BIBLIOGRAPHY
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ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY, et al—Response in Interstate Commerce Commission Docket No. 4198, opposing decrease in express rates (1911).
CENSUS BUREAU—
Census of 1890: Transportation in the United States.
Census of 1890, Bulletin: Transportation Business in the United States (Part II), Transportation by Express Companies (1894).
Express business in the United States (1907).
CHANDLER, WILLIAM H.—The Express Service and Rates (1914).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1911 AND 1912—Speeches, bills, etc., concerning the parcel-post and express service.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—
Annual Reports, Secretary of Agriculture, 1917 and 1918.
Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 594, 688, 703, 922, 930 and others relating to marketing by parcel-post.
FIELD, ARTHUR S.—Rates and Practises of Express Companies; and The Express Charges Prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, American Economic Review, 1913, volume 3, pages 314 and 831.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION—
Annual Reports, Statistics of Express Companies, 1909-1918.
Bulletin 13: Interpretations of Accounting Classifications ... in accordance with ... the Act to Regulate Commerce (1917).
Classification of Expenditures for Real Property and Equipment of Express Companies (1908).
Classification of Operating Revenues of Express Companies, etc. (1912).
Dockets No. 4198, 1280, 1911, 1916, 2175, 2176, 2246, 4302. (In re Express Rates, Practises, Accounts and Revenues.) 1912.
Brief on Behalf of Shippers (Fairchild). See also Adams Express Company, above.
Report No. 1498: Hearing and Supplemental Order No. 15 (1915).
Docket No. 9972 (Proposed Increase in Express Rates). June, 1918.
Equity No. 4198 (In re Express Rates, Practises, Accounts and Revenues): Released rates (1917).
Ex parte 64: In re Increase in Express Rates (October, 1918).
Uniform System of Accounts ... in accordance with ... Act to Regulate Commerce (1914).
JOHNSON, E. R., and HUEBNER, G. G.—Railroad Traffic and Rates, Volume II (1911).
KIRKMAN, M. M.—The Science of Railways: Baggage, Express and Mail Business (1896).
LEWIS, DAVID J.—
A Bill to Take Over the Express Companies of the United States (1911).
A Brief for a General Parcel Post (1913).
Postal Express as a Solution of the Parcel Post and High Cost of Living Problems (1912).
Study in Some Proposed Improvements to the Parcel-Post (1915).
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT—
Annual Reports, Postmaster General.
Comparative Statements (Blue Prints) on Operations of Parcel-Post.
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES—A Proclamation (No. 1497) Taking Possession and Control of the American Railway Express Company (November 16, 1918).
STIMSON, A. L.—
History of the Express Companies (1858).
History of the Express Business (1881).
THOMPSON, SLASON—Postal Express vs. Parcel-Post, A Review of Congressman David J. Lewis's Bill Proposing that the Government Take Over the Express Business (1911).
TUCKER, T. W.—Waifs from the Way-bills of an Old Expressman (1872).
UNITED STATES OFFICIAL BULLETIN, October 31, 1918—Statement of Contract between the Railroad Administration and the Express Companies concerning the American Railway Express Company.
UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND POST ROADS—
Hearings before Sub-Committee on Parcel-Post, November 7, 1911-January 16, 1912.
Parcel Post in Foreign Countries (1912).
Table Showing Data concerning Parcel-Post Systems of ... World (1912).
WELLS, HENRY—Sketch of the Rise, Progress and Present Condition of the Express System (1864).