Statement of Hon. W. G. McAdoo: Director General of Railroads Before the Interstate Commerce Committee of the United States Senate, January 3, 1919 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

McAdoo, William Gibbs

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ISBN 10: 1331508398 ISBN 13: 9781331508397

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Statement of Hon. W. G. McAdoo: Director General of Railroads Before the Interstate Commerce Committee of the United States Senate, January 3, 1919

Marked convenience to the public resulted from the utilization of the Pennsylvania Station at New York by the Baltimore Ohio and Lehigh Valley passenger trains.

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Excerpt from Statement of Hon. W. G. McAdoo: Director General of Railroads Before the Interstate Commerce Committee of the United States Senate, January 3, 1919

Very serious conditions of car shortages existed both in the fall of 1916 and in the fall of 1917. In 1916 the situation became so critical that a special investigation was inaugurated by the Interstate Commerce Commission, with the result that under date of December 28, 1916, Commissioner McChord made a report in which he stated that "in some territories the railroads have furnished but a small part of the cars necessary for the transportation of staple articles of commerce, such as coal, grain, lumber, fruits, and vegetables." He added: "In consequence, mills have shut down, prices have advanced, perishable articles of great value have been destroyed, and hundreds of carloads of food products have been delayed in reaching their natural markets. In other territories there have been so many cars on the lines of the carriers and in their terminals that transportation service has been thrown into unprecedented confusion, long delays in transportation have been the rule rather than the exception, and the operation of established industrial activities ha been uncertain and difficult."

In its report of December 1, 1916, the Interstate Commerce Commission, after reviewing the car-shortage situation in detail and telling of investigations into conditions at widely separated points, said:

"Substantially all told the same story of failure of transportation facilities and resulting embarrassment and losses. It abundantly appeared that the movement of loaded cars was in the main and on the whole very slow. The time of movement of grain from Iowa points to Chicago was shown to be as low as two days and as high as twenty-five days, the greater part taking from four to eight days. Serious delays to loaded cars in switching to points of unloading at large terminals and in passing through such terminals out to other cities, explained much of the failure in car service."

I need not recount the varying expedients adopted by the railroads under private control to bring order out of the railroad chaos, none of which was adequate or successful. The railroad executives of the country tried valiantly during 1917 to solve the problem. Most of them patriotically sought to find means of keeping the transportation system functioning. Competitive and private control, however, were unequal to the task.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331508398
• ISBN 13: 9781331508397
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 54
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