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...Light-Keeper" by R. M. Lovett, composes the entire fiction of the number. It is simply told, and very vivid, but whether wittingly or not it is remarkably like Kipling's "Disturber of Traffic." If it were more original, it would be less uninteresting...
...into the hands of the State police, because no mayor could remain in office there and appoint police unless he was subservient to the liquor dealers. All saloon keepers have to give bonds that they will not break the stringent laws enacted against the liquor traffic. Two years ago more than half of these bonds in Boston were held by sixteen men. The shops direct the politics of those who frequent them, and these sixteen men in turn direct the politics of the shops. They thus control the local politics of Boston, and constitute an oligarchy far more dangerous...
POSTPONEMENT.- Harvard Finance Club. The lecture on the management of railroad traffic, by Mr. Mills, advertised for the 16th, has been postponed to Monday, April 20th, at 7.30 in Sever 5. Notice change of place and date...
...yesterday afternoon to consider the propositions of the crews submitted after the meeting of the representatives in this city on Sunday. The committee was favorably impressed with the fairness of the demands, which have reference chiefly to what the railroads should do in return for the amount of traffic the college events furnish them. The Board of Trade committee is, of course, in no position to make contracts involving an expenditure of money-in fact, all it can do under the circumstances is to invite a future meeting of representatives from the railroads, and see how far the desires...
...books put it. All the paraphanalia of a railroad the locomotives, cars, etc.- are useless except when in motion. There are two general types of railroads-the eastern and the western, the old and the new. The eastern railroad was built for the purpose of carrying traffic already waiting to be moved, while the western railroad was built for the purpose of creating traffic. The differences in the purposes of building these two types of railroads must be kept in mind to understand the differences regarding stock sharing and stockholders. It is a falacy to suppose that the United States...