV 307 



(See also bridges, commerce, inter- 

 state) 



Railroads (electric) 



Arnold's, Bion. J., predictions IV 447 



Birth of electric traction IV 442 



Commutator, use of the IV 447 



Construction, principles of IV 443 



Electric company, general IV 443 



Growth of, rapid IV 444 



Inventions in VII 139 



Locomotive, the electric IV 444 



Past, present, and future of elec- 

 tric traction, (Frank J. 

 Sprague) IV 442 



