1.65 2.25 36.4 Cwt. 1.50 1.90 26.7 Cwt. 1.45 1.90 31.0 Cwt. 1.75 2.00 14.3 Track Tools-- Axes Doz. 8.00 9.00 12.5 Drills Each 0.35 0.46 31.4 Ratchets Doz. 5.13 6.65 29.6 Shovels Doz. 5.00 5.65 13.0 Lamp Bars Each 0.52 0.65 25.0 Waste-- Colored Lb. 0.047 0.055 17.0 White Lb. 0.06 0.08 33.3 Wheels-- Car Each 5.60 7.80 39.29 Each 6.00 8.35 39.17 Each 7.50 9.30 24.0 Each 4.78 8.46 76.9 Each 4.50 9.00 100.0 Each 6.75 8.00 18.5 Each 6.50 9.00 38.5 Each 6.00 9.05 50.8 33-in Steel Each 50.00 56.00 12.0 Each 42.50 44.50 4.7 36-in. Steel Each 42.50 50.50 18.8 Each 54.00 60.00 11.1 Wire-- Barbed Cwt. 1.70 2.50 47.0 Iron Cwt. 1.50 2.20 46.7 Copper Lb. .13 .26 100.0 Lb. .13 .18 38.5 FOOTNOTES: [E] A partial list of the articles in each class in 1807 which are still in the same class, as shown by Official Classifications Nos. 16 and 32, is given in Appendix A to Mr. McCain's pamphlet. There were approximately 3,000 various articles bearing the same classification or rating in 1908 as in 1898. [F] Appendix C occupies pages 89 to 95 of Mr. McCain's pamphlet. [G] Appendix D occupies pages 96 to 101 of McCain's pamphlet. [H] Details from which the table was derived are given in Appendix E to Mr. McCain's pamphlet, pp. 102-106. THE RAILROADS AND PUBLIC APPROVAL BY EDWARD P. RIPLEY, President Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company. Address delivered at the annual dinner of the Railway Business Association, New York, November 10, 1909. Circumstances over which I had no control caused me to be born with a distinct inability to think consecutively, or talk coherently, in a standing position and before an audience.