Show the history of railways in tills this country wiltes al E ingalls in tile engli ebig ii ri in ering vering magazine shows the progress i honiss of the anglo saxon race drobai lily I otter better than an thing else that ills tory records greater than any lily conquest ot of leri atory more important than any other step in civilization has beety the progress of the railways in the last fafty years an illustration of this progress gres are tile the statistics published by the ili road kold ko ld which lili lil i its ell t annial stalls tics bics were vre not noi so ao ell k kopi pl in ili early lay day as now but lit in 1852 this load reported ali lt it II had c ined 1101 jo tons toils of freight one nille mile nt t an average rate of cuts cents err ton loll per mile la in ishri 1 I reported teJ lila toils ions of freight one title niilo tit nt tile hie late of sli 56 cent per mile nothing like this lu in the allory of tho 4 development of the race hal lia ever licen known alio power of stearn steam lias has athabel tit alio dolid nore in fifty years thau all el elar billat illat lild alid ben bell in till fifty preceding ent uiles the near ear 1605 irs as says mr ing ingalls In gills AN mhd th turning point lit the management of rall wais in this country L up p to tint time ilme disponet dis honet t and illegal ea aro were the lie rule even the enters inters corn con more laws did not put pill an ail end to aliu ill pernicious systems oystein sy stein of rate cutting dis etc probably it ii writes i a worse of if affairs never existed in fit ro ferciK to a large busl bli ine neo than that which prom lied adiong rallans rall ns lu in the eaily part of 0 A ine eting of of the lines between the river and ill ahe atlantic ocean and north ot of the hie ohio and Poto niao 0 o was held in ili now new borc irs in tune june of th that tt car at which v bleb the libit steps of a great were ta ken and out of which grew the joint traffic association the re result alt of this thia ila lias leen beell i inee tan jan 1 tariffs have lien ben maintained all over tile the country with mth such uniformity as in all ills his twenty live five ceus of experience in ill inan managing aging railroads raili ralli oads oad mr ingalls Ingi ills ll 11 lias Is nevee known the present duty of 0 rall ra li way companies Is to bee bec that tills this lc it nent Is fiade permanent if this reform movement Is it not cairned on it if a return Is made to the methods of the two ears ending junr juno M 10 lh those of us mr ing ingalls alli ell engaged aged in this profession would lose the alie respect of our bels anil and of our fellow citizens 1 ind I lid doi lily so |