Report of the Railroad CommissionerE.L. Freeman Company, state printers, 1894 |
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account at beginning account at end amount of dividend Balance of construction Boston Capital Stock actually cent Central Falls construction account E. L. FREEMAN earnings Ending June 30 engine Floating debt freight brakeman freight cars freight train Funded debt grade crossings Haven Interstate Commerce Commission Jonathan Chace mile of line Miles of track Narragansett Pier Nelson W Number built Number guarded Number of employees Number of locomotives Number of passenger Number of persons number of tons Old Colony Railroad Operating expenses paid in common paid in preferred Pascoag passenger train cars passengers carried Pawtucket persons walking property and assets R. I. Hospital RAILROAD COMMISSIONER Railroad Company Rate and amount rate of fare Rhode Island road in miles Rolling stock account station buildings Stock actually paid struck Surplus after paying Surplus at beginning Total gross debt Total number Total property Total receipts train cars heated Wickford Woonsocket Worcester Division York
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Page 89 - ... to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed...
Page 88 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers, coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 89 - ... not equipped sufficiently, in accordance with the first section of this act, with such power or train brakes as will work and readily interchange with the brakes in use on its own cars, as required by this act.
Page 88 - ... to run any train in such traffic after said date that has not a sufficient number of cars in it so equipped with power or train brakes that the engineer on the locomotive drawing such train can control its speed without requiring brakemen to use the common hand brake for that purpose.
Page 89 - SEC. 6. That any such common carrier using any locomotive engine, running any train, or hauling or permitting to be hauled or used on its line any car in violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation...
Page 88 - An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes.
Page 89 - ... and it shall also be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to lodge with the proper district attorneys information of any such violations as may come to its knowledge.
Page 87 - Congress, a bill (S. 3756) dealing with this subject was favorably reported by the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce and the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and...
Page 89 - July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, until otherwise ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to use any car in interstate commerce that is not provided with secure grab irons or handholds in the ends and sides of each car for greater security to men in coupling and uncoupling cars.
Page 90 - SEC. 8. That any employe of any such common carrier who may be injured by any locomotive, car, or train in use contrary to the provision of this act shall not be deemed thereby to have assumed the risk thereby occasioned, although continuing in the employment of such carrier after the unlawful use of such locomotive, car, or train had been brought to his knowledge.