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Grandly as we parade ourselves, in the presence of the country and the town, I prefer the more modest, back-street entrance of the railroad.
A short march brought us to an open space, with the railroad in plain sight, only about two hundred yards distant from the turnpike.
The railroad strike was reported as curtailing shipments in some sections, but generally the effects of the strike were not noticeable in the markets.
During the course of a conference, the railroads claimed that the old law allowing an excess fare to be charged had not been abrogated.
The railroads of the country alone require to-day sums of money equivalent to the working capital represented by all our bountiful harvests of 1912.
McPherson, young and brilliant, whose splendid star is in its zenith, firmly holds his exposed lines along the railroad between two valleys.
I was turned out of the cars, bundled into an omnibus, and driven off through the streets to the station of a different railroad.
The circus detective follows behind, scrutinizing faces and figures, conferring with railroad officials and approaching by easy stages the local police station.
For example, a tax on the earnings of railroads and manufacturing businesses could be levied without apportionment, and it would produce a large revenue.
The roll was still a pretty large one, although he had paid his own and his cousin's railroad and steamboat fare out of it.
He seemed a little groggy, but he trotted off, conscious, perhaps, that railroad trains cannot be routed by the rhino's traditional method of attack.
He was a lawyer by profession, but at that time held a salaried position in a railroad company, and when he died, of course our income ceased.
I could have described the commencement, progress, and completion of the Pacific railroad, and the wonderful energy and unfailing resolution of its constructors.
The State in its early history was sparsely populated, and stood very much in need of railroads for the development of its resources.
This they did, concealing the money about their persons, and then hiding the valise in a corn field which skirted the railroad track.
Luckily for Morgan, railroad trains did not get under way as quickly in those days of hand brakes and small engines as now.
Groups of cheering men clutched the squirming, protesting railroad owners and their friends, and bore them on sturdy shoulders to the waiting train.
There is not a railroad embankment in the world that has been built long enough for such immense trees to have had time to grow.
When that railroad across the Isthmus is finished, to help emigration, I look to see a big city here, and a harbor full of ships.
The Filipinos could be heard all night busily tearing up the railroad track and destroying a bridge a few hundred yards from us.
Before the railroad came the pasture lands were renowned among the emigrants, who recruited their stock after the wearisome journey across the plains.
At one time it was said that fifty thousand sledges were rushing toward the railroad as fast as horses, dogs and reindeer could drag them.
The lobby which represents the railroad companies at legislative sessions is usually the largest, the most sagacious and the most unscrupulous of all.
The hundreds of millions of wealth so suddenly accumulated by our railroad monarchs is the measure of this iniquitous taxation, this perverted distribution of wealth.
The management of the railroad offers special inducements for would-be investors to see the country, and special rates should they conclude to settle.
A mammoth flour-mill, among other structures, was nearly completed; it was located very near to the wharves, between them and the railroad station.
Here I began to encounter some difficulties in the way of guards and sentries which were placed about the railroad bridges and at the cross-roads.
Southwest of the yard, where the river breaks sheer into the bottoms, there hived and still hives a colony of railroad laborers, Russians.
I chose a railroad police force for my preliminary experience, and I would recommend a similar choice to other beginners if the opportunity is favorable.
In two cases the mother became a victim of painful menstruation after a railroad accident; gin drinking, to relieve this, followed and became a habit.
New trails are cut, settlements spring up, and presently a branch railroad comes along, and the rancher can sell everything he can raise.
And I tumbled down the two flights of stairs and sprinted for the railroad yard, reaching the round-house not one half-second too soon.
He was a smallish man, with a reputation for keenness and sagacity in railroad affairs, second only to that of Jay Gould or Daniel Drew.
By the use of all these means, majorities in the interest of railroad companies are secured, or such strong minorities as will prevent unfriendly legislation.
These pioneers, who had braved the hardships of homestead life had felt that without the railroad they were indeed cut off from civilization.
All these things were a fearful burden upon a national railroad structure that was from the beginning inadequately equipped for a proper handling of them.
We have seen in a previous chapter how easily the efficiency of a single railroad may be thwarted by permitting it to grow to an untoward size.
This last certainly would include the constant study of a far better correlation between our steam railroads, our highways, and our inland waterways.
It was situated on the line of the railroad that had just been constructed, and was of a more permanent character than the preceding ones.
Spaces are left between the ends of rails on railroads so that when they expand in summer they will not distort the track.
Thus increased exactness is given to the time on all our railroads, increased safety is obtained, and great loss of time saved to every one.
A good many stories were told, most of them by Tiffany, who had run the gamut of railroading, north, south, east, and west.
The two men shook hands the sculptor turning into a dingy restaurant, the artist walking rapidly in the direction of the railroad station.
Railroads are superseding canals, and it is not likely that any such improvement of the water-way will be attempted during the present generation.
Cars of all sorts are manufactured by the Pullman company, which owns and operates the dining and sleeping cars on most American railroads.
I have not attacked any of their railroad trains, because I have no ammunition for my carbines, and they are pretty strongly guarded with infantry.
The railroads of the United States are entitled to both confidence and relief because they have not abused their trust in the matter of capitalization.
Four hundred and twenty men started as a regiment from the turnpike fence, of whom two hundred and forty reached the railroad cut.
The railroad belongs to the shareholders; and has not everybody a right to ask the highest price he can get for his wares?
Next morning, I took an early train for Wilton, a flourishing town situated at the intersection of two railroads, in the interior of the State.
My natural disposition in discussing railroads and the public is to growl, while, if I understand your officers' wishes, I am here expected to "purr."
By this arrangement the railroad company gets for the land all that it was entitled to under the terms of the original grant.
Their farm was a small piece of the sloping bank, and was in appearance exactly like a section of sandy railroad embankment grown to weeds.
Those Frisco steamboat men got together and started a rate war against the railroad; they hauled freight to Dawson by way of St.
The results of all these successive discoveries and innovations, aided by the facilities of transport afforded by canals and railroads, are truly astonishing.
When the magazine had been put in her hands she received it with glad complacency, supposing it to be a gift from the railroad corporation.
Every mill, every dock, every railroad station, every bridge, every skyscraper is but a development of the work of the Greeks and Romans.
The railroad is managed by the Government, that poor overburdened Government that tries its best to carry the great weight put upon it.
Despite his zealous interest, difficulties of transportation, poor roads, distance from the railroad, slow method of travel, all conspired to prevent significant development.
The modern method of the large central with its immense sphere of influence, necessitates that the railroad be thoroughly equipped and efficiently managed.
Railroad facilities and steamboat accommodations have been granted at reduced rates and an able corps of speakers will be present and participate in the meeting.
A great brushing of clothes and final completion of toilet, performed generally on the car platforms, precede their departure from the railroad yards.
It contained three suits of overalls such as are worn by railroad men, blue trousers and a sort of blue coat; they were not new.
The money lavishly poured out for the building of railroads was almost wholly public money drawn from compulsory taxation of the whole people.
The return trip along the highways and railroads of the littoral was made to detect signs of any new enemy activity on land.
It is not merely violating a railroad rule to cross the track, but it is against the criminal law and punishable by a jail sentence.
Familiar names of great ocean steamships, of large commercial companies, and of important railroad systems, increase the news value of stories in which they appear.
With a long reverberating rattle one of the mine cars dumps its load down a metal chute into a car standing on the railroad tracks.
Bliss's point of view about the famous case was evidently that of the railroad office, tinged with a blithe sporting interest in a legal scrap.
I may say, however, that it began with the nationalization of telegraphs, expresses, railroads, mines, and all large industries operated by stock companies.
Harry had come to relieve him of the heavier and more burdensome part of his practice, a railroad pushed its way across the mountain wilderness.
The union loggers who really dug the grave declare, however, that the interment took place at a desolate spot "somewhere along a railroad track."
The farmer must sell his produce, the manufacturer his manufactured article, the railroad its transportation service, wholesale and retail distributors their merchandise.
In the summer of 1894, a great railroad strike, centering at Chicago, occasioned an outbreak of violence, which the governor of Illinois did nothing to quell.
In the other parts, often rough and mountainous, where stood primeval forests of the finest woods, the railroads made good use of the timber.
Physical or sense defects which often accompany advancing years, and which would not disqualify a man in other occupations do so in railroad work.
It would be silly, of course, actually to specify the number of "travelers and bystanders" used in a scene at a railroad station at train time.
A feature of the bill is the proviso that government control of the railroads shall not continue more than twenty-one months after the war.
Communist commissaries, no longer required at the front, are being detached from their regiments and sent to stimulate production endeavor in industries and railroads.
One day while he was selling his wares at the railroad station, a train of cars approached unnoticed and passed over both his legs.
All this time he was revolving in his mind his pet project of building a "sleeping car" which would be adopted on all railroads.
Fifteen years ago it became evident that railroads would soon, in every part of the kingdom, supersede to a great extent the old highways.
I believe surveys were made earlier than that, but bribery and corruption and "graft" enabled the friends of transcontinental railroads to stop the canals.
If the land in the way is subjected to any new servitude, like an elevated railroad or telegraph or telephone lines, they are entitled to damages.
Ralph stretched himself luxuriously, as he rested after the turmoil and labor of what he considered the most arduous day in his railroad career.
It is doubtful whether any contrivance connected with railroad management ever threatened to subvert long-established principles of the common law more completely than this.
Blunders in legislating about railroads, and absurd expenditure in making them, are a far greater public detriment than they may seem at first sight.
For as the day went on, and he met no one, saw no cabin or the long-looked-for railroad tracks, discouragement and anxiety beset him.
Suburban trolley lines offer advantages over both boats and railroads, and often take one quite beyond the crowded settlements to spots of real beauty.
He is usually densely ignorant, often a wanderer, working to-day with a railroad gang, to-morrow on some city works, the next day picking cotton.
He told them that the white men were building a great railroad, and in a month their workmen would be in that virgin country.
Beecher a good place on a railroad, over which I had some control, which he filled admirably, and built a new house to let to him.
What did people want with railroads, when a majority of the loudest talkers had earned no more than three dollars apiece since the war?
Besides, he was tired; he had started before daybreak from his shack, but when he reached the railroad the moon was on the rocks.
It seems, at all events, well that our States keep up their boards of health, and their supervision of banks, railroads, steamboats, and factories.
He had never traveled on anything faster than the little narrow-gauge railroad train that wheezed along at about ten or fifteen miles an hour.
It is one of the evidences of the constant bettering of the American railroad, the steady effort to bring it to an economical and scientific basis.
One kind of danger to which the mails were exposed before the days of railroads and steamboats, namely, highway robbery, is now almost unknown.
Said I to the foreman, thinking he might be the forerunner of a building gang who were to build a town here or extend the railroad.
Our railroad and steamboat system will greatly facilitate the offering of children to the river, with the further advantage of offering the parents too.