APPLETONS' RAILWAY SERIES PRINCIPLES OF RAILROAD TRANSPOR- By EMORY R. JOHNSON, Ph.D., Sc.D., and PRINCIPLES OF OCEAN TRANSPOR. By EMORY R. JOHNSON, Ph.D., Sc.D., and RAILROAD TRAFFIC AND RATES Vol. II.-Passenger, Express and Mail Service RAILROAD FINANCE By FREDERICK A. CLEVELAND, Ph.D., and RAILROAD ACCOUNTING By WILLIAM E. HOOPER REGULATION OF RAILROADS and PUB. By FRED L. HOLMES D. APPLETON & COMPANY, NEW YORK 169 C PROFESSOR OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMERCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. AUTHOR OF "ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION," ""THE PANAMA CANAL AND COMMERCE, ETC. gr. PREFACE EXPERIENCE in teaching transportation to university students and in conducting special investigations for the government has made evident to the authors of this volume the need of a book dealing systematically and comprehensively with the whole subject of ocean transportation. While many books, some of them technical, others popular in character, have been written upon different phases of the general subject, there is no single volume to which college student, steamship man, and shipper can turn for a description of ocean carriers and their services, an account of ocean conferences, an explanation of ocean rates and fares, and a discussion of the principles and practices of government aid and regulation of ocean shipping. This book is intended to supply such a volume. It does not attempt to treat exhaustively the many questions included in the complicated and somewhat technical subject of ocean transportation, but it seeks to present the essential facts regarding each important part of the field. It is a book for individual study or for classroom use. The references at the ends of the chapters will enable the special or technical student and the business man who uses or operates vessels to pursue further his study of the particular subject in which he may be especially interested. The book reproduces the most important forms employed in conducting ocean transportation, and references are made to some forms whose reproduction was not deemed practicable. The originals of these and other forms ought to be in the hands of teachers who use the book with classes; and provision should be made for the examination of these original forms by the individual students. By applying to shipbuilding and steamship companies, to freight forwarders and ship brokers, and to the appropriate departments and bureaus of the United States Government, teachers can, without great trouble, secure a duplicate set of original forms. A careful examination of these original forms will help the student secure a concrete and intimate knowledge of the ocean shipping business. |