Vol. XXII. No. 30. Duty of Congress As To National Waterways. A Successful Gasoline Engine. The Conquest of the Missouri. Improved Waterways. Waterway Sentiment Is Growing: Bond Issue is Becoming Favorable. Bond Issues For Waterways. River Gambling Before The War: Some Things That Were, and Some Things That Were Not So-How Fortunes Were Lost and Won in a Single Night. President Taft's Itinerary. Program for the Waterways Convetion. Ernest Gaudard. Two Famous Racers of '70. Success To The New Orleans Convention. The Ohio River Convention. Captain I. M. Mason Seriously Ill. Miscellaneous River News. Practical Talk On River Improvements. Came to St. Louis in '53. Boilers Built By Rohans. Capt. Patten's First River Ride: Sailed on the Wyoming Fifty-nine Years Ago. J. R. Massengale, President of the St. Louis Lumberman's Exchange. Capt. Phil S. Hacker. Capt. Wm. L. Heckmann. Capt. Sol York. St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co. Harry S. Hawes. J. F. O. Reller. A. C. Tindle. Captain D. W. Wisherd. J. H. Gunlach. L. W. Quick. Frank F. Blades. Capt. Mike Williams. Packet Company To Quit. Ohio River. W. H. Thorwegen. Capt. J. Frank Beaty. Captain M. J. Gibbons. The Whiteman Brothers. The Katie (1875). The Ark. Capt. Frank R. Farnsley. Maritime Decisions. Frisco Transfer Engines To Be Built At Clinton, IO. The Natchez. Capt. John E. Luebben. Charles R. Nadal. Edmund Koeln. C. L. Goldsmith. W. C. Lepper. Richard Bartholdt: America's First Apostle of Peace. The President And The Ship Subsidy. Commercial Movements On Rivers and Canals: Report of the Department of Commerce and Labor for the Month of August, 1907, 1908, and 1909. For the Improvement of our Rivers. Monongahela River Notes. Some Reminiscences. Mark Twain's Friend Bixby. New Coal Dump At Cairo. Walk! Late Marine Decisions. Observations From The Bridge. Wharfage And Agency Charges. U. S. Engineers Favor Ohio River. Will Travel In Fine Style., Vol. XXII. No. 30. Extra-long issue devoted to President Taft's Steamboat trip.
Editorials - 38; Killing the New York Barge Canal - By Gordon P. Gleason, 7; Deeper Channels in the Great Lakes - By Francis C. Shenehon, 13; Annual Convention of the Mississippi Valley Waterways Association - 17; Utilization of Our Navigable Waterways as an Economic Necessity - By John M. Parker,19; Water Transportation in the Mississippi Valley - By Hon. John H. Small, 21; The Reconstruction Period and Waterborne Transportation - By Harry H. Merrick, 26; The Relation of Our Inland Waterways to Foreign Commerce - By Hon, Joshua W. Alexander, 28; Methods Through Which Traffic Was Diverted from the Rivers - By Major Gen. Lansing H. Beach, 30; Federal Waterway Control as a Constructive Experiment - By Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, 34; The Needs and Difficulties of River Improvements - By Hon. Cleveland A. Newton, 41; Annual Report of President James E. Smith of the Mississippi Valley Waterways Association - 47; River-Rail Terminals for the Lower Mississippi River - By Liet. Col. John R. Fordyce, 54; The Merchant Marine To-day - By Rear-Admiral W. S. Benson, 55; A Nation Wide Waterway System Advocated - 59; Effect of the War on the Foreign Trade of the United States - 63; Motor Vehicle Traffic Which Required the Use of Cement Concrete Foundations - By W. G. Thompson, 64; Ship by the Port of Erie - By William L. Morrison, 67; Erie Water Works Department - 72; Waterway Transportation for General Electric Company Traffic - By Robert H. Rogers, 75.
Vol. XXII, No. 13. Commercial Movements on Rivers and Canals: Report of the Department of Commerce and Labor for April and Four Months of 1907, 1908, and 1909. Frisco to Enter Paducah. Motor Boat Notes. Engineer Mix's Death.
Vol. XXXIX, No. 27. Includes the program for the Ohio Valley Improvement Association's 32nd Annual Convention in Paducah, Kentucky, which took place on October 11 and 12, 1926.
Vol. XXXIX, No. 27. Announces meeting of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association in Paducah, Kentucky on October 11 and 12 of 1926. Retrospective account of the river career of Commodore F. A. Laidley, the former president of the Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company.
Vol. XXII, No. 1. Includes Lakes-to-the-Gulf convention information, new Japanese subsidies, an article on the sources of great rivers, and other matters related to America's inland waterways.
Vol. XXII, No. 2. Governor H. S. Hadley of Missouri for waterways. In the interest of Capt. William H. Van Schalck of the General Slocum to obtain a pardon from President Taft.
Vol. XXII, No. 4. Mississippi River depths. Notice to masters and pilots regarding post-lights. Appropriations for river improvements. Abolish the quarantine boat.
Vol. XXII, No. 2. Steamer Beaver and George Gardner burnt to water's edge. Department of Commerce and Labor issue complete regulations for the equipment of motor boats.
American Railroad Journal was the premier railroad industry journal of the 19th Century. It was the railroad internet of its day and allowed professional railroaders to learn about new developments in the industry and a forum for publishing news of their own improvements or ideas about railroading. As such, many individuals who became prominent civil engineers wrote articles for this publication
Editorials, p. 38
Waterways --
The Diversion of Trade to Abnormal Channels (Richard Selden Harvey), p. 7
Our Country's Greatest Need - Transportation (James E. Smith), p. 10
Standardized Barges Planned for New York State Canal (Gordon P. Gleason), p. 11
A National System of Transportation (Richard Waterman), p. 14
The Ohio - A River of Commerce (Robert Salade), p. 21
Up Green River to Mammoth Cave (Donald T. Wright), p. 29
Memphis and the Revival of River Traffic (J. Mack Gamble), P. 33
Florida's Highways and Inland Waterways, p. 37
Mississippi Valley Waterways Association Convention, p. 65
Palmy Days of Steamboating on the Ohio, p. 70
Ports and Terminals --
Motorizing Terminals (B. F. Fitch), p. 17
Freight Handling in England as Applied to Our Home Problem (Capt. F. T. Chambers), p. 25
World Trade and the Port of Philadelphia, p. 41
Ports and Harbors of South America, West and North Coast (William A. Reid), p. 47
New Orleans Lead in War Grain in Shipments, p. 64
The Development of Pennsylvania's Only Lake Port, p. 74
World Trade --
Russia, Its Resources and Its Possibilities (John F Wahl), p. 57
Business in Mexico As It Is Today, p. 60
Opportunities for American Exporters in the Argentine Republic (Dr. T. A. LeBreton), p. 59
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Factors Affecting Present Day Prices (Francis R. Sisson), p. 62
Mechanical Conveyors Solve Many Problems, p. 68
High Time to Get Back to the Land, p. 66
Delaware's Unique Highway System, p. 67
Business Elements Which Govern Chinese Trade, p. 72
A Reporter's Vision of Presque Isle Peninsula (Paul Trescott Robarts), p. 35
Vol. LVIII, No. 1. Article about displaying the importance of rivers in World War II at a museum. Article about draft deferment for transportation industries including 845 deferments for river workers and 27,000 for rail workers.