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...John Koren, in his lecture last night on "Wisdom and Unwisdom in Liquor Legislation," said that the trend of the wise liquor legislation of the future would be in the direction of local monopolies, established by local option, for the control of the liquor traffic under stringent restrictions and with practically no private profits...
...future the principle dominating wise liquor legislation must be the elimination of private profits and restriction of the traffic through means of monopolies with an absolute control of the liquor business. This system has the great advantage of taking away the main stimulus to the increase of the business, since it will not yield its profits to private individuals...
...strategic situation that it secured considerable discriminations from the railroads which touched at Cleveland. During the same period, it organized a system of pipe-lines which, with several smaller systems, secured special discriminations from the railroads in 1874. In 1875, when rate wars made uncertain all the traffic upon the trunk lines and broke up the agreement among the pipe-lines, the Standard Oil Company with its pipe-lines was able to exact still greater favors from the railroads entering Cleveland, and by its superior capital, was able to absorb its weaker rivals. . . . Nothing in subsequent years has been able...
...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 of his death Mr. Hayden was a director of about 20 transportation companies in New York City. He was a member of the Union...
There were no lights in the Library after dark on Tuesday, a particularly unpleasant occurrence for those who were doing Library work in preparation for examination. The Gymnasium was also closed for the same reason. Traffic, however, was reinstated during the afternoon...