Express Service And Rates

Author : William Henry Chandler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396848988
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book The Express Service and Rates (Classic Reprint) written by William Henry Chandler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Express Service and Rates Express service in the United States was inaugurated by William F. Harnden, a resident of Boston and at one time a conductor on the Boston' Worcester Railroad. As is the case with many other lines of industry, it was started in a small way. Prior to the year 1839, there was no express service, as we know it now, in this or any other country. The stage drivers conducted a service somewhat akin to ex press, but it was not called by that name. Whatever revenue may have been derived from this source seems to have been a perquisite of the stage driver. Upon the completion of the Boston Worcester and the Boston Providence railroads, the conductors would undertake to carry parcels and do an errand business on their own account. It is stated, however, that three times as many parcels as conductors carried went by private hands without cost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.