Word: railroading
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...York. Mr. Hayden was born in Boston in 1838 and graduated from Harvatd in 1860. During the Civil War he served as major in the 4th regiment of artillery and at the conclusion of the war joined the regular army. Later Mr. Hayden became connected with a western railroad, then with the Boston and Albany, and subsequently with the Cheaspeake and Ohio. About twenty years ago he was made general traffic manager of the New York Central and Hudson River Road, and for the past few years has been second vice-president of the company. At the time...
Brown, on the other hand, has recently undergone a great improvement and is now in its best form. Early in the season injuries and long railroad trips demoralized the men, but the practice recently has pulled the team together and made it much more formidable than when it met Pennsylvania and Princeton. The record of the team is as follows: Brown 27, Colby 0; Brown 18, Holy Cross 0; Brown 22, M. I. T. 0; Brown 0, Pennsylvania 12; Brown 11, Chicago 5; Brown 5, Princeton 17; Brown 26, Tufts...
...made here only on the basis of average. The United States Census deals only with the statistics of wages relating to manufacturing but even here the method used is faulty and is a makeshift for the correct system, which is impossible of consumtion. The problems of collecting railroad wage statistics are also perplexing on account of the great variety in the grades of labor employed. The railroad managers in giving out their figures have been accustomed to throwing all the grades about a thousand in number, into five classes and giving the average for each class. Henry C. Adams, Statistician...
Three courses of practical work were carried on this summer, an elementary course in plane surveying and two advanced courses in railroad and geodetic surveying. The freshman course, covering the full seven weeks of the period in camp, was spent in running level lines, making chain, azimuth and compass surveys, laying out mining claims, taking soundings, and in plotting the country by the plane table, and transit and stadia methods. Besides the field work a day or two was set aside every week for computing and drawing maps...
...geodetic course, the instruction in railroad surveying was begun and carried on through the remaining four weeks of the period in camp. The ground was divided up among three imaginary railroads and a company of men assigned to each. For each party a captain was appointed who assumed the responsibility for the instruments used in the day's work, and who made daily reports of the progress of his section. Each railroad or section was assigned two miles of country for its track. This was first surveyed and the field notes marked on a map. After estimating the cost...