The Railroad Builders; a Chronicle of the Welding of the States
The Railroad Builders; a Chronicle of the Welding of the States
Moody, John, 1868-1958
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The only wonder is that the management succeeded inkeeping the system intact and apparently solvent so long as it did. The receivership at once adopted a vigorous policy of improvement. The rolling stock had run down until it could not handle even ordinarybusiness. While the company had been depleting its credit and paying outall its cash in dividends, the equipment had been going into the scrapheap. For two years the receivers made large expenditures on equipmentand roadbed, borrowing money fo...r this purpose; the result was thatwhen, in 1898, the courts surrendered the property, it was in splendidcondition to take advantage of the tide of commercial and industrialprosperity which was just then beginning to flow throughout the UnitedStates. While the reorganization of the Baltimore and Ohio was not so drasticas that of many other systems which went through the courts during thisperiod, it was thorough enough to meet the situation. The fixed chargeswere cut down radically and the stockholders were assessed in largeamounts.
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