Author: Daniel Willard

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780243154364

Excerpt from An Address by Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Before the Boston Chamber of Commerce, June 12, 1913: Outlining the Position of the Railroads in the Matter of Application by the Eastern Railroads to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a General Increase of Five Per Cent in Freight Rates First of all, the rates wluch were ln effect in 1910 have not in the aggregate been malntained - that is to say, while eertam 1ne1eases have been made durmg that period, decreases have also come about The net result has been, for example, a reduction m the earnmgs of the Baltimme S: Olno Company on the freight busmesshandled by that company m October, 1912, of more than when compared W1th what they would have been 1n October, 1909 In other words, If the same rates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.