Nomination of Louis D. Brandeis Volume 2; Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-Fourth ... Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Cour
2012 · 752 pages
2012 · 752 pages
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... An enormous interstate and foreign traffic passed over each of these systems between, to, from and through these common points. A heavy Interstate movement of passengers and freight between Boston, New York, and Intermediate points passed over the combined rail and water route of the New York & New England Kailroad Company. A similar movement between the same points passed over its rail lines to and from its connections with the New Haven Company lit Willimantic, Hartford, Hawleyville, and Danbury, and some to nnd from Its connections with the New York Central and other roads at Brewster, Newburgh, and Fishkill Landing. A large volume of similar traffic passed over the lines of the New York & New England Railroad Company between New England points and western and sftuthorn points by way of its connections at the Hudson River and New York City (pp. 32-33). There was potential competition between the two companies for all the interstate nnd foreign traffic above described, and substantial actual competition for the greater portion of it. For several years previous to 1895 the competition between them for interstate and foreign traffic, particularly that moving between New York and Boston, was keen, and the New Haven Company resorted to the following, among other, unfair means to embarrass and harass the New York & New England Railroad Company and interfere with and suppress this competition: In 1888 the Housatonic Railroad Company operated lines extending from New Haven and Wilson's Point to Pittsfield, passing through Danbury and Hawleyville, there connecting with the New York & New England Railroad Company. The Housatonic Railroad Company and one of its lessors, the Dan-bury & Noricalk Railroad Company, with the New York & New England Railroad Com...
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