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...Charles A. Prouty of the Interstate Commerce Commission gave a most enlightening lecture in Emerson A last evening on "The Freight Rate...
...Prouty explained how great and far reaching an effect the freight rate had upon the development of natural resources, the increase or restraint of trade and industry, and even upon the lines along which modern civilization shall advance. This may be shown by a concrete example. The rate from Chicago to New York is less than from intermediate points to either terminus. The result is that producers are forced to do business at railroad centres. A decision of the Commission to change this condition would alone do much in the interest of humanity by withdrawing the impediment to rural industrial...
...Charles A. Prouty, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, will lecture on "The Freight Rate in Business and in Politics" in Emerson A this evening at 8 o'clock. This will be the second of a series of lectures on business subjects of general interest...
...Elliott became general freight agent for the four roads of the Burlington system and five years later he was advanced to the general managership of the system. Since 1903 he has been in his present position...
...LECTURE. "The Freight Rate in Business and in Politics." Hon. Charles A. Prouty, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C. Emerson...