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GIPE-014131-Contents.Pdf (1.042Mb) THE REORGANIZATION '. ". " .. OF THE AMERICAN RAILROAD SYSTEM, 1893-1900 .A Study if tit, Effiels if"It, Panic if 1893, lite Ensuing D,prmion, and;llte First Years if Recovery on Rai/nad Organization and Financing BY ___ E~~. ~1\1J?BE!-L!_A. ML_ , , Edx~rd Gro~~ Ca~~b811, A. M. l __________ _ SUBMlTl'ED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTSt FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL ScIENCE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY o. 434 in tne .. studies in History, :Economics ..2ublic ~vi.t~ or COlumbia 11ni Yers:i..ty •. NEW YORK 1938 x.t4 It; .7~ .. N ~s 14' 3l COPYRIGHT, 1938 BY CoLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMEIlICA PREFACE ALTHOUGH hundreds of hooks haye been written upon vari­ ous aspects of the history of the American railroad industry, there have been surprisingly few attempts to analyze its financial organization during the last half century. Yet the railway system in this country as we know it today is essenti­ ally different from what it was before the depression of the nineties. During that decade the first great transportation comb~tions were formed, simtiltaneously with the transfer of control over the industry to a small group of bankers. Nevertheless, the depression, per se, had less to do with these changes than might be thought; fundamentally they represented the culmination of trends already well established in the quarter century following the Civil War. It is the purpose of this study to analyze the I.!"ffects of the depression on the railroads. and to trace the beginnings of the new era in financial organ­ ization which had its origin in the depression years. For their willing assistance in facilitating the research for this work, I wish especially to thank the staffs of the Columbia University Library, the New York Public Library, the Harvard College Library, the Interstate Commerce Commission Library and the Bureau of Railway Economics Library. Professor T. W. Van Metre of the Columbia School of Business and Pro­ fessor John A. Krout of the Faculty of Political Science read, the entire manuscript and made many helpful suggestions for its improvement; Professor K;rout also very kindly helped read the proof. Thanks are also due to the many friends who have generously contributed of their time and efforts. Above all I am indebted to Professor Allan Nevins of Columbia University whose invaluable aid has. been liberally granted at every stage of my work. E. G. CAMPBELL. NEW YORK, 1938. s CONTENTS CHAPTER I Post-War Boom Times and Chaos ••••• • ~ • • • •• 9 CHAPTER II Ov~r.. Expansion. • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • •• 30 CHAPTER III Past Mistakes." • • • .•• ••••••••••.•••••••••• 62 CHAPTER IV Scandals ••••••••• • ••••.• -:.. 92 CHAPTER Y Morgan'. Reorganizations. • • .. • • • • • • • • J45 CHAPTER VI The Morgan-Hill Alliance. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 190 CHAPTER VII Harriman's Transcontinentals • • • • • • •• • ••••••••• 217 CHAPTER VIII Prosperity in Depression ., • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 256 CHAPTER IX Small Roads ••••••• • •• ~ • •. • • • • • 303 CHAPTER X Developments During the Depression 319 BIBLIOGRAPHY •• 343 INDEX •••••••••••••••• 357 7 BIBLIOGRAPHY PERIODICALS Commercial and FiffItJnCialChronicle, 18g2-1899, New York City. The Economist, 18g2-1Bgg, London, England. The Evening Post, 1892-1899, New York City. Railroad GtJllette, 11!g2-1899, New York City. Railway Age and N orthwestem Railroader, 11!g2-'IBgg, Chicago, Illinois. RailwtJY Review, 18!)2-1899, Chicago, Illinois. Railway World, i892-iBgg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. United States ItllUesto" 18gB, New York City. Wall Street lournal, 1892-1899, New York City. ANNUALS AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS Appletotls Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year, 1879-1899, New York: D. Appleton and Company. Dictionary of American Biography, edited by AUen Jobnson and Dumas Malone, Ne~ York: Charles Scribner's Sons, '1!)28-1936. Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States, edited by John H. Brown, Boston: James H. Lamb Company, 1900. The National CYcloPedia of American Biography, New York: James' T. White and Company, 1922-1929. Poor's Mcmual of Railroads, 1880-1909, New York: H. V. & H. W. Poor. Who's Who in America, 1899-1900, edited by John W. Leona1"d, Chicago: A. N. Marquis and Company, 1899. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS Report on Transportation Business in the United States at the Eleventh Census, Part I, Transportation by Land (Henry C. 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