IN RAILROAD REGULATION

The Annals

VOLUME LXXVI

MARCH, 1918

EDITOR: CLYDE L. KING
ASSISTANT EDITOR: E. M. PATTERSON
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: JOSEPH H. WILLITS

EDITOR BOOK DEPT.: C. H. CRENNAN

EDITORIAL COUNCIL: THOMAS CONWAY, JR., A. R. HATTON, AMOS S. HERSHEY,
E. M. HOPKINS, S. S. HUEBNER, CARL KELSEY, J. P. LICHTENBERGER,
ROSWELL C. MCCREA, L. S. ROWE, T. W. VAN METRE,
F.D. WATSON.

PHILADELPHIA

1918

Copyright, 1918, by

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

All rights reserved

EUROPEAN AGENTS

ENGLAND: P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 2 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, S. W
FRANCE: L. Larose, Rue Soufflot, 22, Paris.

GERMANY: Mayer & Müller, 2 Prinz Louis Ferdinandstrasse, Berlin, N. W.

ITALY: Giornale Degli Economisti, via Monte Savello, Palazzo Orsini, Rome.
SPAIN: E. Dossat, 9 Plaza de Santa Ana, Madrid.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD AND BIOGRAPHY...

Page

vii

PART I—RAILROAD REGULATION ON TRIAL

FAILURES AND POSSIBILITIES IN RAILROAD REGULATION

T. W. Van Metre.

1

PART II-WAR PRESSURE FOR ADEQUATE SERVICE

FEDERAL CONTROL OF RAILROADS IN WAR TIME......

Max Thelen.

14

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF CAR SERVICE REGULATION 25

H. E. Byram.

PRECEDENTS FOR

PRIVATE OWNERSHIP AND GOVERN-

MENT OPERATION OF TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.

Delos F. Wilcox.

PART III-PRESENT EFFECTS OF WAR CONTROL OF

RAILROADS

70

GOVERNMENT OPERATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS.... 84

Clifford Thorne.

RAILROAD SECURITY ISSUES UNDER GOVERNMENT OPERA-

TION...

111

Thomas Conway, Jr.

STATUS OF EXISTING RAILROAD LAWS AND REGULATIVE

AGENCIES UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL...

Edgar Watkins.

121