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\n# COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:                                               \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:           5mm  \n 1:7   \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nIB  \nREDUCTION RATIO:_  \nDATE FILMED:                  3-6-97  \nINITIALS:         MS  \nTRACKING\\#:                                                                                                21182  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \nill    ra2起  \n\n| ADDRESS  \u003Cbr>TO THE  \u003Cbr>New England Association  \u003Cbr>of  \u003Cbr>Railroad Superintendents  \u003Cbr>at the  \u003Cbr>South Station Restaurant  \u003Cbr>by  \u003Cbr>HOWARD ELLIOTT  \u003Cbr>Chairman of the Bonrd  \u003Cbr>and Presldent of  \u003Cbr>THE NEW YORK,NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD  \u003Cbr>RAILROAD COMPANY  \u003Cbr>BOSTON,MASS.OCTOBER 31,1914   |\n| --- |\n\n3022305  \n71,s22Hcm  \nMr.Vice-President and gentlemen of the Associationit is really a very great pleasure to be with you to-nightand I thank you for asking me to come.  \nIt is very pleasant to be with some railroad men,and meet those who are so important to the welfare ofthe railroads for which they work,because you of theTransportation Department,the Maintenance of Way,and Mechanical Departments,touch the railroad in animportant way.Under your direction,through you andby you,the railroad dollar very largely is paid out.Toquite a large extent you meet the public and you are alsoconfronted more directly than others with the great hu-man problem of labor,which is so diffieult in these mod-ern days,and which requires so much care in handling.  \nChangedWemeet to-night facing a conditionin theConditions.New England transportation world whichis very different from that of a year ago,and it may be of interest to you to recite briefly someof the changed conditions,because the year has been anepoch-making one in New England railroad history,andto a certain extent,in the railroad history of the UnitedStates.  \nWhether it was right or wrong to attempt to makeone great,comprehensive piece of transportation ma-chinery to serve the people of New England is not nowa debatable question.A unification,such as was at-tempted,might have been a very good thing if efficientlyorganized,well administered and wisely regulated—butthe publie authorities,or some of them,and public opin-ion were against the plan and it did not come out right.  \nNew England'sA year ago there were something overTransportation14,000 miles of track all supposed to beMachine,controlled and directed by the New HavenCompany,and that great piece of trang-portation machinery had more than 3,000 locomotives,  \nover 8,000 passenger train cars and 80,000 freight cars.Thatequipment if strung together,would stretch out 750miles,an enormous piece of machinery,and the cars andengines ran nearly 100,000 miles every hour of the day.  \nWell,for various reasons that great piece of machin-ery got to grinding,and as you well know,there was dis-turbance and frietion and dislocation,and finally some-thing had to be done about it.You might ask why it didpot work,and possibly there were a number of reasonswhy it did not work,all of which has a bearing on whatwe,as individuals,should try to understand in our duty toour respective corporations.One reason,perhaps,for thefailure was some extravagance and unwisdom in handlingthe railroad dollar,and that brought eriticism,some of itjust and some of it unjust.Another reason was failureto serve the public and meet publie sentiment,and toprovide a sufficient measure of loeal self-government.Here is my good friend,Mr.Todd,who lives down inMaine and has a nice railroad;he is the only man in theroom,I think,to be congratulated because he is earninga dividend.The rest of us are not in that happy posi-tion.But Mr.Todd has had elose local self-government,and that has been helpful.Of 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